Category: Academy Awards
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2014 Oscar Winner Predictions: Post-Nominations
While we’re quite a bit delayed from when we had expected to have these posted, here are our first post-Oscar Nominations predictions. We give you a primary choice and a runner-up in each category. We did not share commentary this time as we’ll get deeply into that with our annual Rundown series, which begins next…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 22 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Ceremonies Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (5)
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This Day in Oscar History: January 21 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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This Day in Oscar History: January 20 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). Now that the Oscar nominations have been announced, things will be slow for a week before ramping up…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jan. 16-18, 2015
We had one films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Apparently, I wrote my article on Still Alice a week early. So, I guess there’s no standard update today. If you want to read what I wrote last week, you can click here. Instead, I’m posting this in the place of…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 19 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 35th London Critics Awards (2014)
Even the Brits are in love with Boyhood and everything else that has largely been winning this season. Award Tallies (3) Boyhood (2) ’71, Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Leviathan, Mr. Turner, Whiplash The Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: January 18 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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This Day in Oscar History: January 17 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 3, 2015)
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 16 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Precursor: 20th Broadcast Critics Awards (2014)
The Broadcast Film Critics Association have announced their winners for 2014. Few surprises came down the pipe. To prove just how predictable this group was, every category in which Peter, Tripp and I agreed on the prediction, that prediction came to fruition. There were no major surprises (no rallied support for Selma, no off-the-wall star…
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87th Oscars: Prediction Success and Commentary
I made prediction changes up until late in the day on Wednesday evening. Now it’s time to take a look at how I did overall with some commentary about the races as they turned out. Within the last week, I made a number of changes, some of those weren’t very fruitful (eliminating Robert Duvall from…
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2014 Group Nominations Predictions Summation
Our contributors each put forward a list of predictions for the Oscars. Here’s how we did. Please note that I (Wesley Lovell) made changes to my final predictions after this went live, so the accuracy here will differ. However, at the time we all put forth our nominations, this is how we saw it. Our…
