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Category: Academy Awards

  • Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jan. 9-11, 2015

    We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. NOTE: Because I didn’t get any films watched this weekend and the Golden Globes have made alterations to my normal Oscar Preview weekly wrap-up article, I’m posting this one early and will post the article that should have gone live yesterday…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 12 (2015)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died

  • Precursor: 72nd Golden Globe Awards (2014)

    And so the Globes have gone out with a largely-unsatisfying conclusion. Few major surprises, especially in the major categories, have made for a rather dull experience. Boyhood might be the most unusual Best Picture winner in Oscar history…if it can hold on. Award Tallies (3) Boyhood (2) Birdman, The Theory of Everything (1) Big Eyes,…

  • Precursor: 8th Houston Critics Nominations (2014)

    More of the same from the Houston Film Critics who’ve picked a lot of the same things we’ve been seeing all season with a notable bias towards Birdman, which received far more nominations than any other film this year. Nominations Tallies (10) Birdman (6) Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel (5) Inherent Vice (4) The Imitation…

  • Precursor: 11th St. Louis Critics Awards (2014)

    We’ve got a little more catch up today with the nominations and winners for the St. Louis Film Critics. There’s really not much to say about these that I’m discovering late as they just fit into the formula for the season. Award Tallies (4) Birdman (2) Boyhood, Gone Girl, Guardians of the Galaxy, Whiplash Nominations…

  • 2014 Precursor Predictions: Golden Globe Awards

    The first major precursor telecast of the year is also the last major awards group to announce prior to the Oscar nominations (on Thursday morning). What will be most interesting about the Globes is how they shift the current narrative about the Oscars. While they often jump on bandwagons, they also strike out in different…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 11 (2015)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released

  • Precursor: 15th Vancouver Critics Awards (2014)

    The nominees were announced on December 22, 2014 while the winners were chosen January 5, 2015. Winners are highlighted in bold. This group seemed to spread things out a little better, splitting Picture/Director in a way that it isn’t normally swapped while some of the other choices are either eclectic or mainstream without fail. The…

  • Precursor: 4th Georgia Critics Awards (2014)

    Another feather in the Boyhood cap as Jake Gyllenhaal picks up a rare award this season while everything else is fairly straight forward and narrative-fitting. Award Tallies (2) Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Nightcrawler, Selma The Awards Best Picture Boyhood Best Animated Feature

  • Precursor: 18th Toronto Critics – Canadian Film (2014)

    Catching up on some precursors from the past week, The Toronto Film Critics Association announced their winner for Best Canadian Film, which went to Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, beating out Michael Dowse’s The F Word and Canadian Foreign Language Film submission to the Oscars Xavier Dolan’s Mommy. The Awards Best Canadian Film Enemy Toronto Film Critics…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 10 (2015)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Ceremonies

  • Academy to Unveil All 24 Categories at Live Press Conference

    The Academy is doing something radically different this year: announcing all 24 categories, instead of a small number of them. Broken into two presentations starting at 5:30a PT (8:30a ET, 7:30a CT) for the first eleven, then the remaining thirteen live for the morning shows eight minutes later. Of the traditional categories announced live, only…

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 2, 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…

  • Precursor: 56th British Academy Nominations (2014)

    Before anyone panics, Selma and Cake (Jennifer Aniston) were likely not eligible as they did not release in Britain in time. That said, this list mostly follows conventional Oscar season narratives with the distinctions being Steve Carell got moved to supporting actor, British performers and productions still do disproportionately well (Paddington nominated for Best Adapted…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 9 (2015)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died

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