Category: Academy Awards
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Precursor: 4th Nevada Critics Awards (2014)
Gone Girl nabs two awards from Nevada while Birdman is shut out completely and Boyhood has a token award for Youth Performance. Many of these names we’ve seen bandied about as potential Oscar nominees, so there aren’t any real surprises. Award Tallies (3) Nightcrawler (2) Gone Girl, Interstellar The Awards Best Film Gone Girl Best…
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Precursor: 18th Las Vegas Critics Awards (2014)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s backstage seriocomedy dominated the Las Vegas critics awards taking home seven, a huge tally for a single film. The rest of the selections were on par with other recent results, though Guardians of the Galaxy winning a costume design award is a bit unusual, even for critics. Award Tallies (7) Birdman (2)…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 4
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). Apart from a few stragglers, critics have now had their say. We have a week off to cover…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 21 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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This Day in Oscar History: December 20 (2014)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 51, 2014)
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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87th Oscars: Foreign Language Film Shortlist
The Academy has revealed their final shortlist. From here, only five films will be selected by the Academy for Best Foreign Language Film. Before I get to my initial (brief) thoughts on which five of these will get nominated for Oscar, let’s look at some of the acclaimed films I had thought might make it…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 19 (2014)
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Oscar Profile #216: Harvey Weinstein
Born March 19, 1952 in Flushing, Queens, New York, New York, Harvey Weinstein is the best known film producer of the modern era. He is especially skilled at getting his films and the a actors in his films nominated for Oscars, for which there have been numerous wins over the years. Usually billed as a…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 18 (2014)
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Precursor: 8th Detroit Critics Awards (2014)
A most dominant day for Boyhood, which reigned supreme with Detroit critics taking four prizes. Their results consist of largely the same names that have been showing up all season. The three-way tie in the ensemble category gives us our first major victory for Guardians of the Galaxy, a dark horse contender for a Best…
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Precursor: 18th Florida Critics Nominations (2014)
Restricting their nominations to 3 per category creates a shortlist of potential Oscar contenders that could be insightful into what critics want when it comes to Oscar recognition. While there are several films that could also have been included, we may be seeing the best case minimum scenario in several categories. Nominations Tallies (8) Birdman…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 17 (2014)
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Precursor: 35th London Critics Nominations (2014)
Even if you exclude the two nominations for British Films-only categories, Mr. Turner did better on average than most other films. With Mr. Turner widely available in the UK, but not in the U.S., this may explain why it’s done so well with London. Either that, or there’s a British bias, which is also possible.…
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Precursor: 27th Chicago Critics Awards (2014)
Chicago is carrying forward the Boyhood narrative that’s dominating precursor season, but as The Social Network, L.A. Confidential and others proved, dominance with the critics does not mean dominance with the Academy. There aren’t any major surprises here. Award Tallies (3) Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Whiplash (2) Birdman The Awards
