Category: Academy Awards
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Precursor: 19th San Diego Critics Nominations (2014)
The two films that have been duking it out for top honors from critics, Boyhood and Birdman have surprisingly taken a back seat to three other films in the nominations tally here. Nightcrawler is the surprising top nominee with nine mentions followed by Gone Girl and The Grand Budapest Hotel. There are some interesting selections…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 14 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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This Day in Oscar History: December 13 (2014)
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87th Oscars: Original Song Shortlist
The Academy has been busy, sending out three press releases this evening. This third and final release documents the 79 original songs competing for five slots at this year’s Academy Awards. I didn’t see any glaring omissions, but I haven’t gotten in there to look at them in-depth. This is the penultimate major shortlist to…
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87th Oscars: Original Score Shortlist
The Academy has revealed the 114 films whose scores are eligible for the Best Original Score category at this year’s Oscars. Typically, this number is quite a bit lower than the full eligibility list due to the fact that some films don’t use original scores and others have too much dilution of the material through…
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87th Oscars: Films Submitted for Oscar Consideration
The Academy has announced 323 films that have qualified for this year’s Oscars. These are the films that will be eligible in all categories but foreign language film, and the documentary and short film awards. 323 FEATURE FILMS IN CONTENTION FOR 2014 BEST PICTURE OSCAR®
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Precursor: 8th Detroit Critics Nominations (2014)
The critics groups seem to be homogenizing around the same handful of potential nominees. A few new selections here than we’ve previously seen: Scarlett Johansson for her performance in Under the Skin, Rene Russo for Nightcrawler and Guardians of the Galaxy for Best Ensemble. Nominations Tallies (7) Birdman (6) Boyhood (5) Whiplash (4) The Grand…
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Precursor: 27th Chicago Critics Nominations (2014)
Leading the pack of the Chicago Film Critics Association’s 2014 awards list, Birdman continues to receive lot of attention from critics as do The Grand Budapest Hotel, Boyhood and Whiplash. Interstellar was much better represented with this group, as was Under the Skin and Wild. Nominations Tallies (9) Birdman (8) The Grand Budapest Hotel (7)…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 50, 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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This Day in Oscar History: December 12 (2014)
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Precursor: 72nd Golden Globe Nominations (2014)
The film many talked about as being the year’s awards juggernaut has fallen. Unbroken, which screened late (but not as late as Selma, is completely shut out of the Golden Globe nominations. If they won’t support Angelina Jolie, then the film probably has little hope. It might still crop up from the Broadcast Critics, but…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 11 (2014)
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Precursor: 21st Screen Actors Guild Nominations (2014)
The nominations have been announced. Rumors that the SAG nominations committee didn’t get to see Selma in time are proven true with the film completely shut out. The last-minute push for Jennifer Aniston paid off, but her nomination will very likely be replaced at the Oscars. The big surprises here are Naomi Watts’ out-of-nowhere nomination…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 10 (2014)
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Precursor: 14th Phoenix Critics Nominations (2014)
One of the film critic groups that seems to most closely mirror Academy tastes, Phoenix Film Critics have selected a varied, but mainstream group of selections. It’s clear they didn’t get to screen Selma in time or I would suspect it to get a lot more love than this. At least they had the good…
