Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 1
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). There was only one item this week, the Spirit Awards Nominations. The group has become more consistent in…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 30 (2014)
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87th Oscars: Precursor Season Has Begun
This past week, The Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced. The Spirit Awards are, in essence, the beginning and end of Precursor Season. They are the first group to announce anything and they are the last group to announce prior to the Oscars (the night before specifically). For the next three months, we’ll be…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 29 (2014)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 48, 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: November 28 (2014)
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Oscar Profile #214: Claudette Colbert
Born Emilie Chauchoin on September 13, 1903 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France, the actress Claudette Colbert was one of the great stars of the golden age of Hollywood. Her family emigrated to the U.S. in 1906, settling in New York where Colbert grew up aspiring to become a painter but was encouraged to go into acting…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 27 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 26 (2014)
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Precursor: 30th Spirit Awards Nominations (2014)
As expected, three of the four films with the biggest tallies this year are prime contenders for the Oscars. Birdman topped all others and nabbed nominations in all the expected categories except screenplay. Boyhood did the same, also missing out on screenplay while Selma showed where it could be strongest. Nightcrawler also performed surprisingly well…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 25 (2014)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 21-23, 2014
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 After two previous strike-outs, a third is very likely in order for Katniss Everdeen and her franchise’s attempts to find additional legitimacy at the hands of the Oscars. The first two films were widely…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 24 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 23 (2014)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 22 (2014)
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