Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: January 19 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards (2013)
Welcome to the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. I will be posting the winners live as they are announced. Below are the nominations in categories that have not yet been announced. The Award Tallies section will be updated as the night progresses. In addition, our contributors’ predictions are included and will remain part of…
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2013 Precursor Predictions: Producers Guild
Sunday evening, the Producers Guild of America will have a private gathering, not open to the public, where they will announce their winners for this year’s best in three film categories. Those results could have ripple effects not just for Academy voters, but across the blogosphere with the results being a telegraph of the upcoming…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 18 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 3, 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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2013 Precursor Predictions: Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild has been around many years, but is one of the youngest guilds in terms of giving awards. This marks their 20th year. Below are our predictions on who we think will win the SAG film awards along with comments on why we made our decisions. The honors will be handed out…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 17 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Precursor: 19th Broadcast Film Critics Awards (2013)
Welcome to the 19th Annual Broadcast Film Critics Awards. I will be posting the winners live as they are announced. Below are the nominations in categories that have not yet been announced. The Award Tallies section will be updated as the night progresses. In addition, our contributors’ predictions are included and will remain part of…
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Oscar Profile #169: Oscar Hammerstein II
Born July 12, 1895 to Alice (née Nimmo) and William Hammerstein, the vaudeville producer who invented the pie-in-the-face routine, he was named after his paternal grandfather, a well-known theatre impresario of the day. Hammerstein began writing songs for musicals while studying law at Columbia University. The first Broadway show he contributed to was 1917’s Furs…
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2013 Precursor Predictions: Broadcast Film Critics
The annual right of passage known as the Critics Choice Awards will be telecast tonight on The CW. While not strictly the Critics’ Choice, since they don’t permit print or internet critics without high circulation and focuses mainly on critics whose work appears on television, they just happen to be better promoters and better predictors,…
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Oscar Predictions: Post-Nominations Figures
The nominations for the 86th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. There were no true left-field inclusions that no one could have seen coming, though there were some surprise inclusions and surprise omissions that didn’t quite fit the narrative established prior to today. Here are the nominations as highlighted by our predictions and where we…
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86th Academy Awards Nominations (2013)
Below are the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards (that have been announced so far). More information will be updated as I parse and post it. Commentary will also be added in a little bit. Update 1: All nominations posted, working on tallies. Update 2: Tallies completed. List finished. Nominations Tallies (10) American Hustle, Gravity…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 16 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Precursor: Make-Up and Hair Stylists Guild Nominations (2013)
Long ago (2003), the Hollywood Makeup & Hairstylists Guild gave out awards. From 1999 to 2003, they presented almost this exact list of categories and winners. Yet, all records after 2003 indicate that the precursor vanished. It seems like they are back and while they are interesting, without that historical information, it’s impossible to say…
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Precursor: 61st Motion Picture Sound Editors Nominations (2013)
With so many nominees, you wouldn’t think the Motion Picture Sound Editors would be that helpful in predicting the Oscars. However, they certainly are. Films that receive 3 nominations are almost assured nomination (almost). Two mentions mean they have a decent, but more limited opportunity. No nominations and you can probably count them out entirely.…
