Category: Academy Awards
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Non-Precursor: 34th Golden Raspberry Nominations (2013)
They aren’t precursors, but they are amusing annual tradition since 1980. The Golden Raspberry Awards, known as the Razzies, are a fun glimpse into the minds of the irreverant. While they’ve rarely dug into big, important movies, they do highlight some of the worst missteps that appear each year, which includes both After Earth and…
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Oscar Morning: The Article (2013)
FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE. My predictions are in BOLD. A new era dawns on Thursday morning, January 16, 2014. No, nothing about the Academy is truly changing, but with new Academy president Cheryl Boone-Isaacs, the previous male-dominated presidency had meant countless starlets getting up before 5:30am PST (6:30a MST, 7:30a CST,…
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Oscar Predictions: Final Pre-Nomination Predictions (2013)
Tomorrow’s the precipice over which we all drop. The Oscar nominations are a the beginning of the end of Oscar season. All things that came before will act only as information in the grand scheme of selecting winners. The nominations are sure to provide shocks and in a year like this, even the slightest bump…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 15 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Our Site Milestones 2012: Polls: Best Of… (2)
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Precursor: 12th Visual Effects Society Nominations (2013)
The Visual Effects Society is the only real forecaster of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and most of what we’ve talked about/heard talk about is nominated today and the five listed n their “Visual Effects in an Effects-Driven Film” nominees would not surprise me to be the ones listed by the Academy. Nominations…
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Precursor: 21st Cinema Audio Society Nominations (2013)
It was a good day for Lone Survivor and Iron Man 3, but a not-so-good day for every other blockbuster out there. Gravity and Iron Man 3 were fairly certain, as has Lone Survivor become, but Inside Llewyn Davis and Captain Phillips weren’t guarantees. Llewyn‘s appearance is a continuing trend for the soundscapes the Coens…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 14 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jan. 10-12, 2014
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 7
As the precursor awards continue unabated through the month of December, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (this will be in place of my prior weekly article “Oscar Preview”. Most of the major guilds announced this past week, so there’s…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 13 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Precursor: 71st Golden Globe Awards (2013)
The Golden Globes may have shocked observers by creating one of its highest quality nomination slates in history, but they proved to be the glorified star-lovers they always have been. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams. All are big names around the globe and whether they deserved their awards or not (most of…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 12 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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This Day in Oscar History: January 11 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 2, 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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86th Oscars: Chris Hemsworth To Co-Announce Oscar Nominations
Tradition has always been that a hot young starlet, typically one with Oscar aspirations (or a recent nominee) announces the nominees for the Academy Awards. This was done because the fellow annoucing partner has always been the President of the Academy who has, up until this year, typically been a man. With new president Cheryl…
