Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: January 1 (2013)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 28-30, 2012
We had four films that released this weekend that have the potential for Oscar nominations. Django Unchained The solid opening weekend plus Christmas Day at the box office means the film will be firmly in Academy voters’ minds as they finish up their ballots to send in this week. Yet, the question of whether they…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 5
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”. Today, we look back at the results of the New York…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 31 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 30 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2011: Friday Face-Off (1)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 29 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 52, 2012)
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 28 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Profile #117: Charles Durning
Born February 28, 1923 in Highland Falls, New York to Louise (née Leonard) and James Durning, Charles Durning was the fourth eldest of ten children, only five of whom survived into adulthood. His father, a wounded World War I veteran died when he was twelve. Five of his six sisters died of scarlet fever and…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 27 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 26 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 12th Phoenix Film Critics (2012)
One of the groups with the most awards overall, the Phoenix Film Critics have been doing this type of awards layout longer than any other, but that doesn’t mean that they are very frequently accurate. Five films tied for the most awards with three each. One was named Best Picture, one carried two of the…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 25 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 21-23, 2012
We had three films releasing this weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Amour Michael Haneke’s latest Oscar import may be his most successful with the Academy to date. The White Ribbon picked up two Oscar nominations three years ago. Its nominations for Cinematography and Foreign Language Film were not honored with statuettes by the…
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Precursor: 16th Online Film Critics Society Nominations (2012)
It’s hard for me to assess the OFCS picks being a member, but I’ll try my best to be even. The Master garnered the most nominations this year, but that was largely due to its large swath of nods in the acting categories. Argo and Zero Dark Thirty also did well with only one nomination…
