Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Profile #114: Tommy Lee Jones
Born September 15, 1946 in San Saba, Texas to an oil-field worker and his wife, who had been a police officer, school teacher and later beauty shop owner, Tommy Lee Jones is a colorful award-winning actor. Although mostly of Welch descent, one of his grandmothers was of Cherokee ancestry a fact heonce used to refer…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 6 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 55th Grammy Awards Nominations (2012)
The challenge of using the Grammys to predict the Oscars is that the Grammy eligibility period is three months off the normal Oscar eligiblity period. That’s why you have films like The Descendants, The Muppets and The Artist (and several others) on the below list. The only Oscar eligible entries on the Grammy list this…
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Precursor: 84th National Board of Review (2012)
Another pair of trophies for Zero Dark Thirty for Best Picture and Best Director and a first for star Jessica Chastain. The awards to Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ann Dowd are the first for each this season (as was Chastain’s). The National Board of Review isn’t the best of predictors, but it’s interesting to…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 5 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 4 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Shortlist: Best Documentary Feature
A number expected features ended up on the shortlist for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar specified in the below official press release: 15 Documentary Features Advance In 2012 Oscar® Race
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Precursor: 17th Satellite Awards Nominations (2012)
Taking a lead in the race for the little followed Satellite Awards, Les Misérables scores quite well, including two nominations in Supporting Actress. This shouldn’t be considered much of a sign when you realize that Skyfall received far more nominations than anyone would expect from the Oscars and Argo and Zero Dark Thirty received far…
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Precursor: 78th New York Film Critics Circle (2012)
After becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director, Kathryn Bigelow’s follow up is hot on the Oscar trail picking up three prizes from today’s atypically concentrated New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Taking three prizes including Best Cinematography and Best Picture along with Bigelow’s prize, Zero Dark Thirty was always a…
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Precursor: 21st Annie Awards Nominations (2012)
After several years of Disney/Pixar being poorly treated by the Annie Awards, they’ve come back with a vengeance picking up 20 nominations between their two top-nominated films, tying for first place with Rise of the Guardians. With Brave and Wreck-It Ralph, it will be an interesting competition. Typically, the most nominated film picks up the…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 1
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 3 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 2 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 1 (2012)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 24th PGA Documentary Nominations (2012)
The Producers Guild of America have announced the nominations for the first of their three film categories. Documentary nominations were announced today, and the remaining categories will be announced January 3, 2013. In looking at last year’s documentary list from the Producers Guild, it was clear that their influence over the Academy for documentaries was…
