Category: Academy Awards
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84th Presenters: Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas to Present at 84th Academy Awards® Oscar® Sunday, February 26 Beverly Hills, CA (February 20, 2012) – Two-time Academy Award® winner Michael Douglas will present at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced today. Douglas won an Oscar for his lead performance in “Wall Street” (1987) and…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 12
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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The Rundown 2011: Director
For our fourteenth Rundown article, we give you the penultimate category at the Oscars. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Director as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover awards most important to your aural experience.
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Precursor: 59th Motion Picture Sound Editors (2011)
With no film winning more than one award, the Motion Picture Sound Editors did only one thing that really pointed us towards an Oscar winner…it picked War Horse for best Sound Effects and Foley, the best indicator of what film will probably win the Oscar for Best Sound Editing, an award they’ve corresponded four of…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 20
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Ceremonies 1967: 39th Annual Academy Awards (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1966} 1979: 51st Annual Academy Awards (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1978}
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Precursor: 64th Writers Guild of America (2011)
The two films most people see as leading their fields for the Oscar took home the WGA prize tonight. Both categories have a solid 4-for-5 record comparing with the Oscars. In the case of The Descendants, carrying over should be no problem. For Midnight in Paris, a lot depends on whether the Academy wants to…
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84th Presenters: Tina Fey
Tina Fey to Present at 84th Academy Awards® Oscar® Sunday, February 26 Beverly Hills, CA (February 17, 2012) – Tina Fey will present at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced today. Fey came to prominence as a regular on “Saturday Night Live” and currently stars in, produces and…
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84th Presenters: Kermit & Miss Piggy
Hollywood’s “It” Couple – Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy – to Present at the 84th Academy Awards® on Oscar® Sunday, February 26 on ABC Beverly Hills, CA (February 17, 2012) – Hollywood icons Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy will present at the 84th Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 19
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Ceremonies 1968: 40th Annual Academy Awards (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1967} 1974: 46th Annual Academy Awards (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1973} 1991: 63rd Annual Academy Awards (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1990} 1992: 64th Annual Academy Awards (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of…
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Precursor: 25th USC Scripter (2011)
The USC Scripter awards is an adequate, but not infallible predictor of the Oscars. However, I’m thinking their selection this year is fairly likely to carry over. In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we’re giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first awards year and…
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Precursor: 19th Cinema Audio Society (2011)
If you wanted a signal that Hugo could be popular enough to take this category at the Oscars, look no further. While they missed last year, the CAS has done fairly well naming all four of the prior contests, so it’s a fairly good bet that this one should duplicate. In addition to the nominees…
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Precursor: 51st American Cinema Editors (2011)
Looks like The Artist might be taking the editing prize at the Oscars after all. Or perhaps, surprisingly, The Descendants. The ACE has correctly predicted the Oscar winner five out of the last five years. While it has historically been the Drama Editing prize that corresponds, I think this year may be different considering The…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 18
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Ceremonies 1956: 28th Annual Academy Awards (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1955} 1957: 29th Annual Academy Awards (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1956} 1958: 30th Annual Academy Awards (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1957}
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2011 Precursor Predictions: Pre-Oscar Weekend Onslaught
With no less than five precursors coming out this coming weekend, we’re previewing all of them today. Saturday, we have the Cinema Audio Society, American Cinema Editors and USC Scripter awards; then on Sunday, we get the Motion Picture Sound Editors and Writers Guild of America awards.
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The Rundown 2011: Actress
For our thirteenth Rundown article, the race for first or third should be the talk of the night. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category that will tell us more about…
