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  • 84th Predictions: First Awards Predictions

    Now that the nominations have been announced, it’s time to share with you our predictions for this year’s winners. Now, with only the PGA having announced of all of the guilds, we cannot be certain on any of these. These are based on a number of factors, including hunches. Starting next Wednesday, we’ll be posting…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 25

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Ceremonies 2005: 77th Annual Academy Awards   (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 2004}

  • 84th Academy Awards Nominations (2011)

    The nominations have been announced. I’m still looking for the remaining nominations, but here are my initial thoughts on the currently available list: Extremely Loud managed to hang on long enough to earn a Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor nomination, but didn’t make it in Best Director. Other shocks: The Tree of Life held…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 24

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8

    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…

  • Oscar Morning: The Article (2011)

    FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE. My predictions are in BOLD. On Tuesday morning, January 24, 2012, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be announcing its nominees for the 84th Annual Academy Awards. It will be broadcast live at just after 5:30a PST (6:30a MST, 7:30a CST, 8:30a EST). This…

  • 84th Predictions: Final Nominations Predictions

    The time for hemming, hawing and vacillating is complete. Tomorrow, the nominations for the 84th Academy Awards will be revealed. Without much time left, we’re giving to you our final predictions for this years awards. It’s interesting to see all the differences between our predictions over the past several months begin to coalesce into a…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 23

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Ceremonies 2007: 79th Annual Academy Awards   (Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 2006}

  • Precursor: 16th Online Film & Television Assoc. Nominations (2011)

    In the sea of Oscar prognosticators masquerading as critics groups, the one group I would have expected to be more in line with the current Oscar dialogue was the Online Film & Television Association which has positioned itself as one of the prime prognosticators in the precursor field. So, imagine how refreshing it was to…

  • Precursor: 23rd Producers Guild of America Awards (2011)

    Last night, the Producers Guild of America announced their award winners pushing Oscar season into a new tone with the first guild awards of the year. When commercially successful films like The Help and Bridesmaids lose out to a commercially unsuccessful film like The Artist, the race is pretty much over. Although the DGA will…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 22

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (2)

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 21

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

  • Precursor Predictions: Producers Guild of America (2011)

    Saturday evening, the Producers Guild of America kick off the Guild Awards season with the first awards presentation. While they have a checkered past, there’s no denying they have a strong history of decent predictive capabilities. Here are our fearless predictions on who we think will take home the awards. (NOTE: Normally, I post my…

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 3, 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…

  • Precursor: 59th Motion Picture Sound Editors Nominations (2011)

    In all but one of the last four years, the 5 nominees for Sound Editing came from this slate of nominees (the Sound Effects/Foley and Dialogue/ADR categories in specific with an odd pickup from the Animation list in the years Pixar did well). So, you can expect no other nominees than what are here. With…

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