Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: January 15
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: January 14
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 2, 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: January 13
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 17th Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (2011)
Below are the winners of this year’s Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics’ Choice Awards. All technical achievement categories are included and most of the choices were spread evenly across many films with Drive winning Best Action Film the only really exciting choice. In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we’re giving…
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Reminders: Tonight’s Events
Tonight we have two big events to cover. Will you be joining us? First is a live Q&A with In the Land of Blood and Honey director Angelina Jolie. Those who want a chance to win a Blood and Honey poster, need to post a comment in the following thread in order to be eligible…
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Oscar Profile #68: Basil Rathbone
Born June 13, 1892 in Johannesburg, South Africa to a mining engineer and his wife, young Basil Rathbone, along with his parents and two younger siblings were forced to flee the country at the end of the decade when his father was accused by the Boers of being a spy for the British. Young Rathbone…
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Precursor: 25th USC Scripter Nominations (2011)
A couple of nominees here have no Oscar chance, but it’s an interesting an eclectic list. And with their history, three to four nominees here will carry home Oscar nominations, which makes Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’s chances pretty good since neither Method nor Jane Eyre could compete. In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed…
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84th Predictions: January
From now until the Oscar nominations, we’ll be bringing you periodic updates to our personal predictions for this year’s Oscar nominations (and after that our predictions for the winners). Today, after a series of guild nomination announcements and before we head into the first major awards-giving ceremonies of the year (Broadcast Critics tonight, Thursday, and…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 12
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 26th American Society of
Cinematographers Nominations (2011)A day later than their own timeline dictated, the ASC has finally announced their nominations. The big news is that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a film no one exactly saw claiming a nomination here, especially for a frist-time nominee, managed to sneak its way into this list over the likes of Oscar winner Eduardo Serra…
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Precursor: 15th Toronto Film Critics Awards – Canadian Film (2011)
Just an informative piece about the TFCA choice for Best Canadian Film. Note the winner received a $15,000 prize. It’s also the Canadian entry to the Academy Awards this year. 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…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 11
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 20th Southeastern Film Critics Association (2011)
Apparently, these were released back in mid-December. Someone forgot to tell their website operator. As for their awards? The Descendants gets some love from one of the few groups to recognize it in other than Supporting Actress and Adapted Screenplay. The rest of the list seems fairly straight forward with Meryl Streep picking up a…
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Precursor: 12th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards (2011)
Another unoriginal slate of winners gives the Vancouver Film Critics, voting late, a place among the has-beens this awards season. Their entries for Canadian films are at least interesting and fresh. The nominations were announced almost a week ago and their awards announced yesterday, but they weren’t covered by most media outlets and I didn’t…
