Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: December 29
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Academy Unveils 84th Oscars Poster
The poster, pictured small at right (click it to make it bigger) features scenes from eight Oscar winning films spanning eight decades. If you want to try to guess which films, click the image and guess away before reading the official press release below, which reveals the answers (and the paragraph after this since I’m…
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Precursor: 11th Utah Film Critics (2011)
WHat if your awards were announced five days before and no one could find them. The Utah Film Critics Circle announced winners on December 23, but few of us in the Oscar prognostication field could find it. I happened across these results on a Salt Lake City ABC affiliate’s website. It’s too bad more people…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 28
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 11th Phoenix Film Critics (2011)
Going for The Artist in a huge way, the Phoenix critics gave the film ten awards, a staggering number considering most critics groups tend to spread the love. None of their selections (except perhaps Adapted Screenplay) are revelations or shocking selections, which sets this up as a fine example of how the Academy could go…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 27
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 4
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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Precursor: 15th Online Film Critics Society Nominations (2011)
The OFCS has often run the gamut between popular Oscar contenders and eclectic films. This year’s selections were more towards the populist side than tradition, but names like Lars von Trier (Best Director nominee) and A Separation (Best Original Screenplay nominee) stood out as exceptions. As for Oscar correlation, their best record has been in…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 26
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 25
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 11th Phoenix Film Critics Society Nominations (2011)
The Phoenix critics have only last year begun to issue nominations in multiple categories beyond their Top 10 lists. Their heaps of praise on more audience-friendly fare cannot go unnoticed in the comparison to the more eclectic choices in other critics groups around the country. In the years of five nominees, this group always picked…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 24
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 51, 2011)
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 (starting in January) 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…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 23
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Academy Releases List of 97 Eligible Original Scores
For the first time in memory, the Academy has released a list of the 97 Original Scores eligible for this year’s Academy Awards. Hoping to further increase speculation and interest in their annual program, the Academy has, in recent years, more freely shared its shortlists with the public. The Original Score category was one of…
