Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Profile #65: Loretta Young
Born Gretchen Young in Salt Lake City, Utah on January 6, 1913 the third of three girls, her parents divorced when she was three and her mother moved them to Los Angeles where she ran a boarding house while grooming all three daughters for the movies. Little Gretchen made her screen debut at the age…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 22
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 21
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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84th Predictions: Post-SAG/Globe Nominations
From this point until the end of the year, we’ll be taking Guild nominations announcements as impetus to dive into our own predictions. This past week, the Screen Actors Guild announced their nominees for the best performances of 2011. based on this new information, we’re updating our Oscar predictions. The two paragraphs after this discuss…
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Precursor: 32nd London Film Critics Circle Nominations (2011)
The London Critics have really switched things around this year. Gone are both of the British Supporting Acting trophies and in their place are universal supporting categories. In addition, the British Director category is gone. Also added are a category for documentary and several technical achievement awards. As for statistics. Of course, we only have…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 20
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 3
The deluge of film critics awards this week has threatened to drown me several times. There isn’t much movement towards one candidate over another, but some of the nomination races seem to be shaping up nicely. But, before we get into this week’s winners and losers, let’s take a look at what’s coming up this…
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Eligible Original Songs Announced
Today, the Academy released the titles of 39 songs deemed eligible for the Original Song Oscar. The rules for the category are spelled out in the below press list: 39 Original Songs Vie for Oscar’s 2011 Playlist Beverly Hills, CA (December 19, 2011) – Thirty-nine songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are in contention for…
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Precursor: 15th Florida Film Critics Circle (2011)
The Florida Critics, an “aging” bastion at 15 isn’t the most Oscar predictive group out there, but Animated Feature, Supporting Actor and Screenplay categories have the best chances at corresponding Oscar glory. On the nomination front, they fare much better with perfect rates in Picture, Animated Feature, Director, Actor, Actress and Supporting Actress with fairly…
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Precursor: 6th St. Louis Film Critics Awards (2011)
For being one of the youngest film critics groups acting as Oscar precursors, St. Louis does a fairly solid job making nomination predictions. Consider this: six categories have seen every winner also take an Oscar nomination (Picture, Animated Feature, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress). And while they aren’t as astute with Oscar winner…
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Precursor: 24th Chicago Film Critics Awards (2011)
Ever since Crash won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2005, extra attention can be placed on the Chicago Film Critics awards. It was the only group that selected the Oscar winner as Best Picture setting it up as a strange bellwether few saw coming. While this year’s choices aren’t likely to carry the same…
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Precursor: 6th St. Louis Film Critics Nominations (2011)
Historical data for the St. Louis Film Critics Association is hard to track down and since I had not realized they had given out their nominations a week ago, this set of data is significantly delayed. Without a firm view of how the group has nominated in the past, I can’t really say much about…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 19
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 16th Satellite Awards (2011)
It had the best acting, best directing and best sound mix, but was not the best picture? These kinds of things always confused me, but hey, it’s their decision. This group’s winners don’t always match (rarely for most categories), but they have a fairly good track record for getting Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor,…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 18
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
