Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: December 10
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Academy Announces Visual Effects Finalists
The Academy has announced the fifteen films that will compete for five nominations in the Best Visual Effects category at this year’s Oscars. Here is that list. More information follows at the end regarding their selection process. Expect box office duds like Sucker Punch and Cowboys & Aliens to be among the first films dropped…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 49, 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 9
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Profile #63: Jean Renoir
Born September 15, 1894 the second son of French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he is the cherubic long-haired blonde boy in some of his father’s most famous paintings. His long hair was the cause of ridicule at the numerous boarding schools his parents sent him to, which he continually ran away from. Wounded in World…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 8
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 7
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 6
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 1
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: 20th Annie Awards Nominations (2011)
As the original did, Kung Fu Panda 2 dominated the nominations with 12. DreamWorks dominated the nominations with its Puss in Boots also scoring 9 nominations. Disney/Pixar did better than expected with Winnie the Pooh picking up 8 nominations and Cars 2 coming home with 7. Of note is that Happy Feet Two is nowhere…
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Precursor: 10th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Awards (2011)A couple of trends have emerged with Martin Scorsese, The Artist, George Clooney and Albert Brooks with two precursor awards in their names. Could this point towards a split vote at the Academy? I wouldn’t be too surprised at this point. In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we’re giving you…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 5
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Precursor: 10th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Nominations (2011)This is only the third year that the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) has announced nominees, prior they only revealed winners. So, the history of the group is not actively known, but we’ll recount the last 2 years anyway just to give a limited frame of reference. From the nominations below, The Artist…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 4
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 3
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
