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Category: Academy Awards

  • Precursor: Cinema Audio Society

    This year’s winner of the Cinema Audio Society award was a surprise to most who look at these kinds of awards. Awards Best Sound Mixing True Grit

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 20

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1900: Bernard Knowles (74 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Cinematography (Color) – Not Official: Preliminary submission not granted official nomination} 1912: Pierre Boulle (81 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Adapted Screenplay – 1 Nom, 1 Win} 1925: Robert Altman (81 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Special/Honorary;Oscar Nominee: Picture,…

  • Precursor: American Cinema Editors

    Below are the winners of this year’s American Cinema Editors Awards. AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS Best Editing, Drama> The Social Network (RU:Wesley, Peter, Wes) Best Editing, Comedy/Musical Alice in Wonderland Best Editing, Animated Toy Story 3 (Wesley, Peter)

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 19

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1887: Paul Terry (84 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Animated Short Film – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1895: Louis Calhern (61 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actor – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1899: Homer G. Tasker (90 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Sound/Sound Mixing – 2 Noms, 0 Wins}…

  • Precursor Predictions: CAS, ACE & MPSE

    This weekend, three of the last four guilds to announce winners will finally make their picks known. Starting things off on Saturday are the Cinema Audio Society, which honors the best in Sound Mixing, and the American Cinema Editors, which recognize the best in Editing. Following those on Sunday are the awards from the Motion…

  • The Rundown: Best Actress

    We finish out the week with Best Actress, one of the few categories ripe for upset. Come back next week when we do our final five articles in preparation for this year’s Academy Awards.

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 18

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1890: Adolphe Menjou (73 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actor – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1907: Oscar Brodney (100 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Story and Screenplay – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1917: Ralph S. Hurst (55 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Art Direction (Color) – 1 Nom,…

  • The Rundown: Best Actor

    Our penultimate rundown article this week finds us in the final two acting categories. Today, we cover the Best Actor race and will follow it up tomorrow with Best Actress.

  • Oscar Profile #25: Patricia Neal

    Born January 20, 1926, Patricia Neal’s real life story, only part of which was played out by Glenda Jackson in a 1981 TV movie, was more turbulent and eventful than anything she ever did on screen. A classically trained actress, the Kentucky native made her Broadway debut as Margaret Sullavan’s understudy in 1943’s The Voice…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 17

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1890: Sol Lesser (90 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award –0 Noms, 1 Win} 1898: Fred Guiol (66 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Adapted Screenplay – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1904: Milton Krasner (84 at death) {Oscar Winner: Cinematography (Color);Oscar Nominee: Cinematography, Cinematography (Black-and-White), Cinematography…

  • The Rundown: Animated Feature

    Our humpday coverage of this year’s Oscar race covers the predictions for Animated Feature, a category where Pixar dominates year-after-year.

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 16

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1884: Bert Kalmar (63 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1884: Robert Flaherty (67 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Motion Picture Story – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1896: Carl Dreher (80 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Sound/Sound Mixing – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1899: Leland…

  • The Rundown: Cinematography

    Today’s Rundown article takes a look at the Best Cinematography award, one of the few tech categories where name recognition is a big deal.

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 15

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1893: Walter Donaldson (54 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1896: William H. Pine (59 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Documentary Feature – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1899: Gale Sondergaard (86 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Supporting Actress –2 Noms, 1 Win} 1905: Harold…

  • The Rundown: Visual Effects

    We start off this week with the newly-fived Best Visual Effects category which we’re agreed will go to Inception. To come this week, we have predictions for Cinematography, Animated Feature, Actor & Actress. Stay tuned. (Update (6:20a CT): added Tripp’s commentary)

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