Category: Academy Awards
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The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
Below are the winners of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Winner Totals (6) The Hurt Locker (2) Avatar (2) Crazy Heart (2) Precious (2) Up The Winners Best Picture The Hurt Locker
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Happy Oscar Day!
Today is what many of us would love to be a National Holiday! But, because of it’s importance and popularity around the world, I guess it would also be an International Holiday. It’s the Super Bowl of the film world and the second most watched television event each year, just behind the Super Bowl. Maybe…
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Cinema Sight’s Final Oscar Predictions
We’ve analyzed, we’ve perceived, we’ve guessed. Now, with the Academy Awards presenting live on ABC tomorrow (Sunday) night, we’ll finally be put to the test. It also means, we’ve got one last chance to change our predictions. Below is a list of all of our predictions for this year’s Academy Awards. Those which have changed…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part XV
Today is our final Favorite Oscar Moments issue. We end it with a shared passion and two honorary awards form one favorite. Peter J. Patrick 1972, 45th Academy Awards Edward G. Robinson receives an honorary Oscar posthumously and Rosalind Russell receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
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Precursor: Spirit Awards
Below, I will be posting the winners as they are announced (and I discover them). The most recent winner is currently listed at the top. The Winners Best Feature Precious (Wesley, Tripp) Best Director Lee Daniels – Precious (Wesley, Tripp) Best Male Lead Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart (Wesley, Peter, Tripp) Best Female Lead Gabourey…
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Best Picture
And so we’ve reached the end of our nearly month long examination of all categories for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. This is, of course, the big one, so we’ve saved it until last. We hope you’ve enjoyed our coverage and want you to stick around through the coming months as we add new articles…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part XIV
We reflect today on two very personal stories and a surprising victory in our penultimate edition of our Favorite Oscar Moments series. Wesley Lovell 1989, 62nd Academy Awards It’s a moment that I remember very vividly. I had heard of this movie earlier in the year called Driving Miss Daisy and that it had been…
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Best Visual Effects
This is our penultimate post and how fitting that such a sure thing category is being revealed between two undecided races. Nevertheless, here are our predictions on the Visual Effects category, some facts and favorites. Trivia: Five Facts The first award was given out for Visual Effects alone in 1963 and has been given out…
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Precursor Predictions: Spirit Awards
Film Independent’s Spirit Awards are a recognition of the year’s best small budget, independently-financed films (though this last part has decreased over the years with the infusion of niche specialty houses from major studios making movies for little money). This is traditionally the final precursor to announce before the Oscars and will be doing so…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part XIII
Our Oscar Favorite Moments series continues in our thirteenth outing with an Honorary Oscar presentation, a shocking outfit and a surprise winner. Peter J. Patrick 1969, 42nd Academy Awards Maggie Smith is the surprise Best Actress winner for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, besting second generation Hollywood favorites, Jane Fonda (They Shoot Horses, Don’t…
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Best Actress
(Updated: 3/5/10, 12:44p – Added Wes’ info) It’s become one of the most watched races of the year and could very easily go down to the wire. Below are our predictions for the Bullock/Streep face off, plus five facts and our favorites. Trivia: Five Facts The category was one of the first introduced in 1927/28.…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part XII
(Updated: 3/3/10, 11:57p to add John Wayne clip) Aging Hollywood legends showing up at the Oscars or receiving honorary awards are superbly memorable events. And other times, it’s a simple performance that does the trick. Tripp Burton 1979, 52nd Academy Awards The Duke came back, in the last year of his life, to a rousing…
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Best Cinematography
(Updated: 3/5/10, 12:46p – Added Wes’ info) Our Post-ASC predictions are now ready to be revealed as we continue our look at the categories for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Here are five facts on the Cinematography award, our predictions and our favorites. Trivia: Five Facts Among the first categories ever created, Cinematography has been…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part XI
Milestones & quips make up many of our reflections for the Oscars. Here are three more moments that we enjoyed tremendously. Peter J. Patrick 1973, 46th Academy Awards A terminally ill Susan Hayward makes her last appearance on the arm of Charlton Heston and Katharine Hepburn makes her only appearance. As David Niven intones, “A…
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Best Sound Mixing & Sound Editing
The sound awards are always one of the hardest to predict simply because it’s hard to know what the Academy is hearing. They’ve gone for classic, quality sound mixes and they’ve gone for aural deluges with no coherence. We’ll give you a few facts, share our predictions and our favorites and least favorites. Trivia: Five…
