Category: Academy Awards
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32nd Cinema Audio Society Nominations
With this and the Motion Picture Sound Editors, we can probably form a pretty good guess as to which of the Academy shorlisted films will make it through. Let’s start with what’s missing between the Academy’s list and the CAS’s. Emilia Pérez, Alien: Romulus, Blitz, and Joker: Folie à Deux. The only two to miss…
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77th Directors Guild Doc Nominations
All five of these films are shortlisted, so you could be looking at your final Oscar nominees but hold off until you see what PGA selects before committing. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev – Porcelain War Julian Brave Noisecat & Emily Kassie – Sugarcane Johan Grimonprez – Soundtrack to a Coup…
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Contenders: Final Pre-Nominations Update
For our final update before the Oscar nominations are announced, several films moved on to the next stage. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders. We will also take a step in a different direction for our lists at the end. In addition…
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Oscar History: January 7 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1873: Adolph Zukor (103 at death) {0 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1906: Herb Magidson (79 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Song Oscar Win: Original Song 1908: Eliot Daniel (89 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Song 1910: Frank…
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Eligible Films for 97th Oscars
Interesting that despite recent branding, they are calling them the “Academy Awards” still in the press release. That’s neither here nor there. What’s interesting is which of the 323 films didn’t meet Best Picture eligibility requirements. All of this year’s Best Picture contenders are there, so there’s no concern of anything major missing out. 323…
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72nd Sound Editors Guild Nominations
With two films earning 3 nominations and six earning two, we can clearly see where the excitement is. While the Motion Picture Sound Editors no longer have a forecast for the Sound Editing category that the Academy got rid of, they still give us an idea of how the sound community feels ahead of the…
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7th Greater WNY Critics Awards
Going way out on a limb with their love of Challengers, this group avoided most of the other consensus picks by other orgs. Awards Tallies (4) Challengers (3) Sing Sing (2) A Real Pain (1) Hard Truths, His Three Daughters, Nickel Boys, Nosferatu, The Wild Robot The Awards Best Picture Challengers Best Animated Feature The…
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Box Office History (Week 1, 2025)
Every week, we’ll take a look back at how Oscar-nominated films performed at the box office. Due to the lack of data prior to 1980, some of these early years may have minimal information. From the mid-1990s back to 1980, the data exists, but is sometimes spotty. Everything after that should be accurate. We’ll look…
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Oscar History: January 6 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1891: Rochus Gliese (87 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design 1913: Jack Leonard (41 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Motion Picture Story 1913: Loretta Young (87 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Actress Oscar Win: Actress 1918:…
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82nd Golden Globe Awards
It was a big day for films from foreign nations. Emilia Pérez, Flow, and I’m Still Here won big prizes while The Brutalist led the English-language fare. There were no huge surprises, though we all thought things might go differently on the comedy side. This definitely indicates a changed Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The influx…
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Oscar History: January 5 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1894: Leroy Stone (55 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Editing 1905: Richard A. Pefferle (64 at death) {6 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White), Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1905: Vladimir Pozner (87 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins}…
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13th Georgia Critics Nominations
A pretty even spread of nominations with the top 8 vote-getters within 3 nominations of each other. Obviously the technical and period films have an advantage but no one should be ashamed of these results. Nominations Tallies (8) The Brutalist (7) Dune: Part Two (6) Wicked (5) Anora, Conclave, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, The Substance…
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18th Oklahoma Critics Awards
Another group with an appreciation for Conclave. Perhaps this year’s races are more up in the air than we thought. Awards Tallies (5) Conclave (2) Nosferatu, Sugarcane (1) Anora, The Brutalist, Challengers, Deadpool & Wolverine, Emilia Pérez, The Fall Guy, Fancy Dance, The Garfield Movie, Juror #2, The Order, Sing Sing, Wicked, The Wild Robot…
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58th National Society of Film Critics Awards
The last of the grand old critics groups to announce and while their selections are all over the place tally-wise, it’s clear that Nickel Boys has earned the appreciation of critics whereas BAFTA showed great disdain for the film. An interesting dynamic to be sure. Awards Tallies (2) All We Imagine as Light, Hard Truths,…
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Oscar History: January 4 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1916: Lionel Newman (73 at death) {11 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Song, Musical Score, Adaptation or Treatment Score Oscar Win: Musical Score 1916: Robert Parrish (79 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Editing Oscar Win: Editing 1918: Buddy Baker (84 at death) {1…
