Category: Academy Awards
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Box Office History (Week 49, 2024)
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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82nd Golden Globe Nominations
The Globes seem to be going the same direction as the other two televised awards shows by going for 6 nominees in each category. The Globes already had too many bites at the Oscar-prognosticating apple and now they want more. The only major surprise so far was Payal Kapadia making it into the Best Director…
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Oscar History: December 9 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Oliver Emert (72 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) Oscar Win: Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) 1905: Dalton Trumbo (70 at death) {3 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Screenplay, Motion Picture Story Oscar Wins: Motion Picture Story 1911: Broderick Crawford (74…
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50th Los Angeles Critics Awards
This makes two of the old guard critics groups to go for Anora on the same day. This is the kind of result we would normally expect from critics groups but it’s also not a new trend being set. We’ll just have to see how some of the others (National Society of Film Critics and…
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45th Boston Critics Awards
Boston is the first group to go for Anora in a big way, giving it three prizes. A Complete Unknown also gets a bit of a boost. Award Tallies (4) Anora (2) A Complete Unknown (1) The Brutalist, Challengers, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Flow, Janet Planet Nickel Boys,…
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52nd Saturn Award Nominations
The biggest blockbusters of the year did really well in these nominations. The deadlines were prior to some of the year-end releases, so we won’t know how something like Wicked does until next year. Award Tallies (14) Dune: Part Two (13) Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (10) Deadpool & Wolverine (8) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes…
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2nd Michigan Critics Guild Nominations
Michigan’s movie critics (who may well have taken over after the disappearance of the Detroit Film Critics Society, have picked Anora, The Brutalist, and Wicked in most categories with The Substance also doing surprisingly well. Nominations Tallies (6) Anora, The Brutalist, Wicked (5) The Substance (3) Nosferatu (2) Dune: Part Two, Piece by Piece, Saturday…
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37th European Film Awards
We already saw Emilia Pérez do well in the craft categories and now it’s stomped all comers in most of the major categories. Are the European Film Awards becoming a tryout for Oscar now? We’ll see but trendlines point to yes. Award Tallies (5) Emilia Pérez (2) The Girl with the Needle, Souleyman’s Story, The…
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23rd DC Critics Nominations
DC’s film critics love Brutalist, Conclave and Wicked with Anora performing quote well in spite of its lack of technical achievements. Nominations Tallies (10) The Brutalist (9) Conclave (8) Wicked (7) Anora, Dune: Part Two (6) (5) Sing Sing (4) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (3) Emilia Pérez, Gladiator II, Inside Out 2,…
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9th Seattle Critics Nominations
Seattle’s critics were primarily impressed with action films (Dune: Part Two and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga). They also liked some substantive stuff but the performance of Challengers is a bit surprising considering its release much earlier this year. They also seemed to love The Beast, which has been a non-entity this year so far.…
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Oscar History: December 8 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Gerard Carbonara (72 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Drama/Comedy Score 1896: Bryan Foy (80 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Documentary Feature 1900: Irene (61 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Costume Design (Black-and-White), Costume Design (Color) 1906: Daniel…
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Oscar History: December 7 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1882: Harry Chandlee (73 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1887: Ernst Toch (76 at death) {3 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Scoring, Drama Score, Drama/Comedy Score 1891: Fay Bainter (76 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Actress, Supporting Actress Oscar…
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Oscar History: December 6 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1885: Ernest Palmer (92 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Cinematography, Cinematography (Color) Oscar Win: Cinematography (Color) 1887: Lynn Fontanne (95 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Actress 1889: Abem Finkel (58 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1890:…
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24th American Film Institute Top Ten
Every title on this list got good news. While the AFI list doesn’t always match up exactly at the Oscars, this seems like a list that could lead to that result. This is bad news for Gladiator II, Juror #2, September 5, and We Live in Time, the only American titles that had any hope…
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Oscar Profile: George Cukor Revisited
Born July 7, 1899 on New York’s Lower East Side, George Cukor’s father was a lawyer who expected him to follow in his footsteps. Instead, young Cukor fell in love with the theatre, and shortly after brief military service toward the end of World War I, had his first job in the theatre as a…
