Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar History: December 5 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1878: Milan Roder (77 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Scoring 1897: Nunnally Johnson (79 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Screenplay 1898: Grace Moore (48 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Actress 1901: Walt Disney (65 at death) {59 Noms,…
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8th Hollywood Creative Alliance Nominations
These were announced at the end of November and Thanksgiving kept me from reporting on them. With all the others announcing this week, it was time to get these put in place, not that they matter much. This organization has been facing controversy after controversy that makes what the Globes went through look like a…
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37th European Film Awards – Creative Awards
Here are the winners of the creative arts awards from the European Film Awards. Award Tallies (2) The Girl with the Needle, The Substance (1) The Devil’s Bath, Emilia Pérez, Souleymane’s Story, When the Light Breaks The Awards Best Original Score The Girl with the Needle Best Editing Emilia Pérez Best Cinematography The Substance Best…
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40th Spirit Award Nominations
Another bad showing for The Brutalist but also for September 5, which had been building buzz throughout the fall and now seems to be getting stumped even on friendly ground. Also not helpful to Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Nominations Tallies (5) Anora, I Saw the TV Glow (4) Dìdi (3) The Apprentice, Janet Planet, Sing Sing (2)…
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96th National Board of Review Awards
A surprising film for Best Picture. It won’t make Wicked a winner but it will put it into the Best Picture race. Interesting how The Brutalist didn’t make the cut but Juror #2 did. The NBR has a thing for Clint Eastwood, so that’s no surprise. Kieran Culkin is so far the only duplicate acting…
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Contenders: December Update
For our December update, several films moved on from one stage to the next. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders. Moving to Stage 2 All contenders have reached Stage 2 or higher, so there will be no changes here. Moving to Stage…
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Oscar History: December 4 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Malcolm Bert (70 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1910: Alex North (80 at death) {15 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Song, Original Score, Drama/Comedy Score, Substantially Original Score, Non-Musical Score, Drama Score Oscar Win: Special/Honorary…
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90th New York Critics Awards
New York’s Film Critics have an uneven record with Oscar. Many of their selections get nominations but few of them actually win. This is good news for The Brutalist, Nickel Boys, Hard Truths, and A Real Pain. Carol Kane seems like the kind of NYFCC pick that goes nowhere but stranger things have happened for…
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Oscar History: December 3 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1874: Arthur Wimperis (78 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Screenplay Oscar Win: Screenplay 1891: Hans Koenekamp (100 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Special Effects 1907: Virginia Kellogg (73 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Story and Screenplay, Motion Picture…
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34th Gotham Awards
Either they bypassed Anora because it had become too mainstream or it’s not as strong a contender as we thought it might be. Awards Tallies (2) Nickel Boys, Sing Sing (1) All We Can Imagine as Light, A Different Man, His Three Daughters, No Other Land, wThe People’s Joker The Awards Best Feature A Different…
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Box Office History (Week 48, 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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Oscar History: December 2 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1884: Joseph Farnham (46 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Title Writing Oscar Win: Title Writing 1894: Viola Lawrence (78 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Editing 1899: Peter Herman Adler (90 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Musical Score 1902:…
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Calendar Preview: December 2024
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different forms and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organizations. Here’s what’s coming up this month. DECEMBER Nominations Wednesday, Dec. 4 – Houston Critics – Texas Independent (Nominations) (Unconfirmed) Wednesday, Dec. 4 – Spirit Awards (Nominations) (Official) Thursday,…
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Oscar History: December 1 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1892: Otho Lovering (75 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Editing 1895: A. W. Watkins (74 at death) {4 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Sound/Sound Mixing 1901: William Daniels (68 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Cinematography, Cinematography (Black-and-White), Cinematography (Color) Oscar Win:…
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Oscar History: November 30 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Karl Struss (95 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Cinematography, Cinematography (Color) Oscar Win: Cinematography 1888: Kenneth Macgowan (74 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Comedy Short Film Oscar Win: Comedy Short Film 1891: B. B. Kahane (68 at death) {0 Noms,…
