Oscar History: June 21 (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 7
If you’ve made it this far, you’ll recognize that there’s only one category left. Well, for those who are actually counting, there are two. Best Picture is what we’ll be discussing today. The Live Action Short Film category has not had an official list released by the Academy, so we won’t be covering it this…
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 6
Only two days left until the grand announcement of the 82nd nominations for the Academy Awards. They’ll air live on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. In our penultimate day of coverage, we explore the Best Actor and Best Actress categories and the Best Editing and Best Cinematography categories. Which leaves the most important category for…
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Precursor: Online Film & Television Association Nominations
Below are the nominations for the 14th Annual Online Film & Television Association’s Film Awards. Each year, this group of film enthusiasts selects the best films, performances and technical achievements of the year. Their film branch selects nominees and winners in the winter and their television branch selects nominees and winners in the summer. Their…
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Precursor: Directors Guild of America Winners
Below are the winners for the Directors Guild of America Awards. Film Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker TV Movie Director: Taking Chance Drama Series Director: Mad Men (Leslie Linka Glatter) Comedy Series Director: Modern Family Variety/Musical Director: The Inauguration of the President of the United States Documentary Director: The Cove Daytime Television Director:…
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Festival: Sundance Winners
Below are the Sundance Film Festival prizes. I’ve tried to break them into categories, but some of the breaks don’t feel right, but I’m not certain how else to break them up. Grand Jury Awards Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic: Winter’s Bone Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: Restrepo Audience Awards Dramatic Audience Award: happythankyoumoreplease Documentary Audience Award:…
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 5
As we head into the final stretch of our 7 Days to Oscar Morning coverage in anticipation of the Tuesday, February 2, 2010 morning announcements of the 82nd nominations, we’re getting into some of the most important categories. We start off today looking at Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress and follow that up with Original…
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Precursor Predictions: Directors Guild of America
Tomorrow evening, the DGA will announce its winner for 2009. Below are our fearless predictions on who’s going to win. Directors Guild of America Best Director Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (Unanimous) Analysis Wesley Lovell: I have a hard time fathoming any other result, but if there is, you can exopect tongues to be…
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 4
We are now at the half-way point for our 7 Days to Oscar Morning coverage. We take a glimpse today at Oscar’s newest category, Best Animated Feature as well as Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. As a reminder, the 82nd nominations will be announced on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. When we get…
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Oscar Morning Primer
As is my annual custom, I create an article to try and help people sort out how things will go down on Oscar Nominations Morning. Below is that article, but you can also reach it at this link. FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE (Updated 1/29/10, missing hopeful added). My predictions are in…
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 3
In our third day of presenting our predictions for all of the categories for the 82nd Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010, we are taking a look at the Best Director category along with the two sound awards (Sound Mixing and Sound Editing). Our next edition, releasing tomorrow, will feature Best Animated Film,…
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 2
We’re taking a look today at the screenwriting awards (Adapted Screenplay & Original Screenplay) plus the races for Makeup and Visual Effects. This is our second day of seven covering all the categories leading up to the 82nd nominations on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. Tomorrow, the Best Director category gets a work out along…
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Reviews: Oscar Round-Up, Part II
It’s been over a month since I posted Part I of my year-end Oscar reviews round-up (plus a few other films that aren’t really contenders, but which get updated at the same time). Below are seven film reviews that I have finished and posted. The Blind Side It’s hard to imagine a film critic celebrating…
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Precursor: Costume Designers Guild Nominations
The nominees for the 12th Annual Costume Designers Guild awards have been announced. Below are the results. And with the DGA announcing this Saturday and the OFTA announcing on Sunday, we’re almost to the end of our Pre-Nominations rush. The Nominations Period Costume Design Coco Before Chanel Julie & Julia Nine Sherlock Holmes The Young…
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 1
Today, we begin our look at the Oscar Nominations race that will be winding down this week as the Academy prepares to announce its 82nd Annual Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. We will be looking at a handful of categories each day and our contributors will be sharing their thoughts on the…
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The DVD Report #140: January 26, 2010
Films set outside the U.S. dominate this week’s new releases. An overwhelming sadness permeates Jane Campion’s Bright Star, the story of the brief, doomed romance of 19th Century British seamstress Fanny Brawne and dying poet John Keats. Abbie Cornish, who appears in almost every scene, received the lion’s share of the notices for her portrayal…
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