Month: January 2024
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Predictions: 96th Oscars
Now that we’ve had time to review the nominations and get a reading on the landscape, here are our first winner predictions of the 96th Oscars. INTRODUCTIONS Wesley Lovell: I’ve put together my first predictions and first thoughts on the race and while some of these races may well be over, there are a few…
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Oscar History: January 24 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Henry King (96 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Directing 1892: Gladys Lehman (101 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1914: Frank R. McKelvy (66 at death) {7 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White),…
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2023 Nomination Predictions: Our Statistics
Based on our nominations predictions, here’s how we did. Let’s start out with this year’s winner, Thomas La Tourrette, who managed 88 correct predictions out of 120. Wesley Lovell followed closely with 87. Pete came in third with 77 and Tripp, who didn’t predict 5 categories since he called it a day prior to the…
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96th Oscar Nominations
Let’s start with the biggest news. Other than America Ferrera, Barbie wildly underperformed. Margot Robbie was excised from Best Actress for Annette Bening and Greta Gerwig lost her DGA-sanctioned spot in Best Directing to two foreign directors. They barely avoided being labeled sexist by nominating one woman but ignoring the most successful woman director of…
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Oscar History: January 23 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1903: Fred Niblo Jr. (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Adaptation 1906: Arthur Lonergan (83 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1910: Walter Greene (73 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Musical Score 1910: Irene Sharaff…
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27th Online Critics Awards
The OFCS loved Oppenheimer. Not much more to say. Award Tallies (8) Oppenheimer (4) Barbie (3) The Holdovers (1) 20 Days in Mariupol, John Wick: Chapter 4, Killers of the Flower Moon, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Past Lives, Spider-Man: Across the Universe, The Taste of Things The Awards Best Picture Oppenheimer Killers…
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Oscar Morning: Final Nomination Thoughts
Tomorrow morning, the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced. They’ll be revealed by TV stars Zazie Beetz (Atlanta, Deadpool 2) and Jack Quaid (The Boys, Star Trek: Lower Decks). Before the nominations are announced, I wanted to put down in writing my thoughts on this year’s categories and how I came to…
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Box Office History (Week 3, 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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2023 Nominations Predictions: Final
And here we have our final nominations predictions for 2024. While things seem to have coalesced, the coalescing doesn’t seem to have turned out exactly the same way for all of us, so while we have a lot of identical predictions, we also have some off-the-wall choices. KEY: Appears on Four Lists Appears on Three…
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Oscar History: January 22 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (14) Born 1875: David Wark Griffith (73 at death) {0 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1884: Fred Fox (65 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Assistant Directing Oscar Win: Assistant Directing 1900: Fredric Hope (37…