Month: January 2025
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38th USC Scripter Nominations
The list isn’t far off from the Oscar list with The Wild Robot taking Emilia Pérez‘s place. The Nominations Best Adapted Screenplay A Complete Unknown Conclave Nickel Boys Sing Sing The Wild Robot USC Scripter Data Year Founded: 1988 First Awards: 1987 (38)
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25th Vancouver Critics Nominations
Some good choices here but nothing exciting. Nominations Tallies (8) Can I Get a Witness? (7) My Old Ass (5) Anora (3) 40 Acres, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Mongrels, A Real Pain (2) Ari’s Theme, Emilia Pérez, Inedia, Matt and Mara, Rumours, The Substance, Young Werther (1) All We Imagine as Light, Any Other…
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62nd Publicists Guild Film Nominations
Nothing spectacular here, though the Emilia Pérez nomination is a bit of a surprise. The Nominations Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Motion Picture Bad Boys: Ride or Die Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Deadpool & Wolverine Emilia Pérez Gladiator II The Strangers: Chapter 1 Wicked Les Mason Award, the highest honor publicists can bestow on one of their own…
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34th Razzie Nominations
A very predictable and commonplace set of selections. Plenty of low-hanging fruit. Nominations Tallies (6) Borderlands, Joker: Folie à Deux, Madame Web, Megalopolis, Reagan (4) Unfrosted (2) Argylle, The Crow (1) Atlas, Dear Santa, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Mufasa: The Lion King, Rebel Moon 2: The Scargiver, Shadow Land, Strangers The Nominations Worst Picture…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 5, #12
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Predictions: First 97th Oscars Winners
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 97th Oscars. (Editor’s Note: Thomas’ commentary has been added) INTRODUCTIONS Wesley Lovell: I did well predicting most categories except for the documentary and short film ones. I took a bath there.…
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Oscar History: January 24 (2025)
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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2024 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 97 correct predictions out of 120. Pete Patrick came in second with 86 with Wesley Lovell following closely with 85. We agreed on a lot of predictions, but there were still several nominations that…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 4, #12
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Oscar Profile: Kieran Culkin
Born September 30, 1982 in New York, New York, Kieran Culkin is the son of former child actor Kit Culkin and Patricia Brentrup who never married despite having seven children: Shane (born 1976), Dakota (1978), Macauley (1980), Kieran, Quinn (1984), Christian (1987), and Rory (1989). Dakota passed away in 2008. The others are still alive.…