Month: January 2025
-
Oscar History: January 20 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1894: Mildred Griffiths (55 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1896: George Burns (100 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actor Oscar Win: Supporting Actor 1907: Waldon O. Watson (79 at death) {6 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar Nominations:…
-
8th Chicago Indie Critics Awards
Chicago’s indie critics are in love with The Substance, giving the film most of its awards. Awards Tallies (7) The Substance (3) The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two, Nosferatu, Sing Sing, The Wild Robot (2) Challengers (1) Flow, Monkey Man, Nickel Boys, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story The Awards Best Studio Film (over $20M) Dune: Part…
-
15th Denver Film Critics Nominations
Denver’s film critics are late to the party but they aren’t late to the standard issue nominees. Nominations Tallies (10) Dune: Part Two (9) The Substance (7) Anora (6) The Brutalist, Conclave, Sing Sing, Wicked (5) The Wild Robot (4) Challengers, Emilia Pérez, Nosferatu (3) Furiosa: Inside Out 2, A Mad Max Saga, Nickel Boys…
-
21st Women Critics Nominations & Awards
The Women Film Critics Circle are hard to track down as their website isn’t updated but these are their nominees, winners, and runners-up. Not surprisingly, The Substance, Emilia Pérez, and All We Imagine as Light were the big nominees, though All We Imagine didn’t win anything. Nominations Tallies (4) All We Imagine as Light, Emilia…
-
Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #11
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…
-
Oscar History: January 19 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1883: Elliott Clawson (59 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Writing 1902: Gene Milford (89 at death) {3 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Editing Oscar Wins: Editing 1906: Millen Brand (74 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Screenplay 1907: Charles Henderson (63 at…
-
Rating the Nominees, Group 6, #11
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…
-
16th GALECA Nominations
For an organization that prides itself on uniqueness, these are shockingly unoriginal. The lack of love for Wicked, especially in the Visually Striking category is telling Nominations Tallies (9) I Saw the TV Glow (8) The Substance (6) Challengers, Emilia Pérez (5) The Brutalist (4) Anora, Nickel Boys, Wicked (3) Problemista, Queer (2) Dune: Part…
-
28th Online Critics Nominations
If you’ve seen a list of nominees this year, it probably looked something like this with I Saw the TV Glow doing a bit better than it will probably do with the Academy. Nominations Tallies (9) Dune: Part Two (8) The Brutalist (7) Conclave, The Substance (6) Anora, Nickel Boys, Wicked (5) Nosferatu (4) Challengers…
-
Oscar History: January 18 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1884: Anton Grot (90 at death) {5 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) Oscar Win: Sci-Tech Award – Type II (Certificate) 1887: Frank Harling (71 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Scoring, Drama/Comedy Score Oscar Win: Scoring 1891: M.…