Oscar History: May 6 (2026)
See Awards Season from a New Perspective
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Rating the Nominees, Group 4, #8
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: Joseph Walker Revisited
Born August 22, 1892 in Denver, Colorado, Joseph Bailey Walker worked as a wireless telephone engineer, inventor and photographer of documentaries for the Red Cross during World War I before beginning his feature film career in 1919 with Back to God’s Country, a Canadian film that was filmed near the Artic Circle. He then freelanced as
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Oscar History: December 26 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1880: Monckton Hoffe (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Story 1894: Stephen Dunn (85 at death) {4 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Sound/Sound Mixing Oscar Wins: Sound/Sound Mixing, Sci-Tech Award – Type II (Plaque) 1899: Irmgard Von Cube (77 at death) {1 Nom,
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Contender: Hundreds of Beavers (2024)
CLICK HERE for more details about the Contenders series. CLICK HERE to see a list of other films in the 2024 Contenders series. Hundreds of Beavers was added to this list based on the following criteria: 80+ MetaCritic Type of Contender: Effects Contender Factor: 29.3 out of 75 (Stage 4 of 5 complete) Stage 1
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Rating the Nominees, Group 3, #8
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 History: December 25 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1878: Joseph M. Schenck (82 at death) {0 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1888: Sonya Levien (71 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Adaptation, Story and Screenplay Oscar Win: Story and Screenplay 1889: Nathaniel Shilkret (92 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination:
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Contender: Strange Darling (2024)
CLICK HERE for more details about the Contenders series. CLICK HERE to see a list of other films in the 2024 Contenders series. Strange Darling was added to this list based on the following criteria: 80+ MetaCritic Type of Contender: Narrow Contender Factor: 63.1 out of 100 (Stage 5 of 5 complete) Stage 1 –
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Rating the Nominees, Group 2, #8
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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8th Online Female Critics Awards
The Substance was the easy winner of most awards with this group but a tie in Best Picture led to co-best-of status with Anora, which took a total of 2 awards to Substance‘s 6. Nothing particularly alarming or exciting here. Awards Tallies (6) The Substance (2) Anora, Conclave, A Real Pain (1) All We Imagine
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Oscar History: December 24 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Michael Curtiz (75 at death) {4 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Directing Oscar Win: Directing 1893: Ruth Chatterton (67 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Actress 1893: Harry Warren (87 at death) {11 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Song Oscar Wins: Original Song
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7th Greater WNY Critics Nominations
The Brutalist and Anora are the darlings of the awards season along with Nickel Boys and Sing Sing but Challengers did quite a bit better than expected with this group. Nominations Tallies (8) The Brutalist (7) Anora (6) Challengers, Nickel Boys (4) Sing Sing (3) A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, No Other Land, Nosferatu,
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16th North Texas Critics Nominations
The North Texas film critics organization favored many of the standard names on every organization’s lips this year with everything from 3 up being strong players. With few categories, any multiple of nominations is a good sign. Nominations Tallies (7) The Brutalist (5) Anora, Conclave, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing (4) Dune: Part Two, Wicked (3)
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Contender: Good One (2024)
CLICK HERE for more details about the Contenders series. CLICK HERE to see a list of other films in the 2024 Contenders series. Good One was added to this list based on the following criteria: 80+ MetaCritic Type of Contender: Narrow Contender Factor: 59.4 out of 100 (Stage 5 of 5 complete) Stage 1 –
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Rating the Nominees, Group 1, #8
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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Box Office History (Week 51, 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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