Oscar History: May 6 (2026)
See Awards Season from a New Perspective
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The Contenders 2024/2025: November/January
We’re looking at Oscar contenders as they release and trying to determine which films have potential and which have wasted it. Let’s look back at the month of November and see what films succeeded and faltered. Then we’ll look forward to January and see what has some potential. Wesley Lovell’s Thoughts November Retrospective November was
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Oscar History: December 11 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1912: Carlo Ponti (94 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Picture, Foreign Film Oscar Win: Foreign Film 1923: Betsy Blair (86 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress 1931: Rita Moreno (93) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress Oscar Win:
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9th Atlanta Critics Awards
Atlanta’s critics go gaga for Anora and The Brutalist, though it’s more consistent performances for Nickel Boys and a surprise Supporting Actress win for Ariana Grande-Butera. Awards Tallies (4) Anora (2) The Brutalist, Nickel Boys, The Wild Robot (1) Challengers, Deadpool & Wolverine, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Kneecap, A Real Pain, Sing Sing, Sugarcane,
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19th St. Louis Critics Nominations
St. Louis’ film crtics seemed to have a similar idea to Las Vegas in terms of what is going to do well with the Academy. What’s striking is that this is the best September 5 has performed so far this season, which is surprising considering the buzz that surrounded its initial release. Nominations Tallies (12)
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23rd DC Critics Awards
Spreading the love widely, DC’s critics didn’t seem to focus on one particular film over another, though it’s interesting to see The Brutalist winning a single award for directing although none of the individual parts were recognized. Award Tallies (2) Anora, A Real Pain, Conclave, The Wild Robot, Wicked (1) Blitz, The Brutalist, Challengers, Civil
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28th Las Vegas Critics Nominations
The Las Vegas critics have put together a list that looks almost passable as being the Academy’s. Anora didn’t do well here despite doing well with other groups. Is that as sign they didn’t like it or a preface to some Oscar snubs? Nominations Tallies (12) Dune: Part Two (9) Conclave, Wicked (8) The Brutalist
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37th Chicago Critics Nominations
With a list that looks more high brown than they are used to putting out, The Brutalist was easily the top nominee though The Substance, Anora, Nickel Boys, and Wicked did well nominations-wise. The love for Furiosa ist stronger than expected, especially with its Best Picture nomination and I Saw the TV Glow seems to
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Contender: Between the Temples (2024)
CLICK HERE for more details about the Contenders series. CLICK HERE to see a list of other films in the 2024 Contenders series. Between the Temples was added to this list based on the following criteria: Precursor Citation Type of Contender: Acting Contender Factor: 59. out of 100 (Stage 5 of 5 complete) Stage 1
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Rating the Nominees, Group 2, #6
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 10 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Victor McLaglen (72 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Actor, Supporting Actor Oscar Win: Actor 1893: Lew Brown (64 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Song 1903: Una Merkel (82 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress 1906:
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Rating the Nominees, Group 1, #6
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 49, 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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82nd Golden Globe Nominations
The Globes seem to be going the same direction as the other two televised awards shows by going for 6 nominees in each category. The Globes already had too many bites at the Oscar-prognosticating apple and now they want more. The only major surprise so far was Payal Kapadia making it into the Best Director
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Oscar History: December 9 (2024)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Oliver Emert (72 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) Oscar Win: Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) 1905: Dalton Trumbo (70 at death) {3 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Screenplay, Motion Picture Story Oscar Wins: Motion Picture Story 1911: Broderick Crawford (74
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50th Los Angeles Critics Awards
This makes two of the old guard critics groups to go for Anora on the same day. This is the kind of result we would normally expect from critics groups but it’s also not a new trend being set. We’ll just have to see how some of the others (National Society of Film Critics and
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