Once again, this group confounds us with nominating Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in both the period/character categories and the contemporary categories. Clearly they like the movie. Strangely, that film didn’t make the shortlist with the Academy, so you can discard its chances. Of the ten films that did, only four of them show
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Their announcement of winners video was really neat for the first category, but then they used the same music and design for every single category after that, which made for a tedious, repetitive watch. Thankfully, they only had seven categories, so it at least it was mercifully quick. The selections were spread out except for
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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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Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different forms and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organizations. Here’s what’s coming up this month. JANUARY Festivals Thursday, Jan. 18 – Sundance Film Festival (Festival) (Official) Wednesday, Jan. 24 – Rotterdam Film Festival (Festival) (Official) Nominations Thursday,
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We’re looking back at all of the Oscar winners and selecting what films and performances and comparing them to one another. The most effective way to do that is pit each winner against each other winner. This long-running series will ultimately result in a final ranking of every winner in every category (except the documentary
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Born March 23, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nedrick Young was an Oscar winning writer and actor who began his acting career in film and on the New York stage in 1942. He served overseas with the U.S. Army during World War II. Young made his film debut in 1942’s Bombs Over Burma. Other pre-1949 films
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While it’s not surprising that some of the year’s strongest female-led films (Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, Past Lives, Poor Things), there were a few female-anemic ones celebrated too (Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, The Holdovers). Nominations Tallies (9) Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon (8) Oppenheimer, Past Lives, The
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It says something when a group that’s been around for six years is only now coming onto our radars. Not that their selections are unique enough to enable them to stand out. Nominations Tallies (9) Oppenheimer (7) Killers of the Flower Moon, Past Lives, Poor Things (6) Barbie, The Holdovers, May December (3) All of
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