• New Poll Series Debuts This Week

    New Poll Series Debuts This Week

    With the closure of the Friday Face-Off, we decided to start up a new polling series that asks you to rate every Oscar nominee in most of the major categories. Every day of the week at noon (Central), a new poll group will post with anywhere between 30 and 35 nominees across two to four…

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  • New Category at the Oscars…in 2 Years

    New Category at the Oscars…in 2 Years

    ACADEMY ESTABLISHES CASTING AWARD FOR 98TH OSCARS® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the creation of an annual competitive Academy Award® for Achievement in Casting, beginning with the 98th Academy Awards® for films released in 2025. “Casting directors play an essential role…

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  • Oscar Profile: Robert De Niro

    Oscar Profile: Robert De Niro

    Born August 17, 1943 in New York, New York, Robert De Niro Jr. is the only child of painters Virginia and Robert De Niro, Sr.  Although he has an Italian name and is, along with Al Pacino, the screen’s most prolific of actors playing Italian-American men, De Niro is only 25% Italian, his father having…

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  • Oscar History: February 8 (2024)

    Oscar History: February 8 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Edith Evans (88 at death)   {3 Noms, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Actress, Supporting Actress 1894: King Vidor (88 at death)   {5 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Nominations: Directing, Drama Directing      Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1912: Rene Wheeler (88 at death)   {1 Nom, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nomination: Motion Picture…

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  • Contenders: 2023 Performance Update

    Contenders: 2023 Performance Update

    With the Oscar nominations out and a reflection on the year, it’s easy to see where things were going. Yet, our Contenders series this year was trying to look at the Oscar mathematically and we learned a great deal. To start, the Contenders series lumped everything together regardless of what type of contender it was.…

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  • Oscar History: February 7 (2024)

    Oscar History: February 7 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1900: George Oppenheimer (77 at death)   {1 Nom, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1920: Raphael Bretton (91 at death)   {4 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White)      Oscar Win: Art Direction/Production Design 1923: Mary Ann Nyberg (56 at death)   {2 Noms,…

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  • 15th GALECA Nominations

    15th GALECA Nominations

    While LGBTQ films are usually more dominant than this, they still performed well enough with All of Us Strangers outperforming them all. Nominations Tallies (9) All of Us Strangers (7) Barbie (5) Anatomy of a Fall, May December, Oppenheimer, Past Lives (4) Poor Things (3) Bottoms, The Boy and the Heron, Rustin, Saltburn (2) Are…

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  • 23rd AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

    23rd AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

    You have to wonder who votes for these awards because the selections are all over the place and while some make sense, some don’t. Award Tallies (2) Killers of the Flower Moon, Nyad (1) Barbie, The Color Purple, The Holdovers, Maestro, Oppenheimer, Rustin, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, The Zone of Interest The Awards…

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  • 44th London Critics Awards

    44th London Critics Awards

    I always find it interesting when the “best film of the year” doesn’t win corresponding awards for “best British/Irish film” or “best foreign language film” when also nominated. It makes it seem like it’s not the actual best film of the year but that others are better than it they just want to make a…

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  • 51st Saturn Awards

    51st Saturn Awards

    The Saturn Awards went pretty heavy for Avatar: The Way of Water with a smattering of love to Barbie and Oppenheimer among 2023’s releases. Award Tallies (4) Avatar: The Way of Water (3) Barbie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Oppenheimer (2) (1) Blue Beetle, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Mission: Impossible –…

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  • Oscar History: February 6 (2024)

    Oscar History: February 6 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1894: Carroll Clark (74 at death)   {7 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White), Art Direction/Production Design (Color)      Oscar Win: Sci-Tech Award – Type II (Plaque) 1903: Louis Mesenkop (71 at death)   {3 Noms, 3 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Special Effects      Oscar Wins:…

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  • Box Office History (Week 5, 2024)

    Box Office History (Week 5, 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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  • Oscar History: February 5 (2024)

    Oscar History: February 5 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Bronislau Kaper (81 at death)   {4 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Nominations: Original Song, Drama/Comedy Score, Substantially Original Score, Musical Score      Oscar Win: Drama/Comedy Score 1919: Red Buttons (87 at death)   {1 Nom, 1 Win}      Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actor      Oscar Win: Supporting Actor 1921: Ken Adam (95…

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  • 28th OFTA Film Nominations

    28th OFTA Film Nominations

    The OFTA didn’t seem to shy away from Barbie like the Academy did, nominating it in several key categories the Academy ignored. That, on top of all of its non-Oscar category citations, allowed Barbie to top the record Titanic set back in 1997 for most nominations, by two. They don’t count the poster/trailer categories, so…

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  • 66th Grammy Awards

    66th Grammy Awards

    The Grammy winners we care about are always announced prior to the show. Here are those winners with Barbie out front with two. It’s possible Barbie picks up more wins throughout the night since the film has several nominations not just in these four categories. Award Tallies (2) Barbie The Awards Best Song Written for…

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  • Oscar History: February 4 (2024)

    Oscar History: February 4 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1900: Jacques Prevert (77 at death)   {1 Nom, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1913: Frank P. Keller (64 at death)   {4 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Nominations: Editing      Oscar Win: Editing 1915: Ray Evans (92 at death)   {7 Noms, 3 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Original Song      Oscar Wins:…

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