• 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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  • 27th Online Critics Awards

    27th Online Critics Awards

    The OFCS loved Oppenheimer. Not much more to say. Award Tallies (8) Oppenheimer (4) Barbie (3) The Holdovers (1) 20 Days in Mariupol, John Wick: Chapter 4, Killers of the Flower Moon, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Past Lives, Spider-Man: Across the Universe, The Taste of Things The Awards Best Picture Oppenheimer Killers…

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  • Oscar Morning: Final Nomination Thoughts

    Oscar Morning: Final Nomination Thoughts

    Tomorrow morning, the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced. They’ll be revealed by TV stars Zazie Beetz (Atlanta, Deadpool 2) and Jack Quaid (The Boys, Star Trek: Lower Decks). Before the nominations are announced, I wanted to put down in writing my thoughts on this year’s categories and how I came to…

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  • Box Office History (Week 3, 2024)

    Box Office History (Week 3, 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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  • 2023 Nominations Predictions: Final

    2023 Nominations Predictions: Final

    And here we have our final nominations predictions for 2024. While things seem to have coalesced, the coalescing doesn’t seem to have turned out exactly the same way for all of us, so while we have a lot of identical predictions, we also have some off-the-wall choices. KEY: Appears on Four Lists Appears on Three…

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  • Oscar History: January 22 (2024)

    Oscar History: January 22 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (14) Born 1875: David Wark Griffith (73 at death)   {0 Noms, 1 Win}      Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1884: Fred Fox (65 at death)   {1 Nom, 1 Win}      Oscar Nomination: Assistant Directing      Oscar Win: Assistant Directing 1900: Fredric Hope (37…

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  • 8th New Mexico Critics Awards

    8th New Mexico Critics Awards

    I have no idea when these were announced. Their website and X-Twitter account have been silent for a very long time. These were found on IMDb. Award Tallies (4) Killers of the Flower Moon (3) Past Lives (2) Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie (1) The Boy and the Heron, A Haunting in Venice, The Holdovers,…

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  • Oscar History: January 21 (2024)

    Oscar History: January 21 (2024)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: J. Carrol Naish (77 at death)   {2 Noms, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Supporting Actor 1898: Rudolph Mate (66 at death)   {5 Noms, 0 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Cinematography (Black-and-White), Cinematography (Color) 1903: William Lyon (71 at death)   {6 Noms, 2 Wins}      Oscar Nominations: Editing      Oscar Wins: Editing…

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  • Oscar History: January 20 (2024)

    Oscar History: January 20 (2024)

    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:…

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  • 96th Oscars: Nominations Announcement Details

    96th Oscars: Nominations Announcement Details

    Here’s the annual stream information 96TH OSCARS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT Live Presentation Begins Tuesday, January 23, 2024 5:30 a.m. PST / 8:30 a.m. EST / 1:30 p.m. GMT / 9:30 p.m. CST The 96th Oscars Airs Sunday, March 10, on ABC FORMAT Actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid will host the announcement of the 96th Oscars®…

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  • 96th Oscars: Sci-Tech Recipients Announced

    96th Oscars: Sci-Tech Recipients Announced

    It doesn’t look like there were any special awards (Awards of Commendation, Gordon E. Sawyer Award, etc.) and there are only certificates and plaques being given out. No Awards of Merit. 16 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS TO BE HONORED WITH ACADEMY AWARDS® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced…

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  • The Ultimate List Poll #84

    The Ultimate List Poll #84

    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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  • Oscar History: January 19 (2024)

    Oscar History: January 19 (2024)

    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…

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  • Oscar Profile: John Sayles

    Oscar Profile: John Sayles

    Born September 28, 1950 in Schenectady, New York to Mary and Donald Sayles, a teacher and school administrator respectively, John Sayles attended Williams College with future collaborators, Gordon Clapp, Donald Strathairn, and Maggie Renzi, his longtime partner. After graduating in 1972, he moved to Boston where he worked at several blue-collar jobs while writing short…

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  • 64th British Academy Nominations

    64th British Academy Nominations

    Oppenheimer and Poor Things had very good days. As did The Zone of Interest. Barbie and Past Lives had poor showings. Is this a peculiarity of the British nomination process? Possibly. It’s hard to know for sure. All of Us Strangers had a mix of results. Two or three positive citations with a couple of…

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  • Oscar History: January 18 (2024)

    Oscar History: January 18 (2024)

    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.…

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