• 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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  • Contenders: November Update

    Contenders: November Update

    For our November update, several films moved on from one stage to the next. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders. Moving to Stage 2 We have no films moving into Stage 2. Moving to Stage 3 There are four films that have…

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  • Oscar History: December 6 (2023)

    Oscar History: December 6 (2023)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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  • 39th Spirit Award Nominations

    39th Spirit Award Nominations

    The Spirit Award nominations yielded few major surprise, though a few stand out: Julianne Moore didn’t make the supporting cut, nor did Lily Gladston (for The Unknown Country) make it in to lead. Paul Giamatti couldn’t get into the lead race in spite of The Holdovers doing well. That said, it didn’t make the Best…

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  • Oscar History: December 5 (2023)

    Oscar History: December 5 (2023)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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  • 8th Atlanta Critics Awards

    8th Atlanta Critics Awards

    Atlanta’s film critics have announced their winners. The group has less than 2 dozen members. Oppenheimer was a huge winner taking a staggering eight awards. So far, Lily Gladstone and Da’Vine Joy Randolph are doing best with acting wins. Award Tallies (8) Oppenheimer (2) Killers of the Flower Moon (1) Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie,…

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  • Box Office History (Week 48, 2023)

    Box Office History (Week 48, 2023)

    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: December 4 (2023)

    Oscar History: December 4 (2023)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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  • 1st Michigan Critics Guild Nominations (2023)

    1st Michigan Critics Guild Nominations (2023)

    The Michigan Critics Guild is a new organization announcing winners this year. A very small group usually makes idiosyncratic choices, which could explain why Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, and Past Lives make Best Picture without a corresponding directing citation while Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese don’t get their films past the finish mark.…

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  • Oscar History: December 3 (2023)

    Oscar History: December 3 (2023)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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  • Oscar History: December 2 (2023)

    Oscar History: December 2 (2023)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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  • The Ultimate List Poll #77

    The Ultimate List Poll #77

    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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  • Calendar Preview: December

    Calendar Preview: December

    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. DECEMBER Nominations Tuesday, Dec. 5 – Spirit Awards (Nominations) (Official) Thursday, Dec. 7 – Hollywood Creative Alliance (Nominations) (Unconfirmed) Thursday, Dec. 7…

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  • Oscar History: December 1 (2023)

    Oscar History: December 1 (2023)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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  • 36th European Film Awards (2023)

    36th European Film Awards (2023)

    The European Film Awards have announced winners in their Excellence categories, the creative arts ones, the rest will be announced on 12/9. Since the nominations were out previously, I’m recapping all of it in one post. Several Oscar contenders make an appearance here, so it has some interesting things to look at. Nominations Tallies (5)…

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  • 96th Oscars Airing an Hour Earlier

    96th Oscars Airing an Hour Earlier

    ‘THE OSCARS®’ SET TO AIR LIVE MARCH 10, FOR THE FIRST TIME BEGINNING AT 7:00 P.M. EDT/4:00 P.M. PDT ON ABC Pre-Show Festivities To Kick Off at 6:30 P.M. EDT/3:30 P.M. PDT Original Episode of ‘Abbott Elementary’ To Follow Live Telecast LOS ANGELES, CA – Today, ABC announced that “The Oscars®” will air live coast…

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