Oscar History: October 15 (2024)
See Awards Season from a New Perspective
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The Contenders: May Retrospective/July Forecast
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 May and see what films pulled ahead and which faltered. Then we’ll look forward to July and see what has some potential. Normally, this will post earlier…
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Box Office History (Week 26, 2023)
Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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Calendar Preview: July
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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The Ultimate List Poll #55
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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Profile: Oscarless Actors
Oscarless Actors, like Oscarless actresses are those that have never won a competitive Oscar or any other award from the Academy. That leaves out the likes of Fred Astaire, Charles Boyer, Charles Chaplin, Kirk Douglas, Cary Grant, James Earl Jones, Buster Keaton, Gene Kelly, Peter O’Toole, Edward G. Robinson, and Mickey Rooney, all of whom…
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New Academy Invitees
After their elections every summer, the Academy does this kind of thing. They’ve already announced the honorary Oscar recipients and now new invitees. THE ACADEMY INVITES 398 TO MEMBERSHIP LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 398 artists and executives who have…
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2023 Nominations Predictions: June
June Predictions We’re back with our first updated predictions of the year. There wasn’t a lot of movement, but one film that suddenly pulled into the competition is Cannes winner The Zone of Interest, which features in several new predictions this month. We’re taking the categories from our last slate in May and added the…
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Academy Announces Honorary Recipients
The Academy has announced its honorary recipients and one of them smells of “sorry you didn’t win last year.” Bassett is A) too young and B) not lacking in honors. There are plenty of aging actors (see James Hong) who are more deserving of an accolade now. Bassett could wait another decade and still be…
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