Oscar History: November 22 (2024)
See Awards Season from a New Perspective
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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 Feature: Contenders
Beginning next week, we’ll be starting a new series on the site: Contenders. Looking at the historical factors that can make or break a film’s Oscar chances, the Contenders series is intended to try and quantify those metrics into a universal system. As this is the first year, it’s probable that weight factors and variables…
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Box Office History (Week 28, 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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The Ultimate List Poll #57
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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Best Oscarless Supporting Actors
As mentioned in my introduction to Oscarless character actresses, the Best Supporting Actress award is sometimes erroneously referred to as the “old lady’s” award. Even though Oscars for supporting actors have gone more frequently to older men than Oscars for supporting actresses have gone to older women, no one refers to the Best Supporting Actor…
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Academy’s Sci-Tech Contenders Announced
THE ACADEMY INVESTIGATES 10 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AREAS FOR 2023 AWARDS CONSIDERATION LOS ANGELES, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 10 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for 2023 in the lead-up to the Scientific and Technical Awards on Friday, February 23, 2024. These investigations are…
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The Contenders: June Retrospective/August 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 June and see what films faltered. Then we’ll look forward to August and see what has some potential. Wesley Lovell’s Thoughts June was a month of successes…
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