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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Box Office History (Week 27, 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 #56
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 Profile: Oscarless Character Actresses
Oscars for supporting actresses have on occasion been called the “old lady’s” award but the award has rarely gone to old ladies or even younger actresses playing old ladies. It has more frequently been won by ingenues or lately, leading ladies shoehorned into the supporting actress category. Intended for character actresses, the award has seldom…
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New Feature: Predictions Page
While I may not be able to present these new features weekly, I will certainly try. One of our first new features is a full slate of predictions. On Cinema Sight, I post my Oscar Hopefuls, a list of films that are in contention for the Oscars. Some of them are pure flights of fancy,…
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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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