Now that we’ve had time to review the nominations and get a reading on the landscape, here are our first winner predictions of the 97th Oscars. (Editor’s Note: Thomas’ commentary has been added) INTRODUCTIONS Wesley Lovell: I did well predicting most categories except for the documentary and short film ones. I took a bath there.
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Henry King (96 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Directing 1892: Gladys Lehman (101 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1914: Frank R. McKelvy (66 at death) {7 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White),
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Based on our nominations predictions, here’s how we did. Let’s start out with this year’s winner, Thomas La Tourrette, who managed 97 correct predictions out of 120. Pete Patrick came in second with 86 with Wesley Lovell following closely with 85. We agreed on a lot of predictions, but there were still several nominations that
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Born September 30, 1982 in New York, New York, Kieran Culkin is the son of former child actor Kit Culkin and Patricia Brentrup who never married despite having seven children: Shane (born 1976), Dakota (1978), Macauley (1980), Kieran, Quinn (1984), Christian (1987), and Rory (1989). Dakota passed away in 2008. The others are still alive.
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Emilia Pérez had a great day. It joins a small club of films that have secured 13 total nominations. That doesn’t always portend luck as many of those films have struggled with wins. The Brutalist didn’t appear to have any trouble securing its most needed nominations while Wicked picked up a few that weren’t entirely
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1903: Fred Niblo Jr. (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Adaptation 1906: Arthur Lonergan (83 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1910: Walter Greene (73 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Musical Score 1910: Irene Sharaff
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Although many races are very difficult to call, we have a surprising number of identical predictions and several that are close to identical. Best Animated Feature, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, and Production Design seem to be locked according to our prognosticators. The ones that are pretty close to locked are: Best Directing, Actress, Original Screenplay, Original
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Tomorrow morning, the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced. They’ll be revealed by Bottoms star Rachel Sennott and SNL alum and Wicked supporting actor Bowen Yang. Before the nominations are announced, I wanted to put down in writing my thoughts on this year’s categories and how I came to my choices for
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (15) 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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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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