Oscar History: May 6 (2026)
See Awards Season from a New Perspective
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22nd Iowa Critics Awards
Iowa’s critics are back in the mainstream. Award Tallies (3) Anora (2) The Wild Robot (1) The Brutalist, Conclave, A Real Pain, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Wicked The Awards Best Film Anora Best Animated Movie The Wild Robot Best Director Sean Baker – Anora Best Actor Adrien Brody – The Brutalist Best Actress
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23rd Utah Critics Awards
An unusual result with The Wild Robot coming out on top. It was also the only film to pick up two awards without starting with the letter “S.” Awards Tallies (2) September 5, Sing Sing, The Substance, The Wild Robot (1) Alien: Romulus, The Brutalist, Challengers, His Three Daughters, Nickel Boys, The Piano Lesson, Red
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58th Kansas City Critics Awards
KC film critics didn’t just pick The Substance as the best of the year, they heaped most of their awards on the film with a smattering of other films taking one apiece. Award Tallies (6) The Substance (1) Anora, The Brutalist, Challengers, Conclave, The Fall Guy, Flow, I Saw the TV Glow, Late Night with
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58th Kansas City Critics Nominations
Kansas City’s critics had a lot of ties in the nominations but primarily went for two films with several others doing well with 5 or fewer nominations. Nominations Tallies (8) Dune: Part Two (7) The Substance (5) Anora, Wicked (4) Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing (3) Civil War, I Saw the TV Glow,
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Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be
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Oscar History: January 12 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1880: Melchior Lengyel (94 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Story 1893: Edward Selzer (77 at death) {11 Noms, 5 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Documentary Short, Animated Short Film Oscar Wins: Documentary Short, Animated Short Film 1904: Joseph Gershenson (84 at death) {2 Noms, 0
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Rating the Nominees, Group 6, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be
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Oscar History: January 11 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Charles Previn (85 at death) {7 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Scoring, Musical Score Oscar Win: Scoring 1894: Alexander Hall (74 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Directing 1899: Eva Legallienne (92 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress 1900: Borden
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Rating the Nominees, Group 5, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be
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Oscar History: January 10 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1891: Bernard Herzbrun (72 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design 1898: Arthur Johnston (56 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Song 1899: John Mescall (63 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Cinematography (Black-and-White) 1917: Jerry Wexler (91
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18th Women Journalists Awards
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists have surprisingly not released their shame awards this year and I kind of miss it. The selections are fairly predictable though the Brutalist selection is a bit confusing consider what they had to recognize outside of that. Awards Tallies (4) The Substance (3) Conclave (2) All We Imagine as
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24th AARP Movies for Grownups Nominations
The AARP voters are surprisingly astute this year with few head-scratchers. Gladiator II is the biggest headscratcher. Though, Jude Law, Ridley Scott, Pedro Almodóvar, and Connie Nielsen are all pretty loco too. Nominations Tallies (6) Conclave (5) A Complete Unknown (4) Gladiator II (3) The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, September 5, Sing Sing (2) Dìdi, Here,
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29th Art Directors Guild Nominations
Due to the fires in southern California, several groups have postponed their nominations announcements. The Art Directors Guild wasn’t one of them. There’s a great deal of overlap between this group and the Set Decorators Society of America, suggesting almost everything here is a contender. Films that failed to show up at either include Blitz
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Rating the Nominees, Group 4, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be
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Oscar Profile: Winton C. Hoch
Born July 31, 1905, in Storm Lake, Iowa, Winton C. Hoch is the only cinematographer of note working in the black-and-white era of film that never lensed a black-and-white feature film. Moving to California in 1924 and graduating in 1931 as a chemist from the California Institute of Technology, Hoch was a research physicist who joined
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