Oscar History: May 6 (2026)
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Oscar History: January 9 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1908: William B. Murphy (62 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Editing 1941: Susannah York (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress 1955: J. K. Simmons (70) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Supporting Actor Oscar Win: Supporting Actor 1956: Imelda
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77th Directors Guild Nominations
Today’s other major guild announcement is good news for some, bad news for others. Coralie Fargeat, Denis Villeneuve, and Jon M. Chu all desperately needed a citation here to stay in contention for the Oscars. The all-male list might spur the Academy to replace someone (probably Mangold) with Fargeat. Chu had always seemed like an
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Rating the Nominees, Group 3, #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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31st Screen Actors Guild Nominations
There was no live announcement this year because of the California wildfires but the nominations have been announced and are below. The five Best Cast nominees have likely secured Best Picture berths as all five have been in the conversation for nominations. The admiration of Wicked, with nominations in all but one category (but including
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The Contenders 24/25: Dec. Retrospective/Feb. 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 December and see what films succeeded and faltered. Then we’ll look forward to February and see what has some potential. Wesley Lovell’s Thoughts December Retrospective Our final
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Oscar History: January 8 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1892: Gordon Hollingshead (60 at death) {23 Noms, 7 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Assistant Directing, Documentary Short, One-Reel Short Film, Two-Reel Short Film Oscar Wins: Assistant Directing, Documentary Short, One-Reel Short Film, Two-Reel Short Film 1903: Robert Webb (87 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Assistant
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8th Chicago Indie Critics Nominations
Chicago’s independent film critics have gone heavy for two titles that haven’t gotten nearly as much broad love as its lower-nominated films. Nosferatu and The Substance really outdid themselves this time. Nominations Tallies (11) Nosferatu, The Substance (10) The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two (8) The Wild Robot (7) Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, Wicked (5) Anora
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9th Hawaii Critics Nominations
The question of why this organization exists is a perpetual one. They are such a small group that idiosyncratic choices are common but none more bizarre than one of the nominees for Best Comic Book Movie also being nominated as one of the worst movies of the year. It takes a lot of effort not
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13th Georgia Critics Awards
Georgia has spread the love with lots of selections that replicate other groups without creating much of their own identity. Awards Tallies (3) Anora (2) Challengers, Dune: Part Two, Flow (1) Conclave, Juror #2, Nickel Boys, Nosferatu, The Piano Lesson, A Real Pain, Sing Sing, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story The Awards Best Picture Anora
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18th Houston Critics Nominations (2024)
Houston’s critics have nicely spread out their nominations, picking up most of what’s been recognized so far this year. The one shocking omission in Best Picture is Emilia Pérez. Nominations Tallies (9) The Brutalist (8) Conclave (6) Anora, Dune: Part Two, Wicked (5) Sing Sing (4) Emilia Pérez, The Substance (3) A Complete Unknown, Nickel
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20th Austin Critics Awards
Austin’s critics have avoided one of their most nominated films (Dune: Part Two) completely. Their big winners were Anora, Sing Sing, and a bunch of films that start with “The.” Awards Tallies (5) Anora (4) Sing Sing (2) The Brutalist, The Substance, The Wild Robot (1) The Fall Guy, The First Omen, The Seed of
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56th NAACP Image Awards Nominations
Of the six most nominated films of the year, only 3 of them are good enough to be nominated for Best Motion Picture while one film with only two nominations (including Best Picture) is also slated. Perhaps if the quality of the inclusions weren’t inferior to the quality of the exclusions, it might not be
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65th British Academy Rising Star Nominees
BAFTA has announced their Rising Star selections (Please note I use the periods to help make entering data into my spreadsheet easier for tracking when there are contenders in the list and that applies to Mikey Madison, a likely Best Actress nominee who would normally have a solid shot at winning this…if they didn’t open
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32nd Cinema Audio Society Nominations
With this and the Motion Picture Sound Editors, we can probably form a pretty good guess as to which of the Academy shorlisted films will make it through. Let’s start with what’s missing between the Academy’s list and the CAS’s. Emilia Pérez, Alien: Romulus, Blitz, and Joker: Folie à Deux. The only two to miss
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77th Directors Guild Doc Nominations
All five of these films are shortlisted, so you could be looking at your final Oscar nominees but hold off until you see what PGA selects before committing. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev – Porcelain War Julian Brave Noisecat & Emily Kassie – Sugarcane Johan Grimonprez – Soundtrack to a Coup
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