Category: 96th Oscars

  • Predictions: 96th Oscars

    Predictions: 96th Oscars

    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 96th Oscars. INTRODUCTIONS Wesley Lovell: I’ve put together my first predictions and first thoughts on the race and while some of these races may well be over, there are a few…

  • 96th Oscar Nominations

    96th Oscar Nominations

    Let’s start with the biggest news. Other than America Ferrera, Barbie wildly underperformed. Margot Robbie was excised from Best Actress for Annette Bening and Greta Gerwig lost her DGA-sanctioned spot in Best Directing to two foreign directors. They barely avoided being labeled sexist by nominating one woman but ignoring the most successful woman director of…

  • 27th Online Critics Awards

    27th Online Critics Awards

    The OFCS loved Oppenheimer. Not much more to say. Award Tallies (8) Oppenheimer (4) Barbie (3) The Holdovers (1) 20 Days in Mariupol, John Wick: Chapter 4, Killers of the Flower Moon, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Past Lives, Spider-Man: Across the Universe, The Taste of Things The Awards Best Picture Oppenheimer Killers…

  • Oscar Morning: Final Nomination Thoughts

    Oscar Morning: Final Nomination Thoughts

    Tomorrow morning, the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced. They’ll be revealed by TV stars Zazie Beetz (Atlanta, Deadpool 2) and Jack Quaid (The Boys, Star Trek: Lower Decks). Before the nominations are announced, I wanted to put down in writing my thoughts on this year’s categories and how I came to…

  • 2023 Nominations Predictions: Final

    2023 Nominations Predictions: Final

    And here we have our final nominations predictions for 2024. While things seem to have coalesced, the coalescing doesn’t seem to have turned out exactly the same way for all of us, so while we have a lot of identical predictions, we also have some off-the-wall choices. KEY: Appears on Four Lists Appears on Three…

  • 8th New Mexico Critics Awards

    8th New Mexico Critics Awards

    I have no idea when these were announced. Their website and X-Twitter account have been silent for a very long time. These were found on IMDb. Award Tallies (4) Killers of the Flower Moon (3) Past Lives (2) Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie (1) The Boy and the Heron, A Haunting in Venice, The Holdovers,…

  • 96th Oscars: Nominations Announcement Details

    96th Oscars: Nominations Announcement Details

    Here’s the annual stream information 96TH OSCARS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT Live Presentation Begins Tuesday, January 23, 2024 5:30 a.m. PST / 8:30 a.m. EST / 1:30 p.m. GMT / 9:30 p.m. CST The 96th Oscars Airs Sunday, March 10, on ABC FORMAT Actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid will host the announcement of the 96th Oscars®…

  • 96th Oscars: Sci-Tech Recipients Announced

    96th Oscars: Sci-Tech Recipients Announced

    It doesn’t look like there were any special awards (Awards of Commendation, Gordon E. Sawyer Award, etc.) and there are only certificates and plaques being given out. No Awards of Merit. 16 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS TO BE HONORED WITH ACADEMY AWARDS® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced…

  • 64th British Academy Nominations

    64th British Academy Nominations

    Oppenheimer and Poor Things had very good days. As did The Zone of Interest. Barbie and Past Lives had poor showings. Is this a peculiarity of the British nomination process? Possibly. It’s hard to know for sure. All of Us Strangers had a mix of results. Two or three positive citations with a couple of…

  • 37th USC Scripter Nominations

    37th USC Scripter Nominations

    The only major precursor outside of BAFTA left for Adapted Screenplay is the USC Scripter, which typically awards the screenwriter and the source material. This is great news for Origin, which seems to have been forgotten by most groups this year. The others were largely expected. What missed out? All of Strangers and Are You…