There’s big news out of this year’s Costume Designers Guild awards. For most the season, everyone thought Cinderella might be the inevitable winner of the Oscar, but the CDG may have changed that thought process. Mad Max: Fury Road pulls off an upset win over the costumes of Cinderella, giving it a strong boost going…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Ceremonies
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Page Revisions: (February 21, 2016) Original (April 10, 2016) New Posters (#2-#9) Release Date: April 15, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “It’s been more than 10 years since our last appointment at Calvin’s Barbershop. Calvin and his longtime crew are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes. Most noticeably, our once male-dominated sanctuary…
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New This Week Introduced with the title card “a picture with a smile—and perhaps, a tear”, Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 film The Kid was the beloved comic’s first feature-length film. Personally restored by the then 83-year-old Chaplin in 1972 and now by Criterion on Blu-ray and standard DVD, The Kid is a triumph in every conceivable…
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With three categories, the Costume Designers Guild has a better-than-average chance of picking the eventual Oscar winner. You can ignore the contemporary category because it never has an Oscar impact. However, with the other two categories, you’d think they’d be better predictors. They aren’t. Since their inception, they have accurately predicted the Oscar winner eight…
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For our seventeenth Rundown article, we look at the non-musical aural categories. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover category that physically makes everyone look different.
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For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2015 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Ceremonies
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Page Revisions: (February 21, 2016) Original (May 1, 2016) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#1 & #2) Release Date: July 1, 2016 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London’s trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for…
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As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). The penultimate weekend has left all but three precursors decided, those precursors will have little impact on Oscar…
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Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what movies I’ve seen over the past week. Below, you will find short reviews of those movies along with a star rating. Full length reviews may come at a later date. So, here is what I watched this past week: Room Locked in a one-room…
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To date, we’ve been asking you what your favorite selections are. Now, let’s look at your prognostication capabilities by asking you to select the films/achievements you think will win this year’s Oscars. Best Picture: Best Animated Feature: Best Directing: Best Actor: Best Actress: Best Supporting Actor: Best Supporting Actress: Best Adapted Screenplay: Best Original Screenplay:…
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For our sixteenth Rundown article, we look at the final foundation category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover the two categories that feed our ears with all its non-musical goodness.
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Having announced fairly early in the process, this group’s nominations hardly reflected the Academy’s even with more than five nominees in each category. Still, there were some very interesting choices here that are outside of the mainstream such as Christian Bale for Best Supporting Actor and Saoirse Ronan for Actress. Neither of these have been…
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