Film Preview: The Sun Never Sets (2026)
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Precursor: 27th Chicago Critics Awards (2014)
Chicago is carrying forward the Boyhood narrative that’s dominating precursor season, but as The Social Network, L.A. Confidential and others proved, dominance with the critics does not mean dominance with the Academy. There aren’t any major surprises here. Award Tallies (3) Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Whiplash (2) Birdman The Awards
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Precursor: 18th Toronto Critics Awards (2014)
Apart from Boyhood, Toronto spread its love among several films, few of which were new selections among precursors. The Lunchbox was a surprising first feature selection while The Overnighters beat out one of the Oscar frontrunners. They will announce their Best Canadian Film award on December 14 and this year, they have a surprisingly dense…
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Precursor: 14th Phoenix Critics Awards (2014)
Keira Knightley secures her first precursor win for The Imitation Game, the lone true surprise among the more recognizable categories. Documentary Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me is a bit unusual for a selection, but not one that has me scratching my head. Award Tallies (6) Birdman (3) Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2) Edge…
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Precursor: 13th San Francisco Critics Awards (2014)
For the second year running, San Francisco announced their nominations at the same time as their awards, making things look more favorable to Birdman in nomination count, but giving Boyhood more prizes. As precursor season wears on, the number of unique selections dwindle, but they are one of the few groups that have given quite…
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Precursor: 6th Indiana Critics Awards (2014)
Indiana couldn’t find any new ground to break, so they introduced a new award for motion capture/vocal performance and gave it to Andy Serkis (because who else are you going to give it to or nominate?). Their selections were mostly in line with what other groups have done with Locke and St. Vincent doing better…
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The DVD Report #391
New This Week The camera focuses on a middle-aged Irish priest sitting in the confessional listening to a distressed parishioner who is opening up for the first time about being raped and sodomized on a daily basis for five years as a child by a now-deceased priest. Too late to prosecute the bad priest and…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 16 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Exodus: Gods and Kings”
Return Links Polls Now That You’ve Seen Exodus: Gods and Kings…? Cinema Sight Asks: Now that you’ve seen “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” which Ridley Scott film is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
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87th Oscars: Makeup & Hairstlying Shortlist
When I said earlier that Foreign Language Film would be the last shortlist, I had forgotten all about the Makeup department. Here are their shortlisted films. It’s most interesting that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 made the list considering how few effects were in it. The Theory of Everything also seems a bit odd to me.…
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Trailer Watch: Inside Out, updated (2015)
New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#2-#9) Inside Out, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here.
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Precursor: 19th San Diego Critics Awards (2014)
San Diego loves Nightcrawler, which nearly swept every category in which it was nominated, taking home a precursor-dominant seven awards, including Best Picture, Director and Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal) with additional praise for long-shot Oscar contender Rene Russo. Award Tallies (7) Nightcrawler The Awards Best Picture Nightcrawler Best Animated Film
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Precursor: 9th St. Louis Critics Awards (2014)
Boyhood takes Best Picture, but secures fewer awards than Birdman which doubled its tally. Gone Girl performed well, as did Guardians of the Galaxy. Jake Gyllenhaal gets some precursor love. Nominations Tallies (4) birdman (2) Boyhood, Gone Girl, Guardians of the Galaxy The Awards Best Film Boyhood Best Animated Film
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 12-14, 2014
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Exodus: Gods and Kings From a distance, Exodus seemed like a fine opportunity to rebuild the Biblical Epic behemoth that the Academy used to favor, but the film has turned out to be something that critics don’t particularly love. Mix in…
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The Morning After: Dec. 15, 2014
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. Another busy weekend with nothing examined. Next week has one guarantee in The Hobbit:…
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Precursor: 18th Online Critics Awards (2014)
After a couple of years of being one of the top predictors of Oscar winners, the OFCS has scaled back recognizing smaller fare. While there are still lots of chances for overlap with Oscar, Best Picture will probably not be one of them. They’ve also gone a different direction for Best Actress than the vast…
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