The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics have a unique method of announcing winners among all other precursors. They announce the winners in a ranked order. Much of what’s been discussed this year made it onto their various lists. The big surprises are Reese Witherspoon’s Best Actress win for Wild, Alfred Molina making it into Best Supporting…
The Broadcast Film Critics Association has announced their annual list of the best of 2014. There aren’t a lot of glaring omissions. The group lists 6 nominees in many categories, which enable them to include a lot of different Oscar contenders. This is the second big group to ignore Laura Dern for Wild. Steve Carell…
Another dynamic shift in the awards race as Birdman seems to be picking up steam while Boyhood continues to win Best Director prizes and awards for Patricia Arquette. Nothing else particularly inspired here. Award Tallies (4) Birdman (2) Boyhood The Awards Best Picture Birdman Best Animated Feature
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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). This week will be the final week for film critics to announce their nominees and most of the…
The two films that have been duking it out for top honors from critics, Boyhood and Birdman have surprisingly taken a back seat to three other films in the nominations tally here. Nightcrawler is the surprising top nominee with nine mentions followed by Gone Girl and The Grand Budapest Hotel. There are some interesting selections…
The Academy has been busy, sending out three press releases this evening. This third and final release documents the 79 original songs competing for five slots at this year’s Academy Awards. I didn’t see any glaring omissions, but I haven’t gotten in there to look at them in-depth. This is the penultimate major shortlist to…
The Academy has revealed the 114 films whose scores are eligible for the Best Original Score category at this year’s Oscars. Typically, this number is quite a bit lower than the full eligibility list due to the fact that some films don’t use original scores and others have too much dilution of the material through…
The Academy has announced 323 films that have qualified for this year’s Oscars. These are the films that will be eligible in all categories but foreign language film, and the documentary and short film awards. 323 FEATURE FILMS IN CONTENTION FOR 2014 BEST PICTURE OSCAR®
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: June 12, 2015 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park (1993), Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining,…