Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…
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We started over at the beginning of August 2013, but with a new, more streamlined methodology to collecting votes. Just choose one selection in each of the ten categories below. Our first few weeks will be to select winners in cases of ties or in years where multiple categories existed for each discipline. After that,…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Return Links Polls Best Supporting Actress Poll: 1941 – 1945 Cinema Sight Asks: Which Best Supporting Actress winner is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
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Poster Trailer Link Release Date: May 23, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The story of an autistic youth named Ricky who, after a particularly difficult day at school, escapes into the subways. It’s here that he starts his real journey, on a days-long voyage of discovery while, above ground, his mom frantically searches for him.” Poster:…
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Here are the results of last week’s poll. A Separation Moneyball Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close War Horse Jane Eyre The Ides of March A Separation wins and goes into my queue.
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Born August 8, 1937 to Lillian and Harry Hoffman, a prop supervisor at Columbia, Dustin Hoffman had originally wanted to be a concert pianist but turned to acting instead, making his stage debut at the Pasadena Playhouse opposite Gene Hackman in the late 1950s. He and Hackman moved to New York in pursuit of Broadway…
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Here are the ten short films that make up the competition for the Best Animated Short Film category. Three, four or five nominees will be selected int total. I don’t know a lot about these yet, but I’m sure you can find information them somewhere in the internet. 10 ANIMATED SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2014 OSCAR®…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Nov. 7-9, 2014) Cinema Sight Asks: What are you watching? (Nov. 7-9, 2014) Public OpinionPoll Results
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Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: December 25, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A drama centered on the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.”…
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It will be a glorious battle this weekend as Disney’s big gun, the animated adventure Big Hero 6 takes on regular box office behemoth Christopher Nolan. Ultimately, I think both will do incredibly well. I give the edge to Interstellar since its previews have been compelling and nicely targeted to Nolan fans. Individual Commentaries Wesley…
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June 6, 2014 Edge of Tomorrow Oscar Prospects: What I said: “Poor. Just like audiences don’t care if Tom Cruise stars in a new movie, the Oscars don’t seem to care if he’s in one either. Most of the films he’s been in in the last few years have failed to muster support for Oscar…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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You can read more about this project in the article at this link. Below is our sixteenth poll, covering Best Art Direction. As a refresher, here is where we obtain the titles/performances will be included in the polls that will be conducted: Two-Source Categories: The actual Oscar nominees in the seleted category. The precursor nominees…
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