In the sea of Oscar prognosticators masquerading as critics groups, the one group I would have expected to be more in line with the current Oscar dialogue was the Online Film & Television Association which has positioned itself as one of the prime prognosticators in the precursor field. So, imagine how refreshing it was to…
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Last night, the Producers Guild of America announced their award winners pushing Oscar season into a new tone with the first guild awards of the year. When commercially successful films like The Help and Bridesmaids lose out to a commercially unsuccessful film like The Artist, the race is pretty much over. Although the DGA will…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (2)
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Oscar News At the 69th Golden Globes last weekend, The Artist proved to be the night’s biggest winner, taking 3 awards including Best Picture – Comedy and Best Actor-Comedy (Jean Dujardin). The Descendants picked up 2 awards for Best Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Drama for George Clooney. The Academy released the nine eligible films…
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A horror-styled post-apocalyptic gore fest. Not as interested as I thought I would be. The Divide Plot Summary: A massive attack on New York City sends a group of apartment dwellers into their basement to hide while they wait for the fallout, thereby struggling to survive while trapped away from the world. Release Date: January…
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On Sundays, we list the weekend’s upcoming films along with previews of trailers and posters. On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and their…
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Saturday evening, the Producers Guild of America kick off the Guild Awards season with the first awards presentation. While they have a checkered past, there’s no denying they have a strong history of decent predictive capabilities. Here are our fearless predictions on who we think will take home the awards. (NOTE: Normally, I post my…
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Time for another week of the Friday Face-Off. It’s a simple affair in which you are given a choice between two Oscar winners in specific categories. You choose which of the two is best. When the game concludes, we’ll have the ultimate winner in each category. For example: If you were to choose between Oscar…
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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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In all but one of the last four years, the 5 nominees for Sound Editing came from this slate of nominees (the Sound Effects/Foley and Dialogue/ADR categories in specific with an odd pickup from the Animation list in the years Pixar did well). So, you can expect no other nominees than what are here. With…
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For a full list of rules, click here: 2011 Spring Box Office Predictions Game Rules. Submit Your Predictions for This Week Top Ten Films at the U.S. Box Office of the week in order from most money to least. Individual monetary predictions for each film. Final box office tally for all new wide releases. Awards…
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Return Links Best Picture Poll Archive Best Original Song Poll: 1989 – 1993 Which Original Song winner is best? Public OpinionView Results
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I love Michelle Yeoh and I’ve heard wonderful things about this performance. Too bad the trailer doesn’t fill me with hope. The Lady Plot Summary: The story of Nobel Prize-winning peace advocate Aung San Suu Kyi who stood firm against a brutal military regime while trying to bring unity to Burma. Release Date: April 13,…
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