Oscar History: October 24 (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Best Actor
(Updated 3/5/10, 12:50p – Added Wes’ info) As we get closer and closer to the Oscars, more of the top categories will be revealed. Here are some facts about the Best Actor category, along with our predictions and favorite and least favorite winners in the Best Actor category. Trivia: Five Facts The category was among…
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Precursor Predictions: Visual Effects Society
Sunday, the very last of the guilds to announce will do so. The Visual Effects Society is probably the one group whose decision doesn’t matter as the Oscar winner in this category has been virtually set in stone since before the nominations were even announced. Still, it’s a fun group to watch the results on.…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part VIII
From our earliest Oscar memories to the ones where we vocally cheer to the unique fashions, Cinema Sight’s Favorite Oscar Moments series continues with its eighth incarnation. Peter J. Patrick 1958, 31st Academy Awards My first Oscar show. Two moments stand out. The first is Rosalind Russell’s presentation of a Special Award to Maurice Chevalier…
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Best Original Song & Original Score
(Updated: 2/28/2010, 2:45p) We have another one-two punch today as we look at the music categories at the Oscars: Best Original Score and Best Original Song. Like with our documentary and short film categories yesterday, we’ll split the score and song categories into two separate five-part fact sheets, then offer up our predictions in both…
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Precursor Predictions: A.S. of Cinematographers & Audio Society
Saturday, the American Society of Cinematographers and Cinema Audio Society are the next-to-last guilds to give out their prizes. Below are our predictions. American Society of Cinematographers Cinematography Avatar The Hurt Locker (Wesley, Peter, Tripp) Inglourious Basterds Nine The White Ribbon Cinema Audio Society Sound Mixing Avatar (Wesley, Tripp) District 9 The Hurt Locker (Peter)…
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Precursor: Costume Designers Guild Awards
The Costume Designers Guild have announced the winners of their 12th Annual awards. Below are the winners. The Winners Period Costume Design The Young Victoria (Wesley, Peter, Tripp) Fantasy Costume Design The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Wesley, Peter, Tripp) Contemporary Costume Design Crazy Heart
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part VII
With our seventh outing in our Favorite Oscar Moments series, Peter, Tripp and I continue sharing our favorite moments from Oscar history. The moments that we remember best or that have struck our fancy as we’ve consumed Oscar’s history. This is also the second time two of us have agreed on a particular moment to…
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Best Documentary Feature & Short Films
Another of our combination rounds, this one dealing with the documentary and short films categories. Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film are covered below. There are a few more facts than normal and more predictions. Our thoughts on our favorite and least favorite winners are confined to the Documentary…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part VI
From refusals to ties to Honorary Oscars. They are the moments we remember because of what they meant to us. Whether they made us laugh, cry or scratch our heads, they are our favorites. Tripp Burton 1970, 43rd Academy Awards It is a moment that still baffles me, that the Academy gave the Oscar to…
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Best Original & Adapted Screenplay
(Updated: 2/24/10, 6:13p) Today, we have a one-two punch for you, highlighting the year’s writing awards. Since the Academy has had so many different category descriptions and rules, we thought it best to cover our favorites of these groups somewhat collectively. In addition, the trivia encompasses all writing awards and our predictions are for both…
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Precursor Predictions: Costume Designers Guild
Tomorrow, the Costume Designers Guild will be feting its own when it presents its awards for the best costume design work of 2009. Below are our predictions in the three film categories: Costume Designers Guild Period Costume Design Coco Before Chanel Julie & Julia Nine Sherlock Holmes The Young Victoria (Wesley, Peter, Tripp) Fantasy Costume…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part V
The great moments we remember are sometimes the most subtle and oftentimes the most garish with a few well placed speeches in between. Today we continue with the fifth part of our Favorite Oscar Moments coverage. Peter J. Patrick 1964, 37th Academy Awards 75-year-old Oscar nominee Gladys Cooper runs to the stage to accept Cecil…
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Best Makeup
Just under two weeks left until the 82nd Academy Awards. Today, we’re looking at the Best Makeup award. Below are five facts, our predictions for winners and alternates, and our favorite and least favorite winners in this category. Trivia: Five Facts Given as special honorary awards in 1964 and 1968, the category was not made…
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The DVD Report #144: February 23, 2010
Orson Welles called it the saddest movie ever made. John Ford and Jean Renoir were impressed. George Bernard Shaw wrote him a fan letter. Paramount chief Adolph Zukor fired him because the movie didn’t make any money. Then the Academy, in its wisdom, gave Leo McCarey his first Oscar for “the wrong movie”. Not that…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part IV
Our coverage of our favorite Oscar moments continue with our fourth issue. Peter J. Patrick 1974, 47th Academy Awards Ingrid Bergman wins her third Oscar for Murder on the Orient Express and asks co-nominee Valentina Cortese (Day for Night) to forgive her for winning instead of her.
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