Below are five previews for films opening next weekend. Kraven the Hunter (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (Wide) Cinema Sight Preview The Last Showgirl (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview Nickel Boys (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview September 5 (Limited) Cinema Sight Preview
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Every week, we’ll take a look back at how Oscar-nominated films performed at the box office. Due to the lack of data prior to 1980, some of these early years may have minimal information. From the mid-1990s back to 1980, the data exists, but is sometimes spotty. Everything after that should be accurate. We’ll look…
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The Globes seem to be going the same direction as the other two televised awards shows by going for 6 nominees in each category. The Globes already had too many bites at the Oscar-prognosticating apple and now they want more. The only major surprise so far was Payal Kapadia making it into the Best Director…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Oliver Emert (72 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) Oscar Win: Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) 1905: Dalton Trumbo (70 at death) {3 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Screenplay, Motion Picture Story Oscar Wins: Motion Picture Story 1911: Broderick Crawford (74…
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This makes two of the old guard critics groups to go for Anora on the same day. This is the kind of result we would normally expect from critics groups but it’s also not a new trend being set. We’ll just have to see how some of the others (National Society of Film Critics and…
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Boston is the first group to go for Anora in a big way, giving it three prizes. A Complete Unknown also gets a bit of a boost. Award Tallies (4) Anora (2) A Complete Unknown (1) The Brutalist, Challengers, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Flow, Janet Planet Nickel Boys,…
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The biggest blockbusters of the year did really well in these nominations. The deadlines were prior to some of the year-end releases, so we won’t know how something like Wicked does until next year. Award Tallies (14) Dune: Part Two (13) Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (10) Deadpool & Wolverine (8) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes…
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Michigan’s movie critics (who may well have taken over after the disappearance of the Detroit Film Critics Society, have picked Anora, The Brutalist, and Wicked in most categories with The Substance also doing surprisingly well. Nominations Tallies (6) Anora, The Brutalist, Wicked (5) The Substance (3) Nosferatu (2) Dune: Part Two, Piece by Piece, Saturday…
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We already saw Emilia Pérez do well in the craft categories and now it’s stomped all comers in most of the major categories. Are the European Film Awards becoming a tryout for Oscar now? We’ll see but trendlines point to yes. Award Tallies (5) Emilia Pérez (2) The Girl with the Needle, Souleyman’s Story, The…
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DC’s film critics love Brutalist, Conclave and Wicked with Anora performing quote well in spite of its lack of technical achievements. Nominations Tallies (10) The Brutalist (9) Conclave (8) Wicked (7) Anora, Dune: Part Two (6) (5) Sing Sing (4) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (3) Emilia Pérez, Gladiator II, Inside Out 2,…
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Seattle’s critics were primarily impressed with action films (Dune: Part Two and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga). They also liked some substantive stuff but the performance of Challengers is a bit surprising considering its release much earlier this year. They also seemed to love The Beast, which has been a non-entity this year so far.…
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