No real surprises this year. The Avatar nomination at the Oscars was indeed a fluke. The Awards Best Period Costume Design Frankenstein WL PP TL Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Costume Design Wicked: For Good WL PP TL Best Contemporary Costume Design One Battle After Another WL TL Costume Designers Guild Data First Awards: 1998 (28)
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1908: Lennie Hayton (63 at death) {6 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Musical Score Oscar Wins: Musical Score 1918: Nino Oliviero (62 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Song 1918: Oliver Smith (75 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design
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New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#3-#4) The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Page Revisions: (February 8, 2026) Original Release Date: February 27, 2026 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Two brothers embark on a cross country road trip that quickly devolves when they become involved in a global conspiracy.” Poster Rating: B / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1, B) There are lots of elements to give the viewer
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All the Empty Rooms (Short Film) Rating Director Joshua Seftel Screenplay n/a Length 34m Starring n/a MPAA Rating Not Rated Review Although the program organizes these in a different order, I’ll be tackling them alphabetically, not in order of presentation or preference. All the Empty Rooms follows news correspondent Steve Hartman, whose claims to fame
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Born Kathleen Doyle Bates in Memphis, Tennessee on June 28, 1948, the third child of a mechanical engineer and a homemaker, Kathy Bates’ paternal grandfather was writer Finis Bates. A great-great grandfather was Andrew Jackson’s physician in New Orleans. Majoring in theatre at Southern Methodist University from which she graduated in 1969, Bates immediately moved
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Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Original Screenplay, 2002 Now that we’ve finished rebuilding the nomination slate between 1997 and 2016 (we’ll do subsequent years after this series has completed), we will take those rebuilt slates and pick a new winner from among the nominees. In our eleventh pass, we take a look at the new
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1890: Bess Meredyth (79 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Writing 1892: Al Alborn (76 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Assistant Directing 1896: Charles G. Booth (53 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Motion Picture Story Oscar Win: Motion Picture
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New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#2-#4) The Drama, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Page Revisions: (February 8, 2026) Original (March 8, 2026) New Trailers (#2-#3) – New Poster (#1) (March 29, 2026) New Trailer (#4) — New Posters (#2-#9) (April 5, 2026) New Poster (#10) Release Date: April 10, 2026 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A woman, employed as a website content moderator, comes across a series of violent videos
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There are a lot of wide openers this week and none of them seem like guaranteed hits, though I’d guess that GOAT will come out on top easily. OTHER RELEASES We are only looking at films that have had trailers released on Rotten Tomatoes’ trailer YouTube Channels. Below are some other films that are releasing
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The Costume Designers Guild is next up on Thursday. Will they confirm current thinking on the Oscar categories? The Sci-Fi category might not have bearing until it does. ORGNAME AWARDS Legend: Winner Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Runner-Up Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Best Period Costume Design Downton Abbey: The Grand
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For our February update, we’re getting closer to the point where all box office numbers are finalized. Certainly, most of them are in the range of not making further impact on contenders’ chances. We’re still missing a few numbers on the audience side but for the most part, we’re about to the point where this
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Feb. 13-15, 2026)
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1908: Philip Dunne (84 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Story and Screenplay, Screenplay 1909: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (83 at death) {9 Noms, 4 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Directing, Adaptation, Screenplay, Story and Screenplay Oscar Wins: Directing, Screenplay Academy Awards Host: 28th-Co | 1 time 1916:
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