Every day through the Thursday before the Oscars, we’re running polls to determine which of the Oscar nominees are the best. Keep checking back daily. Best Animated Short Film Loading…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: A. Earl Hedrick (89 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) 1900: Kurt Weill (50 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Musical Score 1905: Jerome Hill (67 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Documentary Feature Oscar Win:…
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Page Revisions: (February 25, 2024) Original Release Date: March 7, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When three childhood best friends pull a prank that goes wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble. Twenty years later, they still use the nonexistent Ricky as a handy alibi for their immature behavior.” Poster…
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Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different forms and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organizations. Here’s what’s coming up this month. MARCH Festivals Friday, Mar. 8 – South by Southwest Film Festival (Festival) (Official) Nominations Wednesday, Mar. 13 – Critics Choice – Super…
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With the Writers Guild of America abdicating its position (ceremony after the Oscars) as a precursor (a poor one truth be told), our best precursor for Best Adapted Screenplay is now the USC Scripter prize. USC SCRIPTER AWARDS Best Adapted Screenplay American Fiction (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Killers of the Flower Moon Oppenheimer (RU:Wesley, RU:Peter, RU:Thomas)…
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The Best Film Editing award gets surprisingly little precursor action in spite of it being one of the most important aspects of a film’s success or failure. Thankfully, we have the American Cinema Editors to give us a hand. AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS AWARDS Best Drama Editing Anatomy of a Fall (Peter, RU:Wesley, RU:Thomas) Killers of…
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When looking at Best Cinematography, this group is one of the best precursors. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS AWARDS Best Cinematography El Conde Maestro Killers of the Flower Moon (RU:Peter, RU:Thomas) Poor Things (RU:Wesley) Oppenheimer (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Wesley Lovell: Oppenheimer has been dominating this award all season. I see no reason for it to stop.…
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The other Best Sound feeder is the Motion Picture Sound Editors. After the Sound Editing category was removed, it was rolled into Best Sound and Sound Editors are now nominated alongside Mixers. We still look at their results for clues, especially if they align with the Cinema Audio Society. MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS AWARDS Best…
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When looking at the Best Sound category, the Cinema Audio Society is one of two precursors that might reveal Oscar voters’ thinking. CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY AWARDS Best Sound Mixing – Live Action Barbie Ferrari Killers of the Flower Moon (RU:Peter) Maestro (RU:Wesley, RU:Thomas) Oppenheimer (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Wesley Lovell: Oppenheimer should make a clean sweep…
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We now have our likely final predictions with SAG having had its say. Best Supporting Actor Winner Predictions Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer WLPPTL Ryan Gosling – Barbie Mark Ruffao – Poor Things Runner-Up Predictions Ryan Gosling – Barbie WLPPTL…
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With the biggie, SAG, out of the way, we have all of our predictions cemented. Best Actor Winner Predictions Bradley Cooper – Maestro Colman Domingo – Rustin Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers PP Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer WLTL Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction Runner-Up Predictions Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers WLTL Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer…
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The Ultimate List Face-Off event has now begun. We will be using Google Forms to process these polls due to their extensiveness and the ease of creating the polls. For more information on how the game works, click here. Here are this week’s batch: GOOGLE POLL. Loading…
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We’re looking back at all of the Oscar winners and selecting what films and performances and comparing them to one another. The most effective way to do that is pit each winner against each other winner. This long-running series will ultimately result in a final ranking of every winner in every category (except the documentary…
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Every day through the Thursday before the Oscars, we’re running polls to determine which of the Oscar nominees are the best. Keep checking back daily. Best Actress Loading…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Geza Herczeg (65 at death) {2 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Story, Screenplay Oscar Win: Screenplay 1908: Oscar Millard (82 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Motion Picture Story 1910: David Niven (73 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Actor Oscar…
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