Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1883: Elliott Clawson (59 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Writing 1902: Gene Milford (89 at death) {3 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Editing Oscar Wins: Editing 1906: Millen Brand (74 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Screenplay 1907: Charles Henderson (63 at…
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Page Revisions: (January 14, 2024) Original Release Date: February 16, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they’re travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for survival ensues with the air supply running out and dangers creeping in from all sides.” Poster Rating: C- SEE…
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Page Revisions: (January 7, 2024) Original (February 11, 2024) New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#2) Release Date: March 8, 2024 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A woman returns to her childhood home to discover that the imaginary friend she left behind is very real and unhappy that she abandoned him.” Poster Rating: C+ / C+ SEE…
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Born September 28, 1950 in Schenectady, New York to Mary and Donald Sayles, a teacher and school administrator respectively, John Sayles attended Williams College with future collaborators, Gordon Clapp, Donald Strathairn, and Maggie Renzi, his longtime partner. After graduating in 1972, he moved to Boston where he worked at several blue-collar jobs while writing short…
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The Boy and the Heron Rating Director Hayao Miyazaki Screenplay Hayao Miyazaki Length 2h 04m Starring Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kou Shibasaki, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Takuya Kimura MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here Review Japanese culture and spiritually have always provided a potent well from which Hayao Miyazaki draws his filmic inspiration. The Boy…
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Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Visual Effects, 2009 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 fifth pass, we take a look at the new…
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Oppenheimer and Poor Things had very good days. As did The Zone of Interest. Barbie and Past Lives had poor showings. Is this a peculiarity of the British nomination process? Possibly. It’s hard to know for sure. All of Us Strangers had a mix of results. Two or three positive citations with a couple of…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1884: Anton Grot (90 at death) {5 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White) Oscar Win: Sci-Tech Award – Type II (Certificate) 1887: Frank Harling (71 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Scoring, Drama/Comedy Score Oscar Win: Scoring 1891: M.…
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New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#2) Orion and the Dark, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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The only major precursor outside of BAFTA left for Adapted Screenplay is the USC Scripter, which typically awards the screenwriter and the source material. This is great news for Origin, which seems to have been forgotten by most groups this year. The others were largely expected. What missed out? All of Strangers and Are You…
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The OFCS seemed to like just about everything everyone else had, though there are quite a few notably exceptions. Maestro was completely shut out while American Fiction didn’t get a Best Picture citation. Nominations Tallies (12) Oppenheimer (11) Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things (9) Barbie (5) Anatomy of a Fall, Past Lives (4)…
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Can the latest sci-fi feature make a dent in the box office or will the second weekend of Mean Girls end up in the top spot again? 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 this…
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Jan. 19-21, 2024)
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Since the Academy Award nominations are coming next week, we’ve moved all of our films to Stage 6, which is the precursors stage. Of the precursors we’re tracking, only six of them have yet to announce. Two of those are guilds (American Cinema Editors and Writers Guild of America) and four of them are other…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1880: Mack Sennett (80 at death) {2 Noms, 2 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Comedy Short Film, Novelty Short Film Oscar Wins: Novelty Short Film, Special/Honorary 1912: Morton Scott (80 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Drama/Comedy Score, Musical Score 1914: Irving Brecher (94 at death) {1…
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