Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Film Independent always announces its grant winners prior to the awards. Below are the winners. The Awards Producers Award Lizzie Shapiro Someone to Watch Award Alex Camilleri Truer Than Fiction Award Jessica Beshir Spirit Awards Data First Awards: 1985 (36)
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Return Links Polls Remaking Best Animated Feature, 2008 In our fourteenth pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Animated Feature. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Animated Feature slate. There will…
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Page Revisions: (February 6, 2022) Original Release Date: February 25, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “During a blizzard and stranded at an isolated highway rest stop in the mountains, a college student discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: Pulling…
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Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. This weekend, Kenneth Branagh adapts his second Agatha Christie novel for the big screen.…
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Born May 26, 1914 in Lancashire, England, Geoffrey Unsworth was a British cinematographer who worked on some of the most important films in cinema history spanning more than forty years. Unsworth began his career with British Gaumont in 1932 when he was 18. He went to work for Technicolor in 1938 where his first assignment…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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THE ACADEMY ANNOUNCES NEW DATE FOR 2022 GOVERNORS AWARDS DANNY GLOVER, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ELAINE MAY AND LIV ULLMANN TO BE HONORED WITH OSCARS® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the 12th Governors Awards will be held on Friday, March 25, 2022, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom…
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Feb. 11-13, 2022)
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Page Revisions: (February 6, 2022) Original Release Date: March 2, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they’re left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: While the design is disorienting in certain respects, it is haphazardly…
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Below is a wrap-up of the predictions I made several months ago, an exploration of what succeeded and what failed, and how I observe things to have gone. September 3, 2021 Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Oscar Prospects: What I said: “Uncertain. While the MCU has done decently in the past…
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Three new wide releases, but are really any of them going to be draws? Not likely, though I expect Blacklight has a better shot as any at topping the chart. Our Highest Rated Films: Death on the Nile Our Best Awards Ratings: None OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Conundrum: Secrets Among Friends (Limited) Cosmic Dawn (Limited) Give…
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The nominations have been announced and it’s now time for our prognosticators to take a stab at winner predictions. Here are our first thoughts on the race as it stands. We’ll dig into more depth in our Rundown Series. (Editor’s Note: Thomas’ commentary has been added.) KEY: Appears on Four Lists Appears on Three Lists…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies Oscar Nominations
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