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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Below are our face-offs for this week. Choose the better winner in each category. For more information on how the game works, click here.
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls Remaking Best Makeup & Hairstyling, 2013 In our thirteenth pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Makeup & Hairstyling. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Makeup & Hairstyling…
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Page Revisions: (November 21, 2021) Original (February 20, 2022) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#3) (May 15, 2022) New Posters (#4-#32) — Updated Release Date (changed from 3.18.22) (May 22, 2022) New Trailer (#3) Release Date: May 20, 2022 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Follow-up to the 2019 feature film in which the Crawley family and…
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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, Disney Animation releases its 60th release (not counting ancillaries, such as Pixar),…
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For the first time in years there is a new film about Thanksgiving on screens in celebration of the holiday, the film version of the 2016 Tony award-winning play, The Humans. Holidays have been celebrated in films since their inception. There have been films about virtually all of them, 1942’s Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Nov. 26-28, 2021)
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Page Revisions: (November 21, 2021) Original Release Date: December 3, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: It’s…
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After a less than spectacular opening for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Thanksgiving holiday will see a handful of new wide releases, but only one of them will likely top the box office, Disney’s Encanto. Although the studio has struggled to turn its animated features into blockbusters in the last year, the combination of a holiday centered…
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Raya and the Last Dragon Rating Director Don Hall, Carloes Lopez, Estrada Screenplay Qui Nguyen, Adele Lim, Paul Briggs, Don Hall, Carlos Lopez Estrada, Kiel Murray, John Ripa, Dean Wellins Length 1h 47m Starring Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Izaac Wang, Gemma Chan, Daniel Dae Kim, Benedict Wong, Jona Xiao, Sandra Oh, Thalia Tran, Lucille Soong,…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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With the oddly formed eligibility window, the Grammy Awards often have little bearing on Oscar considerations, since they mostly go with prior year winners rather than future contenders. Still, compared to last year’s slate, this year’s is surprisingly heavy with 2021 Oscar-eligible films. There are four of six in the compilation soundtrack category, which has…
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New Trailer (#2) — New Poster (#2) Encounter, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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