The definitive group of cinematographers has a tendency to reject orthodoxy and pick winners that don’t link up with the Oscars. Will the same happen this year or are we destined for a connection? We’ll see.
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For our seventeenth Rundown article, we review the directing category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Directing as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with Best Animated Feature.
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Over the course of 23 days, we will present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2020 were based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released 2010: Film Fun Friday (1)
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Return Links Polls Remaking Best Adapted Screenplay, 2001 In our twelfth pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Adapted Screenplay slate. There will…
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Page Revisions: (April 11, 2021) Original Release Date: March 5, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter, Warda. When Samia, a young pregnant woman knocks on their door, Abla is far from imagining that her life will change forever.”…
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Page Revisions: (April 11, 2021) Original Release Date: March 19, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a VHS-tape proves the existence of a rumored doorway to paradise, a young man abandons his decaying hometown in pursuit of the door to salvation, evading vengeful pursuers along the way.” Poster Rating: – SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: There…
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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. In my penultimate 5 Favorites Redux article before the Oscars, I give the women…
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Born August 12, 1881 in a boarding house in Ashfield, Massachusetts where his parents had been vacationing for the summer, Cecil Blount DeMille was the son of Matilda Beatrice and Henry Churchill de Mille, a dramatist, actor and lay reader in the Episcopal Church. He was also an English teacher at Columbia, and a member…
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And now it’s time for the best broadcast awards show that you probably aren’t watching. The Annie Awards honor the best in animation every year and being on Friday evening makes it easier for me to watch, which is good. Hopefully, they stream once again this year. (Editor’s Note: Tripp submitted a mostly complete list…
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For our sixteenth Rundown article, we review the costume design. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Costume Design as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover Best Directing. (Editor’s Note: Tripp submitted his commentary and predictions after posting. The below has been updated to reflect the…
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Over the course of 23 days, we will present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2020 were based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Apr. 16-18, 2021)
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