More commonplace winners. Awards Tallies (3) Nomadland (2) Minari The Awards
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A couple of minor surprises, but nothing out of the ordinary. Awards Tallies (4) Nomadland (3) Promising Young Woman (2) One Night in Miami, Soul, Sound of Metal The Awards
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Las Vegas enjoyed Nomadland like so many other groups and didn’t go too far out on a limb. Award Tallies (4) Nomadland (3) Judas and the Black Messiah, Soul (2) The Invisible Man, Mank, Sound of Metal The Awards
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Another group that loved Minari, but Phoenix’s nominations are a bit closer to the mainstream with a few oddball selections thrown in. Nominations Tallies (7) Minari (5) Mank, Nomadland (4) One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman (3) Another Round, Da 5 Bloods, Sound of Metal, Tenet The Nominations
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Page Revisions: (March 7, 2021) Original (April 18, 2021) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#2-#4) (May 16, 2021) New Posters (#5-#17) Release Date: May 21, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest…
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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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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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The origination of this organization is rather strange in itself. A collegiate group who honor adapted screenplays, both acknowledging the original writer and the screenwriter. It’s a very bizarre kind of thing to generate, but they have sometimes been a fairly accurate barometer of the Oscars. Sometimes, though, they’ve been completely left-field in their approach.…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Picking the lowest hanging fruit as usual, there’s nothing particularly compelling about this list. Nominations Tallies (6) 365 Days, Dolittle (5) Fantasy Island (4) Music (3) Hillbilly Elegy, Hubie Halloween, The Wrong Missy The Nominations
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Return Links Polls Remaking Best Original Screenplay, 2016 In our eleventh pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Original Screenplay. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Original Screenplay slate. There will…
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Page Revisions: (March 7, 2021) Original (May 2, 2021) New Trailer (#2) — New Posters (#2-#3) Release Date: June 18, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “On the Italian Riviera, an unlikely but strong friendship grows between a human being and a sea monster disguised as a human.” Poster Rating: C+ / B / B SEE ALL…
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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 week, we get a bit musical with the two categories that fall under…
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After directing, acting, and writing, the most important precursor for a Best Picture contender to have is an editing citation and there’s no organization more in tune with that than the American Cinema Editors. Of the major Best Picture Oscar contenders, the most notably absent here are The Father, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, One Night…
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Born June 5, 1902 in Oakland, California to James and Frances Plunkett, Walter Plunkett studied law at the University of California but was more interested in acting. He moved to New York in 1923, where he worked as an actor as well as a costume and set designer for the stage. He moved to Hollywood…
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