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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Releasing weeks before the normal start of Oscar precursor season, the Gotham Awards have announced their nominations this year and there’s a lot of films here that haven’t been getting a lot of chatter, but could get a small boost from this. First Cow was the most nominated with three followed by a sextet of…
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Return Links Polls Remaking Best Original Screenplay, 1999 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: (November 8, 2020) Original Release Date: September 25, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.” Poster Rating: C- SEE…
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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, a disposable romantic comedy releases to cinemas and with it, we’re given…
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Born May 26, 1905 in Del Rio, Tennessee, Burnett Guffey attended school in Etowah, Tennessee. He worked as a messenger boy in a bank and then as a camera assistant at Fox beginning in 1923. His first film was that year’s The Courtship of Myles Standish that same year. John Ford picked him for second…
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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. 13-15, 2020)
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Page Revisions: (November 8, 2020) Original Release Date: November 20, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world’s deadliest mercenary organization.” Poster Rating: B- / C / C+ / C / C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) Plenty…
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If there were any film that could possibly break the pandemic box office curse, it’s this film, a horror comedy. It probably won’t do very well, but it could outperform expectations. Our Highest Rated Films: Ammonite Our Best Awards Ratings: Ammonite (Oscars) OTHER LIMITED RELEASES Colors of Character (Limited) Come Away (Limited) Echo Boomers (Limited)…
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Kingsman: The Secret Service Rating Director Matthew Vaughn Screenplay Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn (Comic: Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons) Length 2h 9m Starring Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Jonno Davies, Jack Davenport, Samantha Womack, Mark Hamill, Velibor Topic, Sofia Boutella, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton, Geoff Bell, Jordan Long MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Page Revisions: (November 8, 2020) Original Release Date: December 10, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Explores Arjie’s sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.” Poster Rating: C+…
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