Oscar History: November 7 (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Film Preview: Sorry We Missed You (2020)
Page Revisions: (January 5, 2020) Original (March 1, 2020) New Poster (#4) Release Date: March 6, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 2, 2020)
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 Friday Face-Off Round One #22
Below are our ten face-offs for this week. Each category requires you to select a certain number of films to save. For more information on how the game works, click here.
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Oscar Morning: The Article **COMING SOON** (2019)
This is not a placeholder post, but a post letting you know that my annual Oscar Morning article will be forthcoming. Typically, I post it the day before the Oscar nominations, but that day is Sunday as for some strange reason, the Academy chose to announce nominations on Monday instead of the traditional Tuesday announcement.…
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2019 Precursor Predictions: Make-Up Artists Guild
The Make-Up Artists and Hair-Stylists Guild give out awards in five categories. The hairstyling categories hardly ever mimic the Oscars, but the makeup categories, especially the special make-up effects category are the best representations of what could happen. The only selection we completely agreed on was Bombshell for contemporary make-up.
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2019 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Final
As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. It’s finally here. It feels like…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 10 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 3rd Hollywood Critics Awards (2019)
The wheels of fortune are spinning in new directions as the season drags on. First, The Irishman was the clear frontrunner. Then Parasite. Now it’s 1917 and I suspect that might be the final trajectory for this year. That said, when a group picks Olivia Wilde for Best Director over Greta Gerwig, you have to…
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Precursor: 23rd Toronto Critics – Canadian Films (2019)
The final award of the Toronto Film Critics Association is the Best Canadian Film award, presented at their annual celebration. It matches the winner of the Vancouver Film Critics. The Awards Best Canadian Film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Toronto Film Critics Association Data First Awards: 1997 (23)
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Precursor: 51st NAACP Image Awards Nominations (2019)
With the exception of Jennifer Lopez, the NAACP has selected predominantly black artists and films for their annual Image Awards nominations. That’s to be expected since that’s the entire point of the Image Awards and they have largely picked out the most acclaimed films they could. Like the critics, they also didn’t seem to like…
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Poll: Remaking Best Supporting Actress, 1998
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Supporting Actress, 1998 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Supporting Actress. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Supporting Actress slate. There will…
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Film Preview: Burden (2020)
Page Revisions: (January 5, 2020) Original (February 23, 2020) New Posters (#1-#2) Release Date: February 28, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mom, and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken…
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5 Favorites Redux #12: Best of the Decade, Part 1
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. While the title of this article is 5 favorites, there’s no way to do…
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Oscar Profile #478: Ann Harding
Born August 7, 1902 at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, Dorothy Gatley, known professionally as Ann Harding, was the daughter of a prominent Army officer and his wife who spent her formative years traveling with her West Point educated father to wherever he was sent. Having graduated from New Jersey’s East Orange High…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 9 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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