Oscar History: November 7 (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Precursor: 13th Women Journalists Nominations (2019)
True to their name, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists has highlighted the best of the year in film with an eye towards recognizing great films by women. Of the five films that tied for most nominations, two are directed by women with three more films by women earning three or more citations. None of…
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Film Preview: Inside the Rain (2020)
Page Revisions: (December 15, 2019) Original (March 8, 2020) New Release Date (changed from 10/4/19) Release Date: March 13, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Facing expulsion from college over a misunderstanding, a bipolar student indulges his misery at a strip club where he befriends a gorgeous, intelligent, outrageous woman and they hatch a madcap scheme to…
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Film Preview: The Parts You Lose (2019)
Page Revisions: (December 15, 2019) Original Release Date: October 4, 2019 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A young boy in a small North Dakota town befriends a potentially dangerous fugitive.” Poster Rating: C+ SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: At first glance, it looks like a barn setting, but then the inset images behind Aaron Paul finally stand…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 51, 2019)
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 #19
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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This Day in Oscar History: December 20 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 24th Satellite Awards (2019)
The irrelevance of this organization has never been more plain. Not only do they go with a number of candidates that aren’t even guaranteed nominations, better yet wins, they announced their awards weeks ago and no one really noticed or cared. Award Tallies (5) Ford v Ferrari (2) Joker, Rocketman The Awards
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Precursor: 9th Nevada Critics Awards (2019)
Another feather in Marriage Story‘s cap comes courtesy of the Nevada film critics, which gave the film its top prize as well as three other trophies for acting and directing. Surprisingly, Laura Dern didn’t get any love. While the selections are a mixture of commonplace and slightly-original, this list isn’t the most instructive. Award Tallies…
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Precursor: 9th Black Critics Awards (2019)
Unlike their counterparts in the African American film critics group, the Black Film Critics Circle has spread the love in different directions with the first recognition for Kasi Lemmons this season as well as several other expected and unexpected choices. Award Tallies (4) Dolemite Is My Name (2) The Irishman The Awards
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Precursor: 23rd Florida Critics Nominations (2019)
The Florida Film Critics Circle has made some audacious choices. While some of the films we’ve seen a lot of this season (1917, Marriage Story, and The Irishman) did well, so too did several films that haven’t gotten as much attention as this group gives them (Ad Astra, The Farewell, and Portrait of a Lady…
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Poll: Remaking Best Production Design, 2015
Return Links Polls Remaking Best Production Design, 2015 In our third pass of the Oscar nominees from 1997 through 2016, we take a look at the nominees for Best Production Design. Each week, we’ll present a list of contenders from which you can select five to make up the Best Production Design slate. There will…
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Trailer Watch: 6 Underground (2019) Updated
New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#1) 6 Underground, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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Film Preview: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Page Revisions: (December 15, 2019) Original (August 1, 2021) New Trailer (#2) — New Release Date (changed from 7/10/20) (October 24, 2021) New Trailer (#3) — New Posters (#2-#5) (November 14, 2021) New Trailer (#4) — New Poster (#6) Release Date: July 10, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When a single mom and her two kids…
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5 Favorites Redux #9: Favorite Star Wars Properties
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. Friday, or really Thursday evening these days, is the beginning of the end of…
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Oscar Profile #475: Christmas Movies Updated
With lame cable TV channels now cornering the market on Christmas movies, it’s again worth examining what a treasure occasional big screen movies have been. It’s nice to remember that there once was a time when not every Christmas movie was filmed in Canada in the summer with fake snow and was about the same…
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