Category: Academy Awards

Precursor: 62nd British Academy Awards (2020)

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Expectations were both met and subverted this year with Anthony Hopkins showing what the home field advantage looks like and Frances McDormand bringing the total of televised awards to Best Actress nominees to 4 of 5. Poor Vanessa Kirby. Other than that, the British effect may have pulled The Father over the finish line in Best Adapted Screenplay, the only category other than Best Picture, where the expected Oscar frontrunner didn’t triumph. Also interesting is that Minari couldn’t top Another Round for Best Film Not in the English Language, which suggests the film isn’t about to plow ahead of all contenders and sweep into the Best Picture top spot. Nomadland desperately needed its performance here to push towards Oscar as another winner might have spelled its doom.

Awards Tallies

(5) Nomadland
(2) The Father, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Promising Young Woman, Soul, Sound of Metal
(1) Another Round, His House, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mank, Minari, My Octopus Teacher, The Owl & the Pussycat, The Present, Rocks, Tenet

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93rd Oscars: The Polls – Best Documentary 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 one final post the Friday before the Oscars with all the category polls combined.

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This Day in Oscar History: April 11 (2021)

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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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Precursor: 73rd Directors Guild Awards (2020)

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Chloé Zhao now becomes in the insurmountable leader for the Oscar.

The Awards

Best Director

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best First Feature

Darius Marder – Sound of Metal (Wesley, Peter, RU:Tripp, RU:Thomas)

Best Documentary Director

Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw – The Truffle Hunters

Directors Guild of America Data

Year Founded: 1936
First Awards: 1948 (73)

Precursor: 25th Art Directors Guild Awards (2020)

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Mank continues as the frontrunner with also-nominated Tenet sneaking in a win that likely won’t repeat at the Oscars.

The Awards

Best Period Art Direction

Mank (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Best Fantasy Art Direction

Tenet (Thomas, RU:Peter, RU:Tripp)

Best Contemporary Art Direction

Da 5 Bloods (Thomas, RU:Tripp)

Best Animation Art Direction

Soul (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas)

Art Directors Guild Data

Year Founded: 1937
First Awards: 1996 (25)

93rd Oscars: The Polls – Best Documentary Short Subject

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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 one final post the Friday before the Oscars with all the category polls combined.

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This Day in Oscar History: April 10 (2021)

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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 15, 2021)

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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 at the inflation-adjusted numbers). The third section is an alphabetical list of those films and the categories in which they were nominated. And to start each week off, we’ll be looking at the films releasing over the weekend that have the best chance of getting Oscar nominations and specifying the categories where we think they have the best shots at this stage of the game. If you have any suggestions for more data you’d like to see, please let us know.

This Year: Potential Oscar Nominees Releasing This Weekend

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2020 Precursor Predictions: British Academy Awards

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2020 Precursor Predictions: Directors Guild

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The Rundown 2020: Actress

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For our twelfth Rundown article, we look at Best Actress. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actressas well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with Best Actor.
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93rd Oscars: The Polls – Best Original Song

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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 one final post the Friday before the Oscars with all the category polls combined.

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This Day in Oscar History: April 9 (2021)

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Oscar Profile #543: Albert Brooks

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Born July 22, 1947 in Beverly Hills, California, Albert Lawrence Einstein, known professionally as Albert Brooks, was one of three sons of former actress Thelma Leeds and her husband, Harry Parke. Parke’s birthname was Einstein, Parke was his original stage name, but he was better known as Parkyarkarkus.

Brooks suffered an early trauma when his father collapsed and died after delivering his remarks at a Friars Club tribute to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in 1958 at the age of 54. Brooks was just 11 years old.

The brilliant student attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh but dropped out after a year to hone his comedic skills. He changed his name to Brooks at the age of 19 and began to appear regularly on variety and talk shows in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1975, he directed five short films for Saturday Night Live during its first season.

Brooks made his film debut in a supporting role in Taxi Driver in 1976. In 1979, he wrote, directed, and starred in Real Life. In 1980, he played a supporting role in Private Benjamin and in 1981 he again wrote, directed, and starred in Modern Romance. He then went back to playing supporting roles in Twilight Zone: The Movie, Terms of Endearment, and Unfaithfully Yours. In 1985, he wrote, directed, and starred in his third film, Lost in America for which he won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay.

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