Month: January 2014
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This Day in Oscar History: January 18 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Film Preview: A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 7, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Jack is a children’s author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 3, 2014)
Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…
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The NEW Friday Face-Off #24
We started over at the beginning of August 2013, but with a new, more streamlined methodology to collecting votes. Just choose one selection in each of the ten categories below. Our first few weeks will be to select winners in cases of ties or in years where multiple categories existed for each discipline. After that,…
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2013 Precursor Predictions: Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild has been around many years, but is one of the youngest guilds in terms of giving awards. This marks their 20th year. Below are our predictions on who we think will win the SAG film awards along with comments on why we made our decisions. The honors will be handed out…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 17 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Precursor: 19th Broadcast Film Critics Awards (2013)
Welcome to the 19th Annual Broadcast Film Critics Awards. I will be posting the winners live as they are announced. Below are the nominations in categories that have not yet been announced. The Award Tallies section will be updated as the night progresses. In addition, our contributors’ predictions are included and will remain part of…
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Poll: Best Cinematography (1953 – 1957)
Return Links Poll Archives Best Cinematography Poll: 1953 – 1957 Cinema Sight Asks: Which Best Cinematography winner is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
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Film Preview: 3 Days to Kill (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: February 21, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A dying Secret Service Agent trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment.” Trailer: D+ Review: It’s black. It’s white. It’s unbelievable. No. No. No. I couldn’t help but…
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Feed the Queue #155
Here are the results of last week’s poll. Z The Damned True Grit Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Anne of the Thousand Days The Reivers Z wins and goes into my queue.
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Oscar Profile #169: Oscar Hammerstein II
Born July 12, 1895 to Alice (née Nimmo) and William Hammerstein, the vaudeville producer who invented the pie-in-the-face routine, he was named after his paternal grandfather, a well-known theatre impresario of the day. Hammerstein began writing songs for musicals while studying law at Columbia University. The first Broadway show he contributed to was 1917’s Furs…
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2013 Precursor Predictions: Broadcast Film Critics
The annual right of passage known as the Critics Choice Awards will be telecast tonight on The CW. While not strictly the Critics’ Choice, since they don’t permit print or internet critics without high circulation and focuses mainly on critics whose work appears on television, they just happen to be better promoters and better predictors,…
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Oscar Predictions: Post-Nominations Figures
The nominations for the 86th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. There were no true left-field inclusions that no one could have seen coming, though there were some surprise inclusions and surprise omissions that didn’t quite fit the narrative established prior to today. Here are the nominations as highlighted by our predictions and where we…
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86th Academy Awards Nominations (2013)
Below are the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards (that have been announced so far). More information will be updated as I parse and post it. Commentary will also be added in a little bit. Update 1: All nominations posted, working on tallies. Update 2: Tallies completed. List finished. Nominations Tallies (10) American Hustle, Gravity…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 16 (2014)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
