• New Poll Series Debuts This Week

    New Poll Series Debuts This Week

    With the closure of the Friday Face-Off, we decided to start up a new polling series that asks you to rate every Oscar nominee in most of the major categories. Every day of the week at noon (Central), a new poll group will post with anywhere between 30 and 35 nominees across two to four…

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  • Precursor: 7th Hawaii Critics Awards (2022)

    Hawaii’s critics welcomed Everything Everywhere All at Once with a warm aloha. Awards Tallies (6) Everything Everywhere All at Once (4) Top Gun: Maverick (2) Avatar: The Way of Water, Babylon, The Batman, Pearl The Awards

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  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 2, 2023)

    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, The Ultimate List – Week #32

    The Ultimate List Face-Off event has now begun. We will be using Google Forms to process these polls due to their extensiveness and the ease of creating the polls. For more information on how the game works, click here. Here are this week’s batch: GOOGLE POLL.

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  • Review: Superstar (1999)

    This is a Resurfaced review written in 2002 or earlier. For more information, please visit this link: Resurfaced Reviews. Superstar Rating Director Bruce McCulloch Screenplay Steven Wayne Koren Length 1h 21m Starring Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Elaine Hendrix, Harland Williams, Mark McKinney, Glynis Johns, Jason Blicker, Gerry Bamman, Emmy Laybourne, Jennifer Irwin, Rob Stefaniuk, Natalie…

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  • This Day in Oscar History: January 13 (2023)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations

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  • Precursor: 20th Iowa Critics Awards (2022)

    Iowa’s critics don’t just love corn and hogs, they love Everything Everywhere All at Once. Awards Tallies (4) Everything Everywhere All at Once The Awards

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  • Precursor: 14th GALECA Nominations (2022)

    I voted, but most of my nominations weren’t selected, so I don’t know what to tell you. And by definition, a film nominated for Film of the Year really can’t be considered “unsung.” Nominations Tallies (9) Everything Everywhere All at Once (7) Tár (5) Aftersun, The Banshees of Inisherin (4) RRR (3) Babylon, Elvis, Women…

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  • Precursor: 54th NAACP Image Awards Nominations (2022)

    While it’s to be expected that not everyone wishes to punish Will Smith for his actions at the Oscars last year, it still seems a bit tacky to recognize him given the situation. Regardless, his film didn’t do that well in the nominations, so I suppose that’s a small comfort. I’m not surprised that Black…

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  • Poll: Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2016

    Return Links Polls Re-Awarding Best Actor, 2016 Now that we’ve finished rebuilding the nomination slate between 1997 and 2016 (we’ll do subsequent years after this series has completed), we will take those rebuilt slates and pick a new winner from among the nominees. In our first pass, we take a look at the new nominees…

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  • Precursor: 25th Costume Designers Guild Nominations (2022)

    Most of what we expected to see is here. That said, Corsage, Fantastic Beasts, The Northman, and RRR were probably the most injured by these selections. The Nominations Best Period Costume Design Babylon Don’t Worry Darling Elvis Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris The Woman King Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Costume Design Avatar: The Way of Water Black…

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  • Precursor: 34th Producers Guild Nominations (2022)

    There’s good news on this list for Avatar, Glass Onion, Tár, and The Whale, but it’s bad news for Till, The Woman King, Women Talking, Babylon, All Quiet on the Western Front, RRR, and She Said. The Nominations 34th Producers Guild of America (2022) (Awards: Feb. 25, 2023 / Nominations: Jan. 12, 2023 / 0:…

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  • Precursor: 60th Publicists Guild Film Nominations (2022)

    Nothing surprising here. The Nominations

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  • 5 Favorites #163: Upcoming 2023 Films

    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, I’m going to take a look at five films that are coming…

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  • Oscar Profile #632: Owen Roizman

    Born September 22, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, Owen Roizman was born into a family of filmmakers. His father, Sol Roizman, was a cinematographer for Fox Movietone News. His uncle, Morrie Roizman, was an editor of documentary films. Morrie received an Oscar nomination for producing the 1954 short subject, Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait. As a child,…

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  • Review: Sphere (1998)

    This is a Resurfaced review written in 2002 or earlier. For more information, please visit this link: Resurfaced Reviews. Sphere Rating Director Barry Levinson Screenplay Kurt Wimmer, Stephen Hauser, Paul Attanasio (Novel: Michael Crichton) Length 2h 14m Starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Live Schreiber, Queen Latifah, Marga Gómez, Huey Lewis…

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