Category: Oscar Preview
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 10
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). While there weren’t many groups to announce this last week, they were some big ones with the Directors…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 9
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). In the week since the Oscar nomination, we’ve had very little movement except on the weekend with the…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). While there were a handful of precursors in the last week, including the important Directors Guild of America…
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Oscar Preview: On Hiatus
As usual, through Oscar season (January and February), my regular weekly look at the Oscar chances of the films releasing on the prior weekend is put on hold. The reason for this is twofold. The first is that things are incredibly hectic during this period and extra content becomes difficult. The second reason is that…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 7
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). The Golden Globe Awards dominate this past week of precursor revelations giving 1917 a huge boost while deflating…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 27-29, 2019
We had four films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Little Women Since the creation of the Academy Awards, five big-screen versions of Little Women have been made, with all but the modern day-set from 2018 being the only one to fail to earn an Oscar nomination. George Cukor’s 1933 version…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 6
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). With only six precursors releasing in the days leading up to and following Christmas and an equally smaller…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 20-22, 2019
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker One of the most successful franchises in Oscar history, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker continues the tradition of Oscar consideration. While the prequel trilogy that George Lucas did struggled for Oscar attention, the latest…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 5
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). While there wasn’t a lot on the precursor front in the last week, enough emerged to give us…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 13-15, 2019
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Richard Jewell Clint Eastwood has played the late-year release card so many times that every time he issues forth with a new film late in the year, he instantly joins the Oscar conversation. While the films since American Sniper have ultimately…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 4
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). Christmas is just around the corner, which means the vast majority of film critic groups are about to…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 6-8, 2019
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Dark Waters Todd Haynes has a rich history with the Academy, nabbing nominations for all but three of his previous films (Poison, Safe, and Wonderstruck). That said, he’s only directed seven movies previously, so he’s just a little over 50%. Dark…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 3
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). When you have almost two-dozen groups announcing their winners, you know you’re in the full swing of Oscar…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2019
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Two Popes Fernando Meirelles has made nine films with two of them being Oscar nominees. The Two Popes is his third attempt at scoring Oscar nominations, his first attempt since 2008’s Blindness, which failed to move the Oscar needle The…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 2
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). With a handful of the potential precursors that could have announced this week not present, the only one…
