Category: Shortlists
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91st Oscars: Visual Effects Shortlist
The 20 films that advance to the final race for Best Visual Effects are a solid bunch with a few minor surprises, but a surprising number of these seem like strong contenders. A few can be eliminated, but not enough to truly get down to 5. 20 CONTENDERS ADVANCE IN VFX OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES,…
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91st Oscars: Documentary Feature Submissions
Below are the submissions for consideration for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars this year. These will, of course, be narrowed significantly later this year, so take these as passingly informative. 166 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SUBMITTED FOR 2018 OSCAR® RACE
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91st Oscars – Animated Feature Shortlist
With 25 submissions, the Academy will nominate five films for Best Animated Feature. Of the sixteen films I listed as potential nominees on my Hopefuls list, five didn’t make this list. Of those, only one, Bilal, was for certain released and thus its failure to be submitted is surprising, the other four were not certain…
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91st Oscars: Foreign Language Film Submissions
The Academy has announced the 87 films that will compete for the shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards. Below is the press release. 87 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 2018 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR® LOS ANGELES, CA – Eighty-seven countries have submitted films for consideration in the…
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90th Oscars: Makeup & Hairstyling Shortlist
The final shortlist has been announced. Seven films are under consideration for Best Makeup & Hairstyling. The final three nominees will come from this list. As expected, Beauty and the Beast did not make the shortlist since it’s mostly visual effects. The slightly unexpected exclusions include The Shape of Water, Battle of the Sexes, The…
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90th Oscars: Feature Film Eligibility List
The Academy has announced that 341 feature films have met (or will meet) eligibility requirements by the end of the year for consideration in this year’s Academy Awards. Here’s the press release. 341 FEATURE FILMS IN CONTENTION FOR 2017 BEST PICTURE OSCAR® LOS ANGELES, CA – Three hundred forty-one feature films are eligible for the…
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90th Oscars: Original Song Eligibility List
Seventy songs are on track for potential nomination in this year’s song eligibility list. As usual, it’s difficult to say just what will impress voters the most to get the nomination. 70 ORIGINAL SONGS VIE FOR 2017 OSCAR® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 70 songs…
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90th Oscars: Original Score Eligibility List
Not a shortlist as every eligible score is listed, but here we have 141 scores in competition. The list is included in the post below. The truly shocking one here is he eligibility of Beauty and the Beast, an almost derivative score with some original elements. In any other year, it would have been ruled…
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90th Oscars: Visual Effects Shortlist
The Visual Effects Branch of the Academy has narrowed their longlist down to ten contenders. The five Oscar nominees will come from this list. This is a solid list with only Okja something of a surprise. Of note is what didn’t make this final list that was on the longlist. Justice League, Logan, Thor: Ragnarok,…
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90th Oscars: Foreign Language Film Shortlist
The Academy has once again made a grave error in omitting the acclaimed BPM (Beats Per Minute). Once again, we must call for the foreign language rules to be updated and modernized. The following is their press release announcing the 9 less deserving finalists. 9 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS ADVANCE IN OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA…
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90th Oscars: Live-Action Short Film Shortlist
The last of the short film categories now has a shortlist. Here are the ten films from which five will be selected as nominees. 10 LIVE ACTION SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2017 OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 live action short films will advance…
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90th Oscars: Documentary Feature Shortlist
And then there were fifteen. The Academy has narrowed the list of 170 documentary feature submissions down to 15, less than 10% the original numbers. From here, they’ll be pared down to the final five. Two of the five films I had predicted to be the nominees are not on this list. 15 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES…
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90th Oscars: Documentary Short Film Shortlist
The press releases are coming hard and fast. Below are the ten documentary short films that will compete for five slot at this year’s Oscars. 10 DOCUMENTARY SHORTS ON 2017 OSCARS® SHORTLIST LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for…
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90th Oscars: Visual Effects Longlist
The Academy has released another shortlist. This one is more of a longlist as another shortlist will release later this month for the final ten contenders. Two films I had thought might contend were absent from the list: Geostorm, which isn’t terribly surprising, and Transformers: The Last Knight, marking the first time the Transformers series…
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90th Oscars: Animated Short Film Shortlist
The Academy has announced the ten finalists for the Best Animated Short Film category at this year’s Oscars. Below is the press release. The only shock is the surprising omission of the much maligned Frozen short that ran before Coco. Disney/Pixar is still represented here by Lou, the creative short that ran ahead of Cars…
