Category: Shortlists

Below is the press release from the Academy listing 81 films in competition for Oscar nominations this year. Son of Saul is the only title on this list that people will be genuinely shocked about not seeing on the next list the Academy unveils late this year. 81 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 2015 FOREIGN LANGUAGE…

The Academy has revealed their final shortlist. From here, only five films will be selected by the Academy for Best Foreign Language Film. Before I get to my initial (brief) thoughts on which five of these will get nominated for Oscar, let’s look at some of the acclaimed films I had thought might make it…

When I said earlier that Foreign Language Film would be the last shortlist, I had forgotten all about the Makeup department. Here are their shortlisted films. It’s most interesting that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 made the list considering how few effects were in it. The Theory of Everything also seems a bit odd to me.…

The Academy has been busy, sending out three press releases this evening. This third and final release documents the 79 original songs competing for five slots at this year’s Academy Awards. I didn’t see any glaring omissions, but I haven’t gotten in there to look at them in-depth. This is the penultimate major shortlist to…

The Academy has revealed the 114 films whose scores are eligible for the Best Original Score category at this year’s Oscars. Typically, this number is quite a bit lower than the full eligibility list due to the fact that some films don’t use original scores and others have too much dilution of the material through…

The Academy has announced 323 films that have qualified for this year’s Oscars. These are the films that will be eligible in all categories but foreign language film, and the documentary and short film awards. 323 FEATURE FILMS IN CONTENTION FOR 2014 BEST PICTURE OSCAR®

The Academy has revealed 10 films that will compete for five slots for Best Visual Effects at this year’s Academy Awards. There are two glaring omissions here. Both of this year’s biblical epics are absent. Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings. The latter is most noteworthy since I had thought it had a sure shot…

The Academy has announced the 15 films that will compete for the Best Documentary Feature award. Of the five films nominated yesterday for the Producers Guild of American award for Best Documentary, only Life Itself and Virunga made this shortlist. Many of these titles seem well suited to the Academy’s tastes and any number of…

The Academy has announced the ten short films that will be competing for the final three-to-five slots for the Oscar for Best Live-Action Short Film. Below is that list. 10 LIVE ACTION SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2014 OSCAR® RACE

Here are the ten short films that make up the competition for the Best Animated Short Film category. Three, four or five nominees will be selected int total. I don’t know a lot about these yet, but I’m sure you can find information them somewhere in the internet. 10 ANIMATED SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2014 OSCAR®…

The Academy has announced twenty animated features in the competition for Best Animated Feature. If at least sixteen of the twenty films complete their qualifying openings per Academy Rules, the maximum number of nominees in the category will be five (the Academy doesn’t have to nominate all five slots, but it typically does). You can…

A huge list of documentaries have made the initial submission requirement for the Oscars this year. A final shortlist of 15 features will be selected from this group and the final five Oscar nominations will come from that list. At this point, there isn’t much that can be said on these. 134 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SUBMITTED…

The Academy’s second announcement regarding eligible features this year comes for the Documentary Short Subject category. In 2013, the list arrived on Dec. 10. This time, it’s Dec. 20, ten days later. With the Foreign Language Film list only two days behind, it’s hard to extrapolate why this is the case. Based on past years,…

A record 83 countries submitted films this year. The announcement was made earlier this month and I updated the 87th Oscars page, but forgot to post an actual article. Here it is without commentary.

Several outlets were sent the press release before it was live on their site, so I didn’t get this updated until now. Here are the record 83 submissions for the Oscars, including four first-time submissions from Kosovo, Malta, Mauritania and Panama. There are probably a few that will have better chances than others, but we…