Category: Shortlists

A number expected features ended up on the shortlist for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar specified in the below official press release: 15 Documentary Features Advance In 2012 Oscar® Race

Buried late in the day, here is the last of the short film shortlists. We should be getting further short lists for Foreign Language Film (at least the full eligible list), makeup, song and score at some point in the coming weeks.

Unlike the past few years, the Visual Effects category has been pre-narrowed to ten films, each of which has an equal chance of gaining one of the five Best Visual Effects nomination slots. Here’s the Academy press release. John Carter and Snow White seem to me the least likely to make it through with Skyfall,…

Ten shorts have been made eligible for this year’s Oscar for Best Animated Short film. Three to five of the candidates listed below will be nominated. Here is the Academy press release. La Luna, which showed before this year’s Brave was nominated last year, explaining why Pixar didn’t have a horse in the race this…

The Academy has announced 21 films submitted for consideration for the Animated Feature category at this year’s Oscars. Although all of these haven’t released, 6 or more of them would have to be no-shows to drop the maximum number of nominations below 5, so expect 5 with Brave, ParaNorman, The Pirates!, Rise of the Guardians…

The Academy has announced eight films on the shortlist for the Short Subject Documentary category for this year’s Oscars. Below is the full press release: 8 Doc Shorts on Oscar’s 2012 Shortlist BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for…

The final shortlist before the Oscar nominations finds nine films in contention for the five slots of the Best Foreign Language Film category. Notable exclusions include Declaration of War, Le Havre and Flowers of War among many others. Here are the final contenders for the nomination: Beverly Hills, CA (January 18, 2012) – Nine films…

Two pieces of Oscar news came out today. The first was that Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence was going to co-present the nominations with Academy president Tom Sherak. The second news, a little more interesting for us prognosticators, was that the Academy has announced the 7 finalists for the Best Makeup award. This is one of…

The Academy announced today that the Visual Effects race has been shortlisted further to ten potential nominees. Only the films on this list can get nominated. I don’t see any real surprises here, but I haven’t had a chance to thoroughly look at them. 10 Contenders Remain in VFX Oscar® Race

For the first time in memory, the Academy has released a list of the 97 Original Scores eligible for this year’s Academy Awards. Hoping to further increase speculation and interest in their annual program, the Academy has, in recent years, more freely shared its shortlists with the public. The Original Score category was one of…

Today, the Academy released the titles of 39 songs deemed eligible for the Original Song Oscar. The rules for the category are spelled out in the below press list: 39 Original Songs Vie for Oscar’s 2011 Playlist Beverly Hills, CA (December 19, 2011) – Thirty-nine songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are in contention for…

The Academy today announced the ten films that will compete for three to five slots at this year’s Oscars in the Live Action Short Film category. Beverly Hills, CA (December 14, 2011) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process…

The Academy has announced the fifteen films that will compete for five nominations in the Best Visual Effects category at this year’s Oscars. Here is that list. More information follows at the end regarding their selection process. Expect box office duds like Sucker Punch and Cowboys & Aliens to be among the first films dropped…

Today, the Academy announced 10 animated short films that will compete for three to five nomination slots. I’m not very familiar with animated shorts, so I couldn’t tell you what’s been left off, but the Pixar release is always a strong contender for a nomination. Also look out for the Warner Bros. animated short. As…

Today, the Academy announced 15 films that will compete for 5 nominations for this year’s Academy Awards in the Documentary Feature category. According to the press release, 124 documentaries were initially submitted for consideration and these were the five selected. Several notable titles are missing including Into the Abyss, Beats, Rhymes & Life, Senna and…