Oscars 2016: CAS Awards
CAS announced their winner tonight. It was La La Land. The original musical that’s gonna win Best Picture is also gonna win Best Sound Mixing. Shocking. A bunch more precursors tomorrow. – – – – – – –...
View ArticleOscars 2016 Category Breakdown: Best Animated Short
Every year before the Oscars I break down each of the 24 categories. I do this to familiarize everyone with the category, how it typically goes, voting-wise, historically and also as a precursor to my...
View ArticleOscars 2016: WGA Awards
The WGA Awards were announced tonight. A few guilds announced tonight. But they got done first, so they get first dibs. Moonlight won for Original Screenplay. Arrival won for Adapted Screenplay. Which...
View ArticleOscars 2016: Makeup & Hairstylists Guild Awards
They announced this last night. Not that we really need the help. Makeup & Hairstyling is increasingly becoming one of those frustrating categories — the kind that begs for a voting overhaul, like...
View ArticleOscars 2016: MPSE Awards
The Sound Editors announced too last night. This is the last one. After this it’s just costumes midweek and then we’re really done. Hacksaw Ridge won for Fx + Foley and Dialogue + ADR, while La La Land...
View ArticleOscars 2016 Category Breakdown: Best Live-Action Short
Every year before the Oscars I break down each of the 24 categories. I do this to familiarize everyone with the category, how it typically goes, voting-wise, historically and also as a precursor to my...
View ArticleOscars 2016 Category Breakdown: Best Adapted Screenplay
Every year before the Oscars I break down each of the 24 categories. I do this to familiarize everyone with the category, how it typically goes, voting-wise, historically and also as a precursor to my...
View ArticleOscars 2016: CDG Awards
… And there’s your last guild. From here on out it’s just straight up guessing. Remember the Scientific Method? You do all your experiments testing laundry detergents or whatever you did for science...
View ArticleOscars 2016 Category Breakdown: Best Costume Design
Every year before the Oscars I break down each of the 24 categories. I do this to familiarize everyone with the category, how it typically goes, voting-wise, historically and also as a precursor to my...
View ArticleOscars 2016 Category Breakdown: Best Actress
Every year before the Oscars I break down each of the 24 categories. I do this to familiarize everyone with the category, how it typically goes, voting-wise, historically and also as a precursor to my...
View ArticleOscars 2016 Category Breakdown: Best Picture
Every year before the Oscars I break down each of the 24 categories. I do this to familiarize everyone with the category, how it typically goes, voting-wise, historically and also as a precursor to my...
View ArticleOscars 2016: Oscars by Statistics
I used to do two articles each year. One breaking down all the Best Picture winners by box office performance, which I’m finding much less important and interesting each year, and the other, this one....
View ArticleMy Favorite Moments in the Best Picture Nominees: Arrival
This has become an annual tradition the day before the Oscars. In order move away all the subjectivity and negativity that happens when figuring out what should win and what’s going to win (especially...
View ArticleMy Favorite Moments in the Best Picture Nominees: Fences
This has become an annual tradition the day before the Oscars. In order move away all the subjectivity and negativity that happens when figuring out what should win and what’s going to win (especially...
View ArticleMy Favorite Moments in the Best Picture Nominees: Hacksaw Ridge
This has become an annual tradition the day before the Oscars. In order move away all the subjectivity and negativity that happens when figuring out what should win and what’s going to win (especially...
View ArticleMy Favorite Moments in the Best Picture Nominees: Hell or High Water
This has become an annual tradition the day before the Oscars. In order move away all the subjectivity and negativity that happens when figuring out what should win and what’s going to win (especially...
View ArticleMy Favorite Moments in the Best Picture Nominees: Hidden Figures
This has become an annual tradition the day before the Oscars. In order move away all the subjectivity and negativity that happens when figuring out what should win and what’s going to win (especially...
View ArticleMy Favorite Moments in the Best Picture Nominees: La La Land
This has become an annual tradition the day before the Oscars. In order move away all the subjectivity and negativity that happens when figuring out what should win and what’s going to win (especially...
View ArticleMy Favorite Moments in the Best Picture Nominees: Lion
This has become an annual tradition the day before the Oscars. In order move away all the subjectivity and negativity that happens when figuring out what should win and what’s going to win (especially...
View ArticleMy Favorite Moments in the Best Picture Nominees: Manchester by the Sea
This has become an annual tradition the day before the Oscars. In order move away all the subjectivity and negativity that happens when figuring out what should win and what’s going to win (especially...
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