Oscars 2019: Best Visual Effects Longlist
They announced the Visual Effects longlist today. I originally left this article blank to write up in the morning so I could continue working on what I was doing today, but of course the idea of...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Annie Award Nominations
The Annie Awards were announced Monday. I waited to talk about them now, because I didn’t have an article for today and because honestly, who cares? I mean, sure, it’s great for the people who work on...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Another Word on Best Animated Feature
This is becoming a thing I do. Usually they announce the eligibles list for this category and I go over it immediately and then come back once I’ve seen most or all of them and have a better idea of...
View ArticleOscars 2019: BFCA Nominations
The Critics Choice Award nominations were announced today. Somehow I thought they were mid-week, but I’ll take them now. I wonder if they wanted to get a jump on the Golden Globes, which are getting...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Golden Globe Nominations
Alright, folks. The Globes nominations have been announced, hot off the heels of yesterday’s BFCA nominations. Typically when I’m breaking down what’s gonna get nominated, I’m looking at the guilds,...
View ArticleOscars 2019: ADG Nominations
The Art Directors Guild announced their nominees today. So we’re gonna be most of the way there on Production Design. This is early. We’re still gonna wait for BAFTA, but hey, we’ve at least got this...
View ArticleOscars 2019: CAS Nominations
Two more guilds announced today. The first of which is CAS, the Cinema Audio Society. That’s for Sound Mixing. Mixing is the sound design as a whole, versus Editing, which is the compilation and...
View ArticleOscars 2019: CDG Nominations
Our second guild of the day, the Costume Designers. Frills, frills and more frills. If there’s one thing I know about them, Downton Abbey got on, Quentin got on and Tim Burton got on. The rest we’re...
View ArticleOscars 2019: SAG Awards
Well, this is early. Okay, sure, this is exactly the same time we get the SAG nominations every year. But it feels early. Mostly because I’m not gonna bother to really pay attention to this list for...
View ArticleOscars 2019: ACE Nominations
The American Cinema Editors announced the nominees for their Eddie Awards. This should give us a good idea of what films they like best in the Best Picture race. This is where I wanna see if Parasite...
View ArticleOscars 2019: MPSE Nominations
Okay, so the Academy just dumped nine shortlists on us today. But before we get into those, you’re all gonna have to listen to the Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild nominees for Sound Editing. This...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best Documentary Feature Shortlist
Let’s start with Best Documentary Feature. Since this is a category I decided to half-give a shit about this year. They announced their list of 159 films eligible for the category and I skimmed it to...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best International Feature Shortlist
Let’s do Foreign Language Film next. They changed it to International Feature, but I hate that distinction. It’s trying to be politically correct when it just sounds like a euphemism designed to make...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best Makeup & Hairstyling Shortlist
Let’s do Makeup & Hairstyling next. Because I’m thinking I wanna end the night on some easy ones and save all the shorts for tomorrow when I can properly do my homework on all of them and be...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best Visual Effects Shortlist
Okay, let’s take care of the other category we previewed two weeks ago — Best Visual Effects. They released their longlist of 20, which was this: 1917 Ad Astra The Aeronauts Aladdin Alita: Battle Angel...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best Original Song Shortlist
We’ll finish up today with this one, since I went over this list a few hours ago. I wanted to save it for the end, but the other stuff requires actual effort for me to speak intelligently about them,...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best Original Score Shortlist
Okay, so I waited on this one until morning just because I knew there were gonna be ones that didn’t make the shortlist because they were deemed ineligible. So I went and looked that up first before...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best Documentary Short Shortlist
Okay, so let’s make our way into the Shorts categories, which I thought would be easier to deal with because no one cares about them, but I realized that because they’re the ones with the least amount...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best Live Action Short Shortlist
And now, Live Action Short, the other category nobody cares about. Because we’re never given a chance to see or care about the nominees (and other things, but we’ll be optimistic about it). They...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best Animated Short Shortlist
And finally, we have Animated Short. I always save this one for last because it’s like a nice little dessert after all the other categories. I always like seeing what’s on there. This year will be...
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