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The B+ Oscar Ballot: Guide to the 92nd Academy Awards
It’s Oscar night, folks. I’ve done this enough to know what’s about to happen. You all want my picks for what’s gonna win because I’m the person you know who’s stupid enough to actually put real...
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The B+ Oscar Ballot 2019: The Cheat Sheet
So this is the quick version of the giant article I posted this morning. The Oscars are on in two hours, and just so you don’t have to go back and reference the giant article if you don’t want to...
View Article92nd Academy Awards Recap
So most years when I write this article, I talk about how good I feel, how nice it is for the crunch of awards season to be over. But honestly, I’ve been relaxed for about a week. I finished my picks...
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Oscars 2020: AFI Awards
So the AFI Awards were announced today. They got the jump on NBR by a day. Usually I kick off my Oscar season with NBR, but apparently AFI just had to jump the gun. So let’s consider this the soft...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Independent Spirit Award Nominations
As I wait for them to announce the NBR winners (which is really the only thing I care about today), they dropped the Independent Spirit Award nominations. So let’s go over those now. Most people know I...
View ArticleOscars 2020: National Board of Review Winners
Doesn’t this feel nice? To finally be back in the warm confines of Oscar season? Of course, that is, before they rip out your heart when the wrong film wins and make it so you can never properly feel...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best Documentary Feature Eligibles
Okay, so three giant list of eligibles/submissions were announced the other day and so I’m just gonna go over them all. Because I like to and because I can. We’re gonna start with Documentary Feature,...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best International Feature Submissions
And now International Feature. There are 93 countries that submitted films, which is the same as last year, only this time two countries haven’t been disqualified. So technically this year is the...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best Animated Feature Eligibles
Animated Feature time. There are 27 films eligible this year, down from the record 32 last year. I’m honestly surprised we got that close, since little to no American studio animated fare even came out...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Golden Globe Nominations
Okay, Golden Globes. Our first precursor. The train has started. It’s a one-way stop to April… what is it, 26th? I always like days like this, especially now, since I can wake up late and see a bunch...
View ArticleOscars 2020: SAG Award Nominations
The SAG nominations were announced today. I always have the same reaction every time it’s SAG nominations day, which is, “Oh man, this is big.” And then the nominations happen and it’s just four...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best Original Song Eligibles
Aww shit, it’s that time again. I’ve been on pins and needles every year since they went to this new shortlist system in 2018. That year, they didn’t give us the list of eligible songs and just gave us...
View ArticleOscars 2020: BAFTA Longlists
This is new. I’ve never seen them do this before. BAFTA released longlists of all their categories. Like, all the categories. Which means that the entire BAFTA nominees list is just gonna be a pared...
View ArticleOscars 2020: BFCA Nominations
And it’s BFCA day. Which means that, for the acting categories, we now have 3/4 of all the major precursor help we’re gonna get (and partially the fourth, since BAFTA released longlists for all the...
View ArticleOscars 2020: The Shortlists
And here we are. The bulk of the help. Nine Oscar categories have just been reduced to ten or fifteen films. That’s essentially 40% of all categories. We’ll spend the next week or so going over all of...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best Original Song Shortlist
We begin out shortlist breakdown, and begin with the easiest one of the bunch to go over, mostly because I did all the work already when I went over all the eligible songs a few days ago. So if you...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best Original Score Shortlist
Our second easiest category for me to go over: Original Score. Because I listen to 100 scores every year to list my favorite ones and find good ones to keep in my personal collection. So I’ve listened...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best Visual Effects Shortlist
Today we’re gonna do the Visual Effects shortlist, mostly because that category can usually be done by sheer logic and doesn’t take a whole lot to parse through. Plus we’ll eventually have a bunch of...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best Makeup & Hairstyling Shortlist
We’re going over Makeup & Hairstyling today. I was originally gonna wait until the guild announces on Thursday and go over this Friday, but honestly, who cares. We’re gonna adjust all of this later...
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