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86th Oscar Best Picture Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (10/16/13)
I’ve been away from the Oscar game for a while, but instead of crying over spilled milk, let’s see if I can get back on track. More categories will be coming over the next few weeks, but Best Picture...
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86th Oscar Lead Actor Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (10/23/13)
The lead actor category usually sticks with the largest names, and this year may be no exception. WIth stars like Robert Redford, Tom Hanks and Bruce Dern in the mix, the youngsters are probably just...
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86th Oscar Lead Actress Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (10/30/2013)
Former nominees and winners are currently the frontrunners for the Lead Actress race, but there are several newcomers just below the surface. Can any of them break through for a nomination? Will love...
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86th Oscar Original Screenplay Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (11/11/2013)
As the big studios focus on sequels and franchises, the original stories of the film world are coming more and more from the independent directors, some of whom have become institutions in their own...
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86th Oscar Adapted Screenplay Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (11/17/2013)
One of the things that Oscar watchers have to explain to the general public each year is that the Adapted Screenplay race includes not only adaptations from books, television and older movies, but also...
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86th Oscar Animated Feature Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (11/19/2013)
The Animated Feature race is always fascinating to me, not least of which because half of the submission list comes from international entries. Personally, I think that every category should be that...
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My Favorite Films Of 2012
Opinions are like Direct-To-DVD films: They’re cheap, readily available, and nobody really wants to hear about them. That’s why I usually try to focus my blogging on objective - or at least strategic -...
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86th Oscar Supporting Actor Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (11/27/2013)
Oscar loves to reward villains in the supporting actor race, and they’ve got one of the cruelest possible in Michael Fassbender’s rendition of real-life slave owner Edwin Epps. Fassbender has plenty of...
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86th Oscar Supporting Actress Updates (2013-2014 Awards Season) (12/9/2013)
If you want to boost the Oscar ratings and have the whole country break down in tears, then there’s really only one person who can win the Supporting Actress award. Just don’t do something foolish like...
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The Academy Members Project Now Features 4000 Names!
Just in time for tomorrow’s Oscar nominations, I’ve updated the Academy Members Project and am happy to report that we have now identified 4,000 Oscar voters! That makes almost 59% of the total active,...
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Oscar Meta Question: Why Nine Again?
The internet flared up yesterday with lists of Oscar snubs and surprises, most of which weren't particularly snubby or surprising, but were rather simply the result of limited space in each category....
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A Piece Of History: The Full Academy Membership List from 1948
As all my readers know, The Academy Members Project has been working hard to identify and celebrate as many Oscar voters as possible. It’s a research project that fascinates me endlessly -- and forever...
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As Oscar Voting Closes, The Academy Members Project Grows to 4064!
As Oscar voting closed today, I updated The Academy Members Project and found that our tally of identified current Academy members now stands at 4,064, plus several thousand past members.Why not spend...
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Final Oscar Predictions! (86th Oscars: 2013-2014 Awards Season)
Because I’ve been working so hard on The Academy Members Project this year, I’ve admittedly spent less time writing about this year’s Oscar race. But I have been diligently watching a great many of the...
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The Academy Members Project Continues To Grow!
I am happy to report that The Academy Members Project continues to grow a little bit each month, even during the Oscar Off-Season.As of today, we’ve identified 4,120 current Academy Members, which is...
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87th Oscar Best Picture Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (5/17/2014)
I’ve been away from the predictions game for a while, but I’m hoping to get back on the horse this year. In the spirit of making that happen, I’ve decided that I’m going to skip most of the...
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87th Oscar Lead Actress Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (5/19/2014)
As last year’s winner Cate Blanchett reminds us: “The world is round, people!”, and there’s no better proof of that than the wealth of performances that are vying for this year’s Lead Actress award. In...
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87th Oscar Lead Actor Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (5/22/2014)
There are several younger actors with prestige films out this year, but I predict that Oscar will go for a lineup of veterans over the age of forty. The Academy loves to reward career actors who have...
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87th Oscar Supporting Actress Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (5/25/2014)
I find the supporting categories particularly difficult to predict in advance, especially for films that aren’t direct adaptations of previous work. But predict we must, so I’ll try my hand anyway....
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87th Oscar Supporting Actor Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (5/29/2014)
There are still quite a few unknown factors in this year’s supporting actor race, chief among them being the possibilities for category placement (and category fraud) for some of the...
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