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Oscar Primer Part Two — How the Oscars Work, Best Picture Edition
Every year when Oscar nominees are announced, they are examined for racial representation. If the films up for Best Picture are inclusive, the nominations pass the test for racial diversity. But if they're not, the Academy is slammed for being "so white" and "out of touch." As the final destination for each year's trip through American cinema, the Academy usually takes all of the heat for whatever is missing at the last stop of the journey, but in general the factors that determine Best Picture contenders start building much earlier than this. This year, right on...
Best Picture — Box Office Check
Most of the films in the Best Picture race are still playing in theaters and still making money. Several of them are available on streaming, including Parasite most recently, but also Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, obviously Marriage Story and The Irishman, but also Joker. A film that didn't make the Best Picture cut is Knives Out, which sits at a whopping $146 million right now. 1917 opened small then exploded when it opened wide on January 10 and has made most of its money in the past few weeks. Likewise, Little Women is still going strong and probably will cross the $100 million mark soon. Can Parasite and Jojo Rabbit make more money with Oscar buzz to take them closer to $100...
Betting Odds Reflect Chaos of This Year’s Oscar Race
If you're interested in betting on this year's Oscar race, it is going to be a wild ride, I can assure you. Although many people believe they know how this race will go, there are still various scenarios that could play out regardless. Over at Sports Betting Dime, their odds favor 1917, then Parasite, then Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The Best Director odds are in a similar order, with Sam Mendes at the top, followed by Bong Joon Ho and then Quentin Tarantino. In terms of stats, the DGA winner has always come from either the Globe or the PGA. In this case, both would point to Mendes. 2009: Kathryn Bigelow — PGA 2010: Tom Hooper — PGA 2011: Michel Hazanavicius —...
AD’s Oscar Squad Rings In After SAG
Awards Daily's Oscar Squad has weighed in following this weekend's guild trifecta: ACE Eddies, PGA, and SAG. The picture and director races are fairly evenly split between the two widely perceived front runners: Bong Joon-ho's Parasite and Sam Mendes' 1917. The Squad (mostly) co-signs the SAG winners and (mostly) across the board predicts Oscar will follow suit. Here are the current standings. We'll publish a new run after this weekend's DGA announcement. Picture Director Actress Actor Supporting Actress Supporting Actor Original Screenplay Adapted Screenplay Editing Cinematography
Best Picture — Over to You, DGA
As of today, we still don't have a definitive precursor to nail down Best Director or Best Picture. In terms of Best Director, the Golden Globes and the DGA are still the best predictors to tell us who will win Best Director in the era of the preferential ballot. Let's go back to look at 20 years of Oscar-winning directors — keeping in mind two factors necessary to understand stats: In 2004, the Academy pushed the date of the Oscars up one month, from late March to late February — that shifted the movies seen earlier at film festivals like Telluride and Venice to the front of the line. Since 2009, the Academy expanded its ballot to embrace more that five movies per year...
MPSE Awards 1917 and Ford v Ferrari
The MPSE Golden Reel Awards were held last night. The "big" awards were split between 1917 and Ford v Ferrari: Feature Motion Picture – Feature Animation: “Toy Story 4” Feature Motion Picture – Dialogue / ADR: “1917” Feature Motion Picture – Effects / Foley: “Ford v Ferrari” Feature Motion Picture – Music Underscore: “Jojo Rabbit” Feature Documentary: “Echo in the Canyon” Foreign Language Feature: “Parasite” Musical: “Rocketman” Computer Cinematic: “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)” Computer Interactive Game Play: “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)” Live-Action Under 35:00: “Barry”: “ronny/lily” Episodic Short Form – Dialogue/ADR: “Modern Love”: “Take Me as I Am” Episodic Short Form – Effects / Foley: “The Mandalorian”: “Chapter One” Episodic Short Form – Music / Musical: “Wu-Tang: An American Saga”:...
Parasite, Zellweger, Phoenix, Dern, and Pitt Win 2020 Screen Actors Guild Awards
Motion Picture Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture "Parasite" Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Renée Zellweger, "Judy" Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Joaquin Phoenix "Joker" Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Brad Pitt, "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Laura Dern, "Marriage Story" Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture "Avengers: Endgame" Lifetime Achievement Award Robert De Niro Television Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series "The Crown" Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Peter Dinklage, "Game of Thrones" Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in...
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The Cooler Gang Reacts to Those Oscar Nominations
Well, they are here! The nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards have been announced, and people have opinions! Clarence is off this week, so it's like the loons running the asylum with Joey at the helm. With Joker leading the nominations, does that make it a frontrunner? Is it still between 1917, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, and Parasite? Let's take a moment of silence for Jennifer Lopez's miss. The Cooler Gang tries to focus on some positive nominations with the inevitable brouhaha over this year's announcement. We close our podcast, as always, with the...
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