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OSCARLAND: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Complete and “Final” Oscar Predictions

The following are my final predictions for the 2014 Academy Awards (you can find a much more detailed analysis for all the major categories in our Why and Why Not? posts). Keep in mind: (a) I’m often wrong, (b)...

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OSCARLAND: Why and Why Not? – Best Supporting Actress

As we did with Best Supporting Actor and will do the rest of this week with the other major categories, this is a final look at the rationales behind and against each nominee’s likelihood of winning. We’re ...

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OSCARLAND: The Too Many Best Actors Problem

It’s been a relatively quiet week in Oscarland: 12 YEARS A SLAVE expanded well if not phenomenally, ALL IS LOST continued to struggle at the box office despite superb reviews, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB had a moderately...

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OSCARLAND: The Critics Choice Nominations

The Broadcast Film Critics Association and their “Critics Choice” awards seem on the whole way too eager to please, desperate to have as many movies and stars in their tent (and on their CW awards telecast) a...

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OSCARLAND: The Nominations and Instant Analysis

…and now it’s all real. AMERICAN HUSTLE and GRAVITY lead the Academy Award nominations with 10 each, with 12 YEARS A SLAVE right behind at 9, and those three are probably the leading candidates for Best Pic...

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OSCARLAND: The SAG Nominations

The Screen Actors Guild Awards are important, because the Actors branch is the largest single constituency of Oscar voters, but they’re also very different from the Oscars. Their major award isn’t a “...

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OSCARLAND: Award Season Begins

The last two days have launched what will be a nearly non-stop parade of movie (and some television) accolades that won’t end until early March, when the final “and the Oscar goes to” is announced at LA...

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OSCARLAND: Rating the Studios

We’ll never know if this year’s Best Picture race is as close as we think it is, since the Academy has no intention of ever releasing its vote totals (something it did back at the very beginning of Oscar hist...

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OSCARLAND: Producers Guild Produces a Tie

The Producers Guild of America didn’t clarify much of anything tonight by giving its Best Picture award to both 12 YEARS A SLAVE and GRAVITY. That provided all 3 of the presumed frontrunners with a prize for the ...

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OSCARLAND: Directors Guild Puts “Gravity” Into Orbit

The Directors Guild of America tonight gave its prize for best film direction to Alfonso Cuaron and GRAVITY. This was not an unexpected result, but it solidifies the sense that this year we have what is (at least) a thr...

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OSCARLAND: Writers Guild Nominations

The Writers Guild is unusual among awards-giving groups in that it strictly enforces the rule that only screenplays written for films produced under Guild agreements are eligible. That tends to exclude some of the majo...

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OSCARLAND: Does Anyone Have A Map?

Over the past 10 days or so, a multitude of groups have presented awards for 2013’s best, with prizes given to screenwriters, editors, cinematographers, animators, and production designers. FROZEN solidified its ...

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OSCARLAND: WGA Awards and The Woody Allen Issue

Tonight the Writers Guild of America followed the lead of the Golden Globes and gave its award for Best Original Screenplay to Spike Jonze for HER rather than to AMERICAN HUSTLE. The WGA awards were seen as Hustle̵...

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OSCARLAND: “Alone Yet Not Alone” Now Really Alone

The Oscars are not the Golden Globes. That appears to be the underlying message of today’s action by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, revoking the Best Original Song nomination of “Alone Y...

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OSCARLAND: The BAFTAs

Although there were some new faces due to release patterns and category differences, in the big picture, the BAFTAs–Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars–turned out to be very much like the Golden Globes.�...

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