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OSCARLAND: The National Board of Review Mixes Things Up

  We noted yesterday that one of the useful things a pre-Oscars awards group can accomplish is mixing new titles and talent in with the conventional wisdom pool of front-runners, and the National Board of Review did that t...
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STATUETTE STAKES: National Board of Review Has Its Day

> The National Board of Review is an organization with a virtually unknown membership that exists in public consciousness for precisely one day per year, and this is their day:  the announcement of their film awards. ...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “War Horse”





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OSCARBALL: The SAG Nominations

  The Screen Actors Guild award nominations are important in the Oscar precursor game, but not in their most showcase way:  the Best Ensemble winner (often taken to be SAG’s equivalent of “Best Picture,”...
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OSCARS Quarter Hour Ratings: A Decent Start But No Momentum

The Oscars telecast on Sunday 2.28.2016 started right on par with recent telecasts, just above 35 million viewers for both 2016 and the average of every telecast since 2007.  Generally speaking, the average Oscar show audience...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY 2019 GOLDEN GLOBES LIVE-BLOG

6:30 We’ve arrived at that strangest phenomenon of awards season, the night when we collectively grant the 88 nonentities of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (none of them filmmakers, many of them not even critics,...
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The Weekend in Critics Awards

  The big prizes this weekend were the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, LAFCA has a habit of showcasing its iconoclasm (the organization has only given its Best Picture prize to the eventual Oscar winner once i...
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STATUETTE STAKES: Murphy’s Law

> And the hits keep on coming for the Academy:  following Brett Ratner’s hurried exit yesterday, Eddie Murphy has packed his host bag and left the building as well.  This isn’t a huge surprise, as Murphy w...
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OSCARBALL: The Golden Globe Nominations

  Another day, another set of nominees. The Golden Globes, of course, whose nominees in full can be found here, have become their own thing, even though as an organization the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has no mor...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”





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STATUETTE STAKES: The Oscar Race That Wasn’t

> This year’s Academy Awards have so far engendered the kind of enthusiasm and excitement usually associated with a suburban DMV office on a Tuesday afternoon.  People seem to be sullenly resigned to the inevitabilit...
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THE BIJOU AWARDS BAIT REPORT: Ugh-scar

> It may not literally be true that if you look up “hack” in the dictionary, you’ll find a picture of Brett Ratner.  In fact, not all his movies are terrible:  there’s Family Man, and… we...
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The Oscars Ratings: Past 10 Years (Updated with Official Nationals)

UPDATE: In the official live+same day nationals for Sunday 2.26.2017, The Oscars averaged a 9.1 18-49 rating and 32.9 million viewers 2+, a modest +6% lift from the fast nationals.  That is a record low 18-49 rating, and the...
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OSCARLAND: Do the Oscars Need To Be Popular?

  Here’s a factoid:  during the 1970s, that halcyon decade when the rebel filmmaker inmates finally, if briefly. took over the Hollywood studio asylum, viewed by movie history ever since with wistful nostalgia, ev...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCAR WATCH: THE TELECAST

> Until its final 45 minutes, the one thing that could be said about this year’s Oscar telecast was that it was at least brisk.  Merely 2 hours and 15 minutes into the show, there were amazingly only 3 awards and the...
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