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Oscars 2013: The Winners
Here’s a quick list of winners for the Oscars: Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club Best Actress: Cate Blanchett,...
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86th Academy Awards Live-Blog
So I sat down to watch the Oscars and decided to live-blog it. So, here is everything I wrote down while watching the Oscars: The Live-Blog Monologue was all right. Mostly safe, but it worked. Not a...
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Oscars 2014: Best Visual Effects Shortlist
Another shortlist. Probably the easiest. Typically you can guess four of them flat out and the fifth is something that comes out of left field. It’s your usual cast of characters. I won’t waste time....
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Oscars 2014: VES Nominations
The Visual Effects Society announced their nominations today. I thought they were coming tomorrow. But cool. One more to deal with and make my life easier for tomorrow, when my (incredibly long. Get...
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Oscars 2014: VES Awards
Last night, they had the VES Awards. Which, normally, don’t usually mean a whole lot to me. Usually whichever movie is nominated for Best Picture wins. But this year, we don’t have one of those. So I...
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Oscars 2014 Category Breakdown: Best Visual Effects
This is a tradition for me. Every year, before the Oscars, I break down every single one of the 24 categories. I do this to familiarize everyone with each category, how it works, what its history is,...
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Oscars 2014: The B+ Movie Blog Ballot
I used to call this Picks, Votes, Analysis, Rankings. But that’s not a fun title. This article has everything you need for Oscar night. I run down every single category, tell you what’s nominated, how...
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Oscars 2014: The B+ Movie Blog Quick Picks
My giant picks article went up a few hours ago. This is the abridged version of that, for easy reference during the ceremony. Here’s everything you should be taking, and what I’m taking. Oh, and...
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87th Academy Awards Live Blog
We’ll tally everything up tomorrow. In the mean time. I was typing up the Oscars as I watched it with my Chinese food and alcohol. I was also feverishly texting throughout the whole thing. It’s...
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87th Academy Awards Recap
Well, that’s another year in the books. Goodbye, 2014, hello 2015. I have no idea how many I got wrong or right. I think I was in the 18 range or so. Which is admirable. I don’t even care. Because not...
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Oscars 2015: Visual Effects Society Nominations
VES announced their nominees today too. Which is both good and bad. Good, because another guild announced before nominations and that can help, and bad because they have a fuck ton of categories. 23...
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Oscars 2015: VES Awards
The Visual Effects Society handed out their awards last night. They have way too many categories to count, so I’ll only focus on the ones that matter. It’s still a shit ton. But usually you can start...
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Oscars 2015 Category Breakdown: Best Visual Effects
Every year before the Oscars I break down each of the 24 categories. I do this to familiarize everyone with the category, how it works, what its history is, how it usually turns out, and also as a...
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The B+ Oscar Guide to the 88th Academy Awards
Everything you need for Oscar night in one place. I make things as simple or as complex as you want them to be. You can read all 34,000 words like the insane person who wrote them, or you can skip...
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The B+ Oscar Ballot: 2015 – The Quick Picks
My giant ballot article went up a few hours ago. This is the abridged version of that, for easy reference during the ceremony. Here’s everything you should be taking, and what I’m taking. Very...
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The 88th Academy Awards Scorecard
My friend introduced me to this last year. I had no idea people did it, and I honestly think it’s the best way to pick the Oscars. Here’s how it works: You take every category and rank all of the...
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88th Academy Awards Recap
So the Oscars were last night. A lot to talk about. This is where we officially close the book on 2015 and move into 2016. I’ll try to give everything its due, but there was a point about an hour into...
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87th Academy Awards Recap
Well, that’s another year in the books. Goodbye, 2014, hello 2015. I have no idea how many I got wrong or right. I think I was in the 18 range or so. Which is admirable. I don’t even care. Because not...
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Oscars 2015: Best Visual Effects Longlist
The Academy announced their longlist for Best Visual Effects. There are 20 films on it. In a few weeks, this list will be narrowed down to 10 films, and then of those 10, 5 will be nominated. So really...
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Oscars 2015: Best Visual Effects Shortlist
They announced the Best Visual Effects Shortlist. I’ve honestly forgotten what the longlist was, so I’m not even gonna bother looking back. This is the new reality. These are the 10 we have to deal...
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