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Oscars 2016: Best Visual Effects Longlist
The Academy announced their longlist for Best Visual Effects. There are 20 films on it. In the next ten to fourteen days, this list will be halved. And then half of that will be your category. The fun...
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Oscars 2016: Best Visual Effects Shortlist
That was fast. The longlist was announced like two weeks ago. They announced 20, and now have whittled it down to 10. For the record, when I went over the list and guessed what was gonna be nominated,...
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Oscars 2016: VES Nominations
Okay, and now for the one guild I hate writing up, because they have too many categories and I have to cut most of them out just to deal with them. Visual Effects Society. I cut most of the categories...
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Oscars 2016: VES Awards
The VES Awards were last night. They have a lot of awards, so we’ll run through them quickly. The basics of what you need to know — The Jungle Book won a lot of awards. Five, to be exact. They won for...
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Oscars 2016 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 typically goes, voting-wise, historically and also as a precursor to my...
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The B+ Movie Blog Guide to the 89th Academy Awards
This is what you’ve all been texting me about for the past two weeks. This is all the info you wanted so you could win your Oscar pool. I probably should charge for this. But I’m stupid. So here you...
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The B+ Oscar Ballot: 2016 – The Quick Picks
The giant ballot article went up this morning, and for those who don’t want to have to skim through that, here’s a cliff notes version for easy reference. This is everything you should be taking, and...
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The 89th Academy Awards Scorecard
This is my new measuring stick for how well I’m doing guessing the Oscars. Rather than simply being right or wrong, this is about how well you can guess everything. What you do is take every category...
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89th Academy Awards Recap
I’d like to remind everyone that it’s a wonderful thing to be reminded that we really don’t know shit. From the start of last night, I saw how badly I was doing and was going to do could not have been...
View ArticleOscars 2017: Best Visual Effects Longlist
Another day, another category gets whittled down. All the people covering this have called it a shortlist. But it’s not. The shortlist comes later. Unless you’re gonna call the next list with 10...
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Remember when, nine days ago, they announced the longlist for this category and everyone called it a shortlist? And then they announced the actual shortlist and everyone said ‘shortlist’ again? That’s...
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The Visual Effects Society announced their nominees. I hate talking about them because there are just so many categories. I don’t even bother mentioning some of them because it gets really specific and...
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The Visual Effects Society announced their awards tonight. There are a shit ton of categories, so I’ll do my best to boil it down in an easy way for you all. For starters, this is your Oscar category:...
View ArticleOscars 2017 Category Breakdown: Best Visual Effects
Every year, as we lead up to the Oscars, I break down each of the 24 categories. I do this to familiarize everyone with the category; what the trends are, how the guilds and stuff help (or don’t), etc....
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The B+ Oscar Ballot: Guide to the 90th Academy Awards
Ever like something so much you’d do it for free? Hi, I’m Mike DiPrisco and I’m here to talk to you about Match.com… Admit it, that was funny. But really, though. I’m so into the Oscars I’m about to...
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The B+ Oscar Ballot: The Quick Picks
I put up my giant article already, but for those of you who don’t respect me (or, thinking positive, those of you who already ready it and just wanted the cheat sheet version), here’s everything I...
View ArticleThe 90th Academy Awards Scorecard Ballot
So rather than just do that plain old “guessing winners” thing, I’ve decided to make my Oscar picking more complicated. Rather than having a score out of 24, I’ve now also begun doing this, which...
View Article90th Academy Awards Recap
That’s another Oscar season in the books. I won’t lie — this was the hardest one I’ve ever had. Not in terms of picking and all that (because, spoiler alert: I did fucking great), but in terms of...
View ArticleOscars 2018: Best Visual Effects Longlist
They called this the list of “eligibles” but technically every movie is eligible for Visual Effects (even Book Club). This is more the longlist, of the 20 they’re deemed worthy of inclusion. And then...
View ArticleOscars 2018: Best Visual Effects Shortlist
Okay, so nine separate shortlists dropped today. So we’re gonna work through them as quickly as possible. Which might mean a few tonight, a few in the morning, it might mean all of them tonight. I...
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