Oscars 2018: VES Nominations
The Visual Effects Society announced their nominees two days ago and I was too distracted to notice (you’ve see why today and will again tomorrow, and especially on Monday). But here we are. I’ll have...
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Funny story — I forgot VES was handing out awards today. I was writing up my Best Visual Effects category breakdown and went to look up when VES would be announcing so I’d have an idea… turns out, it...
View ArticleOscars 2018 Category Breakdown: Best Visual Effects
So what we do here each year as a warm up for the Oscars is, I break down each of the 24 categories. The idea is to both familiarize everyone with the category and its history. I look at what the major...
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The B+ Oscar Ballot: Guide to the 91st Academy Awards
It’s Oscar night, folks. You know what that means. I hope he does that every single day. This is like, the one night a year where this site has a purpose. This started as an Oscar site and that’s still...
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The B+ Oscar Ballot 2018: The Quick Picks
My giant Oscar Ballot article went up already, but for those of you who only pretend to care about me and really only care about my picks, here we are. This is the Cliff Notes version to that article....
View ArticleThe 91st Academy Awards Scorecard Ballot
So this is what I do now. This Oscar Scorecard. Which grades me on how well I pick entire categories over just winners. The way the Scorecard Ballot works is, you take every category and rank all the...
View Article91st Academy Awards Recap
This is the most relaxed moment of the year for me. This is the day your thesis is turned in and all the work is done. At this point, Oscar season isn’t particularly stressful for me, but it’s a...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best Visual Effects Longlist
They announced the Visual Effects longlist today. I originally left this article blank to write up in the morning so I could continue working on what I was doing today, but of course the idea of...
View ArticleOscars 2019: Best Visual Effects Shortlist
Okay, let’s take care of the other category we previewed two weeks ago — Best Visual Effects. They released their longlist of 20, which was this: 1917 Ad Astra The Aeronauts Aladdin Alita: Battle Angel...
View ArticleOscars 2019: VES Nominations
Okay, as we await the DGA nominations, here are your VES nominations for this year. This is Visual Effects and here is the shortlist we’re all working off: 1917 Alita: Battle Angel Avengers: Endgame...
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The Visual Effect Society handed out their awards tonight. As a reminder, your Oscar category is: 1917 Avengers: Endgame The Irishman The Lion King Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker So really, those are...
View ArticleOscars 2019 Category Breakdown: Best Visual Effects
Here’s how this works: every day leading up to the Oscars, I break down each of the 24 categories. The goal is to both familiarize everyone with the category itself (how it works, what its history is...
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The B+ Oscar Ballot: Guide to the 92nd Academy Awards
It’s Oscar night, folks. I’ve done this enough to know what’s about to happen. You all want my picks for what’s gonna win because I’m the person you know who’s stupid enough to actually put real...
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The B+ Oscar Ballot 2019: The Cheat Sheet
So this is the quick version of the giant article I posted this morning. The Oscars are on in two hours, and just so you don’t have to go back and reference the giant article if you don’t want to...
View Article92nd Academy Awards Recap
So most years when I write this article, I talk about how good I feel, how nice it is for the crunch of awards season to be over. But honestly, I’ve been relaxed for about a week. I finished my picks...
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93rd Academy Awards Recap
So I know the Oscars are never a ‘fun’ show to watch. They’re always overlong and tedious and full of bad jokes and filler. But man, this year just felt so tedious, the way they did it. Which is weird,...
View ArticleOscars 2021: Annie Nominations, SDSA Nominations, VES Nominations
So yeah, I’ve been lax about a couple of these precursors. But VES announced today so I figured I’d just run through a few things at once and catch up to what I haven’t officially covered. Because why...
View ArticleOscars 2021: VES Awards + CDG Awards
Two more precursors for you, ahead of this weekend’s bonanza (5 on Saturday and Sunday), VES and CDG. We’ll start with CDG, just because they’ll be quicker. Cruella won for Period Costumes, Dune won...
View ArticleThe B+ Oscar Ballot: Guide to the 94th Academy Awards
It’s that time again. You know what this is and you know how it works. My goal is, as always, to dissect the ballot and give you as complete a picture of what I think’s gonna happen as I can so you can...
View Article94th Academy Awards Recap
Well, there’s a lot to talk about from that show, almost none of which involves the actual awards. And since I want absolutely no part of the discourse outside the awards, I’ll only mention this — they...
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