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Oscars 2013: The Quick Picks
All right, here’s an abridged version of all my Oscar picks. Basically — what I’m picking, what I want to win, what you should pick, and what will win if my pick doesn’t win (the alternate,...
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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: ADG Nominations
The Art Directors Guild announced their nominees today. Production Design is one of my favorite categories at the Oscars. That and Cinematography are perhaps the two most unheralded categories at the...
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Oscars 2014: ADG Awards
The Art Directors Guild Awards were announced tonight. Winning in Period was The Grand Budapest Hotel, to no one’s surprise. Winning in Fantasy was Guardians of the Galaxy, beating Interstellar, which...
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Oscars 2014 Category Breakdown: Best Production Design
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: Art Directors Guild Nominations
ADG announced their nominations this morning. This would be for the corresponding category of Best Production Design, which I feel is a more encapsulating term than Art Direction, even though I grew up...
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Oscars 2015: ADG Awards
The ADG Awards were announced last night. This will be a quick one. Winning in Period was The Revenant. Winning in Fantasy was Mad Max: Fury Road. Winning in Contemporary was The Martian. Contemporary...
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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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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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Oscars 2016: ADG Nominations
The Art Directors Guild announced their nominations. So now we have some clarity into that hotly contested Best Production Design category. I know I’ve got some money down in Vegas already. By the way,...
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Oscars 2016: ADG Awards
They announced the ADG Awards last night, which should give us a little insight into the Production Design Oscar. Which, to my recollection, is one of the more interesting potential outcomes for the...
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