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Oscars

Oscars: Judging 2015’s Best Picture Noms by the Trailers

February 17, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Kendra Beltran
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2015, Oscars
Every year I take a look at the Oscar nominees and judge them based only on their trailers. Here we go with the 2015 nominees!
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Oscars: Judging 2014’s Best Picture Noms by the Trailers

January 29, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Kendra Beltran
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12 Years a Slave, American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, gravity, Her, Lists, Nebraska, Oscars, Philomena, The Wolf of Wall Street
This time last year I’d seen none of the movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar because I didn’t care about a tiger in a boat or a story about an older couple in love — was Amour the live-action Up? Now it’s time to step out of the past and get to
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Oscars: Judging the Movies by the Trailers

February 20, 2013 at 5:00 pm
Kendra Beltran
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amour, argo, beasts of the southern wild, django unchained, les miserables, life of pi, lincoln, Oscars, silver linings playbook, zero dark thirty
I thought it’d be interesting to give you a rundown of the nine nominees for the Best Picture at the upcoming Oscars based solely on their trailers and then let you know if I think they have a chance of taking home the gold in my life and at the Oscars.
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Oscar Trivia: Two-Time Best Actor Winners

April 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Maggie Van Ostrand
2
actors, Oscars
It's tough enough to win an Oscar, especially with stiff competition, but here are Best Actors who defied the odds, not once, but twice.
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Fandomania Podcast Episode 85: Buffy Is a Harsh Mistress

March 15, 2010 at 1:10 am
Fandomania
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24, Assassin's Creed, Avatar, buffy the vampire slayer, caprica, captain america, chuck, Dragon Age, final fantasy, Georges Jeanty, Human Target, Interviews, lost, megacon, Oscars
Buffy comic artist Georges Jeanty joins us this week to talk about his work on the comic and the Twilight situation. We also discuss MegaCon, the week in TV, our latest games, and more.
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5 Best Picture Winners That Didn’t Deserve The Oscar (And What Did)

March 1, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Maggie Van Ostrand
20
alfred hitchcock, david lynch, forrest gump, goodfellas, lord of the rings, martin scorsese, movies-, Oscars, pulp fiction, Quentin Tarantino, raging bull, shawshank redemption, steven spielberg, the departed, vertigo
Time itself is important to the merits of any Best Picture winner. I contend that the Academy should vote not every year, but every 10 years. By that time, Best Pictures will have truly earned an Oscar. Here are 5 examples of movies that won Best
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Oscar Noms: No Surprises

February 2, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Maggie Van Ostrand
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Academy Awards, Avatar, awards, District 9, Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, News, Oscars
Since the Academy has doubled the number of Best Picture nominees this year from the traditional 5 to a crowded 10, they can nominate every picture. Or so it seems.
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Best Picture Oscars with One-Word Titles: Can It Be Done Again?

December 30, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Maggie Van Ostrand
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movies-, Oscars
Movies with really short titles usually win Best Picture Oscars, for a big chunk of the time at almost 25 percent. Based on this year's Golden Globe nominees and the fact that the Globe winners frequently appear to coincide with subsequent Oscar wins,
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The Oscar Noms Are Out, and I Gotta Ask, “Why So Serious?”

January 23, 2009 at 10:14 am
John Reid Adams
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Academy Awards, awards, movies-, Oscars
The Oscar nominations have been announced, and John is as mad as hell, and he's not gonna take this anymore!
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