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The 2019 Movies Unfairly Overlooked During Awards Season

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Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at several of last year’s films overlooked by the major award ceremonies…. As we find ourselves almost half way between the last Oscars and the next, with some uncertainty about just what we’ll see at the 2021 Academy Awards (after months of delayed films and closed cinemas), seems like […]

Everything Everywhere All At Once leads 2023 Spirit Awards nominations but The Whale is shut out

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As awards season begins to heat up, the nominations for the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards have been announced, with Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All At Once leading the pack with eight nominations in total including Best Feature, Best Director and Best Lead Performance (Michelle Yeoh). The Best Feature award sees the A24 title nominated alongside […]

Brendan Fraser will not appear at the Golden Globes even if nominated for The Whale

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Given their rocky and at-times horrid history, it’s not a shock that Brendan Fraser has hesitations about appearing at the Golden Globes. The Whale actor goes as far as saying in an interview with GQ that he will likely not show up, even if he’s nominated at the upcoming award show. Fraser tells GQ that […]

The year Heat was criminally overlooked by the Oscars

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Oscars in 1996, when Heat was criminally overlooked by the Academy… The year was 1996, which looked back over the films of the previous year. It was a fairly strong year, and like a lot of the nomination lists throughout that decade there are some oddities. There are also […]

1975: The Year Francis Ford Coppola Dominated the Oscars

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Tom Jolliffe looks back to the 1975 Academy Awards ceremony, when Francis Ford Coppola had The Godfather: Part II and The Conversation in competition… With the Oscars around the corner, now is a good time to look back at the 1975 ceremony. It was a year filled to the brim with exceptional films. Among an […]

2015 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations announced: Birdman, Boyhood, Nightcrawler among leaders

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The Film Independent Spirit Awards are back with their list of the 2015 nominations. Leading the pack is the existential comedy Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) with a whopping six nominations, including one for actor Michael Keaton and one for director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Closely following with a solid five nominations are Boyhood, […]

Whiplash causes Academy friction, deemed “adapted” screenplay

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Deadline reports today that Whiplash, Damien Chazelle’s superb Sundance winner, has been somewhat surprisingly classified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as an adapted script, rather than a original screenplay. Even stranger still was that the Academy apparently didn’t inform the director or the films distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, about the decision […]

Complete list of winners from the 2022 Emmy Awards

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Having went in with a pack-leading 25 nominations, HBO’s Succession made it three years in a row as it took home the award for Outstanding Drama Series at the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards last night, while Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso was named Outstanding Comedy Series for the second year running and HBO’s The White Lotus […]

Succession leads nominations for 74th Primetime Emmy Awards

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The nominations for the 74th annual Primetime Emmy Awards have been announced today, with HBO’s hit drama Succession leading the field with 25 nominations in total including Outstanding Drama Series. HBO continued to dominate the nominations with the likes of The White Lotus (20), Hacks (17), Euphoria (16) and Barry (14), while other multi-nominees include […]

Hacks and Euphoria lead to HBO domination with 2022’s Dorian TV Awards nominations

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Streaming and cable networks obviously dominate almost every awards show, and the GALECA: LGBTQ Entertainment Critics Dorian TV Awards is no expectation. Though, one streamer, in particular, led the pack with an outstanding 24 nominations. HBO and HBO Max took home the most nominations for the Dorian TV Awards, an annual award show thrown by […]