Thursday, March 10, 2016

More Post-Oscar Pre-Oscar Speculation / Post-Oscar Statistics

It's a Thursday in March...

MORE POST-OSCAR, PRE-OSCAR SPECULATION




The fine folks at Awards Watch have put their collective heads together to make their first set of way-too-early Oscar predictions for 2016 (and the 2017 Oscars).  You can find their lists of a number of categories here:


http://awardswatch.com/category/predictions/film-predictions/oscars-predictions/gold-rush-gang-oscar-predictions/2017-oscar-predictions/


Among their Best Picture Oscar picks that seem to have some Telluride potential are:

Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (distrib: Sony, opens Nov. 11)
Jeff Nichol's Loving (distrib: Focus Features, opens TBD)
Ben Affleck's Live by Night (distrib: Warners, opens TBD)
Barry Jenkins' Moonlight (distrib: A24, opens TBD)
David Michod's War Machine (distrib: Netflix, opens TBD)
Damien Chazelle's La La Land (distrib: Lionsgate, opens Dec. 2)
Garth Davis' Lion (distrib: The Weinstein Company, opens Nov. 25)
James Marsh's Deep Water (no distrib or release date)


From other categories besides Best Picture:

Craig Johnson's Wilson (Fox Searchlight, TBD)
Mike Mills' 20th Century Women ( No distrib, TBD)


POST-OSCAR STATISTICS



Nathaniel Rogers and The Film Experience take a look at any number of statistics and oddities that came to light as a result of this year's Academy Awards:

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2016/2/29/pt-1-winners-trivia-stats-howd-you-do-on-your-predictions.html

Also from the Academy itself... a database of all the Oscars from the beginning:

http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies


More to come on Monday...


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