academy awards
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Sexy Fish Monsters, Replicants, And Mutants Among Those Nominated For The 2018 Oscars
If we told you last year that a movie about a mute woman having a torrid, romantic relationship with a modernised version of the Creature From the Black Lagoon was going to dominate at the Oscars in terms of nominations, you might have chuckled a little to yourself. 2017 was a simpler time. The 2018…
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See The Evolution Of Movie Magic With Every Oscar Winner For Visual Effects In History
The Academy Awards are almost here and many people will be talking about red carpet fashion, comedic monologues, and who got robbed. But few will be paying attention to the most important awards category — Best Visual Effects. This supercut pulls together all the past winners into a nice little reminder of how much has…
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Um, Deadpool Could Actually Get A Best Picture Oscar Nomination
No one takes the Golden Globes seriously. So when the awards show nominated Deadpool for Best Musical or Comedy Film, it was seen as fun nod for fans with no real weight. But the film has been lauded by multiple critics groups, it’s been nominated for a Writers Guild Award and it won a Critics’…
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The Factories That Churn Out America’s Most Iconic Trophies
There’s a little trophy shop called Aardvark Laser Engraving down the street from our office in Oakland. It’s small but bustling, and its windows are stuffed to the brim with awards made of all kinds of materials and in any shape you can imagine: chalices, orbs, golfers, gavels, apples and plaques. Plenty of plaques. They…