15 November, 2025

Oscar Season 2025

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This worked! Elle got her deserved nomination!

Well, the Oscar Season is arriving and more than anything I just wanted to provide a forum for people to make comments rather than people posting comments on other posts that don’t have anything to do with this year’s Oscar season.

I’m amused at the timing of Sentimental Value getting released at the same time as Predator: Badlands.  Maybe, unlike say, Norbit possibly costing Eddie Murphy an Oscar, maybe the difference in the roles (and her surprisingly funny performance in the latter) will help Elle Fanning at least score a nomination [it did! Huzzah!]. (more…)

 

21 February, 2026

The Year in Box Office: 2019

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How Marvel Chose Which Avengers Would Die in 'Endgame'

The Top 50 Films – Domestic Gross

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14 February, 2026

Franchise Box Office: 1962-1999

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The Curious Connections Between 'Star Wars' And The James Bond Series

As I was typing up my latest Year in Box Office (2001), looking at Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and knowing that Star Wars would return and Spider-Man would begin in 2002, I thought I really should add a sheet that tracks franchises.

Unfortunately, I didn’t think to start doing that until after I had posted the Decade in Box Office: 1990-1999 so there was nothing I put in that post.  Franchise information is more useful for decades than for years, so it’s not so much that I haven’t included it in the years so far, but I’ll put it in the remaining decade pieces and this is designed to catch up with franchises through 1999.

I didn’t bother to keep track of every film that has had a sequel.  My general rule of thumb was at least four films.  Also, they need to be films that make some decent amount of money at the time; for example, Child’s Play has a lot of films but never made a lot of money so I didn’t bother with it.  That means some franchises don’t appear on certain lists when they make enough money to actually make a list but I’ll try to mention those. (more…)

 

7 February, 2026

The Decade in Box Office: 1990-1999

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Box Office Report - Domestic Box Office By Decade - 1990s

The Top 100 Domestic Box Office
(Gross – BOM)

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31 January, 2026

Tim Curry: Vagabond

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What is your favorite Tim Curry performance? : r/FIlm

Thankfully Tim Curry has not died (unlike his Home Alone 2 co-star, poor Catherine O’Hara, who is missed so much for Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek but I will always think of her for the wonderful Christopher Guest mockumentaries, especially for her wonderful performance and songs in A Mighty Wind).  Curry hasn’t been in great health ever since his stroke in 2012 but he is still kicking around and published a new memoir (Vagabond) in the fall.  I gave that to Veronica for Christmas because she has long since loved him, being a Rocky Horror fan since she was young.  I came to him from a different direction, not actually seeing Rocky Horror until my mid 20s (because I wanted to see it in the theater with someone who loved it and that turned out to be Veronica in October of 2000) but I had seen Clue on videotape a lot and then admired his very different performances (from that and each other) in Hunt for Red October and It in 1990. (more…)

 

28 January, 2026

Streets of Minneapolis

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Bruce has pretty much said it all right here.

 

25 January, 2026

What Really is an Adapted Screenplay Anyway, or, Dealing with Richard Linklater’s Two 2025 Films

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In this post, I said some very unkind things about the film Blue Moon, though I never actually named the film.  It had just earned two Oscar nominations, one of which made my list (though not in the Top 10, let alone the Top 5) but I disagreed with it while the other really pissed me off.  It also lead to some thought about its category and what the Academy does and doesn’t do with its two Screenplay categories.  Which lead to other thoughts about the film and my reaction to it and I thought people might ask about it. (more…)

 

18 January, 2026

Not My Top 100 Musical Artists

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This is a complicated post to write.  As it is, as you might have already read, I created two entire posts out of material I originally intended to be just the prologue to the main list in this piece (here and here).  And now I’ve turned what was yet another introduction into yet another separate piece. (more…)

 

11 January, 2026

The Year in Box Office: 1999

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The Top 50 Domestic Box Office
(Gross – BOM)

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4 January, 2026

The Year in Box Office: 1998

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Hell on Earth: War in Cinema – SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and THE THIN RED LINE 25 Years Later — Moviejawn

The Top 50 Domestic Box Office
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27 December, 2025

The Nighthawk Awards: 2018

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The Favourite Review: A Wicked Battle of Wit and Manipulation

You can read more about this year in film here.  The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees.  Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes section).  Films in blue were nominated.  Films (or directors) in olive are links to earlier posts that I don’t want to have show up in blue and be mistaken for a nominee.  Films with an asterisk (*) were Consensus nominees (a scale I put together based on the various awards) while those with a double asterisk (**) were the Consensus winners (except Picture).

I’m listing the top 20 in the categories (except Picture where I list all ***.5 films) but only the top 5 earn Nighthawk nominations.

Nighthawk Awards

  • Best Picture
  1. The Favourite  **
  2. First Man
  3. Roma  ***
  4. A Star is Born  **
  5. If Beale Street Could Talk  *
  6. BlacKkKlansman  **
  7. Mary Poppins Returns
  8. Black Panther  *
  9. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  10. Incredibles 2
  11. Cold War
  12. Avengers: Infinity War
  13. Capernaum
  14. Paddington 2
  15. A Quiet Place
  16. Shoplifters
    ***.5
  17. Ralph Breaks the Internet
  18. The Other Side of the Wind
  19. Everybody Knows
  20. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  21. The Old Man & the Gun
  22. Sicilian Ghost Story
  23. Bohemian Rhapsody  *
  24. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
  25. Mirai
  26. Widows
  27. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  28. The Guilty
  29. Stan & Ollie
  30. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
  31. Tully
  32. The Cakemaker
  33. Border
  34. Burning
  35. Never Look Away
  36. Anna and the Apocalypse
  37. The House with a Clock in its Walls
  38. Leave No Trace
  39. Sorry to Bother You
  40. Tag
  41. Eighth Grade

Analysis:  Even though it had been nearly a decade since Best Picture lineups had expanded, this was the first year with three films to go 0 for 5 (all five awards groups): A Star is Born, The Favourite, BlacKkKlansman), something that still has only happened one other time so far (2021).  Roma was the most dominant winner at the Consensus since 2014 so of course the Academy chose Green Book.
This is the best Top 5 since 2013 and the best Top 10 since 2007 (though 2019 will be better).
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