Oscar Index: PGA Propellant And The N-Word (Nominations!) For ?Django Unchained?

After a momentary holiday lull, it?s back on! Or as Calvin Candie says in Django Unchained. "We got us a fight going on that's a good bit of fun."�Academy voters were given one extra day to mull over their Oscar nomination ballots, thanks to a voting deadline extension necessitated by complaints and concerns over the Academy?s first-ever electronic voting system. They could use that 24 hours to digest the Producers Guild Award nominations, which were announced Wednesday, a day early.

From here, the awards season proceeds at 48 frames per second, bringing the Oscar race into sharp focus. The Director?s Guild of America nominations for Best Director will be announced Jan. 8, with Oscar nominations announced on the 10th,in advance of the Golden Globes, which will be handed out on the 13th. The PGA ceremony will be held on the 26th, followed by the SAG awards the following night. Feb. 2 brings the DGAs, one of the most reliable Oscar indicators, followed by the Independent Spirit Awards (and the Razzies) on the 23rd and the Oscars on the 24th.

This is the earliest Oscar voting in history, Variety?s Jon Weisman noted, and he feared for the ?dark horse? candidates as voters race to catch up to the big ticket films such as Django Unchained and Les Miserables that were released at the end of the year. ?We'll never quantify the impact? on the coming Academy Award nominations, but I'm thinking negative,? he writes.

The Best Picture race was most impacted this week. So, let?s consult the Gold Linings Playbook to see which films benefited from the PGA bump.

Best Picture
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