Category: 90th Oscars (2017)
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Precursor: 9th Indiana Critics Awards (2017)
The Indiana Film Journalists love Lady Bird bestowing numerous awards on the film. No other film came close. The winners weren’t generally out of the ordinary, though the adapted screenplay love for Logan is unexpected. Award Tallies (6) Lady Bird (2) The Florida Project The Awards
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Precursor: 16th Utah Critics Awards (2017)
After sixteen years, the Utah film critics are still a bit baffling. Apart from a handful of Oscar contenders, they went far left field with the choices of Ghost Story for Best Picture, Andy Serkis in Best Actor, and Tatiana Maslany in Best Supporting Actress. Award Tallies (2) Blade Runner 2049, The Shape of Water…
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90th Oscars: Original Song Eligibility List
Seventy songs are on track for potential nomination in this year’s song eligibility list. As usual, it’s difficult to say just what will impress voters the most to get the nomination. 70 ORIGINAL SONGS VIE FOR 2017 OSCAR® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 70 songs…
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90th Oscars: Original Score Eligibility List
Not a shortlist as every eligible score is listed, but here we have 141 scores in competition. The list is included in the post below. The truly shocking one here is he eligibility of Beauty and the Beast, an almost derivative score with some original elements. In any other year, it would have been ruled…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 4
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). It has been an uber-hectic week. Plenty of content this week and most of it is hard to…
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Precursor: 21st Online Critics Nominations (2017)
The Online Film Critics Society made changes to its rules and categories this year making things a bit more unusual. There are some very odd choices on this list that don’t fit into the current Oscar narrative, so they may not be that indicative this year. Award Tallies (8) The Shape of Water (6) Call…
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Precursor: 12th St. Louis Critics Awards (2017)
The St. Louis film critics went for The Shape of Water in a huge way, presenting it with a solid 5 awards. Award Tallies (5) The Shape of Water (2) Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049 The Awards
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Precursor: 51st Kansas City Critics Awards (2017)
Another win for Get Out with lots of equal love for Call Me by Your Name. Award Tallies (3) Call Me by Your Name, Get Out (2) The Shape of Water The Awards
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Precursor: 18th Vancouver Critics Nominations (2017)
Vancouver film critics have made their selections for the year’s best films. Two things always to note about Vancouver. They are the only group that only selects three nominees in each category (excepting this year’s Best British Columbian Film) and they are the only group that actively recognizes Canadian-only films with a full slate of…
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90th Oscars: Foreign Language Film Shortlist
The Academy has once again made a grave error in omitting the acclaimed BPM (Beats Per Minute). Once again, we must call for the foreign language rules to be updated and modernized. The following is their press release announcing the 9 less deserving finalists. 9 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS ADVANCE IN OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA…
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Precursor: 24th Screen Actors Guild Nominations (2017)
I can’t believe I managed to miss the nominations this morning. Got too busy, I guess. Anywhere, here they are. There are a lot of winners and losers with this list, so, as I usually do, I’m going into each category individually, starting with the individual acting categories. Best Actor: Tom Hanks took a major…
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Precursor: 25th Dallas Area Critics Awards (2017)
Guillermo del Toro’s period fantasy stormed the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics awards, taking a staggering five prizes, including Best Actress. The rest of the selections have all been seen elsewhere before, so there isn’t much new here. Award Tallies (5) The Shape of Water (2) Lady Bird The Awards
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Precursor: 30th Chicago Critics Awards (2017)
Chicago has gone gaga over Lady Bird, giving it their Best Picture prize. Several of the big names of the year were also cited, so there’s not a lot of shock going around. Award Tallies (4) Lady Bird (3) Call Me by Your Name (2) Blade Runner 2049 The Awards
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Precursor: 17th Phoenix Critics Nominations (2017)
A big day for The Shape of Water as it tops its second slate of nominations today. Fourteen nods is a huge number, especially when the nearest competition (Blade Runner 2049 and Dunkirk) only have eight each. There were a couple of unusual selections from this group, but most of their slate has been on…
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Precursor: 11th Houston Critics Nominations (2017)
With a solid performance down ballot, The Shape of Water easily topped Call Me by Your Name and Lady Bird for most nominated. A lot of names here we’ve seen before, so no major surprises. Nominations Tallies (9) The Shape of Water (5) Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird (4) Dunkirk, Get Out, The…
