Category: 96th Oscars (2023)
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5th Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards
Predictable and unpredictable were words to describe these awards where we were roughly 50-50 in our predictions. The Oscar frontrunners picked up their respective awards. The Awards Best Original Score for a Studio Film Oppenheimer (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Best Original Score for an Independent Film Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie Best Original Song for…
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The Contenders: January Retrospective/March Forecast
We’re looking at Oscar contenders as they release and trying to determine which films have potential and which have wasted it. Let’s look back at the month of January and see what films flourished and faltered. Then we’ll look forward to March and see what has some potential. Wesley Lovell’s Thoughts January Retrospective When we…
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Path to Oscar 2023: Documentary Short Subject
Another category where no guild exists. There are even fewer organizations that recognize short documentaries, so we’re on our own. Best Documentary Short Subject Winner Predictions The ABCs of Book Banning TL The Barber of Little Rock Islands in Between The Last Repair Shop WLPP Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó Runner-Up Predictions The ABCs of…
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6th Latino Journalists Awards
While several selections were some we’ve seen before, they feted Colman Domingo twice and gave nods to Past Lives and Society of the Snow more so than most other groups have. Award Tallies (5) Barbie (4) Oppenheimer (2) Killers of the Flower Moon, Past Lives, Society of the Snow, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (1) Blue…
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24th Vancouver Critics Awards
While BlackBerry didn’t compete in the main categories, it cleaned up in the Canadian-only races while Seagrass did the same but in the British Columbian ones. Anatomy of a Fall won only two prizes, including Best Picture. Award Tallies (5) BlackBerry (3) Seagrass (2) Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal…
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4th Set Decorators Society Awards
Poor Things was the SDSA’s selection for Best Picture, the only category they didn’t have nominations in. The film also won the period award while Barbie took fantasy, putting these two against one another as the prime contenders for the Oscars. The Awards Best Period Set Decoration Poor Things (Wesley, Thomas) Best Fantasy Set Decoration…
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Path to Oscar 2023: Live Action Short Film
There are no guilds representing short filmmakers but there are a couple of organizations that give out awards for live action short films; however, there aren’t many and their selection criteria are all over the place, so we’ll mostly be on our own with this category. Below are our predictions in Best Live Action Short…
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Path to Oscar 2023: International Feature
We begin this year’s Path to Oscar category analyses with one of the few categories a guild organization doesn’t reflect/impact. In this case, we’ll be on our own to read the precursor tea leaves and make a choice based on that. Best International Feature Winner Predictions Io Capitano Perfect Days Society of the Snow The…
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26th Film Music Critics Nominations
The Film Music critics have nominated a wide array of musical compositions for their awards. With multiple categories, it’s surprising that one of the Oscar nominees for Best Original Score (Killers of the Flower Moon) wasn’t nominated at all. Only two of them got multiple citations, Indiana Jones and Oppenheimer. It’s a good sign for…
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76th Directors Guild Awards
Winners are being announced. Below are the nominees and our predictions as well as the winners as they appear. Will update as often as possible. The Awards Best Director Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Best First Feature Celine Song – Past Lives (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Best Documentary Director Mstyslav Chernov – 20 Days…
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28th Art Directors Guild Awards
Winners are being announced. Below are all the nominees and any winners that have been announced. More as things develop. The Awards Best Period Art Direction Oppenheimer (Wesley, Thomas, RU:Peter) Best Fantasy Art Direction Poor Things (Peter, Thomas, RU:Wesley) Best Contemporary Art Direction Saltburn (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Best Animation Art Direction Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse…
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Contenders: 2023 Performance Update
With the Oscar nominations out and a reflection on the year, it’s easy to see where things were going. Yet, our Contenders series this year was trying to look at the Oscar mathematically and we learned a great deal. To start, the Contenders series lumped everything together regardless of what type of contender it was.…
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15th GALECA Nominations
While LGBTQ films are usually more dominant than this, they still performed well enough with All of Us Strangers outperforming them all. Nominations Tallies (9) All of Us Strangers (7) Barbie (5) Anatomy of a Fall, May December, Oppenheimer, Past Lives (4) Poor Things (3) Bottoms, The Boy and the Heron, Rustin, Saltburn (2) Are…
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23rd AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
You have to wonder who votes for these awards because the selections are all over the place and while some make sense, some don’t. Award Tallies (2) Killers of the Flower Moon, Nyad (1) Barbie, The Color Purple, The Holdovers, Maestro, Oppenheimer, Rustin, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, The Zone of Interest The Awards…
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44th London Critics Awards
I always find it interesting when the “best film of the year” doesn’t win corresponding awards for “best British/Irish film” or “best foreign language film” when also nominated. It makes it seem like it’s not the actual best film of the year but that others are better than it they just want to make a…
