Category: Academy Awards History

More wins for Drive My Car. Would be nice to see some groups taking risks rather than playing it safe. Awards Tallies (3) Drive My Car, The Lost Daughter The Awards Best Picture Drive My Car (Runners-Up: Licorice Pizza, The Power of the Dog) Best Animated Feature Flee (Runners-Up: Encanto, The Mitchells vs. the Machines)…

Having such a small group, minority opinion can reign supreme and that’s especially true with the Hawaii critics, which is the smallest group currently giving awards, thus CODA and Last Night in Soho were the top pics while films like The Power of the Dog, Drive My Car, and others were ignored. Awards Tallies (4)…

Georgia’s film critics went for Licorice Pizza big time, giving the less frequently cited film a shot in the arm, even if it’s a minor one. Awards Tallies (6) Licorice Pizza (3) Dune (2) The Power of the Dog The Awards

I have no idea when these were announced. They just showed up on IMDb, so who knows. Anyway, there’s not much to see here. Though, they are one of the few groups to cite Spider-Man: No Way Home for Best Picture. Nominations Tallies (7) The Power of the Dog (6) Dune (4) Belfast, Drive My…

A traditional slate of longlist submissions this year with some interesting things to say about what can make it all the way to the Oscars and won’t most likely won’t. A lot of what we’ve been talking about so far is evident on these lists while some other narratives that have been developing throughout precursor…

What a bizarre set of nominees. Some of the expected ones showed up, but several did not. The Power of the Dog earned three nominations for its ensemble, but then none for the cast as a whole. That’s probably the most ludicrous change here. This does bolster Don’t Look Up to a minor extent. It…

For some strange reason, they eliminated their screenwriting award. Still, Belfast came out well with two actors on the list. It’s noteworthy that to get nominated for the acting or directing categories, you have to be AARP-eligible, which is age 50. What’s noteworthy is that Jared Leto, of all people, just barely made the cut…

Of the ten films that made the finalist list for this year’s Oscars, Cyrano and Nightmare Alley were the only films not to make this list while Being the Ricardos is the only multi-nominee that wasn’t on the Oscars’ list. Usually, 3 nominations with this group is a good sign, so we might have four…