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Category: Academy Awards History

  • Precursor: 20th Vancouver Critics Awards (2019)

    The second of two Canadian critics groups to hand out prizes for the year, Vancouver has gone in the same direction as many others. Marriage Story takes the most prizes, but Parasite takes the big award. Since Vancouver and Toronto critics get the same kind of releases that American audiences do, it stands to reason…

  • Precursor: 67th Motion Picture Sound Editors Nominations (2019)

    Corresponding most frequently to the Sound Editing Oscar, the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel nominations have been announced. Joker and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood were the top nominees pulling three while several others picked up two nominations apiece. The category to watch is the Sound Effects/Foley one with the occasional dip into…

  • 92nd Oscars – Shortlists

    The Academy has announced all of the shortlists for their awards this year, making the narrowing process of picking the nominations easier. Below are the nine category shortlists. I’ll skip the commentary on the documentary and short film categories, but let’s look at the rest. In Best International Film, the films that would have caused…

  • 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). Christmas is just around the corner, which means the vast majority of film critic groups are about to…

  • 92nd Oscars: Screener Watch – Week 8

    Universal started this week with a copy of Queen & Slim. Focus Features sent out three titles. Netflix dropped a huge package of seven films and Neon topped off the week with their usual package of DVDs in a multi-page package of twelve films. It almost feels like The Lord of the Rings again. 12…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 16 (2019)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released

  • Precursor: 14th Oklahoma Critics Awards (2019)

    Another regional critics group, another list of similar-looking winners. Award Tallies (3) Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2) The Irishman, Knives Out, Uncut Gems The Awards

  • Precursor: 53rd Kansas City Critics Awards (2019)

    One of the last of the Elder Statesmen of film critics organizations has also awarded 1917 with its top prize making it two wins in one day. Is the film finally peaking at the right moment to go all the way to the Oscars, we’ll see. Award Tallies (2) 1917, Us The Awards

  • Precursor: 14th St. Louis Critics Awards (2019)

    With only eighteen members in the St. Louis Film Critics Association, ties tended to come up quite frequently (not as bad as the 4 Hawaii film critics, though) and they also made no bones about how much they love Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, which nearly swept the group’s prizes with nine awards. 1917…

  • Precursor: 40th Boston Critics Awards (2019)

    Boston, one of the elder statesmen of film critics groups is the first to recognize Little Women as Best Picture of the year. Whether it’s enough in advance of the Oscars to keep it in contention. Award Tallies (4) Little Women (2) Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Parasite The Awards

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 15 (2019)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released

  • Precursor: 32nd Chicago Critics Awards (2019)

    With only Kansas City and National Society of Film Critics left to announce, the majority of the elder statesmen of film critics groups have announced their winners with an even split between Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, which won here and at Los Angeles, and Martin Scorsese’s slowly fading The Irishman taking the National Board of Review…

  • Precursor: 18th San Francisco Critics Nominations (2019)

    With a new mouthful of a name, the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle announced their awards for 2019 and if you were a Best Picture nominee, you got a lot of nominations. If you weren’t, you got a scant number as the five top nominees has 6 or more nominations and everything else…

  • Precursor: 6th Phoenix Critics Circle Awards (2019)

    The first of the two Phoenix film critics groups have selected their winners with Parasite dominating the conversation and a lot of spread-out love elsewhere. The conversation seems to have coalesced around a handful of contenders. Award Tallies (4) Parasite (2) Jojo Rabbit, Knives Out, Us The Awards

  • Precursor: 8th Boston Online Critics Awards (2019)

    The Boston online film critics group selected their winners for 2019 and announced very early with a press release this morning. At the top of the list was Parasite, securing Best Picture, Director, and Foreign Language Film awards. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was not to be outdone with three as well giving prizes…

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