Category: Academy Awards History

As a prelude to their bigger announcement of Best Feature and First Feature categories, they have announced their choices for best directed documentaries. These five titles have gotten consistent recognition, so there are no real surprises. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Free Solo Hale County This Morning, This Evening RBG Three Identical Strangers Won’t You…

Thanks to its annual raft of exclusions (The Favourite and The Death of Stalin were not eligible) due to obscure signatory rules, the Writers Guild of America has still managed to put together a list of the most commonly cited Best Picture contenders out there. The biggest miss here is Paul Schrader’s screenplay for First…

Three films topped this year’s nominations for the Hawaii Film Critics Society, a small four-person group. This generates some rather eclectic selections, though most of the films we’ve been talking about all year are here as well. Award Tallies (9) Black Panther, The Favourite, A Star Is Born (7) First Man Roma (4) BlacKkKlansman, Green…

Although it won Best Picture, If Beale Street Could Talk was the group’s 7th best film of the year. That’s a very strange way to select the best of the year. Most of the selections were the same we’ve seen all year, so there isn’t much to discuss. Award Tallies (5) If Beale Street Could…

The Art Directors Guild have made their nominations for this year and there aren’t a lot of omissions that seem obvious, though Mary Queen of Scots was a notable one. Annihilation, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Can You Ever Forgive Me? were possibilities as well, but got no love. Bohemian Rhapsody is not the…

Looking over this list of nominatinos, it’s easy to see what films are Oscar contenders. Only Deadpool 2 is really out of the run, but the rest certainly are competing. If Beale Street Could Talk is the most injured here. The Nominations Best Drama Editing BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody First Man Roma A Star Is Born…

One of the poorest reviewed films in history to win the Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture Drama, Bohemian Rhapsody follows in a long line of HFPA selections that will not go on to win Best Picture at the Oscars. While there were a few surprises, like just how much they loved Green Book…

While most of the winners and runners-up on this list weren’t particularly surprising, the National Society of Film Critics found a couple of ways to go different directions than almost anyone else and came up with one relatively big surprise. The atypical selections were Steven Yeun in Supporting Actor, The Death of Stalin in Screenplay,…

The Producers Guild of America, who recognizes box office success as much as critical success has selected ten films, five animated features, and seven documentaries to fete this year. Surprising omissions form Best Picture: If Beale Street Could Talk and Can You Ever Forgive Me?. Not-so-surprising omissions: First Reformed and Eighth Grade. Exclusions that make…