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  • Precursor: 11th Indiana Critics Awards (2019)

    The Indiana Film Journalists have given their top prize of the year to Marriage Story, a result that film hasn’t been seeing so far. The group’s other selections look rather familiar. Award Tallies (3) Marriage Story, Parasite (2) The Lighthouse, Us The Awards

  • Precursor: 4th Seattle Critics Awards (2019)

    More love for Parasite from the Seattle film critics group with a number of other similar choices to other groups this year, though the Willem Dafoe love is a bit original. Award Tallies (5) Parasite (2) Uncut Gems The Awards

  • Precursor: 11th North Texas Critics Awards (2019)

    The first top prize The Irishman has taken in some time comes courtesy of the North Texas film critics who list their winner and runners-up in order of the number of votes they received. A lot of what we’ve come to expect about this year’s race is reflected here. Award Tallies (2) 1917 The Awards

  • 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: Weekend of Dec. 13-15, 2019

    We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Richard Jewell Clint Eastwood has played the late-year release card so many times that every time he issues forth with a new film late in the year, he instantly joins the Oscar conversation. While the films since American Sniper have ultimately…

  • 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

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