Category: Academy Awards

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…

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…

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

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…

This is a newer film critic organization, so I don’t know how they typically make selections, but this year’s batch of nominees looks quite a bit like most of the other nomination slates so far with the exception of a more fond appreciation of Honey Boy. Nominations Tallies (7) Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood…

Vancouver film critics have a small slate of awards that recognize the best films of the year released in Canada while featuring a larger batch of nominations for Canadian-only films. With the smaller number of Canadian contenders, the top nominees are largely canadian films with The Twentieth Century topping all others with seven. Two more…

With only two films taking more than one award and one of them far outpacing the others, the Las Vegas film critics have chosen a slate of winners that looks very familiar. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was the dominant film, collecting six awards while Dolemite Is My Name was the only other multi-winner…

The Chicago Film Critics Association have announced their nominees for this year and a lot of the same contenders have shown up here further cementing them all as contenders, even if some will ultimately not make it to the Oscars. Award Tallies (9) Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (8) The Irishman, Little Women (7)…

Spreading the love around, the Phoenix Film Critics Circle, one of two groups in the Phoenix area, stuck with a lot of the same titles in its selections for its nominations this year. Nothing particularly surprising, though Parasite doing as well as a major Hollywood production is a good sign for the little South Korean…

Showing us the films that are going to be Best Picture players, the American Cinema Editors have selected most of the safe and expected choices. There are no shocking omissions here that I can think of, though The Farewell didn’t seem like the kind of film that would make this list, but that does give…