Category: Academy Awards

La La Land handily took out all comers for this year’s Houston Film Critics awards, outlined below in their commonplace glory. Awards Tallies (7) La La Land (2) Hell or High Water The Awards

Moonlight and La La Land were neck-and-neck for this year’s Georgia Film Critics awards with Moonlight ultimately topping La La Land with the top prize. These are following a fairly set pattern this year. Awards Tallies (6) Moonlight (5) La La Land The Awards

On January 10, the Vancouver critics gave out their awards for the best in Canadian filmmaking. Separate from their annual awards for general film excellence, these are only for films made by Canadians. Topping their list, winning both the award for Best Canadian Film and the Best British Columbian film (hometown province likely helps), Hello…

The Costume Designers Guild is a solid precursor in that they nominate fifteen films, which should fill a four-film category. However, it’s very likely that they miss a few since the Academy very rarely pulls out of one and sometimes picks from missing to one of the remaining two. Of the films I expected to…

The guild awards are always the place to look for Oscar clues and few are more predictive than the Directors Guild of America. Outside of a handful of instances, the Oscar winner is always an DGA nominee and four-of-five DGA nominees usually carry over to the Oscars. I can see this year going five-for-five. Noteworthy…

After announcing their nominations and then their winners, there was one prize left to award and it went as follows. It will have zero impact on the Oscars. The Awards Best Canadian Film The Stairs Toronto Film Critics Association Data First Awards: 1997 (20)

One look at this list and you’ll confirm in your mind that the USC Scripter Awards are one of the most accurate predictors of the Oscars and their nominations. This is precisely the five films I would have suspected as being up for the award. They tend to go for literary works and sometimes plays.…

The first thing to talk about here is the surprise inclusion of Greg Fraiser for Lion. So far, the film has only picked up one nomination for Best Cinematography and that was from Phoenix. This shows how capable Harvey Weinstein is at pushing his favorite films the closer Oscar gets. This might also be Silence‘s…

This year, the DGA has chosen to announce their documentary directing citations a day earlier than their theatrical directing nominations. Here are the nominees. While this won’t tell us anything about who will be nominated for Best Documentary Feature, it often points a sign towards what titles are at least strongly under consideration. The Nominations…