Category: Academy Awards
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Precursor: Broadcast Film Critics Association
Below are the winners of the 15th Annual Broadcast Film Critics Association (Critics’ Choice) Awards. Winner Tallies (6) Avatar (3) Inglourious Basterds (2) Crazy Heart (2) The Hurt Locker (2) Up The Winners Picture: The Hurt Locker Actor: Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart Actress: TIE: Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia; Sandra Bullock – The…
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Precursor Predictions: Golden Globes
Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will hand out its Golden Globe Awards. Below are our predictions, starting with a by-category look, then individual agreements/disagreements and commentary. And we’ve also predicted both Film and Television nominations, so you can follow along all night if you like. In addition, below all of these predictions, we have…
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Box-Office Preview #2: Weekend of January 15-18, 2010
As we move into the first four-day holiday weekend of the New Year, two new movies and one Oscar hopeful going into wide release will try to suck away audiences from James Cameron’s mega-hit, Avatar. Sadly for them, they will all probably come up short. The film that has the best shot at dethroning Avatar…
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Precursor Predictions: Broadcast Film Critics Association
The Broadcast Film Critics Association will announce the winners of its Critics’ Choice Awards on Friday evening. Here are our predictions for tomorrow night’s winners. Because the complexity of the predictions below, I’ll list our predictions by category and then how we each came down on them. The Predictions Picture: Avatar (2); The Hurt Locker…
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Precursor: American Cinema Editors
Although their own website says January 12, they announced their nominations on January 11. Unprofessional. But anyway, here are the nominations: The Nominations Drama Editing Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Star Trek Up in the Air Comedy Editing (500) Days of Summer The Hangover It’s Complicated Julie & Julia A Serious Man
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Precursor Predictions: American Cinema Editors
Tomorrow, the ACE announce their nominees for Drama and Comedy Editing. Below are our predictions. Drama Editing common predictions Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds predicted by 2 Precious (Wesley, Tripp) individual predictions Moon (Peter) Star Trek (Wes)
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Make-Up Finalists Announced
The Academy has announced the 7 films that will make the basis for the category’s Best Makeup nominations: District 9 Il Divo The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian The Road Star Trek The Young Victoria For the most part, you can probably count on District 9 and The…
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Precursor: American Society of Cinematographers
The nominations for the ASC awards have been announced. The nominees are below: The Nominations Avatar The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Nine The White Ribbon Predictions Comparison Once again our shared predictions were correct. The Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds both earned nominations. The two films that ended up on three contributors’ lists also ended…
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Precursor: Writers Guild of America
With so many Oscar contenders ineligible (Inglourious Basterds, Up, District 9, and others), it’s a wonder why we pay much attention to these. Consider yourself warned when trying to pull from the below lists in making your predictions. The Nominations Original Screenplay (500) Days of Summer Avatar The Hangover The Hurt Locker A Serious Man…
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Precursor Predictions: ASC & WGA Nominations
Tomorrow, the American Society of Cinematographers and the Writers Guild of America announce their nominees for the 2009 awards season. Your faithful contributors here have put their vast knowledge together and come up with their predictions for this year’s nominees. Here are our choices. American Society of Cinematographers common predictions The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds…
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Precursor: Art Directors Guild Nominations
Below are the nominees for the 2009 Art Directors Guild. The Nominations Period Art Direction A Serious Man Inglourious Basterds Julie & Julia Public Enemies Sherlock Holmes Fantasy Art Direction Avatar District 9 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Star Trek Where the Wild Things Are
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Precursor Predictions: Art Directors Guild Nominations
Tomorrow, the Art Directors Guild announces it’s 2009 nominations. We don’t have any specific commentary to go with our predictions, so here is our list: Period Art Direction common predictions Inglourious Basterds Nine predicted by 3 Sherlock Holmes (Wesley, Tripp, Wes) predicted by 2 Bright Star (Peter, Wesley) A Single Man (Peter, Tripp) The Young…
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Precursor: Directors Guild of America Nominations
The DGA has announced its nominees. See below: The Nominations Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker James Cameron – Avatar Lee Daniels – Precious Jason Reitman – Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds Predictions Comparison The universally selected four made it through with the fifth spot going to Lee Daniels for Precious.…
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Box-Office Preview #1: Weekend of January 8-10, 2010
And so begins a new decade of film with the first three new releases of the 2010s: Daybreakers, Leap Year, and Youth in Revolt. Unfortunately, not one of them will be the first release of the new decade to reach the top spot at the box-office. In its first non-holiday weekend, James Cameron’s science fiction…
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Precursor: BAFTA Long List and Foreign Film Nominees
Although they are an organization similar to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) are still a precursor to the big awards (and have been more so in recent years, being the first group to pick Tilda Swinton for a Supporting Actress win). They announce…
