Category: Precursors
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51st Toronto Film Festival
And with that, the last major film festival ends with La Bola Negra, I Play Rocky, and Being Heumann emerging as strong Oscar contenders. People’s Choice Award La Bola Negra People’s Choice Award, First Runner Up I Play Rocky People’s Choice Award, Second Runner Up Being Heumann People’s Choice Award, Documentaries Darlene Love: I Know…
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83rd Venice Film Festival
Venice boosted the candidacy of John Malkovich for certain with Woman Unknown a little less certain at this juncture but it certainly puts that film and star Mathilde Arcel (Best Actress winner) into the conversation. Golden Lion Woman Unknown Grand Jury Prize Possible Love Special Jury Prize NAZA Silver Lion Ilya Khrzhanovsky – DAU Volpi…
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53rd Telluride Film Festival
The first of the big three fall festivals started Sep. 4 and will complete today, Sep. 7. These were the films that showed. Telluride does not give out awards so we won’t get much information out of these other than a list of films that could be contenders and which will be the some of…
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7th Critics Choice Super Awards
This mid-year award splits across two and while most of the winners (all but two) are 2026 releases, these are wins that don’t translate to Oscar consideration. Nominations Tallies (2) The Furious, Obsession, Project Hail Mary, Superman (1) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Apex, Disclosure Day, Good Boy, Supergirl, Weapons The Nominations Best Villain…
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7th Critics Choice Super Awards Nominations
A lot of broadly popular films and some box office failures along with films that were both popular and unpopular with critics. They largely make sense and don’t simultaneously. Nominations Tallies (6) Superman (4) The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Masters of the Universe, Obsession, Project Hail Mary, Weapons (3) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,…
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79th Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival has come to a close and below are the winners and the list of in-competition films. The Festival Palme d’Or Fjord Grand Prix Minotaur Prix du Jury The Dreamed Adventure Best Director Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo – The Black Ball Pawel Pawlikowski – Fatherland Camera d’Or (Best First Film) Ben’Imana Best…
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Contenders 26: Season Opens Next Week
With last year’s Contenders season now closed and adjustments made to the rating factors, it’s time to start the 2026 Contenders season. Next week, Monday through Friday, we’ll have five titles added and we’ll keep adding more as the season progresses.
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Contenders 25: Final Update
For our final update of the 2025 contenders season, all outstanding productions have been moved to stage 5 and we can now look at the overall strength of our model and how certain productions fared in the final race. Let’s start with our final rankings of the top contenders in each of our four categories.…
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Contenders 25: Final Update Delay
Our final update of the 2025 contenders season will be unfortunately delayed. One of my data sources has gone through a recent site change and all of their features aren’t available yet so I can’t fully update this year’s contenders. The new contenders series should begin in April but I can’t finalize the 98th Oscar…
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29th Film Music Critics Awards
And with these awards, not a single Oscar nominee made it through to the end. Awards Tallies (3) Avatar: Fire and Ash (1) Anaconda, Astérix et Obélix: Le Combat des Chefs, The Chairman, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, The Dark Crystal, Frankenstein, Jay Kelly, Le Secret de Martha, Ocean with David Attenborough, Play Dirty, Zootopia 2…
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29th Film Music Critics Nominations
Per usual, the Oscar prognosticative capability of this group is pretty rough with all of the Oscar nominees present but only one of them in the top category. Nominations Tallies (3) Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Frankenstein (2) Hamnet, Jay Kelly, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Sinners (1) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein…
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26th Vancouver Critics Awards
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie was the most honored of the year over Best Picture winner One Battle After Another and Best Director winner Sinners. Awards Tallies (3) Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2) One Battle After Another, Sinners (1) Blue Heron, Foreigner, Forward, Hamnet, It Was Just an Accident, Keeper,…
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35th Razzie Awards
For the first time in a long time, a film most people didn’t even know existed, War of the Worlds, was crowned the worst of the year. The selections seem less snotty and more fitting. Good job. Awards Tallies (5) War of the Worlds (2) Snow White (1) Bride Hard, Gunslingers, Song Sung Blue The…
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63rd Publicists Guild Film Awards
Not much to say about these but they clearly prefer the Sinners. The Awards Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Motion Picture Sinners Press Award Kevin McCarthy – On Film…with Kevin McCarthy International Media Award Ali Plumb – BBC Radio, United Kingdom Best Unit Still Photography for Motion Pictures Atsushi Nishijima Henri Bollinger Award for Special Merit…
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30th Satellite Awards
Their website is still not updated and there are no press releases showing the winners. These are what I’ve found. It seems like Satellite voters went out of their way to pick winners that weren’t going to win Oscars. There are a few that could be foreshadowy but for the most part, these aren’t going…
