Category: 2025 Precursors
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36th Gotham Awards Nominations
As tempting as it might be to reach a conclusion based on these nominations (like Bola Negra took a drubbing or Wild Horse Nine is in trouble), the fact is several of these category nominations were selected by a group of 5 people. That’s nothing even approaching a consensus. The only thing you could determine…
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11th Critics Choice Doc Nominations
Although they miss quite often, this is the most extensive precursor covering documentary features and short films. The surprise strength of 14th, which only just started screening at the New York Film Festival, suggests it might do well this season. You Can See Everything is the documentary everyone’s talking about that is the most likely…
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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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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…
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29th Toronto Critics Awards – Canadian Awards
A bit late posting but here are the winners of the two final Canadian film awards. The Awards Best Canadian Film Finalists (To Be Announced: 2/24/25) Blue Heron Best Canadian Documentary (To Be Announced: 2/24/25) Endless Cookie Toronto Film Critics Association Data First Awards: 1997 (29)
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40th Society of Cinematographers Awards
While not what I predicted, these choices weren’t entirely unexpected either. The Awards Best Cinematography One Battle After Another WL PP Documentary Cinematography Nil 2000 Meters from Andriivka WL PP TL Spotlight Award Nil Orphan WL TL American Society of Cinematographers Data Year Founded: 1919 First Awards: 1986 (40)
