Category: 2025 Precursors
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10th Atlanta Critics Awards
Atlanta loved One Battle After Another and it wasn’t even close. Awards Tallies (8) One Battle After Another (2) KPop Demon Hunters, Sinners (1) Hamnet, It Was Just an Accident, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, The Perfect Neighbor, Sorry, Baby, Weapons The Awards Best Picture One Battle After Another Best Animated Film KPop Demon…
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17th Indiana Critics Shortlists
Although the Indiana journalists call this their nominations, they are in fact shortlists. Wicked: For Good is entirely shut out while The Naked Gun gets more mentions than it probably warrants. Their rules for getting on the shortlist don’t seem to be very particular and I’m guessing that it just takes one person to get…
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38th Chicago Critics Nominations
The battle between Sinners and One Battle After Another for most nominated seems to be ramping up with a tie here. There aren’t a lot of surprises otherwise. Nominations Tallies (12) One Battle After Another, Sinners (7) Marty Supreme (5) Frankenstein, Train Dreams (4) It Was Just an Accident, The Testament of Ann Lee (3)…
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83rd Golden Globe Nominations
In a way, the old Golden Globes are back again. Oddball star-futzer mentality gets Julia Roberts a nomination while big name titles that score several nominations miss out in the top category (Wicked for Good for example). These don’t tell us nearly as much as they might once have. Still, there are a lot of…
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29th Toronto Critics Awards
Toronto’s critics are often odd but they’ve gone fairly mainstream with this batch. Awards Tallies (4) One Battle After Another (2) Blue Heron, Endless Cookie (1) Blue Moon, Come See Me in the Good Light, Ghosts of the Sea, Hedda, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Montreal, My Beautiful, Nirvanna the Band the Show…
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51st Los Angeles Critics Awards
Los Angeles critics have given the third of the four major critics groups awards to One Battle After Another. The rest of the choices seem fairly well in line with the current wisdom. Awards Tallies (3) One Battle After Another (1) Afternoons of Solitude, Blue Moon, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, It Was…
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24th DC Critics Awards
DC critics are the first to really diverge from the One Battle After Another bandwagon but are otherwise falling in line with most other groups. Awards Tallies (9) Sinners (3) One Battle After Another (2) KPop Demon Hunters (1) A House of Dynamite, Avatar: Fire and Ash, F1, Hamnet, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,…
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24th DC Critics Nominations
DC critics have a decent track record and their selections are interesting with most of the major Oscar contenders represented and few genuine surprises. Nominations Tallies (13) One Battle After Another (12) Sinners (9) Hamnet (8) Marty Supreme (7) Sentimental Value (5) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Frankenstein (4) It Was Just an Accident, Zootopia 2…
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10th Seattle Critics Nominations
Seattle critics threw in a few surprises and avoided some major features but for the most part stuck to current conventional wisdom. Nominations Tallies (14) Sinners (12) One Battle After Another (8) Train Dreams (6) Frankenstein, Marty Supreme (5) Hamnet (4) Weapons (3) F1, Sentimental Value, Sorry, Baby (2) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, It…
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3rd Michigan Critics Guild Nominations
Michigan’s critics aren’t terribly creative. Many of these selections are about as predictable as you can get. Nominations Tallies (12) One Battle After Another (10) Sinners (6) Hamnet (5) Frankenstein, Marty Supreme (3) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Wicked: For Good (2) Sorry, Baby, Train Dreams (1) The Accountant 2, Another Simple Favor, Arco, Ballerina, Bugonia,…
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31st Critics Choice Nominations
Sinners pulled out a surprisingly large number of nominations while One Battle After Another did quite well as well. There are a few surprises here or there but mostly what we’ve been talking about so far this year. Nominations Tallies (17) Sinners (14) One Battle After Another (11) Frankenstein, Hamnet (8) Marty Supreme (7) F1,…
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25th American Film Institute Top Ten
Jay Kelly is the only surprising inclusion in this list, especially since it seemed to have faded into obscurity since it’s release. Otherwise, mostly films we expected to see. Typically, the Academy’s list will include most of these but with that special award win, It Was Just an Accident will certainly be one of the…
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97th National Board of Review Awards
Another major win for One Battle After Another. If they can pick up the National Society of Film Critics and Los Angeles Film Critics awards, that might be the end of the race. One surprising omission is Hamnet, which didn’t get into the top “10” list at all. A bit shocking for the one film…
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41st Spirit Award Nominations
There was a time when the Spirit Awards were as far removed from the Oscar nominations as anything. In recent years, as the Academy has become more cognizant of indie work, that connection has merged. This year’s list is pretty far removed from the trend and reverts to its obscure selections bolstered by a handful…
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91st New York Critics Awards
The New York Film Critics Circle remains idiosyncratic, taking mainstream Hollywood and blending it with non-English winners. The Jafar Panahi win is likely the result of the recent conviction he was given in absentia. The rest seem pretty standard for this group with a few winners likely to carry over but most not. Awards Tallies…
