Category: 2025 Precursors
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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…
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38th European Film Excellence Nominations
They’ve added a casting director award but removed the award for visual effects. Not much to see here. Nominations Tallies (5) Bugonia, Siråt, Sound of Falling (3) Sentimental Value (2) Franz (1) Die My Love, Duse, The Stranger, The Voice of Hind Rajab The Nominations Best Casting Director Sentimental Value Siråt Sound of Falling Best…
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9th Hollywood Creative Alliance Nominations (Full)
With their creative nominees announced last week and their full nominations today, we have the full info about the Astra Awards and they’ve really over-extended themselves to get as many nominees together as possible. The International Press Academy was the last organization that tried separating the supporting categories by drama and comedy/musical and even they…
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16th Hollywood Music in Media Awards
Sinners won big while Diane Warren: Relentless likely secured an Oscar nomination from this win. That said, none of the winners here are guaranteed anything since this group is a relative neophyte in its Oscar correlations. Awards Tallies (3) Sinners (2) Diane Warren: Relentless (1) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,…
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9th Hollywood Creative Alliance Nominations
Splitting up your creative arts awards is always a bad move and it seems certain based on what is known about this organization that it’s done in order to maximize publicity for the forgotten cousin of the Critics Choice Awards. Their nominations seem to focus on some titles we’ve been expecting but also highlighting a…
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25th AARP Movies for Grownups Nominations
Each year, the AARP nominees hew closer and closer to the Academy’s and this has to be one of the most consistently Oscar-friendly set of nominations yet. Sure, there are selections for films like A Private Life and Goodbye June that have no chance with the Academy but most of these selections are at least…
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38th European Film Awards Nominations
The short film nominations were announced October 31. The craft selections will be announced on November 26. The awards will be January 17. A few Oscar contenders are listed here, including the most nominated Sentimental Value. The European Film Awards are not highly indicative of Oscar potential but Best International Feature submissions nominated here likely…
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10th Critics Choice Doc Awards
The Perfect Stranger dominated these awards with only Ocean with David Attenborough and Orwell: 2+2=5 the only other films to pick up more than one prize. Will Perfect Stranger be the latest to be ignored by the Academy? We shall see. Nominations Tallies (5) The Perfect Neighbor (2) Ocean with David Attenborough, Orwell: 2+2=5 (1)…
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68th Grammy Awards Nominations
More so than usual, there are a lot of 2025 contenders on this list while a few 2024 ones are also present. While many of these don’t seem like sure Oscar nominees, there could be some clues among them. Nominations Tallies (5) Sinners (2) Kpop Demon Hunters, Wicked (1) A Complete Unknown, Devo, Elton John:…
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16th Hollywood Music in Media Nominations
A lot of interesting selections. Many won’t make it to the Oscars but it gives us a preview of some of the potential contenders. We also know exactly what film Diane Warren is likely to win her Oscar for. What better honor than to give it to her for a documentary about her. Though, with…
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10th Seattle Critics Nominations (PNW Filmmaking)
Seattle critics have added a new category for short filmmaking in their regional reward set. Both categories are listed below. The Nominations Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking Not One Drop of Blood To Kill a Wolf Train Dreams Twinless Wolf Land WTO/99 Achievement in Pacific Northwest Short Filmmaking Charlotte, 1994 A Fateful Weekend Shelly’s Leg…
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35th Gotham Awards Nominations
The Gotham Awards have released a list of nominees that seem more mainstream than their prior selections but we still cannot put too much faith in their selections. Nominations Tallies (6) One Battle After Another (4) If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (3) It Was Just an Accident, No Other Choice (2) Blue Moon,…
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10th Critics Choice Doc Nominations
Nothing much to see here since we don’t even know what the shortlist documentaries will be but you can usually look at the nominees for Best Documentary and see several of the eventual Oscar nominees. Below are the nominations. Winners will be announced on 11/9/25. Nominations Tallies (7) Orwell: 2+2=5 (6) The Perfect Neighbor (5)…
