Category: 2025 Precursors
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9th Chicago Indie Critics Nominations
Only a couple of minor surprises here or there but a not-terribly-shocking result. Nominations Tallies (18) Sinners (12) One Battle After Another (9) Frankenstein (7) Marty Supreme (5) 28 Years Later, F1, Hamnet (4) It Was Just an Accident, Weapons (3) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, Sorry, Baby, Superman, Train Dreams (2) The Fantastic Four:…
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40th Society of Cinematographers Nominations
This list is almost exactly like we’ve been predicting with F1, Hamnet, and Wicked: For Good the most harmed by their omissions. The Nominations Best Cinematography Frankenstein Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams Documentary Cinematography 2000 Meters from Andriivka Come See Me in the Good Light Folktales Spotlight Award Amrum Orphan The…
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78th Directors Guild Nominations
Joachim Trier, Jafar Panahi, Park Chan-wook, and Clint Bentley can’t be pleased with their omissions. Otherwise, the list looks like much of what we’ve been predicting so far. The Nominations Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Chloé…
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42nd Casting Society Awards
For some reason, my comments were not retained on this one. All I could really say was that One Battle After Another was not nominated and that’s a shock. Also note that the below has been revised. Somehow the prior source of this information had last year’s short film nominations listed. This has been updated…
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78th Directors Guild Doc Nominations
A couple of non-Oscar contenders on the list and those are the only surprises. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Mstyslav Chernov – 2000 Meters to Andriivka Geet Gandbhir – The Perfect Neighbor Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni – Cutting Through Rocks Elizabeth Lo – Mistress Dispeller Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus – Cover-Up Directors Guild of America…
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30th Art Directors Guild Nominations
The only real surprise is that inclusion of The SpongeBob Movie. Other than that, this is what we largely expected. The Nominations Best Animation Art Direction The Bad Guys 2 Elio KPop Demon Hunters The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants Zootopia 2 Best Period Art Direction Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme The Phoenician Scheme Sinners Best…
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32nd Screen Actors Guild Nominations
One Battle After Another, as expected, dominated the nominations while Sinners and Marty Supreme did surprisingly well. The potential of nominations for Chase Infiniti, Miles Caton, Wunmi Mosaku, and Odessa A’Zion became more likely. Meanwhile, Joel Edgerton, Wagner Moura, Dwayne Johnson, Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Lawrence, Amanda Seyfried, Delroy Lindo, Adam Sandler, Gwyneth Paltrow, and the…
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4th UK Critics Awards
And the awards were also announced with nothing really to see here. Awards Tallies (3) Sinners (2) One Battle After Another (1) Hamnet The Awards Best Picture Sinners Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Best Actor Michael B. Jordan – Sinners Best Actress Jessie Buckley – Hamnet Best Supporting Actor Sean…
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4th UK Critics Nominations
Their release window being different than the U.S., that explains the presence of two 2025 films and one that hasn’t been released stateside yet. The rest are pretty well expected nominees with the first showing for Kaouther Ben Hania and The Voice of Hind Rajab (at least recently). Nominations Tallies (7) One Battle After Another…
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19th Oklahoma Critics Awards
Another set of wins for One Battle After Another. Awards Tallies (6) One Battle After Another (3) Sinners (1) Eddington, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Hamnet, KPop Demon Hunters, Materialists, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, The Perfect Neighbor, Seeds, Sentimental Value, Sorry, Baby, Weapons The Awards Best Picture One Battle After Another (Runner-Up: Sinners)…
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19th Women Journalists Awards
One Battle After Another didn’t find much love with this group but Sinners did. Awards Tallies (7) Sinners (3) Hamnet, One Battle After Another (2) KPop Demon Hunters, Sentimental Value (1) The Perfect Neighbor, Sorry, Baby The Awards Best Film Sinners Best Animated Film KPop Demon Hunters Best Director Ryan Coogler – Sinners Best Actor…
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10th Hawaii Critics Nominations
32 categories for such a small organization. Doesn’t seem necessary. They are also so small that their idiosyncrasies can secure nominations for otherwise ignored Seyfried in The Housemaid, though they largely stay with the current conventional wisdom in terms of nominations. Nominations Tallies (14) One Battle After Another, Sinners (10) Frankenstein (7) Sentimental Value (6)…
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53rd Annie Awards Nominations
Until now, you might have thought the competition was between KPop Demon Hunters and Zootopia 2 but with the Annie Awards, the most nominations is key to winning and it looks like Elio showed up everywhere in a bit of a surprise move. Meanwhile, most of the main Oscar contenders for Animated Feature are here…
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6th Set Decorators Society Nominations
Combine these with the Art Directors Guild nominations and you should have a pretty clear picture who the contenders are. The Nominations Best Comedy/Musical Décor/Design Freakier Friday Kiss of the Spider Woman The Phoenician Scheme Roofman Wicked: For Good Best Period Décor/Design Downton Abbey: The Grand Vinale Hamnet Marty Supreme Sinners Springsteen: Deliver Me from…
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31st Critics Choice Awards
The awards have wrapped up and many of the frontrunners won and several that weren’t leading may have pulled forward. Still, one can’t help but wonder how much of this was wishful thinking on the critics’ parts rather than genuine opinion. With that many members, we have to assume the latter. Awards Tallies (4) Frankenstein,…
