Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 21st Online Film & Television Nominations (2016)
The Online Film & Television Association has announced its nominees for 2016. There are some interesting selections here, including who did and did not make it. However, most of their selections match what’s been announced previously, so there are no major surprises. Nominations Tallies (16) La La Land (12) Moonlight (11) Arrival, Noctrunal Animals (10)…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). The last week has been a whirlwind of precursor organizations announcing. Matter of fact, other than the Motion…
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Precursor: 10th Houston Critics Awards (2016)
La La Land handily took out all comers for this year’s Houston Film Critics awards, outlined below in their commonplace glory. Awards Tallies (7) La La Land (2) Hell or High Water The Awards
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Precursor: 6th Georgia Critics Awards (2016)
Moonlight and La La Land were neck-and-neck for this year’s Georgia Film Critics awards with Moonlight ultimately topping La La Land with the top prize. These are following a fairly set pattern this year. Awards Tallies (6) Moonlight (5) La La Land The Awards
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Precursor: 17th Vancouver Critics – Canadian Awards (2016)
On January 10, the Vancouver critics gave out their awards for the best in Canadian filmmaking. Separate from their annual awards for general film excellence, these are only for films made by Canadians. Topping their list, winning both the award for Best Canadian Film and the Best British Columbian film (hometown province likely helps), Hello…
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Precursor: 19th Costume Designers Guild Nominations (2016)
The Costume Designers Guild is a solid precursor in that they nominate fifteen films, which should fill a four-film category. However, it’s very likely that they miss a few since the Academy very rarely pulls out of one and sometimes picks from missing to one of the remaining two. Of the films I expected to…
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Precursor: 69th Directors Guild Nominations (2016)
The guild awards are always the place to look for Oscar clues and few are more predictive than the Directors Guild of America. Outside of a handful of instances, the Oscar winner is always an DGA nominee and four-of-five DGA nominees usually carry over to the Oscars. I can see this year going five-for-five. Noteworthy…
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Precursor: 20th Toronto Critics – Canadian Film (2016)
After announcing their nominations and then their winners, there was one prize left to award and it went as follows. It will have zero impact on the Oscars. The Awards Best Canadian Film The Stairs Toronto Film Critics Association Data First Awards: 1997 (20)
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Precursor: 30th USC Scripter Nominations (2016)
One look at this list and you’ll confirm in your mind that the USC Scripter Awards are one of the most accurate predictors of the Oscars and their nominations. This is precisely the five films I would have suspected as being up for the award. They tend to go for literary works and sometimes plays.…
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Precursor: 31st Cinematographers Guild Nominations (2016)
The first thing to talk about here is the surprise inclusion of Greg Fraiser for Lion. So far, the film has only picked up one nomination for Best Cinematography and that was from Phoenix. This shows how capable Harvey Weinstein is at pushing his favorite films the closer Oscar gets. This might also be Silence‘s…
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Precursor: 69th Directors Guild Doc Nominations (2016)
This year, the DGA has chosen to announce their documentary directing citations a day earlier than their theatrical directing nominations. Here are the nominees. While this won’t tell us anything about who will be nominated for Best Documentary Feature, it often points a sign towards what titles are at least strongly under consideration. The Nominations…
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Precursor: 10th Houston Critics Nominations (2016)
Houston, we have a problem. Your association website is two years out of date. Having to go to IMDB to find your awards information isn’t the best idea. Anyway, the Houston Film Critics showed more love for Jackie and The Nice Guys; however, the rest of the list is fairly commonplace this season and not…
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Precursor: 6th Georgia Critics Nominations (2016)
The Georgia Film Critics announced their winners late on Tuesday, but here they are. There’s some good news for Jackie as it receives its best showing in some time. It’s probably way too late, though. The Nice Guys and Silence also did better than they have all season with the former not being recognize at…
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Precursor: 8th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations (2016)
The first of today’s major guild announcements is out and the Hollywood Make-Up and Hair Stylists Guild has made their selections in five theatrical categories. Looking at the seven films that made the Academy’s shortlist, five of them are here: Star Trek: Beyond, Suicide Squad, Deadpool, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Hail, Caesar!. Only two of…
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Precursor: 15th Visual Effects Society Nominations (2016)
Of the ten films that made the Academy’s Visual Effects shortlist, only six make an appearance on this list of nominees from the Visual Effects Society. With considerably more categories than the Oscars, we have to be care to draw too many conclusions. There are two categories that typically have any bearing on the Oscars:…
