Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 64th Sound Editors Guild Nominations (2016)
The Motion Picture Sound Editors, three days after the Oscar nominations, have announced their nominations. The surprising thing here is that Rogue One captured three nominations, but failed to show up at the Oscars. Meanwhile, all five Oscar nominees show up in these nominations, albeit in different locations since La La Land got a token…
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Precursor: 56th American Cinema Editors Awards (2016)
In a night of expectations and upsets, the American Cinema Editors selected their 56th set of winners. Leading the pack was expected Oscar winner La La Land winning the comedy/musical prize, a category all of our contributors guessed correctly. In the highly competitive drama field, Arrival took the prize for its time-hopping sci-fi spectacle. In…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 9
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). There were only two groups announcing this past week and neither will have significant impact on the Oscar…
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Precursor: 37th Golden Raspberry Nominations (2016)
Sometimes the Razzie Awards nomination, a longtime pre-Oscar tradition, are a gestalt examination of the worst of the year. Sometimes, they are a sour grapes tribute. This year is a mixture of both. While the hate of Batman v. Superman is understandable, citing Ben Affleck as Worst Actor is pure sour grapes, not raspberries. Picking…
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Precursor: 37th London Critics Awards (2016)
The London Film Critics aren’t always the most instructive. Apart from their eligibility window not featuring the same films as the Oscars, they have a tendency to recognize British talent over American talent, even though they have separate categories. As such, Huppert’s win for Things to Come rather than Elle, Tom Bennett’s tied win of…
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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…
