Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 21st Critics Choice Awards (2015)
The Broadcast Film Critics Association have put forth their awards for 2015 picking Spotlight as Best Picture, giving it two other awards for Best Ensemble and Best Original Screenplay. It tied The Big Short for second place among the year’s winners. That film took two prizes from the Comedy segment on top of Best Adapted…
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Precursor: 36th London Critics Awards (2015)
The London Film Critics Circle has selected their favorite achievements for 2015. The results are below. Mad Max: Fury Road picked up the top two awards while 45 Years, their selection for Best British/Irish Film of the Year, also took both Best Actor and Best Actress. The rest of the selections weren’t unusual, but clearly…
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Precursor: 7th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations (2015)
Earning nominations in all three categories in which it was eligible, Mad Max: Fury Road proves to be the year’s dominant film with the craft guilds. This award, a modest forecaster of the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, may shine some lights on the situation. Of the seven films on the Academy’s shortlist for…
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Precursor: 68th Directors Guild Doc Nominations (2015)
The final set of DGA nominations have been announced and all five titles are on the Academy’s Best Documentary Feature shortlist. Most notably absent from this list and likely expected was Joshua Oppenheimer for The Look of Silence. His prior film, The Act of Killing was nominated both for the Oscar and the DGA director’s…
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Precursor: 36th Golden Raspberry Nominations (2015)
It is tradition for the Golden Raspberry awards to announce nominations the day before the Oscars. Other than their “dark” period where they shifted to after the Oscars, this has been the case as long as I can remember. Typically, they go for very obvious choices and this year is no different. Among the year’s…
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Precursor: 14th Visual Effects Society (2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the film I most expect to take home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects made an expected strong showing here topping all others with seven nominations. Typically, the film with the highest nominations tally will also be the Oscar winner, but as certain Bets Picture nominees of the past can…
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Precursor: 68th Directors Guild Nominations (2015)
The big news is that The Big Short director Adam McKay is among the final five for Best Director from the DGA. The man who gave us Talladega Nights and The Other Guys finally turned out a film that earned genuine critical plaudits and has become a major force in this year’s Oscar competition. Tom…
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Precursor: 23rd Cinema Audio Society Nominations (2015)
A mix of Best Picture contenders and technical marvels were among this year’s nominations. What’s most notable is that of the five nominees in Live Action, only two of them are action films, which has been the increasing normality of the category in recent years. The Nominations Best Sound Mixing – Live Action Bridge of…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 7
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 was some big news this past week as the guilds have finally started revealing their nominations. We’ll…
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Precursor: 73rd Golden Globe Awards (2015)
The Golden Globe Awards have been announced and apart from the early shock of Kate Winslet winning Best Supporting Actress, most of the categories when as expected. The Revenant was a modest surprise winning both Best Picture and Best Director apart from the expected win for Leonardo DiCaprio. While this might not change nominations predictions,…
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Precursor: 9th Houston Critics Awards (2015)
Spotlight comes out on top of the Houston Film Critics awards losing another Best Director award, this time to Alejandro G. Inarritu for The Revenant. Revenant took three total awards, including prizes for Best Supporting Actor and Best Cinematography. Hardy’s win notwithstanding, there’s nothing particularly revelatory about these selections. There was announced a Best Poster…
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Precursor: 16th Vancouver Critics – Canadian Awards (2015)
On January 7, 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. That means it’s not very surprising that major Oscar contender Room managed to win the most awards with four, including Best Canadian…
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Precursor: 5th Georgia Critics Awards (2015)
Although it didn’t get key nominations at BAFTA this week, the Road Warrior continues its dominance of the critics awards picking up four prizes from the Georgia film critics, who also happen to be the only group to recognize Ant-Man, but there are reasons for that. Nothing new or exciting here, though, as many of…
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Precursor: 57th British Academy Nominations (2015)
Several notions were put to rest today by the British Academy of Film & Television Arts, the United Kingdom equivalent of the Academy Awards. First is that Carol was having a bad year. Tying Bridge of Spies for most nominations with 9, Carol is the year’s most nominated film. Unfortunately, they went for the category…
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Precursor: 18th Costume Designers Guild Nominations (2015)
There aren’t many precursors for costume design, as such the Costume Designers Guild (CDG) is one of the best ways to see what the trade thinks of the potential nominees. Of the precursors that have gone out so far, The Assassin, Far from the Madding Crowd, Macbeth and The Throne are the only nominees that…
