Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 10th St. Louis Critics Awards (2015)
In spite of the down-ballot collapse of Spotlight, it continues to take prize after prize as Best Picture. This is evinced by the fact that the St. Louis critics gave the film their top prize. Seemingly a new trend is emerging with Tom McCarthy picking up companion Best Director prizes, which he hasn’t been successful…
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Precursor: 16th Vancouver Critics Nominations (2015)
Vancouver announced their nominees a week earlier than expected. The Revenant was the top nominee, scoring three citations including Best Picture and Director along with Best Actor. Without tech awards, Mad Max: Fury Road only managed two. Vancouver also gives out prizes for Canadian films. On that side, Room, which scored only two in the…
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Precursor: 5th Nevada Critics Awards (2015)
In the wee hours of this morning, another group announced. The awards were divvied out mainly to three films, Best Film winner Spotlight, which wasn’t the best directed film. That honor went to The Revenant, which was also the best shot film with two of the best performances. Ex Machina also performed well. Is this…
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Precursor: 19th Las Vegas Critics Awards (2015)
Another win for Spotlight along with three other awards, including a rare win for director Tom McCarthy. Mad Max: Fury Road took mostly tech awards to tie Spotlight for most prizes while many of the other selections have become standard for this season resulting in no genuine surprises. Award Tallies (4) Mad Max: Fury Road,…
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Precursor: 28th Chicago Critics Awards (2015)
A huge night for George Miller as his reboot of Mad Max: Fury Road commanded five awards from Chicago, one of its best totals so far this year. Apart from Best Picture and Best Director, the film also scored three tech awards. Leonardo DiCaprio gets one of the major prizes that should push him towards…
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Precursor: 11th Austin Critics Awards (2015)
This season has been back-and-forth with various films taking turns in the lead and being shafted. Here, Carol‘s back in the lead and The Hateful Eight performs the best to date as does Anomalisa. Meanwhile, The Revenant scores only two nominations. Strangely, Trumbo has only two nominations, one of which is for Best Picture. Award…
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Precursor: 49th Kansas City Critics Nominations (2015)
Kansas City has added nominations to this year’s proceedings, with Sicario topping the nomination count, a first for the drug war drama. Ex Machina pulls into a tie with other awards seasons favorites Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant. Steve Jobs has its best performance so far with three nominations, just not one for…
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Precursor: 15th American Film Institute (2015)
Although it has yet to unspool except for a handful of Hollywood and press screenings, Star Wars: The Force Awakens earns a spot on the annual list of the best American films. If you don’t see your favorite film on the list, remember that these are American films only. That means no Brooklyn or 45…
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Precursor: 15th Phoenix Critics Nominations (2015)
Tied for the most nominations, Spotlight finally gets the bounty it has been denied so far this year and Mad Max: Fury Road continues to do well. Often one of the best precursors to the Academy Awards, Phoenix has changed their nominations to only list 3 in many categories, which doesn’t help prognosticators much. Still,…
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Precursor: 36th London Critics Nominations (2015)
Although 45 Years has the most overall nominations, a significant factor needs to be taken into account. Two of its nominations come from British/Irish-only categories, unique to London’s critics. Several films have that distinction. To signify those and what their actual nomination counts should be, I’ve put (*) next to each with their actual total…
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Precursor: 9th Detroit Critics Awards (2015)
The first of several incoming groups today, Spotlight finally received a large share of awards with Liev Schrieber representing the cast outside of the Ensemble category. Still, Tom McCarthy couldn’t beat out George Miller for Best Director. Award Tallies (4) Spotlight (2) The Danish Girl The Awards
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Precursor: 19th Toronto Critics Awards (2015)
Carol may have taken Best Picture and Best Director from the Toronto critics (who apparently live-tweeted their winners last night, but didn’t post until today), but it’s the wins for Shaun the Sheep Movie, Tom Hardy and Nina Hoss that are a bit surprising. None of these individuals or films have had much luck with…
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Precursor: 24th Southeastern Critics Awards (2015)
Getting a jump on their usual announcement schedule, the Southeastern Film Critics pushed their awards out a week early. The results show Spotlight once again taking a Best Picture prize without a Best Director win. George Miller continues to rack up such trophies. Bryan Cranston earns his first actual award of the season. Award Tallies…
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Precursor: 20th San Diego Critics Awards (2015)
More good news for Mad Max: Fury Road, which secured another Best Picture prize along with Best Director, Best Editing and Best Visual Effects. Leonardo DiCaprio makes another appearance at the top of a list as does Brie Larson who hasn’t gotten that much attention lately. It’s clear this group loved genre pics with Mad…
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Precursor: 23rd Dallas Area Critics Awards (2015)
The Revenant had a smashing day at the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association taking four awards, but coming in second behind Spotlight which won two. Dallas-Fort Worth is the only group that announce ranked lists of most categories. The only real surprise was The Revenant topping The Hateful Eight for Music Score and even that…
