Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 6th Make-Up Artists Guild Awards (2014)
The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild doesn’t appear to have cleared up the muddy waters in the Best Makeup category at the Oscars. With the two front-runners taking two awards apiece, it’s almost impossible to tell if either is more dominant than the other. Award Tallies (2) The Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 11
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 are only two more precursor weeks to go and the biggies are already done. Yet, we still…
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Precursor: 57th Grammy Awards (2014)
Handed out before the televised awards, Grammy winners were announced in the three film-related categories. As expected, last year’s big winner, “Let It Go” triumphed over all newcomers to win Best Song. The film also Best Compilation soundtrack in a surprise over Guardians of the Galaxy. The one bit of Oscar-relevant news is that The…
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Precursor: 56th British Academy Awards (2014)
And there you have it. The ceremony has barely started and all the winners have been announced. Although it came away with the most awards, The Grand Budapest Hotel went home without Best Picture. Instead, BAFTA reversed the guild trend with a Boyhood victory for Best Picture. The Theory of Everything took home-turf honors this…
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Precursor: 19th Online Film & TV Association Awards (2014)
Another precursor yields a win for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s experimental film Birdman. A number of Oscar front-runners also went home with awards as did films and achievements snubbed by the Academy. Nominations Tallies (6) Birdman, Guardians of the Galaxy (4) Boyhood (3) Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lego Movie The Nominations
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Precursor: 67th Directors Guild Awards (2014)
The conversation has changed. First, I’m a bad site host for falling asleep before I got the winner announced and boy am I ever sorry I did. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu won Best Director from the DGA in a surprise upset over heavy favorite Richard Linklater. Birdman now completes the triple-crown of guild precursors taking DGA,…
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Precursor: 13th Visual Effects Society Awards (2014)
Disney’s Big Hero 6 was the big winner at the VES awards sweeping the animation-only categories, taking five trophies in all. The big win, however, was for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which took the top Visual Effects prize while Birdman took the Supporting Visual Effects award. Interstellar takes its first big loss…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 10
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). After last week’s lull in precursors with only a smattering of events, this week is a much bigger…
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Precursor: 19th Art Directors Guild Awards (2014)
Suffice it to say, The Grand Budapet Hotel looks to be the only sure thing in the tech categories this year. Winning out over modest competition is one thing, but having its primary competition (Into the Woods) go down to a Marvel blockbuster suggests it should have smoother sailing from here on out. The only…
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Precursor: 28th USC Scripter Awards (2014)
With so few films making it through to the Oscars, a win here can only bolster the winner’s chance at the Academy Awards. This should definitely give it a bit of a boost, but a Writers Guild of America award would probably be more helpful at this point. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay The Imitation…
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Precursor: 23rd Annie Awards (2014)
Winning only one award, The Lego Movie proved it wasn’t nearly as popular as many thought. That DreamWorks has an advantage with ASIFA’s Annie Awards only helped How to Train Your Dragon 2 capture 6 trophies, including Best Animated Feature. It gives those voting for the Oscar some guidance without Lego Movie in the competition.…
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Precursor: 54th American Cinema Editors Awards (2014)
It does not appear that anything can stop Boyhood. A film that may have spliced together 12 years of footage is still a rather conventional editing piece. When the guild has films like American Sniper, Gone Girl, Nightcrawler and Whiplash to honor, simply going with Boyhood is bandwagoning to the utmost. The Awards Best Drama…
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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). Apologies first to failing to get this posted yesterday when I had intended. However, today is just as…
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Precursor: 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards (2014)
The winners have been announced and for the second time this weekend, Birdman wins a a victory over Oscar frontrunner Boyhood in a not-unexpected win, but certainly a disappointing one for the cast of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Noteworthy here is that in the guild’s 21-year history, this marks only the sixth time that no…
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Precursor: 19th Online Film & TV Association Nominations (2014)
An interesting batch of nominees that sticks close to Oscars’ nominations list, but strikes out in some unique and interesting directions. The biggest take away is that the OFTA does not appear to be enamored with The Theory of Everything, but definitely supports Nightcrawler, A Most Violent Year and Selma more so than does the…
