Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 9th St. Louis Critics Awards (2014)
Boyhood takes Best Picture, but secures fewer awards than Birdman which doubled its tally. Gone Girl performed well, as did Guardians of the Galaxy. Jake Gyllenhaal gets some precursor love. Nominations Tallies (4) birdman (2) Boyhood, Gone Girl, Guardians of the Galaxy The Awards Best Film Boyhood Best Animated Film
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Precursor: 18th Online Critics Awards (2014)
After a couple of years of being one of the top predictors of Oscar winners, the OFCS has scaled back recognizing smaller fare. While there are still lots of chances for overlap with Oscar, Best Picture will probably not be one of them. They’ve also gone a different direction for Best Actress than the vast…
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Precursor: 22nd Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Awards (2014)
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics have a unique method of announcing winners among all other precursors. They announce the winners in a ranked order. Much of what’s been discussed this year made it onto their various lists. The big surprises are Reese Witherspoon’s Best Actress win for Wild, Alfred Molina making it into Best Supporting…
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Precursor: 20th Broadcast Critics Nominations (2014)
The Broadcast Film Critics Association has announced their annual list of the best of 2014. There aren’t a lot of glaring omissions. The group lists 6 nominees in many categories, which enable them to include a lot of different Oscar contenders. This is the second big group to ignore Laura Dern for Wild. Steve Carell…
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Precursor: 48th Kansas City Critics Awards (2014)
Another dynamic shift in the awards race as Birdman seems to be picking up steam while Boyhood continues to win Best Director prizes and awards for Patricia Arquette. Nothing else particularly inspired here. Award Tallies (4) Birdman (2) Boyhood The Awards Best Picture Birdman Best Animated Feature
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2014 Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 3
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). This week will be the final week for film critics to announce their nominees and most of the…
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Precursor: 19th San Diego Critics Nominations (2014)
The two films that have been duking it out for top honors from critics, Boyhood and Birdman have surprisingly taken a back seat to three other films in the nominations tally here. Nightcrawler is the surprising top nominee with nine mentions followed by Gone Girl and The Grand Budapest Hotel. There are some interesting selections…
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Precursor: 8th Detroit Critics Nominations (2014)
The critics groups seem to be homogenizing around the same handful of potential nominees. A few new selections here than we’ve previously seen: Scarlett Johansson for her performance in Under the Skin, Rene Russo for Nightcrawler and Guardians of the Galaxy for Best Ensemble. Nominations Tallies (7) Birdman (6) Boyhood (5) Whiplash (4) The Grand…
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Precursor: 27th Chicago Critics Nominations (2014)
Leading the pack of the Chicago Film Critics Association’s 2014 awards list, Birdman continues to receive lot of attention from critics as do The Grand Budapest Hotel, Boyhood and Whiplash. Interstellar was much better represented with this group, as was Under the Skin and Wild. Nominations Tallies (9) Birdman (8) The Grand Budapest Hotel (7)…
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Precursor: 72nd Golden Globe Nominations (2014)
The film many talked about as being the year’s awards juggernaut has fallen. Unbroken, which screened late (but not as late as Selma, is completely shut out of the Golden Globe nominations. If they won’t support Angelina Jolie, then the film probably has little hope. It might still crop up from the Broadcast Critics, but…
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Precursor: 21st Screen Actors Guild Nominations (2014)
The nominations have been announced. Rumors that the SAG nominations committee didn’t get to see Selma in time are proven true with the film completely shut out. The last-minute push for Jennifer Aniston paid off, but her nomination will very likely be replaced at the Oscars. The big surprises here are Naomi Watts’ out-of-nowhere nomination…
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Precursor: 14th Phoenix Critics Nominations (2014)
One of the film critic groups that seems to most closely mirror Academy tastes, Phoenix Film Critics have selected a varied, but mainstream group of selections. It’s clear they didn’t get to screen Selma in time or I would suspect it to get a lot more love than this. At least they had the good…
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Precursor: 18th Online Critics Nominations (2014)
In spite of a recent turn towards prescient Oscar prognosticator, the OFCS has gone off the beaten path selecting a large number of films and performances that aren’t likely to translate into Oscar nominees. They are, if nothing else, striking out in a different direction than most other critics groups this year (so far). Nominations…
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Precursor: 14th American Film Institute (2014)
The ten best American-made films for 2014 have been announced. Nothing terribly earth shattering on this list. It’s too bad that Interstellar is the lone blockbuster on this list when there were many better blockbusters this year. Best American Films American Sniper Birdman Boyhood Foxcatcher The Imitation Game Interstellar Into the Woods Nightcrawler Selma Unbroken…
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Precursor: 13th DC Critics Awards (2014)
Another win for Boyhood and better overall support for Birdman. The only striking thing about these awards is how much in sync they are with the general consensus. There are no truly off-the-wall selections. Award Tallies (5) Birdman (4) Boyhood The Awards Best Film Boyhood
