Category: Precursors
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, FINAL
It’s the end of Oscar season and the awards have all been handed out. There isn’t much left to do, but analyze just how accurate the precursors were. Here are the big winners & losers. This looks at only their winner selections. Comparing nominees to the Oscars would be far more challenging and time consuming.…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 14
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). It’s over. Now, it’s time to look at who won and who lost at the precursors. Big Winners
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Non-Precursor: 34th Golden Raspberry Awards (2013)
The worst of the year really weren’t the worst, they were just the easiest target. That being said, these are also fun to read. Nominations Tallies (3) After Earth, Movie 43 The Nominations Worst Picture Movie 43
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Precursor: 29th Spirit Awards (2013)
The big awards all went where expected while a few of the lesser-known awards went directions we weren’t necessarily expect, but which also weren’t surprising. 12 Years a Slave dominated the awards winning five trophies, two of which may replicate at the Oscars Sunday evening. The interesting note of these results is that the four…
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Precursor: 18th Satellite Awards (2013)
Going outside the box in a number of categories, there isn’t much we can learn from the Satellite Awards. If they end up being prescient, we might revisit, but a lot of “gimme” prizes (Frozen for Animated Film and “Let It Go” for Original Song, as well as Alfonso Cuaron for Director) went elsewhere suggesting…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 13
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 is it. The Oscars are less than a week away and all of the guilds have had…
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Precursor: 16th Costume Designers Guild Awards (2013)
In a surprising twist to the Oscar season, 12 Years a Slave, which seemed like a periphery nominee for the Costume Design award has not only pulled off a victory, but has upset what has been seen by many as a two-fer for The Great Gatsby. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire win was largely expected,…
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Precursor: 21st Cinema Audio Society Awards (2013)
It was another good night for Gravity as it picked up this year’s Sound Mixing award from the Cinema Audio Society, entirely as expected. It should have little problem coasting to a win at the Oscars now. The Awards Best Sound Mixing – Live Action Gravity (Wesley, Tripp, RU:Peter) Best Sound Mixing – Animated Frozen…
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Precursor: 61st Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards (2013)
Another group spreads the love to every film imaginable. Two winners are more noteworthy than the rest. Sound Effects and Foley to Gravity and Dialogue and ADR to Captain Phillips. Essentially, these are to be the likely contenders for the Oscar with the SFX/Foley award having more impact. Award Tallies (1) Captain Phillips, Dirty Wars,…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 12
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). We’re entering the final week of precursors before the Oscars. There will be one week of nothing new,…
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Precursor: Make-Up and Hair Stylists Guild Awards (2013)
The mysterious Make-Up and Hair Stylists Guild return giving out five awards to five different films, two of which are Oscar nominees, none of which are The Lone Ranger. The Period and/or Character Make-up and Special Make-Up Effects awards are probably the most key to understanding Oscar and both were won by Oscar nominees. Award…
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Precursor: 55th British Academy Awards (2013)
I never found a live stream of the BAFTA awards, so I had to get this information from the Variety live blog. As the “evening” progressed, 12 Years a Slave seemed like it was going down to defeat, losing Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. It held on to win Best…
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Precursor: 12th Visual Effects Society Awards (2013)
To no one’s surprise, Gravity was the evening’s big winners. Below are the winners for last night’s awards (had to go to bed early because of work). In the end, the two coldest entries carried away ten of the twelve awards. The only category Gravity lost was the Animated Character category, which it lost as…
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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). Less than a month left before the Oscars and the precursors are still trickling in. This week, we…
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Precursor: 18th Online Film & TV Association Awards (2013)
The Online Film & Television Association presented their 18th awards this year, giving Best Picture and a large number of top tier categories (including three acting prizes) to 12 Years a Slave. Gravity topped 12 Years a Slave‘s 7 awards with 9, including Best Director for Alfonso Cuaron. Together, the two films claimed 16 awards,…
