Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards (2013)
Welcome to the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. I will be posting the winners live as they are announced. Below are the nominations in categories that have not yet been announced. The Award Tallies section will be updated as the night progresses. In addition, our contributors’ predictions are included and will remain part of…
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Precursor: 19th Broadcast Film Critics Awards (2013)
Welcome to the 19th Annual Broadcast Film Critics Awards. I will be posting the winners live as they are announced. Below are the nominations in categories that have not yet been announced. The Award Tallies section will be updated as the night progresses. In addition, our contributors’ predictions are included and will remain part of…
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Precursor: Make-Up and Hair Stylists Guild Nominations (2013)
Long ago (2003), the Hollywood Makeup & Hairstylists Guild gave out awards. From 1999 to 2003, they presented almost this exact list of categories and winners. Yet, all records after 2003 indicate that the precursor vanished. It seems like they are back and while they are interesting, without that historical information, it’s impossible to say…
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Precursor: 61st Motion Picture Sound Editors Nominations (2013)
With so many nominees, you wouldn’t think the Motion Picture Sound Editors would be that helpful in predicting the Oscars. However, they certainly are. Films that receive 3 nominations are almost assured nomination (almost). Two mentions mean they have a decent, but more limited opportunity. No nominations and you can probably count them out entirely.…
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Non-Precursor: 34th Golden Raspberry Nominations (2013)
They aren’t precursors, but they are amusing annual tradition since 1980. The Golden Raspberry Awards, known as the Razzies, are a fun glimpse into the minds of the irreverant. While they’ve rarely dug into big, important movies, they do highlight some of the worst missteps that appear each year, which includes both After Earth and…
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Precursor: 12th Visual Effects Society Nominations (2013)
The Visual Effects Society is the only real forecaster of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and most of what we’ve talked about/heard talk about is nominated today and the five listed n their “Visual Effects in an Effects-Driven Film” nominees would not surprise me to be the ones listed by the Academy. Nominations…
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Precursor: 21st Cinema Audio Society Nominations (2013)
It was a good day for Lone Survivor and Iron Man 3, but a not-so-good day for every other blockbuster out there. Gravity and Iron Man 3 were fairly certain, as has Lone Survivor become, but Inside Llewyn Davis and Captain Phillips weren’t guarantees. Llewyn‘s appearance is a continuing trend for the soundscapes the Coens…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 7
As the precursor awards continue unabated through the month of December, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (this will be in place of my prior weekly article “Oscar Preview”. Most of the major guilds announced this past week, so there’s…
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Precursor: 71st Golden Globe Awards (2013)
The Golden Globes may have shocked observers by creating one of its highest quality nomination slates in history, but they proved to be the glorified star-lovers they always have been. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams. All are big names around the globe and whether they deserved their awards or not (most of…
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Precursor: 53rd American Cinema Editors Nominations (2013)
The American Cinema Editors may predict the Oscar category of Best Editing, but a glimpse into the mind of editors can also bring some clarity to the Best Picture race. Of the ten nominees between Drama and Comedy, all of them are Oscar contenders and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see all ten…
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Precursor: 27th USC Scripter Nominations (2013)
Typically, it’s the USC Scripter nominations rather than the Writers Guild of America that become the prediction starting point for the Adapted Screenplay category. That’s because the USC doesn’t declare a field of potential nominees ineligible simply because they aren’t working a guild contract. As such, they can be a pretty decent bellwether for the…
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Precursor: 18th Art Directors Guild Nominations (2013)
The traditional period dramas are largely absent with films set during the Civil War, the 1970’s and the 1960’s largely dominant. None of the selections are particularly unusual, nor are the choices in the other categories. You could probably pull in some of the Art Direction selections from the Fantasy category and eliminate one or…
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Precursor: 17th Toronto Film Critics – Canadian Film (2013)
They present their winner selections on December 17, but only announced the nominations for their Best Canadian Film award. This announcement was made last night at their annual awards dinner. The Awards Best Canadian Film Watermark Toronto Film Critics Association Data First Awards: 1997 (17)
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Precursor: 21st Dallas-Fort Worth Area Film Critics (2013)
The Dallas-Fort Worth Critics have a unique way of announcing winners. No other group does it this way, so it’s always interesting to see. All categories are ranked in the order they were voted, not just the top ten. You get to see just how critics feel about certain films and performances this way. Of…
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Precursor: 14th Vancouver Film Critics Awards (2013)
Vancouver announced later than I expected, but they went along already-drawn routes. Oscar Isaac picks up another mention, but he may not have enough support to crack a very strong Oscar slate. Rather interesting is that other than Inside Llewyn Davis, which took two awards, no other film earned more than a single prize. At…
