Category: Precursors

And there you have the winners of the Screen Actors Guild awards. Few surprises filled the night with every winner becoming the odds-on favorite to win their respective categories at the Oscars. Best Cast Argo Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook Best Supporting Actor Tommy Lee Jones…

The Online Film & Television Association, an organization which I have run for the last 17 years, have announced their nominees for the achievements of 2012. The group has categories for all of the feature-length film categories at the Oscars, plus a number of categories the Academy doesn’t have. There are three new categories this…

The Producers Guild of America awards have been announced. As expected, Searching for Sugar Man took the Documentary prize while Wreck-It Ralph showed its first strength of the season with a win for Best Animated Feature (will it duplicate that feat at next week’s Annie Awards?). However, the big news here is the predictive capability…

The quirky London critics stuck mostly to previously-honored names, giving Ang Lee a rare win and recognizing mostly Oscar nominees. Award Tallies (3) Amour (2) Life of Pi, The Master The Awards Best Picture Amour

Four films lead the nominations for this year’s 60th annual Golden Reel Awards, the prizes given out by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. Typically a precursor for the Sound Editing award at the Oscars, Oscar nominee Zero Dark Thirty isn’t among the nominees while all of the thrice-nominated features except The Hobbit are included on…

As expected, all five Oscar nominees made the Costume Designers Guild list, with a double-hit from the Fantasy category. Surprisingly, there are no gerrymandered contemporary/period selections in this list, everything fitting neatly where it’s supposed to. The most interesting fight here will be between the late Eiko Ishioka’s Mirror Mirror and the beloved Colleen Atwood’s…

The USC Scripter nominees are typically fairly intriguing. This year’s batch, however is a been-there-done-that list of Oscar and WGA nominees that doesn’t really go for anything original or exotic. And apparently, they couldn’t leave anything out, nominating SIX films for the award when they typically select only five. The Nominations Best Adapted Screenplay Argo…

The winners have been announced. While a lot of tonight’s winners won’t repeat at the Oscars, it was still an entertaining show. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler had the most excellent opening, but disappeared for too long the rest of the night. Jodie Foster gave a beautiful speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award and…

The Editors have had their say and they mostly agree with the Academy. This list has no major surprises, though. The Nominations Best Drama Editing Argo Life of Pi Lincoln Skyfall Zero Dark Thirty Best Comedy/Musical Editing The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Les Misérables Moonrise Kingdom Silver Linings Playbook Ted Best Animation Editing

It may prove to be the least predictive Broadcast Critics awards in recent memory, but it proves that everything is still slightly up in the air this year. It proves that Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty aren’t as indestructible as we had been thinking and in the end, the film that picks up a slight…

I’m not sure that Anna Karenina will make it through, but the other four films seem very likely bets for nominations. The Nominations Best Cinematography Anna Karenina Les Misérables Life of Pi Lincoln Skyfall American Society of Cinematographers Data Year Founded: 1919 First Awards: 1986 (27)

The BAFTA nominations are out one day ahead of the Oscar nominations with some surprises. The awards will be handed out two weeks ahead of Oscar. The surprises include the failure of directors Tom Hooper and (!) Steven Spielberg from Best Director, Ben Affleck as Best Actor, Denzel Washington and John Hawkes NOT in Best…