Category: Precursors

Announcing their nominees a day ahead of their awards, D.C. has the quickest turnaround of all of the critics organizations that have nominations. Being so centrally located, it’s probably easier to get everyone to cast votes for the winners, though the internet makes it even more simple (if everyone’s already seen the nominees). With its…

A brand new awards group (I didn’t think there were any more to make) based in Boston, mirroring the online version of the New York critics. A few new entries are included, but this is largely a carbon copy of other groups with some very interesting selections in their top ten list. Award Tallies (4)…

The challenge of using the Grammys to predict the Oscars is that the Grammy eligibility period is three months off the normal Oscar eligiblity period. That’s why you have films like The Descendants, The Muppets and The Artist (and several others) on the below list. The only Oscar eligible entries on the Grammy list this…

Another pair of trophies for Zero Dark Thirty for Best Picture and Best Director and a first for star Jessica Chastain. The awards to Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ann Dowd are the first for each this season (as was Chastain’s). The National Board of Review isn’t the best of predictors, but it’s interesting to…

Taking a lead in the race for the little followed Satellite Awards, Les Misérables scores quite well, including two nominations in Supporting Actress. This shouldn’t be considered much of a sign when you realize that Skyfall received far more nominations than anyone would expect from the Oscars and Argo and Zero Dark Thirty received far…

After becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director, Kathryn Bigelow’s follow up is hot on the Oscar trail picking up three prizes from today’s atypically concentrated New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Taking three prizes including Best Cinematography and Best Picture along with Bigelow’s prize, Zero Dark Thirty was always a…

After several years of Disney/Pixar being poorly treated by the Annie Awards, they’ve come back with a vengeance picking up 20 nominations between their two top-nominated films, tying for first place with Rise of the Guardians. With Brave and Wreck-It Ralph, it will be an interesting competition. Typically, the most nominated film picks up the…

The Producers Guild of America have announced the nominations for the first of their three film categories. Documentary nominations were announced today, and the remaining categories will be announced January 3, 2013. In looking at last year’s documentary list from the Producers Guild, it was clear that their influence over the Academy for documentaries was…

The first thing to note here is the number of big names on the list. That so many prominent actors managed to find time to do indie films (some of them questionably indie), is a showcase of how important the genre still is. Of course, there are plenty of Oscar contenders on this list, including…

This week marks the official beginning of Oscar season (tomorrow, specifically). For the next month, precursors are going to come fast and furious. We will do our best to make things as easy to follow as possible. Below is a calendar of events with several dates that are pure conjecture and others that have been…

The Razzies are doing something different this year. In previous years, they would announce their nominees the day before the Academy Award nominations and then hold their festivities the night before the Oscars. This year, they are starting a new tradition, announcing nominees on the evening before the Academy Awards and announcing winners on April…