Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 16th Art Directors Guild Awards (2011)
The Art Directors Guild awards have been announced and the expected winners took home prizes led by likely Oscar winner Hugo. In spite of it taking home a special achievement award, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 was also named Best Fantasy Art Direction, which was further notable considering this was the franchise’s…
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Precursor: 20th Annie Awards (2011)
The winners for the 20th Annual Annie Awards have been revealed in a live-streamed telecast that suffered lag issues towards the end, but was genuinely more funny than a lot of other awards shows out there. Rango took the prize for Best Animated Feature, which should give it a leg up for the Oscars. It…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 9
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”. Today, we look back at the results of the New York…
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18th Screen Actors Guild Awards (2011)
The SAG Awards are often reflective of the larger body of popular opinion, but not necessarily of Oscar predilections. Just looking at the statistics at the bottom of the page, you can see the only perfect correlation comes from Best Actor, a category that isn’t likely to repeat for them this year. Matter of fact,…
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64th Directors Guild of America Awards (2011)
And tonight, as I expected, the race for Best Picture ends. The Artist won the award it needed to in order to become the key juggernaut of the season. We now have both Best Director and Best Picture at the Oscars sewn up…tomorrow’s SAG awards will still leave some mystery, but we might have a…
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84th Academy Awards Nominations (2011)
The nominations have been announced. I’m still looking for the remaining nominations, but here are my initial thoughts on the currently available list: Extremely Loud managed to hang on long enough to earn a Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor nomination, but didn’t make it in Best Director. Other shocks: The Tree of Life held…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8
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”. Today, we look back at the results of the New York…
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Precursor: 16th Online Film & Television Assoc. Nominations (2011)
In the sea of Oscar prognosticators masquerading as critics groups, the one group I would have expected to be more in line with the current Oscar dialogue was the Online Film & Television Association which has positioned itself as one of the prime prognosticators in the precursor field. So, imagine how refreshing it was to…
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Precursor: 23rd Producers Guild of America Awards (2011)
Last night, the Producers Guild of America announced their award winners pushing Oscar season into a new tone with the first guild awards of the year. When commercially successful films like The Help and Bridesmaids lose out to a commercially unsuccessful film like The Artist, the race is pretty much over. Although the DGA will…
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Precursor Predictions: Producers Guild of America (2011)
Saturday evening, the Producers Guild of America kick off the Guild Awards season with the first awards presentation. While they have a checkered past, there’s no denying they have a strong history of decent predictive capabilities. Here are our fearless predictions on who we think will take home the awards. (NOTE: Normally, I post my…
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Precursor: 59th Motion Picture Sound Editors Nominations (2011)
In all but one of the last four years, the 5 nominees for Sound Editing came from this slate of nominees (the Sound Effects/Foley and Dialogue/ADR categories in specific with an odd pickup from the Animation list in the years Pixar did well). So, you can expect no other nominees than what are here. With…
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Precursor: 32nd London Film Critics Circle Awards (2011)
The French and English made strong showings at the London Critics awards with The Artist and several British stars claiming prizes or even American stars playing British characters. The only real surprises were Sareh Bayat for Best Supporting Actress and the tie between Meryl Streep and Anna Paquin. The rest of the choices fit the…
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Precursor: 14th Costume Designers Guild Nominations (2011)
Leave it to the Costume Designers Guild to throw a wrench in the works. I fully expected most of these nominees, but the exclusion of Anonymous which would usually be catnip for these guys makes no appearance. Meanwhile, most of the major Oscar contenders for Best Picture are here with the exception of Moneyball and…
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Precursor: 19th Cinema Audio Society Nominations (2011)
One of the moderately accurate precursors picked several films I wouldn’t have expected. I’m glad to see Hanna on this list, but the rest could be nominated or not and I wouldn’t care (I’d prefer no Super 8, but what can you do). I’m surprised not to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo here…
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Precursor: 53rd British Academy Award Nominations (2011)
Leave it to the British Academy to throw a few curve balls into the Oscar proceedings. And by curve balls, I don’t mean Moneyball actor Jonah Hill. After three years of 5-for-5 accuracy with Best Film, the BAFTA group is flirting with a bad year. Apart from Oscar guarantees The Artist, The Descendants and The…
