Category: Precursors

The ACE, not known for their Oscar accuracy (even when picking 16 nominees across four categories), have made a few unusual choices (like the very dramatic My Week with Marilyn for Comedy/Musical), but few of the choices are actual surprises. With this nod, The Descendants solidifies its place in the Oscar race as it wasn’t…

The Golden Globes have now been awarded. There are some muddied waters and a lot of spread-the-word mentality. None of the award winners were especially unlikely, nor were any of them likely to give us a hint of who the Oscar winners will be. So much good this year makes for an interesting awards season,…

The Golden Globe awards will be announced tonight. I’ll be live tweeting the event and updating the winners post here on Cinema Sight. Drop by and watch the updates if you can catch them live and feel free to discuss them in the comments section or in the forums. Check out Twitter if you want…

Below are the winners of this year’s Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics’ Choice Awards. All technical achievement categories are included and most of the choices were spread evenly across many films with Drive winning Best Action Film the only really exciting choice. In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we’re giving…

A couple of nominees here have no Oscar chance, but it’s an interesting an eclectic list. And with their history, three to four nominees here will carry home Oscar nominations, which makes Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’s chances pretty good since neither Method nor Jane Eyre could compete. In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed…

A day later than their own timeline dictated, the ASC has finally announced their nominations. The big news is that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a film no one exactly saw claiming a nomination here, especially for a frist-time nominee, managed to sneak its way into this list over the likes of Oscar winner Eduardo Serra…

Just an informative piece about the TFCA choice for Best Canadian Film. Note the winner received a $15,000 prize. It’s also the Canadian entry to the Academy Awards this year. In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we’re giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first…

Apparently, these were released back in mid-December. Someone forgot to tell their website operator. As for their awards? The Descendants gets some love from one of the few groups to recognize it in other than Supporting Actress and Adapted Screenplay. The rest of the list seems fairly straight forward with Meryl Streep picking up a…

Another unoriginal slate of winners gives the Vancouver Film Critics, voting late, a place among the has-beens this awards season. Their entries for Canadian films are at least interesting and fresh. The nominations were announced almost a week ago and their awards announced yesterday, but they weren’t covered by most media outlets and I didn’t…

The big news here is that two names (Woody Allen and David Fincher) weren’t really expected to be on this list today. Yet, here they are, moving both films into surefire Best Picture contention. Steven Spielberg, Tate Taylor, Terrence Malick, Bennett Miller, Nicolas Winding Refn and to a lesser extent Stephen Daldry all took major…

The Visual Effects Society changed things up a little this year by adding a category for Virtual Cinematography, removing the Effects Animation and Short Film Visual Effects categories, and splitting the Created Environment category in two for live action and animated feature. Other than that, this looks pretty close to what I would expect from…

The National Society of Film Critics is definitely not dull. Although we’ve seen Kirsten Dunst’s name crop up a handful of time, this is the first time the film has really been showcased, winning Best Picture by 1 point. Normally, I’d say it was a rebuke of the conventional The Tree of Life wisdom, but…