Category: Precursors

  • Precursor: American Cinema Editors

    Below are the winners of this year’s American Cinema Editors Awards. AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS Best Editing, Drama> The Social Network (RU:Wesley, Peter, Wes) Best Editing, Comedy/Musical Alice in Wonderland Best Editing, Animated Toy Story 3 (Wesley, Peter)

  • Precursor Predictions: CAS, ACE & MPSE

    This weekend, three of the last four guilds to announce winners will finally make their picks known. Starting things off on Saturday are the Cinema Audio Society, which honors the best in Sound Mixing, and the American Cinema Editors, which recognize the best in Editing. Following those on Sunday are the awards from the Motion…

  • Precursor: American Society of Cinematographers (CORRECTED)

    While attempting to find the winner of the American Society of Cinematographers award, I had incorrectly found an update that showed Roger Deakins having won for True Grit. I didn’t see the result where I should have and posted before I could verify. My apologies to anyone who took Deakins’ win as truth based on…

  • Precursor: British Academy Awards

    The winners for this year’s British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) awards have been announced. Here they are. Awards Tallies (7) The King’s Speech (3) Inception, The Social Network (2) Alice in Wonderland The Awards Best Film The King’s Speech (Wesley, RU:Peter)

  • Precursor Predictions: British Academy Awards

    Today, we’ll cast our crystal balls at the British Academy Awards and hope they don’t shatter. Here are our predictions for today’s awards. The Awards Best Film Black Swan Inception The King’s Speech (Wesley, RU:Peter) The Social Network (RU:Wesley, Peter) True Grit

  • Precursor: OFTA Film Awards

    The Online Film & Television Association has announced the winners for its 15th Annual Film Awards. Below are the results. Awards Tallies (7) Inception, The Social Network (3) Easy A (2) Black Swan, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, Toy Story 3, True Grit The Awards Best Picture The Social Network

  • Precursor Predictions: ASC

    This weekend gives us two precursors, but only one we’ll be prediction. Both are on Sunday. The one we’re taking some shots at picking winners is the American Society of Cinematographers. The other, the Online Film & Television Association’s Film Awards, is not a group we would feel comfortable prediction. Reason 1) all of the…

  • Precursor: Annie Awards

    It’s not often I get a perfect score in predicting, but the Annie Awards went precisely as I expected. No love for Toy Story 3 and a ton of awards for How to Train Your Dragon. It was a clean sweep (in that How to Train Your Dragon won every category in which it was…

  • Precursor: Art Directors Guild Awards

    No unpredictability here. The Art Directors Guild has managed to reinforce most of what we were thinking with this year’s awards, seen below. The Awards Best Period Art Direction The King’s Speech (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Wes) Best Fantasy Art Direction Inception (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Wes) Best Contemporary Art Direction Black Swan (RU:Wesley, RU:Peter, Tripp, Wes)

  • Precursor: Writers Guild of America Awards

    The winners for this year’s Writers Guild of America awards have been announced with something of a surprise in the Original Screenplay category, but expectations met in the other categories. Here are the winners. The Awards Best Original Screenplay Inception (No one) Best Adapted Screenplay The Social Network (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Wes) Best Documentary Screenplay…

  • Precursor: USC Scripter Award

    Below is the winner of the USC Scripter Award announced this evening. The Award Best Adapted Screenplay Ben Mesrich (author) & Aaron Sorkin (screenwriter) – The Social Network

  • Precursor Predictions: WGA, Annie, Scripter & ADG

    Tonight and Saturday night, four precursors will be revealing their winners. Two guilds, one professional organization and one collegiate group. Starting things off tonight (Friday), the University of Southern California will reveal the winners of its annual Scripter award, a prize given to the best screenplay adapted from a literary source. The prize goes not…

  • Precursor: Visual Effects Society Awards

    Below are the winners of the 9th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards. Our predictions are also included. Although not everyone voted in every category, I did pretty well picking the winners in all categories except 3 and in those categories I had the winner listed as a runner-up, so I feel pretty good about that.…

  • What Does It Mean? The Guild Hat Trick

    If you haven’t been hearing about it yet, you soon will be. The PGA, DGA and SAG awards form an interesting trifecta of guild awards. The Producers Guild gives out an award for Best Picture, the Directors Guild gives out a prize for Best Director and the Screen Actors Guild give out a trophy for…

  • Precursor: Screen Actors Guild Awards

    The Screen Actors Guild presents its annual awards tonight, live on TNT at 8pm ET, 7pm CT, 6pm MT & 5p ET. I’ll be covering tonight’s awards precisely as I did the BFCA and Globe awards. So, stay tuned to Twitter for my immediate responses and here for the full wrap-ups. (Updated: The final awards…

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