Category: Precursors

Below are the nominees for this year’s Directors Guild of America awards. The Nominations Best Director Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan David Fincher – The Social Network Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech Christopher Nolan – Inception David O. Russell – The Fighter

Below are the nominations for the 9th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards. Nomination Tallies (4) Inception (3) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, How to Train Your Dragon, Iron Man 2, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, TRON Legacy (2) Alice in Wonderland, Hereafter, Shrek Forever After, Tangled, Toy Story 3…

Below are the nominees for the National Society of Film Critics awards. This is the last of the Grand Old Precursors to announce. Note that these are ranked in order of the votes each nominee received. The number of votes is listed in parentheses. Awards Tallies (4) The Social Network The Awards Best Picture The…

Below are the nominees for the USC Scripter award. This precursor is a minor precursor of the Adapted Screenplay category, but is mostly limited to literary adaptations (with a few minor exceptions over the years). These awards are given not only to the screenwriter but also to the source material author. The Nominations Best Adapted…

Below are the nominees for the Cinema Audio Society. This precursor is used to predict the Sound Mixing category nominees. The Nominations Best Sound Mixing Black Swan Inception Shutter Island The Social Network True Grit

Below are the nominees for the Art Directors Guild. This precursor is used to predict the Art Direction category nominees. The Nominations Best Art Direction (Period) The King’s Speech Get Low Robin Hood Shutter Island True Grit Best Art Direction (Fantasy) Alice in Wonderland The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Harry…

Below are the nominees for the Writers Guild of America. This precursor is used to predict the Original and Adapted Screenplay category nominees. This group often has the most controversy surrounding its omissions. The WGA rules prohibit films from being nominated if they are not guild signatories. Therefor films like this year’s Toy Story 3,…

Below are the nominees for the Producers Guild of America. This precursor is used to primarily predict the Best Picture category nominees. It can also be used to help predict Best Animated Feature and Best Documentary, but with less accuracy considering the eligible film pools are different. The Documentary nominees were announced previously, but are…

Here are the winners for the 2010 OFCS Awards. Award Tallies (3) The Social Network (2) Inception, True Grit The Awards Best Picture The Social Network Best Animated Feature Toy Story 3 Best Director David Fincher – The Social Network

Here are the nominees for the 2010 OFCS Awards. The winners are to be announced January 3. Nomination Tallies (7) Black Swan (6) True Grit (5) 127 Hours, Inception, The Social Network (4) Winter’s Bone (3) The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The King’s Speech The Nominations Best Picture Black Swan Inception The Social…

I have been remiss in posting all of the precursors I’ve heard of in the last couple of weeks, so I thought I would clean up several groups that I missed (of course, you could have probably learned that just from looking at the number of posts I made this morning). Also, in the sidebar…

Here are the nominees and winners for the Utah Film Critics awards. Awards Tallies (3) The Social Network Nomination Tallies (6) True Grit (5) The Social Network (4) 127 Hours, Inception (3) Black Swan, The Fighter, Winter’s Bone The Awards Best Picture 127 Hours Inception The Social Network Toy Story 3 True Grit

Now for the winners of the 2010 St. Louis Film Critics Awards. Awards Tallies (4) The Social Network (2) The Fighter, Inception, Micmacs The Awards Best Picture The Social Network (RU: The King’s Speech) Best Animated Feature Toy Story 3 (RU: How to Train Your Dragon)

Here are the winners for the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle awards for 2010. Awards Tallies (4) The Social Network (2) Black Swan The Awards Best Film The Social Network Inception Black Swan The Fighter Winter’s Bone True Grit The King’s Speech Toy Story 3 The Kids Are All Right 127 Hours

Here are the 2010 winners of the Las Vegas Film Critics Society. Awards Tallies (4) The Social Network (3) Inception, Toy Story 3 (2) Black Swan, The Fighter The Awards Best Picture The Social Network Best Animated Feature Toy Story 3