Category: Precursors

A couple of minor surprises, but nothing out of the ordinary. Awards Tallies (4) Nomadland (3) Promising Young Woman (2) One Night in Miami, Soul, Sound of Metal The Awards

Las Vegas enjoyed Nomadland like so many other groups and didn’t go too far out on a limb. Award Tallies (4) Nomadland (3) Judas and the Black Messiah, Soul (2) The Invisible Man, Mank, Sound of Metal The Awards

Another group that loved Minari, but Phoenix’s nominations are a bit closer to the mainstream with a few oddball selections thrown in. Nominations Tallies (7) Minari (5) Mank, Nomadland (4) One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman (3) Another Round, Da 5 Bloods, Sound of Metal, Tenet The Nominations

Picking the lowest hanging fruit as usual, there’s nothing particularly compelling about this list. Nominations Tallies (6) 365 Days, Dolittle (5) Fantasy Island (4) Music (3) Hillbilly Elegy, Hubie Halloween, The Wrong Missy The Nominations

After directing, acting, and writing, the most important precursor for a Best Picture contender to have is an editing citation and there’s no organization more in tune with that than the American Cinema Editors. Of the major Best Picture Oscar contenders, the most notably absent here are The Father, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, One Night…

Unless you have a particular interest in Canadian cinema, this winner won’t really seem that important to you. The Awards Best Canadian Film Finalists (To Be Announced: March 9, 2020) Anne at 13,000 ft. Toronto Film Critics Association Data First Awards: 1997 (24)

The expected inclusion of Mank, News of the World, and Nomadland came with the unexpected inclusion of Cherry and, to a lesser extent, The Trial of the Chicago 7. The Awards Best Cinematography Cherry Mank News of the World Nomadland The Trial of the Chicago 7 Spotlight Award Dear Comrades! Swallow Two of Us Documentary…

The African American film critics spread their love primarily between late-breaking Judas and the Black Messiah and stage-to-screen adaptation One Night in Miami. Clearly, this group had no problem following the Academy’s eligibility window while their counterparts in the Black Film Critics Circle didn’t. Award Tallies (4) Judas and the Black Messiah (3) One Night…

While it’s odd that Emeraeld Fennell would show up in Best Director, but not First Feature, it seems obvious, this organization is spreading the love between several films. There are no huge surprises here, which makes this welcome sight after the confusion of BAFTA. The Awards Best Director Lee Isaac Chung – Minari Emerald Fennell…

If you had BAFTA on your BINGO card for being utterly useless this year, you may have just won all the marbles. The Mauritanian surprises with a Best Film nomination, but nothing for Directing. Meanwhile, Promising Young Woman gets in to the small Best Film slate while getting left off for directing and acting. These…

While their nominations were a bit outside the mainstream, there winners certainly were not. Awards Tallies (4) Nomadland (3) Minari The Awards

The final of the three women-only film critics organizations went in for Promising Young Woman and Never Rarely Sometimes Always more so than most other groups and even managed to give some love to the otherwise critically maligned Antebellum. Nominations Tallies (6) Promising Young Woman (4) Antebellum, Never Rarely Sometimes Always (3) Ammonite, The Invisible…

Detroit’s selections seem a bit out of the mainstream, largely ignoring films like Mank and Promising Young Woman while loving minor contenders like First Cow. Nominations Tallies (6) Minari (5) Sound of Metal, The Trial of the Chicago 7 (4) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Nomadland, One Night in Miami (3) Da 5 Bloods, First Cow…

Some of the major Oscar contenders are here while others are not. It’s not very instructive as this is a directing award, not a producing award, but we’ll see. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw – The Truffle Hunters Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed – My Octopus Teacher David France – Welcome to…

With no box office smash to take up the not-gonna-make-it slot with the PGA, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm fills that role, which might suggest it was popular enough. The rest of the films have been regular mentions in this year’s Oscar race. That’s especially true of Bes5t Animated Feature where this is the exact slate I…