Category: Precursors
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93rd Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – July
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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93rd Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – June
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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93rd Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – May
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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93rd Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – April
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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Precursor: 73rd Bodil Awards (2019)
Not all information is available for these awards. These are the pieces of information I’ve been able to collect so far. Award Tallies (3) Queen of Hearts The Awards Best Danish Film Queen of Hearts Best Actor Jesper Christensen – For frosten Best Actress Trine Dyrholm – Queen of Hearts Best Supporting Actor Gustav Lindh…
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Precursor: 45th Cesar Awards (2019)
In spite of a rather pointed protest over Roman Polanski’s Best Directing win, the big winner of the night was not his film An Officer and a Spy, even though it took three awards, it was Best Picture winner Les Misérables, which took five. Award Tallies (5) Les Miserables (3) La Belle Epoque, An Officer…
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93rd Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – March
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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Precursor: 51st NAACP Image Awards (2019)
In spite of Harriet being among the Oscar nominees, Just Mercy, which was only loosely in the Oscar conversation this year outperformed every other film that had gotten more buzz to take a majority of the prizes. Award Tallies (4) Just Mercy (2) Little, Us The Nominations
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Precursor: 22nd Film Music Critics Awards (2019)
The Academy gave the award to the composer of Joker. That composer instead won here for Chernobyl. Instead, celebrated composer John Williams took home three prizes for his Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker score. This group was more likely to recognize Williams for his last Star Wars score ever than the Academy was. That…
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Precursor: 65th David di Dontello Awards (2020)
This organization selects only Italian productions, thus is no general precursor to the Oscars. Award Tallies (18) The Traitor (15) The First King, Pinocchio (11) Martin Eden (9) 5 Is the Perfect Number (6) Suspiria (4) Bangla, The Dea Fortuna, The Mayor of Rita Sanita (3) Memories?, The Paranza of Children The Awards
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Precursor: 8th Canadian Screen Awards Nominations (2020)
This organization selects only Canadian productions, thus is no general precursor to the Oscars. Award Tallies (9) The Song of Names (8) The Twentieth Century (7) Antigone (6) The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (5) And the Birds Rained Down, Goalie, Riot Girls (4) American Woman, Anne at 13,000 ft., Disappearance at Clifton…
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Precursor: 65th Filmfare Nominations & Awards (2019)
Not much to go on here since no American films are on the list and no Oscar contenders are, either. Award Tallies (13) Gully Boy (3) Article 15, Uri: The Surgical Strike, War (2) Kalank, Saand Ki Aankh, Sonchiriya, Tindey Nominations Tallies (19) Gully Boy (11) Article 15, Sonchiriya, Uri: The Surgical Strike (8) Kabir…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 11
Precursor season officially came to an end on Saturday night when the Film Independent Spirit Awards were handed out. Sunday night was the Oscars, meaning that most of what came in the week before was forgotten by this morning. As such, this article will be focused on which films came out of the precursors helped…
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Precursor: 35th Spirit Awards (2019)
Showcasing that Marriage Story has utterly collapsed since its release, the film failed to win Best Picture, losing to The Farewell, one of the cusp films in the Best Picture race at the Oscars. Elsewhere, it was mostly Oscar nominees taking the awards with only one other huge surprise in the supporting female category where…
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Precursor: 40th Golden Raspberry Nominations (2019)
Some expected selections and some unexpected selections. Joker is now both a Razzie nominee and an Oscar nominee while John Travolta continues to be the favorite punching bag for the group. Award Tallies (8) Cats, A Madea Family Funeral, Rambo: Last Blood (5) Hellboy (4) The Fanatic, The Haunting of Sharon Tate (3) Zeroville The…
