Category: Precursors

Pedro Almodovar’s Oscar nominee Pain and Glory topped this year’s Goya Awards with seven awards, including Best Film while While at War came in second with a strong 5, largely from creative categories. Award Tallies (7) Pain and Glory (5) While at War (2) The Endless Trench, Fire Will Come, Out in the Open The…

Another expected outcome for the evening, Little Women earned Greta Gerwig the award from USC Scripter, paving her way towards a likely Oscar win. Taking the WGA would likely lock that in. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Little Women (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) USC Scripter Data Year Founded: 1988 First Awards: 1987 (33)

While the Annie Awards were busy shaking the season up, the Cinema Audio Society and others were locking it all down. Ford v Ferrari won an expected award from the CAS. Whether or not this transfers to the Oscars remains to be seen as the film’s strongest competition wasn’t nominated here. The Awards Best Sound…

Peaking at just the right moment, Sam Mendes’ 1917 takes the prize from the DGA, making it even more likely that the Academy will go the same direction. There’s still the possibility that Parasite can overcome, but since no foreign language film has ever done it, it would be quite surprising if that trend were…

Probably the most expected result of the night, Roger Deakins wins yet another prize from ASC for his work on 1917. Although ASC doesn’t match the Oscars much, this should be one more time that it does. The Awards Best Cinematography 1917 (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Spotlight Award The Lighthouse (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Documentary…

Like the Annies once treated DreamWorks, they now treat Netflix, adorning them with all but two prizes for the evening with Klaus a huge winner. This won’t likely have an impact on the Oscars. It would not be unheard of for studios to lavish fancy promotional materials on the various voters to earn their love.…

Although it was Russia’s entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and was ultimately not nominated, Beanpole managed to go home with a single award for Best Actress with Odessa, Text, and T-34 splitting most of the other awards. Award Tallies (4) Odessa, Text (3) T-34 (2) The Conquest of Siberia The…

Parasite picks up another award, as do several others in one of the last critics groups to give out prizes this year. Nominations Tallies (5) Parasite (4) 1917 (2) Avengers: Endgame The Nominations

The Motion Picture Sound Editors did nothing but eliminate Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood going for 1917, Ford v Ferrari, and Parasite for three of their prominent winners. The only genuine surprise was Echo in the Canyon in their documentary category. This likely helped 1917 the most. The Awards

If the main acting awards were lacking in surprise, the voters at SAG made up for it with the win of Parasite for best cast. When they presented their film as one of the nominees, it became clear that the film was well loved among actors and was probably going to win. Now, it looks…

The OFTA released a set of nominees that looks like a lot of other lists. It also looks like a list that corrected some notable errors that the Academy made in their nominations last week. Award Tallies (14) Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Parasite (12) 1917 (11) Little Women (9) The Irishman (8) Jojo…

With the first of the big three awards going to 1917, the film solidifies its frontrunner status. Although it cannot win the Screen Actors Guild Award because it isn’t nominated, it has the best shot of winning Best Picture of any film this year. The Awards Best Picture 1917 (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Animated…

Suggesting that a foreign language film could actually be popular enough to win Best Picture, the American Cinema Editors picked Parasite as the best edited drama with Jojo Rabbit its comedy counterpart. The Awards Best Drama Editing Parasite (RU:Wesley, RU:Peter) Best Comedy/Musical Editing Jojo Rabbit (Tripp, Thomas, RU:Wesley) Best Animation Editing Toy Story 4 (Peter,…

Not only do I have no idea when these were announced, I have no idea who the winners were in two categories. These come courtesy of the IMDB page for this awards body. Neither the group’s Twitter nor Facebook page have been updated since July. I’m posting today, though who knows for sure when they…