Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 50th NAACP Image Awards (2018)
The top nominee also became the top winner taking home a near-sweep with eight awards. Black Panther was unsurprisingly huge and its victories here make sense even if they weren’t the best nominees in each category. Award Tallies (8) Black Panther The Awards
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 15
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). And there we have it. The 91st Academy Award are over and we’re free for nine months until…
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Precursor: 34th Spirit Awards (2018)
Finally earning its due, If Beale Street Could Talk took home every award for which it was nominated, though even the Spirit Awards didn’t nominate it everywhere it should have. Meanwhile, all the expected winners in the acting categories won. Award Tallies (3) If Beale Street Could Talk (2) Can You Ever Forgive Me? The…
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Precursor: 39th Golden Raspberry Awards (2018)
The worst of the year have been announced for the 39th Golden Raspberry awards. There aren’t any real surprises here. Plenty of digs at Holmes & Watson and Donald Trump. Award Tallies (4) Holmes & Watson (3) Fahrenheit 11/9 (2) Death of a Nation The Awards
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Precursor: 56th Publicists Guild Awards (2018)
The ICG Publists Guild doesn’t have anything remotely significant in terms of Oscar predictability and, of these films, four of them are fringe contenders that could be nominated, but definitely not all of them will. Doubtful that any of them would even win. The Awards Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Motion Picture Crazy Rich Asians Best…
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Precursor: 21st Film Music Critics Awards (2018)
Solo: A Star Wars Story was the most honored score of the year even without an Oscar nomination. The only Oscar nominee to earn an aawrd was Mary Poppins Returns in the comedy category. Award Tallies (3) Solo The Awards
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Precursor: 21st Costume Designers Guild Awards (2018)
The Oscar frontrunners are the winners here, which will make for an interesting race at the Oscars where The Favourite and Black Panther will battle it out. The former has legendary, 14-time nominee Sandy Powell while the latter has another legendary costume designer Ruth Carter, who has never won before. The Awards Best Period Costume…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 14
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). This is our penultimate week looking at the winners and losers. Next week, we’ll be looking at the…
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Precursor: 66th Sound Editors Guild Awards (2018)
A night of few surprises, A Quiet Place won the traditional effects/foley category while dialogue/ADR went to Bohemian Rhapsody. Rhapsody also picked up the musical category, but the surprise (to some, but not to those who’ve actually seen it) win was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which not only took the expected animation feature category, but…
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Precursor: 71st Writers Guild Awards (2018)
Never content to leave a race predictable. The Writers Guild of America, already with the most unusual, arcane rules of all of the guilds, went out on a limb not once, but twice. Eighth Grade beats all the odds and triumphed over Oscar-nominated scripts by familiar names. Can You Ever Forgive Me? did the same.…
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Precursor: 10th Make-Up Artists Guild Awards (2018)
Nothing terribly surprising happened with the Hollywood Make-Up and Hair Stylists Guild awards with Vice winning its two expected prizes and the other nominated Oscar nominee Mary Queen of Scots winning one. A Star Is Born and Crazy Rich Asians split the contemporary prizes. Award Tallies (2) Vice The Awards Best Period and/or Character Make-up…
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Precursor: 26th Cinema Audio Society Awards (2018)
In a shocking turn of events, the Cinema Audio Society chose Bohemian…no, that’s not the shocking part. Most people thought it was a possibility and it confirmed my Oscar suspicions. The surprise was that Isle of Dogs managed to beat Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for the animated sound mixing award. The Awards Best Sound Mixing…
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Precursor: 50th NAACP Image Awards Nominations (2018)
The NAACP Image Award, an annual recognition of films, television, music, and more that celebrate the black experience in America, have made some stellar selections with Crazy Rich Asians the only title that has no black actors in it, but all of which celebrate diversity in one way or another. It should be quite telling…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 13
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). This was the week that Oscar season took some strange, unexpected turns. But, before we get into this…
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Precursor: 61st Grammy Awards (2018)
For the first time in quite some years, the Grammy winners have an actual chance of matching or predicting the Oscar winners. Both of this year’s Oscar-corresponding categories are 2018 releases rather than releases from a prior year. Although Black Panther will likely lose to not-yet-eligible If Beale Street Could Talk, “Shallow” is currently the…
