Category: Precursors

The winners have been announced. Other than a couple of surprises in categories like Adapted Screenplay, Original Music, and Editing the Oscar frontrunners are either winning consistently or solidifying. Even Roma managed to pull off an unexpected win for Best Film when The Favourite was the night’s win leader with 7. Could these be the…

With the exchange of digital pixels, the Online Film & Television Association (OFTA) has made their selections for the best in film for 2018. In something of a surprise, The Favourite dominated the awards, taking home 9 non-promotional categories, including Best Picture and Best Director. A number of Oscar frontrunners were unable to impress this…

Although it will have no bearing on the Oscar outcome, the American Society of Cinematographers have deemed a director who lensed his own movie without the help of an actual cinematographer lost to an actual cinematographer. Alfson Cuaron will probably still win the Oscar because those voters don’t care if he used a member to…

In a stunning upset, the USC Libraries put themselves forward as utterly irrelevant and unworthy of attention. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Leave No Trace USC Scripter Data Year Founded: 1988 First Awards: 1987 (32)

The ever eclectic Film Music Critics Association has selected two of the Oscar nominees for Best Original Score in their primary category with all except BlacKkKlansman earning nominations in the genre categories. Award Tallies (4) Solo (3) First Man (2) Black Panther, Mary Poppins Returns, Mary Queen of Scots, Max and Me, Red Sparrow The…

Why this group decided to change their show date is beyond me. I got the information directly from their page. These results confirm the fact that, in my mind, Avengers: Infinity War is the race leader for the Best Visual Effects Oscar. Award Tallies (4) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (3) Avengers: Infinity War (2) Ready…

Spreading the love far and wide, the AARP voters went in the most expected and telling direction possible with their selection of Green Book as best film. Highlighting how old fashioned the film’s message is, it’s no surprise that a group that has often supported such halcyon glimpses of the past would support a film…

The final critics group to hand out awards for the year, the Chicago Independent Critics didn’t create a nominations list that looked like many others and their winners were a mix of conventional and unconventional selections. Award Tallies (3) Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, If Beale Street Could Talk, Roma (2) Eighth Grade, Minding the Gap The…

And nothing changes. They had an opportunity to award legendary filmmaker Spike Lee and they didn’t take it. Roma continues its strong Oscar season push and carries the award it needed more than any other. After all, the DGA prize is oftentimes more accurate than any other org in predicting both Best Directing and Best…

All of the winners have been announced, and there’s a mix of good and bad news. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse shockingly didn’t win the animation category, though ADG voters’ desire to see physical constructions might have won out. Otherwise, the two lead contenders for the Oscars won, which is a good sign for the predictability…

Although it wasn’t as big a night as other Disney/Pixar movies in the past, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won all seven awards for which it was nominated with Incredibles 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet picking up most of the rest. Award Tallies (7) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2) Incredibles 2, Mary Poppins Returns (1)…

There was some concern early in the season that The Favourite wouldn’t be able to turn its critical acclaim into an Oscar campaign. It wasn’t exactly the kind of period piece the Academy goes for. While it’s not out of the woods yet, the surprise win here over supposedly stronger Best Picture contenders Green Book…

The Casting Society of America is one of the newest groups I’ve been covering and, unfortunately, I’m not as familiar with their history as I need to be. That said, several of the categories had at least one Best Picture nominee among them and in each of those categories, that film won giving four Best…