Category: Precursors

A Star Is Born finally picks up another prize after a long drought. Not a lot of new here. Award Tallies (3) Roma, A Star Is Born (2) Eighth Grade The Awards

The Women Film Journalists have made their choices known with Roma coming out the big winner. Most of their selections are ones we’ve seen before, so take a look at the special awards they have that no one else does. Award Tallies (5) Roma (4) The Favourite (3) Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Awards

The surprise omission here is Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald didn’t make the list. Colette might have snuck in with a citation here, but ultimately, you can take the ten nominees in Fantasy and Period and distill those down to five to find the Oscar nominations with a slight favor towards period over fantasy.…

The Hollywood Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild is one of the few guilds who have categories that can feature multiple nominees. Usually, if you see a film appear in three categories, they are a major player for the Oscar. There are none of those this year. Instead, we have seven films with two citations…

It’s not surprising that British productions have an advantage here. Of the six films nominated in Best British Film, three of them did far better here than either any other film or than expected. The Favourite was the nominations leader, even without the British Film citation. It made it into every conceivable category. Bohemian Rhapsody…

There’s not much to say here as neither the nominees nor the winner are important to the Oscar race itself. The Awards Best Canadian Film ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch Toronto Film Critics Association Data First Awards: 1997 (22)

Another list of winners that won’t have a huge impact on the Oscars, Edge of the Knife wins the Vancouver Critics prize while Toronto winner ANTHROPOCENE takes the documentary prize here. Award Tallies (4) Edge of the Knife (2) Roads in February, When the Storm Fades The Awards

When even the LGBTQ film critics can take a path not unlike every other group, you know things have settled into a pattern. Award Tallies (3) The Favourite (2) Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Awards

There weren’t a lot of surprises from the Cinema Audio Society with its selections mirroring a lot of conventional wisdom. The lone exception to that is the massive production of Mary Poppins Returns, which I had thought was a shoe-in here. Instead, the late-breaking support for Bohemian Rhapsody appears to have pushed it ahead of…

While it’s great to see Spike Lee nominated, the exclusion of the likes of Barry Jenkins and Yorgos Lanthimos is everely disappointing. Also disappointing is that Ari Aster wasn’t nominated for Best First Feature. The Nominations Best Director BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee Green Book – Peter Farrelly Roma – Alfonso Cuaron A Star Is Born…

The Georgia film critics announced their nominations and apart from a lack of love for Vice, they have mainly stuck with the current wisdom on the awards race. The Won’t You Be My Neighbor? citation in Best Picture is a first. If Beale Street Could Talk continues to do better with critics than with the…

For a film that’s not nominated for their Best Film award, the Denver film critics sure loved Black Panther, giving it a nomination-topping 7 citations, including Best Director. Just below that is The Favourite, which did land a Best Film nomination. These selections are a smattering of expected and not-quite-expected, but not unexpected choices. Nominations…

Once again If Beale Street Could Talk is proving to be anathema to the guilds with its failure to place in the cinematography category over the less well received lensings of First Man, The Favourite, and A Star Is Born. A disappointing development. The Nominations Best Cinematography Cold War The Favourite First Man Roma A…

As a prelude to their bigger announcement of Best Feature and First Feature categories, they have announced their choices for best directed documentaries. These five titles have gotten consistent recognition, so there are no real surprises. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Free Solo Hale County This Morning, This Evening RBG Three Identical Strangers Won’t You…