Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 61st American Cinema Editors Awards (2021)
Apparently, the tennis matches were really well edited together. The Awards Best Drama Editing King Richard Best Comedy/Musical Editing tick, tick…BOOM! (RU:Wesley, RU:Tripp, RU:Thomas) Best Animation Editing Encanto (Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Documentary Editing Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Wesley, Peter, Thomas, RU:Tripp) American Cinema Editors Data Year Founded:…
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Precursor: 5th Hollywood Critics Awards (2021)
There isn’t a lot to see here. Had these been announced prior to the SAG awards as originally planned, they would have seemed oddball. The CODA choice will now be heralded as prophetic, but will it translate into an Oscar win? This group doesn’t have that level of prognosticative capability and with their slew of…
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94th 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). Online a few weeks to go. This past week, we had only a couple of precursors, but one…
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94th 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: 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021)
It’s seldom that a cast this small wins the award and while it is a Best Picture nominee, no one expects it to win Best Picture, so this is probably the highlight of their season, though these could propel Troy Kotsur to an Oscar. Awards Tallies (2) CODA (1) The Eyes of Tammy Faye, King…
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Precursor: 53rd NAACP Image Awards (2021)
Presented over several nights, the results are finally in for all of the NAACP Image Awards categories as outlined below. It’s interesting to see how Judas and the Black Messiah struggled against the tide of being big early in the year while The Harder They Fall, unimpressive in its Oscar haul this year (nothing), outperformed…
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Precursor: 35th USC Scripter Awards (2021)
An upset to say the least. Since this awards isn’t given out by the film industry, it’s unlikely to have much impact on the Oscars, but it does make one wonder if The Power of the Dog is as strong a frontrunner as we’ve been thinking they are. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay The Lost…
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Precursor: 2nd Critics Choice Super Awards Nominations (2021)
Delayed presumably due to the pandemic, this list is filled with dull selections and questionable ones (such as Zack Snyder’s director’s cut of Justice League being at all eligible). Nominations Tallies (5) Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Spider-Man: No Way Home (4) Don’t Look Up, No Time to Die, The Harder They…
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Precursor: 13th GALECA Nominations (2021)
Nothing much to see here and it’s too late to be of any value. Award Tallies (9) The Power of the Dog (5) Flee, Passing, West Side Story (4) Drive My Car, tick, tick…BOOM!, The Worst Person in the World (3) Dune, Mass, Parallel Mothers, Titane The Awards
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Precursor: 4th Latino Journalists Nominations (2021)
Outside of the support of films like Encanto and In the Heights, this group’s selections look like most of the others. Nominations Tallies (13) West Side Story (12) The Power of the Dog (10) Dune (8) Encanto (6) Nightmare Alley, tick, tick…BOOM! (4) CODA, In the Heights, No Time to Die The Nominations
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 12
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). With only two precursors this past week, there isn’t much to say. Since the Vancouver critics don’t have…
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Precursor: 22nd Vancouver Critics Canadian Nominations (2021)
The Canadian list always seems to come down to the same titles over and over again. They don’t have the output of the US, so that’s not surprising, but almost none of these films made any crossover appeal. Nominations Tallies (7) Night Raiders (5) All My Puny Sorrows, Scarborough (3) Be Still, The White Fortress…
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Precursor: 22nd Vancouver Critics Nominations (2021)
Vancouver is really late the game and their selections just aren’t that interesting as a result. They make odd choices and The Power of the Dog takes the most nominations, but doesn’t get in for either actor or screenplay, two of the odder choices. The Canadian film nominations haven’t been announced and I have no…
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Precursor: 13th Make-Up Artists Guild Awards (2021)
Leave it to the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild voters to do something unexpected. They went hard for Coming 2 America while leaving Dune in the dust and even went so far as to go left-field with their period hair styling award. Awards Tallies (3) Coming 2 America The Awards
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Precursor: 24th Film Music Critics Awards (2021)
If a group wanted to make a case for its own irrelevancy, this kis the kind of slate they would honor. When they weren’t falling all over themselves to honor Disney movies, they were going for obscure titles that most people haven’t even heard of. Awards Tallies (2) Coppelia The Awards
