Category: Precursors
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 11
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). Nothing happened last week…unless you count the actual nominations, which is what we’re here for. Let’s see how…
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Precursor: 37th Spirit Award Grant Winners (2021)
Film Independent always announces its grant winners prior to the awards. Below are the winners. The Awards Producers Award Lizzie Shapiro Someone to Watch Award Alex Camilleri Truer Than Fiction Award Jessica Beshir Spirit Awards Data First Awards: 1985 (36)
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94th Oscar Nominations
And here we have the Oscar nominations for the best films of 2021. There were many surprises, some of them good, some of them great, some of them not so good. The Power of the Dog came out the big winner, surprisingly topping even Dune. Those Production Design and Sound nominations announcement early told us…
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Precursor: 42nd Golden Raspberry Nominations (2021)
A little more irrelevant than usual, considering their selection of several films no one has probably heard of. Picking on a filmed stage musical is the lowest of the low-hanging fruit. Not sure what the point of that is. The most interesting thing about this list is that two actors who have won awards this…
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 10
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). It’s a quiet week with only the Oscar nominations as a major event. But, before we get into…
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Precursor: 42nd London Critics Awards (2021)
One of the last critics groups to announce, London has gone all-in on The Power of the Dog as well, giving it four of its top awards. Awards Tallies (4) The Power of the Dog (2) Drive My Car, Passing, The Souvenir Part II The Awards
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Precursor: 26th Online Film & Television Nominations (2021)
The OFTA released a set of nominees that looks like a lot of other lists. There are some notable surprises along the way, but mostly Nominations we’ve seen regularly before. Dune, West Side Story, and CODA had a huge day. The Power of the Dog, Mass, tick, tick…BOOM!, and Spencer had a solid day. Meanwhile,…
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Precursor: 24th Film Music Critics Nominations (2021)
If you ever want to know how weird their eligibility rules are, just consider that Coppelia was never released to theaters in the US. Anyway, not much to see here as their correlation to the Oscars is mediocre at best. Nominations Tallies (3) Coppelia (2) Buckley’s Chance, Dune, The Green Knight, Jungle Cruise, The Last…
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Precursor: 63rd British Academy Nominations (2021)
It must first be noted that British films often perform much better with this group than they do with the Academy. This allows the 5 nominations for No Time to Die and 4 for After Love and Boiling Point to be disregarded. What’s most noticeable is the absence of Spencer, which really should have been…
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Precursor: 63rd BAFTA Rising Star Nominations (2021)
Last year’s group was largely unknown, but this year, there’s two potential Oscar nominees in the bunch and one person who’s been in several movies already, so it’s a much more familiar group. The Nominations Rising Star Award Ariana DeBose Harris Dickinson Lashana Lynch Millicent Simmonds Kodi Smit-McPhee British Academy of Film & Television Arts…
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Precursor: 38th Casting Society Nominations (2021)
These finally announced and there’s not much to say about the list. It’s pretty straight forward with few major contenders ignored. The Nominations
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 9
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 week with all of the guilds announcing nominations (except the Screen Actors Guild who already had), it’s…
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94th Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – February
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: 15th Women Journalists Awards (2021)
Not much to say about these since they went largely as most of the season has gone. Nominations Tallies (11) The Power of the Dog (2) Encanto The Awards
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Precursor: 74th Directors Guild Nominations (2021)
While the Best Director slate isn’t as diverse as it has been in the past, we have four nominees we expected to see there with Paul Thomas Anderson rounding out the list. This is exactly my current five predictions for that category, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see it copied by the Academy. The…
