Category: Precursors

The 2020 film slate was dominated by Netflix, which was already stingy on their theatrical releases, yet they were largely ignored by the first major film critics organization to announce. Boston selected only three of their films to recognize. Mank was left out of all but one runner-up citation while Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom secured…

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…

If there was a time when the Grammys were relevant as an Oscar prognostiscator, I cannot think of when. They have an asynchronous eligibility period where fall releases for one year show up in the nominations the following year. That is particularly true of this year’s slate. eleven films out of nineteen nominations were released…

Another separate awards shows. How many of these are they going to have? The only reason I even decided to cover this was that one of the main Oscar categories, Best Animated Feature, was moved to these awards rather than their flagship awards. Nothing really to see here other than you can tell that they…

Dick Johnson Is Dead seems to be well regarded, as are many of the other winners on this list. We’ll see how the Academy feels next year. Awards Tallies (2) Dick Johnson Is Dead, My Octopus Teacher The Awards

Releasing weeks before the normal start of Oscar precursor season, the Gotham Awards have announced their nominations this year and there’s a lot of films here that haven’t been getting a lot of chatter, but could get a small boost from this. First Cow was the most nominated with three followed by a sextet of…

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…

There isn’t much to say about these. Some major documentaries of the past year didn’t make the list, including All-In. Crip Camp was best liked, but John Lewis: Good Trouble was the most obvious nominated documentary missing from the top category. Nominations Tallies (6) Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (5) Athlete A, Dick Johnson Is…

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…

Once again, we have no certainty that any of these awards or nominations will take place as anticipated. 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…