Category: Precursors

The first top prize The Irishman has taken in some time comes courtesy of the North Texas film critics who list their winner and runners-up in order of the number of votes they received. A lot of what we’ve come to expect about this year’s race is reflected here. Award Tallies (2) 1917 The Awards

The second of two Canadian critics groups to hand out prizes for the year, Vancouver has gone in the same direction as many others. Marriage Story takes the most prizes, but Parasite takes the big award. Since Vancouver and Toronto critics get the same kind of releases that American audiences do, it stands to reason…

Corresponding most frequently to the Sound Editing Oscar, the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel nominations have been announced. Joker and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood were the top nominees pulling three while several others picked up two nominations apiece. The category to watch is the Sound Effects/Foley one with the occasional dip into…

Another regional critics group, another list of similar-looking winners. Award Tallies (3) Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2) The Irishman, Knives Out, Uncut Gems The Awards

One of the last of the Elder Statesmen of film critics organizations has also awarded 1917 with its top prize making it two wins in one day. Is the film finally peaking at the right moment to go all the way to the Oscars, we’ll see. Award Tallies (2) 1917, Us The Awards

With only eighteen members in the St. Louis Film Critics Association, ties tended to come up quite frequently (not as bad as the 4 Hawaii film critics, though) and they also made no bones about how much they love Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, which nearly swept the group’s prizes with nine awards. 1917…

Boston, one of the elder statesmen of film critics groups is the first to recognize Little Women as Best Picture of the year. Whether it’s enough in advance of the Oscars to keep it in contention. Award Tallies (4) Little Women (2) Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Parasite The Awards

With only Kansas City and National Society of Film Critics left to announce, the majority of the elder statesmen of film critics groups have announced their winners with an even split between Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, which won here and at Los Angeles, and Martin Scorsese’s slowly fading The Irishman taking the National Board of Review…

With a new mouthful of a name, the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle announced their awards for 2019 and if you were a Best Picture nominee, you got a lot of nominations. If you weren’t, you got a scant number as the five top nominees has 6 or more nominations and everything else…

The first of the two Phoenix film critics groups have selected their winners with Parasite dominating the conversation and a lot of spread-out love elsewhere. The conversation seems to have coalesced around a handful of contenders. Award Tallies (4) Parasite (2) Jojo Rabbit, Knives Out, Us The Awards

The Boston online film critics group selected their winners for 2019 and announced very early with a press release this morning. At the top of the list was Parasite, securing Best Picture, Director, and Foreign Language Film awards. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was not to be outdone with three as well giving prizes…

This is a newer film critic organization, so I don’t know how they typically make selections, but this year’s batch of nominees looks quite a bit like most of the other nomination slates so far with the exception of a more fond appreciation of Honey Boy. Nominations Tallies (7) Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood…

Vancouver film critics have a small slate of awards that recognize the best films of the year released in Canada while featuring a larger batch of nominations for Canadian-only films. With the smaller number of Canadian contenders, the top nominees are largely canadian films with The Twentieth Century topping all others with seven. Two more…

With only two films taking more than one award and one of them far outpacing the others, the Las Vegas film critics have chosen a slate of winners that looks very familiar. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was the dominant film, collecting six awards while Dolemite Is My Name was the only other multi-winner…