Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 71st Writers Guild Awards (2018)
Never content to leave a race predictable. The Writers Guild of America, already with the most unusual, arcane rules of all of the guilds, went out on a limb not once, but twice. Eighth Grade beats all the odds and triumphed over Oscar-nominated scripts by familiar names. Can You Ever Forgive Me? did the same.…
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Precursor: 10th Make-Up Artists Guild Awards (2018)
Nothing terribly surprising happened with the Hollywood Make-Up and Hair Stylists Guild awards with Vice winning its two expected prizes and the other nominated Oscar nominee Mary Queen of Scots winning one. A Star Is Born and Crazy Rich Asians split the contemporary prizes. Award Tallies (2) Vice The Awards Best Period and/or Character Make-up…
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Precursor: 26th Cinema Audio Society Awards (2018)
In a shocking turn of events, the Cinema Audio Society chose Bohemian…no, that’s not the shocking part. Most people thought it was a possibility and it confirmed my Oscar suspicions. The surprise was that Isle of Dogs managed to beat Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for the animated sound mixing award. The Awards Best Sound Mixing…
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Precursor: 50th NAACP Image Awards Nominations (2018)
The NAACP Image Award, an annual recognition of films, television, music, and more that celebrate the black experience in America, have made some stellar selections with Crazy Rich Asians the only title that has no black actors in it, but all of which celebrate diversity in one way or another. It should be quite telling…
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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). This was the week that Oscar season took some strange, unexpected turns. But, before we get into this…
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Precursor: 61st Grammy Awards (2018)
For the first time in quite some years, the Grammy winners have an actual chance of matching or predicting the Oscar winners. Both of this year’s Oscar-corresponding categories are 2018 releases rather than releases from a prior year. Although Black Panther will likely lose to not-yet-eligible If Beale Street Could Talk, “Shallow” is currently the…
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Precursor: 60th British Academy Awards (2018)
The winners have been announced. Other than a couple of surprises in categories like Adapted Screenplay, Original Music, and Editing the Oscar frontrunners are either winning consistently or solidifying. Even Roma managed to pull off an unexpected win for Best Film when The Favourite was the night’s win leader with 7. Could these be the…
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Precursor: 23rd Online Film & Television Awards (2018)
With the exchange of digital pixels, the Online Film & Television Association (OFTA) has made their selections for the best in film for 2018. In something of a surprise, The Favourite dominated the awards, taking home 9 non-promotional categories, including Best Picture and Best Director. A number of Oscar frontrunners were unable to impress this…
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Precursor: 33rd Society of Cinematographers Awards (2018)
Although it will have no bearing on the Oscar outcome, the American Society of Cinematographers have deemed a director who lensed his own movie without the help of an actual cinematographer lost to an actual cinematographer. Alfson Cuaron will probably still win the Oscar because those voters don’t care if he used a member to…
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Precursor: 32nd USC Scripter Awards (2018)
In a stunning upset, the USC Libraries put themselves forward as utterly irrelevant and unworthy of attention. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Leave No Trace USC Scripter Data Year Founded: 1988 First Awards: 1987 (32)
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Precursor: 21st Film Music Critics Nominations (2018)
The ever eclectic Film Music Critics Association has selected two of the Oscar nominees for Best Original Score in their primary category with all except BlacKkKlansman earning nominations in the genre categories. Award Tallies (4) Solo (3) First Man (2) Black Panther, Mary Poppins Returns, Mary Queen of Scots, Max and Me, Red Sparrow The…
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Precursor: 17th Visual Effects Society Awards (2018)
Why this group decided to change their show date is beyond me. I got the information directly from their page. These results confirm the fact that, in my mind, Avengers: Infinity War is the race leader for the Best Visual Effects Oscar. Award Tallies (4) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (3) Avengers: Infinity War (2) Ready…
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Precursor: 18th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards (2018)
Spreading the love far and wide, the AARP voters went in the most expected and telling direction possible with their selection of Green Book as best film. Highlighting how old fashioned the film’s message is, it’s no surprise that a group that has often supported such halcyon glimpses of the past would support a film…
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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 a handful of precursors this past week, one of them being the Directors Guild of America, there…
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Precursor: 3rd Chicago Independent Critics Awards (2018)
The final critics group to hand out awards for the year, the Chicago Independent Critics didn’t create a nominations list that looked like many others and their winners were a mix of conventional and unconventional selections. Award Tallies (3) Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, If Beale Street Could Talk, Roma (2) Eighth Grade, Minding the Gap The…
