Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 71st Directors Guild Awards (2018)
And nothing changes. They had an opportunity to award legendary filmmaker Spike Lee and they didn’t take it. Roma continues its strong Oscar season push and carries the award it needed more than any other. After all, the DGA prize is oftentimes more accurate than any other org in predicting both Best Directing and Best…
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Precursor: 23rd Art Directors Guild Awards (2018)
All of the winners have been announced, and there’s a mix of good and bad news. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse shockingly didn’t win the animation category, though ADG voters’ desire to see physical constructions might have won out. Otherwise, the two lead contenders for the Oscars won, which is a good sign for the predictability…
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Precursor: 27th Annie Awards Awards (2018)
Although it wasn’t as big a night as other Disney/Pixar movies in the past, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won all seven awards for which it was nominated with Incredibles 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet picking up most of the rest. Award Tallies (7) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2) Incredibles 2, Mary Poppins Returns (1)…
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Precursor: 58th Cinema Editors Awards (2018)
There was some concern early in the season that The Favourite wouldn’t be able to turn its critical acclaim into an Oscar campaign. It wasn’t exactly the kind of period piece the Academy goes for. While it’s not out of the woods yet, the surprise win here over supposedly stronger Best Picture contenders Green Book…
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Precursor: 35th Casting Society Awards (2018)
The Casting Society of America is one of the newest groups I’ve been covering and, unfortunately, I’m not as familiar with their history as I need to be. That said, several of the categories had at least one Best Picture nominee among them and in each of those categories, that film won giving four Best…
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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). With so little from the past week to talk about (the Chicago Independent Film Critics nominations and the…
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Precursor: 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards (2018)
The Screen Actors Guild awards are happening now. I’ll update as the winners are announced, including the graphic and the tallies. In the interim, our team’s predictions will be included below so you can see what everyone thought might happen tonight. I’ll also consider writing a play-by-play of each winner and what it means to…
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Precursor: 3rd Chicago Independent Critics Nominations (2018)
In many ways, this list is better than the Oscar nominations, though it’s imperfect with people like Melissa McCarthy unfairly overlooked. Nominations Tallies (11) Black Panther (9) The Favourite, Roma (8) First Man (6) If Beale Street Could Talk, A Star Is Born (5) Vice (4) Annihilation, BlacKkKlansman (3) Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Hereditary, Widows…
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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). The last of the guilds and other major nominating groups were announced this last week with a smattering…
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Precursor: 39th Golden Raspberry Nominations (2018)
Always ones to go for the low-hanging fruit, the Golden Raspberry Awards, colloquially referred to as the Razzies, have announced their selections for the worst of the year, with three of the five Worst Picture nominees earning 6 nominations apiece while a fourth film, not nominated in that character, also picked up six. The dishonorable…
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Precursor: 39th London Critics Awards (2018)
The final film critic group to announce this year is London with its unusual rules for eligibility built around U.S. vs. U.K. release dates. Roma won the Best Picture award while The Favourite went home with more wins, including Best British / Irish Film. Otherwise, there isn’t much to see here. Award Tallies (4) The…
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Precursor: 23rd Online Film & Television Nominations (2018)
A plethora of strong choices, many of them commonplace this awards season, came out of the Online Film & Television Association. Black Panther was the nominations leader with fourteen followed closely by The Favourite, A Star Is Born, and First Man. Several of they year’s prominent contenders didn’t quite make it to the final nominations,…
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Precursor: 30th Producers Guild Awards (2018)
Showing that Roma doesn’t have dibs on Best Picture, the Producers Guild of America went with the safe, easy choice of Green Book, avoiding controversy in selecting most of the other films and forgetting that we’re in the 2018 and not 1989. Their other two selections are as expected. The Awards Best Picture Green Book…
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Precursor: 66th Sound Editors Guild Nominations (2018)
Although they were expected to announce their nominations the day before the Oscars, the Motion Picture Sound Editors have given out their 2018 nominations. While they have numerous categories, the two you most need to pay attention are the Sound Effects and Foley and the Dialogue and ADR categories. Oftentimes, the most nominated are also…
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Precursor: 32nd USC Scripter Nominations (2018)
If you look at the Adapted Screenplay contenders, you would only find two of these films as likely nominees. The Death of Stalin has shown up enough times to be considered a threat, but the Academy doesn’t like comic book movies that much and definitely don’t consider the screenplays worthy since none have ever been…
