Category: Precursors
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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…
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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…
