Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 76th Golden Globe Nominations (2018)
Vice was today’s big winner taking three acting nominations and bringing in six total. The Favourite, Green Book, and A Star Is Born proved that they are still major players while BlacKkKlansman and Black Panther scored well enough to be considered major threats, as did If Beale Street Could Talk and Roma. Injured enormously here…
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Precursor: 18th American Film Institute (2018)
The big question with AFI is how they determine what’s an American film. After all, one wouldn’t expect The Favourite on this list. That said, other than Eighth Grade and First Reformed, this list looks an awful lot like what we might have expected months ago with two major exceptions. First Man should have been…
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Precursor: 12th Detroit Critics Awards (2018)
The first really strong showing for Eighth Grade outside of the Spirit Awards with the film taking Best Picture honors from Detroit. It was the most nominated (thanks to the Breakthrough category) and now it’s the most honored (also thanks to the Breakthrough category). Vice is performing better here than it has elsewhere so far…
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Precursor: 3rd Atlanta Critics Awards (2018)
Not a lot of unexpected choices from Atlanta, with several prominent contenders making showings. What’s interesting is that Favourite won Picture, but Roma won Director. This seems to be a trend of recent years not too dissimilar from the Academy where Picture and Director split, something almost unthinkable through the 1980s and 1990s and even…
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Precursor: 2nd Los Angeles Online Critics Nominations (2018)
While some of the top nominees this year come as no surprise right now (The Favourite and A Star Is Born for example), the critics can still surprise. Tying The Favourite for most nominations, with ten each, is Black Panther. The film wasn’t expected to perform this well during precursor season, so this could very…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 3
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). While the onslaught of critics awards begins in earnest this week, there’s no question that it got a…
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Precursor: 27th Annie Awards Nominations (2018)
Topping all others, Incredibles 2 picked up 11 nominations. The reason it didn’t tie with second place Ralph Breaks the Internet was a double nomination in Storyboarding. The major players for this year’s Oscar race were all included in Best Animated Feature with Early Man being the most likely to miss the final Oscar slate…
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Precursor: 17th DC Critics Awards (2018)
Roma is taking an early lead in the race for Best Picture, with its second award. If Beale Street Could Talk and A Star Is Born also performed well while other films like Green Book didn’t do as hot with a single award. Award Tallies (4) Roma (2) If Beale Street Could Talk, Isle of…
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Precursor: 17th DC Critics Nominations (2018)
Yorgos Lanthimos’ period comedy is shaping up to be the year’s Favourite film with the mentions here combined with the massive support it has received across the early nominations voting. Everything here is largely following a pattern that is developing, though is taking time to fully materialize, but the same films are racking up a…
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Precursor: 12th Detroit Critics Nominations (2018)
By virtue of being one of the early nomination sets out their, the Detroit Critics have made themselves a beacon for others to look to for inspiration, but are their selections that inspirational? Somewhat yes. Somewhat no. Apart from elevating a film like If Beale Street Could Talk, they didn’t give much boost to films…
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Precursor: 84th New York Critics Awards (2018)
Roma, which had until now seemed to be an also-ran for Best Picture leaps back into the forefront of consideration with its award from the New York Film Critics Circle. Alfonso Cuaron black-and-white feature picked up three awards, including a rare Picture-Director victory suggesting support for the film was strong. Ethan Hawke gets a jolt…
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Precursor: 23rd Satellite Awards Nominations (2018)
Similar in structure and composition to the far more famous Golden Globes, the Satellite Awards have been around long enough to give us an idea of how prognosticative they can be. While their history of predicting the Oscars is mediocre, part of that can be attributed to their incredibly early announcements (preceding almost every other…
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Precursor: 90th National Board of Review Awards (2018)
Topping this year’s National Board of Review is Green Book, a film about a white bodyguard escorting a black pianist through the deep south. It won Best Picture and Best Actor for Viggo Mortensen. It was not, however, the most honored film. A Star Is Born managed to pick up three awards, for Lady Gaga,…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 2
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 past week saw less movement than expected with only the Producers Guild of America documentary nominations. As…
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Precursor: 28th Gotham Awards (2018)
In the first awards of the season, the independent-minded voters of the Gotham Awards were given out and they were more independent-minded than the Independent Spirit Awards usually are, giving their top prize to a film that was contending last year for the Spirit Awards: The Rider. Award Tallies (2) Eighth Grade, First Reformed The…
