Category: Precursors

In some of the closest races this organization has ever seen, Lady Bird won Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay by one or two votes (two for Best Picture, one each for the other two prize). The Best Director award was so incredibly close that the top three vote-getters were were all within one of each…

The first thing one must remember about the Producers Guild of America is that they very much look at success as a portion of the measure of quality. Films that underperform, even with acclaim, are seldom recognized. They also tend to avoid films that don’t have some importance to the awards seasons. Further, if a…

Here we have the five categories presented by the Make-Up Artists Guild. They ar ean eclectic bunch, but the quesiton is how they may or may not impact the Oscars. The only film on the Oscar shortlist not referenced here is Victoria & Abdul, all of the others are. Two of them, both I consider…

Here are your Writers Guild of America nominations. First, let’s look at the films that weren’t included that are still Oscar contenders, then we’ll look to see which of them were excluded from the eligibility list for specified reasons. Titles missing from the list: Darkest Hour, Downsizing, The Florida Project, Phantom Thread, The Post, and…

Adding a new category this year for animation, the Art Directors Guild have entered into the Oscar race with a slate that looks like it’s expected to look. The notable exclusions here are The Greatest Showman, Alien: Covenant, The Beguiled, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Phantom Thread, Victoria & Abdul, and Wonderstruck. Of these,…

Announced yesterday, Oklahoma critics went all out to recognize Get Out with five awards, including Best Picture. These winners are all previously honored (with the exception of their favoritism-fueled pick of Oklahoma City for Best Documentary Feature). Award Tallies (5) Get Out (2) Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water The Awards

These were apparently announced on Dec. 30, but were not and still have not been posted on their own website. Guillermo del Toro’s “fish out of water” fantasy film continues to impress with high nomination tallies during precursor season while Dunkirk underperforms those same metrics. Denis Villeneuve picks up an unexpected Best Director citation, but…

The American Cinema Editors have announced their nominees for 2017 and a lot of the usual suspects are here, as are some surprises. Best Picture nominees at the Oscars, with a small number of exceptions, require a Best Film Editing nomination. Of the Best Picture contenders not on the below list, The Florida Project, Call…

Another critics group has selected Get Out as Best Picture of the year, helping it build momentum towards a potential Oscar win. North Carolina has largely selected winners that have been consistently rewarded with the exceptions of Molly’s Game in its tie for Best Adapted Screenplay and Okja for Best Foreign Language Film. Those are…

I have no information on when these were announced. Winning the most awards was Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which won for Best Picture, followed by Blade Runner 2049, which cleaned up the creative awards. Award Tallies (5) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (4) Blade Runner 2049 (3) Coco, Get Out The Awards

Chalk up another win for Get Out. The same can be said for all the winners here, which were all duplicates of prior honors. The hazard of announcing late is always looking like you’re just copying everyone else. Award Tallies (2) Dunkirk, Get Out, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri The Awards

A strong race for Best Picture has emerged with the North Carolina critics who have put all five of the top nominees into the Best Picture category with Three Billboards leading by one. These selections roughly match other selections, so there isn’t much new here. Nominations Tallies (6) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (5) The…

Dunkirk picks up its first Best Picture prize of the season, also winning Best Director. However, it wasn’t as successful in the tech categories where it came in second in nearly every race to Blade Runner 2049, which was the largest winner of the day. The rest of the selections are familiar faces this season…