Category: Precursors

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…

Getting a bit of love when it has only gotten a smattering before, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won top prize with The Shape of Water also doing quite well. These are all winners we’ve seen before. Award Tallies (3) The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2) Blade Runner 2049, The Disaster…

Following everyone that came before them, the Florida Critics throw in a little spice, but have mostly created a list that duplicates other lists. Award Tallies (9) The Shape Of Water (8) Dunkirk (7) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (6) Get Out, Lady Bird (5) Call Me By Your Name (4) Blade Runner 2049, I,…

More awards for already-awarded individuals and films. There’s nothing here that’s original, making it a rather staid slate. Award Tallies (4) The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2) Gifted The Awards

Here we have the London Film Critics Circle’s nominations. With films releasing in the UK well after releasing in the US, oftentimes films like Elle end up bumped into the next year, which in turn bumps people out of the acting categories. There are a few original selections here, but most of them are more…

Vancouver loves Lady Bird , giving it three top prizes, but avoiding Greta Gerwig as director and screenwriter. Award Tallies (3) Lady Bird (2) Phantom Thread The Awards