Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 25th Dallas Area Critics Awards (2017)
Guillermo del Toro’s period fantasy stormed the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics awards, taking a staggering five prizes, including Best Actress. The rest of the selections have all been seen elsewhere before, so there isn’t much new here. Award Tallies (5) The Shape of Water (2) Lady Bird The Awards
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Precursor: 30th Chicago Critics Awards (2017)
Chicago has gone gaga over Lady Bird, giving it their Best Picture prize. Several of the big names of the year were also cited, so there’s not a lot of shock going around. Award Tallies (4) Lady Bird (3) Call Me by Your Name (2) Blade Runner 2049 The Awards
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Precursor: 17th Phoenix Critics Nominations (2017)
A big day for The Shape of Water as it tops its second slate of nominations today. Fourteen nods is a huge number, especially when the nearest competition (Blade Runner 2049 and Dunkirk) only have eight each. There were a couple of unusual selections from this group, but most of their slate has been on…
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Precursor: 11th Houston Critics Nominations (2017)
With a solid performance down ballot, The Shape of Water easily topped Call Me by Your Name and Lady Bird for most nominated. A lot of names here we’ve seen before, so no major surprises. Nominations Tallies (9) The Shape of Water (5) Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird (4) Dunkirk, Get Out, The…
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Precursor: 22nd San Diego Critics Awards (2017)
San Diego critics have spread their love out around numerous films, including the 2016-eligible Oscar nominee My Life As a Zucchini. Get Out won Best Picture, but only managed to claim the Original Screenplay award. Greta Gerwig won Best Director, but only managed a second prize in Best Supporting Actress. Things were spread out a…
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Precursor: 2nd Seattle Critics Nominations (2017)
For the first time all season, Blade Runner 2049 was finally given its due in terms of nominations, topping Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, and, surprisingly, Lady Bird. This list features a few left-field selections, but is otherwise in line with what we’ve seen so far. Award Tallies (8) Blade Runner 2049 (7) Dunkirk, Lady…
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Precursor: 2nd Atlanta Critics Awards (2017)
On the day Jordan Peele was snubbed twice by the Golden Globes, his film pulled out another set of victories taking three prizes including Best Picture. This list looks a lot like others, so there are no major surprises in store. Award Tallies (3) Get Out (2) Dunkirk The Awards
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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). A bountiful week of precursors this week with even more to come next week. There were a lot…
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Precursor: 75th Golden Globe Nominations (2017)
Leading the nominations, The Shape of Water once again proved more potent than Dunkirk, which picked up no acting nominations and only one tech citation. However, the most notable thing here is the snub of black directors Dee Rees and Jordan Peele and female helmer Greta Gerwig. While there’s one Spanish director in the Best…
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Precursor: 12th St. Louis Critics Nominations (2017)
What’s most interesting here is just how well The Shape of Water did while the other technical marvel of the year, Dunkirk received less than half the nominations. Other hot takes are the absence of Call Me By Your Name, largely ignored, and the year’s other major gay drama BPM (Beats Per Minute missing the…
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Precursor: 21st Toronto Critics Awards (2017)
A greatest hits list of previous precursor winners here with a strong showing by The Florida Project. Does this mean we now have to take the film serious as a Best Picture contender? Perhaps. Perhaps not. We shall see how it does with the Producers Guild of America. The rest of these choices are also…
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Precursor: 1st Philadelphia Critics Awards (2017)
Get Out won big at the inaugural Philadelphia Film Critics Circle awards. Winning four awards, the film outshone all other nominees while Allison Janney picked up a third prize, Woody Harrelson got his first and Sally Hawkins and Daniel Day-Lewis made cases for being certain Oscar nominees. The choices here are a bit different than…
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Precursor: 16th New York Online Critics Awards (2017)
The first Best Picture tie of the season goes to The Florida Project and Mudbound. Willem Dafoe wins another while Gary Oldman, Margot Robbie, and Allison Janney each picking up their second awards of the season. Dee Rees earns her first award for directing with Hedy Lamarr and In the Fade also making entries into…
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Precursor: 30th Chicago Critics Nominations (2017)
Trending the opposite direction of other guilds, Call Me by Your Name, which doesn’t have a lot of below-the-line contenders, still managed to top the nomination count with eight. The Disaster Artist performed more strongly here than it likely will with the Academy and The Shape of Water also did well. Award Tallies (8) Call…
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Precursor: 16th San Francisco Critics Awards (2017)
San Francisco went an unexpected direction with their 2017 winner for Best Picture. The Florida Project has gained some pretty surprising traction, beating out Call Me by Your Name, which would have been my prediction for this group’s winner. The rest of the winners are largely predictable with the exception of Andy Serkis for Best…
