Category: 2023 Precursors

No groups have yet shown this much favor towards Poor Things as it dominates Indiana’s awards by more than double the next most awarded film, Oppenheimer. Award Tallies (7) Poor Things (3) Oppenheimer (2) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (1) Greener Pastures, The Holdovers, John Wick: Chapter 4, Kokomo City, Past Lives, The Zone of Interest…

While the Barbenheimer Convergence has affected mostly nominations slates, St. Louis Critics are the first to give it the most awards with thirteen between the two films with Best Picture winner Oppenheimer edging out Barbie. Award Tallies (7) Oppenheimer (6) Barbie (3) The Holdovers (2) Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (1) American Symphony,…

The same titles are appearing here as elsewhere with The Holdovers doing as well as some of the titles that have more technical achievements to celebrate. Nominations Tallies (10) Oppenheimer (9) Poor Things (7) Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon (5) Past Lives (4) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (3) Maestro, May December (2)…

Oppenheimer pulled in a massive number of nominations, eclipsing Killers of the Flower Moon and Barbie easily. Nominations Tallies (14) Oppenheimer (12) Killers of the Flower Moon (11) Barbie (9) The Holdovers (6) Maestro, May December, The Zone of Interest (5) American Fiction (4) The Killer, Past Lives (3) Air, Anatomy of a Fall, Are…

Poor Things dominated the finalists for the Indiana Film Journalists Association awards. The high numbers come from their vast list of nominees for each category. Not much to see here except for the eccentricities of a few critics. Nominations Tallies (12) Poor Things (10) Killers of the Flower Moon (9) Oppenheimer, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse…

Boston’s online critics went all-in on Oppenheimer, at least in the craft categories. They gave the top award to Killers of the Flower Moon instead. Award Tallies (6) Oppenheimer (2) The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, May December (1) Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Zone of Interest The Awards Best…

New York’s online film critics chose Killers of the Flower Moon as Best Picture, but that was the only award they gave the film, giving Oppenheimer and Anatomy of a Fall far more attention. Award Tallies (4) Oppenheimer (3) Anatomy of a Fall (1) Barbie, The Eternal Memory, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon,…

Florida’s critics don’t love Barbie very much, giving it one of its poorest showings so far this season. The top four nominees continue to perform well, especially Oppenheimer. Nominations Tallies (10) Oppenheimer (8) Killers of the Flower Moon, May December (6) Poor Things (5) The Holdovers, Past Lives (4) Asteroid City, The Boy and the…

Phoenix critics seemed to prefer Poor Things slightly more than Barbenheimer, though Oppenheimer came out on top with the most awards yet still lost the top race to a film with far fewer nominations, Past Lives. Nominations Tallies (8) Poor Things (7) Oppenheimer (6) Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon (5) The Zone…

While it’s tempting to call these the Barbenheimer awards, It’s really the Barbie-plus awards. Barbie dominated with 18 nominations, though Oppenheimer, Poor Things, and Killers of the Flower Moon did quite well too. The Critics Choice tended to ignore foreign language films with Past Lives and Anatomy of a Fall the most recognized with only…

Chicago spread the love around, but gave its most significant prize to Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Award Tallies (3) Killers of the Flower Moon, May December, Oppenheimer (2) The Holdovers, Poor Things (1) Barbie, The Boy and the Heron, Godzilla, Minus One, Kokomo City, Past Lives, The Zone of Interest The Awards…

Las Vegas’ critics aren’t very good at getting the word out (or updating their website). Here are the nominees for the Las Vegas critics’ awards, presumably announced on the 8th based on the sole article I found covering it. These are directly from the list on IMDb and there’s absolutely nothing shocking in them. Nominations…

The Producers Guild of America has announced the seven films that will compete for their award for Best Documentary. The list has a few notable omissions, the leading of which are Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie and Menus-Plaisirs- Les Troisgros, but also glaringly absent are The Eternal Memory and Kokomo City among several other…

Although it won significantly more honors than American Fiction, Oppenheimer lost out on the top award, something that the film may need to get used to as the season progresses. Award Tallies (6) Oppenheimer (2) American Fiction, The Holdovers, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (1) American Symphony, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, Killers of the Flower…

Now that the Golden Globes is no longer run by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, they can now attempt to be as populist as possible. They’ve expanded all categories to six and have a far higher recognition rate for non-American features. That said, A lot of their selections are already Oscar contenders and with now…