Category: 2025 Precursors
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78th Directors Guild Awards
The closest thing to a surprise was Charlie Polinger but considering he’d picked up a few precursors, it’s not entirely left-field. The Awards Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another WL PP TL Best First Feature Charlie Polinger – The Plague Nil Best Documentary Director Mstyslav Chernov – 2000 Meters to Andriivka…
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7th Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards
Mostly expected winners. Pretty certain clues for this one. Awards Tallies (2) Sinners (1) KPop Demon Hunters, Laws of Man, Train Dreams The Awards Best Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production I Lied to You – Sinners WL PP TL Best Original Song for a Comedy or Musical Visual Media Production…
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46th London Critics Awards
Another good day for One Battle After Another. Awards Tallies (4) One Battle After Another (2) Pillion (1) 28 Years Later, Hamnet, The History of Sound, I Swear, KPop Demon Hunters, Marty Supreme, The Mastermind, Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites, Palestine 36, The Perfect Neighbor, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out…
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68th Grammy Awards
No real surprises with this list. Awards Tallies (2) Sinners (1) KPop Demon Hunters, Music by John Williams The Awards Best Song Written for Visual Media Golden – KPop Demon Hunters Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Sinners Best Music Film Music by John Williams (2024) Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media Sinners Grammy Awards…
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26th Vancouver Critics Nominations
The Canadian batch of nominees don’t show up in the main competition so the tallies are strictly split between international content and Canadian content. One Battle did extremely well with nothing but Sentimental Value and Hamnet even coming close. Nominations Tallies (7) Mile End Kicks, One Battle After Another (5) Nirvanna the Band the Show…
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78th Writers Guild Nominations
All of the guild-written screenplays nominated at the Oscars are here but the missing titles were all ineligible. The Nominations Best Original Screenplay Black Bag If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Marty Supreme Sinners Weapons Best Adapted Screenplay Bugonia Frankenstein Hamnet One Battle After Another Train Dreams Documentary Screenplay 2000 Meters to Andriivka Becoming…
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13th North Carolina Critics Awards
Another group goes all-in on Sinners. Most of the traditional critics have gone with One Battle but the regionals are going for Sinners. We’ll see how things work out for everyone involved. Awards Tallies (10) Sinners (4) Frankenstein (3) KPop Demon Hunters (1) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Good Boy, Hamnet, It Was Just an Accident,…
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65th American Cinema Editors Nominations
All of the Oscar nominees are here and so this would have been handy if announced prior to the Oscar nominations. The Nominations Best Drama Editing F1 Hamnet Sentimental Value Sinners Weapons Best Comedy/Musical Editing Bugonia Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Wicked: For Good Best Animation…
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66th British Academy Nominations
If we had seen these first, the Oscar nominations might have been a bit more shocking. Here, One Battle slightly outpaced Sinners while Hamnet and Marty Supreme did better than at the Oscars while I Swear and The Ballad of Wallis Island made their way into the major nominations when they wouldn’t have with the…
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29th Online Critics Awards
Love for Sinners while still giving most of the top prizes to One Battle. Awards Tallies (10) Sinners (5) One Battle After Another (1) Frankenstein, Hamnet, KPop Demon Hunters, Sentimental Value, Sorry, Baby, The Perfect Neighbor, Weapons The Awards Best Picture One Battle After Another Sinners Sentimental Value It Was Just an Accident The Secret…
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30th San Diego Critics Awards
It’s the best film but doesn’t have the best or runner-up screenplay? These selections don’t quite make sense. Awards Tallies (4) Sinners (2) It Was Just an Accident, One Battle After Another, Weapons (1) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Black Bag, Eternity, Frankenstein, Good Boy, Hamnet, The History of Sound, If I Had Legs I’d Kick…
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25th AARP Movies for Grownups Nominations
Hamnet was only the best film, but didn’t win any other prizes though One Battle won three, curiously not for its director. Awards Tallies (3) One Battle After Another (2) Sentimental Value (1) Frankenstein, Hamnet, Is This Thing On?, Jay Kelly, My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay, Sinners, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere…
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3rd Michigan Critics Guild Awards
They really liked Sinners almost to the exclusion of all others. Awards Tallies (8) Sinners (1) Hamnet, KPop Demon Hunters, The Long Walk, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, One Battle After Another, The Perfect Neighbor The Awards Best Picture Sinners Best Animated Feature KPop Demon Hunters Best Director Ryan Coogler – Sinners Best Actor…
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39th USC Scripter Awards
It was a foregone conclusion but we had to play it out. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay One Battle After Another WL USC Scripter Data Year Founded: 1988 First Awards: 1987 (39)
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Predictions: 39th USC Scripter Awards
The only adapted screenplay precursor that doesn’t have a guild-member-only limitation. The Nominations Best Adapted Screenplay Frankenstein Nil Hamnet WL PP One Battle After Another WL Peter Hujar’s Day Nil Train Dreams PP Wesley Lovell: One Battle will be hard to beat but if anyone understands the significance of Hamnet, it’s this group. Pete Patrick:…
