Category: Precursors

If the Razzies were simply punching down, that’s one thing, but they’ve actively abdicated their take on the worst of the year by going for a filmed stage musical as their big winner. A film that’s not even Oscar eligible wins five awards while the Space Jam reboot also does poorly. The nominations were lame…

There’s not much to say about these. The main award anyone is concerned with went exactly as expected. The Awards Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Motion Picture

Many expected results come out of this year’s Casting Society awards. Not much to see, really. The Awards

The results were expected and should manifest themselves once again at the Oscars. The Awards Best Cinematography Dune (Wesley, Tripp, RU:Peter) Documentary Faya Dayi (Wesley, Tripp, RU:Peter, RU:Thomas) Spotlight Award Pig (Peter, RU:Wesley, RU:Tripp) American Society of Cinematographers Data Year Founded: 1919 First Awards: 1986 (36)

One unexpected victory and one expected one. They didn’t really give us anything more to chew on than we had before. It wasn’t really an even competition because neither of the main Oscar contenders were eligible. The Awards Best Original Screenplay Don’t Look Up (RU:Peter, RU:Tripp) Best Adapted Screenplay CODA (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Documentary…

Leave it to the Producers Guild to screw up a generally deserving awards season. The Power of the Dog should have won Best Picture, but it lost out to the early festival fave CODA. Does this change the Oscar trajectory? Perhaps, but we’ll see how the preferential balloting handles this. The Awards Best Picture CODA…

As expected, Dune, Encanto, and Summer of Soul were the big winners at the Cinema Audio Society. The Awards Best Sound Mixing – Live Action Dune (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Sound Mixing – Animated Encanto (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Sound Mixing – Documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be…

What a weird hodge podge of selections, none of which seem particularly instructive in the Oscar race and none of which that don’t really scream that the entire organization voted for them while some really do seem to scream that. AwardsTallies (2) King Richard The Awards

The Critics Choice Association never misses an opportunity to show their cool side and these selections seem like an attempt to do that with some unusual choices thrown in. Andrew Garfield, Dev Patel, and Agathe Rousselle make that clear. Awards Tallies (3) Spider-Man: No Way Home (2) Dune, No Time to Die The Awards

A rather lackluster list of winners and proof why nonbinary acting categories aren’t effective. Ten nominees, one winner in each category and both are women. Flee was a better LGBTQ film than The Power of the Dog, but The Power of the Dog was the better film? These selections are pretty meh. AwardsTallies (4) Flee…

There was a bit of a delay in getting these winners. Ever since the Academy eliminated the Sound Effects category, this event has gotten less attention than it deserves. No one feature dominated, but Dune carried the day in the category most often associated with the old Oscar category. Meanwhile, the next most aligned, Feature…

Even if all their choices weren’t the best in their categories, you have to respect them sticking to their guns and not succumbing entirely to the hype that has been building around certain other contenders. Some races become pretty clear and others become fuzzy. And kudos for picking The Power of the Dog for Best…

With these awards, BAFTA simplifies Oscar prognostication by landing on most of our perceived frontrunners or runners-up. The Power of the Dog came out on top with only two awards while Dune nabbed 5. CODA and West Side Story also got two apiece. Will Smith, Troy Kotsur, and Ariana DeBose shift towards sure things at…