Category: Precursors
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Precursor: 74th Directors Guild Awards (2021)
The penultimate guild trophy heading into the Best Picture final lap goes to Jane Campion, the third female director to win the DGA award and the second woman in a row. The Oscar is hers for the taking and a boon for The Power of the Dog going into the Oscars. The Awards Best Director…
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Precursor: 30th Annie Awards (2021)
The Annie Awards voters continue to love Netflix and give them the awards that the Oscars are denying them. Not much more to say about these. Awards Tallies (8) The Mitchells vs. the Machines (3) Encanto (1) Bestia, Flee, Namoo, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings The Awards
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Precursor: 24th Costume Designers Guild Awards (2021)
Cruella and Dune head into the Oscars in something of a dead heat for the Oscar. The Awards Best Period Costume Design Cruella (Peter, Thomas, RU:Wesley, RU:Tripp) Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Costume Design Dune (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Contemporary Costume Design Coming 2 America (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Costume Designers Guild Data First Awards: 1998 (24)
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Precursor: 20th Visual Effects Society Awards (2021)
As expected, Oscar frontrunner Dune easily captured the award for Best Visual Effects from this guild, so its Oscar fate seems inevitable now. AwardsTallies (4) Dune, Encanto The Awards
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Precursor: 22nd Vancouver Critics Awards (2021)
Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog took the top prize while no film took more than one award, Vancouver spreading it out thin and pointlessly. That is, except in the Canadian section, which saw two films score multiple wins. Awards Tallies (4) All My Puny Sorrows (2) Portraits from a Fire
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 14
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). Two guilds handed out awards this week, the Art Directors Guild and the American Cinema Editors. While their…
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Precursor: 4th Latino Journalists Awards (2021)
Not much to see here. Award Tallies (4) Dune, Encanto, The Power of the Dog (2) Cruella, Parallel Mothers The Awards
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Precursor: 37th Spirit Awards (2021)
And there we have the least influential Spirit Awards in years. Everything went largely as expected. AwardsTallies (3) The Lost Daughter (2) Passing, Zola (1) 7 Days, CODA, Pig, Red Rocket, Shiva Baby, Summer of Soul The Awards
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Precursor: 26th Online Film & Television Awards (2021)
While Dune pulled in the most awards, it was The Power of the Dog that took the biggest prizes with four out of the top six awards losing on in Best Supporting Actress to Ariana DeBose and it wasn’t nominated in Best Actress. It’s an interesting list of winners that reverse course on some of…
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Precursor: 26th Art Directors Guild Awards (2021)
It looks like the Oscar race may come down to a battle between Nightmare Alley and Dune. Who knows for sure which will come out on top. The Awards Best Period Art Direction Nightmare Alley (Wesley, Thomas, RU:Peter, RU:Tripp) Best Fantasy Art Direction Dune (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Contemporary Art Direction No Time to…
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Precursor: 61st American Cinema Editors Awards (2021)
Apparently, the tennis matches were really well edited together. The Awards Best Drama Editing King Richard Best Comedy/Musical Editing tick, tick…BOOM! (RU:Wesley, RU:Tripp, RU:Thomas) Best Animation Editing Encanto (Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Documentary Editing Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Wesley, Peter, Thomas, RU:Tripp) American Cinema Editors Data Year Founded:…
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Precursor: 5th Hollywood Critics Awards (2021)
There isn’t a lot to see here. Had these been announced prior to the SAG awards as originally planned, they would have seemed oddball. The CODA choice will now be heralded as prophetic, but will it translate into an Oscar win? This group doesn’t have that level of prognosticative capability and with their slew of…
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 13
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). Online a few weeks to go. This past week, we had only a couple of precursors, but one…
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94th Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – March
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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Precursor: 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021)
It’s seldom that a cast this small wins the award and while it is a Best Picture nominee, no one expects it to win Best Picture, so this is probably the highlight of their season, though these could propel Troy Kotsur to an Oscar. Awards Tallies (2) CODA (1) The Eyes of Tammy Faye, King…
