Category: Precursors

Presented over several nights, the results are finally in for all of the NAACP Image Awards categories as outlined below. It’s interesting to see how Judas and the Black Messiah struggled against the tide of being big early in the year while The Harder They Fall, unimpressive in its Oscar haul this year (nothing), outperformed…

An upset to say the least. Since this awards isn’t given out by the film industry, it’s unlikely to have much impact on the Oscars, but it does make one wonder if The Power of the Dog is as strong a frontrunner as we’ve been thinking they are. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay The Lost…

Delayed presumably due to the pandemic, this list is filled with dull selections and questionable ones (such as Zack Snyder’s director’s cut of Justice League being at all eligible). Nominations Tallies (5) Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Spider-Man: No Way Home (4) Don’t Look Up, No Time to Die, The Harder They…

Nothing much to see here and it’s too late to be of any value. Award Tallies (9) The Power of the Dog (5) Flee, Passing, West Side Story (4) Drive My Car, tick, tick…BOOM!, The Worst Person in the World (3) Dune, Mass, Parallel Mothers, Titane The Awards

Outside of the support of films like Encanto and In the Heights, this group’s selections look like most of the others. Nominations Tallies (13) West Side Story (12) The Power of the Dog (10) Dune (8) Encanto (6) Nightmare Alley, tick, tick…BOOM! (4) CODA, In the Heights, No Time to Die The Nominations

The Canadian list always seems to come down to the same titles over and over again. They don’t have the output of the US, so that’s not surprising, but almost none of these films made any crossover appeal. Nominations Tallies (7) Night Raiders (5) All My Puny Sorrows, Scarborough (3) Be Still, The White Fortress…

Vancouver is really late the game and their selections just aren’t that interesting as a result. They make odd choices and The Power of the Dog takes the most nominations, but doesn’t get in for either actor or screenplay, two of the odder choices. The Canadian film nominations haven’t been announced and I have no…

Leave it to the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild voters to do something unexpected. They went hard for Coming 2 America while leaving Dune in the dust and even went so far as to go left-field with their period hair styling award. Awards Tallies (3) Coming 2 America The Awards

If a group wanted to make a case for its own irrelevancy, this kis the kind of slate they would honor. When they weren’t falling all over themselves to honor Disney movies, they were going for obscure titles that most people haven’t even heard of. Awards Tallies (2) Coppelia The Awards

Film Independent always announces its grant winners prior to the awards. Below are the winners. The Awards Producers Award Lizzie Shapiro Someone to Watch Award Alex Camilleri Truer Than Fiction Award Jessica Beshir Spirit Awards Data First Awards: 1985 (36)

And here we have the Oscar nominations for the best films of 2021. There were many surprises, some of them good, some of them great, some of them not so good. The Power of the Dog came out the big winner, surprisingly topping even Dune. Those Production Design and Sound nominations announcement early told us…

A little more irrelevant than usual, considering their selection of several films no one has probably heard of. Picking on a filmed stage musical is the lowest of the low-hanging fruit. Not sure what the point of that is. The most interesting thing about this list is that two actors who have won awards this…