Category: Precursors

One of the last critics groups to announce, London has gone all-in on The Power of the Dog as well, giving it four of its top awards. Awards Tallies (4) The Power of the Dog (2) Drive My Car, Passing, The Souvenir Part II The Awards

The OFTA released a set of nominees that looks like a lot of other lists. There are some notable surprises along the way, but mostly Nominations we’ve seen regularly before. Dune, West Side Story, and CODA had a huge day. The Power of the Dog, Mass, tick, tick…BOOM!, and Spencer had a solid day. Meanwhile,…

If you ever want to know how weird their eligibility rules are, just consider that Coppelia was never released to theaters in the US. Anyway, not much to see here as their correlation to the Oscars is mediocre at best. Nominations Tallies (3) Coppelia (2) Buckley’s Chance, Dune, The Green Knight, Jungle Cruise, The Last…

It must first be noted that British films often perform much better with this group than they do with the Academy. This allows the 5 nominations for No Time to Die and 4 for After Love and Boiling Point to be disregarded. What’s most noticeable is the absence of Spencer, which really should have been…

Last year’s group was largely unknown, but this year, there’s two potential Oscar nominees in the bunch and one person who’s been in several movies already, so it’s a much more familiar group. The Nominations Rising Star Award Ariana DeBose Harris Dickinson Lashana Lynch Millicent Simmonds Kodi Smit-McPhee British Academy of Film & Television Arts…

These finally announced and there’s not much to say about the list. It’s pretty straight forward with few major contenders ignored. The Nominations

Not much to say about these since they went largely as most of the season has gone. Nominations Tallies (11) The Power of the Dog (2) Encanto The Awards

While the Best Director slate isn’t as diverse as it has been in the past, we have four nominees we expected to see there with Paul Thomas Anderson rounding out the list. This is exactly my current five predictions for that category, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see it copied by the Academy. The…

This was the penultimate guild announcement today, with the Directors Guild of America still pending, but this is a hugely important one for any film wanting a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars. Usually, one blockbuster makes this list, but I don’t see Spider-Man: No Way Home, which many thought would be this year’s biggest…

A film rarely wins the Oscar without a Best Film Editing nomination. The ACE is a prime predictor of the Oscar category of Film Editing, so missing here is a bad sign. First, the ugly: West Side Story and Cyrano, although musicals, were eligible in the overpacked Drama category. That doesn’t help either film, but…

Before we dig into the good, the bad, and the ugly, we must remember that WGA has very strict rules that no other guild has, regarding eligibility. Only guild members writing scripts under guild contracts are eligible for nomination. This means that some prominent contenders we explicably absent: Belfast, A Hero, Mass, Parallel Mothers, and…

This is the first good news Cyrano has received in some time. Yet, it’s not such good news for Belfast, Spencer, or Licorice Pizza. Other Oscar contenders that were shut out include Cinderella, The French Dispatch, The Last Duel, Last Night in Soho, Passing, and The Tragedy of Macbeth. The Nominations Best Period Costume Design…

Exterminate All the Brutes is the only title listed here that hasn’t been considered as a contender for the Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Jessica Kingdon – Ascension Stanley Nelson – Attica Raoul Peck – Exterminate All the Brutes Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson – Summer of Soul (…Or, When the…