Category: Precursors

Although the uniquely American feel and setting of Nomadlan doesn’t seem like the kind of thing British critics would go for, it still pulled in three awards, though the loss of Best Director to Steve McQueen for a program that was released on the BBC rather than in theaters, should tell us that they didn’t…

DC Critics loved Minari and Nomadland, giving them tons of recognition while almost entirely ignoring this year’s Spike Lee joint. Nominations Tallies (8) Minari (6) Nomadland (5) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mank, One Night in Miami (4) News of the World, Promising Young Woman, Soul Sound of Metal, Tenet, The Trial of the Chicago 7…

Toronto loves Nomadland, making it the only film they honored with multiple awards. Other than Daniel Kaluuya, many of their selections have been made elsewhere already. Awards Tallies (3) Nomadland The Awards

While it was expected for highly technical films, films with lots of actors, and period films to pull out big numbers, Promising Young Woman stands out with thirteen mentions and only one of those is in Best British Film. That it figures in several categories it was never expected to contend in (Production Design for…

The bizarre year that has been 2020 might explain why the film music critics nominations are all over the place in terms of recognition, ignoring some of the year’s best regarded scores like Mank being utterly shut out while Soul gets a single nomination for score of an animated film and The Midnight Sky appears…

With the 27th SAG Awards nominations announced, we can now start to see whatever patterns there might be and see what Oscar might have in store. All of the major Best Picture Oscar contenders appear to be here, including three films with three nominations apiece. Nomadland and Promising Young Woman may have gotten Best Actress…

Before Vancouver announces their international selections, they’ve given us their best Canadian opinions on films made and released in Canada. Surprisingly, Chained picks up the most nominations while failing to earn a Best Canadian Film nomination. Second-place Possessor does, however, which might suggest that the film is setting itself up to rack up several wins,…

In spite of a year where Black protagonists were few and far between, the NAACP Image Awards put together a modestly impressive list of nominations. While films like Bad Boys for Life, Antebellum and The Banker weren’t terribly well received, films like Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, One Night in Miami, and Soul…

Taraji P. Henson & Sarah Jessica Parker announced the nominees this morning in two batches. The first batch, carried live on national television, covered all of the lead acting category along with Best Director and Best Motion Picture Drama. The rest were announced several minutes later, all streamed. Promising Young Woman did tremendously well with…

The big surprise here is that Promising Young Woman came out on top of the nominations count. The film hasn’t been picking up nearly as many nominations elsewhere, which might be a good sign for the film. One Night in Miami and Birds of Prey also do surprisingly well with this group. Nominations Tallies (9)…

Surprisingly little attention was paid the the Producers Guild of America’s documentary nominations. Of course, they were supposed to be announced today, but were revealed yesterday. While awards leader Dick Johnson Is Dead made the list, as did popular winner Time, both All In: The Fight for Democracy and John Lewis: Good Trouble, thought to…

Atlanta went for Nomadland and Promising Young Woman in a big way, giving them six of their fifteen awards. Awards Tallies (3) Nomadland, Promising Young Woman (2) Soul, Sound of Metal The Awards

After a year filled with heavily-praised films directed by women, the Satellite Awards have managed to scrape together a list of four white male directors, one woman director, and one Korean-American director. No Black men or women. For a year that should have delivered a more diverse slate, this is a rather antiquated one. This…

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…

While Nomadland took the top prize and two other awards, Minari also did well taking two acting awards and the foreign language film prize, still incorrectly listed as being from Korea. It’s in Korean, but was produced in the U.S. Awards Tallies (3) Minari, Nomadland The Awards