Category: Precursors

I’m not sure how much trust you can put in a group that makes Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey a 4th place finisher (in a tie with Nomadland and Da 5 Bloods) in the nominations count, but you have to respect their gumption. It’s a solid list hitting on many of the current contenders and…

Looking more like followers than leaders, the noticeable absence of Promising Young Woman seems strange, especially with some of the titles they chose to include instead. Awards Tallies (4) Nomadland (2) Da 5 Bloods The Awards

Nomadland emerged the big winner for this year’s Chicago Film Critics Awards, taking a supreme 5 awards with nearest competitor Never Rarely Sometimes Always only claiming 2. Award Tallies (5) Nomadland (2) Never Rarely Sometimes Always The Awards

Following in the footsteps of New York with a little Los Angeles thrown in, Florida Film Critics have chosen First Cow as best film, but selected Small Axe: Lovers Rock for runner-up in a couple of categories. Beyond that, things seem to be following a rather predictable path so far this year. Awards Tallies (2)…

There’s going to be some major discussions this year about Small Axe, a production that is being submitted to the Emmys by Netflix, but which this group chose to recognize with two awards. It’s a strange decision to make, though it’s nice to see Carey Mulligan get her first award of the year. Awards Tallies…

Boston’s online film critics really responded to Nomadland, which may be turning into the critical darling of the year. Awards Tallies (5) Nomadland The Awards

Promising Young Woman comes out strong for the first time while First Cow and Nomadland continue to perform well. Da 5 Bloods gets some love and the TV/film dichotomy gets another shot in the arm with several nominations for Lovers Rock. Nominations Tallies (7) Nomadland (6) Da 5 Bloods, First Cow, I’m Thinking of Ending…

The New York Film Critics Circle went all out to change the narrative, with the exception of keeping the boat moored at the Chloe Zhao directorial slot. Everything else was largely new with Da 5 Bloods and Never Rarely Sometimes Always the only films to earn multiple citations. Award Tallies (2) Da 5 Bloods, Never…

Florida seems to like a lot of movies, giving The Trial of the Chicago 7 its best showing so far this year and criminally underrating Promising Young Woman. Nominations Tallies (6) Minari, Nomadland (5) First Cow, The Trial of the Chicago 7 (4) The Father, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (3) Mank, Promising Young Woman, Shirley,…

This large list of nominations is not like what many others put together, thus it’s difficult to draw many conclusions, though they really loved three films, giving them double-digit citations. Nominations Tallies (11) I’m Thinking of Ending Things (10) Minari, One Night in Miami (7) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Promising Young Woman, Soul (6) First…

The 2020 film slate was dominated by Netflix, which was already stingy on their theatrical releases, yet they were largely ignored by the first major film critics organization to announce. Boston selected only three of their films to recognize. Mank was left out of all but one runner-up citation while Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom secured…

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…

If there was a time when the Grammys were relevant as an Oscar prognostiscator, I cannot think of when. They have an asynchronous eligibility period where fall releases for one year show up in the nominations the following year. That is particularly true of this year’s slate. eleven films out of nineteen nominations were released…

Another separate awards shows. How many of these are they going to have? The only reason I even decided to cover this was that one of the main Oscar categories, Best Animated Feature, was moved to these awards rather than their flagship awards. Nothing really to see here other than you can tell that they…

Dick Johnson Is Dead seems to be well regarded, as are many of the other winners on this list. We’ll see how the Academy feels next year. Awards Tallies (2) Dick Johnson Is Dead, My Octopus Teacher The Awards