Category: 91st Oscars (2018)
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 3
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). While the onslaught of critics awards begins in earnest this week, there’s no question that it got a…
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Precursor: 27th Annie Awards Nominations (2018)
Topping all others, Incredibles 2 picked up 11 nominations. The reason it didn’t tie with second place Ralph Breaks the Internet was a double nomination in Storyboarding. The major players for this year’s Oscar race were all included in Best Animated Feature with Early Man being the most likely to miss the final Oscar slate…
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Precursor: 17th DC Critics Awards (2018)
Roma is taking an early lead in the race for Best Picture, with its second award. If Beale Street Could Talk and A Star Is Born also performed well while other films like Green Book didn’t do as hot with a single award. Award Tallies (4) Roma (2) If Beale Street Could Talk, Isle of…
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Precursor: 17th DC Critics Nominations (2018)
Yorgos Lanthimos’ period comedy is shaping up to be the year’s Favourite film with the mentions here combined with the massive support it has received across the early nominations voting. Everything here is largely following a pattern that is developing, though is taking time to fully materialize, but the same films are racking up a…
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Precursor: 12th Detroit Critics Nominations (2018)
By virtue of being one of the early nomination sets out their, the Detroit Critics have made themselves a beacon for others to look to for inspiration, but are their selections that inspirational? Somewhat yes. Somewhat no. Apart from elevating a film like If Beale Street Could Talk, they didn’t give much boost to films…
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Precursor: 84th New York Critics Awards (2018)
Roma, which had until now seemed to be an also-ran for Best Picture leaps back into the forefront of consideration with its award from the New York Film Critics Circle. Alfonso Cuaron black-and-white feature picked up three awards, including a rare Picture-Director victory suggesting support for the film was strong. Ethan Hawke gets a jolt…
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Precursor: 23rd Satellite Awards Nominations (2018)
Similar in structure and composition to the far more famous Golden Globes, the Satellite Awards have been around long enough to give us an idea of how prognosticative they can be. While their history of predicting the Oscars is mediocre, part of that can be attributed to their incredibly early announcements (preceding almost every other…
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91st Oscars: Screener Watch, Week 2
The week was a bit slow, but some major films made their way to my inbox, whether it’s the box office smash Deadpool 2 or the prime Oscar contender At Etenrity’s Gate or indie hits You Were Never Really Here and Suspiria.
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Precursor: 90th National Board of Review Awards (2018)
Topping this year’s National Board of Review is Green Book, a film about a white bodyguard escorting a black pianist through the deep south. It won Best Picture and Best Actor for Viggo Mortensen. It was not, however, the most honored film. A Star Is Born managed to pick up three awards, for Lady Gaga,…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 2
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). This past week saw less movement than expected with only the Producers Guild of America documentary nominations. As…
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Precursor: 28th Gotham Awards (2018)
In the first awards of the season, the independent-minded voters of the Gotham Awards were given out and they were more independent-minded than the Independent Spirit Awards usually are, giving their top prize to a film that was contending last year for the Spirit Awards: The Rider. Award Tallies (2) Eighth Grade, First Reformed The…
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Precursor: 30th PGA Documentary Nominations (2018)
The Documentary Feature nominations take mild inspiration from the choices of the Producers Guild of America. Their choices for best produced documentary of the year often feature sure Oscar contenders, sure snubs, and titles that were never likely to appear. Which of these will make the cut? RBG, Three Identical Strangers, and Won’t You Be…
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91st Oscars: Screener Watch
Instead of posting every time I receive a screener, I’m going to try and post once a week (starting now) a list of all screeners I receive during the prior week. Below is everything I’ve received to date.
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 1
As the precursor awards begin, 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). This week only featured one precursor, but it’s among the first and last awarded. It’s awards are always held the night before…
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Precursor: 34th Spirit Awards Nominations (2018)
You can always see from the nominations what films were eligible and are head-scratchingly omitted. Take for example that BlacKkKlansman was nominated for Best Supporting Male (Adam Driver), but nowhere else. That could spell trouble for Oscar. The same is true of the mediocre support for Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which picked up a…
