Category: 93rd Oscars (2020)
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Precursor: 73rd Directors Guild Nominations (2020)
While it’s odd that Emeraeld Fennell would show up in Best Director, but not First Feature, it seems obvious, this organization is spreading the love between several films. There are no huge surprises here, which makes this welcome sight after the confusion of BAFTA. The Awards Best Director Lee Isaac Chung – Minari Emerald Fennell…
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Precursor: 62nd British Academy Nominations (2020)
If you had BAFTA on your BINGO card for being utterly useless this year, you may have just won all the marbles. The Mauritanian surprises with a Best Film nomination, but nothing for Directing. Meanwhile, Promising Young Woman gets in to the small Best Film slate while getting left off for directing and acting. These…
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Precursor: 14th Detroit Critics Awards (2020)
While their nominations were a bit outside the mainstream, there winners certainly were not. Awards Tallies (4) Nomadland (3) Minari The Awards
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Precursor: 17th Women Critics Awards (2020)
The final of the three women-only film critics organizations went in for Promising Young Woman and Never Rarely Sometimes Always more so than most other groups and even managed to give some love to the otherwise critically maligned Antebellum. Nominations Tallies (6) Promising Young Woman (4) Antebellum, Never Rarely Sometimes Always (3) Ammonite, The Invisible…
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Precursor: 14th Detroit Critics Nominations (2020)
Detroit’s selections seem a bit out of the mainstream, largely ignoring films like Mank and Promising Young Woman while loving minor contenders like First Cow. Nominations Tallies (6) Minari (5) Sound of Metal, The Trial of the Chicago 7 (4) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Nomadland, One Night in Miami (3) Da 5 Bloods, First Cow…
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Precursor: 73rd Directors Guild Doc Nominations (2020)
Some of the major Oscar contenders are here while others are not. It’s not very instructive as this is a directing award, not a producing award, but we’ll see. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw – The Truffle Hunters Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed – My Octopus Teacher David France – Welcome to…
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Precursor: 32nd Producers Guild Nominations (2020)
With no box office smash to take up the not-gonna-make-it slot with the PGA, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm fills that role, which might suggest it was popular enough. The rest of the films have been regular mentions in this year’s Oscar race. That’s especially true of Bes5t Animated Feature where this is the exact slate I…
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Precursor: 26th Critics Choice Awards (2020)
As always, this year’s winners seem like very likely to carry over to the Oscars, though Maria Bakalova is the least likely to do so. Heck, she’s the only one not assured a nomination. Awards Tallies (4) Nomadland (3) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2) Minari, Promising Young Woman, The Trial of the Chicago 7 (1)…
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Precursor: 4th Hollywood Critics Awards (2020)
Promising Young Woman and Birds of Prey did incredibly well showing that the HCA might well be the most feminist organization outside of the actual female-only organizations. Awards Tallies (4) Promising Young Woman (3) Birds of Prey (2) Da 5 Bloods, The Invisible Man, Minari, Nomadland, Sound of Metal The Awards
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Precursor: 10th Georgia Critics Nominations (2020)
Georgia’s film critics seem to be like what every other critic group loves, so there isn’t much new here. Nominations Tallies (8) Minari (7) Mank, One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman (6) Sound of Metal (5) Nomadland (4) The Father, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Trial of the Chicago…
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2020 Precursor Predictions: Critics Choice Awards
There are reasons this organization has an outsized influence on the Oscars, but those reasons are complex and could easily be considered sniping, so I’ll just leave it at this: The former Broadcast Film Critics Association has a good track record. And as one of only three televised awards shows leading up to the Oscars,…
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Precursor: 20th AARP Movies for Grownups Awards (2020)
In a strange series of events, not only did the worst reviewed film on the list of best movies win the prize, but no film outside of The Trial of the Chicago 7 took more than one award. A strange series of events, indeed. Awards Tallies (2) The Trial of the Chicago 7 The Awards
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Precursor: 23rd Costume Designers Guild Nominations (2020)
The Costume Designers Guild have finally added Sci-Fi to their Fantasy description to better distinguish where certain films should compete. Their contemporary category has picked up a few such films in the past, which makes it difficult to defend. As for what we’ve expected to be in contention this year, the notable omissions include The…
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Precursor: 29th Annie Awards Nominations (2020)
Soul was the clear leader at the Annie Awards, but Wolfwalkers gave it a run for its money. Meanwhile, Onward also did well, but The Croods: A New Age, Over the Moon, and non-Oscar contender The Willoughbys also had solid totals. Most nominations usually means most wins at the annual ceremony, so Soul is likely…
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Precursor: 62nd BAFTA Rising Star Nominations (2020)
This year’s diverse batch of Rising Star nominees is a minor list of actors in films that did not reach a broad cross-section of international audiences, so the choice might be difficult to make, at least in terms of prediction. The Nominations Rising Star Award Bukky Bakray Kingsley Ben-Adir Morfydd Clark Ṣọpẹ́ Dirisu Conrad Khan…
