Category: 93rd Oscars (2020)

Denver’s selections are largely in line with other precursors with the exception of their left-field Best Film and Supporting Actor choices. The Ellen Burstyn nod is a good sign for her. Awards Tallies (3) The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2) Soul The Awards

Minari was the best represented film here, but Nomadland, Soul, and The Trial of the Chicago 7 also did very well. Promising Young Woman and films with black leads did poorly, however. Da 5 Bloods, One Night in Miami, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom are all barely mentioned, which is a bit surprising. Nominations Tallies…

A quintuple indie line up marks this set of San Francisco Bay Area critics nominations. Matter of fact, the indies just kind of run roughshod over this year’s awards in general. Nominations Tallies (7) Nomadland (6) Mank, Minari (5) First Cow (4) Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, One Night…

The Critics Choice Association has announced their predictions for this year’s 93rd Oscars. That should say “nominations,” but their penchant for expanding categories to make enough room for all Oscar contenders is suspicious. They aren’t infallible, but they are generally pretty accurate. Of course, getting five out of eight or nine nominations to match is…

Washington DC made some pretty standard selections, choosing a slate of winners that is almost entirely duplicated in part by other groups. Awards Tallies (5) Nomadland (3) Soul (2) Minari, One Night in Miami The Awards

Minari does surprisingly well with the Seattle film critics while The Trial of the Chicago 7 and One Nigh in Miami do disappointingly. Ma Rainey’s picked up a few citations, as did Da 5 Bloods, but neither were in Best Picture while Judas and the Black Messiah was. Nominations Tallies (8) Minari (6) First Cow,…

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…