Category: 94th Oscars (2021)
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Precursor: 55th Kansas City Critics Awards (2021)
KC gave one award to every film besides its Best Picture winner, The Power of the Dog. Not much needs to be said about this list other than in several places, they went against the prevailing wisdom. Awards Tallies (3) The Power of the Dog The Awards
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Precursor: 25th Online Critics Nominations (2021)
The OFCS list looks like a lot of other lists this year with an overindulgence of foreign features, both English-language and not. There aren’t too many surprises here. Nominations Tallies (9) Dune, The Power of the Dog (8) West Side Story (5) Drive My Car, Licorice Pizza (4) The French Dispatch, The Green Knight, Pig…
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Precursor: 20th Visual Effects Society Nominations (2021)
The latest guild to announce nominations certified that Dune is, far and away, this year’s frontrunner for Best Visual Effects at the Oscars. With 6 nominations to Shang-Chi‘s 4, it’s clear they are head-over-heels for the film by comparison. Nominations Tallies (6) Dune, Encanto (5) Raya and the Last Dragon (4) Luca, Shang-Chi and the…
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Precursor: 19th African American Critics Awards, Part 2 (2021)
It’s rather sad when the niche film groups are doing more to deviate from the narrative than any other group. They stick with a couple common choices (Will Smith & Aunjanue Ellis), but for the most part, they’ve gone out on the limb in a number of spots. Awards Tallies (3) The Harder They Fall,…
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Precursor: 6th Seattle Critics Nominations (2021)
It seems like critics are jumping all over themselves to look alike this year. There’s nothing hip about choosing the foreign language film and Seattle just seems to be following the leaders rather than blazing new ground. Awards Tallies (4) Drive My Car (3) Dune, The Green Knight (2) The Power of the Dog The…
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 7
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). We are finally reaching the end of the critics phase of our precursor season. They are slowing to…
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Precursor: 25th Toronto Critics Awards (2021)
More wins for Drive My Car. Would be nice to see some groups taking risks rather than playing it safe. Awards Tallies (3) Drive My Car, The Lost Daughter The Awards Best Picture Drive My Car (Runners-Up: Licorice Pizza, The Power of the Dog) Best Animated Feature Flee (Runners-Up: Encanto, The Mitchells vs. the Machines)…
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Precursor: 6th Hawaii Critics Awards (2021)
Having such a small group, minority opinion can reign supreme and that’s especially true with the Hawaii critics, which is the smallest group currently giving awards, thus CODA and Last Night in Soho were the top pics while films like The Power of the Dog, Drive My Car, and others were ignored. Awards Tallies (4)…
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Precursor: 11th Georgia Critics Awards (2021)
Georgia’s film critics went for Licorice Pizza big time, giving the less frequently cited film a shot in the arm, even if it’s a minor one. Awards Tallies (6) Licorice Pizza (3) Dune (2) The Power of the Dog The Awards
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Precursor: 13th Denver Film Critics Nominations (2021)
I have no idea when these were announced. They just showed up on IMDb, so who knows. Anyway, there’s not much to see here. Though, they are one of the few groups to cite Spider-Man: No Way Home for Best Picture. Nominations Tallies (7) The Power of the Dog (6) Dune (4) Belfast, Drive My…
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Precursor: 63rd British Academy Longlists (2021)
A traditional slate of longlist submissions this year with some interesting things to say about what can make it all the way to the Oscars and won’t most likely won’t. A lot of what we’ve been talking about so far is evident on these lists while some other narratives that have been developing throughout precursor…
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Precursor: 28th Screen Actors Guild Nominations (2021)
What a bizarre set of nominees. Some of the expected ones showed up, but several did not. The Power of the Dog earned three nominations for its ensemble, but then none for the cast as a whole. That’s probably the most ludicrous change here. This does bolster Don’t Look Up to a minor extent. It…
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Precursor: 21st AARP Movies for Grownups Nominations (2021)
For some strange reason, they eliminated their screenwriting award. Still, Belfast came out well with two actors on the list. It’s noteworthy that to get nominated for the acting or directing categories, you have to be AARP-eligible, which is age 50. What’s noteworthy is that Jared Leto, of all people, just barely made the cut…
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Precursor: 13th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations (2021)
Of the ten films that made the finalist list for this year’s Oscars, Cyrano and Nightmare Alley were the only films not to make this list while Being the Ricardos is the only multi-nominee that wasn’t on the Oscars’ list. Usually, 3 nominations with this group is a good sign, so we might have four…
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Precursor: 59th Publicists Guild Nominations (2021)
There isn’t much to look at here since they didn’t announce their showmanship nominees, so we’ll hopefully find out more about them at a later date. The Nominations
