Category: Precursors

The Canadian list always seems to come down to the same titles over and over again. They don’t have the output of the US, so that’s not surprising, but almost none of these films made any crossover appeal. Nominations Tallies (7) Night Raiders (5) All My Puny Sorrows, Scarborough (3) Be Still, The White Fortress…

Vancouver is really late the game and their selections just aren’t that interesting as a result. They make odd choices and The Power of the Dog takes the most nominations, but doesn’t get in for either actor or screenplay, two of the odder choices. The Canadian film nominations haven’t been announced and I have no…

Leave it to the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild voters to do something unexpected. They went hard for Coming 2 America while leaving Dune in the dust and even went so far as to go left-field with their period hair styling award. Awards Tallies (3) Coming 2 America The Awards

If a group wanted to make a case for its own irrelevancy, this kis the kind of slate they would honor. When they weren’t falling all over themselves to honor Disney movies, they were going for obscure titles that most people haven’t even heard of. Awards Tallies (2) Coppelia The Awards

Film Independent always announces its grant winners prior to the awards. Below are the winners. The Awards Producers Award Lizzie Shapiro Someone to Watch Award Alex Camilleri Truer Than Fiction Award Jessica Beshir Spirit Awards Data First Awards: 1985 (36)

And here we have the Oscar nominations for the best films of 2021. There were many surprises, some of them good, some of them great, some of them not so good. The Power of the Dog came out the big winner, surprisingly topping even Dune. Those Production Design and Sound nominations announcement early told us…

A little more irrelevant than usual, considering their selection of several films no one has probably heard of. Picking on a filmed stage musical is the lowest of the low-hanging fruit. Not sure what the point of that is. The most interesting thing about this list is that two actors who have won awards this…

One of the last critics groups to announce, London has gone all-in on The Power of the Dog as well, giving it four of its top awards. Awards Tallies (4) The Power of the Dog (2) Drive My Car, Passing, The Souvenir Part II The Awards

The OFTA released a set of nominees that looks like a lot of other lists. There are some notable surprises along the way, but mostly Nominations we’ve seen regularly before. Dune, West Side Story, and CODA had a huge day. The Power of the Dog, Mass, tick, tick…BOOM!, and Spencer had a solid day. Meanwhile,…

If you ever want to know how weird their eligibility rules are, just consider that Coppelia was never released to theaters in the US. Anyway, not much to see here as their correlation to the Oscars is mediocre at best. Nominations Tallies (3) Coppelia (2) Buckley’s Chance, Dune, The Green Knight, Jungle Cruise, The Last…

It must first be noted that British films often perform much better with this group than they do with the Academy. This allows the 5 nominations for No Time to Die and 4 for After Love and Boiling Point to be disregarded. What’s most noticeable is the absence of Spencer, which really should have been…

Last year’s group was largely unknown, but this year, there’s two potential Oscar nominees in the bunch and one person who’s been in several movies already, so it’s a much more familiar group. The Nominations Rising Star Award Ariana DeBose Harris Dickinson Lashana Lynch Millicent Simmonds Kodi Smit-McPhee British Academy of Film & Television Arts…

These finally announced and there’s not much to say about the list. It’s pretty straight forward with few major contenders ignored. The Nominations