Category: Precursors
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 9
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 week with all of the guilds announcing nominations (except the Screen Actors Guild who already had), it’s…
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94th Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – February
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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Precursor: 15th Women Journalists Awards (2021)
Not much to say about these since they went largely as most of the season has gone. Nominations Tallies (11) The Power of the Dog (2) Encanto The Awards
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Precursor: 74th Directors Guild Nominations (2021)
While the Best Director slate isn’t as diverse as it has been in the past, we have four nominees we expected to see there with Paul Thomas Anderson rounding out the list. This is exactly my current five predictions for that category, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see it copied by the Academy. The…
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Precursor: 33rd Producers Guild Nominations (2021)
This was the penultimate guild announcement today, with the Directors Guild of America still pending, but this is a hugely important one for any film wanting a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars. Usually, one blockbuster makes this list, but I don’t see Spider-Man: No Way Home, which many thought would be this year’s biggest…
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Precursor: 61st American Cinema Editors Nominations (2021)
A film rarely wins the Oscar without a Best Film Editing nomination. The ACE is a prime predictor of the Oscar category of Film Editing, so missing here is a bad sign. First, the ugly: West Side Story and Cyrano, although musicals, were eligible in the overpacked Drama category. That doesn’t help either film, but…
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Precursor: 74th Writers Guild Nominations (2021)
Before we dig into the good, the bad, and the ugly, we must remember that WGA has very strict rules that no other guild has, regarding eligibility. Only guild members writing scripts under guild contracts are eligible for nomination. This means that some prominent contenders we explicably absent: Belfast, A Hero, Mass, Parallel Mothers, and…
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Precursor: 24th Costume Designers Guild Nominations (2021)
This is the first good news Cyrano has received in some time. Yet, it’s not such good news for Belfast, Spencer, or Licorice Pizza. Other Oscar contenders that were shut out include Cinderella, The French Dispatch, The Last Duel, Last Night in Soho, Passing, and The Tragedy of Macbeth. The Nominations Best Period Costume Design…
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Precursor: 74th Directors Guild Doc Nominations (2021)
Exterminate All the Brutes is the only title listed here that hasn’t been considered as a contender for the Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Jessica Kingdon – Ascension Stanley Nelson – Attica Raoul Peck – Exterminate All the Brutes Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson – Summer of Soul (…Or, When the…
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Precursor: 29th Cinema Audio Society Nominations (2021)
All five of these nominees are on the Academy’s shortlist, so we don’t get any real peak into what could happen other than the inclusion of No Time to Die over The Matrix Resurrections and The Power of the Dog over Belfast. Considering the Jane Campion’s film is a relatively quiet one that doesn’t have…
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Precursor: 36th Society of Cinematographers Nominations (2021)
Two of the year’s numerous black-and-white films made the list as did three expected color features. Belfast was the title I was least sure would be included, but the film managed to eke out a nomination over popular Janusz Kaminski for West Side Story. Cyrano, The Green Knight, Licorice Pizza, and Passing were most injured…
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8
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). The critics are dwindling. With only a handful left to announce, the next week will be mostly guild…
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Precursor: 25th Online Critics Awards (2021)
The OFCS gave The Power of the Dog a clean sweep of its nominated categories. For once, I’m actually quite pleased with these results. I’m not sure if editing was entirely deserved, but they clearly have good taste. Awards Tallies (9) The Power of the Dog (3) Dune (2) The Lost Daughter The Awards
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Precursor: 69th Motion Picture Sound Editors Nominations (2021)
With Sound Editing now a part of the Sound award, we look to these for signs of weakness rather than a definitive precursor since the Sound Mixing category is the more familiar component of the new category. Of the Sound shortlisted films, it’s rather surprising that three of the four top nominees are there, but…
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Precursor: 26th Art Directors Guild Nominations (2021)
Major contenders missing from this list include three really big ones: Cyrano, Belfast, and House of Gucci as well as three minor ones: The Last Duel, Last Night in Soho, and The Power of the Dog. This will definitely help the campaigns for The French Dispatch, Licorice Pizza, and The Green Knight. The Nominations Best…
