Category: Precursors

Jane Campion’s feminist deconstruction of cowboy mythology struck a chord with the online female film critics who selected the film for Best Picture and three other awards with everything else getting split evenly among other titles. Awards Tallies (4) The Power of the Dog The Awards Best Picture The Power of the Dog (Runners-Up: Belfast,…

The vagueries of tiny critics groups become apparent when films that no one else sees as major contenders get the most attention. Award Tallies (4) Nightmare Alley (2) CODA, The Power of the Dog The Awards

With ASIFA Hollywood, you can often tell the dominant feature by how many nominations they receive. That puts three three Disney & Pixar efforts ahead of everyone else with The Mitchells vs. the Machines performing worse than expected and Flee doing better. Could this foreshadow the documentary Flee making the final Oscar list? It’s entirely…

Another win for The Power of the Dog and lots of familiar victors otherwise. Award Tallies (5) The Power of the Dog (2) Dune The Awards Top Ten Films The Power of the Dog Belfast King Richard West Side Story Licorice Pizza Dune Nightmare Alley The French Dispatch The Lost Daughter CODA Best Animated Film…

Phoenix is picking mostly the same selections as others, though this is a rare get for The Tragedy of Macbeth picking up the Cinematography prize and for Mike Feist as Best Supporting Actor. Awards Tallies (5) The Power of the Dog (2) Licorice Pizza The Awards

Is Mass picking up steam? It’s entirely possible. The film started out pretty slowly, but has been accumulating more and more awards and nominations as the season goes along rather than less. That said, this group’s selections are mostly split between out-there selections and ones others have been making as well. So, there isn’t a…

St. Louis critics are following along with their bigger city compatriots in most ways with Ann Dowd and Mass doing far better here than they’ve down elsewhere. Awards Tallies (4) The Power of the Dog (3) Licorice Pizza, Mass (2) Cruella, Dune The Awards Best Film Licorice Pizza Best Animated Film The Mitchells vs. the…

There’s not a lot to say about these awards except that they were mostly like other groups with some very bizarre selections (such as The Mitchells vs. the Machines for Best Original Screenplay). Either they didn’t get to see all of the film or personal predilections got in the way of films like Licorice Pizza,…

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association have tried to one-up the New York Film Critics Circle in just how far outside the mainstream they can go. This time, they have given all but five awards to either non-English language films or documentaries or (in the case of Flee), both. Whether they are just saying it…

Although The Power of the Dog easily led the nominations count, Benedict Cumberbatch was curiously missing from the list. Beyond that, Titane came out of this list with more nominations than The Worst Person in the World while the latter film is the one that made the Best Picture slate. A lot of out of…

The Power of the Dog was clearly dominant in these nominations, but Annette did incredibly well too. Strangely, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy did better with this group than did his Drive My Car. Definitely an outlier there. Nominations Tallies (9) The Power of the Dog (7) Annette (6) West Side Story (4)…

There are two things we always note with awards from the London Critics. The first is that their release windows vary slightly from the US in most case (or drastically in some others). Further, they have their own British/Irish slate of categories, which often bolsters the chances of those productions and the home territory advantage…

The North Texas Film Critics either didn’t see every movie or they didn’t like most of what everyone else liked. Belfast, The Power of the Dog, and King Richard were mostly left aside. It’s either a lack of exposure or a lack of diversity. Nominations Tallies (7) West Side Story (4) The Green Knight (3)…

Winning all but one of its 8 nominations, The Power of the Dog absolutely dominated this year’s Chicago Film Critics awards. Not much else to say here, but it looks like Jane Campion’s film is heading towards a solid run through the precursors towards at least Campion’s win of Best Directing at the Oscars if…