Category: AL Precursors
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78th Cannes Film Festival
And our third and most recent festival, Cannes. The Festival Palme d’Or It Was Just an Accident Grand Prix Sentinmental Value Prix du Jury Sirât Sound of Falling Best Director Kleber Mendonça Filho – The Secret Agent Camera d’Or (Best First Film) The President’s Cake Best Actor Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent Best Actress…
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75th Berlin Film Festival
Covering the other early-year festival entry, here are the results from the Berlin Film Festival, also referred to as Berlinale The Festival Golden Bear Dreams (Sex Love) Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize (2nd Place) The Blue Trail Silver Bear Jury Prize (3rd Place) The Message Silver Bear for Best Director Huo Meng – Living the…
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48th Sundance Film Festival
In the first of our festival postings for the new year, here’s what happened at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The Festival Grand Jury Prize U.S. Dramatic Atropia Audience Award U.S. Dramatic Twinless Directing Award U.S. Dramatic Rashad Frett – Ricky Screenwriting Sorry, Baby Editing André Is an Idiot Grand Jury World Cinema Dramatic…
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Contenders 25: May Update
For our May update, we’re looking at everything that has moved on to a new stage. There aren’t many at this early stage of the year but we have a few. Moving to Stage 3 There are two films that have moved on to Stage 3. This means the film has released wide. Sinners (Stage…
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Contenders 25: April Opening
A few weeks ago, I went over the results of last year’s Contenders series and announced I would be revising those guidelines. While I did mention some of the changes I would, for certain, make. There were others I hadn’t quite settled on. Starting next week, this year’s series will be begin. Before I get…
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Contenders 24: Final Analysis
As I look over the results of the 2024 Contenders series, I’m struck by the sheer breadth of contenders that were offered up throughout the year. It was startling just how many films met the stringent guidelines for inclusion and also how many of them failed to live up to lofty Oscar-caliber aspirations. It’s also…
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64th American Cinema Editors Awards
A Very surprising set of winners, ones that might have thrown us off if they’d happened during Oscar season. However, I suspect that since the original awards were supposed to take place before the collapse of Emilia Pérez, that voting had already been concluded. That could explain why Emilia Pérez won. That said, I can’t…
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Predictions: American Cinema Editors
They had to move their ceremony because of the wildfires but they chose to sit comfortably after the Oscars rather than before so these are mostly moot. AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS AWARDS Legend: Winner Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Runner-Up Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Best Drama Editing Civil War PP Conclave…
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34th Razzie Awards
Madame web was this year’s biggest loser but all of these “winners” are essentially losers. Awards Tallies (3) Madame Web (2) Joker: Folie à Deux, Madame Web, Megalopolis, Unfrosted (1) Reagan, Shadow Land, Strangers The Awards Worst Picture Madame Web Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel Joker: Folie à Deux Worst Director Francis Ford Coppola…
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62nd Publicists Guild Film Awards
Nothing surprising here. The Awards Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Motion Picture Wicked Les Mason Award, the highest honor publicists can bestow on one of their own Bill Mona, Disney Press Award Perri Nemiroff, Collider Publicist of the Year Rachael Roth, Unit Publicist Best Unit Still Photography for Motion Pictures Chiabella James International Media Award John…