Category: AL Precursors

  • 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards

    31st Screen Actors Guild Awards

    While most of the winners were as expected, the top award and that of Best Actor were surprises going to Conclave and Timothée Chalamet. We’ll see whether that’s foreshadowing or a blip on the Oscar radar. Awards Tallies (1) A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, The Fall Guy, A Real Pain, The Substance The Awards…

  • 25th Vancouver Critics Awards

    25th Vancouver Critics Awards

    Nothing particularly exciting or new in these awards. Awards Tallies (5) Can I Get a Witness? (3) My Old Ass (2) Anora, A Real Pain (1) A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Flow, Matt and Mara, No Other Land, The Substance, Sugarcane, Young Werther The Awards Best Picture Anora Best Director Denis Villeneuve – Dune:…

  • 29th OFTA Film Awards

    29th OFTA Film Awards

    This awards season has been characterized by a spread-the-love approach with plenty of films failing to dominate everything else. Best Picture only winning two other awards is a common occurrence with the OFTA, so the result of Anora winning the top award and little else is not unexpected. Awards Tallies (5) The Substance (3) Anora,…

  • 32nd Cinema Audio Society Awards

    32nd Cinema Audio Society Awards

    It’s a big surprise that Dune: Part Two didn’t pick up this prize. That said, the film has been underperforming most of the year, so perhaps this shouldn’t be a surprise. That said, BAFTA went Dune: Part Two, so there’s still hope for it at the Oscars. If A Complete Unknown picks up the MPSE…

  • 56th NAACP Image Awards

    56th NAACP Image Awards

    Not much to say about these when they went with films and performances that are objectively not among the year’s best or most popular. Awards Tallies (5) The Six Triple Eight (3) Nickel Boys (2) Luther: Never Too Much, The Piano Lesson, Wicked (1) Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Emilia Pérez, Fight Night: The Million…

  • 38th USC Scripter Awards

    38th USC Scripter Awards

    With this award, there will be nothing standing in the way of Conclave taking the equivalent award at the Oscars. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay Conclave WL PP TL USC Scripter Data Year Founded: 1988 First Awards: 1987 (38)

  • 40th Spirit Awards

    40th Spirit Awards

    As expected, Oscar contenders did better than those that weren’t Oscar-nominated. Anora took top honors and put Demi Moore on her backfoot again. Awards Tallies (3) Anora (2) Dìdi, A Real Pain (1) Familiar Touch, Flow, Girls Will Be Girls, His Three Daughters, My Old Ass, Nickel Boys, No Other Land, A Photographic Memory, September…

  • Predictions: Motion Picture Sound Editors

    Predictions: Motion Picture Sound Editors

    This is the other feeder guild for the Best Sound Oscar. They have more categories and thus more opportunities to match up with Oscar. MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS AWARDS Legend: Winner Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Runner-Up Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Best Sound Editing: Feature Effects / Foley Alien: Romulus…

  • Predictions: Cinema Audio Society

    Predictions: Cinema Audio Society

    The Best Sound Oscar was combined a few years ago to incorporate both the sound mixing and sound editing categories. As such, there are two precursors that could have an impact on the category. The first of these is the Cinema Audio Society. Our predictions are below. CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY AWARDS Legend: Winner Predictions: Wesley…

  • Predictions: American Society of Cinematographers

    Predictions: American Society of Cinematographers

    One of the most accurate guild precursors is the American Society of Cinematographers. In recent years, their unexpected nominations have landed those individuals Oscar nominations. The winners have been more accurate in recent years but they also like to honor longtime, prominent cinematographers, so they aren’t always accurate. Here are our predictions. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF…