Category: AL Precursors

  • 58th Kansas City Critics Nominations

    58th Kansas City Critics Nominations

    Kansas City’s critics had a lot of ties in the nominations but primarily went for two films with several others doing well with 5 or fewer nominations. Nominations Tallies (8) Dune: Part Two (7) The Substance (5) Anora, Wicked (4) Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing (3) Civil War, I Saw the TV Glow,…

  • 18th Women Journalists Awards

    18th Women Journalists Awards

    The Alliance of Women Film Journalists have surprisingly not released their shame awards this year and I kind of miss it. The selections are fairly predictable though the Brutalist selection is a bit confusing consider what they had to recognize outside of that. Awards Tallies (4) The Substance (3) Conclave (2) All We Imagine as…

  • 24th AARP Movies for Grownups Nominations

    24th AARP Movies for Grownups Nominations

    The AARP voters are surprisingly astute this year with few head-scratchers. Gladiator II is the biggest headscratcher. Though, Jude Law, Ridley Scott, Pedro Almodóvar, and Connie Nielsen are all pretty loco too. Nominations Tallies (6) Conclave (5) A Complete Unknown (4) Gladiator II (3) The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, September 5, Sing Sing (2) Dìdi, Here,…

  • 29th Art Directors Guild Nominations

    29th Art Directors Guild Nominations

    Due to the fires in southern California, several groups have postponed their nominations announcements. The Art Directors Guild wasn’t one of them. There’s a great deal of overlap between this group and the Set Decorators Society of America, suggesting almost everything here is a contender. Films that failed to show up at either include Blitz…

  • 77th Directors Guild Nominations

    77th Directors Guild Nominations

    Today’s other major guild announcement is good news for some, bad news for others. Coralie Fargeat, Denis Villeneuve, and Jon M. Chu all desperately needed a citation here to stay in contention for the Oscars. The all-male list might spur the Academy to replace someone (probably Mangold) with Fargeat. Chu had always seemed like an…

  • 31st Screen Actors Guild Nominations

    31st Screen Actors Guild Nominations

    There was no live announcement this year because of the California wildfires but the nominations have been announced and are below. The five Best Cast nominees have likely secured Best Picture berths as all five have been in the conversation for nominations. The admiration of Wicked, with nominations in all but one category (but including…

  • 8th Chicago Indie Critics Nominations

    8th Chicago Indie Critics Nominations

    Chicago’s independent film critics have gone heavy for two titles that haven’t gotten nearly as much broad love as its lower-nominated films. Nosferatu and The Substance really outdid themselves this time. Nominations Tallies (11) Nosferatu, The Substance (10) The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two (8) The Wild Robot (7) Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, Wicked (5) Anora…

  • 9th Hawaii Critics Nominations

    9th Hawaii Critics Nominations

    The question of why this organization exists is a perpetual one. They are such a small group that idiosyncratic choices are common but none more bizarre than one of the nominees for Best Comic Book Movie also being nominated as one of the worst movies of the year. It takes a lot of effort not…

  • 13th Georgia Critics Awards

    13th Georgia Critics Awards

    Georgia has spread the love with lots of selections that replicate other groups without creating much of their own identity. Awards Tallies (3) Anora (2) Challengers, Dune: Part Two, Flow (1) Conclave, Juror #2, Nickel Boys, Nosferatu, The Piano Lesson, A Real Pain, Sing Sing, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story The Awards Best Picture Anora…

  • 18th Houston Critics Nominations (2024)

    18th Houston Critics Nominations (2024)

    Houston’s critics have nicely spread out their nominations, picking up most of what’s been recognized so far this year. The one shocking omission in Best Picture is Emilia Pérez. Nominations Tallies (9) The Brutalist (8) Conclave (6) Anora, Dune: Part Two, Wicked (5) Sing Sing (4) Emilia Pérez, The Substance (3) A Complete Unknown, Nickel…