Category: AL Precursors
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20th Austin Critics Awards
Austin’s critics have avoided one of their most nominated films (Dune: Part Two) completely. Their big winners were Anora, Sing Sing, and a bunch of films that start with “The.” Awards Tallies (5) Anora (4) Sing Sing (2) The Brutalist, The Substance, The Wild Robot (1) The Fall Guy, The First Omen, The Seed of…
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56th NAACP Image Awards Nominations
Of the six most nominated films of the year, only 3 of them are good enough to be nominated for Best Motion Picture while one film with only two nominations (including Best Picture) is also slated. Perhaps if the quality of the inclusions weren’t inferior to the quality of the exclusions, it might not be…
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65th British Academy Rising Star Nominees
BAFTA has announced their Rising Star selections (Please note I use the periods to help make entering data into my spreadsheet easier for tracking when there are contenders in the list and that applies to Mikey Madison, a likely Best Actress nominee who would normally have a solid shot at winning this…if they didn’t open…
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32nd Cinema Audio Society Nominations
With this and the Motion Picture Sound Editors, we can probably form a pretty good guess as to which of the Academy shorlisted films will make it through. Let’s start with what’s missing between the Academy’s list and the CAS’s. Emilia Pérez, Alien: Romulus, Blitz, and Joker: Folie à Deux. The only two to miss…
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77th Directors Guild Doc Nominations
All five of these films are shortlisted, so you could be looking at your final Oscar nominees but hold off until you see what PGA selects before committing. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev – Porcelain War Julian Brave Noisecat & Emily Kassie – Sugarcane Johan Grimonprez – Soundtrack to a Coup…
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Contenders: Final Pre-Nominations Update
For our final update before the Oscar nominations are announced, several films moved on to the next stage. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders. We will also take a step in a different direction for our lists at the end. In addition…
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72nd Sound Editors Guild Nominations
With two films earning 3 nominations and six earning two, we can clearly see where the excitement is. While the Motion Picture Sound Editors no longer have a forecast for the Sound Editing category that the Academy got rid of, they still give us an idea of how the sound community feels ahead of the…
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7th Greater WNY Critics Awards
Going way out on a limb with their love of Challengers, this group avoided most of the other consensus picks by other orgs. Awards Tallies (4) Challengers (3) Sing Sing (2) A Real Pain (1) Hard Truths, His Three Daughters, Nickel Boys, Nosferatu, The Wild Robot The Awards Best Picture Challengers Best Animated Feature The…
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82nd Golden Globe Awards
It was a big day for films from foreign nations. Emilia Pérez, Flow, and I’m Still Here won big prizes while The Brutalist led the English-language fare. There were no huge surprises, though we all thought things might go differently on the comedy side. This definitely indicates a changed Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The influx…
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13th Georgia Critics Nominations
A pretty even spread of nominations with the top 8 vote-getters within 3 nominations of each other. Obviously the technical and period films have an advantage but no one should be ashamed of these results. Nominations Tallies (8) The Brutalist (7) Dune: Part Two (6) Wicked (5) Anora, Conclave, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, The Substance…