Category: Precursors
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Contenders: May Update
For our May update, a small number of films moved on from one stage to the next. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders. Moving to Stage 2 We have one film moving into Stage 2. This means that these films have finally…
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76th Writers Guild Awards
It’s probably for the best these didn’t come out before the Oscar nominations. The Awards Best Original Screenplay The Holdovers (RU:Wesley, RU:Peter, RU:Thomas) Best Adapted Screenplay American Fiction (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Documentary Screenplay The Pigeon Tunnel (Wesley, RU:Thomas) Writers Guild of America Data Year Founded: 1933 First Awards: 1948 (76)
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Predictions: Writers Guild of America
Weeks after the Oscars were held, the Writers Guild of America finally reveals their winners. We’ll see if the Oscar winners carry over or if the Barbie shift back to original will benefit that film or hinder others. And with this group, we finally wrap up our coverage of the 96th Oscars. WRITERS GUILD OF…
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4th Critics Choice Super Awards
No film swept the specific genre categories with several films winning multiple awards. What will always be shocking is when a non-Best Picture nominee beats out a Best Picture nominee. Poor Things being so good it deserves a Best Picture nomination but not good enough to beat Godzilla Minus One? Preposterous. Awards Tallies (2) Godzilla…
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Contenders: A New Year
After a solid first year with the Contenders series, I wanted to try to adapt and refine my methodology to see if we could increase the accuracy. To that extent, one of my first changes was in segmenting out each film into a handful of categories if you will. Each of them represent a different…
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4th Critics Choice Super Awards Nominations
With some odd category placements these nominations are a bit confusing. Nominations Tallies (5) Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (4) Godzilla Minus One, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, John Wick: Chapter 4, Poor Things (3) Evil Dead Rise, M3GAN, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2) Blue Beetle, The Creator, Extraction 2, Nimona, Scream…
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55th NAACP Image Awards
They might as well have named their awards the NAACP Color Purple Awards since that film absolutely dominated everyone else. It makes sense since the film was the only one that really seemed like an Oscar contender that wasn’t. Awards Tallies (11) The Color Purple (2) Brother, Creed III, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (1) The…
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28th Satellite Awards
The Satellite Awards went different directions in the craft categories but mostly provided minimal surprises. Award Tallies (4) The Holdovers, Oppenheimer (3) Maestro (2) American Fiction, Barbie, Poor Things (1) Bad Press, The Boy and the Heron, Killers of the Flower Moon, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Napoleon, The Zone of Interest The…
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33rd Razzie Awards
The low-hanging fruit were picked and no one cared. Award Tallies (5) Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2) Expend4bles (1) Johnny & Clyde, Mercy The Awards Worst Picture Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey Worst Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey Worst Actor Jon Voight –…
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61st Publicists Guild Film Awards
Only one award featured films and that award went as expected. The Awards Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Motion Picture Barbie Les Mason Award, the highest honor publicists can bestow on one of their own Gabriela Gutentag, Unit Publicist Press Award Jen Yamato, LA Times Publicist of the Year Julia Neal, Paramount Pictures Best Unit Still…