Category: 2023 Precursors

  • 24th Vancouver Critics Awards

    24th Vancouver Critics Awards

    While BlackBerry didn’t compete in the main categories, it cleaned up in the Canadian-only races while Seagrass did the same but in the British Columbian ones. Anatomy of a Fall won only two prizes, including Best Picture. Award Tallies (5) BlackBerry (3) Seagrass (2) Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal…

  • 4th Set Decorators Society Awards

    4th Set Decorators Society Awards

    Poor Things was the SDSA’s selection for Best Picture, the only category they didn’t have nominations in. The film also won the period award while Barbie took fantasy, putting these two against one another as the prime contenders for the Oscars. The Awards Best Period Set Decoration Poor Things (Wesley, Thomas) Best Fantasy Set Decoration…

  • 26th Film Music Critics Nominations

    26th Film Music Critics Nominations

    The Film Music critics have nominated a wide array of musical compositions for their awards. With multiple categories, it’s surprising that one of the Oscar nominees for Best Original Score (Killers of the Flower Moon) wasn’t nominated at all. Only two of them got multiple citations, Indiana Jones and Oppenheimer. It’s a good sign for…

  • 76th Directors Guild Awards

    76th Directors Guild Awards

    Winners are being announced. Below are the nominees and our predictions as well as the winners as they appear. Will update as often as possible. The Awards Best Director Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Best First Feature Celine Song – Past Lives (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Best Documentary Director Mstyslav Chernov – 20 Days…

  • 28th Art Directors Guild Awards

    28th Art Directors Guild Awards

    Winners are being announced. Below are all the nominees and any winners that have been announced. More as things develop. The Awards Best Period Art Direction Oppenheimer (Wesley, Thomas, RU:Peter) Best Fantasy Art Direction Poor Things (Peter, Thomas, RU:Wesley) Best Contemporary Art Direction Saltburn (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Best Animation Art Direction Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse…

  • 15th GALECA Nominations

    15th GALECA Nominations

    While LGBTQ films are usually more dominant than this, they still performed well enough with All of Us Strangers outperforming them all. Nominations Tallies (9) All of Us Strangers (7) Barbie (5) Anatomy of a Fall, May December, Oppenheimer, Past Lives (4) Poor Things (3) Bottoms, The Boy and the Heron, Rustin, Saltburn (2) Are…

  • 23rd AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

    23rd AARP Movies for Grownups Awards

    You have to wonder who votes for these awards because the selections are all over the place and while some make sense, some don’t. Award Tallies (2) Killers of the Flower Moon, Nyad (1) Barbie, The Color Purple, The Holdovers, Maestro, Oppenheimer, Rustin, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, The Zone of Interest The Awards…

  • 44th London Critics Awards

    44th London Critics Awards

    I always find it interesting when the “best film of the year” doesn’t win corresponding awards for “best British/Irish film” or “best foreign language film” when also nominated. It makes it seem like it’s not the actual best film of the year but that others are better than it they just want to make a…

  • 51st Saturn Awards

    51st Saturn Awards

    The Saturn Awards went pretty heavy for Avatar: The Way of Water with a smattering of love to Barbie and Oppenheimer among 2023’s releases. Award Tallies (4) Avatar: The Way of Water (3) Barbie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Oppenheimer (2) (1) Blue Beetle, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Mission: Impossible –…

  • 28th OFTA Film Nominations

    28th OFTA Film Nominations

    The OFTA didn’t seem to shy away from Barbie like the Academy did, nominating it in several key categories the Academy ignored. That, on top of all of its non-Oscar category citations, allowed Barbie to top the record Titanic set back in 1997 for most nominations, by two. They don’t count the poster/trailer categories, so…