Category: 2024 Precursors
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52nd Saturn Award Nominations
The biggest blockbusters of the year did really well in these nominations. The deadlines were prior to some of the year-end releases, so we won’t know how something like Wicked does until next year. Award Tallies (14) Dune: Part Two (13) Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (10) Deadpool & Wolverine (8) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes…
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2nd Michigan Critics Guild Nominations
Michigan’s movie critics (who may well have taken over after the disappearance of the Detroit Film Critics Society, have picked Anora, The Brutalist, and Wicked in most categories with The Substance also doing surprisingly well. Nominations Tallies (6) Anora, The Brutalist, Wicked (5) The Substance (3) Nosferatu (2) Dune: Part Two, Piece by Piece, Saturday…
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37th European Film Awards
We already saw Emilia Pérez do well in the craft categories and now it’s stomped all comers in most of the major categories. Are the European Film Awards becoming a tryout for Oscar now? We’ll see but trendlines point to yes. Award Tallies (5) Emilia Pérez (2) The Girl with the Needle, Souleyman’s Story, The…
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23rd DC Critics Nominations
DC’s film critics love Brutalist, Conclave and Wicked with Anora performing quote well in spite of its lack of technical achievements. Nominations Tallies (10) The Brutalist (9) Conclave (8) Wicked (7) Anora, Dune: Part Two (6) (5) Sing Sing (4) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (3) Emilia Pérez, Gladiator II, Inside Out 2,…
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9th Seattle Critics Nominations
Seattle’s critics were primarily impressed with action films (Dune: Part Two and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga). They also liked some substantive stuff but the performance of Challengers is a bit surprising considering its release much earlier this year. They also seemed to love The Beast, which has been a non-entity this year so far.…
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24th American Film Institute Top Ten
Every title on this list got good news. While the AFI list doesn’t always match up exactly at the Oscars, this seems like a list that could lead to that result. This is bad news for Gladiator II, Juror #2, September 5, and We Live in Time, the only American titles that had any hope…
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8th Hollywood Creative Alliance Nominations
These were announced at the end of November and Thanksgiving kept me from reporting on them. With all the others announcing this week, it was time to get these put in place, not that they matter much. This organization has been facing controversy after controversy that makes what the Globes went through look like a…
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37th European Film Awards – Creative Awards
Here are the winners of the creative arts awards from the European Film Awards. Award Tallies (2) The Girl with the Needle, The Substance (1) The Devil’s Bath, Emilia Pérez, Souleymane’s Story, When the Light Breaks The Awards Best Original Score The Girl with the Needle Best Editing Emilia Pérez Best Cinematography The Substance Best…
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40th Spirit Award Nominations
Another bad showing for The Brutalist but also for September 5, which had been building buzz throughout the fall and now seems to be getting stumped even on friendly ground. Also not helpful to Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Nominations Tallies (5) Anora, I Saw the TV Glow (4) Dìdi (3) The Apprentice, Janet Planet, Sing Sing (2)…
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96th National Board of Review Awards
A surprising film for Best Picture. It won’t make Wicked a winner but it will put it into the Best Picture race. Interesting how The Brutalist didn’t make the cut but Juror #2 did. The NBR has a thing for Clint Eastwood, so that’s no surprise. Kieran Culkin is so far the only duplicate acting…