Category: 2024 Precursors
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77th Directors Guild Awards
With this director win and the Critics Choice Award for Anora, we might be looking at a new frontrunner. The Awards Best Director Sean Baker – Anora PP Best First Feature RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys WL PP TL Best Documentary Director Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev – Porcelain War WL TL Directors Guild of America…
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36th Producers Guild Awards
Another victory for Anora. It sounds like the collapse of The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez have benefited the film greatly. The Awards Best Picture Anora WL Best Animated Feature The Wild Robot WL PP TL Best Documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story WL PP TL Producers Guild of America Data Year Founded: 1950 Film; 1957…
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52nd Annie Awards
A clean sweep by The Wild Robot. It goes into the Oscars as the dominant contender. Pair this with its PGA win tonight, it seems like it’s destined to win. Awards Tallies (9) The Wild Robot (2) Flow (1) Despicable Me 4, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Orion and the Dark, Wander to…
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5th Set Decorators Society Awards
A bit of a surprise that not all of the winners were Oscar nominees. Clearly, they have an interest in something different than we initially thought. The Awards Best Period Décor/Design A Complete Unknown Nil Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Décor/Design Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Nil Best Contemporary Décor/Design Conclave WL PP Best Comedy/Musical Décor/Design Wicked WL PP TL Set…
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30th Critics Choice Awards
What a weird batch of winners. Nothing with more than three awards, Best Picture taking only one. It was like they wanted to hand out an award to every film. The surprise of the night was Jon M. Chu winning Best Director when he wasn’t nominated at DGA or the Oscars. It was refreshing for…
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27th Costume Designers Guild Awards
All of this year’s winners are also Oscar nominees, so the winner will likely be one of these three pictures. The Awards Best Period Costume Design Nosferatu WL PP TL Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Costume Design Wicked WL PP TL Best Contemporary Costume Design Conclave WL TL Costume Designers Guild Data First Awards: 1998 (27)
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7th Latino Journalists Nominations
Latino and Latina journalists have chosen their best films of the year. Emilia Pérez was, unsurprisingly, the big nominee this year. Several other films doing about what would be expected of them. Los Frikis and I’m Still Here also did better than they have with other groups. Nominations Tallies (17) Emilia Pérez (10) Dune: Part…
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45th London Critics Awards
London’s critics though three films had more worthwhile merits than their own Best Picture winner. Hmmm… Awards Tallies (2) Conclave, Nickel Boys, A Real Pain (1) All We Imagine as Light, Anora, Bird, Blitz, The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, Hard Truths, Kneecap, No Other Land, The Outrun, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Wander to Wonder…
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67th Grammy Awards
Three winners from 2023 and one winner that was ineligible for this year’s Oscars. If it weren’t clear from the nominations, it’s certainly clear now. These will have no impact. The Awards Best Song Written for Visual Media It Never Went Away – American Symphony (2023) Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Dune: Part Two…
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29th OFTA Film Nominations
We see lots of the regular choices but Emilia Pérez didn’t seem to impress this group with a scant 3 nominations total. Wicked also does significantly better than most everywhere else. Nominations Tallies (19) Wicked (14) Dune: Part Two (13) Anora (11) The Brutalist (10) Conclave (9) The Substance (8) Challengers (7) Sing Sing (6)…