Category: 2025 Precursors
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30th San Diego Critics Awards
It’s the best film but doesn’t have the best or runner-up screenplay? These selections don’t quite make sense. Awards Tallies (4) Sinners (2) It Was Just an Accident, One Battle After Another, Weapons (1) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Black Bag, Eternity, Frankenstein, Good Boy, Hamnet, The History of Sound, If I Had Legs I’d Kick…
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25th AARP Movies for Grownups Nominations
Hamnet was only the best film, but didn’t win any other prizes though One Battle won three, curiously not for its director. Awards Tallies (3) One Battle After Another (2) Sentimental Value (1) Frankenstein, Hamnet, Is This Thing On?, Jay Kelly, My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay, Sinners, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere…
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3rd Michigan Critics Guild Awards
They really liked Sinners almost to the exclusion of all others. Awards Tallies (8) Sinners (1) Hamnet, KPop Demon Hunters, The Long Walk, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, One Battle After Another, The Perfect Neighbor The Awards Best Picture Sinners Best Animated Feature KPop Demon Hunters Best Director Ryan Coogler – Sinners Best Actor…
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39th USC Scripter Awards
It was a foregone conclusion but we had to play it out. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay One Battle After Another WL USC Scripter Data Year Founded: 1988 First Awards: 1987 (39)
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Predictions: 39th USC Scripter Awards
The only adapted screenplay precursor that doesn’t have a guild-member-only limitation. The Nominations Best Adapted Screenplay Frankenstein Nil Hamnet WL PP One Battle After Another WL Peter Hujar’s Day Nil Train Dreams PP Wesley Lovell: One Battle will be hard to beat but if anyone understands the significance of Hamnet, it’s this group. Pete Patrick:…
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16th Denver Film Critics Nominations
Nothing revelatory in these picks. Nominations Tallies (14) Sinners (12) One Battle After Another (8) Frankenstein, Sentimental Value (7) Hamnet (4) F1, Marty Supreme, Train Dreams (3) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, KPop Demon Hunters, Weapons, Zootopia 2 (2) Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Predator: Badlands, Tron: Ares, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives…
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19th Houston Critics Awards
The winners are pretty much as expected. Awards Tallies (9) Sinners (2) KPop Demon Hunters (1) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Hamnet, The Librarians, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, The Perfect Neighbor, Sentimental Value, Weapons The Awards Best Picture Sinners Best Animated Film KPop Demon Hunters Best Director Ryan Coogler – Sinners Best Actor Michael…
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19th Houston Critics Nominations
Pretty standard nomination offerings with a few odd ball picks thrown in the mix. Nominations Tallies (15) Sinners (13) One Battle After Another (7) Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value (6) Frankenstein (5) F1, Hamnet (3) The Secret Agent, Train Dreams (2) Bugonia, KPop Demon Hunters, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Weapons (1) The…
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33rd Cinema Audio Society Nominations
Interesting is that Avatar: Fire and Ash is not here, though it was on the Oscar shortlist. Mission: Impossible made it through, though, which is also interesting. The Nominations Best Sound Mixing – Live Action F1 Frankenstein Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning One Battle After Another Sinners Best Sound Mixing – Animated The Bad…
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13th North Carolina Critics Nominations
Not much in the way of original thinking here. Nominations Tallies (19) Sinners (16) One Battle After Another (11) Marty Supreme (10) Frankenstein (6) KPop Demon Hunters, No Other Choice, Sentimental Value (5) Hamnet, Train Dreams, Weapons (4) Bugonia, F1 (3) It Was Just an Accident, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Wicked:…
