Category: Precursors

  • 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards

    30th Screen Actors Guild Awards

    With the final precursor in several categories, the Oscar winners may well be set. Each of the leads needed this award to win the Oscar and they got it. Murphy and Gladstone are still in a tight race with Giamatti and Stone but, in the end, this will likely carry over 100% to the Oscars.…

  • Predictions: Producers Guild of America

    Predictions: Producers Guild of America

    While the Oscar outcome may seem inevitable, a shock victory here could turn the tides. PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS Best Picture American Fiction Anatomy of a Fall Barbie (RU:Wesley, RU:Thomas) The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon (RU:Peter) Maestro Oppenheimer (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Past Lives Poor Things The Zone of Interest Wesley Lovell: The…

  • Predictions: Spirit Awards

    Predictions: Spirit Awards

    With an uncharacteristically Oscar nominee-limited slate makes this particular set of awards even less representative than it typically is. SPIRIT AWARDS Best Feature All of Us Strangers (RU:Peter, RU:Thomas) American Fiction (Wesley) May December Passages Past Lives (Peter, Thomas, RU:Wesley) We Grown Now Wesley Lovell: While it’s not 100% sacrosanct, an Oscar nomination is a…

  • Predictions: Screen Actors Guild

    Predictions: Screen Actors Guild

    Will they affirm the current frontrunners or will they strike out on their own. SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS Best Cast American Fiction Barbie (RU:Wesley, RU:Thomas) The Color Purple Killers of the Flower Moon (RU:Peter) Oppenheimer (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Wesley Lovell: There are two potential outcomes here. One, Oppenheimer, as the Best Picture frontrunner, runs away…

  • 25th Costume Designers Guild Awards

    25th Costume Designers Guild Awards

    The expected winners won. Not much to see here and definitely no clue to the eventual Oscar race finish that we didn’t already know. The Awards Best Period Costume Design Poor Things (Wesley, Thomas, RU:Peter) Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Costume Design Barbie (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Best Contemporary Costume Design Saltburn (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Costume Designers Guild Data…

  • 22nd Visual Effects Society Awards

    22nd Visual Effects Society Awards

    The Creator was the big winner and that should make it the frontrunner for the Oscar in spite of losing at BAFTA since BAFTA honored a film that wasn’t even nominated for the Oscars. Award Tallies (5) The Creator (4) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (1) The Flash, Oppenheimer,…

  • 76th Writers Guild Nominations

    76th Writers Guild Nominations

    It’s probably for the best these didn’t come out before the Oscar nominations. We might have all been predicting a few of these that had no chance. The Nominations Best Original Screenplay Air Barbie The Holdovers May December Past Lives Best Adapted Screenplay American Fiction Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Killers of the…

  • Predictions: Costume Designers Guild

    Predictions: Costume Designers Guild

    What will win at the Costume Designers Guild? We’re pretty certain and, unfortunately, the Oscar race may not be decided with this one. COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD AWARDS Best Period Costume Design Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Napoleon (RU:Wesley, RU:Thomas) Oppenheimer (Peter) Poor Things (Wesley, Thomas, RU:Peter) Wesley Lovell: Poor Things has the types of…

  • Predictions: Visual Effects Society

    Predictions: Visual Effects Society

    Their impact on the Oscars is felt in its top categories but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn about the strength of the competitors by the down-ballot selections. VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY AWARDS Best Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature The Creator (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.…

  • 4th Make-Up Artists Guild Awards

    4th Make-Up Artists Guild Awards

    Maestro was the big winner this year, a bit shocking for a film with less special effects make-up than other films. Award Tallies (2) Maestro, Saltburn (1) Barbie The Awards Best Special Make-up Effects Maestro (Thomas) Best Period and/or Character Make-up Maestro (Thomas, RU:Peter) Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling Barbie (Wesley, RU:Peter) Best Contemporary…