Category: Precursors
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59th National Society of Film Critics Awards
A unique way of tabulating votes leads to a fairly rote list of selections. This marks the fourth of the grandfather critics groups to pick One Battle After Another. That’s a pretty solid sign for its Oscar prospects. Awards Tallies (4) One Battle After Another (1) Blue Moon, Familiar Touch, It Was Just an Accident,…
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Predictions: Critics Choice Awards
The first televised awards show of the year comes a bit too early in the season to have much impact. CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS Legend: Winner Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Runner-Up Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Wesley Lovell: When a group this large votes, they tend to vote to support trends…
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17th North Texas Critics Awards
A big day for Sinners and not much else. Awards Tallies (6) Sinners (1) Hamnet, It Was Just an Accident, KPop Demon Hunters, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Orwell: 2+2=5, Weapons The Awards Best Picture Sinners Best Animated Film KPop Demon Hunters Best Director Ryan Coogler – Sinners Best Actor Timothée Chalamet – Marty…
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6th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations
No weird period/contemporary overlaps this time but there are a surprising 5 films that picked up all three crucial nominations for Oscar consideration. One of those five, Weapons, wasn’t on the Academy’s short list so you can probably take the four remaining and predict they are going to be the Oscar nominees. For the fifth…
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22nd Women Critics Awards
An always interesting but never foreshadowy list of selections. What’s always interesting is to see just how many of these titles end up on the Oscars list. Award Tallies (3) Hamnet, Sinners (1) Blue Moon, Eleanor the Great, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, KPop Demon Hunters, Left-Handed Girl, My Mom Jayne: A Film…
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17th North Texas Critics Nominations
These look mostly like all the others. Nominations Tallies (11) One Battle After Another (9) Sinners (8) Hamnet, Sentimental Value (4) Marty Supreme (3) Weapons (2) Bugonia, Frankenstein, It Was Just an Accident, Wicked: For Good (1) 2000 Meters to Andriivka, 28 Years Later, The Alabama Solution, Arco, Blue Moon, Deaf President Now, If I…
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19th Women Journalists Nominations
They’ll have what everyone else is having. Only their female focus nominations have much uniqueness to them. Nominations Tallies (14) One Battle After Another (10) Hamnet (9) Sinners (7) Sentimental Value (4) Frankenstein, It Was Just an Accident, Sorry, Baby, Train Dreams (3) Hedda, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Marty Supreme, The Secret…
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19th Houston Critics Nominations (Part 1)
The Librarians is the only title on this list that has been seen elsewhere thanks to its numerous citations for Best Documentary Feature. The rest are unfamiliar to wider audiences, which is what this award is intended to rectify. The Nominations Texas Independent Film Award Ick The Librarians Luv Ya Bum Selena y Los Dinos…
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14th Georgia Critics Awards
I love how Bugonia is at once both a British production and a Georgia production. Other than that, nothing new to see here. Awards Tallies (5) One Battle After Another (4) Sinners (2) Weapons (1) The Alabama Solution, Frankenstein, Hamnet, KPop Demon Hunters, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value The Awards Best Picture One Battle After Another…
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10th New Mexico Critics Awards
Another batch of underrepresented selections but with far more left-field choices that don’t have much chance of translating to Oscar nominations. Awards Tallies (4) Hamnet (2) Frankenstein, Left-Handed Girl (1) Blue Moon, Demon Slayer: Kimtesu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, Good Boy, Seeds, Sinners, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, The Ugly Stepsister, Weapons The Awards…
