Category: Precursors
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8th Critics Choice Doc Awards
I don’t have a lot to say about these as they’ve been around for a bit now, but haven’t shown any predictive prescience. Still was obviously the big winner taking five prizes and that might bolster its chances at an Oscar nomination, but the Academy is often reticent to recognize biographical documentaries, though they’ve softened…
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66th Grammy Awards Nominations
Not only is it rare to get more than 3 nominations, we might have a record for number of nominations from a single movie soundtrack with four nominations alone in the song category. This is also the most current-year-centric the Grammy nominations have been in some time with only four titles from 2022 (three of…
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Contenders: October Update
For our October update, several films moved on from one stage to the next. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders. In addition to the stage changes, we’ve now removed a total of three films that have either moved into 2024 or have…
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33rd Gotham Awards Nominations
There isn’t a lot this group really tells us. Their nominating committees are tiny and unrepresentative and they are inconsistent a lot of times in their definition of independent cinema. Several films got acting nominations or other citations but were left out of the top category. That doesn’t tell us much of anything and until…
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8th Critics Choice Doc Awards
The Critics Choice Association has announced their 8th annual documentary award nominations. The Documentary and Documentary Short awards are where the Oscar overlap will be. The only one of these titles that isn’t likely to carry over is Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie because of its Emmy submission/nominations. Beyond that, we’ll have to see…
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Contenders: September Update
For our September update, several films moved on from one stage to the next. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders. Moving to Stage 2 We have eight films moving into Stage 2. This means that these films have finally had all of…
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Contenders: August Update
It’s time to update some already-posted contenders. This month, we’ll look at everything that we’ve posted prior to this week and update everything. Only films that move into a new stage will be updated and will be outlined below. We’ll also share the current leaderboard for each of the current stages just to see what…
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Calendar Preview: June 2023
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…