Category: Precursors

  • 62nd Publicists Guild Film Nominations

    62nd Publicists Guild Film Nominations

    Nothing spectacular here, though the Emilia Pérez nomination is a bit of a surprise. The Nominations Maxwell Weinberg Publicist Showmanship Motion Picture Bad Boys: Ride or Die Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Deadpool & Wolverine Emilia Pérez Gladiator II The Strangers: Chapter 1 Wicked Les Mason Award, the highest honor publicists can bestow on one of their own…

  • 34th Razzie Nominations

    34th Razzie Nominations

    A very predictable and commonplace set of selections. Plenty of low-hanging fruit. Nominations Tallies (6) Borderlands, Joker: Folie à Deux, Madame Web, Megalopolis, Reagan (4) Unfrosted (2) Argylle, The Crow (1) Atlas, Dear Santa, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Mufasa: The Lion King, Rebel Moon 2: The Scargiver, Shadow Land, Strangers The Nominations Worst Picture…

  • 8th Chicago Indie Critics Awards

    8th Chicago Indie Critics Awards

    Chicago’s indie critics are in love with The Substance, giving the film most of its awards. Awards Tallies (7) The Substance (3) The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two, Nosferatu, Sing Sing, The Wild Robot (2) Challengers (1) Flow, Monkey Man, Nickel Boys, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story The Awards Best Studio Film (over $20M) Dune: Part…

  • 15th Denver Film Critics Nominations

    15th Denver Film Critics Nominations

    Denver’s film critics are late to the party but they aren’t late to the standard issue nominees. Nominations Tallies (10) Dune: Part Two (9) The Substance (7) Anora (6) The Brutalist, Conclave, Sing Sing, Wicked (5) The Wild Robot (4) Challengers, Emilia Pérez, Nosferatu (3) Furiosa: Inside Out 2, A Mad Max Saga, Nickel Boys…

  • 21st Women Critics Nominations & Awards

    21st Women Critics Nominations & Awards

    The Women Film Critics Circle are hard to track down as their website isn’t updated but these are their nominees, winners, and runners-up. Not surprisingly, The Substance, Emilia Pérez, and All We Imagine as Light were the big nominees, though All We Imagine didn’t win anything. Nominations Tallies (4) All We Imagine as Light, Emilia…

  • 16th GALECA Nominations

    16th GALECA Nominations

    For an organization that prides itself on uniqueness, these are shockingly unoriginal. The lack of love for Wicked, especially in the Visually Striking category is telling Nominations Tallies (9) I Saw the TV Glow (8) The Substance (6) Challengers, Emilia Pérez (5) The Brutalist (4) Anora, Nickel Boys, Wicked (3) Problemista, Queer (2) Dune: Part…

  • 28th Online Critics Nominations

    28th Online Critics Nominations

    If you’ve seen a list of nominees this year, it probably looked something like this with I Saw the TV Glow doing a bit better than it will probably do with the Academy. Nominations Tallies (9) Dune: Part Two (8) The Brutalist (7) Conclave, The Substance (6) Anora, Nickel Boys, Wicked (5) Nosferatu (4) Challengers…

  • 23rd Visual Effects Society Nominations

    23rd Visual Effects Society Nominations

    Nothing too unusual about these other than that they disagreed fairly well from BAFTA’s nominees. All of the Oscar shortlisters got at least one nomination. If we went solely off the titles that got the most nominations, Dune: Part Two, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Better Man, and Mufasa: The Lion King would…

  • 39th Society of Cinematographers Nominations

    39th Society of Cinematographers Nominations

    Making room for 7 nominees should have helped films like Nickel Boys earn a nomination but it was shut out and left with a measly Spotlight Award nomination. It was one of the most vital and important cinematographic achievements this year and was ignored in favor of films like A Complete Unknown and Conclave. And…

  • 36th Producers Guild Nominations

    36th Producers Guild Nominations

    While September 5 got excellent news, Nickel Boys and Sing Sing really needed a boost from this organization. A Real Pain is also a bit of a surprise but the rest seem like expected choices. It’s important to note that these are ten very white-friendly films with Emilia Pérez and Wicked having anything in the…