Category: Precursors
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23rd DC Critics Nominations (2024)
DC’s film critics love Brutalist, Conclave and Wicked with Anora performing quote well in spite of its lack of technical achievements. Nominations Tallies (10) The Brutalist (9) Conclave (8) Wicked (7) Anora, Dune: Part Two (6) (5) Sing Sing (4) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (3) Emilia Pérez, Gladiator II, Inside Out 2,…
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9th Seattle Critics Nominations (2024)
Seattle’s critics were primarily impressed with action films (Dune: Part Two and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga). They also liked some substantive stuff but the performance of Challengers is a bit surprising considering its release much earlier this year. They also seemed to love The Beast, which has been a non-entity this year so far.…
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24th American Film Institute Top Ten (2024)
Every title on this list got good news. While the AFI list doesn’t always match up exactly at the Oscars, this seems like a list that could lead to that result. This is bad news for Gladiator II, Juror #2, September 5, and We Live in Time, the only American titles that had any hope…
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8th Hollywood Creative Alliance Nominations (2024)
These were announced at the end of November and Thanksgiving kept me from reporting on them. With all the others announcing this week, it was time to get these put in place, not that they matter much. This organization has been facing controversy after controversy that makes what the Globes went through look like a…
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37th European Film Awards – Creative Awards (2024)
Here are the winners of the creative arts awards from the European Film Awards. Award Tallies (2) The Girl with the Needle, The Substance (1) The Devil’s Bath, Emilia Pérez, Souleymane’s Story, When the Light Breaks The Awards Best Original Score The Girl with the Needle Best Editing Emilia Pérez Best Cinematography The Substance Best…
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40th Spirit Award Nominations (2024)
Another bad showing for The Brutalist but also for September 5, which had been building buzz throughout the fall and now seems to be getting stumped even on friendly ground. Also not helpful to Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Nominations Tallies (5) Anora, I Saw the TV Glow (4) Dìdi (3) The Apprentice, Janet Planet, Sing Sing (2)…
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96th National Board of Review Awards (2024)
A surprising film for Best Picture. It won’t make Wicked a winner but it will put it into the Best Picture race. Interesting how The Brutalist didn’t make the cut but Juror #2 did. The NBR has a thing for Clint Eastwood, so that’s no surprise. Kieran Culkin is so far the only duplicate acting…
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Contenders: December Update
For our December 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 All contenders have reached Stage 2 or higher, so there will be no changes here. Moving to Stage…
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90th New York Critics Awards (2024)
New York’s Film Critics have an uneven record with Oscar. Many of their selections get nominations but few of them actually win. This is good news for The Brutalist, Nickel Boys, Hard Truths, and A Real Pain. Carol Kane seems like the kind of NYFCC pick that goes nowhere but stranger things have happened for…
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34th Gotham Awards (2024)
Either they bypassed Anora because it had become too mainstream or it’s not as strong a contender as we thought it might be. Awards Tallies (2) Nickel Boys, Sing Sing (1) All We Can Imagine as Light, A Different Man, His Three Daughters, No Other Land, wThe People’s Joker The Awards Best Feature A Different…