The joke's on us. With momentum building for Joker in recent awards guilds and ceremonies (including a leading 11 nominations from BAFTA, the British Oscars), it came as a surprise to see helmer Todd Phillips absent from the list of nominees for the 72st Annual Directors Guild of America. Taking his slot: surprise dark horse [...]
Producers go big, kicking low budget to the curb. The nominations for the 31st Annual Producers Guild of America awards --- honoring the best produced movies of 2019 -- have been announced. The omissions and the snubs were predictable. An equivalent to the Academy Awards' Best Picture category, the PGA nominations are generally a good [...]
Of all the industry guilds, the Writers is the biggest wild card. Snubs aren't only normal; they're ingrained into the legalese of the org's eligibility rules. That's why you won't see Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood among this year's nominees. Another possible Oscar contender not eligible here: Lulu Wang's The Farewell. Due to arcane [...]
Some awards season narratives were locked while others remained wide open. In other words, the eclectic mix of winners was par for the course at the 77th Golden Globe Awards, handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The disparity was notable in the two top prizes: Best Picture Drama and Best Picture Musical or [...]
A consensus among critics seems to be coalescing behind two films while a third continues to trend upward, and all three movies were the most cited by the National Society of Film Critics. Parasite, the year's best reviewed film and winner of several critics group awards in December, was named Best Film of 2019 by [...]
Wars of two kinds -- global and domestic -- dominated the 2019 Film Awards from the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association. Sam Mendes' so-called "one take" war movie 1917 (it's actually two simulated takes, not one single feature-length illusion) took home 4 awards including the two top honors: Best Film and Best Director (for Mendes). [...]
The Boston Society of Film Critics have always gone their own way. They've done it again in 2019, becoming the first critics group of the Awards Season to name Little Women the Best Film of the Year. Sure, regional bias may have played a part in the decision (i.e. Massachusetts critics award a Massachusetts story), but having seen [...]
Little Trudi Fraser thought that Rick Dalton's performance was the best acting she'd ever seen. The members of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle seemed to agree. Leonardo DiCaprio didn't take their Best Actor prize but his film nabbed top honors: Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood was named Best Picture of 2019 by the Sooner state org [...]
Hey Bobby -- fuggedaboudit. When the motion picture nominees for the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced, the gasps came more from who didn't make it in than who did. Leading the pack of snubs was Robert De Niro. He was denied a nomination in the Male Actor in a Leading Role cateogry [...]
There’s still no clear-cut front-runner in this year’s Awards Season race, but the Golden Globes seem to have clarified who the main contenders are…mostly. By and large, the motion picture nominees for the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards have fallen in line with this fall's Awards Season buzz as well as with some of the [...]
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