Oscars 2020: WGA Nominations
The WGA nominations were announced today. And this is our main help in the Screenplay categories, with only BAFTA still to come (and the other primary help in the category). Of note for the WGA, before...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best Documentary Short Shortlist
And now Documentary Short, a category that’s usually immensely easy to guess because it’s all about what the issues are. The two almost guaranteed types of winners in this category are: people with...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best Live Action Short Shortlist
Today we’re going over Live Action Shrot because, as much as I want to wait to see if I can find most of these, not only have I been unable thus far to do that, there’s also no chance I’d actually have...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best International Feature Shortlist
Today is Best International Feature. Because I kidded myself that I was gonna be able to find and see all 15 of these by the time this article went up. And honestly, I had other categories I was more...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Best Documentary Feature Shortlist
And we end with the Documentary Feature shortlist, because that was the one I decided was the one I was gonna focus on for this article. Because, back around Thanksgiving, I decided to start compiling...
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Oscars 2020: Best Animated Short Shortlist
And now Best Animated Feature. And you might be saying to yourself, “Mike, there’s only ten films on this shortlist and they’re all shorts. You probably could have done this one before some of the...
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Oscars 2020: Best Animated Short Eligibles
Okay. So a little bit of a reverse of how this normally goes, but I wasn’t aware of the existence of this list beforehand. You already know the shortlist of ten, but here’s the full list of 96...
View ArticleOscars 2020: ADG Nominations
The Art Directors Guild announced nominations today. If it feels like we’ve barely gotten any guild precursors to this point, it’s because we haven’t. But starting next week, they’re gonna start coming...
View ArticleOscars 2020: 78th Golden Globes Predictions
I guess I don’t really need to do this article anymore, but what the hell. I’m here. I put zero effort into Globes predictions, because they really don’t matter outside of being a potential harbinger...
View ArticleOscars 2020: MPSE Nominations
Okay, Sound time. They combined the Sound categories into a single one this year, which makes today’s MPSE nominees and tomorrow’s CAS nominees hugely important. And then we’ll get BAFTA next week....
View ArticleOscars 2020: The 78th Golden Globe Awards
Okay. Golden Globes were last night, and we got… something. I’m not exactly sure what. But we got something. My only notes are — hilarious that in response to claims of racism, they rushed up the two...
View ArticleOscars 2020: CAS Nominations
Continuing with yesterday’s MPSE nominations, today we have the CAS nominations. So yesterday was the sound editors and today is the sound mixers. Both of which, along with BAFTA, will tell us what’s...
View ArticleOscars 2020: VES Nominations
Here are your Visual Effects Society nominees. As a reminder, this is your shortlist for the category: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) Bloodshot Love and Monsters...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Annie Award Nominations
The Annie Award nominations were announced this morning. Somehow I knew they’d be out early. Something about a medium whose films are largely designed for children, it just feels like they’d be...
View ArticleOscars 2020: CDG Nominations
Today the Costume Designers Guild announced their nominations, and this is one of the bigger pieces of the Oscar nominations puzzle I’ve been waiting for. Most people probably wouldn’t care, but...
View ArticleOscars 2020: PGA Nominations
The PGA nominations were announced today. And finally, we get clarity on the Best Picture race. Which we pretty much already had, but the PGA is the authority. They’ve gotten a minimum of seven...
View ArticleOscars 2020: BFCA Awards
The Critics Choice Awards were handed out last night. The theme of this show is going to be ‘market correction’. That’s my guess. After what the Globes did, I’m expecting the expected winners to come...
View ArticleOscars 2020: DGA Nominations
DGA nominations. This is basically gonna be your Best Director category. Only, what you need to know is — historically, the DGA only matches 4/5 and not 5/5. So as much as this looks like the most...
View ArticleOscars 2020: BAFTA Nominations
BAFTA woke up today and chose violence. Well, okay. They sent out a very diverse slate of nominees that would be admirable if we weren’t in a period where that sort of thing is met with suspicion given...
View ArticleOscars 2020: ASC Nominations
ASC announced their nominations today, and we just got a bunch of help for the Cinematography category. Based on what I’ve seen from BAFTA and BFCA, there’s probably only about seven real contenders...
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