Oscars 2020: ADG Awards
The Art Directors Guild handed out awards tonight. Mank won for Period Film, Tenet won for Fantasy Film and Da 5 Bloods won for Contemporary Film. And Soul won Animated. Which pretty much just confirms...
View ArticleOscars 2020: DGA Awards
And the DGA Awards. Chloe Zhao won for Nomadland, which sews up that category in case you had any doubt about that. She’ll finish up with a BAFTA win tomorrow, now that she needs it, and we’ll have yet...
View ArticleOscars 2020: BAFTA Awards
So the BAFTA Awards were handed out in two parts this year, which is strange to me. I’m just gonna cover it like I usually do and run down all the categories. But some of these were handed out...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Adapted Screenplay
Today is Best Adapted Screenplay. A category that, in the 90s, used to dominate the writing categories. Most Best Picture nominees came from this category. But in recent years, that tide has turned....
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Director
Today we go over Best Director, a category we arguably could’ve gone over a week ago and nothing would’ve changed. But hey, at least now we’ve got both DGA and BAFTA in, and they’ve confirmed what we...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Original Screenplay
Today is Best Original Screenplay, a category I wanted to wait on the BAFTAs to go over, just in case they decided to go against how the tide in this one was already going. In the end, we’ve got a...
View ArticleOscars 2020: CDG Awards
The Costume Designers Guild handed out their awards today. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom won Period, Mulan won Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Promising Young Woman won Contemporary. All that basically means that...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Today is Best Makeup & Hairstyling, a category that’s quietly gone over a bit of an overhaul the past few years that nobody noticed. Just three years ago, there were only three nominees in this...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Production Design
Today is Best Production Design. Funnily enough, when scheduling out these categories, I thought to myself ‘Costumes seem easier than Production Design, so I should put that first and then wait on...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Supporting Actress
Today is Best Supporting Actress, a category that began as something you really weren’t sure about to now probably one of the safer categories of the night. Which is why I always tell people not to...
View ArticleOscars 2020: Annie Awards
The Annie Awards were handed out tonight. Not that they really matter, since we kinda know where the Animated Feature category is headed, but since they legitimately go deep in recognizing animated...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Cinematography
Today is Best Cinematography, a category that was not overly straightforward when trying to guess the nominees, but one I am very pleased about because I managed to guess all five nominees. There...
View ArticleOscars 2020: ACE Eddie Awards
The ACE Eddie Awards were handed out today. The Trial of the Chicago 7 won for Best Dramatic Editing, while Palm Springs won for Best Comedy Editing, and Soul won for Best Animated Editing. Oh, and My...
View ArticleOscars 2020: MPSE Awards
The MPSE Awards were apparently handed out last night. This has been such a weird season. All the dates these guilds have been posting for ceremonies have changed so many times. But whatever, we have...
View ArticleOscars 2020: CAS Awards
The Cinema Audio Society handed out their awards tonight for Sound Mixing. Sound of Metal won for Feature Mixing and Soul won for Animated Mixing. After MPSE, we now have all our Sound precursors in...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Documentary Feature
Today is Best Documentary. Initially I tried to schedule this as late as humanly possible because this was one category I had zero idea about what was gonna happen. But, in the past ten days, this went...
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Oscars 2020: ASC Awards
The ASC Award was handed out today. Mank won, which livens up the Cinematography category a bit, since Nomadland won the other two precursors. It was always gonna be between those two anyway, but at...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Sound
Today is Best Sound. We’re used to this being Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. Which is how things have been for roughly 60 years. The Sound Editing category started in 1963, but after a few...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Live Action Short
Today is Best Live Action Short, which oscillates between years of an absolute clear winner and years of ‘fuck if I know, any of these five can win’. This year is one of the latter years. So, while...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Editing
And now Best Editing. This is one of the few categories this year that feels like it’s actually pretty open and can have multiple legitimate winners. Each year, you generally have your locks, your wide...
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