Category Archives: Precursors
“Black Swan” Leads 16th Annual Critics’ Choice Nominations
Black Swan came out ahead with 12 nominations, followed by The King’s Speech andTrue Grit with 11 each. The Social Network received nine.
BEST PICTURE
Nominees:
- 127 Hours
- Black Swan
- The Fighter
- Inception
- The King’s Speech
- The Social Network
- The Town
- Toy Story 3
- True Grit
- Winter’s Bone
Indiana Film Critics Name “The Social Network” Best Film, Nolan Best Director
Best Film of the Year: The Social Network
Runner-up: Inception
Other Finalists: 127 Hours, Black Swan, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Fighter, Never Let Me Go, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, True Grit, Winter’s Bone
LA Film Critics Name “The Social Network” Best Film of the Year
The LA Film Critics are announcing their winners in two batches, this post will be updated as they’re announced. Aaron Sorkin seems to be on his way to Oscar, with another Best Screenplay win for The Social Network.
Best Picture
The Social Network
Runner-up: Carlos
“The Social Network” Sweeps Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Jesse Eisenberg, David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin all received awards. They also pushed Christian Bale even further into frontrunner status, naming him Best Supporting Actor of the year. Juliet Lewis is still in the mix, winning Best Supporting Actress of the year for Conviction.
Best Picture
The Social Network
Runner up: Toy Story 3
Winter’s Bone, The King’s Speech Lead Detroit Film Critics Society Nominations
Most of these are pretty expected. The biggest surprises are no nomination for either Annette Bening or Julianne Moore for The Kids Are All Right and no Inception or The Town for Best Ensemble. I’m really excited to see both Carey Mulligan’s performance from Never Let Me Go and Jennifer Lawrence from Winter’s Bone included in the Best Actress category. Both were absolutely astounding and from films that weren’t huge box office successes. Also, I love that John Hawkes got another nomination for his stellar performance in Winter’s Bone.
Best Film
127 Hours
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Winter’s Bone
Precursors Chart and Some Frontrunners
It’s that time in Awards Season wherein I start maintaining a Precursors Chart, a handy chart that lets you know what films have won what awards. So far the char only has the Washington D.C. Film Critics, National Board of Review and Hollywood Film Award winners. But I’ll update it once a week or so as the various critics associations and guilds announce their winners.
(Click on the picture to see it full-sized)
So far the main frontrunners are The Social Network for picture, director and adapted screenplay, Christian Bale in The Fighter for supporting actor and Toy Story 3 for animated film. The rest of the categories are still pretty spread out, although we do have a pretty good look at possible nominees.
“The Social Network” Named Best Film By The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
Seems like David Fincher’s film is picking up lots of momentum as Awards Season is beginning. The question is whether it can keep it up all the way through Oscar night. The Town won Best Ensemble again. Makes me wonder if it’ll get a SAG nomination. Sure looks like it.
Complete list of winners and nominees after the cut.
Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” Wins Big At The European Film Awards
Polanski’s film topped the 23rd European Film Awards, winning 6 awards, including Best European Film, Director and Actor – Ewan McGregor. Winners and nominees after the cut.
The National Board of Review – Awards Season is Officially Open
Like I said on my earlier post, winning at the NBR doesn’t necessarily mean winning come Oscar night. But it does help jump-start a film or a performance into the race and often is a good look at what the nominees could look like.
For example, Winter’s Bone‘s inclusion on their Top Ten list is a big push for a little film. So is Jennifer Lawrence’s win for Breakthrough Performance. Last year the NBR gave that award to two performances: Gabby Sidibe in Precious and Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker. Both performances wound up with Academy Award nominations.
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