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9th Hawaii Critics Nominations
The question of why this organization exists is a perpetual one. They are such a small group that idiosyncratic choices are common but none more bizarre than one of the nominees for Best Comic Book Movie also being nominated as one of the worst movies of the year. It takes a lot of effort not…
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13th Georgia Critics Awards
Georgia has spread the love with lots of selections that replicate other groups without creating much of their own identity. Awards Tallies (3) Anora (2) Challengers, Dune: Part Two, Flow (1) Conclave, Juror #2, Nickel Boys, Nosferatu, The Piano Lesson, A Real Pain, Sing Sing, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story The Awards Best Picture Anora…
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18th Houston Critics Nominations (2024)
Houston’s critics have nicely spread out their nominations, picking up most of what’s been recognized so far this year. The one shocking omission in Best Picture is Emilia Pérez. Nominations Tallies (9) The Brutalist (8) Conclave (6) Anora, Dune: Part Two, Wicked (5) Sing Sing (4) Emilia Pérez, The Substance (3) A Complete Unknown, Nickel…
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20th Austin Critics Awards
Austin’s critics have avoided one of their most nominated films (Dune: Part Two) completely. Their big winners were Anora, Sing Sing, and a bunch of films that start with “The.” Awards Tallies (5) Anora (4) Sing Sing (2) The Brutalist, The Substance, The Wild Robot (1) The Fall Guy, The First Omen, The Seed of…
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56th NAACP Image Awards Nominations
Of the six most nominated films of the year, only 3 of them are good enough to be nominated for Best Motion Picture while one film with only two nominations (including Best Picture) is also slated. Perhaps if the quality of the inclusions weren’t inferior to the quality of the exclusions, it might not be…
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65th British Academy Rising Star Nominees
BAFTA has announced their Rising Star selections (Please note I use the periods to help make entering data into my spreadsheet easier for tracking when there are contenders in the list and that applies to Mikey Madison, a likely Best Actress nominee who would normally have a solid shot at winning this…if they didn’t open…
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32nd Cinema Audio Society Nominations
With this and the Motion Picture Sound Editors, we can probably form a pretty good guess as to which of the Academy shorlisted films will make it through. Let’s start with what’s missing between the Academy’s list and the CAS’s. Emilia Pérez, Alien: Romulus, Blitz, and Joker: Folie à Deux. The only two to miss…
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77th Directors Guild Doc Nominations
All five of these films are shortlisted, so you could be looking at your final Oscar nominees but hold off until you see what PGA selects before committing. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev – Porcelain War Julian Brave Noisecat & Emily Kassie – Sugarcane Johan Grimonprez – Soundtrack to a Coup…
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Film Preview: Grand Theft Hamlet (2025)
Page Revisions: (January 5, 2025) Original (January 12, 2025) New Posters (#1-#2) Release Date: January 17, 2025 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Struggling actors Sam and Mark find solace from lockdown isolation by staging Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto Online (2022), battling griefers as they connect through William Shakespeare.” Poster Rating: C+ / C SEE ALL POSTERS…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 2, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Rating the Nominees, Group 2, #10
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be looking at the quality of the Oscar nominees. In most of the major categories, you’ll be asked to rank the nominees in a specific category on a scale from 1 to 10 with ten being best, 1 being worst. Even if you don’t like a movie, please be…
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Home Viewing with Peter #914
It’s time to look back on what we reviewed in 2024 when home video releases became fewer and farther between and streaming failed to fill the gap for most of the year. Here is a reminder of a few of the home video releases that we reviewed: In January, we reviewed Shout! Factory’s mammoth multi-disc…
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Contenders: Final Pre-Nominations Update
For our final update before the Oscar nominations are announced, several films moved on to the next stage. Today, we’ll look at where each film moved and look at a new ranking of each of the contenders. We will also take a step in a different direction for our lists at the end. In addition…
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Oscar History: January 7 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1873: Adolph Zukor (103 at death) {0 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1906: Herb Magidson (79 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Song Oscar Win: Original Song 1908: Eliot Daniel (89 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Song 1910: Frank…
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Eligible Films for 97th Oscars
Interesting that despite recent branding, they are calling them the “Academy Awards” still in the press release. That’s neither here nor there. What’s interesting is which of the 323 films didn’t meet Best Picture eligibility requirements. All of this year’s Best Picture contenders are there, so there’s no concern of anything major missing out. 323…
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