With the Producers Guild awards just around the corner, it’s time to take a look at where we are in the awards season at the moment. I’m extremely excited for these awards coming up on Saturday night, and you should be too, for the simple fact that nobody knows for sure what film is going to take home their top honor. As you know, the PGA’s winner automatically becomes the frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar because they have agreed 19 out of 26 times, including the last eight years in a row (a 100% match since both started using the preferential ballot). But what film will that be this year?
The 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards have just concluded and there's really only one thing to say about it: it was a rather dull and predictable night, with Spotlight taking Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Acting Ensemble exactly as expected. However, it was also a rather peculiar night because it seems like they enjoyed George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road much, much more, giving the film nine awards out of its 13 nominations, including Best Director, Best Editing, Best Production Design, and Best Action Film.
The nominations for the 88th Annual Academy Awards have just been announced, and as usual there are a few surprises that popped up. We're currently gathering our thoughts on it and will update in a few minutes, but in the meantime, please see below for a complete list of this morning's nominations:
The Directors Guild of America has just announced their nominees for feature film, and while this is usually the part where I would mention any surprises that occurred, it turns out that there aren't any this year. All five nominees for their top honor matched my predictions from last night, so let's take a look at who's included.
Tomorrow sees the Directors Guild of America announce their five nominees for their top award: Best Director for Feature Film. So, once again it's time to predict who's going to be making the final cut for this important award. As you are probably aware, the winner of this award almost always goes on to win the corresponding Oscar, so let's see who has the best chance to be in the running.
The 73rd Annual Golden Globes have just concluded with a multitude of surprises, starting off with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's outstanding survival epic The Revenant taking Best Picture (Drama), along with a surprise win for Inarritu for Best Director, and the fully-expected win for Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor (Drama).
With the Golden Globes being handed out later tonight, it's time once again to present my predictions for who I think has the best chance of taking home the gold in the 14 film categories.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has just announced there nominations and there's quite a lot to process, so let's start from the top. Steven Spielberg's Cold War drama Bridge of Spies and Todd Haynes' gorgeous relationship drama Carol have tied for the lead with nine nominations apiece, with both films receiving nominations for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay (in their respective categories). Not far behind is Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's revenge epic The Revenant with eight nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Editing.
The Writers Guild of America has just announced the nominations for their annual awards for Best Screenplays (by writers who are guild signatories). That's right, before you get nervous thinking that your favorite may have been left off the list, you must that the WGA is the group that is not all-inclusive and leaves out several of the top contenders each year due to them not being part of the guild or not following their very specific rules. for this reason, you won't see Inside Out, The Hateful Eight, and Ex Machina in the Original Screenplay category or Room, Brooklyn, or Anomalisa in the Adapted screenplay category.
The nominations for The 27th Annual Producers Guild of America Awards have just been announced, and while there aren't that many surprises included, there's plenty of disappointment to be found among the final ten nominees for their top prize, The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures (their equivalent of Best Picture).
