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Golden Globes 2024: ‘Oppenheimer’ Wins 5, ‘Succession’ 4

The Golden Globes saw big success for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The Universal film won Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Original Score, and Best Drama. Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Nolan, and composer Ludwig Goransson will all most likely repeat their Globe success with Academy success.

Barbie showed itself to be a lot weaker at the Globes than many thought it would be. While the film was the nominations leader, it lost Best Comedy/Musical to Poor Things and Best Screenplay to Anatomy of a Fall. Interestingly enough, Anatomy of a Fall was the only nominee in that category that wasn’t also nominated in Best Director.

On the TV side, Succession, The Bear, and Beef swept the categories specific to their genre. As a result, there wasn’t much variety here.

Here is the full list of winners:

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Anatomy of a Fall (Neon)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films)
Maestro (Netflix)
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) (WINNER)
Past Lives (A24)
The Zone of Interest (A24)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Air (Amazon MGM Studios)
American Fiction (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
The Holdovers (Focus Features)
May December (Netflix)
Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures) (WINNER)

Best Motion Picture – Animated

The Boy and the Heron (GKids) (WINNER)
Elemental (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Releasing)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal Pictures)
Suzume (Crunchyroll / Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Wish (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures) (WINNER)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures)
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Releasing)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal Pictures)
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (AMC Theatres Distribution)

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

Anatomy of a Fall, France (Neon) (WINNER)
Fallen Leaves, Finland (Mubi)
Io Capitano, Italy (Pathe Distribution)
Past Lives, United States (A24)
Society of the Snow, Spain (Netflix)
The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom/USA (A24)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Annette Bening, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (WINNER)
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings
Natalie Portman, May December
Alma Pöysti, Fallen Leaves
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things (WINNER)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario
Timothée Chalamet, Wonka
Matt Damon, Air
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (WINNER)
Joaquin Phoenix, Beau Is Afraid
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Willem Dafoe, Poor Things
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Julianne Moore, May December
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (WINNER)

Best Director — Motion Picture

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall (WINNER)

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

“Addicted to Romance,” She Came to Me, Music and lyrics by Bruce Springsteen
“Dance the Night,” Barbie, Music and lyrics by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Dua Lipa, Caroline Ailin
“I’m Just Ken,” Barbie, Music and lyrics by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
“Peaches,” The Super Mario Bros. Move, Music and lyrics by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, John Spiker
“Road to Freedom,” Rustin, Music and lyrics by Lenny Kravitz
“What Was I Made For?” Barbie, Music and lyrics by Billie Eilish O’Connell, Finneas O’Connell (WINNER)

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Joe Hisaishi, The Boy and the Heron
Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Television Series – Drama

1923 (Paramount+)
The Crown (Netflix)
The Diplomat (Netflix)
The Last of Us (HBO/Max)
The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
Succession (HBO/Max) (WINNER)

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Barry (HBO/Max)
The Bear (FX) (WINNER)
Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix)
Beef (Netflix) (WINNER)
Daisy Jones & the Six (Prime Video)
Fargo (FX)
Fellow Travelers (Showtime)
Lessons in Chemistry (Apple TV+)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Helen Mirren, 1923
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Sarah Snook, Succession (WINNER)
Imelda Staunton, The Crown
Emma Stone, The Curse

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Brian Cox, Succession
Kieran Culkin, Succession (WINNER)
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us
Jeremy Strong, Succession
Dominic West, The Crown

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (WINNER)
Elle Fanning, The Great
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Bill Hader, Barry
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear (WINNER)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Riley Keough, Daisy Jones & the Six
Brie Larson, Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Olsen, Love & Death
Juno Temple, Fargo
Rachel Weisz, Dead Ringers
Ali Wong, Beef (WINNER)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Matt Bomer, Fellow Travelers
Sam Claflin, Daisy Jones & the Six
Jon Hamm, Fargo
Woody Harrelson, White House Plumbers
David Oyelowo, Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Steven Yeun, Beef (WINNER)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television

Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown (WINNER)
Abby Elliott, The Bear
Christina Ricci, Yellowjackets
J. Smith-Cameron, Succession
Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building
Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television

Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
Matthew Macfadyen, Succession (WINNER)
James Marsden, Jury Duty
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear
Alan Ruck, Succession
Alexander Skarsgard, Succession

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

Ricky Gervais, Ricky Gervais: Armageddon (WINNER)
Trevor Noah, Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Chris Rock, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact
Sarah Silverman, Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Wanda Sykes, Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

January 8, 2024
Venice Recap: ‘Poor Things’ Wins Golden Lion; ‘Priscilla’ and Hamaguchi Pick Up Prizes as Well

With Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things winning the Golden Lion a couple days back, it has cemented itself as a top 6 Best Picture contender. High-profile films like Maestro and Ferrari were shutout, while films like Priscilla, Evil Does Not Exist, El Conde, and Memory all won major awards. Of these films, however, other than Poor Things, I think Maestro is the only film that will end up earning a Best Picture nod. It’s the type of major studio distributed film backed by big stars that does not need as much festival acclaim as indie films like Memory and Evil Does Not Exist do.

Poor Things should follow the trajectory of films like The Shape of Water, Roma, Joker, and Nomadland, all films that won the Golden Lion at Venice and ended up translating that into becoming top five Best Picture contenders in their respective years.

Here are the rest of the Venice winners.

Golden Lion
Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos

Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize
Evil Does Not Exist, Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Silver Lion Best Director
Matteo Garrone, Io Capitano

Special Jury Prize
Green Border, Agnieszka Holland

Best Screenplay
Pablo Larrain and Guillermo Calderón, El Conde

Best Actress
Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla

Best Actor
Peter Sarsgaard, Memory

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress
Seydou Sarr, Io Capitano

HORIZONS
Best Film
Explanation For Everything, Gábor Reisz

Best Director
Mika Gustafson, Paradise Is Burning

Special Jury Prize
Una Sterminata Domenica, Alain Parroni

Best Actress
Margarita Rosa De Francisco, El Paraiso

Best Actor
Tergel Bold-Erdene, City of Wind

Best Screenplay
El Paraiso, Enrico Maria Artale

Best Short Film
A Short Trip, Erenik Beqiri

Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film
Love Is A Gun, Lee Hong-Chi

HORIZONS EXTRA
Audience Award
FELICITÀ (HAPPINESS), Micaela Ramazzotti

VENICE CLASSICS

Best Documentary
Thank You Very Much, Alex Braverman

Best Restored Film
OHIKKOSHI (MOVING), Shinji Somai

VENICE IMMERSIVE

Grand Jury Prize
Songs For A Passerby, Celine Daemen

Special Jury Prize
Flow, Adriaan Lokman

Immersive Achievement Prize
Emperor, Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen

September 11, 2023
Toronto and Venice Release Lineups: ‘Maestro’, ‘Priscilla’, ‘The Killer’, ‘Poor Things’ Will Debut

2023 is poised to be a strange year for film festivals. With the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes showing no signs of stopping, many of these films’ stars will be absent at the festivals. Both festivals will run as planned even without many of their films’ A-list talent showing up. Actors campaigning for their films has always had a large impact on their film’s Oscar chances and more significantly on their chances at acting awards. It will be interesting to see how that changes this year.

‘Maestro’ (Netflix)

VENICE

The lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival was just announced. This is the first major festival lineup announcement of the Oscar season and it gives us our first introductory look at this year’s possible contenders. In six of the past seven years, a top two Picture contender has played at Venice and this trend shows no signs of stopping.

In my predictions from this month, I have two of the films that have shown up in the Venice lineup in the top 10: Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. However, Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, Ava DuVernay’s Origin, Michael Mann’s Ferrari, Ryusuke Hamguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist, David Fincher’s The Killer, Michel Franco’s Memory, Pablo Larrain’s El Conde, and Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano should also be watched. If any one of these ten films leave Venice highly-acclaimed and/or win one of their top prizes, their chances of being a Best Picture contender expand greatly. While I’m not confident that any of these films will become a top 2 Best Picture contender this season, I’m essentially guaranteeing that one of them will end up being a top 5 contender.

Anyways, here is the Venice slate:

Competition

Comandante, dir: Edoardo de Angelis (opening night film)

Adagio, dir: Stefano Sollima
La Bête, dir: Bertrand Bonello
DogMan, dir: Luc Besson
El Conde, dir: Pablo Larrain
Enea, dir: Pietro Castellitto
Evil Does Not Exist, Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Ferrari, dir: Michael Mann
Finalmente L’Alba, dir: Saverio Costanzo
The Green Border, dir: Agnieszka Holland
Holly, dir: Fien Troch
Hors-Saison, dir: Stéphane Brizé
Io Capitano, dir: Matteo Garrone
The Killer, dir: David Fincher
Lubo, dir: Giorgio Diritti
Maestro, dir: Bradley Cooper
Memory, dir: Michel Franco
Origin, dir: Ava DuVernay
Poor Things, dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
Priscilla, dir: Sofia Coppola
The Promised Land, dir: Nikolaj Arcel
Die Theorie Von Allem, dir: Timm Kroger
Woman Of, dirs: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert

Out of Competition

Fiction

Aggro Dr1ft, dir: Harmony Korine
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, dir: William Friedkin
Coup de Chance, dir: Woody Allen
Daaaaaal!, dir: Quentin Dupieux
Hit Man, dir: Richard Linklater
L’Ordine del Tempo, dir: Liliana Cavani
The Palace, dir: Roman Polanski
The Penitent, dir: Luca Barbareschi
Snow Leopard, dir: Pema Tseden
Vivants, dir: Alix Delaporte
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, dir: Wes Anderson (short)

Here are the Best Picture nominees that went to Venice from the past 7 years:

2022 – In Competition: Tar (Best Actress winner), The Banshees of Inisherin (Best Actor and Best Screenplay winner)

2021 – In Competition: The Power of the Dog (Silver Lion winner); Out of Competition: Dune

2020 – In Competition: Nomadland (Golden Lion winner)

2019 – In Competition: Joker (Golden Lion winner), Marriage Story

2018 – In Competition: The Favourite (Grand Jury Prize and Best Actress winner), Roma (Golden Lion winner); Out of Competition: A Star is Born

2017 – In Competition: The Shape of Water (Golden Lion winner), Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Best Screenplay winner)

2016 – In Competition: Arrival, La La Land (Best Actress winner); Out of Competition: Hacksaw Ridge

Based on this, it would be reasonable to suspect that at least two fiction films from this year’s in competition and out of competition slates will make it in Best Picture. I don’t really see anything from the out of competition slate becoming a Picture contender but in terms of likelihood, the films from the competition slate that I think have a best chance of receiving a Picture nomination are, Maestro, Poor Things, Origin, Priscilla, Ferrari, The Killer, and Evil Doesn’t Exist. If DuVernay’s Origin is highly-acclaimed, I can see that film being a possible Picture winner. The film tackles historical systemic racism in the United States and could very well be the kind of accessible socially-conscious cinematic lightning rod the Academy would want to support if it ends up being very good. If the film is near the quality and raw strength of previous Duvernay projects When They See Us and 13th, I think we might have our Best Picture winner.

Here is the rest of the Venice slate:

Short (Out of Competition)

Welcome to Paradise, dir: Leonardo Di Costanzo

Non-Fiction (Out of Competition)

Amor, dir: Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri
Enzo Jannacci Vengo Anch’io, dir: Giorgio Verdelli
Frente a Guernica (Version Integrale), dirs: Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Hollywoodgate, dir: Ibrahim Nash’at
Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, dir: Frederick Wiseman
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus, dir: Neo Sora

Series (Out of Competition)

D’Argent et de Sang (episodes 1-12), dirs: Xavier Giannoli, Frederic Planchon
I Know Your Soul (episodes 1-2), dirs: Alen Drljevic, Nermin Hamzagic

Special Screening

La Parte del Leone: Una Storia della Mostra, dirs: Baptiste Etchegary, Guiseppe Bucchi

Horizons

En Attendant la Nuit, dir: Céline Rouzet
Behind the Mountains, dir: Mohamed Ben Attia
A Cielo Abierto, dirs: Mariana Arriaga, Santiago Arriaga
City of Wind, dir: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Dormitory, dir: Nehir Tuna
El Paraiso, dir: Enrico Maria Artale
Explanation for Everything, dir: Gabor Reisz
The Featherweight, dir: Robert Kolodny
Gasoline Rainbow, dirs: Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Heartless, dirs: Nara Normande, Tiao
Hesitation Wound, dir: Selman Nacar
Housekeeping for Beginners, dir: Goran Stolevski
Invelle, dir: Simone Massi
Paradise Is Burning, dir: Mika Gustafson The Red Suitcase, dir: Fidel Devkota Shadow of Fire, dir: Shinya Tsukamoto
Una Sterminata Domenica, dir: Alain Perroni
Tatami, dirs: Guy Nattiv, Zar Amir Ebrahimi

Horizons Extra

Bota Jone, dir: Luana Bajrami
Day of the Fight, dir: Jack Huston
Felicita, dir: Micaela Ramazzotti
Forever Forever, dir: Anna Buryachkova
L’Homme d’Argile, dir: Anais Tellenne
In the Land of Saints and Sinners, dir: Robert Lorenz
Pet Shop Boys, dir: Olmo Schnabel
Stolen, dir: Karan Tejpal
The Rescue, dir: Daniela Goggi

Venice Classics

Non-Fiction

Un Altra Italia Era Possibile, Il Cinema Di Guiseppe De Santis, dir: Stefano Della Casa
Bill Douglas My Best Friend, dir: Jack Archer
Dario Argento Panico, dir: Simone Scafidi
Frank Capra: Mr America, dir: Matthew Wells
Ken Jacobs From Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art, dir: Fred Riedel
Le Film Pro-Nazi d’Hitchcock, dir: Daphne Baiwir
Landrian, dir: Ernesto Daranas Serrano
Michel Gondry Do It Yourself, dir: François Nemeta
Thank You Very Much, dir: Alex Braverman

‘The Zone of Interest’ (A24)

TORONTO

In the last ten years, the eventual Best Picture winner has played at TIFF seven times. As a result, it has garnered a reputation as the most important festival in the Oscar race. Additionally, in the last 10 years, excluding the COVID year 2020, at least three films that screened at TIFF were nominated for Best Picture later that season. This year, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, George C. Wolfe’s Rustin, Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins, Ellen Kuras’ Lee, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, Ladj Ly’s Les Indesirables, Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, Hirokazu Koreeda’s Monster, Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, Christos Nikou’s Fingernails, Michel Franco’s Memory, Kristin Scott Thomas’ North Star, James Hawes’ One Life, Michael Winterbottom’s Shoshanna, Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat, and Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils are some of the most high-profile films being shown.

Anyway, here is the Toronto slate:

Gala Presentations

Concrete Utopia, directed by Um Tae-Hwa

Dumb Money, directed by Craig Gillespie

Fair Play, directed by Chloe Domont

Flora and Son, directed by John Carney

Hate to Love: Nickelback, directed by Leigh Brooks

Lee, directed by Ellen Kuras

Next Goal Wins, directed by Taika Waititi

NYAD, directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin

Punjab ’95, directed by Honey Trehan

Solo, directed by Sophie Dupuis

The End We Start From, directed by Mahalia Belo

The Movie Emperor, directed by Ning Hao

The New Boy, directed by Warwick Thornton

The Royal Hotel, directed by Kitty Green

Special Presentations

A Difficult Year, directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache

A Normal Family, directed by Hur Jin-ho

American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson

Anatomy of a Fall, directed by Justine Triet

Close to You, directed by Dominic Savage

Days of Happiness, directed by Chloé Robichaud

El Rapto, directed by Daniela Goggi

Ezra, directed by Tony Goldwyn

Fingernails, directed by Christos Nikou

Four Daughters, directed by Kaouther Ben Hania

His Three Daughters, directed by Azazel Jacobs

Hitman, directed by Richard Linklater

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, directed by Alex Gibney

Kidnapped, directed by Marco Bellocchio

Knox Goes Away, directed by Michael Keaton

La Chimera, directed by Alice Rohrwacher

Last Summer, directed by Catherine Breillat

Les Indésirables, directed by Ladj Ly

Memory, directed by Michel Franco

Monster, directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu

Mother Couch, directed by Niclas Larsson

North Star, directed by Kristin Scott Thomas

One Life, directed by James Hawes

Pain Hustlers, directed by David Yates

Poolman, directed by Chris Pine

Reptile, directed by Grant Singer

Rustin, directed by George C. Wolfe

Seven Veils, directed by Atom Egoyan

Shoshana, directed by Michael Winterbottom

Sing Sing, directed by Greg Kwedar

Smugglers, directed by Ryoo Seung-wan

Swan Song, directed by Chelsea McMullan

The Beast, directed by Bertrand Bonello

The Burial, directed by Maggie Betts

The Convert, directed by Lee Tamahori

The Critic, directed by Anand Tucker

The Dead Don’t Hurt, directed by Viggo Mortensen

The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne

The Peasants, directed by DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman

The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer

Together 99, directed by Lukas Moodysson

Unicorns, directed by Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd

Uproar, directed by Paul Middleditch and Hamish Bennett

Wicked Little Letters, directed by Thea Sharrock

Wildcat, directed by Ethan Hawke

Woman of the Hour, directed by Anna Kendrick

Here are the Best Picture nominees that went to Toronto from the past 10 years:

2022 – Special Presentations: All Quiet on the Western Front, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans, Triangle of Sadness, Women Talking

2021 – Gala Presentations: Belfast (People’s Choice Award 1st place); Special Presentations: Drive My Car, The Power of the Dog (People’s Choice Award 3rd place); Special Events: Dune

2020 – Gala Presentations: Nomadland (People’s Choice Award 1st place); Special Presentations: The Father

2019 – Gala Presentations: Ford v Ferrari, Joker; Special Presentations: Jojo Rabbit (People’s Choice award 1st place), Marriage Story (People’s Choice Award 2nd place), Parasite (People’s Choice Award 3rd place)

2018 – Gala Presentations: Green Book (People’s Choice Award 1st place), A Star is Born; Special Presentations: Roma (People’s Choice Award 3rd place)

2017 – Gala Presentations: Darkest Hour; Special Presentations: Call Me By Your Name (People’s Choice Award 3rd place), Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (People’s Choice Award 1st place)

2016 – Gala Presentations: Arrival; Special Presentations: La La Land (People’s Choice Award 1st place), Lion (People’s Choice Award 2nd place), Manchester by the Sea; Platform: Moonlight

2015 – Gala Presentations: The Martian; Special Presentations: Brooklyn, Room (People’s Choice Award winner), Spotlight (People’s Choice Award 3rd place)

2014 – Special Presentations: The Imitation Game (People’s Choice Award 1st place), The Theory of Everything, Whiplash

2013 – Special Presentations: 12 Years a Slave (People’s Choice Award 1st place), Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Philomena (People’s Choice Award 2nd place)

Based on this, I think it’s reasonable to expect that four to five of the films playing at TIFF will end up as Best Picture nominees. I’m not confident on whether this year’s Best Picture winner will play at TIFF, but history says that at least two of this year’s top five contenders will play at Toronto. In terms of likelihood, the films from the competition slate that I think have a best chance of receiving a Picture nomination are, The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, Rustin, Lee, Next Goal Wins, Les Indesirables, and The Holdovers.

July 25, 2023
PGA Awards 2023: ‘EEAAO’ Wins Another; ‘Navalny’ Cements Itself as Doc Frontrunner
Everything Everywhere All at Once is going to win Best Picture. There are no ifs and or buts about it. PGA is the most important precursor and with EEAAO’s win here and at DGA and Critics Choice, it has all it needs to truly truly cement it as the Best Picture frontrunner. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio which has now won at PGA, CCA, the Golden Globes, and the Annies will be winning Animated Feature with essentially complete certainty as well.

Navalny winning here at PGA was huge. While consensus frontrunner Fire of Love won DGA, Navalny now has both BAFTA and PGA, a combo that the last two winners in this category had (My Octopus Teacher and Summer of Soul). I’ve had as my winner for a month now because of its strong showing at guild nominations and since the political documentaries that win are like this (ones that are almost completely non-controversial to the general liberal Hollywood population).

Here’s the full list of nominees and winners.

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
- “Avatar: The Way of Water”
- “The Banshees of Inisherin”
- “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
- “Elvis”
- “Everything Everywhere All At Once” (WINNER)
- “The Fabelmans”
- “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
- “TÁR”
- “Top Gun: Maverick”
- “The Whale”
Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
- “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (WINNER)
- “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
- “Minions: The Rise of Gru”
- “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
- “Turning Red”
Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama
- “Andor”
- “Better Call Saul”
- “Ozark”
- “Severance”
- “The White Lotus” (WINNER)
Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy
- “Abbott Elementary”
- “Barry”
- “The Bear” (WINNER)
- “Hacks”
- “Only Murders in the Building”
David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television
- “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”
- “The Dropout” (WINNER)
- “Inventing Anna”
- “Obi-Wan Kenobi”
- “Pam & Tommy”
Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures
- “Fire Island”
- “Hocus Pocus 2”
- “Pinocchio”
- “Prey”
- “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” (WINNER)
Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
- “30 for 30”
- “60 Minutes”
- “George Carlin’s American Dream”
- “Lucy and Desi”
- “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy” (WINNER)
Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television
- “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah”
- “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
- “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (WINNER)
- “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
- “Saturday Night Live”
Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television
- “The Amazing Race”
- “Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls” (WINNER)
- “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars”
- “Top Chef”
- “The Voice”
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Picture
- “All That Breathes”
- “Descendant”
- “Fire of Love”
- “Navalny” (WINNER)
- “Nothing Compares”
- “Retrograde”
- “The Territory”
The Award for Outstanding Sports Program
- “Formula 1: Drive to Survive”
- “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Detroit Lions”
- “Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers”
- “McEnroe”
- “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Come Off” (WINNER)
The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program
- “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock”
- “Green Eggs and Ham”
- “Sesame Street” (WINNER)
- “Snoopy Presents: It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown”
- “Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant”
The Award for Outstanding Short-Form Program
- “Better Call Saul: Filmmaker Training”
- “Love, Death + Robots”
- “Only Murders in the Building: One Killer Question” (WINNER)
- “Sesame Street’s #ComingTogether Word of the Day Series”
- “Tales of the Jedi”
Source: IndieWire
February 26, 2023
SAG 2023 Nominees Announced: ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘Banshees’ Lead Pack With 5 Each

Both Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin cemented their place as the top two contenders of this year’s race with record-tying hauls at SAG. Both received 5 nods apiece which only three films, Shakespeare in Love, Chicago, and Doubt, have done before. The former two went on to win Best Picture.

MOVIES

Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture

Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Women Talking

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role

Cate Blanchett (Tar)
Viola Davis (The Woman King)
Ana de Armas (Blonde)
Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role

Austin Butler (Elvis)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Bill Nighy (Living)
Adam Sandler (Hustle)

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role

Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Hong Chau (The Whale)
Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role

Paul Dano (The Fabelmans)
Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse)

TELEVISION

Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series

Abbott Elementary
Barry
The Bear
Hacks
Only Murders in the Building

Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series

Better Call Saul
The Crown
Ozark
Severance
The White Lotus

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a miniseries or television movie

Emily Blunt (The English)
Jessica Chastain (George & Tammy)
Julia Garner (Inventing Anna)
Niecy Nash-Betts (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)
Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout)

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a miniseries or television movie

Steve Carell (The Patient)
Taron Egerton (Black Bird)
Sam Elliott (1883)
Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird)
Evan Peters (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series

Christina Applegate (Dead to Me)
Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary)
Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)
Jean Smart (Hacks)

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series

Anthony Carrigan (Barry)
Bill Hader (Barry)
Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)
Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)
Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series

Jonathan Banks (Better Call Saul)
Jason Bateman (Ozark)
Jeff Bridges (The Old Man)
Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)
Adam Scott (Severance)

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series

Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus)
Elizabeth Debicki (The Crown)
Julia Garner (Ozark)
Laura Linney (Ozark)
Zendaya (Euphoria)

STUNTS

Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a comedy or drama television series

Andor
The Boys
House of the Dragon
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Stranger Things

Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture

Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
The Woman King

Source: People

January 11, 2023
Golden Globes 2023: ‘Banshees’ Shocks ‘EEAAO’, ‘Abbott’ Has a Great Night

The biggest news when it comes to the Oscar race is the Banshees of Inisherin prevailing over Everything Everywhere All at Once in the Best Comedy/Musical category. While I think Everything Everywhere All at Once will still win Picture, I now doubt it will take the Picture, Director, Screenplay trifecta. The Fabelmans took Drama and Director cementing it as a top three Picture contender.

On the TV side, it was a big day for Abbott Elementary (Tyler James Williams surprised for a win in Supporting Actor!) and The White Lotus

Here are the winners:

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
The Fabelmans, Universal Pictures

BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
The Banshees of Inisherin, Searchlight Pictures

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
House of the Dragon, HBO Max

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Abbott Elementary, ABC

BEST ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Kevin Costner, Yellowstone

BEST TELEVISION LIMITED SERIES, ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR TELEVISION MOTION PICTURE
The White Lotus, HBO Max

BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES, ANTHOLOGY SERIES, OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Evan Peters, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES, ANTHOLOGY SERIES, OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – TELEVISION LIMITED SERIES/MOTION PICTURE
Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – TELEVISION LIMITED SERIES/ANTHOLOGY/TV MOVIE
Paul Walter Houser, Black Bird

BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

BEST MOTION PICTURE – NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina), Amazon Prime Video

BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Cate Blanchett, Tár

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – TELEVISION SERIES
Julia Garner, Ozark

BEST ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Zendaya, Euphoria

BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Austin Butler, Elvis

BEST MOTION PICTURE – ANIMATED
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Netflix

BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

BEST ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

BEST ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
“Naatu Naatu”, RRR
Music by: M.M. Keeravani; Lyrics by: Kala Bhairava, Rahul Sipligunj

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – TELEVISION SERIES
Tyler James Williams, Abbott Elementary

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Source: Deadline

January 11, 2023
Critics Choice Nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Leads With 14, ‘She Said’ Misses in All but Screenplay

With the Critics Choice Awards coming through with their nominations this morning, we now have the penultimate piece of the puzzle (other than the Producers Guild Awards which will release on January 12th) when it comes to the Best Picture nomination slate. At this point, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, ‘The Fabelmans’, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, ‘Tar’, ‘Babylon’, ‘Women Talking’, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, and ‘Elvis’ are all essentially locked for nominations. ‘Glass Onion’, ‘Avatar’, and ‘RRR’ were also given nods, while other films on the cusp like ‘She Said, ‘The Woman King’, ‘Till’, ‘The Whale’ and ‘Triangle of Sadness’ missed the cut. In my eyes, ‘She Said’, a film that I had predicted for a Best Picture nod up to this point, now needs a PGA nod to stay in the slate. At this point, my picks for which films will fill the remaining two slots in Best Picture are ‘Avatar: The Way of the Water’ and ‘RRR’ (though Aftersun also has a pretty good chance of taking this tenth slot).

Here are Critics Choice’s nominees:

BEST PICTURE

“Avatar: The Way of Water”
“Babylon”
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Elvis”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“The Fabelmans”
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
“RRR”
“Tár”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
“Women Talking”

BEST ACTOR

Austin Butler – “Elvis”
Tom Cruise – “Top Gun: Maverick”
Colin Farrell – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Brendan Fraser – “The Whale”
Paul Mescal – “Aftersun”
Bill Nighy – “Living”

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett – “Tár”
Viola Davis – “The Woman King”
Danielle Deadwyler – “Till”
Margot Robbie – “Babylon”
Michelle Williams – “The Fabelmans”
Michelle Yeoh – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Paul Dano – “The Fabelmans”
Brendan Gleeson – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Judd Hirsch – “The Fabelmans”
Barry Keoghan – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Ke Huy Quan – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Brian Tyree Henry – “Causeway”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Angela Bassett – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Jessie Buckley – “Women Talking”
Kerry Condon – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Jamie Lee Curtis – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Stephanie Hsu – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Janelle Monáe – “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Frankie Corio – “Aftersun”
Jalyn Hall – “Till”
Gabriel LaBelle – “The Fabelmans”
Bella Ramsey – “Catherine Called Birdy”
Banks Repeta – “Armageddon Time”
Sadie Sink – “The Whale”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“The Fabelmans”
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
“The Woman King”
“Women Talking”

BEST DIRECTOR

James Cameron – “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Damien Chazelle – “Babylon”
Todd Field – “Tár”
Baz Luhrmann – “Elvis”
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Martin McDonagh – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Sarah Polley – “Women Talking”
Gina Prince-Bythewood – “The Woman King”
S. S. Rajamouli – “RRR”
Steven Spielberg – “The Fabelmans”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Todd Field – “Tár”
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Martin McDonagh – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner – “The Fabelmans”
Charlotte Wells – “Aftersun”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Samuel D. Hunter – “The Whale”
Kazuo Ishiguro – “Living”
Rian Johnson – “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
Rebecca Lenkiewicz – “She Said”
Sarah Polley – “Women Talking”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Russell Carpenter – “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Roger Deakins – “Empire of Light”
Florian Hoffmeister – “Tár”
Janusz Kaminski – “The Fabelmans”
Claudio Miranda – “Top Gun: Maverick”
Linus Sandgren – “Babylon”

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Hannah Beachler, Lisa K. Sessions – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Rick Carter, Karen O’Hara – “The Fabelmans”
Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, Vanessa Cole – “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Jason Kisvarday, Kelsi Ephraim – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn – “Elvis”
Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino – “Babylon”

BEST EDITING

Tom Cross – “Babylon”
Eddie Hamilton – “Top Gun: Maverick”
Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, James Cameron – “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Paul Rogers – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond – “Elvis”
Monika Willi – “Tár”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Ruth E. Carter – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Jenny Eagan – “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
Shirley Kurata – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Catherine Martin – “Elvis”
Gersha Phillips – “The Woman King”
Mary Zophres – “Babylon”

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

“Babylon”
“The Batman”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Elvis”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“The Whale”

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

“Avatar: The Way of Water”
“The Batman”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“RRR”
“Top Gun: Maverick”

BEST COMEDY

“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Bros”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
“Triangle of Sadness”
“The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
“Turning Red”
“Wendell & Wild”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

“All Quiet on the Western Front”
“Argentina, 1985”
“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”
“Close”
“Decision to Leave”
“RRR”

BEST SONG

“Carolina” – “Where the Crawdads Sing”
“Ciao Papa” – “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Hold My Hand” – “Top Gun: Maverick”
“Lift Me Up” – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Naatu Naatu” – “RRR”
“New Body Rhumba” – “White Noise”

BEST SCORE

Alexandre Desplat – “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
Michael Giacchino – “The Batman”
Hildur Guðnadóttir – “Tár”
Hildur Guðnadóttir – “Women Talking”
Justin Hurwitz – “Babylon”
John Williams – “The Fabelmans”

December 14, 2022
AFI Top 10 Announced: No Major Misses as This Year’s Contenders Become Much Clearer
The AFI awards are announced over a month before nominations are released yet are consistently one of the most consistently strong predictors of the Best Picture slate. Last year, Drive My Car was the only Best Picture nominee that didn’t appear in AFI’s slate and in the last seven years, in a single year, a max of two films have made Best Picture without hitting AFI. That trend shows no signs of stopping and with that, here is AFI’s slate.

AFI Movies of the Year
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)

“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

“The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)

“Nope” (Universal Pictures)

“She Said” (Universal Pictures)

“Tár” (Focus Features)

“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)

“The Woman King” (Sony Pictures)

“Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
AFI Television Programs of the Year
“Abbott Elementary” (ABC)

“The Bear” (FX)

“Better Call Saul” (AMC)

“Hacks” (HBO Max)

“Mo” (Netflix)

“Pachinko” (Apple TV+)

“Reservation Dogs” (FX)

“Severance” (Apple TV+)

“Somebody Somewhere” (HBO)

“The White Lotus” (HBO)
AFI Special Award
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)

Source: Variety
In past years, AFI has one of the best track records when it comes to predicting the Oscar nomination slate.
- 2022 – 9 of the 10 Oscar nominees received a nod from the AFI (Missed: Drive My Car)
- 2021 – 6 of 8 (Missed: Promising Young Woman and The Father)
- 2020 – 8 of 9 (Missed: Ford v Ferrari)
- 2019 – 6 of 8 (Missed: Vice and Bohemian Rhapsody)
- 2018 – 7 of 9 (Missed: Phantom Thread and Darkest Hour)
- 2017: 7 of 9 (Missed: Lion and Hidden Figures)
- 2016: 6 of 8 (Missed: The Revenant and Brooklyn)
(Note: The AFI Top 10 can only include American films but in 2020 and 2019, Parasite and Roma, respectively, won AFI Special Awards)

Here’s every film that did not make the AFI cut but received either a Golden Globe, SAG, Critics Choice, BAFTA, or National Board of Review nod on their way to becoming a Best Picture nominee.
- Drive My Car – none
- The Father – Nominated at BAFTA and at the Golden Globes
- Promising Young Woman – Nominated for Best Picture at Critics Choice. Also nominated by the Golden Globes, BAFTA, and the National Board of Review.
- Ford v Ferrari – Nominated for Best Picture at the Critics Choice Awards and by the National Board of Review
- Vice – Nominated at both Golden Globes and Critics Choice
- Bohemian Rhapsody – Nominated at Golden Globes (won as well) and SAG
- Phantom Thread – Nominated by National Board of Review
- Darkest Hour – Nominated at BAFTA and at Critics Choice
- Lion – Nominated at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice
- Hidden Figures – Nominated at SAG (won as well) and picked by the NBR
- The Revenant – Nominated by Golden Globes (won as well), BAFTAs (won as well), and the Critics Choice Awards
- Brooklyn – Nominated at the Critics Choice Awards
It seems likely that around 2 to 4 of the 11 films chosen by AFI (including The Banshees of Inisherin’s Special Award), and if four films do miss my picks for what those will be are (in order from most to least likely to miss): Nope, Avatar: The Way of the Water, The Woman King, and She Said.
December 9, 2022
Critics Choice Awards: Campion, Smith, and DeBose Complete Their Sweeps

Jane Campion, Will Smith, and Ariana DeBose have swept all four major precursors in their respective categories and are essentially locked for wins come Oscar night. The Power of the Dog has now won the Golden Globe, the DGA, the BAFTA, and the CCA for Best Film and will likely win the PGA as well on Saturday. It’s already indisputably the frontrunner for the win, but if TPOTD wins the PGA, I really won’t be able to see any other film earning the top prize.

In other news, Jessica Chastain and Troy Kotsur won in their respective categories and I think Kotsur will most probably win as a result of him earning 3 (SAG, BAFTA, CCA) of the major precursor awards. I think Kodi Smit-McPhee needed a win here for me to continue to have him as my frontrunner in Supporting Actor but since Kotsur ended up winning, I think the CODA star is the favorite.

I was expecting three different actresses to win GG, SAG, and CCA, yet Jessica Chastain has now won the latter two. With these wins, she is automatically catapulted to frontrunner status, though she is easily the most vulnerable of any of the other acting category frontrunners.

Here are the Critics Choice results:

FILM

BEST PICTURE

The Power of the Dog (WINNER)

Belfast

CODA

Don’t Look Up

Dune

King Richard

Licorice Pizza

Nightmare Alley

Tick, Tick … Boom!

West Side Story

BEST ACTOR

Will Smith – King Richard (WINNER)

Nicolas Cage – Pig

Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog

Peter Dinklage – Cyrano

Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick … Boom!

Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth

BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye (WINNER)

Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter

Lady Gaga – House of Gucci

Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza

Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos

Kristen Stewart – Spencer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Troy Kotsur – CODA (WINNER)

Jamie Dornan – Belfast

Ciarán Hinds – Belfast

Jared Leto – House of Gucci

J.K. Simmons – Being the Ricardos

Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Ariana DeBose – West Side Story (WINNER)

Caitríona Balfe – Belfast

Ann Dowd – Mass

Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog

Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard

Rita Moreno – West Side Story

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Jude Hill – Belfast (WINNER)

Cooper Hoffman – Licorice Pizza

Emilia Jones – CODA

Woody Norman – C’mon, C’mon

Saniyya Sidney – King Richard

Rachel Zegler – West Side Story

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Belfast (WINNER)

Don’t Look Up

The Harder They Fall

Licorice Pizza

The Power of the Dog

West Side Story

BEST DIRECTOR

Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog (WINNER)

Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza

Kenneth Branagh – Belfast

Guillermo del Toro – Nightmare Alley

Steven Spielberg – West Side Story

Denis Villeneuve – Dune

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Kenneth Branagh – Belfast (WINNER)

Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza

Zach Baylin – King Richard

Adam McKay, David Sirota – Don’t Look Up

Aaron Sorkin – Being the Ricardos

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog (WINNER)

Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter

Siân Heder – CODA

Tony Kushner – West Side Story

Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth – Dune

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog (WINNER)

Bruno Delbonnel – The Tragedy of Macbeth

Greig Fraser – Dune

Janusz Kaminski – West Side Story

Dan Laustsen – Nightmare Alley

Haris Zambarloukos – Belfast

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos – Dune (WINNER)

Jim Clay, Claire Nia Richards – Belfast

Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau – Nightmare Alley

Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo – The French Dispatch

Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo – West Side Story

BEST EDITING

Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn – West Side Story (WINNER)

Úna Ní Dhonghaíle – Belfast

Andy Jurgensen – Licorice Pizza

Peter Sciberras – The Power of the Dog

Joe Walker – Dune

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Jenny Beavan – Cruella (WINNER)

Luis Sequeira – Nightmare Alley

Paul Tazewell – West Side Story

Jacqueline West, Robert Morgan – Dune

Janty Yates – House of Gucci

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (WINNER) Cruella

Dune

House of Gucci

Nightmare Alley

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Dune (WINNER)

The Matrix Resurrections

Nightmare Alley

No Time to Die

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

BEST COMEDY

Licorice Pizza (WINNER) Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Don’t Look Up

Free Guy

The French Dispatch

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

The Mitchells vs. the Machines (WINNER) Encanto

Flee

Luca

Raya and the Last Dragon

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Drive My Car (WINNER)

A Hero

Flee

The Hand of God

The Worst Person in the World

BEST SONG

“No Time to Die” – No Time to Die (WINNER)

“Be Alive” – King Richard

“Dos Oruguitas” – Encanto

“Guns Go Bang” – The Harder They Fall

“Just Look Up” – Don’t Look Up

BEST SCORE

Hans Zimmer – Dune (WINNER)

Nicholas Britell – Don’t Look Up

Jonny Greenwood – The Power of the Dog

Jonny Greenwood – Spencer

Nathan Johnson – Nightmare Alley

TELEVISION

BEST DRAMA SERIES

Succession (HBO) (WINNER)

Evil (Paramount+)

For All Mankind (Apple TV+)

The Good Fight (Paramount+)

Pose (FX)

Squid Game (Netflix)

This Is Us (NBC)

Yellowjackets (Showtime)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Lee Jung-jae – Squid Game (Netflix) (WINNER)

Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us (NBC)

Mike Colter – Evil (Paramount+)

Brian Cox – Succession (HBO)

Billy Porter – Pose (FX)

Jeremy Strong – Succession (HBO)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Melanie Lynskey – Yellowjackets (Showtime) (WINNER)

Uzo Aduba – In Treatment (HBO)

Chiara Aurelia – Cruel Summer (Freeform)

Christine Baranski – The Good Fight (Paramount+)

Katja Herbers – Evil (Paramount+)

MJ Rodriguez – Pose (FX)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Kieran Culkin – Succession (HBO) (WINNER)

Nicholas Braun – Succession (HBO)

Billy Crudup – The Morning Show (Apple TV+)

Justin Hartley – This Is Us (NBC)

Matthew Macfadyen – Succession (HBO)

Mandy Patinkin – The Good Fight (Paramount+)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Sarah Snook – Succession (HBO) (WINNER)

Andrea Martin – Evil (Paramount+)

Audra McDonald – The Good Fight (Paramount+)

Christine Lahti – Evil (Paramount+)

J. Smith-Cameron – Succession (HBO)

Susan Kelechi Watson – This Is Us (NBC)

BEST COMEDY SERIES

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) (WINNER)

The Great (Hulu)

Hacks (HBO Max)

Insecure (HBO)

Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

The Other Two (HBO Max)

Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu)

What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) (WINNER)

Iain Armitage – Young Sheldon (CBS)

Nicholas Hoult – The Great (Hulu)

Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Kayvan Novak – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max) (WINNER)

Elle Fanning – The Great (Hulu)

Renée Elise Goldsberry – Girls5eva (Peacock)

Selena Gomez – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

Sandra Oh – The Chair (Netflix)

Issa Rae – Insecure (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) (WINNER)

Ncuti Gatwa – Sex Education (Netflix)

Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

Brandon Scott Jones – Ghosts (CBS)

Ray Romano – Made for Love (HBO Max)

Bowen Yang – Saturday Night Live (NBC)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) (WINNER)

Hannah Einbinder – Hacks (HBO Max)

Kristin Chenoweth – Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+)

Molly Shannon – The Other Two (HBO Max)

Cecily Strong – Saturday Night Live (NBC)

Josie Totah – Saved By the Bell (Peacock)

BEST LIMITED SERIES

Mare of Easttown (HBO) (WINNER)

Dopesick (Hulu)

Dr. Death (Peacock)

It’s a Sin (HBO Max)

Maid (Netflix)

Midnight Mass (Netflix)

The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)

WandaVision (Disney+)

BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Oslo (HBO) (WINNER)

Come From Away (Apple TV+)

List of a Lifetime (Lifetime)

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (Amazon Prime Video)

Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (Lifetime)

Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas (The Roku Channel)

BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Michael Keaton – Dopesick (Hulu) (WINNER)

Olly Alexander – It’s a Sin (HBO Max)

Paul Bettany – WandaVision (Disney+)

William Jackson Harper – Love Life (HBO Max)

Joshua Jackson – Dr. Death (Peacock)

Hamish Linklater – Midnight Mass (Netflix)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Kate Winslet – Mare of Easttown (HBO) (WINNER)

Danielle Brooks – Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (Lifetime)

Cynthia Erivo – Genius: Aretha (National Geographic)

Thuso Mbedu – The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)

Elizabeth Olsen – WandaVision (Disney+)

Margaret Qualley – Maid (Netflix)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Murray Bartlett – The White Lotus (HBO) (WINNER)

Zach Gilford – Midnight Mass (Netflix)

William Jackson Harper – The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime Video)

Evan Peters – Mare of Easttown (HBO)

Christian Slater – Dr. Death (Peacock)

Courtney B. Vance – Genius: Aretha (National Geographic)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus (HBO) (WINNER)

Kaitlyn Dever – Dopesick (Hulu)

Kathryn Hahn – WandaVision (Disney+)

Melissa McCarthy – Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu)

Julianne Nicholson – Mare of Easttown (HBO)

Jean Smart – Mare of Easttown (HBO)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES

Squid Game (Netflix) (WINNER)

Acapulco (Apple TV+)

Call My Agent! (Netflix)

Lupin (Netflix)

Money Heist (Netflix)

Narcos: Mexico (Netflix)

BEST ANIMATED SERIES

What If…? (Disney+) (WINNER)

Big Mouth (Netflix)

Bluey (Disney+)

Bob’s Burgers (Fox)

The Great North (Fox)

Q-Force (Netflix)

BEST TALK SHOW

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO) (WINNER)

The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock)

Desus & Mero (Showtime)

The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC)

Late Night With Seth Meyers (NBC)

Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen (Bravo)

BEST COMEDY SPECIAL

Bo Burnham: Inside (Netflix) (WINNER)

Good Timing With Jo Firestone (Peacock)

James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 (Vimeo)

Joyelle Nicole Johnson: Love Joy (Peacock)

Nate Bargatze: The Greatest Average American (Netflix)

Trixie Mattel: One Night Only (YouTube)

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

March 14, 2022
DGA Awards: Campion Wins Another Major Precursor En Route to Oscar

Of all the above-the-line categories, Best Director is the closest to being locked as Campion will likely sweep the precursors on her way to Oscar glory.

This precursor is also an important one for the Doc race. Stanley Nelson won for Attica and though I’m not saying that Summer of Soul missing here will move it from frontrunner status, I do think it’s vulnerable for a film like Flee to take the prize at the last second.

Here are the DGA results:

Theatrical Feature Film
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Licorice Pizza”
Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast”
**WINNER Jane Campion, “The Power of the Dog”
Steven Spielberg, “West Side Story”
Denis Villeneuve, “Dune”

First-Time Feature Film Director
**WINNER Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Lost Daughter”
Rebecca Hall, “Passing”
Tatiana Huezo, “Prayers for the Stolen”
Lin-Manuel Miranda, “tick, tick…BOOM!”
Michael Sarnoski, “Pig”
Emma Seligman, “Shiva Baby”

Documentary
Jessica Kingdon, “Ascension”
**WINNER Stanley Nelson, “Attica”
Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes”
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin, “The Rescue”

Drama Series
Kevin Bray, “Succession”: “Retired Janitors of Idaho”
**WINNER Mark Mylod, “Succession”: “All the Bells Say”
Andrij Parekh, “Succession”: “What It Takes”
Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, “Succession”: “Lion in the Meadow”
Lorene Scafaria, “Succession”: “Too Much Birthday”

Comedy Series
**WINNER Lucia Aniello, “Hacks”: “There Is No Line”
MJ Delaney, “Ted Lasso”: “No Weddings and a Funeral”
Erica Dunton, “Ted Lasso”: “Rainbow”
Sam Jones, “Ted Lasso”: “Beard After Hours”
Mike White, “The White Lotus”: “Mysterious Monkeys”

Movies for Television and Limited Series
**WINNER Barry Jenkins, “The Underground Railroad”
Barry Levinson, “Dopesick”: “First Bottle”
Hiro Murai, “Station Eleven”: “Wheel of Fire”
Danny Strong: “Dopesick”: “The People vs. Purdue Pharma”
Craig Zobel, “Mare of Easttown”

Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming
Paul G. Casey, “Real Time With Bill Maher”: “Episode 1935: Fareed Zakaria, Chris Christie, Eric Adams”
Jim Hoskinson, “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”: “Episode 1105”
**WINNER Don Roy King, “Saturday Night Live”: “Keegan-Michael Key; Olivia Rodrigo”
David Paul Meyer, “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah”: “Episode 26112”
Paul Pennolino & Christopher Werner, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”: “Episode 830 – Season Finale”

Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Specials
Ian Berger, “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse – Into the Magaverse”
Bo Burnham, “Bo Burnham: Inside”
**WINNER Paul Dugdale, “Adele: One Night Only”
Stan Lathan, “Dave Chappelle: The Closer”
Glenn P. Weiss, “The 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors”

Reality Programs
Joseph Guidry, “Full Bloom”: “Final Floral Face Off”
Patrick McManus, “American Ninja Warrior”: “1304: Qualifiers 4”
Ramy Romany, “Making the Cut”: “Brand Statement”
Ben Simms, “Running Wild with Bear Grylls”: “Gina Carano In The Dolomites”
**WINNER Adam Vetri, “Getaway Driver”: “Electric Shock”

Children’s Programs
James Bobin, “The Mysterious Benedict Society”: “A Bunch of Smart Orphans”
Michael Lembeck, “The J Team”
Phill Lewis, “Head of the Class”: “Three More Years”
**WINNER Smriti Mundhra, “Through Our Eyes”: “Shelter”
Jeff Wadlow, “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”: “The Tale of the Darkhouse”

Commercials
Steve Ayson (MJZ), Anthem, Mattress Firm – Droga5
Kathryn Bigelow (Smuggler), Hollywood In Your Pocket, iPhone 13 – Media Arts Lab
Ian Pons Jewell (Reset), ECG, Apple Watch – Apple; Sleep, Apple Watch – Apple; Time, Squarespace – Squarespace; Your Mom’s Short Ribs, Instacart – Goodby Silverstein
Henry-Alex Rubin (Smuggler), Teenage Dream, Sandy Hook Promise – BBDO – New York
**WINNER Bradford Young (Serial Pictures x Somesuch), Super. Human., Channel 4 Paralympics – 4Creative

Source: The Wrap

March 13, 2022