With the PGA, SAG, and ACE awards handed out, a handful of Oscar categories are starting to crystallize. And yet others still seem fluid, not least of all Best Actor, which has as many as three potential winning contenders, though only one of them can claim to have won a major industry prize thus far: Denzel Washington.
We have emerged from the first weekend of Phase Two, a weekend that included no less than three major industry award ceremonies to begin the final four-week sprint to Oscar Night.
We’ve barely had any time to digest this week’s announcement of the 89th Oscar nominations, and already we are on the brink of knowing the results of two of the three major industry guild awards. Tonight, the Producers Guild of America will hold its annual ceremony, leading up to the announcement of of this …
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Five months down, one month to go, and only for the first time do we officially know the field we have to work with. Nominations for the 89th Oscars were officially announced this morning, in a “live-stream” of recorded testimonials that felt like an infomercial, occasionally punctuated with the swiftest disconnected robo-announcement of nominees …
The 89th Academy Awards nominations were historic on several fronts. La La Land tied the all-time record for most nominations, garnering 14 total nods. There were six people of color nominated across the four acting categories.
Well, then. We have arrived at Oscar Nomination Eve. In a way, it’s hard to…
Just under five months ago, this odyssey began as almost all other Oscar odysseys begin: with a dominant frontrunner jumping out of the gate amid the three-headed monster of the fall festival circuit. In La La Land’s case, it played all three. The fall circuit is the breeding ground for Best Picture winners, and it has become increasingly prominent in recent years – you have to go back five years to find a Best Picture winner that didn’t premiere on the fall circuit (in 2011, The Artist started its run in Cannes), and La La Land ticked off all three boxes, premiering at Venice and then playing Telluride and Toronto. Ever since, the season has revolved around Damien Chazelle’s film.
11 days and counting. The industry has provided nearly as wide a swath of interdisciplinary opinion as we can expect. Now we wait only on the Academy. And it’s not as though there are any late-breaking developments that can impact the results over the next week-and-a-half, since nomination voting for AMPAS members closes today.
This week’s torrent of precursor nomination announcements has come to a close, and now we’re left with 11 barren days to await the final piece of the puzzle: the Oscar nominations. With the exception of a couple stray guilds – I’m looking at you, Motion Picture Sound Editors – we have about as complete a read on the industry at large as we’re going to get in advance of the January 24th Oscar nominations announcement. The final major revelation came yesterday, with the Directors Guild of America nominations.