It's always tempting to see the first week of critics»
awards as a bellwether of what's to come in awards season, to draw lessons from each new round of kudos.
Not exact matches
The BAFTAs have always been an important
bellwether for predicting Oscar, but they may be even more in tune with the Academy this year
as a rule change allowed the entire BAFTA voting body to vote on every
award (like the Oscars), instead of writers only voting for screenplay, actors only voting for acting, etc..
As one of the steadiest
bellwethers of the Academy
Awards, the SAG
Awards have considerable sway on the Oscar race.
The nominations for the Producers Guild
Awards have arrived,
as good a
bellwether as any for the films and TV shows that will make it all the way to the Oscars and the Emmys, respectively.
TIFF's annual people's choice prize, which includes a $ 15,000 cash
award, is often regarded
as a
bellwether for success at the Academy
Awards.
One, meanwhile, can be discounted
as an Oscar
bellwether: Helena Bonham - Carter will probably add a Best Supporting Actress
award to «The King's Speech»» s total, but with three of her Oscar rivals out of the running (Jacki Weaver ineligible, Hailee Steinfeld in lead and Melissa Leo curiously unnominated), there's not much to be gleaned from the result.
People are only dimly aware when they take place, nobody cares who wins — least of all the winners — and they manage to be irrelevant both
as serious film
awards and
as Oscar
bellwethers.
Ko's timely, assured debut received major critical acclaim before it was even published,
as Barbara Kingsolver
awarded it the 2016 PEN /
Bellwether Prize for Fiction (given to a novel that addresses issues of social justice).
A recipient of the National Academy of Design painting
award as well
as a Lower East Side Printshop artist fellowship, she has shown regularly with
Bellwether Gallery and most recently exhibiting in Paris.