Sentences with phrase «precursor awards»

"Precursor awards" refers to the honors given out before a major award ceremony, such as the Academy Awards. These awards help predict or influence the outcome of the main award and serve as an indication or early sign of who might win. Full definition
Janney has won a slew of precursor awards including the Golden Globe, the SAG, and most recently the BAFTA.
Streep, Arquette, Knightley and Stone all have SAG and Globe nominations and each have stacked precursor awards pretty high so far this season.
Oscar season was once defined by evenly spaced precursor awards slowly trickling out over the course of a couple months and realigning the race with each new announcement.
With Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney sweeping all of the key precursor awards, the four major acting races appear to be locked down.
«Quiet» is a relative distinction when it comes to Oscar season; Hollywood's annual pageant of self - congratulation — stretched across several very long weeks of acceptance speeches, for - your - consideration campaigns, and precursor award ceremonies — is about as reliably loud as any other pageant.
Boyhood wins big at the first precursor awards to the Oscars, the New York Film Critics Circle awards.
• Meanwhile, our new Oscar column The Long Shot addressed the identity crisis afflicting the season's multiple precursor awards.
Any other candidates that emerged in December would be relegated to «also - ran» status, as Hathaway started picking up every single Best Supporting Actress precursor award available.
Normally, the so - called precursor awards would give us a hint, but this year's results have been all over the dang place.
Critics casually and regularly mentioned «Oscar» in their reviews but the precursor awards didn't bite (the Golden Globes forcing that film into Drama when films of its kind usually compete in Musical surely didn't help).
Yes, the Utah Film Critics are the next to chime in with their precursor awards, and they were big on «Drive».
Though there were no precursor awards, it was not a surprise to see Lee win best director.
After months and months of lead up and speculation (not to mention an endless string of precursor awards), the Academy Awards were finally given out, and the results were almost as unpredictable as we'd all been saying.
But all came before Frances McDormand won every precursor award under the sun for her fierce, unapologetic, and frequently unsettling performance as the very angry, very resourceful mother of a murdered teenager.
Prediction: For months, Best Actor seemed all sewn up, as Casey Affleck won precursor award after precursor award for his portrayal of a Massachusetts handyman stunted by his grief.
Hanks has been strong in the precursor awards and Dern has the living legend thing, while also being charming on the pre-Oscar circuit.
Her, 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Inside Llewyn Davis, American Hustle and The Wolf on Wall Street have each thrived throughout the precursor awards receiving a wide spread of nominations and wins, proving that this Fall season looks to redeem a very poor summer at the movies.
So my advice to the precursor awards — those that shouldn't be disbanded altogether, at any rate — is similar to that I gave Academy voters in last week's column: think for yourselves.
The 2018 WGA Award winners were announced on Sunday, thus nearly completing all the precursor awards before the 90th Academy Awards are handed out March 4 (the BAFTAs are still to come on February 18).
Precursor awards are in full swing now, so expect the Academy Award picture to begin to clear itself up little by little.
CHANG: Del Toro will win quite handily; he's beloved by the industry, and he's already won a slew of precursor awards, most importantly the Directors Guild of America's feature prize.
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