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St. Louis Film Critics Film: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Director: Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) Actor: Adam Sandler (Uncut Gems) Actress: Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story) Sup. Actor: Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) Sup. Actress: Margot Robbie (Once Upon a Time in ...

As okri has often pointed out, a group that's been around a long time (it even predates the National Society). Kansas City Film Critics Film: 1917 Director: Sam Mendes (1917) Actor: Adam Driver (Marriage Story) Actress: Lupita Nyong'o (Us) Sup. Actor: Joe Pesci (The Irishman) Sup. Actress: Da'Vine J...

So, Boston said, no women-directed films in the best picture race? Check out our numbers one and two. They also went for local lady Louisa May Alcott. Boston in the past has shown some favoritism toward area-based films. But good for Gerwig's movie, winning 4 prizes and nabbing runner-up in three mo...

It's not often I side with criddic over other board members, but I think he's correct here. The notion that everybody agrees Woody Allen is guilty and must be shunned from polite society is a bubble belief (not unlike the idea that Joe Biden can't possibly win the Dem nomination, because no one I kn...

One of the few groups that, for reasons of longevity/credibility, I give their own thread. Though their top-line choices are pretty rote this year. BEST PICTURE Parasite BEST DIRECTOR Bong Joon Ho, Parasite BEST ACTRESS Lupita Nyong'o, Us BEST ACTOR Adam Driver, Marriage Story BEST SUPPORTING ACTRES...

I miss Boston as the opening act for the LA Critics, but they've apparently settled on a week later as their time. They're voting right now, and I'll post winners/runners-up as they become available. Best Film: Little Women (ru: Portrait of a Lady on Fire) Best Director: Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) (ru:...

Philadelphia Film Critics Circle Film: Knives Out Director: Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, Us Actor: Adam Driver, Marriage Story Supporting Actress: Florence Pugh, Little Women Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Cinematography: The Lighthouse Documenta...

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Film Parasite Director Bong Joon Ho, Parasite Actress Lupita Nyong'o, Us Actor: Adam Driver, Marriage Story Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Voice Performance: Tony Hale, Toy Story 4 Mo...

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Picture: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Director: Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Actor: Adam Sandler Uncut Gems Actress: Renée Zellweger Judy Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse Supporting Actress: Margot Robbie, Bombshell Ensemble: Knives O...

It was already fairly clear this year's best actress category wasn't going to generate an anointed winner -- a Mirren/The Queen, Blanchett/Blue Jasmine, who sweeps all others aside -- but NY and LA going with Lupita Nyong'o and Mary Kay Place made that oficial. Nyong'o has now become something of a ...

For a character actor who some might say only had the one moment in the limelight with Do the Right Thing , he has it, Leon: The Professional , Moonstruck , Radio Days , The Purple Rose of Cairo , Once Upon a Time in America , and The Godfather Part II on his filmography. Many actors spend their ca...

Typically, the children at Awards Worthy are making extravagant pronouncements ("R.I.P. Little Women"; "Parasite is SO winning!" A couple of things worth remembering: 1) we still don't know how much impact the merger with AFTRA has had on SAG's propensity for matching AMPAS; 2) c...

As in other years, I don't attempt to anticipate what no-hoper SAG puts on the ballot (Helen Mirren/Woman in Gold; Sarah Silverman/I can't even remember the title), or which contenders get the blow of omission (though most likely are foreign performers or December releases). But I do think about the...

Missing: 1917, the presumed front-runner in many eyes. (And the Costume Design Guild this morning omitted Little Women, another thought-to-be-category-favorite. Late release issues, or chaos?) Cinema Audio Society awards 2019. MOTION PICTURE – LIVE ACTION Ford v Ferrari Joker Once Upon a Time in… Ho...

When some people, in praising Us, said it overcame Get Out's problem of not being scary enough, they might as well have been telling me to avoid the movie. But, a slew of critics' awards persuaded me I had to put myself through the film. And what I found was a film problematic not so much for how sc...