Mark Your Calendars!
Monday, November 30, 2015 at 1:01PM With the Gotham Awards coming tonight, it's time to look at the awards season calendar. Here's a handy prep list. Dates in italics are not official just right around when it happened last year. Dates in bold are nomination dates or televised ceremonies.
Are you ready? Can you ever be?
DECEMBER 2015
1st (ish) Oscar's Documentary Finalist List announced
1st National Board of Review Awards
2nd New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) Awards
6th Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) Awards
7th Golden Globe nomination ballots due
9th SAG NOMINATIONS
10th GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS
13th Toronto Film Critics Awards
14th BFCA "CRITICS CHOICE" NOMINATIONS
18th (ish) Oscar's Foreign Language Finalist List announced
20th FiLM BiTCH AWARDS begin. That's ours... (I know I know. we'll try to trim the running time this year.)
30th Oscar nomination ballots go out to AMPAS
JANUARY 2016
5th PGA & ADG Nominations
5th NBR Gala
6th ASC Cinematography Nominations
7th SAG nomination ballots due
8th Oscar nomination ballots due
8th BAFTA Nominations
10th GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on NBC)
10th Visual Effects Society "Bake-Off" presentation for the Oscar finalists
12th DGA Nominations
13th FiLM BiTCH AWARDS Nominations Wrap-Up
14th OSCAR NOMINATIONS - Rejoice!
17th CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS (Annual BFCA Awards on A&E)
21st Sundance Film Festival Begins
23rd PGA Gala
29th SAG ballots due
30th SAG AWARDS (22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on TNT/TBS)
31st Art Directors Guild Gala
FEBRUARY 2016
6th DGA Gala
12th Oscar ballots out to AMPAS
14th BAFTA AWARDS and American Society of Cinematographer's Gala
17th (ish) 18th Annual Costume Designers Guild Gala
23rd Oscar Ballots due
27th Film Independent Spirit Awards
28th OSCAR NIGHT! (aka Hollywood's High Holy Night aka The 88th Annual Academy Awards)
MARCH & APRIL 2016
It all starts again for a new film year!
BAFTA, Golden Globes, NBR, NYFCC, Oscars (15), SAG, The Film Experience
Reader Comments (14)
LAFCA is also on Dec 6th.
SAG noms on December 9, not January 9
What about LA Film Critics and National Society of Film Critics? Have they not announced dates yet?
I read Mara is going Lead at SAG.
I honestly hope "What we do in the Shadows" is featured ANYwhere in your film bitch awards... I'd say Original Screenplay should be a lock already... even if only as "special mention".
Writer's Guild awards are Feb 13. www.wga.org/wga-awards/
Bafta nominations?
It's the most wonderful time of the year.
brooooke -- couldn't find a date on that. their website only lists their awards ceremony date.
MARK - that would surprise me since the studio has always expressed their wishes for her to be "supporting" and the studios get to pick categories for SAG, not the voters.
Hi,
The BAFTA nominations are Friday 8 January:
http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/the-bafta-film-awards-in-2015-where-when
Seems slightly daunting doesn't it. Poor Nathaniel - this is like your "to do" list for the next 2 months. Start taking those vitamins.
It's so weird now that SAG is announcing nominees BEFORE HFPA. I remember last year Naomi Watts' random supporting actress nomination looked like the beginning of an outside shot for exactly TWO DAYS. And then the Globes set it straight.
I'm not accustomed to Globe nominations determining whether a SAG nomination was a fluke. For so many years it was the other way around. I assume SAG moved theirs up as a power play to give them *FIRST* attention. But what it means now is that their pet nominations lose steam rather than gain it once HFPA announces.
The Film Bitch Awards are always my favorite.