Awards Season (and TFE) Calendar - The Final Stretch
Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 1:16AM It's the final month+ of awards mania and we'll have final Oscar nom predictions up shortly. But what a busy weekend it already is...
Globe Drama winner / Oscar hopeful 1917 just expanded into wide release, France's Oscar finalist Les Miserables opened in limited release (banking on a nomination Monday, no doubt). For home viewing Best Picture hopeful Joker and Oscar longshot-in-a-couple-of-categories The Lighthouse both just hit Blu-Ray. New to streaming is the Florence Pugh showcase horror film MidSommar on Amazon Prime, while action spectacle John Wick Parabellum (mysteriously not nominatd for stunts at SAG) arrives on HBO. But here's what's still to come this season...
JANUARY
12 Critics Choice Awards. Plus maybe Nathaniel's Top Ten List ... which means the Film Bitch Awards nominations begin? But it takes us a while to publish them all.
13 Oscar Nominations Announced
15 Maleficent Mistress of Evil and Gemini Man, Oscar finalists in Makeup and Visual Effects respectively, hit Blu-Ray
16 voting closes for the PGA awards, Federico Fellini Centennial celebration begins at TFE
17 Weathering With You (Japan's Oscar submission) opens in the US, plus... voting closes for SAG awards
18 PGA Ceremony, Godzilla King of Monsters hits HBO and you should watch only to marvel at how insane/inept Oscar's visual fx branch is... Cats made the finalist list but this didn't? For f***'s sake, AMPAS!
19 SAG Ceremony, plus Team Experience Awards (voted on by our contributors) are announced
20 Martin Luther King Jr Day
21 Pain and Glory (Spain's Oscar finalist) arrives on Blu-Ray. We hope it arrives with a few Oscar nominations (biting our nails about it right now)
24 voting closes for DGA awards
25 GOYA Awards (Spain's Oscars), DGA Awards, Annie Awards
27 Oscar Nominee Luncheon. Harriet and Parasite both arrive on Blu-Ray. How many Oscar nominations will they be able to advertise?
France didn't choose PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE for its submission but will it give a ton of César nominations?
29 César Nominations Announced (France's Oscars), voting closes for BAFTA, Beanpole (Russia's Oscar finalist)
opens in the US.
30 final voting begins for Oscars.
31 "Oscar Shorts Program" opens in select movie theaters in the US, The Traitor (Italy's Oscar submission) and Incitement (Israel's Oscar submission) open in the US
FEBRUARY
Will Laura win the Smackdown?
2 BAFTA Ceremony, Groundhog Day, plus "Supporting Actress Smackdown" returns with the current Oscar year
3 Film Bitch Awards Medals Ceremony
4 voting closes for the Oscars
6 Final Oscar Predictions.
7 And Then We Danced (Georgia's Oscar submission) opens in the US
8 Independent Spirit Awards Ceremony
9 OSCAR NIGHT It's the 92nd Annual Academy Awards
10 Oscar post-mortems begin and generally last about a week here at the site. We don't move on easily. Sue us.
11 Ford V Ferrari arrives on Blu-Ray
14 Valentine's Day!
19 Corpus Christi (Poland's Oscar finalist) opens in the US
28 César Ceremony in France, The Whistlers (Romania's Oscar submission) and A White White Day (Iceland's Oscar submission) open in the US in select cities. Why so many foreign Oscar submissions each year wait until after the Oscars they were competing for to release -- even if they were nominated they couldn't really capitalize on it by then -- we'll never know.
... and then TFE gets a mini-vacation during the first or second week of March. It's usually only two to three days as we're workaholics. Which dates are you most excited for?
Reader Comments (16)
Is it crazy that I'm already ready for next season's April Fools predictions? I'm not sure if it's the rushed nature of this year's season but everything feels like a blur. I'm ready to forget about it and move on.
Unless, of course, Parasite wins Best Picture...
i'm excited for the FilmBitch nominations and winners - which i normally check the website EVERY DAY once they begin hoping for more
oh and i sure hope Julianne Moore for 'Gloria Bell' shows up in the nomination list - that was just SUCH a good movie and a GREAT performance.
I really just want the Film Bitch nominees. And the Extra Categories too! I mean this year had SUCH a fine array of heroes, villains, line readings, sexpots!, sex scenes (especially bizarre ones), divas, and endings! Recognition is due!
Ry -- which sexpots and sex scenes are you thinking of because i'm having troulbe with this year's movies. Everything was so sexless this year! (barring a couple standouts)
TLove -- we love to hear it!
Can you create a category for worst sex scene?
Cuz Queen & Slim wins it almost any year. The content, the context, the timing, the editing, the narrative. One of the very worst I've ever seen.
Don't even think I like the film after that.
And Then We Danced was Sweden's Oscar submission, not Georgia's.
Monday (the nominees are often more interesting than the winners), the Smackdown, and the Film Bitch Awards. Sure we follow what the Academy does, but what makes this site so special is what Nathaniel and his contributors add to all this wonderful madness.
Don’t forget WGA Awards on February 1.
The sex scene in PARASITE with the captive audience under the coffee table was so bizarre and hilarious (“Give me drugs!”) and definitely deserves inclusion.
i just love this website Nathaniel and i'm on here multiple times in a single day LOL. So much hard work - so much trivia and nostalgia - and just so much feeling of belonging, that i don't get much of in my normal day to day life.
So kudos and a HUGE THANK YOU for having this website for people like me :)
PS - would love to be a contributor somehow
Border, the lighthouse, portrait of a lady on fire, invisible life are movies with curious sex scenes
Beanpole too
I’m excited for Film Bitch nominations as I think it will have a lot of movies I love - Farewell, Pain and Glory, Parasite, Beautiful Day....
I'm sorry, whose idea was it to have the Critics Choice awards on the night before the Oscar predictions? Meaning I essentially have to have my final predictions done before BFCA happens and if that show makes me change my opinion on anything, I have just a handful of hours to change stuff!
Mike’s predictions for the Oscar nominations
(Please note: These are not my preferences. These are who and what I think the Academy will choose to nominate.)
Best Actress
Renee Zellweger—Judy
Charlize Theron—Bombshell
Saoirse Ronan—Little Women
Scarlett Johansson—Marriage Story
Lupita Nyong’o—Us
Best Actor
Robert De Niro—The Irishman
Antonio Banderas—Pain and Glory
Adam Driver—Marriage Story
Joaquin Phoenix—Joker
Leonardo DiCaprio—Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Supporting Actress
Laura Dern—Marriage Story
Jennifer Lopez—Hustlers
Margot Robbie—Bombshell
Florence Pugh—Little Women
Scarlet Johansson—Jojo Rabbit
Best Supporting Actor
Al Pacino—The Irishman
Joe Pesci—The Irishman
Brad Pitt—Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Tom Hanks—A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Song Kang Ho—Parasite
Best Director
Quentin Tarantino—Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Martin Scorsese—The Irishman
Bong Joon Ho—Parasite
Sam Mendes—1917
Taika Waititi—Jojo Rabbit
Best Picture
The Irishman
Marriage Story
Parasite
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
1917
Little Women
Joker
Jojo Rabbit