Chicago, Phoenix, and Boston online critics agree...
Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 8:54PM by Nathaniel R
We've reached the portion of film critics awards season where the groupthink is really kicking in despite a plethora of options avaiable to voters. I don't blame the critics groups so much as the process. Critics groups tend to be a lot more interesting if they all vote in a room together on winners (where they can discuss) than they do when they name nominations and do simple vote counts... you're bound to end up less adventurous with the second system. There is shockingly little variation in the winners from Chicago, Boston (Online) and Phoenix. The three latest groups to announce have the exact same winners for Picture (Banshees) Director (EEAAO), Actress (Blanchett), Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Screenplay (Banshees), Score (Babylon), and Animated Feature (Pinocchio). There is no single category in which all three groups have a different winner....
CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (CFCA)
PICTURE The Banshees of Inisherin
DIRECTOR Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once
ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, TÁR
ACTOR Colin Farrell, Banshees of Inisherin
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Kerry Condon, Banshees of Inisherin
SUPPORTING ACTOR Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER Austin Butler, Elvis
SCREENPLAY Banshees of Inisherin
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Women Talking
CINEMATOGRAPHY Decision to Leave
ART DIRECTION Everything Everywhere All At Once
COSTUME DESIGN Everything Everywhere All At Once
EDITING Everything Everywhere All At Once
USE OF VISUAL FX Everything Everywhere All At Once
SCORE Babylon
BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER Charlotte Wells, Aftersun
DOCUMENTARY Fire of Love
ANIMATED FEATURE Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
INTERNATIONAL FILM Decision to Leave
BOSTON ONLINE FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (BOFCA)
PICTURE The Banshees of Inisherin
Their complete top ten is as follows
- Banshees of Inisherin
- Everything Everywhere
- The Fabelmans
- Aftersun
- TÁR
- Top Gun Maverick
- Decision to Leave
- Nope
- Crimes of the Future
- Glass Onion
DIRECTOR Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once
ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, TÁR
ACTOR Colin Farrell, Banshees of Inisherin
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Kerry Condon, Banshees of Inisherin
SUPPORTING ACTOR Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
SCREENPLAY Banshees of Inisherin
CINEMATOGRAPHY Top Gun Maverick
EDITING Everything Everywhere All At Once
SCORE Babylon
ENSEMBLE Glass Onion
DOCUMENTARY All The Beauty and the Bloodshed
ANIMATED FEATURE Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
INTERNATIONAL FILM Decision to Leave
PHOENIX CRITICS CIRCLE (PCC)
Though they share no members with the Boston group their eight major categories were identical but for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress
PICTURE The Banshees of Inisherin
DIRECTOR Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once
ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, TÁR
ACTOR Brendan Fraser, The Whale
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Keke Palmer, Nope
SUPPORTING ACTOR Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
SCREENPLAY Banshees of Inisherin
CINEMATOGRAPHY Top Gun Maverick
SCORE Babylon
COMEDY Glass Onion
SCI-FI Everything Everywhere
HORROR Barbarian
DOCUMENTARY Fire of Love
ANIMATED FEATURE Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
INTERNATIONAL FILM RRR
film critics, precursor awards
Reader Comments (7)
I'd be curious to see how well Pinocchio would do in the awards race if it were directed by someone else, even someone like Henry Selick, who's respected.
Rewatching Greta Gerwig's Little Women last night, I remembered all the criticism of Gerwig for taking on a well-known property, when Pinocchio has been remade far more often - dozens and dozens of times. (And the same director just remade another classic film last year.) Yet we don't even hear this referred to as a "remake", as we did Little Women. It's interesting to see how certain directors are given a lot of grace and the benefit of the doubt.
It's beginning to feel that Quan is the locked winner, as it is also really likely that Farrell AND Condon are winning as well. That leaves Cate vs Yeoh, and critics point to Cate, but narrative points to Yeoh.
(worth noting, Jamie Lee Curtis could really well win, even if both Quan and Yeoh also win... they would be the first 3 actors to win for the same film, since Network - 1976... but that could also happen with Farrell, Condon and either Gleeson or Keoghan)
Jesus my take is Curtis wins and only because Condon isn't as known but they are both in BP frontrunners,either way one of those 2 is your supporting actress winner.
I loved Tar but am not likely to call it Cate's best ever as some have proclaimed it and i'd be surprised if she wins a third
,Yeoh and Deadwyler's roles have real heart and Oscar likes warmer sympathetic characters think Swank v Bening 99 or Close v Foster in 88.
Nathaniel, The St. Louis Critics Awards are in.
http://www.stlfilmcritics.org/awards
They made a few winners that we haven't seen much.
Everyone: great news! The Academy is going back to a live nomination announcement for next month's Oscar nominations. No pre-taped Power Point presentation!!
Ripley...
it's odd that EEAAO is a different case in the multiple nominations
Farrell, Condon, Gleeson and Keoghan might win or lose, depending on the other ones losing or winning, they don't really have that much of important narratives to secure any of their wins, but the case that Banshees just will be winning SOMETHING.
Williams, Dano and Hirsch are a similar case... in all three cases, nom might be deemed as enough, in front of their competition.
Foy, Buckley, Winshaw and Mara, same case. Also, too lost in the ensemble, Women Talking may even not score a single acting nomination, at this point.
Then we have THIS
Yeoh being overdue, and the first Asian woman to win in Lead Actress (or the first asian person to win as lead!)
Quan has the narrative of the year, as his precursor sweep is showing. Plus it is the most challenging supporting performance of the year, full of range (comedy, drama, action)
Curtis is the weaker link out of the 4 main EEAAO candidates but between her and Hsu - who's even better than Curtis - it is clear that Curtis is the likeliest winner in such an open race, and she's killing it with her campaign so far. Plus, she's Hollywood royalty
So, 3 acting wins for EEAAO and then lose Picture, Director and Original Screenplay in front of Banshees? Possible, but I think Daniels are taking one of those 3, and I guess it's Picture, along the Russo Brothers, who also produce.
Picture - EEAAO
Director - Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Original Screenplay - The Banshees of Inisherin
Adapted Screenplay - Women Talking
Actor - Brendan Fraser - The Whale (maybe Farrell)
Actress - Michelle Yeoh, EEAAO (maybe Cate)
S. Actor - Ke Huy Quan, EEAAO (maybe Gleeson)
S. Actress - Jamie Lee Curtis, EEAAO (maybe Buckley)
Animated - Guillermo del Toro's Pinochio
... however don't rule out Tom Cruise getting his first Oscar as producer of Top Gun: Maverick... or even upsetting both Fraser and Farrell as a career- Award
I adore Quan but I am already bored with his dominance of the critics awards so far. I mean c'mon critics : there are other worthy choices this year. Barry Keoghan is right there!