‘Promising Young Woman’ Sweeps Hollywood Critics Association Awards

Promising Young Woman has been the film on everyone’s lips in recent months. It’s been nominated for five Oscars and six BAFTAs and yet we haven’t been able to see it.

If it’s a Sunday evening in March 2021 it must be time for the guild award honors to begin. On this day, the Writer’s Guild of America handed out their annual WGA Awards winners and the two biggest awards gave only a hint of what might happen on Oscar night.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Another film critics association is going where the cool kids are: TV. The Hollywood Critics Association, which launched in 2016 (originally as the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society) announced a plan to add a TV awards ceremony in summer 2021.

Promising Young Woman and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm topped the 2021 Writers Guild Awards, winning best original and adapted screenplay, respectively.

If it’s a Sunday evening in March 2021 it must be time for the guild award honors to begin. On this day, the Writer’s Guild of America handed out their annual WGA Awards winners and the two biggest awards gave only a hint of what might happen on Oscar night.

NEW YORK -- Sacha Baron Cohen's “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” was partly improvised and scripted by nine writers, but it still walked away Sunday night with one of the Writers Guild Awards' top honors, best adapted screenplay.At the guild's virtual, pre-recorded 73rd annual awards, the biggest winners were a pair of awards-season dark horses. Best original screenplay went to the script for the feminist revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman,” by writer-director Emerald Fennell.

Also Read: While the Oscars Embrace Diversity, the Golden Globes Scramble for RelevanceThis year’s show was a joint presentation of the Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East, which normally conduct separate but simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Kal Penn hosted the ceremony, with presenters that included Sacha Baron Cohen, Rachel Brosnahan, Jimmy Fallon, Ava DuVernay, Leslie Odom Jr.

And then there were eight. The Best Picture nominees have been widdled down to a chosen few and from a layman’s perspective, it might appear that the race to take Oscar’s most prestigious prize is surprisingly wide open.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe Set Decorators Society of America (SDSA) has announced the first-ever SDSA Awards celebrating excellence in the art of set decoration for film.“Promising Young Woman,” “Mank,” “Tenet” “Wonder Woman 1984” and “News of the World” are among the films to receive nominations.The Decor and Design categories highlight feature-length films of the 2020 season.Final round for voting opens March 19. Voting closes ten days later on March 29.

Annnd … action! The Directors Guild of America is out with the nominations for its 73rd annual DGA Awards for theatrical feature film and first-time feature. The guild, which unveiled its TV, commercials and documentary nominees on Monday, will announce this year’s winners during an April 10 virtual event.

Judas and the Black Messiah took top honors from the African American Film Critics Association, the world's largest group of Black film critics. The film was named best picture, with star Daniel Kaluuya winning best supporting actor for his portrayal of Black Panther Party deputy chairman Fred Hampton and Dominique Fishback named best supporting actress for her role as Deborah Johnson, Hampton's fiancee and mother of his child.

There are four major bellwethers for the Academy Awards. The SAG Awards, the PGA Awards, the DGA Awards, and, increasingly, the BAFTA Awards.

The 2021 Critics' Choice Awards are finally underway and we saw a glimpse of the biggest and brightest stars in Hollywood even if it was just virtually.

The nominations for the 2021 Producers Guild Awards were announced today and something we noticed was that Margot Robbie was left off the list, despite her movie Promising Young Woman receiving a nomination.

Anya Taylor-Joy is a queen in every sense of the word. Not only can her Queen’s Gambit character Beth Harmon school every guy in the chess game, but the actress also proved that she can do just about anything (just in time for International Women’s Day!) when she chose to do her own glam for the 2021 Critics’ Choice Awards, which aired on Sunday, March 7.

The awards season in Hollywood has just begun and television as film buffs are rooting for their favourites. On Sunday, the Critics Choice Awards 2021 were held in person as well as virtually.