Red Carpet Rosters

Category: Fantasy Advice

  • Independent Spirit Awards Nominations Reaction

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    Film Independent’s Independent Spirit Awards nominations were released this morning, and I feel like I’m both surprised and not surprised all at the same time every year when they come out. Nonetheless, let’s get to the major storylines from a fantasy perspective. Where’s The Whale and Till? The Whale and Till were completely shut out…

  • Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) Reaction

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    I gave my reaction after the nominations came out, so this will be a short reaction for the simple fact that there are less winners than nominees (duh, right?) I don’t know if there were any surprises, per se, but there are still some things to unpack from the winners here. For a full list…

  • The State of the Documentary Race

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    The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced their nominations on November 11th and the Critics Choice Association announced their winners for the Documentary Awards (CCDA) on November 13th. We’re now up to four major nomination announcements for documentaries: Critics Choice (which announced winners yesterday), Gotham, Cinema Eye, and International Doc Association. Not one documentary had their…

  • European Film Awards (EFA) Nominations Reaction

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    The European Film Awards (EFA) nominations were announced earlier today, and I have some housekeeping items because of it. We learned that the technical category winners will be announced November 23 ahead of the awards gala on December 10. This means the technical categories will count in Matchup #1. They do not nominate these, so…

  • Hollywood Music in Media (HMMA) and British Independent Film (BIFA) Nominations Reaction

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    We had two very different nominations announcements in as many days recently, so let’s try to discern if there is any insight to be gained from these announcements. Although these two voting bodies couldn’t be more different, the commonality is they award more points to players on the waiver wire than on actual teams. This…

  • Horror Films and Fantasy Points

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    In honor of Halloween, let’s take a look at this year’s horror films and prognosticate their fantasy value. It is not a secret that horror films are grossly underrepresented at the Academy Awards, but that doesn’t mean they can be written off for fantasy purposes. Sure there are horror films that go on to be…

  • The Most Complicated Category: Documentary

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    Documentaries have a complicated history during the film awards season. Last year was somewhat an exception with Flee and Summer of Soul getting nominations and wins at pretty much every single awards announcements. Flee was a triple threat by being an animated international documentary and Summer of Soul was nearly as valuable getting more wins…

  • Gotham Awards Reaction

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    The Gotham Awards are unpredictable and quirky, which is exactly why it’s a perfect way to kickoff the regular season at Red Carpet Rosters. Although, it was expected that films like Tár and Everything Everywhere All at Once would be well represented, other films like Aftersun and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair pulled…