BIG DATES

You blinked and suddenly the award season is in full swing. Here are some key dates to mark on your calendar.

Thursday: Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. Cecil B. DeMille Award announced.

Saturday: Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Governors Awards.

Monday: NAACP Image Award submissions due.

Nov. 19: British Academy of Film and Television Arts submissions due.

Nov. 23: NAACP ballots mailed.

Nov. 25: Screen Actors Guild ballots mailed.

Nov. 27: Writers Guild of America online submission of film screenplays due.

Nov. 30: IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards.

Dec. 1: AMPAS screen credits forms due; American Society of Cinematographers TV submissions due; International Animated Film Assn. nominations announced; Directors Guild of America film nomination ballots mailed; Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations announced; Producers Guild of America long-form TV submissions due.

Dec. 3: Golden Globe nomination ballots mailed; National Board of Review Awards announced; WGA documentary screenplay submissions due.

Dec. 4: American Cinema Editors submissions due; International Documentary Assn. Awards; Motion Picture Sound Editor submissions due.

Dec. 7: BAFTA round one of voting begins; Broadcast Film Critics nomination ballots mailed; PGA movie and long-form TV polls open.

Dec. 8: Image Awards nomination ballots mailed.

Dec. 9: WGA preliminary screenplay online balloting begins.

Dec. 11: Golden Globe nomination ballots due.

Dec. 12: BFCA nomination ballots due.

Dec. 13: AFI honorees announced; Los Angeles Film Critics votes, winners announced.

Dec. 14: American Society of Cinematographers film nomination ballots mailed; New York Film Critics Circle votes, winners announced; SAG nomination ballots due.