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- Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:54 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: BAFTA WINNERS
- Replies: 17
- Views: 667
Re: BAFTA WINNERS
Apart from the American Fiction screenplay prize, nothing here startled me. I think the SAG outcomes will be much more impactful in my coming to final decisions. Some thoughts for now, partially responding to Sabin's take: Oppenheimer had a big day -- feels like it must be the most BAFTAs any film's...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Best Picture Ballot
- Replies: 17
- Views: 809
Best Picture Ballot
Even though I checked off my last of the ten contenders two weeks ago, I've held off formulating the 1-10 ranking because it wasn't very clear in my head. Much like the past few years, the very top of the list (1-2 or -3) was easy to settle on, but it became murky thereafter. The big difference: the...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Minor Critics Groups Winners
- Replies: 60
- Views: 790559
Re: Minor Critics Groups Winners
Believe it or not, these things are STILL being given out. Vancouver Film Critics: Best Picture: Anatomy of a Fall Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers Best Actress: Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheim...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:29 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Best Actress
- Replies: 15
- Views: 789
Re: Categories One-by-One: Best Actress
I think this is a four-way race. Whether I’m right or wrong, it’s rather fun to think in those terms. I'm not in flat disagreement with this assessment, but I'm going to be a weenie and wait till BAFTA/SAG have weighed in before taking on the race directly. About this, however... I also don’t see h...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: DGA Nominees & Winner
- Replies: 26
- Views: 531314
Re: DGA Nominees & Winner
No one commented because it was such a non-event. I barely remembered to check the result before I went to bed. if Oppenheimer goes onto sweep the Oscars, Nolan will be the first director since Birdman to do so not on his first proper Best Picture go of it at it with Oscar voters, with Inarritu havi...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:30 pm
- Forum: General Off-Topic
- Topic: Super Bowl LVIII
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1218
Super Bowl LVIII
Well, all those 13-year old girls who only started learning football this season certainly got the best introduction to the game they could have imagined. Don't get spoiled: your team won't win every season. And, of course, MAGA heads exploded all over the country, making it just as pleasurable for ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-By-One: Animated Short Film
- Replies: 2
- Views: 336
Re: Categories One-By-One: Animated Short Film
I think this is the strongest slate among the three shorts categories. I like all five nominees to one degree or other. Our Uniform is, for me, the least of them, but that may be mostly due to its brevity: it barely seems to have time to get going, and suddenly it's wrapping up (feeling abrupt in th...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:00 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Documentary Short Film
- Replies: 3
- Views: 187
Categories One-by-One: Documentary Short Film
The nominees: The ABCs of Book Banning The Barber of Little Rock Island in Between The Last Repair Shop Nai Nai e Wai Po Island in Between has a fascination built into its very premise -- an early shot, illustrating just how close the Chinese mainland has always been, struck me as not unlike Zone of...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Makeup and Hairstyling
- Replies: 8
- Views: 448
Categories One-by-One: Makeup and Hairstyling
The nominees: Golda Maestro Oppenheimer Poor Things Society of the Snow They added "and Hairstyling" to this award sometime in the past decade, but there's no particular sign they truly meant it. If they had, it seems like Barbie would have been a solid contender (the Broadcasters expected...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Category Fraud Alert (2023) -- Correcting Oscar
- Replies: 15
- Views: 530
Re: Category Fraud Alert (2023) -- Correcting Oscar
I think maybe the most apt analogy for this sudden Bening push would be Art Carney 1974 -- a well-liked veteran whose film wasn't as big a deal as those of his competitors (three to-then un-Oscared superstars in best picture nominees). But, even there, Carney had been spoken of far more strongly as ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:38 am
- Forum: Broadcast Media
- Topic: R.I.P. Toby Keith
- Replies: 3
- Views: 634
Re: R.I.P. Toby Keith
https://people.com/toby-keith-dead-62-following-stomach-cancer-diagnosis-8559372 Surprised nobody posted anything about this. I haven't thought about this guy in 15-20 years but as I look back on his discography I'm realizing how fucking unavoidable he was for at least five years. I'll say if anyon...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Supporting Actress
- Replies: 6
- Views: 383
Categories One-by-One: Supporting Actress
Might as well get bigger categories underway with the one requiring least brain-exertion. The nominees: Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer) Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) American Ferrera (Barbie) Jodie Foster (Nyad) Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) I anticipate future retrospective posts on this cate...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Live-Action Short Film
- Replies: 6
- Views: 295
Re: Categories One-by-One: Live-Action Short Film
If one of you would tell me how you watched Invincible, I could chime in here, as I've seen all the others, but can't locate Invincible. And this is the easiest shorts category to complete. I'm only 3-for-5 in doc short (missing ABCs and Nai Nai), and John & Yoko was the only animated I could tr...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Broadcast Media
- Topic: 2023 Grammy Awards
- Replies: 9
- Views: 596
Re: 2023 Grammy Awards
Yeah, Franz Ferdinand, I don't know what your awareness is of American politics, but Taylor Swift right now is at the zenith of her popularity with people whose acquaintance with her music is glancing or non-existent, for the simple fact that the Republican right has decided she must be demonized fo...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Minor Critics Groups Winners
- Replies: 60
- Views: 790559
Re: Minor Critics Groups Winners
This has become my favorite critics group. And, for contrast, here's a group that did it in their sleep: collecting the blogger consensus and putting a rubber stamp on it. Minnesota Film Critics winners Best Picture: Oppenheimer Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor: Cillian Murp...