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by Big Magilla
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:34 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Stray Thoughts for Day-of
Replies: 6
Views: 192

Re: Stray Thoughts for Day-of

I think the ceremony has the potential of being plenty lively. The actor presentations from former winners, if handled properly, could be quite memorable. There have been few political jabs at awards ceremonies this year, but with the political winds seemingly turning against the MAGA absurdities, w...
by Big Magilla
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:21 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Best Picture Ballot
Replies: 17
Views: 631

Re: Best Picture Ballot

Poor Things This could be a metaphor for AI, so precise is Stone's gradual cognitive development. The film feels like an AI creation as well. Seriously, from the Masters Thesis cribbing screenplay to the artificiality of... well, everything visual, I don't think any human hands were involved in the...
by Big Magilla
Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:30 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Original Screenplay
Replies: 5
Views: 184

Re: Categories One-by-One: Original Screenplay

It's a stretch. Stephenson's script was about a pediatrician and a precocious teenage patient and did not take place in a boarding school in Boston. There are thousands of scripts with the same basic plot about an older man mentoring a teenager. If the unproduced script is as well-known as it seems ...
by Big Magilla
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:39 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Brutally Honest Ballots
Replies: 6
Views: 288

Re: Brutally Honest Ballots

They're all over the place. Kind of makes you wonder if so many people voted for something other than Oppenheimer that there might be an upset after all. Doubt it, though. Lots of abstentions which surprised me. I wonder if the producers picked the date of the show realizing that it was the first da...
by Big Magilla
Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:12 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor
Replies: 10
Views: 406

Re: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor

That link doesn't work, this one does: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/08/business/what-is-sweaty-academy-awards.html Who's Too "Sweaty" for an Oscar? by Brooks Barnes In Hollywood, an Oscar on your résumé means almost assured career security in a very unstable profession. But ...
by Big Magilla
Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:35 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: International Feature
Replies: 7
Views: 231

Re: Categories One-by-One: International Feature

Ah, yes, Paris, Texas, Wenders' best film bar none.
by Big Magilla
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:09 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor
Replies: 10
Views: 406

Re: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor

From 2011-2022, I agreed with just two of the winners - Affleck and Phoenix, the latter due to weak competition. Although I agree that Hopkins was a worthy winner, Riz Ahmed was my choice that year. He, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Colin Farrell were the ones who losses hurt the most. This year, whether th...
by Big Magilla
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Best Actress
Replies: 15
Views: 651

Re: Categories One-by-One: Best Actress

All the signs point to a Lily Gladstone win which I don't begrudge her, but I'm still predicting Sandra Hüller who deserves it on the basis of performance. Emma Stone gives a much better performance than she did in that headscratcher for which she won, but even if she hadn't won before, I don't thin...
by Big Magilla
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Supporting Actor
Replies: 4
Views: 165

Re: Categories One-by-One: Supporting Actor

From the moment I first saw Downey in Oppenheimer , I thought this is the performance that's going to win the supporting actor Oscar. None of the other nominees are bad, but none of them are as mesmerizing in their performances and none of them are playing parts so different from anything they've ev...
by Big Magilla
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:08 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor
Replies: 10
Views: 406

Re: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor

I've never been a fan of Bradley Cooper so for anyone who thinks I'm jumping on the bandwagon against him, it's kind of the other way around. The narrative has caught up with my thinking about him. The only Oscar nomination I would have given him is ironically for one he didn't get, Best Actor for N...
by Big Magilla
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: New Developments III
Replies: 2976
Views: 517858

Re: New Developments III

If Biden resigns or dies in office before the convention in July, Harris is automatically president and the presumed 2024 candidate. If he drops out of the race before the convention and frees his delegates to vote their conscience, it will be a free-for-all with, as gunnar says, Newsome or one of t...
by Big Magilla
Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:11 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: New Developments III
Replies: 2976
Views: 517858

Re: New Developments III

Apparently, Barbara Lee's district is safe for Dems, but Katie Porter's is a swing district so it could be a problem. The strategists aren't too worried about the "uncommitted" protest votes against Biden over Gaza. They expect the majority of those folks to vote for him in the general - t...
by Big Magilla
Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:27 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor
Replies: 10
Views: 406

Re: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor

Nobody does self-promotion more than Bradley Cooper. Maybe if he learns to let the work speak for itself, he'll have a real chance at winning an Oscar someday, but that day won't be this Sunday. Colman Domingo gave an impassioned performance in Rustin, but he's lucky just to have been nominated for ...
by Big Magilla
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:43 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Oscar Predictions Contest
Replies: 27
Views: 903

Re: Oscar Predictions Contest

Picture: Oppenheimer Leading Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers Leading Actress: Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers Directing: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Original Screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall...
by Big Magilla
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:28 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: New Developments III
Replies: 2976
Views: 517858

Re: New Developments III

Sabin wrote:
The only concern I have about Kari Lake is if Democrats just don't vote.
That's the concern I have about most of the races this year.

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