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- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Your Oscar ballot
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Your Oscar ballot
Excluding best picture (covered in another thread, for preferential), what would you vote for in the other 22 categories? I found a number of the choices difficult -- some because I didn't swoon for anyone; others because I swooned for more than one. Best Actor: Paul Giamatti (it would have been And...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Visual Effects
- Replies: 4
- Views: 167
Re: Categories One-by-One: Visual Effects
I've been reluctant to comment here for a reason I'm guessing some other share: because I haven't seen the apparently quite competitive Godzilla Minus One. I skipped seeing it in theatres because 1) horror films/not my thing and 2) I presumed it'd be streaming in time for the ceremony. But the film'...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: International Feature
- Replies: 7
- Views: 231
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Original Screenplay
- Replies: 5
- Views: 184
Re: Categories One-by-One: Original Screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall has won the Globe, BAFTA and Critics Choice for Screenplay For the record, the Broadcasters didn't choose Anatomy of a Fall; they went for Barbie, pre-switch to adapted. You know what won Globe/BAFTA last year? The Banshees of Inisherin. Which is to say, people are predicting base...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Supporting Actor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 165
Re: Categories One-by-One: Supporting Actor
I think Downey would make a fine winner. But I also think Gosling would make a fine winner. Or the non-nominated Melton. So, my problem, as always, is with the hive mind that sets in and makes any other outcome unthinkable. Occasionally a performance rates that status -- Christoph Waltz in Ingloriou...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 406
Re: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor
but given the all-time low this category has been in over the past decade (except for Hopkins and I guess Affleck), he wouldn't be a bad winner at all. You know, I hadn't really looked at the past decade as a unit, and, yeesh!, you're right. The only one besides Hopkins/Affleck I might exempt is Ph...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Animated Feature
- Replies: 5
- Views: 208
Re: Categories One-by-One: Animated Feature
Elemental is the weakest of the group -- which isn't to say it's horrible; just that the Pixar formula is starting to really stick out. (I found myself wondering what life subdivision would be their next project: the major food groups?) The characters were likable enough to carry things along, but i...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: International Feature
- Replies: 7
- Views: 231
Categories One-by-One: International Feature
The nominees: Io Capitano Perfect Days Society of the Snow The Teachers' Lounge The Zone of Interest This category appears a slam dunk -- in the 10-wide best picture era, no film nominated for best film has ever lost best Foreign/International Film. So, start with, The Zone of Interest wins. It's st...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 406
Re: Categories One-by-One: Leading Actor
This category this year proves once and for all most Oscar predictors aren't seers, they're aggregators. Prior to the SAGs, a good many on O'Neil's site were heavily touting Paul Giamatti -- a few, in fact, had been loudly predicting him from before Christmas. Then Murphy goes and wins SAG and, whoo...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Ceremony Details
- Replies: 15
- Views: 386
Re: Ceremony Details
Yet more presenters. The five-wide teams for the acting awards have obviously beefed things up, but this year seems to have a stronger batch of credentialed folk (as opposed to up-and-comers) than has been customary of late:
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- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Costume Design
- Replies: 2
- Views: 119
Categories One-by-One: Costume Design
The nominees: Barbie (Jacqueline Durran) Killers of the Flower Moon (Jacqueline West) Napoleon (Janty Yates & Dave Crossman) Oppenheimer (Ellen Mirojnick) Poor Things (Holly Waddington) Since Apple finally gave me freebie-access to Napoleon, I'm qualified to judge this category whole. Napoleon i...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Best Sound
- Replies: 2
- Views: 160
Re: Categories One-by-One: Best Sound
This is mostly a pretty classic Best Sound line-up -- a couple of loud/dumb action movies, a music film, a big best picture favorite with major techs -- and then there's The Zone of Interest, to wild card things up. I think, had Zone not won BAFTA, everybody would be going Oppenheimer without a seco...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Best Actress
- Replies: 15
- Views: 651
Re: Categories One-by-One: Best Actress
As it turned out, I could have addressed this category prior to the SAG/BAFTA rounds, because each went precisely as I'd expected, setting up the only truly up-in-the-air acting category this year. (Barring upset, which is always possible -- though not as much in this millennium.) You can make the a...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Minor Critics Groups Winners
- Replies: 60
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Re: Minor Critics Groups Winners
Hey...remember the Satellites? They mostly stay in the predictable zone above the line, but show refreshing independence below. Best Motion Picture – Drama: Oppenheimer Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical: The Holdovers Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor in a Motion Picture...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: CAS Nominations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 37299
Re: CAS Nominations
Oppenheimer as expected, though the absence of Zone of Interest from the nominees leaves that race faintly alive.