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by Mister Tee
Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:41 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Cinematography
Replies: 8
Views: 257

Categories One-by-One: Cinematography

The nominees: El Conde (Edward Lachman) Killers of the Flower Moon (Rodrigo Prieto) Maestro (Matthew Libatique) Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema) Poor Things (Robbie Ryan) My initial tendency was to wait for ASC, but that's not till March 3rd. ACE, CAS, and the USC Scripter are also that weekend, so, ...
by Mister Tee
Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:51 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Makeup and Hairstyling
Replies: 8
Views: 318

Re: Categories One-by-One: Makeup and Hairstyling

So, the same day BAFTA comes down on my side of this debate, the Make-up and Hairstylists Guild strikes a blow for Sabin's position. A real contest. Film Best Contemporary Make-up: Saltburn (Siân Miller, Laura Allen) Best Period and/or Character Make-up: Maestro (Siann Grigg, Jackie Risotto, Elisa T...
by Mister Tee
Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:54 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: BAFTA WINNERS
Replies: 17
Views: 488

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...
by Mister Tee
Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:47 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Best Picture Ballot
Replies: 17
Views: 631

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...
by Mister Tee
Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:08 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Minor Critics Groups Winners
Replies: 60
Views: 471643

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...
by Mister Tee
Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:29 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Best Actress
Replies: 15
Views: 651

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...
by Mister Tee
Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: DGA Nominees & Winner
Replies: 26
Views: 313863

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...
by Mister Tee
Sun Feb 11, 2024 11:30 pm
Forum: General Off-Topic
Topic: Super Bowl LVIII
Replies: 3
Views: 297

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 ...
by Mister Tee
Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:41 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-By-One: Animated Short Film
Replies: 2
Views: 290

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...
by Mister Tee
Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:00 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Documentary Short Film
Replies: 3
Views: 159

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...
by Mister Tee
Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:05 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Makeup and Hairstyling
Replies: 8
Views: 318

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...
by Mister Tee
Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:04 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Category Fraud Alert (2023) -- Correcting Oscar
Replies: 15
Views: 450

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 ...
by Mister Tee
Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:38 am
Forum: Broadcast Media
Topic: R.I.P. Toby Keith
Replies: 3
Views: 307

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...
by Mister Tee
Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:50 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Supporting Actress
Replies: 6
Views: 309

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...
by Mister Tee
Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:27 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Categories One-by-One: Live-Action Short Film
Replies: 6
Views: 263

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...

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