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Easily my choice for Best Cinematography of the year. I don't think there's a single extraneous or wasted frame in the film.
I would say almost to a fault. I wish the film had a few extraneous, wasted frames.
Fair criticism. I felt similarly about Roma--everything was so meticulously framed and shot and sound-edited to the point that the characters and their world never seemed to exist outside of the film itself.

I didn't have that issue with Cold War at all, but I couldn't begrudge or argue with those who had similar reservations.
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I've thought all season that the cinematographers could be resistant to Cuaron as the lenser...I wouldn't have been surprised to see him lose a nomination either here or at the Oscars. I wonder if the guild was a bit more hesitant about voting for him here than the Academy at large will be, and if Cuaron still wins the Oscar easily or if this really is a battle.
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dws1982 wrote
Easily my choice for Best Cinematography of the year. I don't think there's a single extraneous or wasted frame in the film.
I would say almost to a fault. I wish the film had a few extraneous, wasted frames.
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Easily my choice for Best Cinematography of the year. I don't think there's a single extraneous or wasted frame in the film.
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Not a total surprise, but from what I can tell, still not having seen the film, a good one.

Apparently there's a lot of pushback against Netflix from the old guard affecting Roma's Oscar chances. This could be the public indication of it.
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Yes an excellent choice.
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Great choice.
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A upset: Cold War wins.

Which may just mean cinematographers didn't like a director poaching on their turf. Or it could show weakness surrounding Roma.

This is the year we know less and less the closer we get to the ceremony.
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Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Matthew Libatique, A Star is Born
Robbie Ryan, The Favourite
Linus Sandgren, First Man
Łukasz Żal, Cold War

Although I lament the exclusion of If Beale Street Could Talk, this is quite a strong list. (And as with the ACE omission, it's another suggestion that Black Panther might not even be the below-the-line heavyweight some have imagined it would be.)
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