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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: The 25th Annual Who'll Be Back?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 417
Re: The 25th Annual Who'll Be Back?
Fantastic as always. We often talk about the internationalizing of AMPAS as who it can potentially include. We rarely talk about it as who it might exclude because that both seems more fraught and largely unknowable. But I can imagine some performers and filmmakers falling into that cultural gap. It...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Dune, Part 2
- Replies: 4
- Views: 218
Re: Dune, Part 2
I thought it was pretty extraordinary. It tells a more complete story than the first one (yeah, it ends with a To Be Continued type moment, but it felt more natural) and the visuals are wall-to-wall stunners. Villeneuve has complete command of this material and that cinemagicians he employs do stagg...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:30 pm
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Civil War reviews
- Replies: 6
- Views: 160
Re: Civil War reviews
Wasn't the recent Ari Aster film on that level (expense wise)?
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: 97th Academy Awards
- Topic: Welcome to the 97th Academy Awards
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1212
Re: Welcome to the 97th Academy Awards
I'm always optimistic to be honest. But I also think I liked 2023's crop slightly less than you.
Only time will tell.
Only time will tell.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: 97th Academy Awards
- Topic: Welcome to the 97th Academy Awards
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1212
Re: Welcome to the 97th Academy Awards
Hmmm.... From previously nominated directors Blitz - Steve McQueen Civil War - Alex Garland Hard Truths - Mike Leigh High and Low - Spike Lee Juror No. 2 - Clint Eastwood The Phoenician Scheme - Wes Anderson Untitled - Paul Thomas Anderson (probably 2025) From others I admire Janet Planet (Annie Bak...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Best Picture Ballot
- Replies: 17
- Views: 632
Re: Best Picture Ballot
Ruffalo's character may be repulsive, but his acting, despite being over-the-top, is a pleasure to watch. Not for me. Christopher Abbott's character was also repulsive and his was a much better performance. His appearance towards the end were some of the best scenes in the film. Ruffalo was just un...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Stray Thoughts for Day-of
- Replies: 6
- Views: 192
Re: Stray Thoughts for Day-of
To more film-centered things: Some pundit commented that the Academy has to go for Nolan -- "They changed the best picture rules for him, and now he reaps the reward". But the point, as I see it, is that no rules needed to be changed: Oppenheimer would be just as prohibitive a favorite in...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Original Screenplay
- Replies: 5
- Views: 184
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Oscar Predictions Contest
- Replies: 27
- Views: 905
Re: Oscar Predictions Contest
Picture: Oppenheimer Actor: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon Supp. Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer Supp. Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Original Screenplay: Justine Triet & Arthur Harari, ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Animated Feature
- Replies: 5
- Views: 208
Re: Categories One-by-One: Animated Feature
Three films need not apply. That said, Nimona had pleasantly spiky energy and nice character design [and led the Annie Awards nominations]. The soundscape to Elemental was pleasingly serene and provides a lovely background to doing the dishes (or typing Oscar predictions). Robot Dreams is nicely abs...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Adapted Screenplay
- Replies: 10
- Views: 404
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:26 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Ceremony Details
- Replies: 15
- Views: 386
Re: Ceremony Details
I love, love, love the "winners tribunal" approach.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One by One: Best Original Score
- Replies: 3
- Views: 110
Categories One by One: Best Original Score
The nominees American Fiction, Laura Karpman Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, John Williams Killers of the Flower Moon, Robbie Robertson Oppenheimer, Ludwig Göransson Poor Things, Jerskin Fendrix I’m being slightly dishonest because I’m missing one of the films. But, honestly, I’m not even con...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: SAG Thoughts/Winners to be Added
- Replies: 19
- Views: 587
Re: SAG Thoughts/Winners to be Added
Cillian Murphy is our new frontrunner. But why wouldn't he have already been our frontrunner? He won the Golden Globe and BAFTA. It really does seem like there was a mindset predetermined that Oppenheimer's coattails wouldn't extend to him despite having the titular role in a Best Picture juggernau...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: BAFTA WINNERS
- Replies: 17
- Views: 495
Re: BAFTA WINNERS
I had pretty strong feeling Murphy would win here -- British isles guy, probably more familiar to these voters than stateside folk -- and don't see why that would mean any more to the Oscar outcome than a Giamatti SAG win. Which, of course, hasn't happened yet, but... Little-knowns have occasionall...