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by Eric
Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:31 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Minor Critics Groups Winners
Replies: 60
Views: 473521

Re: Minor Critics Groups Winners

I've met or am acquaintances with two of the members, yes, and am familiar with one other. The rest? Never met or heard of them before in my life. Interestingly enough, the individual who set up this still fledgling organization just announced he's stepping down from administrative duties: https://m...
by Eric
Mon Feb 05, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Minor Critics Groups Winners
Replies: 60
Views: 473521

Re: Minor Critics Groups Winners

Bless their idiot hearts.
by Eric
Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:15 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: BAFTA Nominations
Replies: 19
Views: 1068

Re: BAFTA Nominations

BAFTA couldn't have more pinpointedly kneecapped Oppenheimer's two biggest threats if they'd made a conscious effort. (American Fiction as well, but the longlists already tipped off that inevitability.)
by Eric
Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:46 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: SAG Nominations
Replies: 11
Views: 181178

Re: SAG Nominations

Mister Tee wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:06 pm Things about SAG to keep in mind when evaluating their nominees:

1) They have a substantial Netflix bias. The channel is almost always over-represented in nominations.
Then I think the biggest headline here is that May December's acting hopes aren't just dead, they're uber-dead.
by Eric
Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:45 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Let's Talk Best Supporting Actress
Replies: 21
Views: 52946

Re: Let's Talk Best Supporting Actress

Dafoe has twice, in the last 5 or so years, been nominated for films that got no other nominations. Now, in neither of those years could it be said the competition was fierce (on check, the biggest "snubs" for either of them were probably Ethan Hawke in First Reformed and Michael Stuhlbarg...
by Eric
Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:13 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: NYCC Predix
Replies: 9
Views: 4195

Re: NYCC Predix

Aside from Owen Gleiberman, Ed Gonzalez, Rex Reed, Kyle Smith, and Peter Travers, I am not familiar with any of them So ... not Richard Brody, not Michael Atkinson, not Amy Taubin, not Stephanie Zacharek, not Bilge Ebiri, not Farran Nehme, not K. Austin Collins, not Melissa Anderson, not Dana Steve...
by Eric
Wed Nov 15, 2023 2:08 pm
Forum: 2023
Topic: The Official Review Thread of 2023
Replies: 161
Views: 1663235

Re: The Official Review Thread of 2023

Oscar Prospects: Probably none, but never bet against Kathy Bates or Maggie Smith, either or both of whom could pull off another surprise nomination somewhere. You know you are going to get trounced here for bringing up dear Maggie into yet another Oscar race :lol: Every year, another Tea with Muss...
by Eric
Fri Sep 01, 2023 4:33 pm
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Kicking Off the Fall Season
Replies: 29
Views: 7204

Re: Kicking Off the Fall Season

It’s early yet, of course, but it’s hard to imagine Maestro surviving “the discourse.”
by Eric
Mon Apr 03, 2023 1:52 pm
Forum: The People
Topic: R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto
Replies: 3
Views: 1865

Re: R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Obviously he came to my attention with Femme Fatale , but I really sat up and took notice with the use of his “Bobo No Aozora” at the end of Babel , which led to Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence , and then so on and so forth. But then I went down the rabbit hole of his synth pop career (his LP Thousand...
by Eric
Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:13 pm
Forum: 95th Academy Awards
Topic: 95th Oscars General Ceremony Discussion
Replies: 67
Views: 24962

Re: 95th Oscars General Ceremony Discussion

how often have actors won for performances judged to be their finest? I think that's often been the case with mediocre actors who hit the high note once -- Ray Milland, Broderick Crawford, Nicolas Cage -- but I wonder if it's the exception and not the rule with actors whose careers have had more st...
by Eric
Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:55 pm
Forum: 95th Academy Awards
Topic: Your Preferential Ballot
Replies: 19
Views: 6745

Re: Your Preferential Ballot

01. The Fabelmans
02. TÁR
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03. Everything Everywhere All at Once
04. Women Talking
05. Elvis
06. Triangle of Sadness
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07. All Quiet on the Western Front
08. The Banshees of Inisherin
by Eric
Fri Dec 02, 2022 12:12 pm
Forum: Other Film Discussions
Topic: Sight & Sound 2022
Replies: 4
Views: 2072

Re: Sight & Sound 2022

Big Magilla wrote:The placing of Chantal Akerman‘s 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, which moved 36 places to the top of the list from 2012 has been roundly decried by Jordan Ruimy, Sasha Stone, Jeffrey Wells ...
Cause enough alone for jubilation.
by Eric
Fri Nov 25, 2022 10:02 pm
Forum: 2022
Topic: TAR reviews
Replies: 20
Views: 3703

Re: TAR reviews

Any movie that makes Jeffrey Wells understand that he is, in fact, dumb is by definition not bad. That it also makes him seemingly un-ironically say that he felt "triggered"? As a very-much-dead-at-that-point Meryl said in Death Becomes Her , "These are the moments that make life wort...
by Eric
Fri Apr 29, 2022 7:28 am
Forum: Broadcast Media
Topic: 2022 Emmy Awards
Replies: 49
Views: 10708

Re: 2022 Emmy Awards

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video) Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (ABC) Elle Fanning, The Great (Hulu) Sarah Lancashire, Julia (HBO) Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll (Netflix) Jean Smart, Hacks (HBO Max) I have too many rooting inter...
by Eric
Mon Mar 28, 2022 6:29 am
Forum: 94th Academy Awards
Topic: Best Picture
Replies: 8
Views: 3474

Re: Best Picture

Well, didn't take terribly long for the much-touted international influx of voters to pick up the Academy's old habits.

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