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- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Oscar Ceremony
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1426
Re: Oscar Ceremony
mlrg wrote When Tom Hanks presented best picture to The Hurt Locker he also didn’t recap the nominees and opened the envelope straight away. I don’t recall anyone complaining about that back then. The short answer is bc this felt more chaotic. [/quote] As I said in an edited portion below: this hap...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Oscar Ceremony
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1426
Re: Oscar Ceremony
So... My experience of the Oscar show, when it finally arrives, is always so scattered -- I'm hearing the jokes, monitoring the winners, but also serving drinks, dinner and dessert, chatting with friends...it all becomes a blur. I have my overall impression, but it takes me till after I've watched m...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: In Memoriam
- Replies: 11
- Views: 646
Re: In Memoriam
People have often complained that the concentration on the performer has obscured some of the names of those being remembered, but this year was the worst -- everyone at my place was shouting they couldn't see them. And they kept moving the screens around, making it even harder to focus on them. And...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2945
Re: I'm always here for the Trivia
- Second consecutive year that the Best International Film wins sound. Too soon to talk about any trend but it is striking. I think you're confusing this with BAFTA. The sound Oscar last year went to Top Gun: Maverick (shudder memory), not All Quiet. This is, in fact, the first year the Sound Oscar...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Stray Thoughts for Day-of
- Replies: 6
- Views: 435
Stray Thoughts for Day-of
Thoughts that didn't fit naturally into other threads, but that are passing through my mind now that we're inside 24 hours: The hive mind has totally taken over, and what seemed a promising year has turned...well, if not exactly predictable...let's say there's a widely agreed-upon likelihood. The up...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Oscar Predictions Contest
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1645
Re: Oscar Predictions Contest
I wish I could be more adventuresome, but, as always, the prelims drain away most of the juice. Film: Oppenheimer Director: Christopher Nolan Actor: Cillian Murphy Actress: Lily Gladstone Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph Adapted Screenplay; American Fictio...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Your Oscar ballot
- Replies: 3
- Views: 322
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: 376
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: 404
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Original Screenplay
- Replies: 5
- Views: 372
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: 290
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: 576
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: 320
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: 404
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: 576
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...