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The ceremony will start at 11pm local Lisbon time. This is the earliest ever. I remember in 1993 when it started here at 4am

I will get a 5 hour sleep this year

Mister Tee wrote I'm utterly ambivalent about Perfect Days. I find it beautifully composed and shot, and it has some very powerful scenes near the end (one involving the main character's sister is teeming with unspoken resonance). Can I ask: did you watch this at home or on the big screen? I didn't...

If Biden wasn’t around who would be the candidate from the Democratic Party? Kamala Harris looks like an absolute non entity…

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, ...

Sabin wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:46 pm

mlrg wrote
I’m afraid we are heading to a very dull Oscar ceremony.

... but aren't half of the categories a coin flip?

Yes, but those don’t heat up the room during the ceremony.

After watching the ceremony I felt a kind of indifference towards the winners overall, except Lily Gladstone. She was the only one that got a standing ovation which makes me believe that she will win the Oscar.

I’m afraid we are heading to a very dull Oscar ceremony.

Mister Tee wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:41 pm I'd put the lighting of the skies in Lisbon up against any image in Oppenheimer.

Although the Lisbon portrayed in the film has zero to do with the actual real city, the real Lisbon has in fact a very luminous light specially in the summer

1. Oppenheimer
2. Poor Things
3. American Fiction
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Past Lives
6. The Zone of Interest
7. The Holdovers
8. Maestro
9. Anatomy of a Fall
10. Barbie

Most watched TV broadcast since the moon landing in 1969

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How does one evaluate Best Casting? All other categories are tangible. A performance is a performance, make up is make up, original score is music and so on… what is Best Casting?

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...

The problem with your frustration is that I find conversations about "snub" and "fraud" tend to lead to a lot of good conversations. Maybe not in general but certainly on this board. The word snub is definitely thrown around loosely and it's pretty subjective. Category fraud isn...

Now watch Barbie win best picture because of the preferential ballot system

Sabin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:36 am For the last ten years, the only true upsets (Rylance, Colman, Hopkins) run counter to that pattern: someone from a Best Picture nominee beating someone who isn’t.

Plus, they were all brits. The British contingent in the acting branch has a lot of weight.

OscarGuy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:32 pm Based on all of my records, my site went live in 1996. And for 1995, I was pushing for Babe, not The Crucible. I didn't predict a single award for The Crucible, at least according to my records.

Yes, 1996. Sorry for that