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Poor Things

presented by John Cena

Poor Things (Makeup & Hairstyling)

Poor Things (Production Design)

presented by Michael Keaton and Catherine O'Hara

Anatomy of a Fall (Original)

American Fiction (Adapted)

presented by Melissa McCarthy & Octavia Spencer

War Is Over! Inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono (short)

The Boy and the Heron (feature)

presented by Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy

Awkward opening.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers

presented by Jamie Lee Curtis, Regina King, Rita Moreno, Mary Steenburgen, Lupita Nyong'o

I think the ceremony has the potential of being plenty lively. The actor presentations from former winners, if handled properly, could be quite memorable. There have been few political jabs at awards ceremonies this year, but with the political winds seemingly turning against the MAGA absurdities, w...

Poor Things This could be a metaphor for AI, so precise is Stone's gradual cognitive development. The film feels like an AI creation as well. Seriously, from the Masters Thesis cribbing screenplay to the artificiality of... well, everything visual, I don't think any human hands were involved in the...

It's a stretch. Stephenson's script was about a pediatrician and a precocious teenage patient and did not take place in a boarding school in Boston. There are thousands of scripts with the same basic plot about an older man mentoring a teenager. If the unproduced script is as well-known as it seems ...

They're all over the place. Kind of makes you wonder if so many people voted for something other than Oppenheimer that there might be an upset after all. Doubt it, though. Lots of abstentions which surprised me. I wonder if the producers picked the date of the show realizing that it was the first da...

That link doesn't work, this one does: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/08/business/what-is-sweaty-academy-awards.html Who's Too "Sweaty" for an Oscar? by Brooks Barnes In Hollywood, an Oscar on your résumé means almost assured career security in a very unstable profession. But ...

Ah, yes, Paris, Texas, Wenders' best film bar none.

From 2011-2022, I agreed with just two of the winners - Affleck and Phoenix, the latter due to weak competition. Although I agree that Hopkins was a worthy winner, Riz Ahmed was my choice that year. He, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Colin Farrell were the ones who losses hurt the most. This year, whether th...

All the signs point to a Lily Gladstone win which I don't begrudge her, but I'm still predicting Sandra Hüller who deserves it on the basis of performance. Emma Stone gives a much better performance than she did in that headscratcher for which she won, but even if she hadn't won before, I don't thin...

From the moment I first saw Downey in Oppenheimer , I thought this is the performance that's going to win the supporting actor Oscar. None of the other nominees are bad, but none of them are as mesmerizing in their performances and none of them are playing parts so different from anything they've ev...