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- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Supporting Actor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 178
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: 432
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: 223
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: 247
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: 432
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...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Ceremony Details
- Replies: 15
- Views: 425
Re: Ceremony Details
Yet more presenters. The five-wide teams for the acting awards have obviously beefed things up, but this year seems to have a stronger batch of credentialed folk (as opposed to up-and-comers) than has been customary of late:
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- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Costume Design
- Replies: 2
- Views: 136
Categories One-by-One: Costume Design
The nominees: Barbie (Jacqueline Durran) Killers of the Flower Moon (Jacqueline West) Napoleon (Janty Yates & Dave Crossman) Oppenheimer (Ellen Mirojnick) Poor Things (Holly Waddington) Since Apple finally gave me freebie-access to Napoleon, I'm qualified to judge this category whole. Napoleon i...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Best Sound
- Replies: 2
- Views: 172
Re: Categories One-by-One: Best Sound
This is mostly a pretty classic Best Sound line-up -- a couple of loud/dumb action movies, a music film, a big best picture favorite with major techs -- and then there's The Zone of Interest, to wild card things up. I think, had Zone not won BAFTA, everybody would be going Oppenheimer without a seco...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Best Actress
- Replies: 15
- Views: 697
Re: Categories One-by-One: Best Actress
As it turned out, I could have addressed this category prior to the SAG/BAFTA rounds, because each went precisely as I'd expected, setting up the only truly up-in-the-air acting category this year. (Barring upset, which is always possible -- though not as much in this millennium.) You can make the a...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Minor Critics Groups Winners
- Replies: 60
- Views: 658372
Re: Minor Critics Groups Winners
Hey...remember the Satellites? They mostly stay in the predictable zone above the line, but show refreshing independence below. Best Motion Picture – Drama: Oppenheimer Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical: The Holdovers Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor in a Motion Picture...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: CAS Nominations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 54521
Re: CAS Nominations
Oppenheimer as expected, though the absence of Zone of Interest from the nominees leaves that race faintly alive.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Visual Effects Society nominations
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3007
Re: Visual Effects Society nominations
We somehow neglected to note that The Creator won the top prize here. But, since Godzilla wasn't among the contenders, it's hard to know how dispositive that is.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: USC Scripter Nominations
- Replies: 6
- Views: 405
Re: USC Scripter Nominations
As noted elsewhere, American Fiction is the winner. Once again, Oppenheimer, despite a quite commendable script -- and being seemingly poised to trounce at AMPAS -- can't win over the writers. The comparison I come up with is The English Patient, which had a finely textured screenplay but couldn't g...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Documentary Feature
- Replies: 0
- Views: 114
Categories One-by-One: Documentary Feature
The nominees: Bobi Wine: the People's President The Eternal Memory Four Daughters To Kill a Tiger 20 Days of Mariupol Variety had an article a few weeks back: US documentarians complaining their branch had been so opened up to international filmmakers that they found themselves boxed out in this yea...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Ceremony Details
- Replies: 15
- Views: 425