Big Magilla wrote:Saw it. Don't think it will get much traction at the Oscars, though if anyone can score an acting nomination for it, it should be Davis in the weakest of this year's four acting categories.
Eliza Scanlan, Toby Wallace and Ben Medelsohn are also good in this episodic tale of a dying girl and those who love her.
What a relief. You just saved me from sitting 2 hours through this. I'd rather spend that time now watching an old Italian film with Alberto Sordi or Vittorio Gassman instead.
Saw it. Don't think it will get much traction at the Oscars, though if anyone can score an acting nomination for it, it should be Davis in the weakest of this year's four acting categories.
Eliza Scanlan, Toby Wallace and Ben Medelsohn are also good in this episodic tale of a dying girl and those who love her.
Maybe I was bug-eyed at the time and not seeing it, but when I checked IMDb. the other day and there were no U.S. release dates - now they've got both a limited release date of 1/29 (two weeks and a day) and an internet release date of 2/12 for the film that also has 16 British Independent Film Awards nominations.
Really mixed user reviews on IMDb. - not sure it will catch on with Oscar voters but anything is possible.
Reza wrote:I think the Oscar Best Actor 5 will match this lineup.
Best Actress will also match with the exception of Morfydd Clark who will be replaced by either Sophia Loren or Michelle Pfeiffer. Sidney Flanigan, if the Academy wants to follow the critics.
I think Boseman may well get 2 nods this year.
Andra Day in The United States vs. Billie Holliday could be the fifth Best Actress nominee.
Olivia Colman will replace Jenifer Ehle in the ineligible Maud in Supporting Actress.
Saint Maud is being released next week in the U.S. It will be eligible for this year.
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Reza wrote:I think the Oscar Best Actor 5 will match this lineup.
Best Actress will also match with the exception of Morfydd Clark who will be replaced by either Sophia Loren or Michelle Pfeiffer. Sidney Flanigan, if the Academy wants to follow the critics.
I think Boseman may well get 2 nods this year.
Andra Day in The United States vs. Billie Holliday could be the fifth Best Actress nominee.
Olivia Colman will replace Jenifer Ehle in the ineligible Maud in Supporting Actress.
I think the Oscar Best Actor 5 will match this lineup.
Best Actress will also match with the exception of Morfydd Clark who will be replaced by either Sophia Loren or Michelle Pfeiffer. Sidney Flanigan, if the Academy wants to follow the critics.
Winners will be announced on February 7. Here is the full list of nominees.
First appearance of The Mauritanian on any list - Best Picture, Director, Actor.
Film of the Year
About Endlessness
Collective
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Lovers Rock
The Mauritanian
Minari
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Rocks
Saint Maud
Foreign Language Film of the Year
About Endlessness
Another Round
Collective
Les Misérables
Minari
Documentary of the Year
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Collective
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Time
The Truffle Hunters
The Attenborough Award for British/Irish Film of the Year
The Father
Lovers Rock
Mangrove
Rocks
Saint Maud
Director of the Year
David Fincher – Mank
Rose Glass – Saint Maud
Kevin Macdonald – The Mauritanian
Steve McQueen – Small Axe
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Screenwriter of the Year
Jack Fincher – Mank
Rose Glass – Saint Maud
Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Actress of the Year
Morfydd Clark – Saint Maud
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
Actor of the Year
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
Tahar Rahim – The Mauritanian
Supporting Actress of the Year
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman
Essie Davis – Babyteeth
Jennifer Ehle – Saint Maud
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Supporting Actor of the Year
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods
Aldis Hodge – Clemency
Ben Mendelsohn – Babyteeth
Shaun Parkes – Mangrove
British/Irish Actress of the Year (for body of work)
Bukky Bakray – Rocks
Jessie Buckley – I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Misbehaviour
Morfydd Clark – Eternal Beauty, Saint Maud
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman, The World to Come
Carey Mulligan – The Dig, Promising Young Woman
British/Irish Actor of the Year (for body of work)
Riz Ahmed – Mogul Mowgli, Sound of Metal
Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, The Trial of the Chicago 7
John Boyega – Red, White and Blue
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Cosmo Jarvis – Calm With Horses, Nocturnal
The Philip French Award for Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker
Henry Blake – County Lines
Fyzal Boulifa – Lynn + Lucy
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Rose Glass – Saint Maud
Remi Weekes – His House
Young British/Irish Perfomer
Kosar Ali – Rocks
Bukky Bakray – Rocks
Millie Bobby Brown – Enola Holmes
Conrad Khan – County Lines
Molly Windsor – Make Up
British/Irish Short Film
Filipiñana – Rafael Manuel, director
Hungry Joe – Paul Holbrook, director
Lizard – Akinola Davies Jr, director
The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia, director
The Shift – Laura Carreira, director
Technical Achievement
Ammonite – Stéphane Fontaine, cinematography
Birds of Prey – Deborah Lamia Denaver & Adruitha Lee, makeup & hair
Lovers Rock – Mica Levi, music
Mank – Donald Graham Burt, production design
Nomadland – Joshua James Richards, cinematography
Rocks – Lucy Pardee, casting
Soul – Pete Docter, animation
Sound of Metal – Nicolas Becker, sound design
Tenet – Jennifer Lame, film editing
WolfWalkers – Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart, animation
