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- Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:44 am
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: Best Supporting Actor 1958
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3184
Re: Best Supporting Actor 1958
I just watched The Big Country essentially for the first time recently. I think I've seen it before, either partially or fully, but forgot most of it. I thought it was great and that Burl Ives, in particular, was great in it. I actually prefer him in this to him in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof although he ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: 2024
- Topic: Cannes 2024
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4074
Cannes 2024
Cannes 2024 (this is long) Preview ...this is long (hopefully not too full of typos)... I sometimes think, what if Damien Chazelle had premiered Babylon at Cannes? 15-20 years ago, he might have done just that. Babylon may not have been 100% finished in time, but it was conducting test screenings in...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: 97th Academy Awards
- Topic: 2024 Governors Awards
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2462
Re: 2024 Governors Awards
I've said before that I think Harrison Ford would be a no-brainer for an honorary. Multiple franchises covering several decades, multiple non-franchise hits over several decades, in the public consciousness for about fifty years now, has been in eight Best Picture nominees but never had the personal...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3169
Re: I'm always here for the Trivia
I would put Yuh-jung Youn alongside Robert DeNiro or Benicio Del Toro, in that it is a foreign language performance in an American film.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3169
Re: I'm always here for the Trivia
Mister Tee wrote Not a revolution, but I'd say progress. What's closer to a revolution is the number of women nominated for Best Director. This decade alone (if we start in 2020), we've seen almost as many nominated (4) than in all of Academy history combined (5). Not to mention twice as many winne...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:53 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Oscar Predictions Contest
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1717
Re: Oscar Predictions Contest
If there is no actual prize involved, why does it matter?
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3169
Re: I'm always here for the Trivia
Fun fact all 7 of Oppenheimer's Oscars were in categories that Ben-Hur won.HarryGoldfarb wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:34 am - Oppenheimer is the first Best Picture to win both actor and supporting actor since Ben-Hur (1959).
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Best Live Action Short
- Replies: 2
- Views: 276
Re: Best Live Action Short
Anderson starts production on his next film today. Not sure where it is filming, but I believe he's shot overseas on everything post-Tenenbaums.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:42 pm
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Oscar Predictions Contest
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1717
Re: Oscar Predictions Contest
Making a couple of no guts, no glory picks just to separate myself a little from the pack. Picture: Oppenheimer Leading Actor: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Leading Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Rand...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:43 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Costume Design
- Replies: 2
- Views: 281
Re: Categories One-by-One: Costume Design
I think Poor Things and Barbie will probably get a combined two-thirds of the votes in this category, and Production Design. But I think they are also going to split that vote share pretty evenly. Whether you predict Poor Things for both, a split between the two, or Barbie for both, I don't think yo...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Adapted Screenplay
- Replies: 10
- Views: 741
Re: Categories One-by-One: Adapted Screenplay
I have spoken disparagingly about Oscar podcasts once this morning, but the Next Best Picture predictions episode raised a good point in this category: We have good reason to believe that American Fiction could prevail in a general vote over Oppenheimer , Poor Things , and The Zone of Interest , bec...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Makeup and Hairstyling
- Replies: 8
- Views: 578
Re: Categories One-by-One: Makeup and Hairstyling
I mentioned in the visual effects thread that this branch seems to have gotten their act together, but then it hit me: In not even shortlisting Barbie , did they box out a potential winner? A movie that makes looks and beauty and perceptions of what is an isn't "beautiful" central to its p...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:56 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Categories One-by-One: Visual Effects
- Replies: 4
- Views: 435
Re: Categories One-by-One: Visual Effects
Tee used to talk about the makeup branch, and specifically how they used to leave out potential winners, which is how we end up with discordant-sounding phrases like "Oscar-winning film The Wolfman ". (Given that the winner probably would have been Alice in Wonderland if it had not been bo...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:11 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Your Oscar ballot
- Replies: 3
- Views: 339
Re: Your Oscar ballot
Actor: Cillian Murphy Actress: Lily Gladstone Supporting Actor: Robert DeNiro (close over Gosling and Downey) Supporting Actress: Emily Blunt (I would toss the entire lineup) Director: Christopher Nolan (or Scorsese) Original Screenplay: May December Adapted Screenplay: Oppenheimer Cinematography: K...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:53 am
- Forum: 96th Academy Awards
- Topic: Brutally Honest Ballots
- Replies: 6
- Views: 456
Re: Brutally Honest Ballots
I'm convinced that the publications who do these brutally honest ballots contact a bunch of voters and then pick the most outrageous ballots to share.