We have a Phantom Thread thread that needs some livening up.
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Saturday, 20 January 2018 06:36 (six years ago) link
So will Jonny Greenwood sneak into the score category?
http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2018/1/20/final-oscar-predictions-in-every-single-category.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
is PTA ever going to win an Oscar for writing or directing
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 January 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
Nominations going live as I type
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
woah at Mudbound's Rachel Morrison being the first female DP to get a nom
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
lmk if Sean Price Williams gets in
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
Yup!
Baby Driver got in for editing, the only thing it deserves really
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link
god they've divided nomination announcements in half. We gotta await another couple minutes for the big ones.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:36 (six years ago) link
Leslie Manville! Mary J. Blige!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
Octavia Spencer this generation's Thelma Ritter.
Ugh – Christopher Plummer and Three Ebbings dudes in Supporting Actor. Nobody from Call Me By Your Name.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:40 (six years ago) link
Greenwood in for score
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
has anyone seen any of the non-Square Foreign Pic nominees?
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
hint: actors' taste often sucks
Call Me by Your Name has only grossed something like $7.5 M in N America
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
The release schedule for that film has been a travesty.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
Chalamet, Day-Lewis, Kaluuya, Oldman, Washington (!)
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
Hawkins, McDormand, Robbie, Ronan, Streep
Directors: Nolan, Peele, Gerwig, Anderson, del Toro
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
sufjan deserves to win the Best Song oscar for vetoing the "show up in the movie and perform the songs" idea
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
Chalamet! I'm happy.
― call me by your name..or Finn (fionnland), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
Phantom Thread's performance is a most welcome surprise.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
cmon boss baby
― nxd, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
oh fuck off w/ Logan
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
oh! Agnes Varda made it too
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Call Me By Your NameDarkest HourDunkirkGet OutLady BirdPhantom ThreadThe PostThe Shape of WaterThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
honestly not as bad a slate as it could have been
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
something to consider
First Oscar nominations in over a decade without the heavy-handed influence of the Weinstein corp.— Justine Peres Smith (@redroomrantings) January 23, 2018
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
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On Body and Soul is quite good.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
I'm delighted James Franco didn't make it.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
I bet that's a relief for him too
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
I'm unclear on the rules here: when DDL decides two years from now to do another movie, does he have to return the retirement Oscar the Academy gives him this year?
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link
Gary Old Ham is winning, OL.
of course Varda made it; with the special Oscar, they found out who she was this year.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
and DDL is fucking brilliant btw
I've heard. I can't wait to see it.
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
aside from PT, happy to see Strong Island for doc
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch),
lol he's NOT winning a fourth Oscar; he ain't Kate Hepburn.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
Chalamet's publicists need to commission some MSM articles about what a racist Churchill was.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
As nice as some of these nods are ... Darkest Hour somehow got 6 of them.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
Although I dig I, Tonya being snubbed for best picture if that lifts Metcalf's chances any.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
Academy needs to remind audience that they're still old, white, and sipping sherry
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
As for Christopher Plummer, well: the fastest turnaround for a nomination ever. It took some timing to fire Spacey and hire Plummer, and in this case showing up meant getting a consolation prize.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
Once again, though, it's nice that the lateness/lastness of the Oscars in the awards calendar allowed for everyone to make the effort to see Phantom Thread.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
And, yay, now I don't have to see Downsizing!
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
Nick Pinkerton likes Downsizing.
It's gotta be better than Baby Driver.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
no Ansel, no credibility
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
via The Film Experience:
"This is Meryl's first time in a Best Picture nominee since Out of Africa (1985)."
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
Welp, that more or less proves Mark Harris's point about the misogyny behind the term "Oscar-bait."
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:49 (six years ago) link
I've not seen The Post but I hope it's more deserving of a nomination than Out of Africa was.
― call me by your name..or Finn (fionnland), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
If The Shape of Water deserved 13 nominations, The Post deserved 258 nominations.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
let's go out for a spielburger, Eric
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
The Sting might be the most movie-as-comfort-food endeavor I've seen
― mh, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
like your average Dozvzhenko?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Is it really any lesser than Butch Cassidy? (Maybe a little.) It just gets dumped on for winning the Oscar.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
It's a lot tighter than butch cassidy
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
well, BC&SK is more languorous, what the kidz call a hangout movie. It has that unforgivable bike/Bacharch scene; George Roy Hill was all about musical anachronisms.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
The Sting is a good flick, it aired all the time on TV when i was a kid and i thought it was pretty breezy entertainment. pretty lightweight though i mean some woman gets shot through the head iirc, so it wasn't exactly totally lightweight.
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Redford's only Best Actor nod
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
and James Earl Jones' dad gets killed in the first 15 minutes.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
(xpost) Didn't know that. He certainly would have been a better nominee in '72 for The Candidate than the two Sleuth guys (a film I don't mind, but Best Actor nominations?), and I'm kind of amazed neither guy was nominated for All the President's Men. I'd take them over everyone else except De Niro, although I guess I can see why they were passed over (probably had to be both or neither, and stepping back, I'm not sure which two of the five '76 nominees you'd eliminate).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
The Shape of Water is going to be a Rain Man BP winner, remembered for one thing: she fucked the fish.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
I don't ... remember Dustin Hoffman doing that?
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
lol
remembered for one thing i mean.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/_V0VM-cwzBI?t=1m2s
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 12 March 2018 05:06 (six years ago) link