Oscars 2018

uh oh!

https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/2018-oscar-nomination-predictions

(re the intro, as if i need another reason to hate figure skaters)

Have you seen his butt?! Up there with the best inline skaters, it is.

They're just the worst kind of queens imho.

(worse than the ones complaining about Phantom Thread being 'closeted')

They're just the youngest kind of queens, is what you're saying.

so swishy in her satin and tat

idk if this is the place to talk about phantom thread but that movie was fucking incredible

We have a Phantom Thread thread that needs some livening up.

So will Jonny Greenwood sneak into the score category?

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2018/1/20/final-oscar-predictions-in-every-single-category.html

is PTA ever going to win an Oscar for writing or directing

Nominations going live as I type

woah at Mudbound's Rachel Morrison being the first female DP to get a nom

lmk if Sean Price Williams gets in

So will Jonny Greenwood sneak into the score category?

Yup!

Baby Driver got in for editing, the only thing it deserves really

god they've divided nomination announcements in half. We gotta await another couple minutes for the big ones.

Leslie Manville! Mary J. Blige!

Octavia Spencer this generation's Thelma Ritter.

Ugh – Christopher Plummer and Three Ebbings dudes in Supporting Actor. Nobody from Call Me By Your Name.

Greenwood in for score

has anyone seen any of the non-Square Foreign Pic nominees?

hint: actors' taste often sucks

Call Me by Your Name has only grossed something like $7.5 M in N America

The release schedule for that film has been a travesty.

Chalamet, Day-Lewis, Kaluuya, Oldman, Washington (!)

Hawkins, McDormand, Robbie, Ronan, Streep

Directors: Nolan, Peele, Gerwig, Anderson, del Toro

sufjan deserves to win the Best Song oscar for vetoing the "show up in the movie and perform the songs" idea

Chalamet! I'm happy.

Phantom Thread's performance is a most welcome surprise.

cmon boss baby

oh fuck off w/ Logan

oh! Agnes Varda made it too

Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

honestly not as bad a slate as it could have been

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

has anyone seen any of the non-Square Foreign Pic nominees?

― Simon H., 23. januar 2018 14:43 (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

On Body and Soul is quite good.

I'm delighted James Franco didn't make it.

I bet that's a relief for him too

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?

Gary Old Ham is winning, OL.

of course Varda made it; with the special Oscar, they found out who she was this year.

and DDL is fucking brilliant btw

I've heard. I can't wait to see it.

aside from PT, happy to see Strong Island for doc

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),

lol he's NOT winning a fourth Oscar; he ain't Kate Hepburn.

Chalamet's publicists need to commission some MSM articles about what a racist Churchill was.

As nice as some of these nods are ... Darkest Hour somehow got 6 of them.

Although I dig I, Tonya being snubbed for best picture if that lifts Metcalf's chances any.

Academy needs to remind audience that they're still old, white, and sipping sherry

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.

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.

And, yay, now I don't have to see Downsizing!

It had two huge movie stars and there was the whole Scott Joplin revival, I guess. That's it. I was there!

It's a function of a movie sticking around in theaters for 18 months and people saying "let's go see Newman and Redford." I believe there was also a re-release tagline, "The con is better the second time around."

The Sting is - how you say? - a piffle.

xpost Maybe that was the tag for the sequel?

I mean, there are worse simple entertainments. Like The Sting II, I suppose.

I don't think it was for the sequel.

The sting is great fun I wouldn't necessarily defend it as best picture tbf

1973 was a weak Bedt Picture year. Only Cries and Whispers is remotely great.

my god A Touch of Class.

The Sting might be the most movie-as-comfort-food endeavor I've seen

like your average Dozvzhenko?

Is it really any lesser than Butch Cassidy? (Maybe a little.) It just gets dumped on for winning the Oscar.

It's a lot tighter than butch cassidy

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.

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.

Redford's only Best Actor nod

and James Earl Jones' dad gets killed in the first 15 minutes.

(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).

The Shape of Water is going to be a Rain Man BP winner, remembered for one thing: she fucked the fish.

I don't ... remember Dustin Hoffman doing that?

lol

remembered for one thing i mean.

https://youtu.be/_V0VM-cwzBI?t=1m2s