Oscars 2018

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!

Nick Pinkerton likes Downsizing.

It's gotta be better than Baby Driver.

no Ansel, no credibility

via The Film Experience:

"This is Meryl's first time in a Best Picture nominee since Out of Africa (1985)."

Welp, that more or less proves Mark Harris's point about the misogyny behind the term "Oscar-bait."

I've not seen The Post but I hope it's more deserving of a nomination than Out of Africa was.

If The Shape of Water deserved 13 nominations, The Post deserved 258 nominations.

let's go out for a spielburger, Eric

"This is Meryl's first time in a Best Picture nominee since Out of Africa (1985)."

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), T

I saw that too and he's wrong: The Hours.

Go Sufjan! When was the last great Oscar-nominated song? Must be 20 years ago maybe.. Elliott Smith's was pretty good.
Feels most odd to truly love an Oscar-nom tune.

oh xp

One nomination for The Florida Rascals, high five!

btw Alfred he's not wrong -- he means it's the first time she's been nominated AND the film was since OoA. RoboStreep was not one of the 3 acting nominees for The Hours (a film i have jubilantly avoided seeing).

Oh I see.

And don't see The Hours.

I couldn't even finish reading Mrs. Dalloway.

of note

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kobe-bryants-oscar-nomination-clouded-by-past-sexual-assault-allegation-1077353

Good for Timothée and Greta Gerwig.

Cool to see On Body and Soul nommed

That means that the winner of the Golden Bear, Golden Palm and Golden Lion all got Oscar Noms in their respective categories, which feels rare? Also, Wang Bing clearly got cheated out of a best Doc nom, then.

Alexandra Borbély's acceptance speech for On Body and Soul at the EFA is worth watching!

https://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/efa-2017-alexandra-borbely

Ha – I just realized that Octavia Spencer gets her third nomination playing a sassy maid in the '50s or '60s.

#OscarSoLouiseBeavers

I couldn't really find a way to say that tactfully in my nominations piece.

The Hidden Figures role is different enough. Shape of Water though? Nope.

Hidden Figures a slightly more deserving nomination too

Surprised that Phantom Thread got snubbed for Original Screenplay, but more disappointed that that piece of shit The Big Sick got nominated. wtf?

that piece of shit The Big Sick

fp'd

oh my god what an awful movie, so full of itself & full of loathsome obnoxious people, the apotheosis of the noxious trend of "improv & standup comedians giving *sage advice* and showing us how to live"

yeah I didn't get defenses of its freshness and wit.

Haven't seen any of the documentaries--Ex Libris and Dawson City should be there, also (more subjectively) Citizen Jane. (Like best picture, more than five should be allowed.)

xp it was a paint by numbers romcom elevated by its projected and perceived 'social import' starring unfunny and actively annoying people lecturing the audience for an hour and a half. no wit, no 'freshness'- just hectoring & navel-gazing of a particularly banal life story. anyway