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
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), T
I saw that too and he's wrong: The Hours.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
oh xp
One nomination for The Florida Rascals, high five!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
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).
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
Oh I see.
And don't see The Hours.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
I couldn't even finish reading Mrs. Dalloway.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
of note
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kobe-bryants-oscar-nomination-clouded-by-past-sexual-assault-allegation-1077353
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
Good for Timothée and Greta Gerwig.
― jmm, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
Cool to see On Body and Soul nommed
― devvvine, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
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
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
Ha – I just realized that Octavia Spencer gets her third nomination playing a sassy maid in the '50s or '60s.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
#OscarSoLouiseBeavers
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
I couldn't really find a way to say that tactfully in my nominations piece.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
The Hidden Figures role is different enough. Shape of Water though? Nope.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
Hidden Figures a slightly more deserving nomination too
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
Surprised that Phantom Thread got snubbed for Original Screenplay, but more disappointed that that piece of shit The Big Sick got nominated. wtf?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
that piece of shit The Big Sick
fp'd
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
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"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
yeah I didn't get defenses of its freshness and wit.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
Best Picture a toss-up between Get Out, Lady Bird, and The Shape of Water... I made out like a bandit last year, making bets this time is a little more difficult
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
I'm so happy Jonny Greenwood got nominated
Don't give a shit about Radiohead but his relationship with PTA has been amazing, great scores
Hans Zimmer will win for Dunkirk, tho, a good score from a composer I don't care for otherwise
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
At this point, BP is probably Shape of Water vs. Three Billboards, and I hate that this makes me want to root for the latter, despite being basically awful.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
re: Big Sick, what's this about (haven't seen it)
the big sick is a good movie to watch if you want to see a bunch of Pakistani women get shade thrown at them— Cold Drinks Enjoyer Li'l 🌴 (@karengeier) January 23, 2018
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.)
are you serious? SOW is at worst conservative Oscarbait with monsters and bestiality.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
I would've agreed with you but ... 13 nominations.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
Three Billboards isn't likely to win without a director nomination, is it? I would think Lady Bird or Get Out are the other films competing with SOW for BP
― Dan S, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
Three Billboards is not going to win
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
a million people have already written thinkpieces about how racist it is and there'll be another million before the ceremony
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
It'd be a miracle for Get Out or Lady Bird to win tbh.
Hell, maybe it's Darkest Hour's to lose. It already got five more nominations than anyone expected.
― Tarr Yang Preminger Argento Carpenter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
I hope Ronan can eke out a win over McDormand, but I don't really buy that 3BB's momentum is abating after it managed to steal two nods in the supporting actor category
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
I know the tweet earlier was kinda joking but I could actually see a cappaign of reminding people Churchill was a shithead working pretty well to spoil any chances it may have
Shape of Water is the safest bet
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
@simon - that's a particularly stupid critique of the movie i've seen a few times. basically the lead guy falls in love with a white woman, but his family is insistent that he follow in their footsteps and accept an arranged marriage with a Pakistani woman. the family hoodwinks him several times into blind dates with various Pakistani women at their house. he's not interested because he's in love with someone else. there's no 'shade' thrown at these random women, his heart is already set on someone else. I don't see the issue.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
ahhh.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
I guess Desplat could win if Zimmer doesn't. I only just saw Dunkirk and thought that was the freshest element, instead of using the usual war-film stirring orchestral template.
I am not paying to see Three Billboards, and don't have good feelings about going to SoW either.
All these BP "it can't win" arguments remind me of the 2016 Republican primaries, and...
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
The shape of water had a nice score. Felt like they put effort in, with actual motifs for the characters and everything
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
and Three Billboards has a strong Trump-ian undercurrent so
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
I can't figure out why del Toro's film is gonna be the monster-movie romance to get a Golden Shower. Cronenberg is asking, "Where were you people for The Fly?"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link