Oscars 2018

The CMBYN Talking Heads t shirt having a picture from 1984 despite the film being set in 1983.. i mean come on costume bloke/lady jeez. Maybe i like film too much and i'm just nitpicking but i mean if it was the wrong Bob Dylan photo or some such we'd never hear the last of it.

you're just nitpicking

i love when the anonymous Oscar voters call Dunkirk confusing just to remind us they're in their 70s and watched it on their couch while doing a sudoku

— Corey Atad (@CoreyAtad) February 28, 2018

finally getting to watch Dunkirk the way it was intended to be seen pic.twitter.com/vSqGquIMs4

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) December 20, 2017

two hilarious tweets, nice

btw Ed G went gonzo at Slant today and picks Metcalf to take supp actress.

Any chance Jerry Lewis wins the obit montage? Didn't check any of the necrologies.

I'm hoping we get a Rylance-type surprise -- anything

I agreed with Ed's feelings on this one. And tomorrow's.

http://theweek.com/articles/756341/why-years-best-picture-race-total-crapshoot

it turns out i'll be watching at my friend's house (with his son who went to HS with Chalamet), so i don't need pool picks.

xp that sums up the problem with awards like the Oscars in a nutshell, along with some of the interviews with anonymous voters I've read: people vote for whatever film they feel is "the type of movie that wins Oscars"

it's almost as bad as the thought process that leads producers to demand things get include in high budget films because they're elements needed in blockbusters

So, Beatty and Dunaway take two for best picture, eh?

:o

if so it's gonna be heavily scripted comedy

Slant BP pick strikes me as "wishful." (Kinda like Ed's RussiaRussiaRussia doc feature pick, but I think he's got the mindset right there.)

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

"politically acute genre miscegenation" zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

that's a lot of adjectives to live down

if Slant's picks prove correct and Get Out were to win ONLY Best Picture, it will be interpreted by many as a supreme act of tokenism.

xps go to bed, old man.

And you're damned right it'll be tokenism. Until every category gets the ranked-choice treatment.

what's the fewest Oscars a BP has ever won?

I think Grand Hotel won just the one.

Plus The Broadway Melody and Mutiny on the Bounty

In modern times, Spotlight only one two.

wow. 3 movies that have aged about as well as the hamfisted, evasive third act of Get Out will. xp

"politically acute genre miscalculation" works for me btw

Any chance Jerry Lewis wins the obit montage? Didn't check any of the necrologies.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), 1. marts 2018 21:35 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm hoping we get a Rylance-type surprise -- anything

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), 1. marts 2018 21:53 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wow. That's dark, Alfred.

I coined the term "genre miscegenation" with you in mind, as the very thing that irks Oscar voters' Ernest Borgnine demo.

Nah, Ernest Borgnine comp doesn't work re Get Out. He wasn't above *appearing* in shit horror films, at least...

YEP IT WAS GONNA GO THERE

anyway Eric i appreciate yr calling Phantom Thread as Should Win (unless that was a combo vote)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmYLrxR0Y8

Also, Grand Hotel is in like the 90th percentile for the first few decades of Oscar winners.

idgi, the 90th percentile re what?

Decent pictures to win, I think.

The 1930s had some of the worst winners in history: Cimarron, The Broadway Melody, Cavalcade

OK, maybe 90th percentile is a stretch, but it's among the best of everything pre-Gone with the Wind.

KJB hates it! Immune to all-star power, I guess.

I'm not crazy about it either.

I wouldn't kick it out of bed, though, which, admittedly, would be her considering its size.

her=hard

All Quiet on the Western Front
It Happened One Night
You Can't Take It with You

Those are the ones that I'll sit still for being called better. None of the rest.

Of course, of the next decade after that, the only one that's worse than Grand Hotel is Mrs. Miniver.

The last third of You Can't Take It with You is a disgrace, where they tear up the play and turn it into a Capracorn faux class-conflict thing.

(ie GWTW is better)

Right, I'm counting GWTW as the first of the next batch.

the year crash won (won 3 awards) was also the year martin mcdonagh won his first oscar (for best live short)

also, mcdonagh is now going out with fleabag (pheobe waller-bridge) but i don't know if fleabag has made it to north america.

It Happened One Night is great

I think Get Out will win. the purging of the Academy voting rolls & abundance of diverse young voters can't be overstated imo. i mean, fucking Moonlight won best picture last year. I think Peele has a good shot at director & screenplay, too.

I'm sending Catherine Keener after you with a tea cup if you're wrong.

i'll drink anything that woman gives me

https://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/hamlet2_11.jpg

I'm coming around to the Get Out argument

Who was purged from the Academy? I didn't realise that has happened: I just thought they'd added new people to dilute the old crowd.

Billy Mumy. That's about it, but it's gonna make a huge difference.

Is there still enough excitement about Get Out, though? It's been a year since it made its biggest impact. Moonlight was somewhat better timed for awards season.

maybe not as many as i thought: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/oscarssowhite-academy-struggles-diversity-age-885633

Four days after that, she sent all Academy members an email — and simultaneously issued a press release — revealing that the previous evening the board unanimously had authorized "a series of courageous steps." Among them: members who had not remained "active" in the business during a 10-year period since being invited to join the Academy — except for those who had been nominated for an Oscar or who had demonstrated activity in three consecutive decades since joining the Academy — would lose their voting privileges beginning in the 2016 awards cycle.