Oscars 2019

shortlists for shorts, documentary, foreign language film, makeup, song, score: https://www.oscars.org/oscars/91st-oscars-shortlists

here's foreign language film:
Colombia, “Birds of Passage”
Denmark, “The Guilty”
Germany, “Never Look Away”
Japan, “Shoplifters”
Kazakhstan, “Ayka”
Lebanon, “Capernaum”
Mexico, “Roma”
Poland, “Cold War”
South Korea, “Burning”

isn't the absence of the Aretha doc Amazing Grace an upset? even given their fickle whims?

hoping the Coup make it in if only for the performance

no Mandy or Hereditary in the score shortlist is criminal

no best doc nomination for They Shall Not Grow Old ?
that is insane.

That is one of the stronger fields of Foreign Language Films in a long time. Cold War, Burning, Roma and Shoplifters should all be nominated, hope The Guilty can get the final one.

wait was Transit not Germany's submission? madness.

of course they were powerless to resist Teen Choice Awards nominee Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Transit didn't really have a chance for a nomination, though?

Technically Poland should have nominated 'Mug' and Mexico should have nominated 'Museo', but... That's not how it works.

Petzold was a previous submission for "Barbara" so it's not really an out-there choice

anyway none of this matters because it's Roma fever all the time forever for some goddamn reason

Maybe Transit isn’t eligible until next year?

They submitted him before for a more populist work, and it didn't get nominated. While von Donnersmarck has won before. I get their reasoning, and it seems to have worked. Petzold will have to console himself with having made a freaking great film.

Also, Roman wins Best Film, Cold War wins Best Foreign Language?

Nah, I'm sure it's still A Star is Born and Cuaron wins Best Director and Foreign Language.

Yeah, the combination of Green Book and Vice underwhelming + the likelihood of Bohemian Rhapsody being in the BP line-up making A Star is Born look better in comparison = that dumb movie winning, marking the worst BP since, what, The Artist?

Birdman, surely. It can't possibly be worse than Birdman?

Vice isn't playing widely yet -- the embargo lifted yesterday -- and it's just getting notices, so don't discount its box office. I forget that The Big Short made over a $100 million.

ASIB >>>>>>> The Artist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Birdman

I can imagine GDT's evangelism getting Roma all the way tbh

i think "worst winner since The Shape of Water" is damning enough

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Crash

Yeah, what was I thinking. The Artist, Argo, Birdman, The Shape of Water and The King's Speech are all equally as awful as A Star is Born. Which, to be clear, is awful.

They just gave it to a good movie so they've filled their quota for the decade

Moonlight is a once-ever-25-years kind of thing.

The King's Speech and A Star is Born are C movies, mundanities. We have to be like Minos in Inferno, wrapping our tails around our bodies judging which circle in hell to cast these movies.

Argo wasn't terribly offensive, by virtue of not trying to be terribly important, unlike most of the rest of those

the shape of water was good. burn the rest

Argo made the CIA heroic and Ben Affleck into a Serious Director. That's important.

yeah i bet the hostages loved that shit

Jimmy Carter was all "lol, that didnt happen"

what 1969-relevant elders can they get to present Best Picture? Hoffman and Voight are kinda pariahs... Redford and Katharine Ross?

Birdman soundtrack was smoking.

XP Peter Fonda & Jack

...riding onstage on a chopper.

Argo is by far the worst of the movies in that list you are crazy

does Nicholson still go out? haven't seen him since that last Jim Brooks movie.

He was gonna be in the Toni Erdmann remake.

not if there's a god

the likelihood of Bohemian Rhapsody being in the BP line-up

wait...waht

There were only 3 maybe 4 non-franchise hits this whole year. You better believe the Oscars are going to try to jam as many as possible in the top category.

Bohemian and Crazy Rich Asians could complete their transformation into the People's Choice Awards.

Or undo their transformation into the Indie Spirit Awards.

Full list of eligible films: https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_reminder_list.pdf

the Venom campaign starts now

really was hoping for some Welles action, but then again no eligibility for the Fassbinder miniseries

d'souza robbed

Robin Hood is eligible. 24 Frames is not.

Glad to see Madeline's Madeline still in the running. Fingers crossed!

not too late for Zamarama

Or for 12 Strong Bing Bong

lol, there is still no host?

Apparently they couldn't find anyone else and are now begging Kevin Hart to reconsider?

^favorite

so is the problem what green book reveals about certain americans or what it does to them? if the former, well it's not like we didn't know any of this. if the latter, my sense is that films play a teeny tiny if any causal role in actually perpetuating any of this stuff.

― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy)

the latter, and my sense is different! i think we are affected by the perspectives we are exposed to, more than we like to acknowledge.

Remember next year is going to be all about CATS, which will win 15 Oscars at the minimum.

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) February 25, 2019

Oh, Jesus, haul this guy out of there.

Uh, wrong thread!

no, i think that's a good all-purpose post.

I said upthread I would probably never see Green Book; visiting a friend tonight with two middle-school-aged boys, so it was "Sure, okay." Didn't think much of it; I posted about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's defense of the film above, which I liked, but it really did seem 40 years out of date. I don't blame the actors, who did their best.

(60 years out of date--In the Heat of the Night had many more moments capable of surprising you.)