Amour
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
just realized Colette got snubbed. that sucks.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
I never thought she had a chance th
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
that is, until I realized last week that Aparicio was in
I would've thought she was a shoo-in on the "most acting" principle alone
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
you can make one of the year's five to ten best movies without necessarily standing out as a director
I don't at all mind directors getting awards, but I still find this odd. How do you isolate for the skill of the director in a film except by taking the film as a whole?
― jmm, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
Why is the title of ROMA in all caps, everywhere? Is the neighborhood's name an acronym?
"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" for Best Song made me smile
I just found out the other day that's Gillian Welch/Dave Rawlings.
Did Stan And Ollie come out too late?
About 3% of the Academy has any idea who Laurel & Hardy were.
This isn't it at all. The directors' branch likely votes for the directors of what THEY, a small subset of the members, think are the 5 best films.
Hawke is so up his own arse these days on the born-artiste tip, hard to root for him
Do you know Spike Lee?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
xp: If the primary job of a director (not auteur) is tone control, there's plenty of great direction in mediocre films.
I haven't seen Vice, but according to its critical reception, its principal failing is its all over the map, tonally. Which makes its nomination galling.
― dancing the Radioactive Flesh (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
Just saw a morning news show graphic of all five best directors' mugs alongside each other and Adam MmKay just looks like a dolt next to the rest of them.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
Mr Rogers' corpse snubbed for Best Doc Feature! Amazing that “Hale County This Morning, This Evening" might've displaced it. I assume Justice Ginsburg's cult will carry the day.
Presumably Vice is intentionally a tonal patchwork. It's possible to do that well or badly.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
yeah, I did not hear of Marina de Tavira until today.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
How often has a film been nominated for both BP and Foreign Language Film?
This is the sixth time:
Z (1969)The Emigrants (Foreign Language Film in 1971, Best Picture in 1972)Life Is Beautiful (1998)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)Amour (2012)Roma (2018)
(Cries and Whispers and Il Postino were nominated for BP but didn't receive a Foreign-Language Film nomination because they weren't submitted by their respective countries. And Grand Illusion got a BP nomination before the Foreign-Language category was created.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
Aw. Bao. That made me cry.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
The Film Experience guy got 100% on BP, foreign film, and animated film, and I assume he was not alone.
http://thefilmexperience.net/prediction-index/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
This is one of the reasons.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
A good rule of thumb is that any time you can look at a category and say "with the exception of [title] this is a surprisingly good slate," [title] will always win.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
RBG is one of the most [title] movies I've seen this year.
this doc short may win for Trumpian reasons
Congrats to @fieldofvision for the Oscar nomination for “A Night at the Garden” which @Schwarz called the most terrifying movie you can watch at Halloween (or any time) https://t.co/792fdGVm0N #OscarNoms— Charlotte Greensit (@cgreensit) January 22, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
No nom for Won't You Be My Neighbour is a surprise.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
these things now exist:"Oscar nominee Ready Player One""Oscar nominee Solo: A Star Wars Story""Oscar nominee Kevin Feige""Oscar nominee Green Book"
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
Yalitza Aparicio in Roma gave one of those completely interior performances that the academy voters usually seem to hate. I'm glad she got nominated
― Dan S, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
Cuaron is gonna bring his actual maid to the ceremony isn't he
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
lmfao he better!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
I wonder whether RBG will be at the ceremony and get a standing ovation.
― jmm, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
can she still stand?
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
lol: the makeup guy who gave rami malek horse teeth got a nomination
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
have there ever been two nominees in the directing category for foreign language films in a given year?
― Dan S, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
Oscar nominee Ready Player One
No arguments in my corner.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
1976 had Ingmar Bergman for Face to Face and Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties. I think that's the only precedent, though.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
that's the one I was going to post; it's the only one
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
... Bohemian Rhapsody didn't get nominated for makeup tho?
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
1976 also had two women in foreign films up for Best Actress.
I would be fine with this member-refreshed directors' branch just doing the nominations for every category tbh.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
1976 also had two women in foreign films up for Best Actress
More a reflection of legitimately having no alternatives from stateside product in that era.
Caleb Deschanel DP nom for a film i didnt know had been released
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.),
Yep. Your girl won it by default.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
interesting article about Never Look Away in the latest New Yorker
― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
xp pssssh, I'm team Spacek that year
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
Who’s RBG?
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
^don't ask. stay in bliss
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
is it that bad?
that article jaymc linked above about Richter and Donnersmarck is fascinating! The ending of The Lives of Others was a little too sentimental for me, and I was disappointed to see that his film Never Look Away was on the foreign language nominees list and not Burning, but now I’m interested in seeing this film.
― Dan S, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
If Eric’s list is the real best picture nominees: looooooool
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
Stunned that this is the first time Spike Lee has been nominated for Best Director, but tbf there are only a few of his movies that could've plausibly been nominated: DTRT, Malcolm X, 25th Hour. the rest either sucked, too out there for the Academy (Bamboozled), or flopped (He Got Game). He's surely gotten a Best Doc nom though right?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
lol: the makeup guy who gave rami malek horse teeth got a nomination... Bohemian Rhapsody didn't get nominated for makeup tho?
whoops, I was looking at the TFE list page which was predictions.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
as producer of 4 Little Girls, yes xp
I believe the Katrina docs were both made for HBO.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
The Academy's bias against Asian ci-ne-mah persists.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
Shoplifters got in FLF... I am somewhat relieved by the Steven Yeun omission.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
(and by Burning's, truth be told)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
People are sharing this about on Twitter, i've no recollection of it at all. It must've been cut from the tv coverage in the UK, they did a next-day highlights package on the BBC in the 80s, until the early 90s when Sky began showing it live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8bclKPuuE0
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
Fair dos; Spike's kids going nuts
Spike Lee’s reaction to this morning’s #OscarNoms. #BlacKkKlansman📹: @sirjacksonlewislee on Instagram pic.twitter.com/0OvhWa3V3n— BlacKkKlansman (@BlacKkKlansman) January 22, 2019
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link