Oscars 2019

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

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?

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.

you can make one of the year's five to ten best movies without necessarily standing out as a director

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?

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.

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.

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.

yeah, I did not hear of Marina de Tavira until today.

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.)

Aw. Bao. That made me cry.

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/

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.

This is one of the reasons.

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.

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.

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

No nom for Won't You Be My Neighbour is a surprise.

these things now exist:
"Oscar nominee Ready Player One"
"Oscar nominee Solo: A Star Wars Story"
"Oscar nominee Kevin Feige"
"Oscar nominee Green Book"

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

Cuaron is gonna bring his actual maid to the ceremony isn't he

lmfao he better!

I wonder whether RBG will be at the ceremony and get a standing ovation.

can she still stand?

lol: the makeup guy who gave rami malek horse teeth got a nomination

have there ever been two nominees in the directing category for foreign language films in a given year?

Oscar nominee Ready Player One

No arguments in my corner.

have there ever been two nominees in the directing category for foreign language films in a given year?

1976 had Ingmar Bergman for Face to Face and Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties. I think that's the only precedent, though.

that's the one I was going to post; it's the only one

lol: the makeup guy who gave rami malek horse teeth got a nomination

... Bohemian Rhapsody didn't get nominated for makeup tho?

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.

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

More a reflection of legitimately having no alternatives from stateside product in that era.

― forrest drumpf (Eric H.),

Yep. Your girl won it by default.

interesting article about Never Look Away in the latest New Yorker

xp pssssh, I'm team Spacek that year

Who’s RBG?

^don't ask. stay in bliss

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.

If Eric’s list is the real best picture nominees: looooooool

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?

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.

as producer of 4 Little Girls, yes xp

I believe the Katrina docs were both made for HBO.

The Academy's bias against Asian ci-ne-mah persists.

Shoplifters got in FLF... I am somewhat relieved by the Steven Yeun omission.

(and by Burning's, truth be told)

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

Fair dos; Spike's kids going nuts

Spike Lee’s reaction to this morning’s #OscarNoms. #BlacKkKlansman

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— BlacKkKlansman (@BlacKkKlansman) January 22, 2019

I believe the Katrina docs were both made for HBO.

Which means, these days, they would've been eligible.

No, didn't they change the rules again after the O.J. debacle?

no Wiseman again is of course a disgrace, but they gave him an honorary last year.

Just looked at the list. Mild rooting interest in Bale--no feelings about anybody else. They should give some kind of an award for the "It's Too Late to Turn Back Now" scene in BlacKkKlansman.