Oscars 2020

Excitement is bad for many critics' blood.

Green Book winning last year, and the Best Actor trophy being the Best Celebrity Imitation award more often than not in recent years, have trained me to expect no surprises this year. I fully expect Sam Mendes, Taron Egerton and Rene Zellweger to go home happy on Oscar night.

agree with best actor being the 'celebrity imitation award' although best actress is maybe as bad - The Iron Lady, Walk the Line, La Vie en Rose, The Queen

from what I've read the consensus prediction this year seems to be that Joaquin Phoenix will win best actor

he was pretty good, whatever you think of the movie.

Awkwafina may not even get nominated. She was passed over by the SAG Awards, which lately tends to be the best Oscar predictor. On the other hand, I'd say only Zellweger and ScarJo are locks.

Am I a bad person for only caring about the cinematography and production design noms?

Who the fuck is interested in watching another war movie. UGH. ( i discovered the existence of 1917 during the GG).

they just need to give a participation award to a war film and biopic every year.

yeah Phoenix will likely win

play the Joker, die or don't die, win an Oscar

*Nicholson barks at moon*

Phoenix was hammy but I'm hard pressed to think of many other standout performances by male actors in anything else this year; I'm sure De Niro will get nominated but he was frankly better in Joker too than he was in Irishman (I like Irishman but it's by-the-books Scorcese); Taron Egerton was extremely good though.

Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory
Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems
Franz Rogowski - Transit

There!

Adam Driver will be nominated.

Predicting a total shutout for Uncut Gems.

Nathaniel Rogers is predicting it for original screenplay, though he seems to be in the minority.

Saw 1917 this afternoon. It's more entertaining and engrossing than Dunkirk or other recent war pics, but it didn't leave a strong impression either. Found myself suspending lots of disbelief as the poor lead gets pummeled in various ways. Was hoping to hear Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" during the ending credits.

Irishman "by-the-book" -- smdh

can't believe voters are on fire for Ford v Ferrari if Damon and Bale don't strip and fuck each other

Damon looked as worn as your grandma's handbag in F v. F

De Niro will get nominated but he was frankly better in Joker too

Frankly this is nonsense

Dolemite being nominated only for costumes wd be gruesomely typical

http://thefilmexperience.net/prediction-index/

good luck, America

well, Kathy Bates is in. So is ScarJo for her mystifying accent in Jojo Rabbit.

Honeyland nominated for foreign film

wow, I'd forgotten the Academy has the temerity to take a commercial break before the second round of nominations.

Is this the first time a doc has made it into that category?

Possibly?

Uncut Gems shut out of writing

de Niro snubbed... abominable

I thought it might be the first Macedonian nominee too, but apparently not (Before the Rain, 1994) xps

Banderas in, though.

Jonathan Pryce in too, ugh.

"Congratulations to these men" -- OUCH

lol that was a good one

Film Experience (and many others i'm sure) went 9/9 on BP nominees

Nominating Pacino but not DeNiro is some true smdh shit

MOST acting...

Joanna Hogg robbed

Oscar nominations 2020: ‘Joker’ leads with 11

I'd like very much for that to be the most depressing headline in 2020.

Tom Burke in The Souvenir robbed.
No Sandler!

Can't wait for the Anonymous Oscar Asshole column where he complains about not being able to tell the Parasite characters apart

Hogg and the film never stood a chance.

Sandler had more of a chance.

nothin for uncut gems at all?

No reason to watch this year. I'll be silently rooting for Parasite while I do something more enjoyable. Maybe I'll give the bathroom a scrub.

Come over. It needs work behind the toilet

I was, of course, joking about Souvenir, which the Academy has mostly never heard of

Pryce's first ever nod; i assumed he'd been nom'd for something else at some point.

Pryce rules but you couldn't pay me to watch that

I watched it free and am waiting for my singed nose hair to grow back.

Little Women gets noms for Best Pic, Actress, Adapted Screenplay and Supporting Actress but not Best Director?! This is now officially known as The 'Argo' Phenomenon.

Great to see Florence Pugh nominated, she was great every second she was on screen.

Funny, only a couple months ago I was thinking that they might not be total shit this year thanks to the above-average number of good-to-great movies of relative prominence kicking around. They actually managed to fuck it up way worse than I imagined possible.

and some critics will agree, congratulating the nods for Parasite and Joker