Oscars 2020

Bill Chambers' incisive take on this years noms:

https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2020/01/annual-professional-commentary-on-the-oscar-nominations-2020-edition.html

otm

I'm not going to subscribe to Film Freak Central to get Bill Chambers' opinion

really liked Apollo 11, thought it should have been nominated

Scarlett Johannson's two acting nominations is the first since Blanchett more than a decade ago

and she'll lose both like Blanchett, Emma Thompson, and Sigourney Weaver.

it's interesting that she's just now been nominated for the first time

well Under the Skin way too chilly to garner gold

Julie Strain, Statuesque Star of B-Movies, Dies at 57.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julie-strain-dead-statuesque-star-b-movies-was-57-1168492

will not make the death reel

FLORENCE PUGH, Little Women = fuck Trump

Almost want to make that my next screenname.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6772-oscar-shut-outs-and-silver-linings

haha, that link makes it clear that Julie Strain is not in fact dead.

E & E are back with their prognostickery

https://www.slantmagazine.com/category/awards/

I still suspect best doc feature will go to the Obamas' prod co (American Factory)

Yeah, that was my initial hunch but Ed won me over.

that Ed! ;)

Honestly the Baseball HoF method wouldn’t be a bad way to approach Best Picture for the Oscars. 10 year wait after release, films remain eligible for 10 years and then after they are null, films have to get 70% of the vote in order to join the Oscar Pantheon.

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) January 24, 2020

Nah, by the time they start marketing, Disney will have already pulled the movie from release in order to replace it with the remake.

A movie hall of fame somehow seems to make more sense to me than a rock & roll hall of fame, somebody should get on that

and by movie hall of fame, I mean a hall of fame for movies, not for actors, directors, etc.

I guess the closest equivalent would be the National Film Registry.

The Academy museum will serve the space function once it opens.

I mean, there's always the Victorville Film Archive.

2019's Oscar Nominees

I liked Uncut Gems as much as any movie I saw last year, but I love Uhlich slashing and burning even more.

https://letterboxd.com/keithuhlich/list/for-whom-the-zell-tolls-or-i-ren-i-ren-so/

was gonna post for the Tarantella take

...but not in this thread

Feel free to lard up as many threads with it as you can.

There's a lot of ham in that post.

he's right about that last shot in OUATIH.

That's kind of who/how he is IRL too, and I dig it.

Shutout for Little Women, The Irishman and Marriage Story? won't watch

Respectively: costumes, nada bing nada boom, and Dern.

oh yeah her

"Duplasses on amphetamines" is only accurate as a description of the Safdies in that they are both sets of brothers who make movies.

yeah, based on uncut gems, safdies are infinity more talented

I think even the Duplasses would admit it.

not sure how much of his argument about the Africa prologue i concur with -- but wd be good to post in UG thread

This line is dreadful too:

The film's sins are legion, though high on my personal list of offenses is the Brothers's hiring of one of the great modern DPs, Darius Khondji, to do what effectively amounts to a Sean Price Williams impersonation.

because...? I don't happen to agree, but I don't think it's dreadful.

An anonymous actress weighs in...

Little Women was badly acted and confusing, and I have no idea why they cast four British actresses to play American girls. [Emma Watson and Florence Pugh are British, but Saoirse Ronan is Irish-American, and Eliza Scanlen is Australian.] And every time they said they were poor, I gagged — they're living in a beautiful two-story house, and they have a cook.

Oh my god...

And they're not very little!

of course she's a big Inglourious Mansons fan

now now

So for me, it was between [Pain and Glory's] Antonio Banderas and [Joker's] Joaquin Phoenix, and I had to go with Joaquin because that is a performance that sticks in your mind. Antonio's was much more subtle and poignant; Joaquin hit it out of the park.

There you go, she decided me.

de Niro (subtle) and Sandler (not) robbed by this floozie

I've now come to accept "Brutally Honest Oscar Voter" as "Shouldn't Be Allowed To Vote On Dog Catcher."

And every time they said they were poor, I gagged — they're living in a beautiful two-story house, and they have a cook.

All that statement proves is that America is actually worse now than when young girls regularly died of scarlet fever.

Parasite is beautifully done, but it didn't hold up the second time, and I don't think foreign films should be nominated with the regular films.

I liked 1917 and Sam Mendes' direction, but I thought Quentin did a great job, and I want an American director to win.

I won't vote for [Harriet's] Cynthia Erivo because I think that they should have gotten an American actress to play Harriet [Tubman], not an English actress.

I didn't know Hedda Hopper was still alive.

MOGA