Oscars 2020

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

this could be Jeff Wells in drag

I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will never understand the preoccupation with Manson etc.

way to break precedent by not bumping this thread

haven't seen a minute of this

so nothing major aside from Pitt lambasting the impeachment verdict, eh

Wow (director)

oh, Bong for directing

They say when you've lost Brad Pitt, you've lost Mr. and Mrs. Middle America.

Hah! Just kidding. Wake me up when Pat Sajak publically roasts the Senate for not removing Trump from office.

I guess Parasite could win BP maaaybe

I still suspect best doc feature will go to the Obamas' prod co (American Factory)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, January 20, 2020

Yeah, that was my initial hunch but Ed won me over.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Monday, January 20, 2020

Who ya gonna call?

I only lightly taunted him over that.

THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE

omg Parasite!

Awesome

Congrats to the Academy for giving it to a pretty good film w/ kind of a boringly violent last 20 minutes

better than they usually do!

holy shit