2022's Oscar Nominees

We watched Fabelmans today as an Oscars warm-up, liked it about as much as I expected from what I had gleaned of it — which is to say, pretty well but with reservations.

So of the 6 of the movies on this list I've seen, my preference would go something like:

Tar — Fabelmans — Banshees — EEAAO — Avatar — Top Gun

All of which exist on the B-C section of my personal bell curve. Really B+ to C+, didn't love or hate any of them.

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I haven’t seen All Quiet but I’m super stoked for Volker, he’s amazing and I’m thrilled

Absolutely delighted for EEAO, Tár was fine but that was it, really.

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Posted: 7 March 2023 at 23:53:02
it’s so funny to me, I really hope it wins best picture tumblr is gonna have a rough time

Lol.

this was a decent oscars ceremony. not too long, some interesting speeches. only one of the songs was actively bad.

The boy the mole the fox and the horse winning an Oscar is an outrage.

It was by some considerable distance the worst film I saw nominated in any category

Yeah as soon as I saw it I knew it would win and I also knew _My Year of Dicks_ was being robbed as a result.

Most of the wins last night wouldn't have been my choice -- I think the only ones I was actively rooting for were "Naatu Naatu" and Sarah Polley. EEAAO didn't connect with me and I can't help but be a little disappointed that Cate Blanchett lost for such a tour-de-force performance. That said, it's hard to begrudge at
its success, and I get why voters felt that Yeoh deserved it more. Maybe I just wish that a couple of its seven wins (and All Quiet's four wins, for that matter) went elsewhere? (Tar, The Fabelmans, and Banshees of Inisherin, all of which I liked to varying degrees, collectively got 22 nominations and zero wins.)

The ceremony itself was fine if a little unexciting. I still wish the Oscars didn't feel like they had to constantly apologize for the show’s length (the Super Bowl announcers don't). But it was nice to see the return of the traditional setup of a single host on an auditorium stage, and there wasn't too much dumb filler.

Even with its stylized dullness, last night's ceremony was the best-paced in at least two decades.

This wasn’t even Blanchett’s best losing performance and I am filing away JLC along with Judi Dench in 1998 ito “What the fuck were they thinking”? Personally extremely happy that Oscars have been shifting away from just acknowledging worthy studio dramas for a while now.

This wasn’t even Blanchett’s best losing performance

Respectfully disagree on that one

Also, I genuinely thought every living adult hated The Boy the Mole the etc. I'm astonished it managed the win but maybe AppleTV+ is truly the best campaign force on the scene right now aside from A24.

ceremony was fine, Kimmel exactly the kind of mildly funny, dull host it requires; no big experimental set pieces and therefore no risk of cringe. very little surprises IMO, I got about half my picks on my ballot correct even though I wanted Tar and Banshees to win some stuff, I had a feeling this was going to be a blow out.

"Also, I genuinely thought every living adult hated The Boy the Mole the etc"

I haven't seen it, the only people I've seen say they hate it are here on ILX though.

feel happy for all the winning actors tho quan is the only one i personally would’ve picked

idk how anyone can watch everything etc. and pick curtis over hsu as the most compelling supporting performance but that’s probably why i don’t have an academy membership

She's the daughter of Hollywood royalty, the closest thing to an industry vet in the four categories, etc.

A Facebook friend just posted "I want to be friends with the entire cast and crew of EEAAO," which is otm. It felt like somebody's hipster-nerd brunch group made a movie and brought all their friends with them.

xp yeah i guess caring about that stuff comes with the academy membership card

EEAAO can keep its 7 awards but All Quiet needs to give at least two back imo

What surprises me is the number of people who thought Bassett would win; I guess you have to follow the precursor twaddle to realize she'd been knocked out weeks ago.

Personally extremely happy that Oscars have been shifting away from just acknowledging worthy studio dramas for a while now.

Related to this, it was nice to see Curtis mention genre movies (and their fans) in her speech.

i'll say that the EEAAO director's speech that culminated with "thanks for unlocking my genius" didn't go over very well with anyone I watched with (but people were talking a lot and we missed some of what he said prior to that)

also, they did a pretty good job of not playing anyone off on stage EXCEPT for the Indian filmmakers who did the Elephant film. Lame! They let that old dude who looked like Art Garfunkel ramble on forever after that.

"Also, I genuinely thought every living adult hated The Boy the Mole the etc"

I haven't seen it, the only people I've seen say they hate it are here on ILX though.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, March 13, 2023 9:41 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

In THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX, AND THE HORSE the mole asks the boy what he wants to be when he grows up and the boy says “…kind.” 🥴

— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) March 13, 2023

Ke Huy Quan has been out of the picture for a while, but it kind of boggles the mind that Michelle Yeoh has only been hovering on the periphery of Hollywood for so long. Like, she should have gotten an Oscar for the motorcycle stunt in "Police Story 3."

Thought the Daniels’ speech about creativity and everyone’s potential & importance of collaboration was great tbh

I've never heard of "The Boy, The Mole," etc., what's objectionable about it? That tweet makes it sound lame, but it's a children's movie?

It's all very well meaning and indeed based on a children's book, and the animation's quite nice. It's essentially a 'we choose our own families' story, an important enough message as ever. But much like "An Irish Goodbye" its sentiment is pretty sugary and 'well of course this was going to win' in feel, in combination with the BBC/Bad Robot/Apple/name actors factor. "My Year of Dicks" was easily, totally better all around.

Personally didn’t care much for anything about EEAAO except the incredible score, I’m a big fan, it was a technical marvel

I don’t know why The Whale exists and I don’t know why Darren Aronofsky is allowed to make movies

I’m sad Anne Heche wasn’t mentioned last night

I quite liked Black Swan but aside from that I have derived no positive feelings from any Aronofsky films, I genuinely regret putting myself through Requiem For A Dream and mother! and suspect that Pi was only of interest because it looked like a Shinya Tsukamoto film and I imagined there was something I wasn't getting.

An update... despite my best efforts, I still have not been allowed into the Dolby Theater. I am thinking I may need to go elsewhere.

I heard my dear friend @ladygaga gave quite an emotional performance, though.https://t.co/6mu9UOIGY4

— Lydia Tár (@LydiaTarReal) March 13, 2023

I hadn't grokked that The Whale was also an A24 film — so basically a complete A24 sweep of the major categories. That's something.

My ratings:

Tar
The Fablemans
Avatar 2
Women Talking
Elvis
All Quiet on the Western Front
Top Gun Maverick
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Banshees of Inisherin

didnt see: Triangle of Sadness

the animation's quite nice.

the dedication to the fake rough-lines-left in style meant that the scene where a character gets caught in a wire was visually incomprehensible because the "loose" swirly lines remained after he was ostensibly freed from the "wire" swirly lines. as ill-thought, insultingly tokenistic and dullardly as the script.

As much as I can not countenance a Marvel movie winning anything, much less an acting award, seeing Angela Bassett taking that loss seemingly pretty hard wasn't a highlight of the night

I can't really comment because I haven't seen the movie, but I have seen other Marvel movies, so am I right in guessing that her nomination was based on like, one big somber, melodramatic monologue?

This, pretty much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quTQuizqe90

having worked covering the video game industry i'm friends w/a not insignificant number of younger gen x/older millennial asian men on FB and IG who identified as somewhat nerdy in school and their extreme joy at Ke Huy Quan's win has been extremely touching.

Yeah, it seems to be an incredibly millennial film to me.

i don't know why angela bassett would have even thought she had a chance, frankly; she's in the movie for 10 minutes; yeah she gave a good speech and she's amazing in basically everything, but this wasn't the role to peg her hopes on. Also I thought it was a bit odd they brought up Boseman again; I mean, yes, good actor, but he made like 2 movies and died two years ago. Are they going to talk about him every year? It looks like the Academy can't think of any other actors of color to put up as inspirational.

i did like that they left robert blake out of the in memorium and even made a joke about it

brendan fraser needed a speech writer who could go a little lighter on the metaphors.

or eliminated them altogther

He should have stepped to the podium and just sung this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkjTGCrLvAU

Looking forward to Aronofsky's Moby Dick, with Brendan Fraser as both Ahab and the whale.

Pauly Shore as Ishmael

Meryl Streep as Queequeg.

Call me Weasel

i don't know why angela bassett would have even thought she had a chance, frankly; she's in the movie for 10 minutes; yeah she gave a good speech and she's amazing in basically everything, but this wasn't the role to peg her hopes on.

Regardless of how deserving she was, she was widely considered the frontrunner a month ago after she won the Golden Globe and the Critics' Choice Award.