This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2018

choo-choo!

Anyway, I'm about to submit my Florida Film Critics Circle ballot. I can tell you which film won't be on it.

I honestly can't think of a time when a movie that ran the table with the critics awards was even remotely, Mulholland Drive-level worthy.

This goes here too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ewT7_NrGwM

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Feature category for the 91st Academy Awards®. One hundred sixty-six films were originally submitted in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

“Charm City”
“Communion”
“Crime + Punishment”
“Dark Money”
“The Distant Barking of Dogs”
“Free Solo”
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
“Minding the Gap”
“Of Fathers and Sons”
“On Her Shoulders”
“RBG”
“Shirkers”
“The Silence of Others”
“Three Identical Strangers”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Ten films will advance in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 91st Academy Awards®. One hundred four films had originally qualified in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

“Black Sheep”
“End Game”
“Lifeboat”
“Los Comandos”
“My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes”
“A Night at the Garden”
“Period. End of Sentence.”
“’63 Boycott”
“Women of the Gulag”
“Zion”

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 91st Academy Awards®. Eighty-seven films had originally been considered in the category.

Los Angeles-based Academy members from all branches screened the original submissions in the category between mid-October and December 10. The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist. Academy members eligible to participate in the Nominations round of voting will view the shortlisted films. Members must see all nine films before casting their ballots.

Colombia, “Birds of Passage”
Denmark, “The Guilty”
Germany, “Never Look Away”
Japan, “Shoplifters”
Kazakhstan, “Ayka”
Lebanon, “Capernaum”
Mexico, “Roma”
Poland, “Cold War”
South Korea, “Burning”

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Seven films will advance in the Makeup and Hairstyling category for the 91st Academy Awards®. All members of the Academy’s Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films on Saturday, January 5, 2019. Members will vote to nominate three films for final Oscar® consideration.

“Black Panther”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“Border”
“Mary Queen of Scots”
“Stan & Ollie”
“Suspiria”
“Vice”

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Fifteen scores will advance in the Original Score category for the 91st Academy Awards®. One hundred fifty-six scores were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

“Annihilation”
“Avengers: Infinity War”
“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
“Black Panther”
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Crazy Rich Asians”
“The Death of Stalin”
“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald”
“First Man”
“If Beale Street Could Talk”
“Isle of Dogs”
“Mary Poppins Returns”
“A Quiet Place”
“Ready Player One”
“Vice”

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
Fifteen songs will advance in the Original Song category for the 91st Academy Awards®. Ninety songs were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
“Treasure” from “Beautiful Boy”
“All The Stars” from “Black Panther”
“Revelation” from “Boy Erased”
“Girl In The Movies” from “Dumplin’”
“We Won’t Move” from “The Hate U Give”
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns”
“Trip A Little Light Fantastic” from “Mary Poppins Returns”
“Keep Reachin’” from “Quincy”
“I’ll Fight” from “RBG”
“A Place Called Slaughter Race” from “Ralph Breaks the Internet”
“OYAHYTT” from “Sorry to Bother You”
“Shallow” from “A Star Is Born”
“Suspirium” from “Suspiria”
“The Big Unknown” from “Widows”

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Ten films will advance in the Animated Short Film category for the 91st Academy Awards®. Eighty-one films had originally qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

“Age of Sail”
“Animal Behaviour”
“Bao”
“Bilby”
“Bird Karma”
“Late Afternoon”
“Lost & Found”
“One Small Step”
“Pépé le Morse”
“Weekends”

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Ten films will advance in the Live Action Short Film category for the 91st Academy Awards®. One hundred forty films had originally qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

“Caroline”
“Chuchotage”
“Detainment”
“Fauve”
“Icare”
“Marguerite”
“May Day”
“Mother”
“Skin”
“Wale”

VISUAL EFFECTS
Ten films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 91st Academy Awards®. The Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist. All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, January 5, 2019. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar® consideration.

“Ant-Man and the Wasp”
“Avengers: Infinity War”
“Black Panther”
“Christopher Robin”
“First Man”
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”
“Mary Poppins Returns”
“Ready Player One”
“Solo: A Star Wars Story”
“Welcome to Marwen”

We've settled on nominees in my circle, which we announce tomorrow. Final results on Friday.

Indiewire (guess what)

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/best-movies-2018-critics-films-performances-roma-first-reformed-the-favourite-1202027901/2/

Here we go..

BEST PICTURE
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma
The Favourite
The Rider

BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale – Vice
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here
Viggo Mortensen – Green Book
Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate

BEST ACTRESS
Glenn Close – The Wife
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Natalie Portman – Vox Lux
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Toni Collette – Hereditary

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
Mahershala Ali – Green Book
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Steven Yeun – Burning

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Claire Foy – First Man
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST ENSEMBLE
BlacKkKlansman
Crazy Rich Asians
If Beale Street Could Talk
Support the Girls
The Favourite

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
Damien Chazelle – First Man
Hirokazu Kore-eda – Shoplifters
Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Peter Farrelly – Green Book
Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, John Krasinski – A Quiet Place
Deborah Davis, Troy McNamara – The Favourite
Paul Schrader – First Reformed

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Josh Singer, James R. Hansen – First Man
Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman

Oops -- forgot my favorite nomination:

Sakura Ando, Shoplifters

congrats to Roma!!

My cohort and I are doing everything in our power to prevent it.

I am all too familiar with that feeling from my time in the OFCS

The Favourite leads with nine.

lol Vox Lux

couldn't find a 5th supporting actress, eh

Considering we got two leads in supporting actress....

oh

Sakura Ando – Shoplifters

hey, 2 foreign actors out of 20, better than most

I am all too familiar with that feeling from my time in the OFCS

Forget it Simon, it's BFCA-town.

couldn't get Binoche in, fie on you

As happy as I'm going to be to see BlacKkKlansman anywhere when it comes to the Oscars, smh at Adam Driver being the only one from that cast widely cited.

couldn't get Binoche in, fie on you

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius),

On my ballot! I was the only one!

I'm in Florida for a few days every year. Let the me one in.

you gotta venture beyond the Florida Mason-Dixon line, sweets, aka Lake Okeechobee.

My ballot

Son of Denzel did not give a particularly noteworthy performance imho, Eric

you shd've been more upset when Stallone got all the Creed luster

I was talking more about the many other supporting options, mainly.

Washington was terrific, certainly better than Viggo in Mook's Honor.

not as good as Lakeith Stanfield in the Boots Riley joint

if we'd been allowed to include five nominees, Stanfield would've been in on my ballot.

Happy to see First Man get some noms

Oops -- forgot my favorite nomination:

Sakura Ando, Shoplifters

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 20:46 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

glad to see this, beautiful performance.

(btw alfred, on your ballot under best director you've put claire's knee)

Little White Lies' top 30:

https://lwlies.com/articles/the-30-best-films-of-2018/

Close call for #1, Roma haters.

(btw alfred, on your ballot under best director you've put claire's knee)

― devvvine,

lol I sent the ballot on Tuesday as I was posting about Rohmer in the last x movies thread.

Best scenes, Slant Mag: https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-20-best-film-scenes-of-2018

First Man fan tho I wasn't, that scene was one of the greats this year.

as someone who likes Lars more than most, the fact that Jack seems to be getting kinder notices than Nympho - or at least comparable ones - is baffling to me

an Alm0nd review to add to the pile: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/movie-review-the-house-that-jack-built-dark-satire/

xp: less of the typical (every.single.film) misogyny? LVT looking like he's near death?

if anything Nympho did a better job of complicating / audience-implicating / problematizing / pick-your-buzzword-ing w/r/t misogyny. Jack just kinda lazily lampshades it.

I love that lampshading monologue! It's so spot on with the MRA rhetoric, and I wasn't surprised that certain Danish reviewers took it as some very interesting questions Lars was asking without at all dealing with the context in the film.

Y'all should be following our winners. I'm ecstatic: https://twitter.com/FLFilmCritics

I guess I should see The Favourite huh

it blocked Roma, didn't it?

Not even your sizeable bloc could block, eh Alfred?

BEST DIRECTOR:
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma
Runner-up: Lynne Ramsay - You Were Never Really Here

— Florida Film Critics (@FLFilmCritics) December 21, 2018

Supporting players and Best Actor though.

More impressive is the foreign-film result, unless that happened because of a bait-and-switch (e.g. "you give us Shoplifters in foreign, we'll go along with Roma in best picture")

Cough

Yeah, I thought so. You have no morals.

Neither will if, if and when I ever get a MN crix group off the ground.

I said nothing!

nothing against you honeybunch, but no more critics groups