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

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

Far fewer would be nice. Kinda cool with it just being the Nat'l Society tbh.

BEST PICTURE

The Favourite

Runners-up: No clear runner-up

BEST ACTOR

Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here

Runners-up: No clear runner-up

BEST ACTRESS

Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Runner-up: Toni Collette – Hereditary

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Steven Yeun – Burning

Runner-up: Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Sakura Ando – Shoplifters

Runner-up: Claire Foy – First Man

BEST ENSEMBLE

The Favourite

Runner-up: Support the Girls

BEST DIRECTOR

Alfonso Cuarón – Roma

Runner-up: Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You

Runner-up: Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Runner-up: Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Łukasz Żal – Cold War

Runner-up: Alfonso Cuarón – Roma

i may be seeing The Favourite tonight, will let you know if that's on a banner

i can't try to watch that Lynne Ramsay thing after the horrific KEVIN movie that i couldn't finish

It's fine bawdy fun, no more than that. xpost to Morbs

Minus the "fun," I'd argue. But it's still the season's most lauded bitchfest in any case.

I tee-heed a couple times

still the season's most lauded bitchfest in any case.

still Roma

Minus the "fun," I'd argue

as current-release films about three absolutely awful people interacting with each other go, it's a rollicking lolfest compared to Burning