Fat Viggo and Fat Bale over Hawke is pretty bad.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
Hawke not being nominated invalidates the entire thing for me.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
Richard E Grant! Can You Ever Forgive Me? totally passed me by, anyone seen it?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
Hasn't been released in the UK yet
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
Good for Driver, Schrader and the Coens (sneaking in to the Adapted Screenplay category on a technicality), though. Also, "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" for Best Song made me smile (though I prefer "Surly Joe").
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
xp ah that explains it.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
First Reformed getting its only nomination in one of its least deserving categories is classic Oscars.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
Still, Spike Lee gets his first directing nomination and for a brief moment, I'm fine saying that's all that matters in the Oscar world.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
'Best Director' never makes any sense; some years the actual Best Film doesn't even get a Best Director nom, i still don't know how the F that works.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
Bright spots:- Lee gets director- 2 foreign films in director/cinematography- HALE CO. in doc feature!- Terence Blanchard in score- foreign slate is about as good as it gets, given this is the Oscars
Toughest to swallow:- Hawke/Washington both axed- Vice gets all the key nods it needs to win- First Man not in score
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
― piscesx, Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:01 AM
nah, it's easy: for the Academy, you can make one of the year's five to ten best movies without necessarily standing out as a director. It shouldn't ever totally line up, even in critics awards.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
Is it really Cooper vs. Bale? I had no idea Bale had any strength other than inevitability behind the nomination.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
- HALE CO. in doc feature!
Actually, RBG aside, doc feature's about as good as that category gets too.
Reform the actors branch!
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
The Favourite - 10ROMA - 10A Star Is Born - 8Vice - 8Black Panther - 7BlacKkKlansman - 6Bohemian Rhapsody - 5Green Book - 5Ballad of Buster Scruggs - 4First Man - 4Mary Poppins Returns - 4
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
The only best picture nominees with the directing/editing/screenplay/acting nominations quadfecta are VICE, THE FAVOURITE and BLACKKKLANSMAN.
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY missed screenplay and director.ROMA missed editing.BLACK PANTHER missed acting.A STAR IS BORN and GREEN BOOK missed directing (biggest silver lining of the morning).
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
I guess I'm on Team Favourite.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
I'd say I listed those three in descending order of win likelihood. Though at this point I'm predicting ROMA to win.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
Hawke is so up his own arse these days on the born-artiste tip, hard to root for him
― calumy (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
How often has a film been nominated for both BP and Foreign Language Film?
Hawke and First Reformed for BP were robbed, boo.
― How ILX Finally Stopped Shredding Everything in Sight (WmC), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
xp Ethan Hawke's a two-time-nom post, two-time-nom post
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
Isle of Dogs feels like it came out 5 years ago.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
To say nothing of Black Panther.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
this has happened a few times - Life is Beautiful for starters
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
Did Stan And Ollie come out too late?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
- 2 foreign films in director/cinematography
Check that. Three foreign-language films in cinematography. That has to be a new record for a tech category.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
Amour
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
just realized Colette got snubbed. that sucks.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
I never thought she had a chance th
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
that is, until I realized last week that Aparicio was in
I would've thought she was a shoo-in on the "most acting" principle alone
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
you can make one of the year's five to ten best movies without necessarily standing out as a director
I don't at all mind directors getting awards, but I still find this odd. How do you isolate for the skill of the director in a film except by taking the film as a whole?
― jmm, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
Why is the title of ROMA in all caps, everywhere? Is the neighborhood's name an acronym?
"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" for Best Song made me smile
I just found out the other day that's Gillian Welch/Dave Rawlings.
About 3% of the Academy has any idea who Laurel & Hardy were.
This isn't it at all. The directors' branch likely votes for the directors of what THEY, a small subset of the members, think are the 5 best films.
Do you know Spike Lee?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
xp: If the primary job of a director (not auteur) is tone control, there's plenty of great direction in mediocre films.
I haven't seen Vice, but according to its critical reception, its principal failing is its all over the map, tonally. Which makes its nomination galling.
― dancing the Radioactive Flesh (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
Just saw a morning news show graphic of all five best directors' mugs alongside each other and Adam MmKay just looks like a dolt next to the rest of them.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
Mr Rogers' corpse snubbed for Best Doc Feature! Amazing that “Hale County This Morning, This Evening" might've displaced it. I assume Justice Ginsburg's cult will carry the day.
Presumably Vice is intentionally a tonal patchwork. It's possible to do that well or badly.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
yeah, I did not hear of Marina de Tavira until today.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
This is the sixth time:
Z (1969)The Emigrants (Foreign Language Film in 1971, Best Picture in 1972)Life Is Beautiful (1998)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)Amour (2012)Roma (2018)
(Cries and Whispers and Il Postino were nominated for BP but didn't receive a Foreign-Language Film nomination because they weren't submitted by their respective countries. And Grand Illusion got a BP nomination before the Foreign-Language category was created.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
Aw. Bao. That made me cry.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
The Film Experience guy got 100% on BP, foreign film, and animated film, and I assume he was not alone.
http://thefilmexperience.net/prediction-index/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
This is one of the reasons.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
A good rule of thumb is that any time you can look at a category and say "with the exception of [title] this is a surprisingly good slate," [title] will always win.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
RBG is one of the most [title] movies I've seen this year.
this doc short may win for Trumpian reasons
Congrats to @fieldofvision for the Oscar nomination for “A Night at the Garden” which @Schwarz called the most terrifying movie you can watch at Halloween (or any time) https://t.co/792fdGVm0N #OscarNoms— Charlotte Greensit (@cgreensit) January 22, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
No nom for Won't You Be My Neighbour is a surprise.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
these things now exist:"Oscar nominee Ready Player One""Oscar nominee Solo: A Star Wars Story""Oscar nominee Kevin Feige""Oscar nominee Green Book"
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
Yalitza Aparicio in Roma gave one of those completely interior performances that the academy voters usually seem to hate. I'm glad she got nominated
― Dan S, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
Cuaron is gonna bring his actual maid to the ceremony isn't he
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
lmfao he better!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
I wonder whether RBG will be at the ceremony and get a standing ovation.
― jmm, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link