Oscars 2020

Saw 1917 this afternoon. It's more entertaining and engrossing than Dunkirk or other recent war pics, but it didn't leave a strong impression either. Found myself suspending lots of disbelief as the poor lead gets pummeled in various ways. Was hoping to hear Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" during the ending credits.

Irishman "by-the-book" -- smdh

can't believe voters are on fire for Ford v Ferrari if Damon and Bale don't strip and fuck each other

Damon looked as worn as your grandma's handbag in F v. F

De Niro will get nominated but he was frankly better in Joker too

Frankly this is nonsense

Dolemite being nominated only for costumes wd be gruesomely typical

http://thefilmexperience.net/prediction-index/

good luck, America

well, Kathy Bates is in. So is ScarJo for her mystifying accent in Jojo Rabbit.

Honeyland nominated for foreign film

wow, I'd forgotten the Academy has the temerity to take a commercial break before the second round of nominations.

Is this the first time a doc has made it into that category?

Possibly?

Uncut Gems shut out of writing

de Niro snubbed... abominable

I thought it might be the first Macedonian nominee too, but apparently not (Before the Rain, 1994) xps

Banderas in, though.

Jonathan Pryce in too, ugh.

"Congratulations to these men" -- OUCH

lol that was a good one

Film Experience (and many others i'm sure) went 9/9 on BP nominees

Nominating Pacino but not DeNiro is some true smdh shit

MOST acting...

Joanna Hogg robbed

Oscar nominations 2020: ‘Joker’ leads with 11

I'd like very much for that to be the most depressing headline in 2020.

Tom Burke in The Souvenir robbed.
No Sandler!

Can't wait for the Anonymous Oscar Asshole column where he complains about not being able to tell the Parasite characters apart

Hogg and the film never stood a chance.

Sandler had more of a chance.

nothin for uncut gems at all?

No reason to watch this year. I'll be silently rooting for Parasite while I do something more enjoyable. Maybe I'll give the bathroom a scrub.

Come over. It needs work behind the toilet

I was, of course, joking about Souvenir, which the Academy has mostly never heard of

Pryce's first ever nod; i assumed he'd been nom'd for something else at some point.

Pryce rules but you couldn't pay me to watch that

I watched it free and am waiting for my singed nose hair to grow back.

Little Women gets noms for Best Pic, Actress, Adapted Screenplay and Supporting Actress but not Best Director?! This is now officially known as The 'Argo' Phenomenon.

Great to see Florence Pugh nominated, she was great every second she was on screen.

Funny, only a couple months ago I was thinking that they might not be total shit this year thanks to the above-average number of good-to-great movies of relative prominence kicking around. They actually managed to fuck it up way worse than I imagined possible.

and some critics will agree, congratulating the nods for Parasite and Joker

I'll be pleasantly surprised if Parasite takes anything except Foreign Film and maybe Screenplay.

Little Women gets noms for Best Pic, Actress, Adapted Screenplay and Supporting Actress but not Best Director?! This is now officially known as The 'Argo' Phenomenon.

Substitute Actor for Actress (x2) and this also describes Green Book.

gerwig deserved a nomination, and LW deserved a nom for editing

Obv. I was wrong about Awkwafina but IMO she deserved not only a nomination but to win. And that film should have gotten a best picture nod.

Disappointed but not surprised to see Last Black Man in San Francisco completely overlooked.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if Parasite takes anything except Foreign Film and maybe Screenplay.

xxp ah interesting, i'd forgotten Green Book.

Don't think LBMiSF had any precursor traction anywhere besides Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards.

the best picture nominees this year are wild pic.twitter.com/UtyFO71nIq

— Lee Dawson (@LeeDawsonPT) January 13, 2020

Can't wait for the Anonymous Oscar Asshole column where he complains about not being able to tell the Parasite characters apart

Oh god, I can not wait for this either.

I haven't seen Joker yet, but beyond that I haven't seen anything I outright hated in the Best Picture category. Jojo Rabbit is obviously not good and 1917 one big empty void, but neither are exactly Vice or Dallas Buyers Club-level awful. Banderas, unlike Ethan Hawke, got in. Honeyland is a double feature nominee (doc/international). Parasite got nominations for production design, editing. There are actually good things this morning.

But it's the Oscars, and so obviously it sucks.

2020: Academy Award nominee Todd Phillips
2025: Academy Award nominee Raja Gosnell

I'm more pleased than I should be for the Banderas nod.

Same.

Beyond the headline outrage over all-male director slate and nearly all-white acting slates, I have settled on 1917 for screenplay as the most egregious nomination of the morning.

I was wrong about Awkwafina but IMO she deserved not only a nomination but to win. And that film should have gotten a best picture nod.

She was fine, but my main surprise is that the film was certainly inoffensively bland enough for Oscar. It was a nice, gossamer family tearjerker that didn't even want to jerk tears too much.

I wasn't at all a fan precisely because it hit too many beats familiar to Academy voters....

Based on the four movies that were Oscar's top draws this year, this isn't that Academy.