Oscars 2020

I am putting a flaming bag of poop on the porch of everyone greeting Schoonmaker's nomination with "The Irishman wasn't edited."

(good to see the Tarentella pile passed over there, as his films fit that accusation much better)

Sandler at least is being a good sport in public:

Bad news: Sandman gets no love from the Academy.
Good news: Sandman can stop wearing suits.
Congrats to all my friends who got nominated, especially Mama. pic.twitter.com/o1Ep3E7GRB

— Adam Sandler (@AdamSandler) January 13, 2020

so if Tom Hanks was a supporting actor in the Mister Rogers movie, who was the lead? Daniel Tiger?

Matthew Rhys, for his role as the film's protagonist

will u say the same when 1917 wins?

It missed in editing, so no, I won't have to say that. Didn't remember Tarantino's movie also missed out there, tho, so I guess that leaves the following contenders with editing/directing/screenplay nominations:

The Irishman
Joker
Parasite

weak field of noms can be redeemed if parasite somehow wins BP

I'm all in on Joker taking it, now. (Could see maybe Bong stealing best director.)

Joker's going to be this generation's Gandhi. It's somehow going to win best costume design and then steamroll its way to 8 wins overall.

you know, *eventually* a film not nominated for editing will win. (like maybe now)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire was really screwed over, first by Centre national de la cinématographie, and then by the Academy (in cinematography, production design, and original score). Guess there's just one foreign language film allowed to leak into the other categories each year.

and Pain and Glory?

/Joker/'s going to be this generation's /Gandhi/. It's somehow going to win best costume design and then steamroll its way to 8 wins overall.

Guess there's just one foreign language film allowed to leak into the other categories each year.

Was Neon actively campaigning for Portrait of a Lady on Fire to the extent that it did for Parasite?

Nope. And they dropped Clemency like a lead balloon.

And will have the same long term impact on pop culture
― steer karma (gyac), Monday, January 13, 2020

Don't get your hopes up. In the film class I teach, I asked students last week which film most impressed them in the last month. Joker was the runaway favorite for male and female respondents.

you know, *eventually* a film not nominated for editing will win. (like maybe now)

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, January 13, 2020 11:31 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

birdman in 2014

i thought there was one recently, thx

yes i see "serious" comic-book villain films as the next Golden Age

come Armageddon, come

I mean 1917 missed in editing because it’s “one shot” right?

that's also why birdman missed, probably

yes lol, bcz theyre not

always a good idea to replace "best" with "most" in front of all the technical categories if you want to figure out where the academy's collective head is at.

/And will have the same long term impact on pop culture
― steer karma (gyac), Monday, January 13, 2020/

Don't get your hopes up. In the film class I teach, I asked students last week which film most impressed them in the last month. /Joker/ was the runaway favorite for male and female respondents.

xp: I missed "technical" in that post and was giggling at "Most Supporting Actor/Actress"

Long term though - how many of them will be talking or thinking about it in ten or even five years?
― steer karma (gyac),

How many will talk or think about Miami after the next hurricane?

this marks me as a huge doc nerd but - while the snubs of hustlers, book smart, diane, transit, bird of passion, aquarela, last black man in SF, and the farewell are all insane - not nominating Apollo 11 is a special level of somebody not paying attention.

moon program too white

In the film class I teach, I asked students last week which film most impressed them in the last month. Joker was the runaway favorite for male and female respondents.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, January 13, 2020 10:40 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry to hear about your abrupt unemployment, Alfred, but I don't think anyone would take issue with your decision under those circumstances.

(and it was, tho i remember seeing mission controllers of color) xp

Most Short Film might be an interesting competition

the sheer technical achievement of making Apollo 11 merits its inclusion

https://soundandpicture.com/2019/06/apollo-11-sound/

“None of the footage from any part of the film had sound whatsoever,” says Eric Milano, Apollo 11 sound designer/Foley artist/re-recording mixer. “All of that had to be re-created or re-synced, such as the voices from Mission Control that were synced by hand. The moments where you see lip-sync were not because the camera had audio. It’s because ‘space nerd’ Ben Feist spent a lot of time digitizing and organizing the Mission Control audio while developing a custom algorithm to remove tape wow and flutter from all 11,000 hours. And Stephen Slater spent a lot of time syncing that to picture.”

most acting is def a thing, tho i liked Pacino cuz playing Hoffa is no time for subtlety

oh can they plz boot Elton and his doppelganger off the show now?

now there's a candidate for Most Acting

Oscar Nomination Correction pic.twitter.com/ruGn8fEJPC

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) January 13, 2020

anyway i'm glad a baseball scandal has knocked the Oscars off the top of the news, bcz Eight Men Out is one of John Sayles' lesser efforts.

Bill Chambers' incisive take on this years noms:

https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2020/01/annual-professional-commentary-on-the-oscar-nominations-2020-edition.html

otm

I'm not going to subscribe to Film Freak Central to get Bill Chambers' opinion

really liked Apollo 11, thought it should have been nominated

Scarlett Johannson's two acting nominations is the first since Blanchett more than a decade ago

and she'll lose both like Blanchett, Emma Thompson, and Sigourney Weaver.

it's interesting that she's just now been nominated for the first time

well Under the Skin way too chilly to garner gold

Julie Strain, Statuesque Star of B-Movies, Dies at 57.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julie-strain-dead-statuesque-star-b-movies-was-57-1168492

will not make the death reel

FLORENCE PUGH, Little Women = fuck Trump

Almost want to make that my next screenname.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6772-oscar-shut-outs-and-silver-linings

haha, that link makes it clear that Julie Strain is not in fact dead.

E & E are back with their prognostickery

https://www.slantmagazine.com/category/awards/

I still suspect best doc feature will go to the Obamas' prod co (American Factory)

Yeah, that was my initial hunch but Ed won me over.