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Best Picture

American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest

Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper
Colman Domingo
Paul Giamatti
Cillian Murphy
Jeffrey Wright

Actress in a Leading Role

Annette Bening
Lily Gladstone
Sandra Huller
Carey Mulligan
Emma Stone

Actor in a Supporting Role

Sterling K Brown
Robert De Niro
Robert Downey Jr
Ryan Gosling
Mark Ruffalo

Actress in a Supporting Role

Emily Blunt
Danielle Brooks
America Ferrera
Jodie Foster
Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Directing

Justine Triet
Martin Scorsese
Christopher Nolan
Yorgos Lanthimos
Jonathan Glazer

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives

International Feature Film

Io Capitano
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Teachers’ Lounge
The Zone of Interest

Animated Feature Film

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Documentary Feature Film

Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol

Live Action Short Film

The Actor
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Documentary Short Film

The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
The Island In Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó

Animated Short Film

Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over!

Film Editing

Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Cinematography

El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Production Design

Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Costume Design

Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Music (Original Score)

American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Music (Original Song)

The Fire Inside
I’m Just Ken
It Never Went Away
Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)
What Was I Made For?

Makeup and Hairstyling

Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

Sound

The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest

Visual Effects

The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon

solid list.

I've seen a total of 2 films in the ENTIRE list of all categories.

Don’t think there’s been one to date

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

Beauty and the Beast in the 90s.

Recently: Up and Toy Story 3.

It's weird to me how sometimes foreign films are in best picture, sometimes they are not.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Incredibly stupid on their part imo!

Barbie ?


What ?

They did that because it was most tix sold last year. The populist nominee

lol

The big controversy is that Greta Gerwig wasn't nominated for best director.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

bunch of folks I know calling Sexism

How Sexism?!?!


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Because the movie is very much focused on gender and patriarchy and is particularly of interest to (and marketed to) female audiences.

Including nominations for both Gerwig and Robbie! Just not in the specific categories people wanted, lol.

Don't get me wrong, I was surprised Gerwig wasn't in the Best Director list... but I think everyone's outrage like the movie was completely shunned has been pretty wild. Usually when people are mad at snubs, it's because something was completely left out or left out of the Best Picture race. But Barbie's the fourth most nominated movie of the year! It's a mortal lock to win multiple Oscars! The Academy clearly likes it very, very much! It's probably one of the most nominated comedies in Oscar history, if I had to guess.

And we've got Hillary Clinton out here tweeting how it might sting for Greta and Margot to "not take home the gold"-- even though they both could absolutely win an Academy Award this year, lol. It's just a crazy, crazy year for The Discourse in general, and two omissions from the nomination list just poured gasoline onto the Discourse Fire.

Which is a shame, because I think this is an exceptionally strong year in terms of overall nominees. I think, like, 7 of the 10 Best Picture nominees were really good, and I think none of them are bad. That just never happens. And we might have a Best Actor winner for a performance that's actually good this year! Which also rarely happens! (If it's Giamatti, I'll be over the moon.) We could get, like, Oppenheimer/Nolan/Giamatti/Gladstone/Downey Jr/Randolph/Gerwig/Hemingson. That'd be *such* a good list of winners.

Maybe I'm just more used to the pain of Oscar snubs because shit I love gets snubbed every single year without fail. I was heated about the lack of Charles Melton from MAY DECEMBER and the lack of SUZUME on the Best Animated Feature list. It's always something. The eternal frustration that the Oscars inevitably brings, lol.

>Randolph

God she was terrific. I was so bummed out when they canceled that kind of fun TV reboot of High Fidelity because I read somewhere her character was supposed to be the focus of the second season and that seemed so deeply and well-earned. Having her show up in short bursts and make Only Murders even better was a nice consolation prize, but I wasn't ready for how good she was in The Holdovers. It's a nice, small little movie so I don't need to get invested in seeing it get awards but I'd be *thrilled* if she won one.

There’s a chance maybe Ferrara can ride the Barbie wave to a major upset, but I think it’s Randolph’s to lose. And yeah, I’d be thrilled too. The Holdovers was probably my favorite movie of all the ones nominated (though a couple others are neck and neck— like I said, really good year), and Randolph was great in it. It’s so easy for that part to fall into something one-note— but both the movie and performer are too smart for that.

I was very disappointed Penelope Cruz didn’t make it into the field for Ferrari. A real old school powerhouse performance. She could’ve contended in an alternate universe. But I’m still hoping Holdovers takes Actor, Supporting Actress, and Screenplay. All would be my picks in their respective fields.

>It’s so easy for that part to
>fall into something one-note— but both the movie and
>performer are too smart for that.

True of the whole movie, I think. The lazy route could have made a really fun, solid little comedy about a kid and a grouchy teacher and a lunch lady stuck at a boarding school over Christmas break. And it probably wouldn't have even been bad. But nobody was content with that, particularly not her. Wonderful, funny, sad film. And it was deeply affirmative about the vocation of teaching and the potential of youth? Be still my heart.

I appreciate the good news about the other awards. Fingers crossed.

The lazy route could have
>made a really fun, solid little comedy about a kid and a
>grouchy teacher and a lunch lady stuck at a boarding school
>over Christmas break.

I skipped it because that's what I saw in the trailer.





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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

>I skipped it because that's what I saw in the trailer.

Making a trailer for a movie like this seems tough. The film itself is pretty conventional and the thing that I described is both pretty popular and (as you note) still not always compelling as a "must watch". So I assume if you are putting together an ad for it, you lean hard on the parts that point toward "pretty popular."

There's no big twist or editorial decision that makes it *not* a sweet coming of age story about a lonely boy accompanied by a grouchy teacher and a grieving (though that part is definitely buried by the trailers) lunch lady. But it's just relentlessly thoughtful and careful and never goes for "easy" when one of the above two options is available.

So I can't say that you judged it wrongly from the trailers, but rather that it's better than the best possible version of that movie. If that makes sense?

"i do more for both our communities than you'll ever know." - Heinz
"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

"i do more for both our communities than you'll ever know." - Heinz
"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

"i do more for both our communities than you'll ever know." - Heinz
"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

and get the sand out your vagina

if the Lego movie or Mario Bros was nominated for best Picture


I would ask the same question.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saj2Q92wBkU

you ok boo? did i hurt your widdle feewings?

d


"i do more for both our communities than you'll ever know." - Heinz
"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

Use a shovel

Your hand

A spoon

and get the sand....

And I am not sure how much that had to do with the misdirection in the marketing. This isn't much like Bamboozle at all. The satirical comedy aspects of it are a much smaller part of the movie than the commercials suggested.

It's mostly a family drama about an isolated frustrated writer. I guess it's a win because white filmmakers have been making that sort of film for years and racking up awards but I don't love those movies either.

I promised my wife I will watch it again at some point (she liked it) with the mindset of knowing it's not a comedy.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

maybe that helped cuz i thoroughly enjoyed it

Sterling K. Brown is just such a fun actor to watch...and i appreciated the small quiet things...like the care that was shown for the home aide as she rekindled her romance and got married...

maybe watch it again from the mindset of...just enjoy it :)

d



"i do more for both our communities than you'll ever know." - Heinz
"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

wife and I enjoyed the hell out of that. Emma Stone was dope.

https://www.tiktok.com/@lionsgate/video/7177863060395167022?lang=en


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"