I’ve now completed seeing every single nominee in every category!
Give me your three favorites in any category.
Best International Feature: I’m Still Here, The Girl With the Needle, Flow
That’s fun! My ranked Best Picture choices if I were voting would be:
- The Substance
- Conclave
- Dune part 2
- The Brutalist
- Anora
- Wicked
- I’m Still Here
- Nickel Boys
- Emilia Perez
- A Complete Unknown
I was surprised at how hilarious it was in the second act. It started out a bit grim and mublecore-ish, but by the time the Russians show up at the beach house, it turned positively slapstick, but brilliantly so. There are so many great deadpan laughs in the movie. And yeah Mikey Madison is just a revelation. The only other things I’d seen her in were 5cream, and Better Things, but the latter was one of my absolute favorite shows of the past decade and all the actors in it just hit it out of the park every episode.
She was quite funny as the crazed Susan Atkins in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Dune Part 2: 82. I liked this much better than the first one. A little heavy handed in places, but really good to watch on a large home screen.
The guy who had my favorite read on Anatomy of a Fall (he has a fairly convincing take that a dog playing with a ball led to the husband falling has a very interesting read on The Substance, including some scenes cut from the script that would have clarified some questions.
With the ceremony imminent, here are my should/will win selections for the awards I care about.
Best Picture
Should Win: Anora (currently the favorite, but will the subject matter reduce its vote?)
Will Win: Conclave (Its been trending and the Oscar demographics still favor this kind of movie)
Best Director
Should Win: Sean Baker (Anora)
Will Win: Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)
Best Actor
Should Win: Timothee Chalamet (A Complete Unknown) Really inhabits a very unsympathetic legend
Will Win: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) Currently favored by the oddsmakers
Best Actress
Should Win: Mikey Madison (A fierce, funny, heartbreaking performance…but she’s a newcomer)
Will Win: Demi Moore (The Substance) Nearly the closest thing to a lock in the awards, not undeserving
Best Supporting Actor
Should Win: Kieran Culkin (Makes you care about the most annoying travel companion ever)
Will Win: Kieran Culkin
Best Supporting Actress
Should Win: Felicity Jones (The Brutalist) She creates one of the most memorable characters of the year
Will Win: Zoe Saldana (Emily Perez) Despite the overall down trend for this film, still the odds on favorite
Best Adapted Screen Play
Should Win: Conclave
Will Win: Conclave
Best Original Screenplay
Should Win: Anora (Finally the right treatment of the Pretty Woman screenplay!)
Will Win: Anora
Best International Feature
Should Win: I’m Still Here (A movie about family, really)
Will Win: I’m Still Here (With the descent of Emilia Perez, this movie has, deservedly, becomes the favorite)
Best Animated Feature
Should Win: Flow (Wordless, enigmatic, and beautiful)
Will Win: The Wild Robot (Beautiful as well, but a much more conventional approach to animated feature film)
Just got back from seeing the last one in the theater.
I’m Still Here: 82-ish. Really moving, difficult to watch in some parts. I knew nothing about it going in, including that it was based on a true story. Ran a tiny bit long at the end.
Final tier lists:
S - Anora, The Substance
A - Nickel Boys, Dune Part 2
B - I’m Still Here, Conclave
C - Wicked, Emilia Perez, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist
Too lazy to start a new thread,
Interesting to hear Nick Offerman do the “This is the first win” and commercial outros.
I have a soft spot for Wallace and Gromit (see avatar), but am OK with Flow wining.
Brian
We just today watched Instruments of a Beating Heart and I don’t know if it should win, but I hope the academy flew Ayame over to play cymbals with the orchestra
Hulu is having a nation-wide outage, just as the Oscars are beginning (the Oscars are on ABC, which is owned by Disney, which owns Hulu, which is streaming it). Oops.
Poor Kendal!
Are others being bothered by the descriptive voice-over? I appreciate that some viewers would be thrilled by getting descriptions of the action when the actors aren’t talking, but in many places it’s totally intrusive. Nothing kills a comedy bit flatter than a literal depiction of what’s happening in a silent scene.
Are you getting that because you have SAP enabled?
Yeah, I’m not hearing that.
I did like Kieran Culkin’s follow up to his Emmy Awards acceptance speech.
lol CinemaStreams
I went into settings and SAP is not enabled.
It only appears on certain network shows. Wouldn’t it be elsewhere?