# "Cold War": Oscar winner

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**Created:** [January 19, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-oscar-winner/828025 "2019-01-19T03:19:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-oscar-winner/828025/1 "2019-01-19T03:19:00Z")

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Just saw this brilliant film by Polish director Pawel Pawlikowsi. Beautiful cinematography with crispy black and white shooting, brilliant editing, superb acting. Beats out “Roma” by a long mile for best foreign film Oscar, IMO.

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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-oscar-winner/828025/2 "2019-01-20T11:14:12Z")

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To me, Shoplifters and Capernaum beat them both by a long mile.

It’s very well-shot and the music is exhilarating, and it did a good job of evoking a time and place, but the main characters are so infuriatingly stupid throughout the movie I couldn’t even try to understand them, ugh. By the end I felt like standing up to clap and cheer. And then go see Shoplifters or Capernaum again.

I rarely say negative things about a movie, but this has been getting so much praise that my expectations were through the roof. So maybe the fault was mine, and I’m not sorry I saw it, but I never ever want to see it again.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cold-war-oscar-winner/828025/3 "2019-01-22T14:14:14Z")

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> [@Equipoise](#):
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> To me, Shoplifters and Capernaum beat them both by a long mile.

Well, all 4 of the films cited are now official Oscar nominees (along with NEVER LOOK AWAY, from the filmmaker of Oscar-winning THE LIVES OF OTHERS).

I didn’t care for CAPERNAUM much (despite some genuinely heart-wrenching moments) and think BURNING was far superior. I haven’t seen COLD WAR yet but will soon, though it did get 3 nods–FLF, Cinematography and Director.

More Oscar discussion [here.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21444821)