For the first time I have seen all 9 of the films nominated for Best Picture before the nominations came out! (And 18 of the 20 acting nominations.)
That’s a very good assortment of films. Jordan Peele for Best Director was a surprise but a well deserved one!
do the forms come with Streep’s name already printed on them? It’s sort of a joke by now, give some other people a chance.
Not to mention she, honestly, has about 2 go-to characters and just recycles them over and over and over and gets nominated every time.
For being so good, she has very, very little range.
(IMO and yes it’s an unpopular one…should have put it in that thread huh?)
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I’m sure she’s great, she always is (I haven’t seen it). But save the awards for when she really stretches - she does that frequently enough.
I also am on a quest to see all the Best Picture nominees. I’ve already got Dunkirk, Get Out, The Post…not particularly looking forward to Shape of Water or Call Me By Your Name, but one does what one must.
I was disappointed that I, Tonya didn’t get a BP nod – I thought it excellent and deserved more than the 2 acting nominations. Disaster Artist got entirely shut out, which is a modest surprise but not a miscarriage of justice.
How gory is Dunkirk? I feel like I’m seeing conflicting reports. Some people completely equate gore and violence, while for me they are separate issues (but obviously related).
It’s been several months, but I do not recall any gore at all (and I’m pretty squeamish on that, myself.)
Thank you!
Rachel Morrison, nominated for Mudbound, is the first woman ever nominated for Best Cinematography.
Her work on that movie is excellent as all of her work to date has consistently been excellent. She was also the cinematographer for Fruitvale Station, Cake, Dope, and the upcoming Black Panther (reuniting her with Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler).
I thought Mudbound was quite good and I went to see it in the theater despite knowing it was a Netflix film. I would have liked to have seen Dee Rees nominated for Best Director and, of those actually nominated, I’d have nominated her before Christopher Nolan or Greta Gerwig (and I haven’t seen Phantom Thread yet, so I won’t express an opinion of P.T. Anderson’s nomination).
However, despite the fact that I’d have liked to have seen Dee Rees nominated, I was surprised to see Mudbound get four nominations because I didn’t think Netflix was doing enough to promote it and court the awards.
Tonya also got an Editing nomination, which often goes to sports films but is also a testament to the POV juggling and timeline bouncing around that the movie does.
Disaster did get an Adapted Screenplay nod.
It’s a highly visceral experience because of the fully immersive you-are-there tension throughout the film, but no, it’s not very graphic at all.
While all the other categories are simply a ballot check-off, Best Picture runs off a preferential ballot, where you rank your choices 1-9 and the film with the fewest #1s get those ballots redistributed to the remaining films based on the #2 choice, and then the next lowest #1s get redistributed, etc. until a single film has a majority (not just a plurality). So given this, this is how I’d rank the Picture nominees:
I’d rank the ones I have seen:
But Get Out is a lot better than the others. I don’t think it is the best movie of the year, but it is the best of the nominees I’ve seen.
Zero gore.
I didn’t like it, though, but I can get that some may enjoy it. I thought it was a huge misfire from Christopher Nolan and his worst film. Some very good production things, though.