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Thanks! Excellent!
The big surprise for me was F1. We’ve been skipping past it on Apple TV for a month or more because we heard it was awful (on this board, in fact.) We’ll probably watch it now. Sinners was fantastic but I never imagined it would break any Academy records. I like Weapons even more, but I’m not disappointed with it’s one nomination. That’s one more than I expect for any Horror film. 16 is just flabbergasting.
Ditto in all respects.
I’ve only seen 4: OBAA, Train Dreams, Sinners, and Marty Supreme. I’d categorize them all as “liked, but didn’t love”. I’d probably put Train Dreams ahead of the others.
I did not like F1 at all. I guess I’m in the minority on that one.
I mean, that’s as much a function of what you’re eligible for as it is for quality. No Country For Old Men is the best movie of the century but there’s no soundtrack, so that’s multiple categories right out.
Every year some crowd-pleaaer is going to get in, that’s a major reason they expanded the nomination count for Best Picture.
F1: The Movie has a decent IMDb score at 7.7, and made good box office. And my wife says it was better than that Maverick film that was nominated a couple of years ago, so there’s that
Even though there’s always an In Memoriam segment during the televised ceremonies, I think there’s often a separate extended tribute to someone who died the previous year, and I think this year it might be for Rob and Michele Reiner. That might be particularly emotional, given that Conan O’Brien is hosting the ceremonies and he was hosting a Christmas party the night before they were killed.
If I were in the Academy and basing only on the noms we got, I would vote Hamnet as best picture.