Board 8 > Oscar nominations

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Oscar noms are out! Quite a few shakeups today for those who have been following the race.

Best Picture
Belfast
CODA
Dont Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Director
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

Best Actor
Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tickBoom!
Will Smith, King Richard
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Jude Dench, Belfast
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard

Best Supporting Actor
Ciaran Hinds, Belfast
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
J.K. Simmons, Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Best Adapted Screenplay
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog

Best Original Screenplay
Belfast
Dont Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World

Best Cinematography
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Costume Design
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Best Film Editing
Dont Look Up
Dune
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
tick, tickBoom!

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci

Best Original Score
Dont Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog

Best Original Song
Be Alive, King Richard
Dos Oruguitas, Encanto
Down to Joy, Belfast
No Time to Die, No Time to Die
Somehow You Do, Four Good Days

Best Production Design
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Sound
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Visual Effects
Dune
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best International Feature
Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World

Best Animated Feature
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Animated Short
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper

Best Documentary Feature
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul
Writing With Fire

Best Documentary

Ahhh I was making this topic and you beat me to it lol

One of the better lineups in recent years I think.

Not only is "We Don't Talk About Bruno" not nominated for Best Original Song, but apparently Disney didn't even submit it for consideration in the category. My guess is they decided on their submissions before that particular song blew up.

I wonder if the Drive My Car support is in part to rectify the snubs Shoplifters got.

3 hour runtime on it too.

Best Actress remains a complete clusterfuck lol. None of the 5 are in a Best Picture nominee, and they've all missed out on a precursor. Not a clue where that one goes.

I haven't seen Drive My Car yet but I'm happy it's getting support, more international film representation please!

Lightning Strikes posted...

Ahhh I was making this topic and you beat me to it lol

I wondered if somebody else would haha, I just copied the goldderby list to be quick.

Last year was kind of a lame year for movies.

No Way Home was my favorite movie, but less because it's high art and more because it was entertaining. Dune and Don't Look Up were the only Best Picture nods I saw, neither of which I'm excited to recommend.

I'm sad Spencer only got one nomination. It feels like subject matter the Academy would love while actually being far more interesting than it looks on the surface.

Underleveled posted...

Not only is "We Don't Talk About Bruno" not nominated for Best Original Song, but apparently Disney didn't even submit it for consideration in the category. My guess is they decided on their submissions before that particular song blew up.

Yeah that would make sense. After all, the ballads usually do well in awards.

Anyway, I'm really happy with the Andrew Garfield shout out, alongside WSS and tick, tick... Boom! itself. Good year for musicals this year. So glad DEH movie definitely didn't happen.

Also wow, Raya, Luca, and Encanto were all last year huh? Interesting selection.

Yeah Disney usually noms the big ballad. I wonder if they're kicking themselves for not picking Bruno now though, it's so big that it would have likely steamrolled everything like Let it Go did.

Raka_Putra posted...

So glad DEH movie definitely didn't happen.

It received several Razzie nominations! (Glad for Garfield too, I was a little worried after the BAFTA snub)

I thought last year was great, although I would have rathered Tick Tick Boom! or the Tragedy of Macbeth for Best Picture over Dont Look Up, which I still enjoyed. Absolutely loved Dune.

I will say, these films are probably the most accessible they have ever been as nearly all of the big films here are or will soon be on
streaming services. I would really recommend checking them out, its a nice diverse set of films not just stodgy dramas. I would really, really, really recommend CODA though, it is a beautiful film that is also not too heavy.

Oh yeah, DEH and Diana are definitely deserving of the nomination.

Hmmm, although western animations keep beating the hell out of Japanese anime movies, I don't really think they're wrong.
The best Disney/Pixar movies are generally better than Japan's offerings.

I wonder how Japan can actually improve on that front, they can make a series of popular 20min episodes, but seriously lacking in the feature film department. Which is a shame.

voltch posted...

Hmmm, although western animations keep beating the hell out of Japanese anime movies, I don't really think they're wrong.
The best Disney/Pixar movies are generally better than Japan's offerings.

I wonder how Japan can actually improve on that front, they can make a series of popular 20min episodes, but seriously lacking in the feature film department. Which is a shame.

Pompo the Cinephile is a masterpiece tbqh

drive my car

glad to see mitchells vs. machines get the nomination. it's obviously going to go to encanto.

How do I watch Drive My Car

Save us Netflix, pump your massive resources into anime projects to accumulate more Oscars.
(Bubble probably won't be enough)

Cool. Flee actually was able to pull it off. First movie to get nominated in Best Animated, Best Documentary, and Best International Film categories.

Shame there was no love for Pig or Last Night in Soho.

I was hoping one of Twenty Something or Nona would get in for Animated short. Preferably Nona.

Raka_Putra posted...

Oh yeah, DEH and Diana are definitely deserving of the nomination.

Wait. What's wrong with DEH? I haven't watched it yet. Should I watch it then?

I haven't seen it personally but everyone dunks on it due to several reasons:
1. Ben Platt plays Evan, despite being obviously in his mid 20s. The makeup or CG work also makes him look older and weirder.
2. They cut songs so now a majority of the songs are sung by Platt. Especially egregious was they cut Anybody Have a Map, making Waving Through a Window the very sad and dramatic opener.
3. The side characters are shoved off to the side.
4. Evan never gets called out for his actions. Good For You is cut.

Of course, watching it yourself can give you a more unbiased look, but yeah

The top Letterboxd review for Dear Evan Hansen is one of the best things on the site

https://letterboxd.com/estheronfilm/film/dear-evan-hansen/

Yikes! Sounded horrible until I opened IMDB and saw Ben Platt's face and then, like, yeah, the review is fair.

It still blows me away that Chloe Zhao went from dominating last year to Eternals having nothing.

Comeon

Dune is a good movie but it's not best picture good

KokoroAkechi posted...

Comeon

Dune is a good movie but it's not best picture good

Worse movies have won best picture, let alone received a nomination in a field of ten.

I mean even in fields of 5 usually only 2 or 3 movies are really in contention for winning.

Mitchells vs machines for best animated picture pls

Lightning Strikes posted...

I thought last year was great, although I would have rathered Tick Tick Boom! or the Tragedy of Macbeth for Best Picture over Dont Look Up, which I still enjoyed.

I haven't seen many of the nominees yet but I'm inclined to agree with this anyway, it does look like a pretty great mix of movies. Though I do wish Tick Tick Boom or Macbeth were in BP too. And I'm sad that Passing was snubbed entirely, I had a feeling Ruth Negga would miss but she really really deserved to be here off of that performance.

ScepterOfLove posted...

How do I watch Drive My Car

Just in limited theatres right now for US, sadly. I looked up and saw it's available to rent on BFI player for 10 so I may do that, but I'm not sure if that's UK only.

voltch posted...

Hmmm, although western animations keep beating the hell out of Japanese anime movies, I don't really think they're wrong.
The best Disney/Pixar movies are generally better than Japan's offerings.

I wonder how Japan can actually improve on that front, they can make a series of popular 20min episodes, but seriously lacking in the feature film department. Which is a shame.

Well, I pretty strongly disagree with all of this! But then I'm not a Disney guy so maybe I'm biased. I still can't quite believe that Your Name wasn't even nominated for an Oscar but Boss Baby was instead.

I never know where these movies come from - are they just poorly marketed or what? I've only heard of 3 of the 10 movies nominated for Best Picture.

Some are smaller films that broke out unexpectedly (CODA, Drive My Car), some are films that base their whole marketing strategy around awards nominations (Belfast, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley), and some are big mainstream films (Dont Look Up, Dune, West Side Story). The Power of the Dog is kind of in-between those last two, it did extremely well on Netflix even before the awards hype.

Only saw Don't Look Up from that list, and I wasn't impressed with it.

Need to check out Drive My Car, The Power of the Dog, and Dune.

Watched Belfast and CODA.
Belfast is a strange film in that when it finishes you're left thinking wow what a film but the longer you think about it the more issues it has. I can see it's portrayals being VERY polarising, obviously. It reminds me of 8 Mile in the way everyone kind of sees it as a biopic even if that wasn't the intention and that's going to be what a lot of people see, which is a shame. I think the acting is solid. Buddy's innocence and naivety is brilliant, not sure if that's acting or just him being himself though. Ciaran Hinds is excellent. 7/10
CODA has some excellent moments though I'm not as impressed because it's basically La Famille Belier which was only released like 10 year ago. It's predictable but it's not bad. 6/10

I love how Kenneth Branagh followed up a possible contender for worst movie of the 2020s with a Best Picture and Best Director nomination.

Watched The Power of the Dog today. Good acting and well-made, but the story itself didn't grip me that much.

Though to its merit, I thought that it would be about a forbidden love story between Phil and Peter but turns out it's more of a revenge drama.

While it was probably my least favorite Wes Anderson film, I am a little surprised that The French Dispatch was shut out since they tend to give a nom or two to his movies.

Ill post my full impressions of all films Ive seen closer to the awards (will watch probably Nightmare Alley and Licorice Pizza in the next week or two, plus West Side Story when it hits Disney+ in a couple of weeks) but on The Power of the Dog, its definitely a film designed to be thought about for a long time after both to work out what was going on and how you feel about it. It grew on me as I thought about it I have to say.

I didn't enjoy Power of the Dog as much as lots seem to (including the Academy if the 12 nominations are anything to go by), but I still found it an interesting and worthwhile experience. It's definitely a film that grows on you for a while after you've seen it.

I'll probably get through all the nominees available on streaming (though tbh I don't know if I can be bothered with Ricardos), but as always the ones I most want to see are the least widely available >_>

KCF0107 posted...

While it was probably my least favorite Wes Anderson film, I am a little surprised that The French Dispatch was shut out since they tend to give a nom or two to his movies.

Yeah I was surprised it got nothing, it's the first of his movies since Darjeeling Limited to get ignored entirely by the Oscars! I was also surprised A Hero didn't get a nomination in International.

Nightmare Alley was good, though very much the just happy to be here Best Picture nom. Only has a shot at Production Design I think.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/oscar-category-cuts-nominees-react-1235187931/amp/

oh

In order to provide more time and opportunity for audience entertainment and engagement through comedy, musical numbers, film clip packages and movie tributes, a change in the shows production will take place.

Lmao they aren't even shortening the broadcast, just cutting awards to show more "skits". This isn't going to bring in an audience, they're just annoying the few people left who watch these. Not to mention the obvious that they're establishing a hierarchy of awards (and film) importance, flipping off entire branches and prioritising the most famous people who already get a ton of attention. Do the people in charge of the Oscars just hate cinema lol, this is so disrespectful. I hope the decision is reversed like it was the other year, but I'm doubtful.

The problem is, there absolutely is a hierarchy - it just happens that two of the lower hierarchy awards also provide star power. Meanwhile, editing absolutely should be near the top of that hierarchy, but the constant bizarre nominations in that category suggests the Academy doesn't actually understand what editing is.

And, really, there should be more awards at this point. Choreography should have come back a while ago, and a Casting or Ensemble award would also be good. It's the stuff between the awards that need trimming (but, again, they don't understand editing). And, of all things, shoving Original Score aside is bonkers - having a montage of the score nominees is usually among the highlights of the night. Even if it was somehow 'less important,' it's a category that works perfectly with the ceremonial aspect.

SAGs happened, Chastain won Actress and Kotsur won Supporting Actor. Smith and DeBose seem pretty locked in for wins now (especially DeBose), but I think those other two acting races are still open!