Downsizing, Suburbicon, and especially Red Sparrow all received lots of praise at Cinemacon and are coming out in the Fall. I expect all of them to be Best Picture nominees as of now.
Oh right, there's an Alexander Payne movie this year. Another undeserving, overrated dramedy that'll take nominations away from significantly better films. I think that's probably the only safe bet right now.
Oh right, there's an Alexander Payne movie this year. Another undeserving, overrated dramedy that'll take nominations away from significantly better films. I think that's probably the only safe bet right now.
Red Sparrow won't be an Oscar film. Francis Lawrence doesn't make awards bait. Besides, the Jennifer Lawrence awards film is Mother! and the November Fox release that will be positioned for awards is Murder on the Orient Express (Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot heading a big name cast in a 65mm-shot production).
And Hoke, I'm not sure if I'd want to fight with a guy who has two copies of Passengers in his collection. It will never end.
Red Sparrow won't be an Oscar film. Francis Lawrence doesn't make awards bait. Besides, the Jennifer Lawrence awards film is Mother! and the November Fox release that will positioned for awards is Murder on the Orient Express (Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot heading a big name cast in a 65mm-shot production).
But Johnny Depp's in it... Can the Academy see past this?
But Johnny Depp's in it... Can the Academy see past this?
They can recognize the movie without recognizing Depp individually. Besides, I'm still convinced that Depp is much of an outsider after his messy divorce. Even audiences still like him; both times I saw
[Show spoiler]Fantastic Beasts, his big reveal at the end got huge applause and cheers.
2012 had a lot of good movies that could have been nominated over Les Miserables. But the voters looked at box office and Hooper's last film and nominated it over several far more deserving films (The Master, Moonrise Kingdom, The Impossible, Killing Them Softly, The Intouchables, the incredible amount of genre and animated films). The film's reception was not very glowing and Oscar buzz was based solely around pre-release hype and the Christmas opening.
Don't get wrong; I am no Les Miserables fan, and I was very diappointed with the nominees in 2012 (in particular, it's entirely possible I am the world's biggest of Killing Them Softly), I just didn't realize that it snuck in like that. It seemed kind of Oscar-baity and I figured it would get in regardless.
Jimmy Kimmel Will Return to Host the 2018 Oscars
By Max Evry on May 16, 2017
Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the 2018 Oscars
For a second consecutive year, late-night talk show favorite Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the Oscars telecast and Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd will produce, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced today. The 90th Academy Awards will air live on the ABC Television Network and broadcast outlets worldwide on Oscar Sunday, March 4, 2018.
“Jimmy, Mike and Jennifer are truly an Oscar Dream Team,” said Boone Isaacs. “Mike and Jennifer produced a beautiful show that was visually stunning. And Jimmy proved, from his opening monologue all the way through a finale we could never have imagined, that he is one our finest hosts in Oscar history.”
“Hosting the Oscars was a highlight of my career and I am grateful to Cheryl, Dawn and the Academy for asking me to return to work with two of my favorite people, Mike De Luca and Jennifer Todd,” said Kimmel. “If you think we screwed up the ending this year, wait until you see what we have planned for the 90th anniversary show!”
“It’s not often you get two chances to have a once-in-a-lifetime experience and even more rare to be handed the keys to a party 90 years in the making,” said De Luca and Todd. “We always thought the idea that anything can happen on the Oscars was a cliché until we lived it.”
“Our Oscars team this year delivered a show that hit every high note,” said Academy CEO Dawn Hudson. “Jimmy brought back the essence and light touch of the greatest hosts of Oscars’ past. Mike and Jennifer’s love of movies is infectious and touched every aspect of the show. This is the perfect team to lead us into the ninth decade.”
“After just one year, we can’t imagine anyone else hosting The Oscars. Jimmy’s skillful command of the stage is invaluable on a night when anything can happen – and does,” said Channing Dungey, President, ABC Entertainment. “With Mike and Jennifer at the helm, we’re ready for another unforgettable show that will dazzle, delight and, most importantly, honor 90 years of Hollywood’s most prestigious award.”
Kimmel serves as host and executive producer of the Emmy-winning Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC’s late-night talk show. Now in its 15th season, “JKL” has earned six Emmy nominations in the Outstanding Variety Series Talk category, the Writing for a Variety Series category, and the Variety, Music or Comedy Series category.
De Luca earned Best Picture Oscar nominations for producing Captain Phillips, Moneyball and The Social Network. He is credited on more than 60 films, including the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Blow, Magnolia, American History X and Boogie Nights. He is a former president of production at Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks and New Line Cinema.
Todd is currently president of Pearl Street Films, the production company founded by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, where she produced Live by Night and executive produced last year’s Jason Bourne. Her other credits include such films as Alice through the Looking Glass, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Alice in Wonderland, Across the Universe, Prime, Memento, Boiler Room and the Austin Powers films. Todd earned an Emmy nomination for her work on the HBO television movie If These Walls Could Talk 2.
The 90th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
Fine by me. Didn't think he was super-memorable in a good way, but at least he wasn't super-memorable in a bad way. I guess that's the bar these days lol
Would be nice to go back to a system where we have the same host year after year. If Kimmel ends up being that guy, I'd be OK with that.
I liked Kimmel's hosting a lot so I'm good with him returning. The Oscars have had a lot of mediocre to bad hosts so it's better to stick with someone who has shown he can successfully host the show.
Conan's having his own issues at the moment, I don't think any awards show will be approaching him until the whole joke-stealing case is settled (or resolved in trial).
Downsizing, Suburbicon, and especially Red Sparrow all received lots of praise at Cinemacon and are coming out in the Fall. I expect all of them to be Best Picture nominees as of now.
I've not heard of any of those films before! I don't even know what Cinemacon is. I can't imagine it's bigger than Sundance/SXSW/TiFF/Venice/etc.
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