95th Academy Awards - 2023

[prkchopexpress]

Originally Posted by tcripe

Who cares what other people think? Why are you letting other people's opinions affect yours?

not to get too intellectual or anything….

i hate the idea of people who only like stuff as a joke or like something ironically. it’s anti art. and it’s insulting to the movie. but it also says, you didn’t understand the movie.

[Jay H.]

It's almost as though... I mean, this might be a stretch... everyone has their own opinion.

Is that possible?

[HipsterTrash]

a) There was no chance Goth would be nominated. Pearl is her movie to shine but it wasn't going to be nominated for jack. Sublime performance though, which will lead her to a netflix drama in which she gets a nom.

b) It's bogus that the usuals like Spielberg and Deakins get noms when they've won enough already and don't need to take up a spot. Love boths work tremendously but I just feels slightly wasted.

c) Top Gun Maverick should have gotten a Best Cinematography. Fact.

d) Hurts to see The Northman get nothing. At least technical.

e) RRR love is sweet and I hope they do something special during the show for them.

f) Lastly, I'm rooting for Everything Everywhere All at Once baby. Give 'em the 11!

[spider-neil]

Originally Posted by HipsterTrash

a) There was no chance Goth would be nominated. Pearl is her movie to shine but it wasn't going to be nominated for jack. Sublime performance though, which will lead her to a netflix drama in which she gets a nom.

b) It's bogus that the usuals like Spielberg and Deakins get noms when they've won enough already and don't need to take up a spot. Love boths work tremendously but I just feels slightly wasted.

c) Top Gun Maverick should have gotten a Best Cinematography. Fact.

d) Hurts to see The Northman get nothing. At least technical.

e) RRR love is sweet and I hope they do something special during the show for them.

f) Lastly, I'm rooting for Everything Everywhere All at Once baby. Give 'em the 11!

The best nomination should be the winner regardless if one of the nominees has won it several times in the past. And the reverse is true, a nominee shouldn’t be given a pity award if they have been nominated several times without winning. It should be the best nominee in the category that should win. Period.

[prkchopexpress]

Originally Posted by Jay H.

It's almost as though... I mean, this might be a stretch... everyone has their own opinion.

Is that possible?

ok troll. you really got me with that one.

[spanky87]

Poll: Blanchett vs Yeoh

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=358822

[mjvmovieman]

Originally Posted by Brad1963

Everything Everywhere All At Once is an enjoyable film. But at this point, I think it is a bit overpraised. The choices the past decade or so truly reveal the lack of quality films coming out of Hollywood now.

I was underwhelmed by the film too. Though I'm stoked for Ke Huy Quan to win. Here's to hoping both him and Spielberg share a photo holding their Oscars together. That would be great.

[prkchopexpress]

Originally Posted by HipsterTrash

Hurts to see The Northman get nothing. At least technical.

my favorite of the year for the majority of the year until i saw decision to leave.

i could understand if you don’t like period pieces, ok. whatever, but the staging of that movie was A+. that first battle scene was one of the best scenes of the year.

[BluCollector13]

Originally Posted by HipsterTrash

b) It's bogus that the usuals like Spielberg and Deakins get noms when they've won enough already and don't need to take up a spot. Love boths work tremendously but I just feels slightly wasted.

Deakins, I agree with, even though I did like the cinematography of "Empire of Light". It and "Elvis"'s space could have easily gone to "The Batman" and "Nope".

[MI125]

Pulling for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by mjvmovieman

I was underwhelmed by the film too. Though I'm stoked for Ke Huy Quan to win. Here's to hoping both him and Spielberg share a photo holding their Oscars together. That would be great.

Didn’t realize Short Round was also nominated. An even more incredible comeback than Fraser. Go Ke!

[The Great Owl]

I used to make an effort to see every Best Picture nominee every year.
This was a lot easier when there were only five nominees, and it was a lot easier before they started nominating movies that could only be seen via certain streaming services.

These days. I’m happily disengaged, for the most part. I got tired of feeling compelled to see movies that I did not even know existed until two weeks before the ceremony and that I would have already forgotten about two weeks after the ceremony.

Still, it’s entertaining to see the similar pattern every year.

1. Every year, there is one Best Picture nominee that is unlikely to get the award because it is too intelligent. Quiz Show, The Reader, Capote, Atonement, Phantom Thread, and probably Tar this year. This is not necessarily a criticism of the masses. It is simply an observation that these movies are too coldly cerebral to cry out for Best Picture.

2. Every year, there seems to be one cloyingly-sentimental Oscar Bait movie that has had no other purpose to be made except to show up on a Best Picture nominee list. Crash, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Green Book, King Richard, etc.

3. There is usually a movie that should have won Best Picture and probably did win Best Picture in a better multiverse world. Get Out, The Thin Red Line, King Kong, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Winter’s Bone, The Tree of Life, Promising Young Woman, Black Panther, etc.

4. There is usually an ”Ohhhh! Look how subversive the Academy is! Except that you won’t remember this movie a week from now!” movie. Shakespeare in Love, Birdman, Little Miss Sunshine, etc. I’m getting this vibe from the Triangle of Sadness trailers, which make it look as though someone took what could have been a solid good horror movie and made it an insufferable “black comedy satire.”

5. Ever so often, there is a genuinely deserving Best Picture Winner that restores my faith in people. Unforgiven, Moonlight, No Country For Old Men, Parasite, The Silence of the Lambs, etc.


A part of me wants Top Gun: Maverick to win, because it put people back in theater seats, because it is a celebration of practical special effects, and because its lead character is portrayed as a genuinely heroic and capable guy instead of being portrayed as a laughably inept burnout who exudes none of the traits that made his character from a past film memorable in the first place and who had to be coerced back into heroic action by an uncannily insightful Baby Leia or Rey type.

Another part of me wants Everything Everywhere All At Once to win because I adore the movie and everyone who made it or starred in it. I just wish that the hot dog fingers didn’t gross me out so much.

Other thoughts…

I want Angela Bassett to win Best Supporting Actress for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

I want Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan to win the respective Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor awards for their roles in Everything Everywhere All At Once.

I do still want to see The Banshees of Inisherin.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

No, no, and no.

Ok, if you say so. ..Cate Blanchett?

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

People complaining about Goth leave me with one question:

1. Did you even watch that POS movie?

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

Yeah, I was literally shocked when I saw people upset about her omission and thought it was a joke at first. It was an over the top performance that was quite silly. It fit the film well and worked for the tone of the film, but this isn't an award winning performance by an means. Feel like I'm in Everything Everywhere All At Once and entered some alternate universe.

Personally I saw the humor (horror) in it, and I went along with it.
It's all fun @ the movies.

[LordoftheRings]

Which Oskar (if any) Top Gun: Maverik could win? ...Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, "Hold my Hand" (Musik / Best Original Song)?
...Writing / Best Adapted Skreenplay? ... Best Pikture?

I'd say "Hold my Hand" (Lady Gaga and BloodPop)?

What sez you?

[xbs2034]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Which Oskar (if any) Top Gun: Maverik could win? ...Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, "Hold my Hand" (Music / Best Original Song)?
...Writing / Best Adapted Screenplay? ... Best Picture?

I'd say "Hold my Hand" (Lady Gaga and BloodPop)?

What sez you?

Sound feels like it’s best shot at the moment. Probably would’ve been the favorite in cinematography had it been nominated

[Dunemoon]

Sour grapes

https://deadline.com/2023/01/till-di...ub-1235240134/

[prkchopexpress]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

1. Every year, there is one Best Picture nominee that is unlikely to get the award because it is too intelligent. Quiz Show, The Reader, Capote, Atonement, Phantom Thread, and probably Tar this year. This is not necessarily a criticism of the masses. It is simply an observation that these movies are too coldly cerebral to cry out for Best Picture.

2. Every year, there seems to be one cloyingly-sentimental Oscar Bait movie that has had no other purpose to be made except to show up on a Best Picture nominee list. Crash, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Green Book, King Richard, etc.

3. There is usually a movie that should have won Best Picture and probably did win Best Picture in a better multiverse world. Get Out, The Thin Red Line, King Kong, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Winter’s Bone, The Tree of Life, Promising Young Woman, Black Panther, etc.

4. There is usually an ”Ohhhh! Look how subversive the Academy is! Except that you won’t remember this movie a week from now!” movie. Shakespeare in Love, Birdman, Little Miss Sunshine, etc. I’m getting this vibe from the Triangle of Sadness trailers, which make it look as though someone took what could have been a solid good horror movie and made it an insufferable “black comedy satire.”

5. Ever so often, there is a genuinely deserving Best Picture Winner that restores my faith in people. Unforgiven, Moonlight, No Country For Old Men, Parasite, The Silence of the Lambs, etc.


A part of me wants Top Gun: Maverick to win, because it put people back in theater seats, because it is a celebration of practical special effects, and because its lead character is portrayed as a genuinely heroic and capable guy instead of being portrayed as a laughably inept burnout who exudes none of the traits that made his character from a past film memorable in the first place and who had to be coerced back into heroic action by an uncannily insightful Baby Leia or Rey type.

Another part of me wants Everything Everywhere All At Once to win because I adore the movie and everyone who made it or starred in it. I just wish that the hot dog fingers didn’t gross me out so much.

Other thoughts…

I want Angela Bassett to win Best Supporting Actress for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

I want Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan to win the respective Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor awards for their roles in Everything Everywhere All At Once.

I do still want to see The Banshees of Inisherin.

owl, i quite enjoy your thoughts, even though it seems like i don’t agree with them that frequently.

sometimes there are just a lot of great movies to come out. and it embarrassment of riches. sure ordinary people is good movie, but it doesn’t wow you like raging bull or hit you in the heart like the elephant man. not even mentioning heavens gate that wasn’t even nominated that head. sometimes you just get a couple all timers in the same year like double indemnity and gaslight. or barry lyndon and jaws.

i like more dark and edgy stuff. and that stuff usually doesn’t win. (would the academy have been ballsy enough to give awards to elle? no, unfortunately.)

so i guess i can kinda see sometimes that if a movie ends on a down one, maybe it won’t win. even though it absolutely should.

you mention maverick, it seems like you might dig the fabelmans if you haven’t seen it. it’s really about loving the magic of movies.

i haven’t seen them all. no personal interest in top gun or elvis. last year, coda was basically a sentimental tv movie.

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by xbs2034

Sound feels like it’s best shot at the moment. Probably would’ve been the favorite in cinematography had it been nominated

Did you also see "All Quiet on the Western Front"?

If you did and if you were a member of AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), which one would you cast your vote for Best Sound and Best Cinematography between these two films here?
Assuming of course that Top Gun: Maverick would have received an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography.

[joshsquash729]

Really pulling for EEAAO to win as many as it can. It's a movie that's stayed with me in ways that most other movies haven't in as long as I can remember. I'd say Ke is a sure bet, and I have a good feeling about Michelle. I'd absolutely love it if Stephanie won Best Supporting Actress- it was a role that balanced so much, and I thought she did such a great job. She may be a newer actress, at least compared to the other 3, but she did just as good a job, yet I feel like very few people are talking about her performance, at least comparatively.

That said, I also thought Hong Chau did a fantastic job in The Whale, and wouldn't mind seeing her take it too. If neither Jamie or Stephanie take it, I'd love for her to. Don't get me wrong- Angela Bassett is a literal and figurative queen, and I thought she did a fantastic job, but it's such a different performance compared to the others, and doesn't quite reach the heights they did, at least for me.

Brendan is my hope for Best Actor. Austin Butler did a great job, don't get me wrong, but it was a little too flashy for my taste, and it feels like a shtick that's gone on too long with his "permanent" accent. I have no doubt he has a long, promising career ahead of him, but Brendan absolutely deserves it.

I wouldn't be surprised for Banshees to take a bunch home, but it just wasn't quite my cup of tea. Quite fine performances, especially by Barry Keoghan, but it dragged on a bit too much for me. As far as my biggest snubs, I'm bummed Nope and The Batman didn't get more love. At least Best Score for The Batman, and Best Sound for Nope- Jean Jacket's noises as it flew threw the sky still haunt me.