Academy Awards - Blog Posts
Anyone else really disappointed on with the “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” Oscar performance. I only watched the performance and I didn’t like it. Nothing against Megan Thee Stallion, Luis Fonsi, and Becky G(I think they are talented in their own right) but I really wanted the whole cast to be the center of the attention and see the whole song. Having celebrities sing when they don't have a connection to “Encanto” felt really cheap.
Having Shakira, Maluma, and Carlos Vives singing the song would’ve been an okay substitute if the entire cast couldn’t come since they are singers from Colombian and “Encanto” takes place there.
Ke Huy Quan wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Everything Everywhere All at Once
He should've won!! (Adrian still did good, congrats to him)
Timothée Chalamet at the Academy Awards on March 2, 2025. 💥💥💥
The last photo, tho... If you know, you know ✌️
Andrew Garfield
Attends the 94th Annual Academy Awards
Ginger Rogers in her Academy Award winning performance in "Kitty Foyle" (1940) is on TCM today (04/14/2021) @ 8:15 am EST. Coffee ☕and Ginger💃; perfect together 😊.
Obligatory Oscar Predictions (now with gratuitous gifs!)
I’ll be belatedly posting my reviews of various movies including a top ten list over the next few weeks, but if I’m going to turn this into a consistent (mostly) movie review blog, I may as well start with the obvious.
BEST PICTURE
There are about a half-dozen that seem to be locks at this point -- Three Billboards, The Shape of Water, Dunkirk, The Post, Lady Bird, and Get Out. (if one is missing tomorrow morning, expect it to be the last, but I doubt it)
First off, let’s pour one out for 2017, a year so bizarre and awesome that a fantasy about a mute woman having an affair with a fish-monster and a horror-comedy are front-runners. That’s like if the 1987 Best Picture nominees had been The Last Emperor, Hope and Glory, Broadcast News, Evil Dead II, and The Witches of Eastwick.
The remaining 3 or 4 slots are where it gets trickier.
Now, the Academy obviously isn’t cool enough to go for Wonder Woman, Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and The Last Jedi. That said, if they do go for one of the critically beloved blockbusters, I’d bank on the first one, with Logan being an extremely dark horse.
The remaining probable options are: Call Me By Your Name, I Tonya, The Darkest Hour, The Big Sick, Mudbound and Molly’s Game. All should get screenplay nominations and at least one acting nod; the question is just which of them are going to carry over to the big prize.
The Big Sick mostly has the problem that there’s already three comedy slots taken between Three Billboards, Lady Bird, and Get Out; they don’t typically go for one comedy, let alone a whole slate. Still, it was widely embraced enough that it certainly will have some momentum.
Call Me By Your Name is a good bet simply on the cynical account of being the serious gay romance of the year. I suspect its support will be better than for The Danish Girl but not as strong as Moonlight simply on account of it being much better than the former but not as great as the latter; that said, it’s lovingly crafted enough to push over the line, I suspect.
I, Tonya is probably a lock for Actress, and seems like the sort of film to get an extra boost on the power of that incredible lead performance; it helps that it’s a really good film that scores very strongly on feminist scales in a year where that’s going to be the groundswell in the Academy.
The Darkest Hour is trickier to guess; similarly, it’s a film built around one astounding performance, but isn’t nearly as strong as I, Tonya outside of Oldman Oldmaning the hell out of his best role in years.
Molly’s Game falls in the same category; Chastain is sensational, and I’m surprised Idris Elba doesn’t have more buzz and Costner doesn’t have any, but the movie itself is good, not great. Aaron Sorkin truly has a way with words, but as director, he’s a little too in love with his words, and too often doesn’t trust his visual telling of the story to carry it when he can dilute the impact with a 500 word speech explaining the images.
Finally, Mudbound has the severe disadvantage of Netflix’s hostility toward theaters and the traditional film business, which I suspect keeps them from really effectively campaigning. Although it’ll probably get noticed somewhere, the big prize will likely elude it.
FINAL CHOICE FOR BEST PICTURE:
(in decreasing order of likeliness)
Three Billboards
The Shape of Water
Dunkirk
The Post
Lady Bird
Get Out
Call Me By Your Name
I, Tonya
The Big Sick
Wonder Woman
BEST DIRECTOR
The picture pool largely shows who’s in line, with the bottom three films unlikely to show up here. McDonough and Del Toro are locks, and Greta Gerwig probably is, as well. Christopher Nolan seems like he should be a lock, but you would have thought so for The Dark Knight and Inception, too; has the director’s branch has gotten over whatever their Nolan-hate? Conversely, Spielberg would normally seem to be a lock, but he has so many nominations over the years that he might seem too obvious a choice; would they be voting because he did such a great job, or just because he’s frickin’ Spielberg? (in this case, definitely the former; his work in The Post is masterful) Then there’s the question of whether Jordan Peele has even more momentum than he seems to have, and if Luca Guadagnino manages a spoiler. Peele and Nolan getting DGA nods suggests they have the strongest support among the directors; I’ll chose them, but won’t be shocked to see wither Spielberg or Gaudagnino on there. (call Patty Jenkins the one-in-a-million longshot)
Martin McDonough - Three Billboards
Guillermo Del Toro - The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
Jordan Peele - Get Out
BEST ACTOR
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Timothy Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Tom Hanks, The Post
POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Denzel - Roman J Israel Esq. (though nobody seemed to like anything else about the movie); James Franco - The Disaster Artist (reports of his long-known douchey, misogynist behavior may keep him down, but then again, Casey Affleck); Hugh Jackman - either The Greatest Shomwan or Logan (having both in the mix probably kills his chances, and with The Greatest Showman embraced by audiences but loathed by critics, and Logan being a superhero movie released way back in Spring, it’s a hell of a longshot either way. I just really want him to get it for Logan.)
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post
SPOILERS: Jessica Chastain, Molly’s Game (honestly a tossup between her and Streep); Jude Dench, Victoria and Abdul (minor, barely seen film, but it’s Dench); Michelle Williams, All the Money in the World; Diane Kruger, In the Fade
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards
SPOILERS: Richard Jenkins or, less likely, Michael Shannon, The Shape of Water; Michael Stuhlberg, Call Me By Your Name; Idris Elba, Molly’s Game; Patrick Stewart, Logan (I will mention Logan every chance I get in an effort to will nominations into existence)
(and yes, that gif is from Iron Man 2)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Allison Janey, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
SPOILERS: Hong Chau, Downsizing (but everyone seems to have hated the movie otherwise); Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread; Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip (if there’s an out of nowhere nod); Kristin Scott Thomas, The Darkest Hour; Michelle Pfieffer, mother!; Dafne Keene, Logan (see above)
OTHER VARIOUS NOTES
Murder on the Orient Express was one of my favorite films this year, but it seems to have been largely forgotten by the various awards communities. Still, it should at least get nominations for Costume Design and Production Design, and just possibly Cinematography. Tragically, there is no category for “Best Mustache”, a category this film would not only win but fill all the nominations.
The Shape of Water, apparently, is not even being considered for best makeup for reasons that I can’t possibly fathom. It will be one of the films that really cleans up in the tech categories, though.
Star Wars, Wonder Woman, Beauty and the Beast, and Dunkirk will dominate the technical awards. War For the Planet of the Apes, the best in the series since the original in ‘68 and one of the highlights of the year, will be ghettoed into just Visual Effects.
Last year vs. This year
Source: People
‼️🚨 ATTENTION EVERYBODY 🚨‼️
The nominations for this year's Academy Awards have been announced. Emilia Pérez" leads the field.
After two disaster-related shifts, Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang revealed on Thursday afternoon, the works and stars were hoping this year at the 97th place. The genre-explosive musical "Emilia Pérez" by French director Jacques Audiard is the favourite in the award ceremony, which will be held on 2nd. March will be held. The film, already successful at the Golden Globes, brings together 13 nominations, announced the Academy on Thursday. This is followed by the fictional biography "The Brutalist" and the Disney (?!) musical "Wicked" with 10 chances of winning each.
Foreignoscar without Austria
In the race for the foreign Oscar is "Die Saat des heiligen Feigenbaum" by the director Mohammad Rasoulof, who lives in Germany. The native Iranian measures herself here with the omnipresent "Emilia Pérez" as well as the Danish production "The Girl with the Needle", "I'm Still Here" from Brazil and the Latvian animation strip "Flow". The Austrian entry "Des Teufels Beitrag" by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala had not made it to the pre-selection before.
The favourites and their number of nominations
"Emilia Pérez" (13) "Wicked" und "Der Brutalist" (10) "Konklave", "Like A Complete Unknown" (8) "Anora" (6) "Dune: Part Two", "The Substance" (5) "Nosferatu" (4) "I'm Still Here", "Sing Sing", "Der wilde Roboter" (3) "A Real Pain", "Flow", "Nickel Boys", "The Apprentice" (2)
The nominees in the categories
Actor in a Supporting Role Yura Borisov, Anora Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown Guy Pearce, The Brutalist Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Costume Design A Complete Unknown Conclave Gladiator II Nosferatu Wicked
Makeup and Hairstyling A Different Man Emilia Pérez Nosferatu The Substance Wicked
Music (Original Score) The Brutalist Conclave Emilia Pérez Wicked The Wild Robot
Music (Original Song) "Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez “Like A Bird” from Sing Sing “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight
Animated Short Film Beautiful Men In the Shadow of the Cypress Magic Candies Wander to Wonder Yuck!
Live-Action Short Film A Lien Anuja I’m Not a Robot The Last Ranger The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) A Complete Unknown Conclave Emilia Pérez Nickel Boys Sing Sing
Writing (Original Screenplay) Anora The Brutalist A Real Pain September 5 The Substance
Actress in a Supporting Role Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown Ariana Grande, Wicked Felicity Jones, The Brutalist Isabella Rossellini, Conclave Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pére
Documentary Feature Film Black Box Diaries No Other Land Porcelain War Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Sugarcane
Documentary Short Film Death by Numbers I Am Ready, Warden Incident Instruments of a Beating Heart The Only Girl in the Orchestra
International Feature Film Brazil, I’m Still Here Denmark, The Girl With the Needle France, Emilia Pérez Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig Latvia, Flow
Animated Feature Film Flow Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl The Wild Robot
Production Design The Brutalist Conclave Dune: Part Two Nosferatu Wicked
Sound A Complete Unknown Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez Wicked The Wild Robot
Visual Effects Alien: Romulus Better Man Dune: Part Two Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Wicked
Actor in a Leading Role Adrien Brody, The Brutalist Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown Colman Domingo, Sing Sing Ralph Fiennes, Conclave Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Actress in a Leading Role Cynthia Erivo, Wicked Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez Mikey Madison, Anora Demi Moore, The Substance Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Directing Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez Sean Baker, Anora Brady Corbet, The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat, The Substance James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Best Picture Anora The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez I’m Still Here Nickel Boys The Substance Wicked
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Get Jackson🧑🔬 a freaking Oscar 🏆for all the lying 🤥 he did in this movie🍿🎥.
If he was Pinocchio, his nose👃would be out the door🚪, around the world🗺️, plus an extra 12 feet. 🤥🤥🤥🤥🌍🌎🌏
...
Police: "what are you 🫵doing here? 👁️👄👁️What happened to the blue 🔵 guy🧍♂️?"
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Jackson: "🥸I was uh🤔... see 👁️👓👁️I was minding🧠 my own business💼🚶, and he grabbed me 😵and he threw🔵🤾💨 me in here🔒!" 🤥
Police: "but how did he get out of the cell?" 🧐🤨
Jackson: "it.. uh...😵💫All happened so fast💨 I didn't see🧑🦯" 🫣🫠🤥 "but🍑-but🍑 don't monster's🧟 have 🔮🪄powers🪄🔮 and stuff?? I mean maybe 🤷his was... Unlocking🔓 doors🚪?😰" 🤔🫣🤥🤥🤥🤥
...
Police: "I'm gonna run🏃 this nice 👍young man🧒 back🔙 to school." 👮♂️🏫🚸
Jackson: "⁉️ I beg 🙏🧎your pardon?"😵💫😵😵💫 😵
Police: "That's where the blue🔵boy🧒 grabbed☑️ you from, right☑️?.... I mean, 🫵You weren't 🚫 cutting✂️ class🎩, were you?"🤨🤨🤨🧐
Jackson: "No.🙅 No! 🏫School! That's where I was! 👍☑️ Studying! 🧑🏫Big test!📝 Big test!🧑🔬" 😮💨🫠 🤥🤥🤥🤥
...
Lilith: "keep your eyes👁️👁️peeled🍌 for this🔵monster🧌. He broke💔out of jail 🚔and is considered🧠very dangerous🌋."
Jackson: 😱😰😨😬😬😬😶🌫️
Claire: "He's kinda cute"🫢🤭🤷🏻♀️🫦
Lilith and Jackson: 🤢🤢🤮🤮 "EEEEWWW!"🤮🤮🤢
Lilith: "you must be joking" 🤡🤡
Jackson: (Sweats 💦😰😨😟😟😰)
Lilith: "You🫵and the blue🔵kid 🧒have the same piercing💍. What are you🫵, a monster🧌 too 🤔?"
(Lilith and Claire laugh)
Jackson:🧍👁️👄👁️😳😮😱... 😑😐😑😐
Jackson: 😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😅
Claire and Lilith: ⁉️❓❓
Jackson: "😂That's funny!!🤡🥸 Me a monster🧌?! 🤣🤣🤣 Oh! You slay💅me!" 💀 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥
Lilith and Claire: ❓👁️👄👁️❓🤷🏼♀️❓🤷🏻♀️❓
...
Claire: "Jackson! 😤 What's your 🧠damage🤕dude?!" 😠
Jackson: "😵💫😧 I am so 🙇 sorry! 😣 Oh! 😩 Man!😮 It's like...😵Um...👀 I just have this... 👀👀 Well... 🤔 I have this condition! 🤒Yeah! 😆A condition! 😷 And it's called…💡Jecklington's💡! And every so often ⏱️ I'll just... you know🧠🤕, flare up!🔥🎇 (Shakes🕺🕺🕺)" 🤥🤥🤥
Claire and Chad: 😱 👁️👄👁️
Jackson: " like for no reason! 🙅 And I mean, it gets really ❌bad❌ sometimes⏳!... 🤧🤧There's no cure🤧🤧🚫💉💊🚫🤧🤧…😞😩😭😔" 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥
Claire and Chad: 🥺🥺🥺🥺
...
(music starts playing 🎵🎶🎺🎼🥁)
Jackson: "I- uh💫 I-uh... 😨😱 I feel another🕺flare🔥 up coming!" 🏃💨💨💨
🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥
...
🙍💛 ➕ 🎼🎶🎸🎵 ➕ ❌🎧❌ = 🧑🎤💙
It feels like a satire. Or maybe reality is turning into an end credit scene for Barbie.
I can’t even be sad about it. I am not even shocked in any way.
That’s just how the patriarchy works.
The patriarchy really does win because how can Oscar voters nominate Ryan Gosling as Ken but not nominate Margot Robbie as Barbie and Greta Gerwig for directing?
Very happy that America Ferrera got a nomination though, she deserved it!
I actually think there should be more street justice at the Academy Awards, keeps you humble
#Life imitates art
Euphoria 2.08 / 94th Annual Academy Awards
Bonus:
Tuxedo Time - The Best Looking Men dressed in their Sunday Best
Ok, so maybe on Henley Monday I promised a Tuxedo Tuesday. And maybe yesterday there was a blizzard and I also go distracted and forgot to make the post. Maybe that's all true. But HERE. NOW. I bring you a plethora of photos from Hollywood's Biggest Night.
I bring you...Men In Tuxedos at the Oscars!
First, let's walk down the red carpet....
If you look closely, you can see Mr. Tveit's striped socks. I love a man who has a bit of whimsy when it comes to his dress socks.
Next up is Aaron "Enjolras" Tveit's Les Mis buddy Eddie Redmayne rocking the hell out of his velvet slippers.
Chris Pine went for the double breasted jacket. I die. I just die. He's not alone in his refusal to shave either. Many, many actors declined to rid themselves of facial hair for the black tie event.
This picture of Joseph Gordon Levitt shows the detail on his tux. The fabric has a bit of texture to it, as well as the piping details. I can't tell if the piping is silk or leather. I really want it to be leather.
Bradley Cooper brought his mom! He brought his adorable and precocious mom! She has on a pink ostrich feather stole AND tennis shoes! Brad's three-piece Tom Ford also rule and even though his hair is yucky he looks fine.
My personal fave Chris Evans brought his proud momma along too! She looks radiant. Chris, I love a good bow tie, but I get that's not quite your style.
Then the show started and more men tromped out on stage including this fine selection of male specimen from the Avengers. Samuel L. Jackson gets major points for going with that garnet velvet. Love it.
A whole bunch of awards were given out and the biggest one of the night went to Ben Affleck for Argo! He dressed the part of a best picture winner with a one button, silk lapel jacket, vest, and silk bow-tie! DAMN, AFFLECK, YOUR FACE IS AGING AS WELL AS YOUR CAREER!
Basically I was looking at my TV like this all night long:
Henley Monday -
I don't know about you, but I am still reeling from all the festivities of Oscar night. I laughed, I cried, I know a lot of people thought the show was a disaster, but my blind love for the Academy Awards will not let me agree.
Last night as the stars lined the red carpet, I was reminded that Jennifer Aniston is with Justin Theroux. I was also reminded that Justin Theroux is a total babe. He is so rugged and bad guy hot with a nice guy smile and i love him in this henley and shearling leather coat and beanie. Jen, you lucky bastard...
Natalie Wood photographed at the Annual Academy Awards, April 10th of 1968.
Natalie Wood prepares for the 34th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony, 1962. Allan Grant for Life Magazine.
Natalie Wood photographed by Allan Grant for Life Magazine, preparing for the 1962 Academy Awards.
🔶 Jane Fonda presented the Oscar for Best Picture wearing a "recycled" dress that she wore 6 years ago for Cannes. It's been years since this woman made the public promise to not buy/wear new clothes as her way to protest against climate change.
The Oscars have struggled with a general decline in its TV ratings over the last three decades, they've tried to get back on track by changing the type of hosts, making the ceremony shorter and other stuff. None of it has worked and still refuse to address their three main criticisms: being white, being sexist, and being extremely local.
Dear Oscars,
IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE YOU NEED TO CHANGE.
Golden Globes 2018 // Oscars 2018 // Oscars 2020 Nominees