It’s the end of the season/decade/century/millennium! Thank you
@msmlroberts
for helping me break down Hilary’s *first* victory over Annette, Janet in a Sundance darling, Julianne going British, and Meryl tying the acting nomination record for…learning the violin. Enjoy!
This week on the season finale of AND THE RUNNER-UP IS 🥈,
@msmlroberts
joins me to break down the 1999 Best Actress race, where Hilary Swank beat Annette Bening, Janet McTeer, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep. Listen now!
The Oscar producers' decision to move Best Actor *after* Best Picture in 2021 because they were presumably banking on an emotional Chadwick Boseman win to close out the night...only for Anthony Hopkins to win who wasn't even present to accept
CBS, Fox, Netflix, Amazon, ABC/Disney+/Hulu, Apple TV+, the Turner Network and the Roku Channel all reportedly passed on airing the 2024 Golden Globes.
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I honestly think Lady Gaga should host the Oscars next year. It's clear from her interactions with Liza Minnelli (and others over the years) that she has great respect for legacy, which is what the Oscars need more of, and she obviously knows how to work a crowd. Lock her in now!
Can't wait for Martin Scorsese to direct a 3-hour anti-superhero film full of sex scenes. Maybe throw in an age gap, as a treat. Let's destroy this bird app once and for all.
Everything Everywhere All at Once may have won Best Picture, but the bigger victory this week was finally surpassing Morbius at the domestic box office
Read what 5 anonymous Academy members voted for at the Oscars: 'Licorice Pizza' was just 'another white guy reminiscing about his white guy childhood,' according to one director.
I really like a lot of the frontrunners in Best Actress this year, but it’s disappointing to see the same 5-7 names in every critics group lineup while those that need championing like Teyana Taylor in A Thousand and One and Trace Lysette in Monica are paid dust.
Just once I would like to read one of these "brutally honest Oscar voters" pieces that doesn't blast the female/minority-led film or suggest ulterior motives for why they're nominated.
Remember when Jane Lynch was the no-brainer locked Emmy frontrunner for the first season of Glee? Let’s do that again with Janelle James for Abbott Elementary.
Do you ever think about how Anthony Hopkins presented both of Emma Thompson's Oscars to her and how great they were together in Howards End and The Remains of the Day and how they should make another movie with each other or are you normal
Future generations of Oscar completists will watch this film for the first time, divorced from the context of this season, and wonder why neither of them won.
Wow, Aunjanue Ellis is now the *ninth* actress from The Help nominated for an Oscar, joining Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney, Mary Steenburgen, Sissy Spacek, and Cicely Tyson
This is the movie where I actually googled who is the actress acting alongside Viola Davis. It’s the phenomenal Aunjanue Ellis as Yule May. She was so memorable and forceful in that one scene.
Another THE HELP star got her Oscar nomination recognition. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The Emmys: where the Best Drama Series winner is funnier than the Best Comedy Series winner and the Best Limited Series winner could get a second season with the same characters!
There was some off and on chatter at my showing of Killers of the Flower Moon but whenever Lily Gladstone appeared, the theater went quiet. That’s impact.
Whether The Power of the Dog or CODA wins the Oscar, one thing's for certain - I won't be able to add it to my Best Picture Blu-ray collection for a while, if at all 🙃
Small list of actors with nominations at Critics Choice, Golden Globes, SAG, and BAFTA:
Benedict Cumberbatch
Will Smith
Lady Gaga
Troy Kotsur
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Caitríona Balfe
Ariana DeBose
“And if the voters had known they would give Jodie an Oscar three years later for The Silence of the Lambs, they would’ve given it to Glenn for Dangerous Liaisons in ‘88, and then we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now”
ROMA really snuck up on me. For the first hour I was half living in the slice-of-life nature of the story and half wondering what the enormous hype was all about, and then the second hour came and I was like I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY AND I AM GRATEFUL THIS EXISTS IN THE WORLD
Based on these initial reviews, Rita Moreno could get an Oscar nomination for a remake of a movie she won an Oscar for 60 years ago — icon behavior if you ask me
Also no female screenwriters. The only nominees for Best Picture (Drama or Comedy/Musical) with any kind of female lead are MARRIAGE STORY and KNIVES OUT.
Thinking about how critics' support largely helped Drive My Car to a Best Picture nomination, yet it's the only film from the Oscar lineup *not* in Best Picture at the Critics Choice Awards 🥴
Coming soon: my in-depth interview with Jodie Comer about her performance in The Last Duel, and a tiny little tease about Killing Eve Season 4. Stay tuned!
My yearly tradition of anticipating a movie for months and it actually living up to expectations continues in earnest (2021: The Power of the Dog; 2022: TÁR; 2023: this.)
FACT CHECK: Sunset Boulevard did not, in fact, win Best Picture and there's a fascinating podcast with a cute/funny host and a smart YouTube person about why it lost.
Anyway he's racist.
Now that I've seen everything, my rankings for all 23
#Oscars
categories:
BEST PICTURE
1. The Power of the Dog
2. Drive My Car
3. West Side Story
4. Licorice Pizza
5. CODA
6. Dune
7. King Richard
8. Nightmare Alley
9. Belfast
10. Don't Look Up
Really hoping Dolly de Leon can take this momentum from the LAFCA win and Golden Globe nom all the way to the Oscars. Could see a Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom-style path for her.
The Guardian is reporting that Olivia Colman was meant to accept Anthony Hopkins’ award for Best Actor, but instead the ceremony ended abruptly.
#Oscars