Noah Schnapp on The Duffers’ approach to Will’s sexuality in
#StrangerThings
“I feel like they never really address it or blatantly say how Will is. I think that’s the beauty of it, that it’s just up to the audience’s interpretation.”
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i really dont want HBOMax to die. People really dont seem to grasp that they're the only major streaming platform that believes movies made before 2000 exist.
like i watch a lot of hulu and netflix but they completely suck in comparison if you care about the history of the medium and not just whatever came out last year.
all that said whoever is charge needs to be fired because they dont seem to grasp why HBO has always been well regarded. Hint: it's not because of cheap-to-produce reality shows that you can get basically anywhere.
With so much Oscar season experience under his belt, Bradley Cooper has learned something important about the awards circuit: It’s “utterly meaningless.” Here's what he had to say:
some fun trivia to leave you with:
- Guillermo del Toro's win means Mexican directors have won Best Director four out of the last five years!
- Jordan Peele is the first black winner of Best Original Screenplay
- James Ivory is the oldest Oscar winner ever at 89
@charmedangelin
i would understand this perspective except for the fact that the show is *very* explicit and has been since season 1 about the sexuality of the straight characters. We're constantly in their relationships and crushes and whatnot. So why should it be different for a gay character?
that TÁR and NOPE aren't on the Oscar shortlist for Sound and that EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE isn't in the Visual Effects shortlist is just such a sobering reminder that the Academy's imagination can be severely limited when it comes to those categories.
Somewhat lost in the hubbub last nite, partially due to
@TheAcademy
’s disrespect of the demoted categories, is the fact that Riz Ahmed is now an Oscar winner! Other famous actors who have won this category include Christine Lahti, Ray McKinnon, and Peter Capaldi
It's grossly unfair that y'all get a new Batman every few years to claim is the "best yet" but there are no semi-annual reboots of THE HOURS with a different trio of prestige actresses each time.
I'm so tired of every blockbuster people like getting the "it should be nominated for Best Picture!" treatment. Do you all really want the Oscars to be aspire to be... "The People's Choice Awards"?
Do you ever think about how ZODIAC (2007) won zero 'best film' critics prizes and received only about 10 critics prize best film nominations yet most critics act like they've always thought it a masterpiece?
so frustrating that the musical form no longer has directors who understand how to shoot dance like Fosse could (and keep hiring people who cant dance rather than hiring superb dancers like Reinking)
Fun trivia: If Ellen Burstyn is nominated for PIECES OF A WOMAN it will have been 20 years since her last nod REQUIEM FOR A DREAM which was also 20 years since the nod before that RESURRECTION.
#Oscars
tbh kind of freaked out at the prodigiousness of Paul Mescal's performance in NORMAL PEOPLE. Have not seen a (male) performance this good since... since... since... someone help me. Feels like looking directly into someone's soul.
I live in fear that Saoirse Ronan is going to win for a bad performance one day when she's older... like so many great stars who were brilliant multiple times early in their careers but didnt win.
I dont understand the "Oscars for HAMILTON" narrative. That's what those 11 Tony Awards were for. Wait for a film adaptation to honor it with film awards, please.
It's such a relief that the Oscars are going to cut down on the type of emotional speeches and rooting interest we're seeing tonight to make room for twitter fan service, a random superhero cheer moment, and comedy bits.
I dont dislike BELFAST as so many on twitter seem to, but awards for its black and white cinematography are so silly when PASSING's visuals are right there, running circles around it, both in terms of beauty and in terms of narrative / thematic service.
@eiynej
true. the bean counters dont understand the psychic / cultural value of a library. It's not really how often you use the library, it's knowing it's there and paying your taxes/subscription dollars to make sure it stays there. If HBO dumps the library, there's no pt in subscribing
Embarrassed for the world that it went so crazy for BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY when ROCKETMAN was right there around the corner deserving the hoopla, and approximately 1,000,000 x over a better film.
can someone explain to me what actors see in JARED LETO? that's two consecutive nominations at SAG for Razzie level work. I'd understand it if he were beloved /revered in the community like a Streep or Hanks but that is never the kind of thing you hear about working with him
Someday there's going to be a tell-all book behind the scenes at the Mouse House about how Disney executives turned against their best asset and most reliable Oscar-winning cash-cow
Pixar’s ‘TURNING RED’ will no longer release in theaters and will release exclusively on Disney+ on March 11.
See what other release dates have changed:
@CapitalGamesPod
I love Criterion Channel too but it's not really "mainstream". It's for cinephiles. And their selections often skew that way. I think it's very important that older films, whether they have artistic / auterist ambitions or not, are available.
I guess this man isn't as smart as I thought he was. ah well. tv for adults gets popular all the time but for some reason movies for adults are NOT SOMETHING YOU SHOULD WATCH... and you should definitely feel embarrassed about liking them! Just explosions & superpowers, plz.
Happy birthday to my pforever queen MICHELLE PFEIFFER ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ (who, in a perfect world, would already have won multiple Oscars from several nominations)
Real question. Not looking for snark. Is there any acclaimed film in the past few years (including this one) that you felt was genuinely bad but most people you knew were obsessed and calling it a masterwork and you kept being like "wut? I'm not trying to be contrarian!"
One of the reasons I know that POWER OF THE DOG is a masterpiece is every critique of it never holds any water. I am happy to read criticisms of films I love and sometimes they make great points. But i've yet to read a negative take on TPOTD that made any goddamn sense.
You guys. It is March. Please stop saying THE BATMAN deserves Oscar nominations. It's too early to be a five best anything. You still haven't seen like 93% of its competition.
thinking about Glenn Close lately & one thing that's really annoyed me online is everyone painting her as this thirstymonster 4 Oscar. She's not half as thirsty as say DiCaprio or Winslet were. Aside from a relatable shrug that ONE TIME (The Wife) she's visibly happy for others.
i'm convinced that ENCANTO would have blossomed into a huge leggy box office hit had Disney not presented it as a "it'll be on Disney+ in a month" from the jump.
Weekly reminder that THE WIFE made more at the box office than FIRST REFORMED, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, SUSPIRIA, LEAVE NO TRACE, BURNING, COLD WAR, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, AT ETERNITY'S GATE, SUPPORT THE GIRLS, and ROMA
This forever. The Oscars is the highest rated non-sports event and every year we hear how they should take cues from the Grammys / Emmys / Tonys or what have you -- all of which have lower ratings. It's mass insanity echo-chamber between the media, ABC and the Academy.
The term "Oscar Bait" has indeed lost all meaning. I remember when it was applied to a silent-film aping black and white comedy from France and that one about the woman who f***s the sea-creature, too.
So funny when I see people refer to Drive My Car as Oscar bait (a redundant term anyway), yes the 3 hour long Murakami adaptation ruminating on grief involving heavy Chekhov referencesand distributed by Janus Films was purposefully designed in a lab to get Oscar noms lmao
Richard E Grant is spending so much time being joyous, gracious, and fun on the campaign trail that one begins to wonder if he can pull off a surprise upset on Oscar night. Especially since he's had a long career and is so f'in brilliant in CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
"Oh Shut up!" is exactly what I wanted to say to everyone on twitter all yr belittling her amazingly weird inventive turn (so many fun physical choices/ killer line readings). Y'all really dont appreciate comedy and then out the side of your mouth complain that the Oscars dont'
Congratulations to Ruth E Carter for her nomination for BLACK PANTHER's amazing costumes. With this third nod she ties Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer as the most-nominated black woman of all time.
#OscarNoms
I've been thinking about THE LEFTOVERS a lot lately and how when i first watched it I was like 'would losing 2% of the population really make people *this* crazy?' and wow, wow, wow, was I wrong. Obviously the show was deeply restrained about how f***ed up people are.
Communal hatred of Gwyneth Paltrow as an actress is one of the dumber things i've witnessed in my lifetime. She's excellent in several movies including this one.
Today's silly Oscar trivia. The oldest director submitted for Best International Feature Film this year, Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland's EO) is the only director in the mix this year who has also acted in the MCU. He "interrogated" Scarlett Johansson in THE AVENGERS
did i just block out NOMADLAND hate in its year? Seeing a lot of it lately and don't get it. Incredibly evocative movie and a nice palate cleanser as a Best Picture winner... something intimate and small that feels vast. Zhao & McDormand are both so crazy gifted.
Seriously what gives with Kentucky consistently reelecting this ghoul for decades? Fiction writers would be utterly mocked for creating a character this cartoonishly obviously vile and evil and then readers would eagerly await the character's downfall. But not Kentucky?
since ppl keep talking about how badly Jamie Lee Curtis wants an Oscar nod, I would just like to say 3 things:
1. She absolutely is overdue having been worthy at least thrice before (A Fish Called Wanda, True Lies, Freaky Friday)
2. She is funny/inspired in EEAAO and...
58 is way too young. So sad about Jean-Marc Vallée. First noticed him with C.R.A.Z.Y., BIG LITTLE LIES is deservedly legendary and WILD (his best film) is superb. This is a terrible shock.
@Lexialex
please don't forget that his dear friend Sir Ian McKellen is also an awesome activist 😍 Hoping they are both honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Awards from the Academy at some point.
why cant there be an action franchise with Helen Mirren, Angela Bassett, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Ngo, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, Thandiwe Newton, and Michelle Yeoh? Who needs all these men?
Kidman buzz for BEING THE RICARDOS brings up the eternal question: How many times in her career does this woman need to prove people wrong for doubting her?
My fervent wish is that one year there will be so many of these that 25% of all Academy members will spontaneously combust from the excitement and we can finally move past the biopic / 'transformation' fetish once those members are replaced.
Your eyes aren't deceiving you. Here's Bradley Cooper fully transformed into Leonard Bernstein for
#Maestro
, his directorial follow-up to "A Star Is Born." More first look details here:
Every time I think i'm done obsessing on this movie, something or somebody will remind me of a particular moment or scene and it starts all over again. People will still be discusssing this movie in 2042. VOTE FOR IT.
Best Picture Winner for BAFTA and CCA Awards and nominated for 12
#AcademyAwards
including Best Picture,
#ThePowerOfTheDog
is carefully crafted and elevated by its superb script.
Check out this exclusive script-to-screen. 🎥🎞
-Nicolas Cage is very good in PIG
-Everyone who called it his best performance needs to actually, um, watch his movies
('two things can be true', Nicolas Cage edition)
my fav red carpet moment last night was Kiki Dunst correcting that 'first-time at SAG' narrative. 'it's not my first time, I won as part of the cast for Hidden Figures'... ❤️ it when actors *don't* pretend they don't know about their own awards history.
What's a nomination you could see happening (a long shot but not remotely impossible!) that would thrill you on Tuesday?
One of mine: THE GREEN KNIGHT for Best Costume Design
as someone who mostly likes BEING THE RICARDOS but not enough to always be defending it (i truly dont care about it!) I am deeply horrified that Bardem might be getting that 5th best actor slot because...WHY? It's not like it's slim pickings out there for lead actors!
it's funny that people complained that SPIDER-MAN 3 had too many villains (3) and now they're rejoicing that they have clues about NO WAY HOME having 6 villains 🕷️
I am recording the names of everyone rooting for CODA to win BP on twitter so we can shame them when they declare it a bad BP winner on future twitter threads and polls in a few years time.🧐
Sad trivia: PARASITE is the third Asian ensemble picture to score a Best Picture nomination but as with the previous two instances, The Last Emperor (1987) and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) none of its actors were nominated
#Oscars
Wonder what 2022's SPENCER will be. A movie that film twitter goes batshit crazy for and insists is locked for gold all year but than the industry is like 'nah, but thanks.'
Why aren't people talking about Felix Kamerrer's performance in ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT? Is it the subtitles? the youth? the misconception that all performances in "director's films" are only a credit to the director?
If LICORICE PIZZA gets a ton of nominations (as people are suggesting) can we please go back in time and let this Academy vote on the BOOGIE NIGHTS year because I'm still not over only 3 measly nominations for that.
The morning's most awful snub is surely Ethan Hawke in Best Actor. It's the biggest sweep by an actor across critics prizes that I can recall to have missed the Oscars since Peter Sarsgaard in Shattered Glass back in 2003.
Pleasantly surprised to see how well DRIVE MY CAR is doing at the box office. Half a million already. It'll soon be the second biggest movie from Janus Films at the US box office (
#1
is THE GREAT BEAUTY)
It took me a week and a half but just now realized that ELVIS has the exact same Oscar nods as MOULIN ROUGE! (picture, lead acting, cinematography, costumes, prod design, film editing, makeup, and sound.)
Now that Oscar voting is over I just want to say I LOVE YOU to all the Academy voters who took it seriously and watched many movies and made thoughtful choices. May your votes outnumber the people who were not so conscientous and watched only like 8 screeners before voting!
WEST SIDE STORY missing in "Cast" just like THE POST. One of these years studios will realize that you gotta get the movie to the voters in a timely fashion, even if Steven Spielberg directed it!
i'm still so mad about this. I enjoy Carell (in general) but he had no business being there when GYLLENHAAL and FIENNES (both with win-worthy work) were shut out.