OSCARS

[Frayed Knot]

A Complete Unknown

The Brutalist

The Substance

Wicked

Anora

Dune: Part II

Conclave

Emilia Perez

I'm Still Here

Nickel Boys

[metirish]

If this were the HOF none would get in , seems like a weak list

[cal sharpie]

I've seen three: A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, NICKEL BOYS and EMILIA PEREZ. All three were good.

I'd like to see ANORA and THE BRUTALIST (might actually see that one tomorrow).

Don't know much about THE SUBSTANCE or I'M STILL HERE.

Not interested in seeing WICKED or DUNE: PART TWO.

I would see CONCLAVE when it comes to TV.

[MFS62]

Conclave was nominated for (I think) 8 awards and the director wasn't nominated.

That doesn't happen very often.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

When they upped the nominated movies to ten but left directors capped at five, instances of 'snubbed' directors inevitably became a yearly story.

[Frayed Knot]

Those who Did get Best Director nods:

- Sean Baker: Anora

- Brady Corbet: The Brutalist

- James Mangold: A Complete Unknown

- Jacques Audiard: Emilia Perez

- Coralie Fargeat: The Substance

.... all connected to one of the nominated films

Best Actor:

- Adrian Brody: The Brutalist

- Timothee Chalamet: A Complete Unknown

- Coleman Domingo: Sing Sing

- Ralph Fiennes: Conclave

- Sebastian Stan: The Apprentice

Best Actress:

- Cynthia Erivo: Wicked

- Karla Sofia Gascon: Emilia Perez

- Mikey Madison: Anora

- Demi Moore: The Substance

- Fernanda Torres: I'm Still Here

[Edgy MD]

It'd be very weird, over two decades later, if Adrien Brody won a second Best Actor Academy Award, again playing an Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivor in a film beginning with THE, ending with -IST, and having two syllables in between.

[MFS62]

I think it was at the Golden Globes Awards that someone congratulated Brody for surviving the Holocaust twice.

That said, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Olevai Shalom.

Later

[cal sharpie]

I've not seen THE SUBSTANCE; DUNE: PART TWO or WICKED but I have now seen the other seven.

I would vote, in order:

THE BRUTALIST

ANORA

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

I'M STILL HERE

EMILIA PEREZ

NICKEL BOYS

CONCLAVE

I wouldn't be upset in any of the top four won. Can't understand CONCLAVE winning the SAG and BAFTA Awards. It was just okay.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The only one I've seen, so far, is Conclave. (Just last week, on Peacock.) It was good, but it didn't really smell like a Best Picture.

[Edgy MD]

I haven't seen any, but my notion is that Conclave got honors from SAG because it's a film carried by actors acting.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That may very well be. It has a good cast.

[MFS62]

That may very well be. It has a good cast.

 

... which I have read may hurt Ralph Fiennes in the best actor category because many critics considered this an ensemble-type movie.

Later

[cal sharpie]

Yes, and that is why people thought it won the SAG Award. The BAFTA has me puzzled, however.