91st Academy Awards

It did get Best Animated Feature, which was widely derided as a Consolation Award.

Green Book is probably winning best picture, but I’m hoping to see BP pick up best costume and production design.

I'm sitting here thinking "wait, why was Bao nominated for animated short this time around, didn't it premiere with Coco?"

But nooope, I saw it in front of Incredibles 2; 2018 just felt like such an unbelievably long year that it tricked my brain.

Edited by Pseudopartition on Jan 22nd 2019 at 10:29:04 AM

The short with Coco was the most controversial one, namely, that 22-minute Olaf from Frozen short with the title I can't remember.

Olaf's Frozen Adventure was what it was called.

I'm actually going to question the legitimacy of that article. It looks like an opinion piece in a business publication website and reads like speculation using unconfirmed sources with a bias that Black Panther was the greatest movie ever. The article itself seems to downplay the fact there is significant minority representation this year (much of it Mexican due to Roma). The fact there are ten Best Picture nominees and five for Best Director means not every one will net both, and Michael B. Jordan was basically the only one who maybe had a shot at an acting nominee.

Even still, after the nominees are set no one can vote in a category unless they've seen every one.

Regarding the animated film category it's certainly a trade off. On the one hand it is separating it from the "real" films but on the other it means that more animated movies will get recognized for their artistic merit rather than having to compete with literally everything else. Toy Story 3 does set a precedence that an animated film can hit both categories.

Well, Roma will have to show it is also possible to WIN in two best movie categories….

I’m still mad Green Book was nominated, especially after it came out that the screenwriter completely made up half of it and egregiously misrepresented Dr. Shirley. Plus it’s apparently not good even as a film.

Well, than you might be happy that what I said about Black Panther and A Star is Born applies to Green Book, too: No director nomination, kind of unlikely that it will win.

Listening to Danny Bonaduce's radio show on the way home, and they bring up the Oscar nomination list. They mention how history was made last night with the nominations, and at first I think they're gonna mention Black Panther being the first superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture...

... only for them to talk about Glenn Close being nominated a 7th time, and if she loses she'll hold the record for most nominations, and no wins.

I thought, "Yeah, that's the most noteworthy thing about the nominations..."

Edited by Brandon on Jan 23rd 2019 at 7:05:21 AM

I don't know if this has been mentioned upthread but there's a Latina nominated for Best Actress which has only happened like three times in the whole history of the Oscars.

Academy Award For Best Animated Short Film, who's gonna win? I've seen 4 of 5 now and I think I'd vote for Late Afternoon.

I’ve only seen Bao (which I liked), so I can’t make a call.

Saw Bao in theaters and found three more on the internet.

While 4 of 5 of the animated shorts are easy to find, only one live action short is readily available: Fauve, which is on Vimeo. It's quite good, and quite chilling.

One of the other live action shorts is based on the murder of James Bulger. I'd planned to watch the whole Live Action program on pay-per-view but I dunno if I can watch that one.

I loved Fauve. I suspect the gratuitous English could be natural to Quebec kids.

I just saw If Beale Street Could Talk. Holy god, that movie is a beautiful punch in the gut. Wow. I am furious it didn’t get nominations for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, because it goddamn deserved them.

Yes, from what I've read Québécois swear words are mostly from Roman Catholic liturgy, stuff like "tabernac!" A good F-bomb probably packs more punch.

And if you want to soften the swear word say "tabernush." Kind of like saying "fudge" instead of "fuck".

And if you want to soften the swear word say "tabernush." Kind of like saying "frick" instead of "fuck".

Anyone else thinking Best Animated will be a tight one this year? For my money...

• Spider-verse is the best overall.
• Isle of Dogs is the strongest technically, but might be held back by the cultural appropriation controversy.
• Incredibles 2 is Pixar; nothing more needs to be said.

It shouldn't be. Into the Spider-verse is the clear winner if you ask animation fans.

Yeah, having seen Isle Of Dogs and Incredibles 2 but not Spider-Verse... I'm pretty sure Spider-Verse deserves this. The other two... they're both only okay. Like, a solid B. Maybe. Everything I've heard about Spider-Verse paints it in a much better light.

Incredibles 2 was fine but didn’t stick with me. I refuse to see Isle of Dogs because the trailers and concept look stupid (and all the reviews about appropriation didn’t help.)

I LOVED Spider-Verse. Just an incredible work of art.

I just saw Incredibles 2 on Netflix yesterday and it was a good movie. I liked it a lot.

I loved Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. I came out of that movie theater grinning like a maniac, it was so good.