Interesting thing Oppenheimer won the exact same number of awards as Everything Everywhere All at Once last year 7. I find that fascinating.
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadI'll admit to Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch here, but I'm kind of biased against Poor Things and would have wanted Barbie to win for the visual and costume categories instead. And it does kind of feel like Lily Gladstone was robbed.
My issue with Poor Things is that I really loved the novel, which is a very realistic-feeling evocation of 19th century Glasgow and an excellent pastiche of 19th century fiction (besides the obvious Frankenstein, I get a lot of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, among several other other works.
The book is kind of like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in that it feels so grounded that the reader finds themselves questioning if it was real.
And like going Tim Burton the way the movie does(and not casting Scots) feels like missing the point. Incidentally, the Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell tv adaptation also went Tim Burton and similarly missed the point.
Edited by Hodor2 on Mar 11th 2024 at 7:45:52 AM
So, yeah. Not a lot to say, honestly.
The only best picture nom I saw fully was Past Lives and... that didn't deserve any Oscars.
I did see about half of Oppenheimer, Barbie, and Maestro. While obviously that's not everything, it was enough that I feel pretty okay with Oppie's near-sweep. I'm still going to finish Barbie and Oppenheimer, but Maestro... I'm good with half.
Nothing I'm really disastisfied with, and the only category I really cared about that was up in the air (best Visual Effects) went the way I wanted (Oscar award winning Godzilla movie let's gooooooooooooooooooooo).
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Emma Stone's first win was seven years ago and even she was convinced Lily Gladstone was gonna win—and rightfully so. Her making it a point to name and focus on her specifically speaks to that certainly.
Also, I found it funny that Al Pacino just rushed straight to the winner without a second thought. Personally, I think he pulled it off better than Tom Hanks in 2010 when he quickly announced The Hurt Locker as the winner with barely any build-up at all.
I find it funny that both the live action best picture and animated best picture depicted opposite sides of WWII.
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.Best Foreign Film and arguably best Visual Effects winners were set in WWII.
So yeah. Over 1/4 of the winners and half the awards went to WWII-adjacent movies.
Huh.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.When they announced Best Picture, I bet everyone was sweating bullets over whether the announcer was accidentally given the extra to Emma Stone's card.
Edited by Brandon on Mar 11th 2024 at 10:03:26 AM
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Makes sense. It still happens, so you gotta call it out. It's like how he drew attention to both Greta and Margot not getting nominated and pointing out to the crowd cheering in agreement that they're the ones who didn't vote for them enough to get them nominated. Haha.
Edited by futuremoviewriter on Mar 11th 2024 at 5:34:31 AM
any person that admited to not even bother watching the movies they're supposed to be judging should be fired, bullshit like that is why the oscars are a joke, zero integrity, objectivity and professionalism from the supposed experts why are nothing but a bunch of overglorified sellouts giving pieces of worthless metal that is only worth anything becouse people have been brainwashed into thinking it does.
If I remember correctly, I think I read somewhere that one of the reasons for why films that are more POC-centered don't get voted for is because many of the (white) voters admitted to not bothering watching them.
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I sort of wonder if that's why Past Lives got nominated. "Wait, Creator/A24 made a movie with an Asian-female lead centered around the idea of alternate life paths? Again? Throw it a best picture nod, quickly!"
Yeah, it's basic "save the best for last."
Edited by Larkmarn on Mar 12th 2024 at 10:40:47 AM
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.I give props to Past Lives for being one of the few "Asian diaspora" works I've seen where the protagonists have good relationships with their parents. Granted, one of the protagonists doesn't live in the diaspora, but still counts I think, especially because we see more of the protagonist who does.
Incidentally, in a weird way I also gave credit to Quiz Lady on this score, because while the protagonists have terrible relationships with their parents, instead of the norm/stereotype of overbearing Asian parents, their parents are extremely neglectful.
Edited by Hodor2 on Mar 12th 2024 at 8:17:32 AM

He was close to get it twice... his best chance was performing Charlie Chaplin on Chaplin (I think the role that pull him to stardom... and all the excess that put him down) when he lost in 1991 against Al Pacino and his blind soldier in Scent of a Woman (that was like, ok, lets give him the Oscar he never got in The Godfather series, while we would say is still one of his finest roles)
Then in 2008 when he performed Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder but has no chance with the Joker of Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight...
Good for him, that finally Downey Jr is able to win an Oscar that was running from him for too long and in a role that definitely pull him away from his Iron Man spocking...