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The Oscars (Academy Awards, Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globes etc)
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Moe_Syzlak
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I certainly hope it’s just a very vocal minority, but the backlash that a “non-American” movie could win Best Picture that I’m seeing is just sad and pathetic.
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^ Legitimately dangerous forms of hate speech should be identified and called out, but with everyday bigoted trollery, I think it's usually best to ignore it than to give it recognition, even in the form of criticism. As the saying goes: if one wrestles with a pig, both parties get dirty, and the pig likes it.
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Yeah that’s essentially what I’ve done: ignore it and not engage. It’s still just sad.
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Great for 'Parasite', it's only a shame it won best International film too. It would've been nice for something like Corpus Christi, or Pain and Glory to have got some limelight too.
Pretty cool that Hildur Guonadottir became the first woman to win the 'Best Original Score' award for 'Joker'. There were three other women who got awards for adapting existing music (when that was a bonus award) and in the late 90s when they briefly gave bonus awards for comedy and music scores. Guonadottir is the first to get the main one. She did the acclaimed 'Chernobyl' mini series too, I really must get round to watching that.
I had a suspicion that the most nominated film 'Joker' would get shafted in most categories outside Best Actor. 'The Irishman' walked away with nothing from 10 noms but the spontaneous standing ovation for Scorsese instigated by Boon joon-ho made up for it.
Luckily I don't have any good feelings towards that character which could've been tainted by you telling me she directed that monstrosity
... but seriously, good for her. Not everybody manages to carve out a successful career after Trek.
Pretty cool that Hildur Guonadottir became the first woman to win the 'Best Original Score' award for 'Joker'. There were three other women who got awards for adapting existing music (when that was a bonus award) and in the late 90s when they briefly gave bonus awards for comedy and music scores. Guonadottir is the first to get the main one. She did the acclaimed 'Chernobyl' mini series too, I really must get round to watching that.
I had a suspicion that the most nominated film 'Joker' would get shafted in most categories outside Best Actor. 'The Irishman' walked away with nothing from 10 noms but the spontaneous standing ovation for Scorsese instigated by Boon joon-ho made up for it.
Gaith said:TM2YC said:
You left out the most/only interesting thing about this movie... its director!
Luckily I don't have any good feelings towards that character which could've been tainted by you telling me she directed that monstrosity
... but seriously, good for her. Not everybody manages to carve out a successful career after Trek.
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TM2YC said:
Yes. Yes, you must. It's superb and her score is a highlight.
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The Golden Globes have released their nominations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78th_Golden_Globe_Awards
Some will inevitably also be nominated for Oscars, whenever that happens this year (currently scheduled to be announced 15th March, for an April 25th ceremony). So to get a head start I've done a Letterboxd list of all 37 films nominated:
https://letterboxd.com/tm2yc/list/golden-globe-2021-nominations/
I'll update it with Oscar nominations and BAFTAs (nominations announced 9th March, for an 11th April ceremony). I've seen 11 so far, with a couple of months to go.
As is to be expected this year, there are lot of nominations for streaming servies Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV+, Disney+, HBOmax and Hulu. The amount of downtime industry people have had this year could potentially mean they will have actually seen many more of these films in the convenience of their homes than usual. This could lead to a more diverse range of films picking up prizes? The only blockbuster on the GG noms list is Tenet, partly because it was one of only two films (the other is Wonder Woman 1984) to try and bust any blocks .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78th_Golden_Globe_Awards
Some will inevitably also be nominated for Oscars, whenever that happens this year (currently scheduled to be announced 15th March, for an April 25th ceremony). So to get a head start I've done a Letterboxd list of all 37 films nominated:
https://letterboxd.com/tm2yc/list/golden-globe-2021-nominations/
I'll update it with Oscar nominations and BAFTAs (nominations announced 9th March, for an 11th April ceremony). I've seen 11 so far, with a couple of months to go.
As is to be expected this year, there are lot of nominations for streaming servies Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV+, Disney+, HBOmax and Hulu. The amount of downtime industry people have had this year could potentially mean they will have actually seen many more of these films in the convenience of their homes than usual. This could lead to a more diverse range of films picking up prizes? The only blockbuster on the GG noms list is Tenet, partly because it was one of only two films (the other is Wonder Woman 1984) to try and bust any blocks
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Were the Assistant and Da 5 Bloods not eligible?
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TM2YC said:
My opinion is this was due to the way the Oscar zeitgeist often works. That was a "career nomination" and the sense that it was "her time". Here you have an older woman who not only beat the odds to continue a robust film career, but also has continued making films about sex and love centered around her, despite her age. That really resonates with female Academy votes, a cinderella story. She also didn't get the award for Under the Sand, or The Swimming Pool, or even The Eye of the Storm. I think there was a sense of "this is the best work she's ever going to do, now is our last chance to give it to her."
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TM2YC said:
Fantastic of you to put up all those links to the films. Unfortunately most of them are down now... wish I would have caught on to this thread back then, it would've made seeing them much easier!
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asterixsmeagol said:
You would've hoped, right? Nothing like it in film history. But it doesn't have the seem veneer as a film like Boyhood. It's not a serious feelm.
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mnkykungfu said:
I don't pay much attention to the Oscars but couldn't you have said this about Return of the King?
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mnkykungfu said:
The youtube channel 'Short of the Week' features many of the films that eventually get nominated, for free and officially but only for a limited time and probably not after the noms are announced. They still have some of the past years short nominations to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/c/shortoftheweek/videos