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Re: Awards Season 2017

#576 Post by PfR73 » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:40 pm

domino harvey wrote:The author of this Variety fluff piece thinks All the Money in the World is nominated for Best Picture
He also thinks that Greta Gerwig was a first time writer-director.

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Re: Awards Season 2017

#577 Post by The Narrator Returns » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:43 pm

And he even gets the studio that released All the Money in the World wrong!

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Re: Awards Season 2017

#578 Post by domino harvey » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:19 pm

For those debating running to the theatre in the next month: Quick turnaround for Best Picture nominees on Blu-ray means all films will be available by March 13 (including honorary nominee I, Tonya) a little over a week after the ceremony. Inexplicably only 2 of the 7 remaining films will be out before the Oscars though (Darkest Hour and Three Billboards)

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#579 Post by swo17 » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:21 pm

Even Phantom Thread?

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#580 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:26 pm

domino harvey wrote:For those debating running to the theatre in the next month: Quick turnaround for Best Picture nominees on Blu-ray means all films will be available by March 13 (including honorary nominee I, Tonya) a little over a week after the ceremony. Inexplicably only 2 of the 7 remaining films will be out before the Oscars though (Darkest Hour and Three Billboards)
We all have MoviePass now, Grandpa

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#581 Post by Ribs » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:44 pm

Yeah, I don't know what Dom's source is, but the Post and Phantom Thread won't be out until April, probably. More significant is that Call Me By Your Name excepted this year's entire lineup will likely be released on UHD (Lady Bird hasn't been confirmed yet, but considering every other A24 movie that's made half as much money as it is has now been put out it seems near certain).

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#582 Post by McCrutchy » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:47 pm

Ribs wrote:Yeah, I don't know what Dom's source is, but the Post and Phantom Thread won't be out until April, probably. More significant is that Call Me By Your Name excepted this year's entire lineup will likely be released on UHD (Lady Bird hasn't been confirmed yet, but considering every other A24 movie that's made half as much money as it is has now been put out it seems near certain).
Did I miss a surprise announcement for Darkest Hour?

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#583 Post by domino harvey » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:49 pm

Ribs wrote:Yeah, I don't know what Dom's source is, but the Post and Phantom Thread won't be out until April, probably. More significant is that Call Me By Your Name excepted this year's entire lineup will likely be released on UHD (Lady Bird hasn't been confirmed yet, but considering every other A24 movie that's made half as much money as it is has now been put out it seems near certain).
The Post release date is March 6 and Phantom Thread March 13 according to Amazon

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#584 Post by Ribs » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:50 pm

Oh, shoot, I forgot about that one, guess my fact was a little off. The fact that Phantom Thread's UHD was happening before it got nominated for Best Picture does make me imagine that Focus is probably planning on doing one for that too, but maybe they'll hold off and release it the same date as the later one (I don't think they've done one yet)?

The date I'm seeing for Phantom Thread is March 27, which I'm not sure about the source of. La La Land, which released in early December, released in Late April. It just seems incredibly abnormal to rush this release, especially considering they weren't anticipating so many Oscar nods. I'm not seeing either of these dates on Amazon listings for DVD, BD, UHD, or Instant.

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#585 Post by domino harvey » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:55 pm

Weird, that's what my Amazon preorders claim the shipping estimate is for each, but there's no info in the listings

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#586 Post by Ribs » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:57 pm

It's possible that's the streaming date and it's somehow gotten confused and pushed that through instead? Which would mean it'll then be 28 days from that point on, which is much more typical. Certainly seems like an odd coincidence for two separate late blooming BP films to both decide on a fairly unprecedented rushed release the same year.

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#587 Post by domino harvey » Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:59 pm

I thought it was surprising too, which is why I posted about it! But it does look like maybe something hinky is going on with Amazon's shipping info instead

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#588 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:18 pm

Ribs wrote:Phantom Thread's UHD
I thought I was done with new disc formats but :-# I guess I'm going UHD Blu-ray player hunting.

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#589 Post by Ribs » Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:29 pm

PTA spoke about doing the HDR grade in his AMA the other week - and this was before it got a Best Picture nomination - so it’s happening (available to order on Amazon.ca, too)

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#590 Post by davoarid » Fri Feb 02, 2018 10:57 pm

Shrew wrote:Shape of Water is in the 60s (in the last days of the reign of a fair prince).
Oh, duh. Even though I *knew* that—a key scene took place on exactly October 22nd, 1962–in my head I still associated the story too strongly with the 1950s sci-do that inspired it. Dumb Davo.

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#591 Post by domino harvey » Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:36 am

Del Toro won DGA. Doesn't clear up Best Picture, but Best Director seems in the bag

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#592 Post by Ribs » Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:48 pm

...it seems very possible that Shape of Water will only get Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. Which is great, those are the two you'd want if any - but it seems really strange that it's just coasting on general goodwill downballot without having enough in any one place to bring home a win (I know it's favored for score, but I'll hold onto the Phantom Thread wave as long as I can). I know Spotlight only got two Oscars two years ago but this line of thinking just seems off somehow, I dunno.

I'm seriously considering actually putting money down on Dunkirk for Best Picture, as I think it's odds are substantially better than the 50:1 payout I'm seeing. But it still probably won't do it.

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Re: Awards Season 2017

#593 Post by domino harvey » Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:53 pm

What's favored over Shape of Water in Production Design? That seems like a logical downballot award for it

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#594 Post by knives » Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:57 pm

Blade Runner, maybe.

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#595 Post by Ribs » Sun Feb 04, 2018 3:04 pm

I'm thinking Blade Runner for that one, just based on the "what has the most Production Design?" metric a lot of people use to vote for these categories. By "very possible" I meant "it is possible," not that it's likely.

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Re: Awards Season 2017

#596 Post by movielocke » Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:36 am

Agnès Varda sent multiple life size cardboard cutouts of herself to the academy nominees luncheon, since she was unable to attend.

Pretty sure she just locked up the win with that delightful stunt, hopefully it doesn’t run afoul of some idiotic and obscure academy rule resulting in her disqualification.

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#597 Post by Ribs » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:27 am

She was going to win anyway, the whole “winning competitive Oscar the same year as an Honorary one” is a tough narrative to beat. Frankly I don’t really see how this one thing would convince somebody to change their vote!

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#598 Post by hearthesilence » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:45 am

Even Kobe Bryant showed up to the luncheon. It's kind of a trip seeing him in the group photo along with a wide range filmmakers (including the Varda cutout).

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#599 Post by zedz » Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:52 pm

Ribs wrote:She was going to win anyway, the whole “winning competitive Oscar the same year as an Honorary one” is a tough narrative to beat. Frankly I don’t really see how this one thing would convince somebody to change their vote!
I think all she needs to win is for people to see the film. Regardless of the relative quality of the other nominees, it would be hard to sit through Visages, Villages and not want to give the woman a prize.

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#600 Post by davoarid » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:51 pm

I’m very happy for her. Cleo from 5 to 7 was my gateway to “serious” film (art-house film?) Caught it when I was 19 and fell in love on the spot.

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