Awards Season 2018

[DarkImbecile]

Given the support from the actor’s branch, I think Roma may now be the clear favorite for Best Picture, though the Editing snub is concerning.

At least we don’t live in a world where “Peter Farrelly, Oscar-nominated director” is a thing.

I have to see Black Panther now but am off the hook for Mary Poppins Returns.

I was hoping the Green Book backlash would be strong enough to clear out space in a couple of other categories as well. I have to see half the nominees, which is odd for me by nomination time: Green Book, Rhapsody, Vice, and A Star is Born.

[domino harvey]

I’ll see if AMC rolls it back out theatrically next week.

For some reason, I thought you were dreading Green Book even more severely.

I suspect Green Book will be a watchable mediocrity, just like fifty other Best Pic nominees no one remembers

[MongooseCmr]

I’m happy it got any nominations but I feel like the Buster Scruggs Adapted Screenplay nom is kind of cheating, eligible for its largely wordless Jack London adaptation but will be voted on for its original sections.

[Apperson]

God the only ones I haven't seen are the ones everyone hates (Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book and Vice), and what the fuck is that Editing category?

[dda1996a]

Haven't seen Vice but found it amusing that the "shitty" block buster Best Picture nominee was each followed by the less mainstream nominees. Depending on Vice and Favorite, I might be 4/8 (more likely 3.5/8 as I didn't care a lot about the Big Short) but this feels like a decent nominee list in all but Best Picture. Ugh.
I feel Roma wasn't nominated for Editing because for the most part it's very long takes just stitched (not a criticism)

[domino harvey]

This is the first year in a long, long time when a film got nominated for a major award that I'd never even heard of: Never Look Away for Best Cinematography. Anyone seen it? Three foreign films nominated in this category, what is this, the sixties?

[bearcuborg]

I haven’t seen it, but there aren’t many people as good as Caleb.

I haven’t watched this thing in ages, and now that there is no Orson Welles related nominations, I guess I can keep that streak going. Was it always an outside shot? I remember the talk of it happening was pretty good, but maybe that was just here.

[HitchcockLang]

What a lackluster bunch of nominees but feels a little less all-over-the-place than the Globes. I can't help but wonder now how different this would look if the Academy had kept the Best Popular Film category. Not saying they should have, just wondering how it might have changed things.

[mfunk9786]

This is the first year in a long, long time when a film got nominated for a major award that I'd never even heard of: Never Look Away for Best Cinematography. Anyone seen it? Three foreign films nominated in this category, what is this, the sixties?

LQ was reading a piece on it in the New Yorker yesterday, apparently there's a pretty fascinating backstory there.

I'm very sad about Hawke, but saw it coming. Frankly, I can't remember the last time I felt so disengaged by a list of nominees. May the best, uh, film win.

[Never Cursed]

Shame about First Reformed (and I like Dafoe, but what the fuck is he doing nominated), but overall not too many complaints besides the aforementioned and The Other Side Of The Wind disappearing from Editing. Still betting on A Star Is Born winning the big prize

[TMDaines]

This sounds nuts but it apparently is true: Marina de Tavira is only the second foreign-language nomination ever in Best Supporting Actress, the other being Valentina Cortese in La nuit américaine

Shows the superiority of American and British actresses.

[Randall Maysin]

Isn't there also Berenice Bejo, in 2011, for The Artist? They really should just stop nominating foreign language films in any category except the one created for them, although I suppose it can be great additional exposure for worthy artists who might not otherwise receive it on that level.

[bearcuborg]

Wasn’t Emily Blunt also hyped earlier this year?

[domino harvey]

Isn't there also Berenice Bejo, in 2011, for The Artist?

Good eye, I had some doubts but couldn't think of anything to dispute it

[lacritfan]

Alfonso Cuaron Ties Record With 4 Nominations for 'Roma'

Also Won't You Be My Neighbor? wasn't nominated

[felipe]

Isn't there also Berenice Bejo, in 2011, for The Artist?

Good eye, I had some doubts but couldn't think of anything to dispute it

Does she have any lines in "The Artist?" Does it even count as a "foreign-language nomination?"

[domino harvey]

No, but it was a French film regardless. Maybe that was their loophole reasoning for excluding her, though

[felipe]

Got it. I guess there should be a huge asterisk though, since the film does not contain a foreign language

[domino harvey]

I'm seeing it floated that de Tavira is the first Oscar acting nom of the modern era to get in with absolutely no precursor award nominations. Not even a local critics org gave her anything

[Fiery Angel]

I’ll see if AMC rolls it back out theatrically next week.

For some reason, I thought you were dreading Green Book even more severely.

I suspect Green Book will be a watchable mediocrity, just like fifty other Best Pic nominees no one remembers

It's going to win too: the Argo/Driving Miss Daisy effect.

[tenia]

I just realised Roma is in both BP and BP Foreign.
It's like the Academy just gave up trying to find an eighth good US movie after having already crammed Green Book, Vice, Black Panther and Bohemian Rhapsody in there.
Comme to think about it, that's quite a dreadful list of BP nominees.

I suspect Green Book will be a watchable mediocrity, just like fifty other Best Pic nominees no one remembers

Could be worse : it could win BP and be forgotten in 10 months, just like Paul Haggis' Crash.

[domino harvey]

As someone who posts on the Internet, you know full well Crash is maybe the most remembered Best Picture winner of recent times. Just not positively

[Luke M]

Disappointed to not see If Beale Street Could Talk nominated for cinematography. It was the most beautiful film I saw last year.

[Brian C]

As someone who posts on the Internet, you know full well Crash is maybe the most remembered Best Picture winner of recent times. Just not positively

Right. I think tenia meant to say “The King’s Speech.” Although it did get a shoutout on Brooklyn Nine-Nine last week.

[bearcuborg]

Shame about First Reformed (and I like Dafoe, but what the fuck is he doing nominated), but overall not too many complaints besides the aforementioned and The Other Side Of The Wind disappearing from Editing. Still betting on A Star Is Born winning the big prize

Best picture was a long shot, but yeah-I figured at least editing.