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Variety's Critics' Worst of 2018

Peter Debruge:
Avengers: Infinity War
Duck Butter
Gotti
Life Itself
London Fields

Owen Glieberman:
Death of a Nation
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Disney's Christopher Robin
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Hunter Killer

Not that I loved the movie or anything, but Gleiberman's linked take on The Miseducation of Cameron Post is maybe the stupidest possible reading of that movie

Just a heads up that today (probably sometime around the afternoon), the Academy is announcing their shortlists for 9 categories:

Best Original Song
Best Original Score
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short
Best Animated Short
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling
Best Visual Effects

The only one most of us care about

Colombia, “Birds of Passage”
Denmark, “The Guilty”
Germany, “Never Look Away”
Japan, “Shoplifters”
Kazakhstan, “Ayka”
Lebanon, “Capernaum”
Mexico, “Roma”
Poland, “Cold War”
South Korea, “Burning”

I'd be pretty happy if Annihilation's score made it to the final five.

I haven't seen all the foreign film shortlisters yet, but I can already say that Birds of Passage, Burning, Cold War, Roma, and Shoplifters would be a stellar set of finalists.

I know sometimes Desplait gets in for nothing special scores, but Isle of Dogs absolutely deserves to win, so it had better at least be nominated

I'm struggling to remember any score from a movie this year other than Under the Silver Lake

domino harvey wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:04 pm The only one most of us care about

Colombia, “Birds of Passage”
Denmark, “The Guilty”
Germany, “Never Look Away”
Japan, “Shoplifters”
Kazakhstan, “Ayka”
Lebanon, “Capernaum”
Mexico, “Roma”
Poland, “Cold War”
South Korea, “Burning”

I've seen all 87 submissions for this year. Though I cannot discuss my opinions regarding the shortlisted film, this isn't a bad list.

The two scores that struck me as notable from the potential nominees were Annihilation and First Man, though I've heard good things about If Beale Street Could Talk. I haven't looked back at past shortlists, but there does seem to be a disproportionate amount of bombastic "Most Score" contenders on this list...

swo17 wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:20 pm I'm struggling to remember any score from a movie this year other than Under the Silver Lake

I’m surprised You Were Never Really Here didn’t make the shortlist. I wouldn’t expect it as a winner for the Academy, but Greenwood was nominated last year.

Oh yeah, that one too!

Damn, that's right... was it not eligible for some arcane/arbitrary/asinine reason?

Here's a few of the short listed animated films:One Small Step, Pepe le Morse, and Age of Sail

I don't know about You Were Never Really Here, but Under the Silver Lake will only be released in the U.S. next year, so it wasn't expected to be eligible for this year's awards.

And kudos to my country, which hasn't been shortlisted in the Foreign Language category since 2008 (or nominated since 1999)!

DarkImbecile wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:48 pm Damn, that's right... was it not eligible for some arcane/arbitrary/asinine reason?

They didn't publicly release a list of eligible scores this year, but it wasn't among the scores reported by Variety to have been unexpectedly deemed ineligible, which included other notable would-be contenders like Solo (because Lucasfilm missed the submission deadline), The Other Side of the Wind (due to the prominence of pre-existing music), and Jóhann Jóhannsson's final effort, Mandy (for an arcane/arbitrary/asinine reason).

If You Were Never Really Here is eligible in other categories it's hard to imagine a reason it would have been ineligible in this one.

The Swedish entry Border makes the shortlist for Make-up and Hairstyling, but not the shortlist for Foreign Film. That's gotta be a rare one.

swo17 wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:20 pm I'm struggling to remember any score from a movie this year other than Under the Silver Lake

Mandy.

Coincidentally, that one is on its way to me from Netflix this week!

Has Peter Jackson said why he did not submit They Shall Not Grow Old for best documentary?

I think that the doc feature short list will most likely contains more interesting films than any fiction category.

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/oscar ... 202028796/

Here’s the shortlist contenders:

“Charm City”
“Communion”
“Crime + Punishment”
“Dark Money”
“The Distant Barking of Dogs”
“Free Solo”
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
“Minding the Gap”
“Of Fathers and Sons”
“On Her Shoulders”
“RBG”
“Shirkers”
“The Silence of Others”
“Three Identical Strangers”
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

Sad not to see Sunset on the Foreign shortlist as I'd heard good things about it. Hopefully Roma, Cold War, Burning, and Shoptlifters make it. Didn't really care for the rest/seen.

TraverseTown wrote: Tue Dec 18, 2018 12:19 am The Swedish entry Border makes the shortlist for Make-up and Hairstyling, but not the shortlist for Foreign Film. That's gotta be a rare one.

The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared was nominated, not just shortlisted.

Glenn Kenny's Best of 2018 — which inexplicably includes The 15:17 to Paris, as the "Best Borzage picture of 2018" — and some supplemental lists, including "some out-and-out not-good movies that were somehow well-received" that covers 40% of my top ten for the year.

DarkImbecile wrote: Fri Dec 21, 2018 11:03 pm The 15:17 to Paris, as the "Best Borzage picture of 2018"

Y I K E S.

He also states Hereditary had jump scares. No it didn't?