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Somehow Sean Baker just made history

Domino was the earliest loud voice for Baker’s excellent work that I personally can recall, and it didn’t seem like this day was coming back then. You nailed it!

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:49 am

therewillbeblus wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:44 am Never Cursed wins the pool

Out of curiosity, do we have stats for the Top 3 and the number of points each earned?

Never Cursed had 69 points, Altair had 66, and I had 64

therewillbeblus wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:49 am Somehow Sean Baker just made history

First ever to personally win four Oscars for the same film, right?

And Brody is the first to go 2 for 2 for Best Actor.

Huge night for Criterion between Anora and Flow!

mfunk9786 wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:28 am
Almost feels like Brody might pull out a gun a la Budd Dwyer

Flashbacks of InAPPropriate Comedy playing in his mind

Never Cursed wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:53 am

Speech! Speech! Speech!

swo17 wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:53 am

therewillbeblus wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:49 am Somehow Sean Baker just made history

First ever to personally win four Oscars for the same film, right?

Nope, Bong Joon-ho and Walt Disney.

EDIT: Oops, I take it back! Disney did it with different films on the same night and Best International Film goes to the "country" so Bong was simply accepting it on South Korea's behalf.

Janet Yang popping up constantly was a touch odd

When in Los Angeles, visit Jaws: The Exhibit at the Academy Museum. We’re begging you!

I like Anora well enough (and have loved Sean for quite a bit of time), but really would have liked it if the Academy shared the love a bit more. Feels like we’ve been in this sweep era where Best Picture wins a majority of its nominations. (Correct me if this is nothing new, Oscar historians!)

Especially wish Corbet and Moore would have been able to pull it out. Funnily enough, I just happened to watch All About Eve today and I found a lot of the themes in that film playing out in the Best Actress race this year.

Hey, I would've loved to see more splits with The Brutalist but it's hard to be mad at Sean Baker making history when he couldn't even get properly recognized for so long

A24 and Neon are the real winners. I really wish the big hitter studios would go back to making lower budget films for audiences with discerning taste, but I still don’t think that will happen

I didn't like the non-documentary nominees all that much. My favorite of the Best Picture nominees got nothing, but Anora and Brutalist were probably my second and third "favorites."

So happy for Sean Baker. Now let's do Kelly Reichardt, Academy. Or at least Linklater.

brundlefly wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:17 am So happy for Sean Baker. Now let's do Kelly Reichardt, Academy. Or at least Linklater.

Give Jon Jost or Jon Moritsugu a Marvel film

brundlefly wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:17 am So happy for Sean Baker. Now let's do Kelly Reichardt, Academy. Or at least Linklater.

When First Cow got nothing during a year when there was virtually no studio films to compete with, I thought it meant she would never get recognized. Hope I'm wrong, but regardless, I doubt she cares either.

hearthesilence wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:20 am

brundlefly wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:17 am So happy for Sean Baker. Now let's do Kelly Reichardt, Academy. Or at least Linklater.

When First Cow got nothing during a year when there was virtually no studio films to compete with, I thought it meant she would never get recognized. Hope I'm wrong, but regardless, I doubt she cares either.

I’d rather see her get a MacArthur Fellowship

hearthesilence wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:20 am

brundlefly wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:17 am So happy for Sean Baker. Now let's do Kelly Reichardt, Academy. Or at least Linklater.

When First Cow got nothing during a year when there was virtually no studio films to compete with, I thought it meant she would never get recognized. Hope I'm wrong, but regardless, I doubt she cares either.

I'm sure you're right on both counts, those are usually my takes, but this is one of those heartening years that lead you to hope for the best. (At the Oscars, at least.)

Next year will be all Wicked Part Two or somesuch and I can go back to grumbling on into the night.

beamish14 wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:24 am I’d rather see her get a MacArthur Fellowship

A lifetime of blank checks for all the good people.

I doubt Wicked will overperform next year, considering Dune's lack of traction, and I don't really think that's because there's a third coming

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:54 amSpeech! Speech! Speech!

Thank you TWBB for running this and thank you to all participating members! You made the season a lot of fun. I'm sorry if I was mean during it (I was).

This last month or so has been on a personal level completely bizarre, with emotional highs (got into one of the best PhD programs in the world for my discipline) and lows (my sole remaining grandparent died in a painful and relatively sudden way) of near-equal intensity of feeling. My family was stressed almost to its breaking point, and I didn't have time for many movies during most of February because I was too busy taking care of my mother, father, and grandmother. As silly and sandboxed as these awards really are, it was nice to put all that aside for a night and tap into something within my interest but outside my control.

Allegedly I can force everyone else to watch something and maybe talk about it. As amusing as it would be to inflict Sam Levinson upon the masses again, I want to keep the material a bit lighter. That said, I wasn't able to narrow it down to just one movie, so instead I'd like everyone so inclined to watch something - one thing at least! - that they haven't seen from the following list:

Hellzapoppin' (1941) and Crazy House (1943)
Up in Mabel's Room (1944)
You're A Big Boy Now (1966)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
At Long Last Love (127-minute long reconstruction by soundchaser, 1975/1979(?)/2011/2013/2022)
Zelig (1983)
O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
The Sweet East (2023)

The only exception is for therewillbeblus, who has seen every movie listed except one, several at my prodding. I wish to reward his service by requesting that he rewatch all 800 minutes of La Flor again.

Fun choices, guess I’ll take this opportunity to finally watch that Altman

Looking very forward to the oncoming post-win Amazon pre-order price drop guarantee that will befall the Criterion Corporation's 4K [-o<

How low can we get it before April, folks? :-k

If anyone needs access to that copy of At Long Last Love, PM me - I think I still have it uploaded to my Google Drive.

Never Cursed wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:34 am Hellzapoppin' (1941) and Crazy House (1943)
Up in Mabel's Room (1944)
You're A Big Boy Now (1966)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
At Long Last Love (127-minute long reconstruction by soundchaser, 1975/1979(?)/2011/2013/2022)
Zelig (1983)
O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
The Sweet East (2023)

The only exception is for therewillbeblus, who has seen every movie listed except one, several at my prodding. I wish to reward his service by requesting that he rewatch all 800 minutes of La Flor again.

Ha, well I guess I'll finally get to Crazy House! These are all great, but I must implore anyone who has not seen Up in Mabel's Room or At Long Last Love to watch them for pure joy during such difficult times

domino harvey wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 4:36 am Fun choices, guess I’ll take this opportunity to finally watch that Altman

Not for nothin', the Altman is a lot of fun, but if you specifically haven't seen Hellzapoppin' yet or aren't aware of its contents you should prioritize it. It's one of the most reflexive and introspective (sometimes viciously so) movies studio Hollywood ever put out.