Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or: The Square

Toronto Film Festival - People's Choice Award: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
 

Gotham Independent Film Awards - Best Picture: Call Me By Your Name

 

National Board of Review - Best Film: The Post

 

NYFCC - Best Picture: Lady Bird

 

National Society of Film Critics Winners - Best Film: Lady Bird

 

Golden Globes - Best Picture Drama: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Golden Globes - Best Picture Musical or Comedy: Ladybird

 

Critics Choice Awards - Best Picture: The Shape of Water

 

Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture: The Shape of Water

 

Directors Guild Award - Feature Film: The Shape of Water

 

Writers Guild Award - Best Original Screenplay: Get Out

Writers Guild Award - Best Adapted Screenplay: Call Me by Your Name

 

Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

Satellite Awards - Best Film: God's Own Country / Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

BAFTA - Best Film: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

Independent Spirit Awards - Best Picture: Get Out

Academy Awards - Best Picture: The Shape of Water

 

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Cannes: Full List of Winners:

 

Palme d'Or: The Square (Ruben Östlund)

Grand Prix: 120 Beats per Minute (Robin Campillo)

Best Director: Sofia Coppola (The Beguiled)

Best Screenplay:   Yorgos Lanthimos / Efthymis Filippou (The Killing of a Sacred Deer) &  Lynne Ramsay ( You Were Never Really Here) (tie)

Best Actress: Diane Kruger  ( In the Fade)

Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here)

Jury Prize: Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) 

70th Anniversary Prize: Nicole Kidman

Honorary Palme d'Or: Jeffrey Katzenberg

 

TIFF - A full list of winners can be found here

Edited October 27, 20187 yr by Bright Eyes

Emma  DESERVED THIS. So happy for her. I LOVE HER. She is in my top 5. 

I heard so many complaints about Killers of the Flower Moon, especially with the script, and they just seemed to chip away at the wider view of the film. Lily is a good actress, but beyond the whole controversy over the category, most of the final debate over the movie or her award seemed to be:

- if you don't support Lily Gladstone you're a racist 

- be nice to Grandpa Scorsese who is so cute on tiktok 

Neither of those do much to sway Oscar voters. The first one in particular causes a lot of spite. 

(Scorsese these days seems to be more of a brand for himself than for people actually enjoying his films) 

I feel bad for Emma Stone as I don't think she wanted to win because of the optics, similar to Cate Blanchett last year. And I do wonder if these fears are going to cause more and more people to move away from the Oscars, because you don't get any real career boost but you do get a lot of years-long, dedicated hate from losers who cosplay as activists rather than actually bringing about any real change in the world (most of them are probably hoping Trump wins for "the revolution" or because "he's funny").

These same people will likely spit on Lily Gladstone in a month as she will be wearing the wrong brand, work with the wrong actor, use the wrong word, or go to the wrong store.

I didn't bother to watch this year, and after seeing a few clips of Jimmy Kimmel's usual condescending, anti-film monologue and the shambles of the Memoriam segment, I'm not sorry. They didn't even include Treat Williams, who was in a ton of films, or Suzanne Somers, who first became known through an iconic film clip.

No clips, no nominations. I saw a tweet saying the Oscars had finally managed to get rid of all "the old." If that was the point, I hope they're proud.

I did watch the I'm Just Ken clip. Ryan Gosling has always seemed ambivalent about the whole thing, but at heart he's a showman, and I'm glad he embraced that. A genuinely very fun performance. It was also so nice to see Scott Evans at the Oscars. Fish's revenge.

Edited March 11, 20241 yr by DRW50

I forget if you're still a fan of his, but John Mulaney had a very successful bit as a presenter that some are saying was an audition to host next year, which he aced.

4 minutes ago, Bright Eyes said:

I forget if you're still a fan of his, but John Mulaney had a very successful bit as a presenter that some are saying was an audition to host next year, which he aced.

I didn't think his last special was that great, but I still enjoy Mulaney. He also hosted the "these are all the old and boring people we don't care about anymore" Oscars ceremony a month or two ago and was very good. He is sarcastic but also clearly loves film, unlike the jiggly trampoline guy.

Edited March 11, 20241 yr by DRW50

It's just not that serious - Killers and Poor Things are both great movies and did well. Emma Stone's career will be fine.

24 minutes ago, Vee said:

It's just not that serious - Killers and Poor Things are both great movies and did well. Emma Stone's career will be fine.

I don't think it's going to ruin her career, but this type of criticism does seem to rattle her (as shown by all her regret over Aloha).

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

I did watch the I'm Just Ken clip. Ryan Gosling has always seemed ambivalent about the whole thing, but at heart he's a showman, and I'm glad he embraced that. A genuinely very fun performance. It was also so nice to see Scott Evans at the Oscars. Fish's revenge.

I hadn't noticed Scott until you mentioned him. Is he the guy that kisses Ryan during the performance?

6 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

I hadn't noticed Scott until you mentioned him. Is he the guy that kisses Ryan during the performance?

Yes.

9 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 I feel bad for Emma Stone as I don't think she wanted to win because of the optics, similar to Cate Blanchett last year.

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I enjoyed the Oscars for the most part and I am pretty happy with the awards given. I haven't seen all the movies, but out of those that I did see, they all received some recognition, so I am happy. 

I have loved Nolan for years and I think that he (along Denis Villeneuve) is one of the best directors today. So I am happy Nolan got it. I hope Villeneuve can follow next year

I adore Emma Stone, so I am happy she won. If Lily had won, I would have loved it too. She was probably my favorite part of Killers. But I don't think Emma should feel bad at all. She was giving a performance of her life in Poor Things.

RDJ and DJR winning for supporting was great, she gave a nice speech. There were some good speeches in general. I hate when people just list random names. There wasn't much of that this year. I loved Cord Jefferson encouraging studios to do 20 10k movies instead of one 200k movie per year. I enjoyed Hoyte van Hoytema encouraging filmmakers to film more on film. Ukrainian speech was sad. I was happy for the Japanese Godzilla team. 

I enjoyed Jimmy Kimmel's opening monologue, but I thought it was too much to joke about RDJ's cocaine addiction. 

I LOOOVED I'm just Ken performance, even though I am not a fan of the song in general. But Ryan is so awesome and the whole productions of the performance was so fun. 

I think the idea of 5 people presenting each nominated actor instead of the acting reels can be interesting, but only if the actors presenting are really friends of the nominated actor and can say something personal and touching. Which did happen (or at least that's what appeared to me) in some cases. However most of them seemed to be reading text from the teleprompter and that was boring. 

The "In Memoriam" was not one well. I could not even see the people being honored, because they had such a wide shot of the stage to show off the dancers. In Memoriam should be on our screen, not the screens in the arena. And we don't need dancers to distract. You can bring someone to sing, but that's it.

But all in all I had fun  

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Conan O’Brien will host the next Oscars:

 

Breaking News: Conan O’Brien will host the next Oscars, taking over from Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted the past two ceremonies. https://t.co/USiSo3s6Ej

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 15, 2024

In my mind I'm surprised he hasn't already. Good, solid choice.