19 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I can only assume Emerald Fennell is well liked (or has good connections) and it being British means it gets more support than American films along the same lines . 

You are absolutely correct about this assertion. Promising Young Woman alone built up a reserve of awards goodwill. Hollywood is fickle though, so who knows how long this will last? Today’s Emerald Fennell may very well become tomorrow’s Diablo Cody, who although still doing work, is just no longer a film industry darling. I also think Fennell’s British-ness also tends to automatically elevate her creative ideas in the minds of the industry people.

7 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

You are absolutely correct about this assertion. Promising Young Woman alone built up a reserve of awards goodwill.

And it wasn't great either!

3 hours ago, Vee said:

And it wasn't great either!

It was different, which I guess was enough at the time. Timing is especially important, from what it looks like.

The Razzie nominations are here!    

Spoiler

WORST PICTURE

• The Exorcist: Believer
• Expend4bles
• Meg 2: The Trench
• Shazam! Fury of the Gods
• Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (Wait, shouldn't that be spelled "Hunny"?)

WORST ACTOR

• Russell Crowe / The Pope's Exorcist
• Vin Diesel / Fast X
• Chris Evans / Ghosted
• Jason Statham / Meg 2: The Trench
• Jon Voight / Mercy

WORST ACTRESS

• Ana de Armas / Ghosted
• Megan Fox / Johnny & Clyde
• Salma Hayek  / Magic Mike's Last Dance
• Jennifer Lopez / The Mother
• Dame Helen Mirren / Shazam! Fury of the Gods

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Kim Cattrall / About My Father
• Megan Fox / Expend4bles
• Bai Ling / Johnny & Clyde
• Lucy Liu / Shazam! Fury of the Gods
• Mary Stuart Masterson / Five Nights at Freddy's

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Michael Douglas / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
• Mel Gibson / Confidential Informant
• Bill Murray / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
• Franco Nero (as "The Pope") The Pope's Exorcist
• Sylvester Stallone / Expend4ables

WORST SCREEN COUPLE

• Any 2 "Merciless Mercenaries" / Expend4bles
• Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million
• for Remake Rights to The Exorcist
• Ana de Armas & Chris Evans (who flunked Screen Chemistry) Ghosted
• Salma Hayek & Channing Tatum / Magic Mike's Last Dance
• Pooh & Piglet as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers (!) in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL

• Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
• The Exorcist: Believer
• Expend4bles
• Indiana Jones and The Dial of...Still Beating a Dead Horse
• Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

WORST DIRECTOR

• Rhys Frake-Waterfield / Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
• David Gordon Green / The Exorcist: Believer
• Peyton Reed / Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
• Scott Waugh / Expend4bles
• Ben Wheatley / Meg 2: The Trench

WORST SCREENPLAY

• The Exorcist: Believer
• Expend4bles
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of...Can I go home now?
• Shazam! Fury of the Gods
• Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey

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And now the Academy Award nominations!

 

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Best picture

• American Fiction
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• Poor Things
• The Zone of Interest

Best actor

• Bradley Cooper - Maestro
• Colman Domingo - Rustin
• Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
• Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
• Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction

Best actress

• Annette Bening - Nyad
• Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
• Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
• Carey Mulligan - Maestro
• Emma Stone - Poor Things

Best supporting actress

• Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
• Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
• America Ferrera - Barbie
• Jodie Foster - Nyad
• Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers

Best supporting actor

• Sterling K Brown - American Fiction
• Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
• Robert Downey Jr - Oppenheimer
• Ryan Gosling - Barbie
• Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things

Best director

• Anatomy of a Fall - Justine Triet
• Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese
• Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan
• Poor Things - Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer

Best adapted screenplay

• American Fiction
• Barbie
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• The Zone of Interest

Best original screenplay

• Anatomy of a Fall
• The Holdovers
• Maestro
• May December
• Past Lives

Best original song

• The Fire Inside - Flamin' Hot (Diane Warren)
• I'm Just Ken - Barbie (Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt)
• It Never Went Away - American Symphony (Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson)
• Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People) - Killers of the Flower Moon (Scott George)
• What Was I Made For? - Barbie (Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell)

Best original score

• American Fiction
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Best international feature

• Io Capitano
• Perfect Days
• Society of the Snow
• The Teachers' Lounge
• The Zone of Interest

Best animated feature

• The Boy and the Heron
• Elemental
• Nimona
• Robot Dreams
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best documentary feature

• Bobi Wine: The People's President
• The Eternal Memory
• Four Daughters
• To Kill a Tiger
• 20 Days in Mariupol

Best costume design

• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Best make-up and hairstyling

• Golda
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Society of the Snow

Best production design

• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Best sound

• The Creator
• Maestro
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
• Oppenheimer
• The Zone of Interest

Best film editing

• Anatomy of a Fall
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Best cinematography

• El Conde
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Best visual effects

• The Creator
• Godzilla Minus One
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
• Napoleon

Best live action short

• The After
• Invincible
• Knight of Fortune
• Red, White and Blue
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Best animated short

• Letter to a Pig
• Ninety-Five Senses
• Our Uniform
• Pachyderme
• War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

Best documentary short

• The ABCs of Book Banning
• The Barber of Little Rock
• Island In Between
• The Last Repair Shop
• Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó

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Surprised that Margot Robbie didn’t get in for Best Actress but America Ferrera managed a Supporting Actress nod. I guess Best Actress was more competitive than people anticipated. Annette Bening is about to head into Glenn Close territory with unrewarded nominations.

I'd love to see "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" tie for Best Picture, lol.

It's pretty ridiculous that both Gerwig and Robbie got snubbed IMO (Gerwig was also snubbed for the equally excellent Little Women). And probably an angry response from the Academy's senior members.

Thrilled about Anatomy of a Fall, but this is dirty pool to me and we're probably going to see another round of anonymous ballots with grumpy Academy members bitching about wokeism or something re: Barbie. Never mind that it was the biggest movie of the year, and not exactly coasting on woke capital and tear-stained online social media posts (like other movies in recent past I could name).

The rumors today that Paul Thomas Anderson ghostwrote KOTFM are wild.

Edited January 23, 20241 yr by Vee

There's usually one or two surprise nominations and America Ferrera was it this year.  A bit disappointed about Margot but she was never going to win.  As a big Christopher Nolan, I hope he wins Best Director.  I know he's the favourite, but you never know.  Will feel more comfortable if he wins the DGA.  So according to these nominations, it's a three horse race for Best Picture: Oppenheimer, Anatomy of a Fall, and Poor Things. 

7 hours ago, Faulkner said:

Annette Bening is about to head into Glenn Close territory with unrewarded nominations.

And so many of them undeserved IMO. 

8 hours ago, Faulkner said:

Surprised that Margot Robbie didn’t get in for Best Actress but America Ferrera managed a Supporting Actress nod. I guess Best Actress was more competitive than people anticipated. Annette Bening is about to head into Glenn Close territory with unrewarded nominations.

 

2 hours ago, Vee said:

It's pretty ridiculous that both Gerwig and Robbie got snubbed IMO (Gerwig was also snubbed for the equally excellent Little Women). And probably an angry response from the Academy's senior members.

Thrilled about Anatomy of a Fall, but this is dirty pool to me and we're probably going to see another round of anonymous ballots with grumpy Academy members bitching about wokeism or something re: Barbie. Never mind that it was the biggest movie of the year, and not exactly coasting on woke capital and tear-stained online social media posts (like other movies in recent past I could name).

The rumors today that Paul Thomas Anderson ghostwrote KOTFM are wild.

Given the complaints I've seen people make about the Killers screenplay, that's interesting. 

A few days ago, in one of the Oscars prediction videos, one of the 'experts' was talking about how Margot and Greta stood a good chance of not being nominated because the Oscar voters do not want to reward this type of film, they don't take this type of movie seriously. Given the history of the Academy, that would seem to be true. The nomination for Annette Bening is much more of what they want to see from actresses, along with that cookie cutter long-suffering wife role from Carey Mulligan.

I feel bad for America Ferrera as she's gotten so much backlash for her nomination, with people saying in one breath it's due to her being Latino and in another saying she's not Latino enough, saying it's just "woke" voters due to her speech, other people acting like it's an outrage that she got in compared to someone like Penelope Cruz or Rosamund Pike (who is certainly entertaining to watch but whose work in Saltburn I've seen too many times to count).

There was also a viral tweet saying she's just like Jamie Lee Curtis. It feels like people are just jumping on her as an easy target, even though she isn't even going to win.

I saw a tweet from Stephen King about how out of touch the Oscars were with the public, which confused me, as the most popular movies of last year got a lot of nominations. Maybe he's a big fan of Super Mario Brothers, GOTG3 or Wonka? 

Edited January 24, 20241 yr by DRW50

I like America Ferrera, but it feels like a very condescending nom; like, 'oh, we'll give them something for the famous monologue'. It was a great scene and she did great. Do I think it needed a nomination, no, but that's the weird giveth and taketh mentality of the Academy.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there some sort of controversy surrounding America Ferrara when she still was on "Ugly Betty"?  Not anything to do with her personal life, per se, but just that she was polarizing for some reason.

13 hours ago, Vee said:

I like America Ferrera, but it feels like a very condescending nom; like, 'oh, we'll give them something for the famous monologue'. It was a great scene and she did great. Do I think it needed a nomination, no, but that's the weird giveth and taketh mentality of the Academy.

She did a lot of campaigning during the voting period, and I guess also benefited from the category only having two sure nominations. I do wonder if part of their reason was strategic - people look worse when they decry the lack of nominations for Margot and Greta and don't mention her. It plays into "white feminism" discourse (not helped by Hillary tweeting today...).

Barbie is such an overrated film.