Film Awards Thread

[DRW50]

I agree. If not the Emilia Perez controversies I'm not even sure anyone would have talked about the Oscars this year. So different from when I was growing up. I wonder if they will be around in a decade.

[janea4old]

I was in high school studying Shakespeare in the early 1970s.  Our school arranged a special screening at the local theatre and we had a "field trip" on the bus to go to the theatre  to see Romeo and Juliet.

[Vee]

I feel bad for Zoe Saldana, who'll get yet more Internet hate over this silly win (and from Ariana Grande stans). I choose to take it as a win for her excellent work in Avatar: The Way of Water.

Demi should've taken it, but I liked Anora a lot and Mikey Madison was wonderful so I'm not too fussed about her win. I wasn't surprised it swept - it's funny, sad, closer to Academy-typical style (almost a Bogdanovich-style screwball farce) without being as old-fashioned as Conclave, and it's nowhere near as long as The Brutalist, which I thought deserved considerably more awards and was equally remarkable. So Anora, while good, was kind of the safe Hollywood choice. I would've rather Brutalist taken a couple of Anora's awards (at least Best Director), and I would've rather Best Actor gone to Fiennes, who was excellent in Conclave.

The Substance is a funny and very well-made but very unsubtle gore-soaked horror satire (and a bit of a riff on silent film - there's very little dialogue for most of the first hour) which it's insane they nominated at all. If not for Demi and the impeccable direction by Fargeat it would've been an underseen and underrated streaming-only release on Shudder last summer. There's nothing wrong with any of that though - Rosemary's Baby got essentially the same makeover. I'm just glad Demi was recognized as much as she has been this season.

I still need to see I'm Still Here and Nickel Boys this week. I will say The Seed of the Sacred Fig is very good and everyone should see it.

That stuff always is so weird. I don't like them directly talking to the nominees, lol. This isn't The Real World.

That's awful. Olivia Hussey has indeed been a school staple for generations.

Edited 6 hours ago by Vee

[Maxim]

I don't agree with many of the choices... but... Okay.  And... I  watched pretty much all of the nominated movies these past few weeks. Demi deserved the Best Actress one. In my opinion. I liked Anora A LOT... but Demi's performance was legendary and created a pop-culture moment. It was also... just... in my opinion - stronger, even though it's hard to compare. It just left an off feeling hearing that she didn't win and I'm seeing this all over social media. But hey... congrats to Mikey Madison - only 25 years old and already has an Oscar! 

Best Film in my opinion should have gone to Emilia Perez, if you judge it only as a film and don't take in account the controversies surrounding it. I don't really care for the right-wing people that have been spewing their hate for the movie non-stop. I started watching, expecting to hate it... since I despise musicals... I really do... but not only did I love it... it has become my favorite movie and nothing can change that for me. It made me feel things that no other movie has ever made me feel and I cried for hours. Watched it twice in the same day. Once alone, once with my husband who also loved it. My father, on the contrary - told me this is the worst movie he's even seen in his life. 

Of course, it's destined to be controversial and not liked by everyone... and I do NOT condone what the lead actress wrote years ago in her twitter. But she really also did amazing job in the movie. I completely understand why the movie got 13 Oscar nominations. I am not shocked at that fact AT ALL.

Zoe Saldana is a happy moment for me, because she was really spectacular in Emilia Perez and I started crying in one of her scenes - in the cab. 

Wicked... I'm not surprised how it did. Overrated. 

[DRW50]

They also shunned Tony Todd and barely mentioned David Lynch. That and Demi losing for the horror movie tells you the contempt they still have for the genre.

[Maxim]

That's just a disgrace. Absolute disgrace!

[janea4old]

I never saw Tony Todd in any of his films.  But loved him as Worf's brother Kurn on Star Trek.  That voice!

[Liberty City]

Demi losing for The Substance proved the film's point entirely.