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March 7, 2020 at 10:41 pm #1203374545
I created a previous forum talking about the weirdest Best Director lineups, but then I realized it would make more sense to talk about individual nominees instead.
I noted Babe’s Chris Noonan and Dead Man Walking’s Tim Robbins from 1995, The Full Monty’s Peter Cattaneo from 1997, and Amour’s Michael Haneke from 2012 and Beasts of the Southern Wild’s Benh Zeitlin from 2012. Another one for me includes La cage aux folle’s Edouard Molinaro from 1979.
ReplyMarch 8, 2020 at 9:59 am #1203374922There’s also Paul Greengrass for United 93, Lenny Abrahamson for Room and Pawel Pawlikowski for Cold War. In my opinion, their respective slots should have been filled with Bill Condon for Dreamgirls, Ridley Scott for The Martian, and Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born.
ReplyCopy URLMarch 8, 2020 at 10:23 am #1203374951Lenny Abrahamson – Room
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Pawel Pawlikowski – Cold War
Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern WildMarch 8, 2020 at 4:10 pm #1203375244PTA: Phantom Thread
Everybody was betting on Martin McDonaugh
ReplyCopy URLMarch 8, 2020 at 4:50 pm #1203375288Hiroshi Teshigahara, Woman in the dunes
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Arthur Penn, Alice’s Restaurante
Tim Robbins, Dead Man Walking
Ridley Scott, Black Hawk Down
Fernando Mereilles, City of God
Behn Zeitlin, Beast of….March 8, 2020 at 5:52 pm #1203375319Hiroshi Teshigahara, Woman in the dunes
Teshigahara’s nomination is still completely confusing and easily one of the most inspired nominations ever.
ReplyCopy URLMarch 8, 2020 at 6:01 pm #1203375326Ridley Scott, Black Hawk Down
He literally got nominated by DGA, how is that nomination shocking?
ReplyCopy URLMarch 8, 2020 at 8:03 pm #1203375372David Lynch for Mulholland Drive. Single nomination and nothing else. During nominations announcement while his name was announced, you can hear the press chuckles.
Fernando Meirelles for City of God. Wasn’t it a big surprise then? Received 4 Oscar nominations (Directing, Cinematography, Editing & Screenplay) but shut out for Foreign Language award.
ReplyCopy URLMarch 8, 2020 at 8:54 pm #1203375414Fernando Meirelles for City of God. Wasn’t it a big surprise then? Received 4 Oscar nominations (Directing, Cinematography, Editing & Screenplay) but shut out for Foreign Language award.
It had been snubbed for Foreign Film when it was eligible, and Harvey Weinstein parlayed that injustice into 4 nominations for it the next year. Shame it missed Best Picture though.
ReplyCopy URLMay 9, 2020 at 1:05 am #1203472654David Lynch for Mulholland Drive. Single nomination and nothing else. During nominations announcement while his name was announced, you can hear the press chuckles.
Lynch was a sole nominee twice even, I wonder what the reason was behind that. Getting nominated for Blue Velvet after Dune was a feat by itself, wasn’t it?
ReplyCopy URLMay 9, 2020 at 9:36 am #1203473057The greatest thing about the Director branch is that they throw curve balls often. Usually these curve balls are smaller, less seen and often foreign. Don’t get me wrong they nominate a lot of schlock that the rest of the academy also notates, but bc of those curves they are my favorite branch!
“City of God” missing the foreign language film category was dumb, but let’s face it the special rules for voting in that category was likely part of the problem.
ReplyCopy URLMay 9, 2020 at 4:20 pm #1203473588BENH ZEITLIN! One of my favorite Oscar nominees of all time! The world was gagged when this “Behn” was nominated over the other “Ben” lol, and I of course lived!
ReplyCopy URLMay 9, 2020 at 5:00 pm #1203473650Darlings, not that it was surprising but Guillermo del Toro won for an abolutely lazy and disgusting work in the Disgust of Water.
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