Yeah I actually agree with that now. I put Rylance in over Yahya, who I read is a highlight, but one of the smaller roles.

Right now I’m thinking Strong and Yahya make supporting, but I might swap one out for Rylance who is also getting excellent notices. Langella is also getting great reviews, but I feel like he may be at a disadvantage for playing the bad guy. Villainous roles often do well at the Oscars, but given the subject matter and political climate, I’m cur…[Read more]

And the best direction achievement of the series has worse directing than every single episode of Maisel.

To be fair, Rodriguez can’t really rebound as she never got nominated in the first place.

That’s interesting, cause more focus seems to be placed on Baron Cohen. It’s also interesting because I’m not hearing too much about Redmayne at this time. He’s getting mentions, but more alongside the rest of the ensemble rather than truly being singled out.

This was by far the best episode. I was ready to give up, but maybe I’ll stick it out to the end.

Not sure if anybody’s mentioned this one before, but I just came across the trailer to Supernova, a romance film about a middle aged couple played by Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth dealing with Tucci’s growing dementia. Don’t know if this will be a contender, but the trailer was great, and who doesn’t like Tucci and Firth?

Looks fantastic, much better than the previous trailer. Very excited for this one.

I’d say the McKinnon and Baldwin wins have aged pretty badly. Hell, plenty thought they were bad right away.

Also, I don’t disagree with Glover‘s performance winning given the competition, but with the exception of the next year’s Teddy Perkins, I don’t find his performance to be anything incredible. If Brian Tyree Henry was campaigne…[Read more]

Has Michael Keaton been completely removed from the center?

I said the other day I thought people were seriously overreacting about that teaser (which was perfectly fine). Looks like this can definitely be a contender.

I’m now convinced that at least one actor is going lead. I’m currently seeing very positive things about Baron Cohen, Strong, Abdul-Mateen II, Langella, Rylance, and Keaton, and the…[Read more]

Disagree, the buzz I’m seeing is pretty strong. There doesn’t seem to be a consensus standout at the moment, but I am seeing quite a few Frank Langella mentions.

I’d say Chaplin and Jacobi. Fennell did nothing.

I doubt she’s submitted lead. A lot remains to be seen this season, but whether there’s two or three women in supporting, a split seems possible, so I doubt they’d want a split in lead as well.

I haven’t seen it in awhile, but I remember Ben Kingsley being wonderful in Hugo.

I disagree with Braun being the weakest nominee. I wouldn’t have nominated him, but he has excellent comedic timing, and he does a great job selling the role’s vulnerability. I also think he wasn’t the one stopping Pelphrey from getting in. And for all we know, Pelphrey may not have even been the ninth slot.

I still say, through no fault of his o…[Read more]

To be fair, Janney is different in that the reason she most likely went lead was because of her show’s lack of success with actors. Once she finally lost, they must’ve figured she wouldn’t win again, so why not go for a lead nod when Farris was never gonna get one.

I’m personally wondering if they’ll campaign her as a lead next season. They did so for the first even though most would agree she was definitely supporting that year, and they were originally pushing her there for the second. I always figured they put her in supporting just to make the nomination easier, but given how successful they were wit…[Read more]

To be fair, the Dinklage vs Harington vote split was name vs performance while the Culkin vs Macfadyen vote split was performance vs performance.