Hell yes! Out with most of the critics groups (including Critics’ Choice lol) and I would even like to dump the guild awards. Nobody, not even the union members, gives a hoot about those ceremonies.

The Oscars and BAFTA Awards can stay, of course, and I would love it if they started to diverge again. Too similar these days. Globes can stay…[Read more]

Would be awesome if the film awards this season could go as wild as the Grammys did today in terms of nominations. It’ll never happen with the influence of precursors, but a girl can dream.

The Sunset Circle is composed of six members of the Hollywood awards circuit circle-jerk press, one of whom is Sasha Stone. Lol.

Jacob Collier rises above the rest of his competition in AOTY fairly easily (save for maybe Black Pumas), which means he’ll come dead last lol. Overall, the manic nominations are so fun to see.

Congrats to Arca on her nomination in D/E Album! Hope she takes it. Rooting for Jayda G in Dance Recording.

Actually struggling to pick favorites in the…[Read more]

Glad Binoche has an Oscar, but I hate that it’s for this movie.

I’ll echo some others in  saying that it’s quite pleasing to see Better Things get this attention. May be finally solidifying itself as an under-sung critical darling.

It’s always been a masterpiece of cinema. The definitive film of 1995 to be sure, and one of the greatest of all time.

But people are stupid, so it’s not surprising that it has the reputation it does.

Lithuania’s submission is quite good!

I always return to these two shots from friends Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien, taken decades apart. From Taipei Story and The Assassin, respectively.

God damn it, Portugal.

“One of our very own made the best film of the year, but we won’t submit it.”

Does Vivica A. Fox in Kill Bill count?

Also, about half the performances in 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her.

Million Dollar Baby is the only BP win I would agree with of the last 20-some years, so I would be worried it would lose the following year, but God you’ve got a great point.

I swear to fuck. Stewart better not get her first nomination for that film…

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He’s not a bad actor! But, you know those threads that pop up every now and again about a specific actor and which nominations you would keep for them, which you would take away, which you would add? Bale is someone for whom I would take away all nominations, and not replace them. He’s never given a stellar performance.

Lol. Leave it to the conservative Russians to once again pick an anti-Soviet film. They’re such masters of the chess board of world politics.

Probably one of his collaborations with Malick. Terribly overrated actor, unfortunately.

It’s a bad performance in a terrible film. Worst in the category that year, by far. Rampling should have taken it handily, of course.

I must have stumbled into an alternate universe where I’m Thinking of Ending Things was well-written lol. Kaufman at his most hackiest.

Guatemala’s La Llorona would be a fabulous nominee (even winner, depending on the other nominees), but it will never happen.