In my opinion this will likely be a year with something like 6 nominees, but still an outstanding race: Fincher vs Lee vs Anderson vs Nolan. It seems like three of the most overdue commercial directors could get an Oscar the same night.
Also, the Sorkin film (don’t really like him).
And I’m thinking there will be a foreign underdog revealed in a…[Read more]

Is there a thread for a coronavirus general discusion related to the film world? There’s so much to talk about

I believe this year there were actually people rooting for more nominees than previous years: Joker, 1917 and OUATIH had also a lot of supporters.

My guess is the timing, people didn’t had the chance to watch more of the nominated films, even I got a pretty low percentage this year and I was daily looking up for the films I didn’t watch on cinema.

I think Jojo. (We were saved from a catastrophe)

My guess for all the nominees was:

1. Parasite
2. Jojo
3. 1917
4. The Irishman
5. Hollywood
6. Joker
7. Little Women
8. Marriage
9. FvF

I agree. If they want to do that they should increase the number of nominees per category at least to six.
I don’t think it could nor should be terminated right now, but if AMPAS wants to evolve, that should be a change in (a somewhat) near future. Specially when a great number of international names from all the branches are invited yearly to…[Read more]

I think the inclusion of those films in the other categories instead of enclosing them in just one is actually a better solution for what you’re saying.

This is a fallacy and the reasoning of a child. Racism is inherently negative for a society, a foreign language film is not. Nobody is trying to terminate the films not in English language.

Beauty and the Beast was nominated there before the creation of the Animated Film category. And I’m not talking about the Documentary nor Animated categories, I do think those should be left in place, because they’re actually different than Live-action filmmaking. But being “foreign language” isn’t a genre nor a form of filmmaking. That category…[Read more]

So… “foreign” is a genre?

I don’t think so. Animation and Documentaries are actually different from Live-action filmmaking. Whereas there’s not an actual difference or value in being on a language other than English.

This will actually happen IF they eliminate that category. The Academy doesn’t make an effort to nominate some of the films in other categories because the logic is that foreign films have their own entry, and who can blame them?

Last year three of the 5 nominees in FLF got nominations outside of that category. Roma got in BP. Cold War got Director, and probably would’ve got in BP too if not for that separate category. This is the first year an international film wins the main prize but looks more like it will be a tendency than an exception.

Well, this makes it sound like a problematic category.

Casting.
Stunt coordination.
Divide makeup and hairstyling.
Divide Visual FX and Special FX.

Now Parasite just needs to lose BAFTA lol

Adapted Screenplay is tossed up. In my opinion it depends on which film will win Costume Design. Jojo and Little Women are also competing for that category and I believe The Academy will spread the wealth.

In my opinion, this is precisely the wrong way to see the race, since 1917 is more of a directorial achievement and Parasite a writing one, so it seems natural for them the be the winners in those guilds. Hollywood seems to be a popular vote, hence, its frontrunner status at BAFTA. The thing is not that one, but: which combo has the better…[Read more]