If Scarjo is nominated in both categories, couldn’t that hurt her chances? If she gets some surprise Jojo votes, those same voters likely won’t also vote for her for MS.

No chance Huppert gets in for Frankie, huh?

She wasn’t even going to play the role at first, or so she claims. It’s obvious to me that she undertook this project as a producer to tell an important story about sexual abuse at Fox News a year before the 2020 election. I don’t think she was thinking awards and she herself has said the Oscar buzz surprised her.

I just watched Diane. Mary Kay Place is that good.

Thank you!!!

@Dennis El Mar, I find your posts insightful! But I admittedly do not recognize some of the actors and actresses in your gifs/images and would like to know what they are!

Do you know how hard really laughing is when acting? Then stifling that laughter? Then choking on it?

This is a sign of showing a character ark! A lot of people have been complaining about him being one-note so this is in interesting take… I think with Arthur, the shifts are extra pronounced because he’s still sort of shopping for his personality. He’s so, so socially unaware that he takes on these different roles throughout the film–he tries…[Read more]

Very well said. Thank you!!!

This does seem like the trendy opinion to have.

I agree with this! But I think Joaquin did something truly transcendent with the role. He gave reason for the ticks and whatnot–they arose from Arthur’s hurt and anxieties.

Sure, but how many “comic book movies” have had a target audience that included critics and awards-voters? They never aim for the Oscars. But Joker clearly is.

People are incorrectly thinking about “genre bias” when the reality is that the movies within the genre usually aren’t looking to be awards contenders, so it’s not really an accurate measure.

Stallone never won, though. Also, Joaquin is playing an entirely different role from Ledger’s Joker. Dare I say Joaquin brings it to a much more examined level?

Me every time someone cites genre bias for playing a comic book character:

That’s the whole point of the character.

She found her child decapitated, performed a seance, and discovered her mom was the head of a satanic cult. It was justified.

HAHHAHAHA

I’m so in agreement with you on this thread. Joaquin is on another level. Will reserve judgment until seeing Driver but c’mon.

Didn’t know you were Latino. If you weren’t I’d definitely be questioning your word usage. No need to get your panties in a knot.