And you all do realize that this book was incredibly popular with liberal elites after the election.. despite the ideology it espouses being as dangerous and misleading as it was (which is a much longer conversation in itself,) it was absolutely touted by many mainstream media outlets as a means to explain the outcome of the election. So I never…[Read more]

And yeah, I’m fully aware that I’m beating a dead horse given that I’ve often said that statistics aren’t set in stone, but nevertheless. In the last 20 years that BAFTA’s been a bonafide precursor, no Supporting Actress has won over someone who won both GG and SAG and who was nominated at BAFTA that year. It’s happened 3 times in Lead Actress,…[Read more]

Reviews themselves won’t keep this one in or out, it depends much more on how HBO prioritizes it in campaign season. The reviews so far aren’t bad enough to suggest that they would completely bury something with such large names attached, so I’m not ready to count it out yet.

Whoever wins BAFTA this year is very likely winning every other precursor. Betting against a clean sweep in supporting categories is sketchy at best – for every few times there’s been a split at BAFTA, there’s been a clean sweep that people predicted to be stopped there, so mischaracterizing those very specific circumstances and expecting them to…[Read more]

M probably thought you were talking about the 1998-99 lineup with Bates, which was a fair bit more competitive than the previous year with Redgrave and Griffiths in the mix.

Moore was the only performance in that category worth a damn in the 1997-98 category, followed distantly by Cusack. I already consider the Supporting Actor and Lead Actress…[Read more]

I was taught not to underestimate Focus Features after Erivo last year. I think after this news, Mulligan is very likely in given that SPC might not be able to handle both The Father and French Exit. However, I don’t doubt that Netflix is strong enough to get at least Davis and Kirby in. They had multiple bids in Leading Actor last year, but a win…[Read more]

There seems to be this thing here where there’s no such thing as having a tepid or middle-of-the-road valuation of a film. As soon as MS didn’t quite live up to the rapturous reviews it got at festivals, it became an incredibly easy target for a lot of people. Sure, it hasn’t aged amazingly well, but I can’t believe the type of vitriol I…[Read more]

And not to mention, I have seen so many claim that “SJW” critics were trying to sink films that you all stanned last year and that nevertheless these films would happen at the Oscars regardless… and yet one apparent review is absolutely ending Glenn’s chances? Sounds about right.

And Kidding should have earned Jim Carrey a Golden Globe and multiple Emmy nominations.. they need to do better with their newer shows.

It’s telling to me that the input of Walker’s great-granddaughter was completely ignored in the development of the show; they also had to cut down the original 10-episode script to 4, so it makes it all the more jarring that they chose to keep the large colorism conflict in outside of any of the other aspects of Walker’s life. It’s obviously…[Read more]

The irony being that Being Julia was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.

That Water Park episode is one of my favorites, and I would argue that Muniz would deserve to win that year had he submitted it, and the same goes for Traffic Jam. That silent exchange between Malcolm and Reese before they push Lois down the slide was expertly done by both, and served as a great callback to the way that Francis passed on many of…[Read more]

If I may ask, why are people on this site so quick to generalize very specific cases like Ali and Waltz yet remain willfully ignorant to trends that can easily be explained through the financial aspects of awards season? Waltz was at the center of a Weinstein campaign, Ali was at the center of Universal’s most heavily pushed film of the decade,…[Read more]

Woah, that’s a great factoid about Tom, I guess we all have to thank him for that one since that’s one of my all-time favorite MITM episodes and actually ended up being thematically vital to the wrap-up of the series.

It’s true that no one was beating Heaton in 2000, but I personally love the Red Dress submission. It was probably one of the…[Read more]

The way I went from predicting Maron in the expanded category this year to this… I hate it here

Queen coming for that makeup nomination after being overlooked this year.

I don’t understand why her win has gotten so much backlash as opposed to, well, almost any other acting win just in this decade. She wasn’t incredible, but when have the Oscars ever been a meritocracy?

Louis CK was the only other candidate in Comedy to miss out on an acting win after winning TCA twice, but he did get his due in Writing. Hugh Laurie also achieved the same stat in Drama. If anything, it just goes to show that TCA’s choices have aged a lot better than the Emmys, even if Patricia Heaton was deserving back then.

And I love Sex and…[Read more]

Being well-liked and having a certain level of acclaim or “buzz” are important but they’re only two small pieces of the puzzle. She was at the very center of a campaign by one of the most successful studios of the decade for The Favourite, and she’s now not even the main priority of a significantly smaller studio, in fact the very same one that…[Read more]

Remember that it’s a Hopkins vehicle. Sony Pictures Classics’ best case scenario in the past decade was Blanchett sweeping and Hawkins holding onto fifth place after missing SAG, so they do not have the horsepower to vigorously push two acting wins given that they’re generally barely able to get one. Hopkins will take precedence.