Three previous nominations. Regarded as one of the best of our time. Popular movie. Front and center of the one man show. Transformative performance with an illness. How are we hyping Joaquin too much?

He is my favorite actor. Such talent. Such beauty. Can’t quite see someone like him nowadays. My account name comes from him.

Zellweger winning Oscar for portraying Judy Garland would make me get over the fact that Garland never won her Oscar. Let’s make this happen.

Three previous nominations. Regarded as one of the best actors in his generation. The film got rave reviews from Venice. Transformative performance. This role is loved by the Academy. Such a narrative. What are the obstacles? I am not even a fan of Phoenix.

This is coming from Adam Driver or Antonio Banderas. Period.

My gut told me Joaquin Pheonix is winning this one and it is not even close. Could go down as one of the best winning performance alongside De Niro, Hopkin, Brando, Hanks and Nicholson.

Hilary Swank for whatever film.

Let’s hope for a Colman upset.

Chris always have strong reaction when somebody said Regina King is not winning.

I guess Bale is hoping for Amy to win, did he? He is also the the first one to sit down when Dicaprio won. He is certainly not the most diplomatic person.

Will she pull off a JLaw?

I think,
For Colman, it would be “Look at me. How dare you?”.
For Glenn, it would be “I can’t do it. I can’t stand the humiliation’

With all those ballots, standing ovation and following experts’ choice, I went for Stallone that year. Then, I told myself the only thing that I should trust is the precursor award. But here I am again, predicting Regina King, who is not nominated in SAG and BAFTA. I would be punching myself up and down if Weisz wins tomorrow.

These secret ballots are made to confuse you. In those ballots, the presumed strong frontrunner seems to be struggling (e.g. Ali, Malek, Close, Cuaron, Blackkklansman for screenplay) while the weaker frontrunner (i.e. King) is dominating. They made almost all people believe that Stallone is the overwhelming favourite.

I agreed that Malek is…[Read more]

It is Ali’s to lose. BAFTA win sealed the deal for him because even Grant who is British could not win there.

I am predicting Green Book for picture and screenplay too. I remember Birdman and Lord of the Ring winning screenplay because the film was winning best picture.

I think it is a 6-4 race between Close and Colman and the closest acting race of the year. Who is 6 and who is 4? We can only know when the envelope opens. My head told me it is Close but my heart goes to Colman.

I guess those secret ballots mainly come from the voters in US. In the case of Stallone/Rylance race, Rylance should get the majority of the votes from the British. That’s why Rylance gets so few votes in the secret ballots.

It is the same scenario for the King/Weisz race. The race is closer than the ballots have shown us. But I guess King w…[Read more]

If Green Book wins original screenplay, it is going to win best picture as well.

Picture: Roma (spoiler: Green Book)
Director: Alfonso Cuaron (lock of the night)
Actor: Rami Malek (locked)
Actress: Glenn Close (spoiler: Olivia Colman)
S. Actor: Mahershali Ali (locked)
S. Actress: Regina King (spoiler: Rachel Weisz)
O. Screenplay: The Favoutite…[Read more]

So, you also think people voted for Idris Elba in SAG because he is the least threatening to Stallone?