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Boss Baby is the most infamous one, but I remember The Croods being pretty bad too. It’s been so long since I’ve seen earlier nominees like Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron or Brother Bear but I remember not being too impressed by those either.

The winner I personally like the least is Rango, though I understand it was a weak field (and that my personal favorite, Chico & Rita, probably wouldn’t be widely seen). I like a lot about Brave but I don’t think it should have won over ParaNorman or Wreck-It Ralph.

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Brando is actually my favorite performance of these, but I don’t have a problem with Holden’s win and I think Monty deserved it most for A Place in the Sun but he’s beautiful in FHTE as well and should have won at some point.

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Terrific:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

Great:
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea

Good Enough:
Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Too much effort with too little payoff:
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker

Basic:
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

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I would love to see Queen Love Hewitt reprise her role. 😍

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GregSprinkles wrote:

Tge fact that frauded leads almost always win when in supporting categories just goes to show why the lead and supporting categories should not be merged. Supporting performances will pretty much never be nominated under that system.

If they get fraud lead performances to pick up an extra acting win, doesn’t that render the distinction moot anyways?

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I would be more for merging the categories into general Female and Male performances. I’m not sure why supporting performances necessarily need their own categories, but if a stellar one stands out as worthy of recognition then it should be able to make a broader gendered category. As for this gender split, as opposed to other categories, it makes sense to me that performance, as an artistic representation of the human experience, merits the distinction between recognizing female and male actors — social equality aside (we can embrace that we’re all different while wanting to abolish patriarchal structures!).

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Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind
Takashi Shimura, Ikiru
Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter
Albert Dieudonné, Napoléon
Maria Falconetti, The Passion of Joan of Arc
Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher
Isabelle Adjani, Possession
Laurence Olivier, Richard III
Ralph Fiennes, Schindler’s List
Dirk Bogarde, The Servant

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1. Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite
2. Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
3. Ang Lee, Life of Pi
4. Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
5. Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
6. Damien Chazelle, La La Land
7. Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
8. Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
9. Alejandro G. Innaritu, Birdman
10. Alejandro G. Innaritu, The Revenant

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Best Picture:
Amour
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Boyhood
Call Me By Your Name
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Little Women
Parasite
Phantom Thread
The Social Network
The Tree of Life

Best Actress:
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night

Best Actor:
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Supporting Actress:
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Rooney Mara, Carol
Viola Davis, Fences
Laurie Metcalfe, Lady Bird
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave

Supporting Actor:
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone

Best Director:
Michael Haneke, Amour
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
David Fincher, The Social Network
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

Best International Feature:
Amour (Austria)
Dogtooth (Greece)
Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
Ida (Poland)
Parasite (South Korea)
A Separation (Iran)
Son of Saul (Hungary)
Toni Erdmann (Germany)

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marcelo wrote:

Hiroshi Teshigahara, Woman in the dunes

Teshigahara’s nomination is still completely confusing and easily one of the most inspired nominations ever.

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TheBowie wrote:

HAHAHAHHA

Joaquin Phoenix in the TV scene > literally Driver’s whole career.

Eat it.

This is literally the dumbest scene in the whole movie, which is saying a lot lmao.

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Precursors are here to predict, critics awards don’t , that’s why we have peeps sweeping them yet crashing when come Oscars noms/ceremony.

Right, the precursors often try to just predict rather than go by the actual performance, which is why the Sylvester Stallones and Glenn Closes of the world wound up crashing and burning once the actual Oscars were announced in favor of the more typical and prestigious and critically respected performances.

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Little Women getting overdue respect!

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Jus wrote:

I would give a lot for Claire Mathon to be nominated for anything really, Portrait or Atlantics. Because that lady did remarkable job in both.

And her work in Stranger by the Lake is some of the best of the decade, too!

Ditto Yorick Le Saux’s work in I Am Love.

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nevkm wrote:

Best Cinematography: Claire Mathon, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE and ATLANTICS (41 points)

Runners-up: Robert Richardson, ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD (29 points)

Yorick Le Saux, LITTLE WOMEN (22 points)

Yeeess. I wish they had also recognized Le Saux for High Life but he, Mathonx2 and The Lighthouse alone would’ve been better than that boring ASC list.

Has a cinematographer ever missed a nomination after sweeping the top 3 critics? I already saw that The Master was the only NSFC winner to miss since 2006.

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