Why?

It will never happen but it can be great to imagine it. For example 2011 line-up containted stronger Best Actor performances than actual Best Actor nominees.

Oscar – Best Actor
Demian Bichir, A Better Life
George Clooney, The Descendants
*Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt, Moneyball

Oscar – Best Foreign…[Read more]

It does. 🙂

Mahershala Ali was in “Crossing Over” with Harrison Ford
who was in “Presumed Innocent” with Brian Dennehy
who was in “It Happened at Lakewood Manor” with Myrna Loy
who was in “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” with Shirley Temple

Kay Medford and Kylie Minogue

With Tony Shalhoub winning, Alan Arkin was denied Triple Crown of Acting.

Billy Porter is now in the //Missing the Oscar// group after winning an Emmy for “Pose”.

Michelle Williams, who was nominated for all TCA awards at least once, has finally won her first award – Emmy for “Fosse/Verdon”.

Gloria Stuart was in “Titanic” with Kathy Bates
who was in “The Great Gilly Hopkins” with Glenn Close

Louise Brooks and Brooke Shields

So now there are 3 days of ceremonies at the Emmys?

1. Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
2. Ralph Fiennes, Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Joaquin Phoenix, Her
4. John Hawkes, The Sessions
5. Andrew Garfield, Silence

Poland has submitted “Corpus Christi” which won 2 awards at the most recent Venice Film Festival.

1930s: Vivien Leigh & Charles Laughton
1940s: Olivia de Havilland (2nd) & James Stewart
1950s: Audrey Hepburn & Marlon Brando
1960s: Elizabeth Taylor (2nd) & Rod Steiger
1970s: Diane Keaton & Dustin Hoffman
1980s: Sissy Spacek & Henry Fonda
1990s: Jodie Foster & Jeremy Irons
2000s: Marion Cotillard & Adrien Brody
2010s: Cate Blanchett & Leonardo…[Read more]

Marina de Tavira was in “Violanchelo” with Tony Dalton
who was in “Better Call Saul” with Bob Odenkirk
who was in “The Spectacular Now” with Kyle Chandler
who was in “The Wolf of Wall Street” with Jean Dujardin
who was in “The Artist” with Berenice Bejo

Rinko Kikuchi and Ty Burrell

If it was up to me, films based on a real life stories should be adapted per se because I believe there’s always a source – “The King’s Speech”, “Fighter”, “Spotlight”, “Straight Outta Compton”, “Green Book” and “The Favourite” were more or less known stories before their films. It’s hard to compare well written “Spotlight” with creative genius…[Read more]

I decided to check out original screenplay predictions by experts (since it’s my favorite category even with “Green Book” sadly defeating “The Favourite” last year) and was surprised by 2 things:

A – both “The Farewell” and “Parasite” are in overall Top 5. I don’t buy 2 getting in, one would be a success for Asian filmmakers.

B – not a single…[Read more]

It’s a matter of opinion but you should check it out for fine performances by Linney and Daniels plus good early showcase for Jesse Eisenberg. It was a little bit in the mold of Woody Allen.

TBH I’m surprised that Laura Linney didn’t get nominated for “The Squid and the Whale” back in 2005 when the competition was weaker and she had some precursors under her belt. That film also got nominated for its original screenplay.

“Frances Ha” was HUGE at the film club at my university. In our annual poll Gerwig even won Best Actress over Cate Blanchett in “Blue Jasmine” (I liked Gerwig just fine in that movie but let’s be real…). It captured some kind of moment with just starting your adult life and not really finding your place in the world yet. It was endearing. I…[Read more]

You’re not helping with majority of those.

That was one of my first years on GoldDerby and Best Actress was pretty much up in the air that year, something like 2004 (although not to such extent). Cotillard, Christie and Page were no-brainers while Blanchett somehow surprisingly got in for prestige project despite lukewarm reception and maybe due to her not winning for “Elizabeth”.

That…[Read more]

I don’t like this title, Fair and Balanced would work better. Bombshell sounds… IDK… trashy? Teaser was interesting but I’d like to see the trailer.

Isn’t Margot Robbie’s character fictional?

I am excited for this movie. It looks like appreciation for “Lady Bird” with “The Meyerowitz Stories” completely ignored maybe inspired Noah Baumbach to write something stronger. For now all I’ve seen from him makes me think of lesser Woody Allen projects, this one not so much, of course. Fingers crossed for both Scarlett and Adam.

And echo to…[Read more]