I too believe she deserved both awards. Both performances are exquisite. If I had to choose, I would choose her performance in GWTW over her performance in ASND. That one truly blew me away. I might be prejudiced though, seeing I saw GWTW more recently.

I’d nominate Sunset Boulevard,Pulp Fiction, Gone With the Wind, The Godfather, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Network and more recently Get Out.

I hope France submits Le Chant Du Loup (The Wolf’s Call), a very entertaining movie with Omar Sy. Not typical Oscar material, but I can hope.

Brian Tyree Henry was mesmerizing in If Beale Street Could Talk. He only popped up for a second, but his conversation with the main character is fantastic and Henry completely owns it.

Hans Zimmer’s score for Dark Phoenix is brilliant. It won’t be nominated due to Dark Phoenix’ box office results alone, but it would be definitely worthy of a…[Read more]

Interesting question. After receiving acclaim for Your Name, I could see Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You getting in for Best International Film. I however haven’t looked into its competition. Parasite is a shoe-in, but who knows. There might be room for Weathering With You.

Gone with the Wind (1939) (without music): 221 minutes (3 hours, 41 minutes). With Overture, Intermission, Entr’acte and Walkout Music: 234 minutes (3 hours, 54 minutes.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962): 222 minutes, 3 hours 42 minutes) slightly longer. With additional elements Lawrence was 3 hours and 52 minnutes. If we’re just counting the movie…[Read more]

I’ve just stumbled on this thread and read all pages. Pulp, most of luck in the time to come. Hang in there. You’ve got this.

+4 Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice
-2 Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Lining’s Playbook
– 2 Francis McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice (56)

Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (52)
Kathy Bates, Misery (52)

Holly Hunter, The Piano (40)

Jane Fonda, Klute (34)

Ellen Burstyn, Alice Doesn’t Liv…[Read more]

I’ve been brushing up on my 1939, watching Stagecoach and Gone With the Wind the last two days. I’m very happy to have finally seen these classics.

Regarding both, I happen to accidentally stumble upon Thomas Mitchell many times. He’s a marvelous supporting actor, pulling the best performances out of his costars. I’m glad he won his Oscar for…[Read more]

1. Green Book
2. A Star is Born
3. Bohemian Rhapsody
4. Roma
5. BlacKkKlansman
6. The Favourite
7. Vice
8. Black Panther

Sad to hear about Finney. Loved his performance, especially his fantastic monologue, in Murder on the Orient Express.

Sad to see you go, I liked reading your analysis. Most of luck to you!

1. Inception
2. La La Land
3. Get Out
4. The Theory of Everything
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Silver Linings Playbook
7. Django Unchained
8. The Wolf of Wall Street
9. Boyhood
10. Moonlight

1) A Star is Born
2) Green Book
3) Roma
4) The Favourite
5) Bohemian Rhapsody
6) BlacKkKlansman
7) Black Panther
8) Vice

What do you think the bar should be? A certain rating (x+ out of 10/ x+ out of 5) or something else?

I have Blunt in Best Actress in the fifth slot.
I’m struggling with Makeup. Vice is winning, it’s this year’s Darkest Hour.

Black Panther I can see being nominated.
I’ve got Border in the last spot, but Stan & Ollie is giving me trouble.

The Oscars are from 2 – 5/6 am here, the nominations at 2:30 pm. Nice change of pace with the nominations, although watching the Oscars in the peace of the night is great.

Very curious to see what will happen, let’s see if Cooper can double his nominations overall (from 4 to 8). Cuáron should be able to make it to 10 overall.

Fantastic Beasts 2 deserves to be on the shortlist for Visual Effects, for the end of the graveyard scene alone.

Great list, love these little tidbits.