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jjjmoss wrote:

cancel all campaigning.

I think it would benefit the industry as a whole if the campaigns actually ended. Netflix is ​​reported to have spent $60 million on the Roma campaign (to seem more reasonable, they said they spent “only” $30 million). The Wall Street Journal said that Netflix spent more than $100 million on The Irishman + Marriage Story campaign in 2019 (again, they tried to dispute that number but didn’t offer any data to deny the information or cite the amount spent). Studios are expected to spend between $5 and $20 million on campaigns, at a minimum. Apple spent more than $10 million (the entire CODA budget) on its campaign last year. Imagine how many cool mid- and small-budget projects would be possible if studios stopped investing that much money in trophies.
But Hollywood is built on perception, the Oscars are the pinnacle of prestige within the industry and everyone involved engages in campaigning in one way or another because it has a huge impact on any professional’s career, and this type of marketing is in itself a professional branch adjacent and essential to this industry.

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Personally I don’t think the push for Andrea Riseborough was wrong. It’s utter hypocrisy to condemn her friends for encouraging other voters to see her work when all these celebrities have spent months doing the same thing at all these parties and have the same intention with the multi-million dollar marketing content the studios buy them.
Of course, all of this could have been done more privately, started earlier, and mentioning other competitors was unnecessary, but in the end everyone plays the same ugly game. Andrea Riseborough gives a great performance, is a great actress and doesn’t deserve to have her reputation destroyed because she prevailed against the big studios. I hope she can keep her nomination.

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#1205271153

If we take a step back and look at the whole situation, we realize that this shit is too funny. How people (myself included) get so invested in this is hilarious.

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#1205270216

All you have to do is Google “Tar was written for a man” and you’ll find multiple articles where Cate backs that. I haven’t seen where Todd Field came forward yet and said he was lying about it being written for Cate, but why would Cate lie? He deceived her simps thinking it was all for her and her alone

What Blanchett said on Actors on Actors was: “When Todd was thinking about it, ‘Tár’ was originally for a male role. And in a way because the film is like a meditation on power you would’ve had a much less nuanced examination of that if you had [a man] — because we understand what the corruption of male power looks like […] but we need to unpick what power is itself.”
On an episode of IndieWire’s Filmmaking Toolkit, Field admitted that when working on his initial drafts of “Tár” during the height of the pandemic, Blanchett felt like the only choice for the character. “I had no backup plan”.
Which means the movie wasn’t written years ago like that person said, and that it didn’t spend years in production hell. Cate says that Field thought about making the main character a man, but never confirmed whether or not he wrote it from that perspective, so they’re just making assumptions that he adapted the script for her afterwards rather than deciding it was going to be a woman before starting to write it.

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#1205270206

Uri_Urusha wrote:

I think colman and robbie and their studios searchlight and paramount are behind this and they are just using viola and Deadwyler as cover.

“In the event a nominated achievement is declared ineligible by the Academy, it shall not be replaced, and the category will remain with one less nomination”
Why would they bother doing that if they aren’t getting Robbie or Colman nominated anyway? Just to be vindictive and deny Riseborough a nomination? The investigation is happening because people are thinking that what they did was against the rules, I doubt there is a master plan from other studios behind this.

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RIDLEY SCOTT wrote:

Todd Field said TAR was for a man. TAR was in development hell for several years. After several years, he thought of Cate Blanchett and he made specific changes to adapt the lead to Cate Blanchett. So, I doubt he will think of an Asian or Black woman as the lead of his movie

Could you send me where this information was reported? Todd Field has mentioned several times that he wrote the character with Cate Blanchett in mind, I don’t know why he would lie about that, and this is what he told The Hollywood Reporter about the making of the film:
“Several high-profile projects came his way in the intervening years, including the possibility of directing a political thriller written by Joan Didion, but they fell apart. Nor did he have interest in directing a studio tentpole based on superheroes or other IP.
Then, when the pandemic struck, Focus told him he could write anything he wanted. “I sat down and started writing. It was a sprint, to be honest with you. It came together in about 12 weeks,” he says. “The studio gave me no notes and let me do exactly what I wanted.”

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Good thing we have Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh to serve fashion with Armani Privé during this awards season’s red carpets, because otherwise we’d be stuck with Ana de Armas and Michelle Williams wearing Louis Vuitton’s hideous looks. Kind of unrelated to the topic of discussion but I decided to comment about it since we still have some time until something new happens in this race.

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After finally watching The Whale, these would be my picks:

1. Avatar: The Way of Water
2. Women Talking
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. The Fabelmans
5. Tár
6. All Quiet on the Western Front
7. Top Gun: Maverick
8. The Banshees of Inisherin
9. Triangle of Sadness
10. Elvis

Best Director: Todd Field
Best Actor: Bill Nighy
Best Actress: Ana de Armas
Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson
Best Supporting Actress: Hong Chau
Best Adapted Screenplay: Women Talking
Best Original Screenplay: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Production Design: Babylon
Best Costume Design: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Best Cinematography: All Quiet on the Western Front
Best Film Editing: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Sound: The Batman
Best Original Score: The Fabelmans
Best Original Song: Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Best Visual Effects: Avatar: The Way of Water
Best Makeup & Hairstyling: All Quiet on the Western Front

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I rewatched Black Swan after a long time. What motivated me to write this review was the last scene. It’s comical how Aronofsky stumbles upon some brilliant moments that he doesn’t know how to recognize. In the last scene Natalie Portman did a pitch perfect delivery of the line “I felt it… perfect”, that was it! Let the score soar to a crescendo, the camera focus on Portman’s face for a few seconds as the character dies and cut to the credits at the climax of the score. Simple, it would be a great ending. Instead, the character repeats “I was perfect. It was perfect” once more, so that the audience understands the theme of perfectionism and self-destruction to create a moment of art. Then it cuts to the stage lights and the film fades into white as the character dies. I understand the intent, she was the white swan and blah blah blah but the shot of the lights is ugly and the repetition of the line is so cheesy and worst of all it’s extremely anticlimactic.
I didn’t care much for the film other than the central performance when I first saw it about ten years ago, today I can see more things that deserve applause, the cinematography looks extremely modern (surprisingly), all the supporting actors deliver very well in the their characters, the sound mixing is ​​done very elegantly.
The film has a lot of potential but it never gets there, at that point of cohesion where the sum of its parts makes a great film. I blame it largely on Aronofsky himself, lacks self-awareness and intelligence in his writing, lacks nuances in his themes, lacks a better thought out way to reveal the story, now as a director he lacks integrating visual metaphors with the script (mainly the use of mirrors/reflections that are used very loosely as a cinematographic resource), he lacks the ability to create a choreography between all the moving parts of the film.

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I was checking out the screen time of this year’s nominees and I thought it was interesting that if Cate Blanchett wins, she will have the second longest performance and the performance with the highest screen time percentage to win Best Actress (2:15:15 / 85.49%).
In terms of percentage she would break the record held by Ginger Rogers who won for Kitty Foyle in 1940 (85.29%) and in terms of overall screen time she would only be second to Vivien Leigh who won for Gone with the Wind in 1939 (2:23:32).
Kind of iconic, ngl. The only other winner in recent memory to come close to this level of dominance in screen time percentage was Natalie Portman in Black Swan (82.67%).

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Milk Money wrote:

Lol, you’re right I’m devastated about Margot, who’ll more than likely be back in the conversation in the near future. I see you love inserting yourself into things that have nothing to do with you. And that “troll” was simply passionate about their pick. I told them to stick with it despite the naysayers and ridiculing on this board. Group bullying is so lame. In fact, it made me keep Ana in my predictions, too. So that was one I, we, got right!

Insert me into what? You said things about a person that I didn’t agree with and I just said my opinion defending them. I didn’t insult you at all but you told me to stay out of it. The facts are that predicting Margot Robbie all season is very different from predicting TPOTD and that Norma Jean is a troll. We don’t need to keep arguing because it won’t lead to anything.

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Barbra Please wrote:

Darling, Imma doing a rewatch of The Fabelmans tonight because I’m tired of bitching about how she somehow ruined the lineup and want to make myself feel better about this category.

Maybe Goofy Wig’s performance is not so bad and less annoying after a rewatch (and the movie too lol).

It’s a performance appreciated by audiences with very lowbrow taste, who get into the expressiveness of the character’s emotions, or by very highbrow audiences, who understand the context of her inspiration in the performances from the 50s, that Spielberg’s mother was in real life a flamboyant character used to mask her insecurity, and that the over-the-top aspect of the performance is used very stylishly within the context of the film.
If you look at the performance through a more theatrical lens and try to understand that “dramatifying” real life is part of the magic of cinema and the purpose of the film, I think you will be able to appreciate more what Williams does in The Fabelmans.

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#1205267463

Milk Money wrote:

You might wanna sit this one out. I never attacked or shaded anyone for opposing my Margot prediction the way Wolfali and others did not that long ago over POTD. Please find one post where I did (unprovoked). I was also one of the few here who defended that Ana de Armas fan that many of you called delusional and ridiculed on the daily. I hope they had the biggest smile on Oscar morning!

Sit this one out? Do you think I’m scared of being insulted on an awards forum? Pls.
Be real for a second, that annoying troll Norma Jean just wanted to attract hate to Ana de Armas and was just another dupe of that someone we all know. I defended Ana de Armas from the beginning, I don’t need to prove it. You’re just hanging on to her because Margot Robbie was snubbed.

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Milk Money wrote:

Lol, are you kidding me??? Bully?? Arrogant?? Can we say projecting because that described you perfectly during POTD’s run. It was POTD or die. Anyone who dared to think otherwise was slammed by you and the rest of the POTD mob left and right. Only to eat MAJOR humble pie Oscar night. My early Margot prediction doesn’t compare at all. You’ve got some nerve.

I think I speak for most people here that Wolfali is one of the nicest people around. You’ve been trying to push Margot Robbie all year, literally 19 days ago you were saying she was going to upset at the Globes. Trying to shame someone for predicting TPOTD (which was last year’s only reasonable result) is trash.

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Ashton_Reeves wrote:

So because the Oscar’s are shoving black women oscars in supporting. Them not getting lead Oscar’s should be less of a problem? Hmmm lmao. Diversity is not the issue. The issue is the academy doesn’t see women of color only white women as leading ladies which is a lie.All actress of every skin color should be seen as leading ladies white women included but not only white women.

Can you read? At what point did I say it wasn’t an issue or that people don’t have the right to be mad? I questioned the direction of these complaints for some change to happen.
And diversity is an issue beyond skin color, as you can see if you add up the number of Asian and Latina nominees that’s half the number of black nominees, and needless to remind you that none of the women from those groups won that category.