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November 27, 2021 at 9:53 pm #1204610059
They’d be dumb to leave out Gaga and Stewart. They have the reviews for their work even if some critics didn’t like the films.
The viewers they’d bring in would be a huge plus for a show that is becoming irrelevant.
ReplyNovember 27, 2021 at 9:16 pm #1204610046Sally Field actual never said “you REALLY like me.”
Just “you like me.”
for some reason it gets remembered as “you like me, you really like me.”
ReplyNovember 26, 2021 at 8:43 pm #1204608652What’s up with Jennifer Lawrence. People on other sites are raving about her but here and some other outlets she’s barely making the top 10.
ReplyNovember 26, 2021 at 8:42 pm #1204608650I think Kidman, Stewart, Gaga, and Colman are becoming locks. The fifth slot will likely remain a mystery until the very end.
ReplyNovember 25, 2021 at 8:10 pm #1204606990Yeah I just checked so there’s like 2500 members? I would say that definitely resembles popular vote more than traditional committees.
A teacher in my high school was on the committee once. He had tried to get into commercials and voiceovers but had never got any. He stayed in the union though. I remember him getting all the screeners and voting.
He was definitely not an insider! My school wasn’t in LA. It was a few hours outside of NYC where he’d still occasionally go for an audition I think.
That is what the nominating committee is like. Meryl Streep and my teacher both could have votes of equal value.
(and now its AFTRA too so disc jockeys and local news reporters can vote(?) not sure if they are allowed to also.)
November 25, 2021 at 7:45 pm #1204606949House of Gucci did pretty well at the box office so far. That’s a plus for them. Seems like most of the acclaimed performances so far have been in flop films.
Who’d have thought Gaga has box office power now and Will Smith doesn’t.
I found her quite enjoyable. It was just fun to see someone in such a different light than you usually do.
I thought I wanted Kidman (who’s excellent) to win but it would be fun to see Gaga get it.
November 25, 2021 at 7:38 pm #1204606939Yikes, so SAG has a nominating committee too? Nothing is really left to a popular vote like the Oscars this season? Even Bafta abolished the popular vote. I can see the Oscars line up be different from all the other awards shows. With that being said, Variety’s nominations are probably reasonable except for #5. Nominating committees will definitely favor bigger names for ratings and show considerations. I would swap Berry with Cruz/Hudson/Chastain.
I don’t think it is really a committee in the traditional sense. A small percentage of members are chosen at random and are on the “committee.” They get all the screeners and vote for the nominees. They don’t meet and discuss anything though. It’s a pretty large number of people too I think.
November 22, 2021 at 9:36 pm #1204596804Smith isn’t winning. He’s fighting for a nomination now.
November 22, 2021 at 8:36 pm #1204596701Some of these reviews are like, “this is the worst movie of the year but Lady Gaga is the absolutely best actress to ever live”. It’s killing me.
That’s sort of true in an odd way. I wouldn’t say it is a bad movie. Just ok. BUT whenever she enters she is just so much fun and fascinating to watch. I can’t remember being this entertained by a performance in a long time. (Maybe not since Jessica Lange on some seasons of American Horror Story.)
November 21, 2021 at 11:17 pm #1204593722I think the roundtable is kind of over. It makes people look desperate. So many of the top contenders didn’t participate this year.
November 21, 2021 at 9:06 pm #1204593540Who is the actress in red with Jane Fonda’s hand on her shoulder in the cover above?
I don’t recognize her.
November 21, 2021 at 8:20 pm #1204593403Sandra Bullock won for the Blind Side, and calling that a hokey inspirational movie/performance would be too kind to it. Content doesn’t matter when you are a likeable A-list movie star and your peers just want to give you an award. Will Smith is right up there with Sandra in terms of goodwill in the industry.
Bullock won for being a genuinely well liked person, nobody else in the category having a good narrative, taking on The Proposal when Julia Roberts bailed and having it make huge money for people.
It did seem like an undeserved win but I think when she did Gravity a few years later and probably would have won had it not been for Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine it made the win seem ok.
She’s been a true movie star and in retrospect its nice she has an award.
I don’t know if Will Smith is as well liked. And we know is wife isn’t well liked by the Academy. I think they would love to find a reason not to award him (because of her causing them such grief) and the film flopping is a perfect excuse to not vote for him.
Leo (from what I’ve read) will have a save the planet meta-narrative. Awarding a climate activist for a climate conscious movie might be very appealing. (that is what the film is about? no? I haven’t read to much about it. Sorry if I’m wrong.)
November 20, 2021 at 10:25 pm #1204591621“Testament” (1983): Fairly obscure film from the 80s with an Oscar-nominated performance from Jane Alexander, who was stellar in it. This was Shirley MacLaine’s time for “Terms of Endearment,” so no one was beating her, but Alexander was riveting regardless. It’s the story of an all-American family’s life completely upended by a nuclear attack. All kinds of modern-day relevance, since so many COVID-19 parallels are found here: the devolving of social norms, the food lines, the vulnerability of children’s lives, etc. It was difficult to watch in that regard, though at the time, a long stretch of nuclear armament/escalation films were being released: “The China Syndrome” (1979), “Memoirs of a Survivor” (1981), “Silkwood” (1983), “The Day After” (1983), “The Manhattan Project” (1986), “Ground Zero” (1987), and more on both film and television. It’s a credit to Lynne Littman’s direction that for a film originally set as a television movie with low production values, the dramatic heft was never lost. Paramount saw the final cut and though it was good enough to be a feature film. The actors later sued Paramount for being paid television salaries and not film salaries, with the case being settled out of court. I’m lowkey surprised that decision was made. This was no box office hit and probably would have been better served on television where it could have won multiple Emmys and found a wider audience. The content so bleak with no punches pulled. We never find out the origin of the nuclear attack. A lesser film might have had all of the core family survive somehow, but not this one! The radiation poisoning takes out just about everyone. Characters you expect to return never do. The poor children never had a chance. Some notable supporting cast: Rebecca DeMornay, Kevin Costner (in one of his first roles), Lilia Skala, Lukas Haas (his debut), and especially William Devane. Not sure I would nominate Devane, but he was far more impactful than John Lithgow was that year. Him getting in over Jeff Daniels is baffling to this day. This film more than holds up, so seek it out and watch ASAP, particularly for Jane Alexander.
Lithgow’s nomination was thought to really be for Twilight Zone-The Movie. Because of the deaths and lawsuits on that film and its genre they went for him in Terms though instead. Plus he had been nominated the year before so he was on their minds. Charles Durning getting in again is also odd. It was pre-screeners being sent out. People voted for who they had heard of….but yeah Jeff Daniels was better in Terms than Lithgow.
ReplyNovember 20, 2021 at 7:02 pm #1204591407Has Jennifer Lawrence officially been put in lead or supporting?
Any ads run yet? Do they give out flyers or anything at the screenings?
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