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August 4, 2020 at 1:46 am #1203625643
Alisa Freindlich – Stalker
Nicole Kidman – Eyes Wide Shut
Bibi Andersson – Persona
Ethan Hawke (at the end of the movie) – Before Midnight
Anthony Hopkins – The Silence of The Lambs
Laura Dern – Blue Velvet
Marlon Brando – Apocalypse Now
Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
ReplyAugust 3, 2020 at 11:13 pm #1203625515Predictions:
Lead Actor: Mark Ruffalo, he has the name and the performance. Also, the competition is pretty light.
Lead Actress: Regina King, she’s an awards darling who led Watchmen, which got 26 nominations and is poised as the far and away frontrunner. Blanchett is good, but her character is so unlikeable–at one point, Phyllis looks the other way to let the Klan join her cause. She’s not happening.
Supporting Actor: idk uhh I guess they’ll just name check Parsons? Tim Blake Nelson was the only Watchmen actor who I’d believe could overcome a vote split, but he’s not in the race and there’s three contenders from the show. McDermott won’t threaten Parsons, and Burgess has never won for his role and probably never will.
Supporting Actress: Uzo Aduba. Jean Smart was great, but “Shirley” was a phenomenal showcase for an Emmy darling whose standout episode could not be any more timely. She has the performance, the name, and the narrative to win.
August 3, 2020 at 10:56 pm #1203625506I think Aniston is winning for The Morning Show. The Crown did well but missed out on so many deserving nominations (O’Connor, Lapotaire, Dance, Menzies). Maybe I’m biased bc imo Colman didn’t have the kinds of episodes that Foy did, but I don’t think her odds looked good. Ozark did much better, but the McTeer and especially Pelphrey snubs were not good. Considering they got three writing nominations but neither of them in, I’d probably bank on Aniston since The Morning Show wildly overperformed with even Duplass and Carell getting in. Aniston also won SAG, it’s clear the actors branch is very behind the show. Mbatha-Raw not getting in wasn’t great, but she was in a stacked field without the material that Pelphrey had or the screentime McTeer got. I’m not sure about the Witherspoon snub, imo she just wasn’t great and it showed but actors clearly love Aniston on the show and she’ll probably bag it.
August 3, 2020 at 10:41 pm #1203625502Nobody’s saying it’s a bad win, but almost everyone agrees she was way better in season 1, and the latter half of 2 has her pretty out of focus, so it’s not hard to imagine her season 1 loss played a role in her win for season 2. Personally, I’d say she should’ve won for 1, been nominated for 2, and been snubbed for 3.
I was at least as impressed with Newton in season two as season one. She was a cunning badass in the first season and an absolute showstopper, but in the second season she and ERW swapped roles and it went incredibly well. Wood became the calculating Machiavellian, and Newton delivered overwhelming pathos as a mother looking for her child. Plus, the technical aspects of her work were still sublime; watch her face as she controls other hosts, those expressions do much more than the sound effects to show the audience Maeve’s powers. She didn’t have as many iconic lines, but Maeve’s meetings with Dolores, Akane, William, Ford, and Akecheta all flexed Newton’s range as both a total badass and a vulnerable, rounded character who was able to crush a monologue and carry a scene without a single word.
As for season three, she should not be near the win yikes but “The Winter Line” is good enough for at least a nomination. It’s got heaps of awesome, cunning Maeve and plenty of heartbroken, despairing Maeve too. She proves why she’s a fan favorite character again, and even though she’s completely wasted afterwards until the end (which she kills too), that episode is enough. Imo same w Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who doesn’t get much for a while but completely steals the show with “Lonely At The Top”.
July 28, 2020 at 9:57 am #1203608418The real crime is Succession missing costuming tbh because Shiv was setting trends left and right
July 28, 2020 at 9:56 am #1203608414Wait did Charles Dance and Jane Lapotaire both miss for The Crown? What a mess.
July 28, 2020 at 9:49 am #1203608340So, five acting nominations for The Morning Show but no Gugu Mbatha-Raw
PREACH. There’s room for Carell and Duplass, but not the show’s breakout performance whose showcase finally started turning me around the series. Imo she was the best on that show, it’s ridiculous the show did so well and they couldn’t get her in.
July 28, 2020 at 9:45 am #1203608316Comedy: Better Things and GLOW suck, both shows are doing incredible work and are continuously ignored. Also, Dickinson was a bit of a mess but had a lot of great stuff like production design and cinematography that shouldn’t have been ignored.
Drama: My Brilliant Friend, The Deuce, and Mindhunter for all categories again. Also, Evan Rachel Wood did so great on Westworld, season was also quite a mess but she was phenomenal again. Rhea Seehorn being snubbed again is just my annual dosage of pain, I’m getting used to it, but the lack of attention for newcomers like Menzies, Mbatha-Raw, O’Connor, and Pelphrey is ridiculous. Especially when Carell got in for a cardboard cut out performance.
Limited: The lack of recognition for The Plot Against America really sucked, but especially Zoe Kazan. I really thought she gave an “undeniable” performance, but then they did. Also Hahn for Mrs. Fletcher, she was great in a pretty eh show. Hong Chau for Watchmen also sucked, the show got so many nominations and she was left out. Also, I knew it’d get ignored but Devs really deserved some more recognition. Set design, directing, etc. and I thought Alison Pill was great.
ReplyJuly 28, 2020 at 9:28 am #1203608132Drama series was so empty last year, I was so excited to see what would happen this year with so many viable contenders. And then it happened.
Not even getting to all the specifics like Seehorn’s repeated snubs or Wiley’s nomination over Dowd and Strahovski, it looks like they just watched a handful of shows and often went all in for the ones they liked whether it was right or not. Succession cleared out both directing nominations, and it got two actors in a field of six as well as three in a field of eight. Ozark got all three of its episodes in for writing, and two for directing. Another two for directing went to The Crown. It just really looks like they phoned it in this time around.
July 11, 2020 at 1:08 am #1203580909Seehorn, she was great in every season but from “Wexler v Goodman” on she was my favorite by far.
Second would probably be Helena Bonham Carter, who didn’t get the material she deserved tbh but was so completely in control of the character that she absolutely killed “Margaretology” and “Cri de Coeur” anyway.
ReplyJune 13, 2020 at 7:41 pm #1203531827The dramas this year were good, it’s just a lot of them aren’t in contention, like My Brilliant Friend and The Deuce.
June 9, 2020 at 9:39 pm #1203524824Rotten Tomatoes is sometimes useful, but in those sorts of cases it’s pretty much worthless imo. That’s like suggesting the first two seasons of Riverdale w 88% were comparable to, or better than, True Detective season one and its 87%.
June 4, 2020 at 11:58 am #1203516303If O’Connor wins I can easily see him making it in à la Kirby in season 2 (except he’d be less deserving considering Kirby deserved the Emmy win!)
Thandie Newton deserved her win, but Kirby would’ve been a worthy winner. So would O’Connor; his performance made a generally disliked public figure into my favorite character of the season. So much tenderness, vulnerability, frustration, it was an excellent performance that should’ve hit every single awards body as a frontrunner.
June 3, 2020 at 11:46 pm #1203515533Sometimes I think Succession should be eligible for both drama and comedy.
It is funnier than all the comedies I’ve seen this year. Tom’s realization that Mark is definitely a Nazi, Greg fretting over the possibility of an “attack child” entering their “safe room”, and Roman’s remarkably eloquent “GOBBLE DEE GO FUCK YOURSELF” all happened in one episode.
June 3, 2020 at 11:33 pm #1203515525Finished it, I think it was probably my least favorite of all the season threes: like Killing Eve < The Handmaid’s Tale < Westworld/Stranger Things < Ozark < The Crown < The Deuce
Great performances, but so many lifeless plotlines and uninteresting characters. It was never a really deep show but besides Comer’s material as Villanelle it wasn’t ever exciting or engaging either. Killing Eve used to be a bold and risky show and now it just seems like they’re just recycling what they know people will like while teasing bits about The Twelve, which was never the compelling part of the story anyway.
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