My two cents:
1. Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
2. Sophia Loren – The Life Ahead
3. Amy Adams – Hillbilly Elegy
4. Frances McDormand – Nomadland
5. Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman

I don’t get why Loren’s performance is not in the contest conversation circles. She was f—ing amazing. In my heart she’s the winner already. But I just…[Read more]

1. Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
2. Anthony Hopkins – The Father
3. Gary Oldman – Mank
4. Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
5. Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal

In my personal subjetive opinion Hopkins’ performance was a little step above Boseman’s, BUT since Boseman was SUPERB also and sadly in no longer with us. I think it would be a nice…[Read more]

In this crazy year, I’ll go with:

1. Olivia Colman – The Father
2. Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
3. Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman
4. Amanda Seyfried – Mank
5. Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari

My bet is… a 2018-19 deja vú: Colman Vs. Close and the Oscars doing it again.

Mamma mia

My personal picks:

2000: Gladiator
2001: Donnie Darko
2002: Chicago
2003: The Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King
2004: Million Dollar Baby
2005: Crash
2006: Little Miss Sunshine
2007: Juno
2008: Gran Torino
2009: Avatar

“Troop Zero”: 5 out of 10 stars. Great artistic direction, great photography… and superb supporting performances by Viola Davis and Allison Janney… that’s the thing. Their quaility acting deserved a better storyline and a better script for them (actually after watching the film, the audience might feel that exploring the material behind the…[Read more]

Scarlett Johansson (in any category) or Joe Pesci. But highly unlikely.

2010: 127 Hours
2011: The Artist
2012: Lincoln
2013: Dallas Buyers Club
2014: Interstellar
2015: Carol
2016: A United Kingdom
2017: Wonder Woman
2018: Mary, Queen of Scots
2019: Joker

Is difficult to place what’s considered “unlikable”, since winning actors of the Oscar usually portraits characters with lots of dimensions and nuances. So I will go for the characters that are presented to us as “villians” since the 90’s:

For Best Actor:

For Best Actress:

For Best Supporting Actor:

For Best Supporting Actress:

This has been a pretty weak year… compared to the previous one with such good-to-great films (“Campeones”, “Thi Mai”, “El autor”, “Handía”, “La llamada”, “El Reino”), so I’m really fine with Almodovar’s film recieving all the accolades (deservengly so considering the “quality” of this year).

Honestly, I only liked one spanish film of 2019: “Lo…[Read more]

The George Lucas prequel “Star Wars” Trilogy is way better than the Disney Trilogy. Kill me.

I don’t see it happening in the near future. His future proyects don’t look too promising. And if he couldn’t get a nomination for such a juicy and baity role, I don’t see him getting a nom for his near future proyects than seem much less interesting.

My personal opinion is that he’s a promising raising star, he has room to improve and mature as…[Read more]

Antonio Banderas – La piel que habito & The 33
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Adam Driver – Blackkklansman
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes & The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Cynthia Erivo – Harriet
Scarlett Johansson – Match Point
Saoirse Ronan – Atonement
Charlize Theron – Monster & Tully
Renée Zellweeger -…[Read more]

You don’t need to listen to anyone then.

That’s your personal opinion. To me Phoenix’s Joker is the best one (I really can’t compare a supporting performance with a leading one. Ledger was the best supporting Joker in history and Phoenix is the best leading one), to me he gave the best performance (male or female) of the year (his moments in screen are pure gold whatever they are of…[Read more]

Could Laura Dern get Glenn Close’d? Possible (in my book she’s not a lock like Joaquin Phoenix (100% sure of his win since October). The performance is there but the character Dern portraits is not memorable… even her role in “Little Women” gave her much more to work as an actress) but highly improbable.

She has an overdue factor and her…[Read more]

Have not seen Parasite nor Jojo Rabbit jet. So my actual personal rank right now:

1. Joker
2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
3. Little Women
4. Marriage Story
5. The Irishman
6. Ford v Ferrari

My rank:

Films:
1. Charmber of Secrets
2. Goblet of Fire
3. Deathly Hallows Part 2
4. Sorcerer’s Stone
5. Prisoner of Azkaban
6. Half-Blood Prince
7. Order of the Phoenix
8. Deathly Hallows Part 1

Books:
1. Prisoner of Azkaban
2. Sorcerer’s Stone
3. Order of the Phoenix
4. Globet of Fire
5. Deathly Hallows
6. Half-Blood Prince
7. Chamber of Secrets

This can raise the fun of this season, if you get spanish humor.

Does Hollywood really think Antonio Banderas is Black? A clarification if necessary: Spain is in Europe, just below France.

Here spanish TV news asking fellowmen if they think Banderas is black, white or whatever. Hilarious, fellowmen talking about how good is to take some sun of…[Read more]