[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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I’ll never forgive Sony for opting not to campaign Asier at all. An unknown needs a campaign and Antonio was only ever going to waffle about Pedro in his speeches…

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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Unsurprising that nobody wanted to watch the likes of Laura Dern and Brad Pitt win Oscars for playing themselves.

It’s too funny that after they snubbed JLo she ended up beating their ratings at the Superbowl. The flavour!

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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Regarding The French Dispatch…it saddens me slightly in the years since their breakthrough that Seydoux has a career and Exarchopoulos doesn’t. Watching their talent Blue is the Warmest Colour it was like night and day. Where are the roles for Adèle?

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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Thatcher, Prime Minister of GoldDerby wrote:

I absolutely loathe their progressivist hipocrisy. Voters think voting for a Korean film will totally erase their racism and sexism. I have to laugh. The Academy members really have some disgusting behaviour.

This x100000. While it was a remarkable and refreshing sleight of hand from the Academy, it still won’t erase the fact that the four Acting winners were straight white Americans (again). Too many great performances from acclaimed foreign movies were ignored. It’s not good enough!

And I totally agree about your thoughts on Dern and Pain and Glory.

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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So they finally nominated Judi Dench for dressing up as a cat but didn’t finally nominate Meryl Streep for dressing up as a Latina? The double standards! Shocked Gary Oldman was ignored too.

The Tyler Perry nominations are stale and a waste. Jason Derulo and Idris Elba were more deserving.

Oh and Jennifer Lawrence was far more deserving than Jessica Chastain…I guess they figured the latter was overdue.

Overall decent but could have been so much better. Mike Moh would have been a far more inspiring choice in supporting actor. But nobody would dare talk the truth about the terrible supporting performances in the untouchable Hollywood movie…

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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M: The Original wrote:

Nobody sincerely believes anyone will ever win two acting prizes at the Oscars, but if one actor ever did it is her.

Kate Winslet should have won 2 first for Revolutionary Road/The Reader (Actress/Supporting)…

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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Oh another vanity project, how original of him. The thirst!

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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De Niro and Leo in another Scorcese picture? Yawn. Other actors exist.

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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Blanche wrote:

Some terrible choices like 1917, Joker and Knives Out in Best Picture, but overall good nominations.
Hope you are quicker to add new contenders the next year, I did not even have the chance to vote for Leonardo Sbaraglia, who I asked to be added on the first day.

Leonardo Sbaraglia and Asier Etxeandia were made available a few days before the deadline. I agree that there probably wasn’t enough time for exposure. They both got my #1 and #2 votes, shame nobody else did the same. Hence the boring sheep votes for Pitt, Pesci and Pacino.

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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FreemanGriffin wrote:

^This is why I worry that 1917 might get short-changed. I bet many people voted before they saw 1917 and then never went back to change their votes…

Actually I refused to list my nominees until I asked for the supporting actors from Pain and Glory to be made available to choose. Unfortunately they weren’t listed until not long before the deadline so I can’t see any chance of them getting votes from everyone who voted early sadly…

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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Did we have to click a submit button or anything? I remember listing and saving my nominees but then forgot about the deadline completely so didn’t do anything further than that…sorry if this is dense lol

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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It was an engaging and thought-provoking film, but felt too similar to All the President’s Men for my taste. And Rachel McAdams being a filler nominee, she was fine but not remotely Oscar worthy. One of those films I’m glad I caught on Netflix than the theatre.

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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The leading performances of Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt…what was Oscar worthy about them?

Theron felt like an SNL sketch, what is Oscar worthy about wearing prosthetics and make-up. Barbie Quinn wasn’t outstanding either…

Pesci was on autopilot and Pacino was back to his loud days. Nothing new or Oscar worthy about either of them…

Hanks was playing the nice guy. Nothing new from him either…most of the nominees are uninspiring this year and feel more like name-checks than passion.

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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Sigh…I thought he’d been exiled after being exposed as an arrogant wannabe-auteur hack. I’d rather watch Caniba on loop than sit through another of his narcissistic, obnoxious and offensive pantomimes.

Although I do sometimes re-watch the clip where Emmanuelle Riva won her BAFTA for the sheer entertainment of seeing his shameless reaction…so there could be some value in his return.

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)

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[Vicki LeekxParticipant Joined: Aug 3rd, 2019 Topics: 2 Posts: 196 View Predictions]

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Blanche wrote:

The Two Popes is a disgusting film trying to make a homophobic look like a good person with a boring direction and screenplay. Only good thing about it is the throwbacks.

The reaching lol, someone didn’t pay attention.

FYC:

Antonio Banderas and Asier Etxeandia, Dolor y Gloria (Best Actor/Supporting Actor)
Emily Beecham, Little Joe (Best Actress)
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren, The Good Liar (Best Actor/Actress)