If it’s ineligible it won’t be on the published list eligible contenders. If an Academy member tried to vote for it (assuming that’ll even be physically possible with online voting) their vote would be disregarded.

She should have though. She was dubbed ‘Mother of the Blues’ for a reason.

Don’t insult Mary Anning or the director of God’s Own Country like that.

She’s first billed on IMDb and pundits aren’t familiar with the source material. That’s probably the only reason.

Withholding it for a whole year would be preferable. It would be beyond disrespectful for Warner Bros to dump what is reportedly Nolan’s most cinematic work yet straight to VOD. People want to see this in theaters, whether now or later.

My only concern with Davis is that she is not a singer; in fact, by her own admission, she will never complete an EGOT because she ‘can’t sing’. (She could win for spoken word I suppose.) I haven’t seen or read the play so I’m not sure how much actual singing is involved in the role as written; nevertheless, I haven’t found any confirmation so…[Read more]

A solid and justified verdict on this thread.

I’ll probably semi- self-isolate for a week after seeing it anyway, even in August.

Roma
The Shape of Water
Moonlight
Son of Saul
Ida
12 Years a Slave
Amour
A Separation

The Lives of Others

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

I still haven’t seen most of the international feature winners of the 00s, so I’ve just listed the times where I’ve seen both. Unsurprisingly, the foreign films win out in my book.

I’m not convinced that holding Portrait over to 2020 would have done it much favour either. While people are preoccupied with covid-19 and its effect on upcoming releases and the future of the industry, Neon would’ve had a job on its hands to get voters to remember a foreign-language film that premiered at Cannes over a year ago. And who’s to…[Read more]

Some great mentions so far. My own is End of the Century, a recent Argentine film set in Barcelona, touching on themes of memory and the relationship between past and present.

Btw, what were all these banned comments about? I missed all of that but can’t help being morbidly curious.

If Neon and Lionsgate had decided to save Ammonite for next season they likely would have withdrawn it from the official Cannes lineup before it was announced in early June.

Barton Fink should’ve been the double supporting actor nominee for 1991, not Bugsy.

One that’s always mystified me is Jack Kruschen over Fred MacMurray in The Apartment, though it did occur to me MacMurray may have been pushed lead as stars often did back then no matter what. Kruschen was still great so I’m not too fussed.

Those predicting a lead campaign for Lindo may have a point. With Da 5 Bloods being an ensemble film with several noteworthy performances, it could look like bad manners to push Lindo as supporting at the expense of his co-stars, particularly Clarke Peters and Jonathan Majors (though it’s hard to tell at this stage if they would gain any traction…[Read more]

1. Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
2. Viola Davis – Fences
3. Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
4. Laura Dern – Marriage Story
5. Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
6. Allison Janney – I, Tonya
7. Melissa Leo – The Fighter
8. Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
9. Octavia Spencer – The Help
10. Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables

So much category fraud here, but I’ll disregard that for the ranking:

1. Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
2. Christopher Plummer – Beginners
3. Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
4. Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
5. Mahershala Ali – Green Book
6. J. K. Simmons – Whiplash
7. Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
8. Sam Rockwell – Three…[Read more]

1. Olivia Colman – The Favourite
2. Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
3. Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
4. Julianne Moore – Still Alice
5. Brie Larson – Room
6. Natalie Portman – Black Swan
7. Renée Zellweger – Judy
8. Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
9. Emma Stone – La La Land
10. Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings…[Read more]

1. Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
2. Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
3. Jean Dujardin – The Artist (the most underrated acting winner of the decade)
4. Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
5. Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
6. Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant
7. Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
8. Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
9.…[Read more]

1. Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
2. Bong Joon-ho – Parasite
3. Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
4. Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
5. Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
6. Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman
7. Damian Chazelle – La La Land
8. Ang Lee – Life of Pi
9. Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
10. Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech

1. Moonlight
2. Parasite
3. 12 Years a Slave
4. The Shape of Water
5. The Artist
6. Spotlight
7. Birdman
8. Argo
9. The King’s Speech
10. Green Book