As someone who recently rewatched some SeaQuest DSV, I urge you to let live in splendor in your memory.

To be fair I didn’t mean to suggest Coppola is the one actually saying this.  This is just an AVClub angle for some ridiculous reason.

It was a time when passing out on some railroad tracks and getting run over by a train was considered death by natural causes for a country singer. 

Do people think Robbie and Gosling were directly competing against each other? Because that’s the vibe I get every time someone talks about this.

Agree with you on Robert Downey Jr. and Ryan Gosling. I suspect one of the two of them will win it, but Robert De Niro was also great in Killers of the Flower Moon — able to convincingly play a nice grandfatherly type and a person who was intensely cruel.

For what it’s worth, I think that’s a perfectly reasonable distinction. Remember also that Barbie isn’t just a doll -- there are books, shows, television commercials, all of which establish who the character is.  Gerwig was unmistakably playing with the expectations set forth for the character in the screenplay.  It’s…

Enter the era of electricity guzzlers.

Margot Robbie didn’t just do good work. She’s the glue that holds that movie together. I’ve watched Barbie multiple times, and she is the heart of that thing. It’s performances like hers that really should but rarely do get honored in the lead acting categories. Do you realize just how hard it would be to do what she…

France didn’t submit it (hedging that it would get a Best Picture nom). They submitted The Taste of Things.

You can make the argument Gerwig was up against a tough crowd. (Not saying I will, but it’s there.)

10* nominees has been a thing since 2010, after The Dark Knight was snubbed.

Perhaps, but Nyad absolutely does not deserve any recognition.

Yeah, all due respect to Oliver Stone, Gerwig made something affecting and of substance, and entertaining, out of a movie about Barbie dolls, which is really pretty impressive. I’m not a hardcore Barbie fan, but I thought it was really great, and it would have been nice for Gerwig to have gotten some recognition. Same…

They’re not only exactly what you describe, but we all know that the site runs three different headlines at any given time for the same article and goes with whichever one proves to be the biggest clickbait.

I think the originating country has to choose it, and whoever decides these things in Germany went with the other one. (Possibly as a tactical decision, hoping Anatomy Of A Fall would get that Best Picture nomination.)

It’s called a budget. 

I don’t understand why so many people seem to think “high market valuation = flush with cash they can spend on anything” but okay sure let’s go with it.

Yeah... I don’t get the whole “They have a bunch of money, so of course they should have made this!” concept. I’m sure there are lots of projects they turn down, some get further down the road towards production than others. Their track record overall has been pretty good in the end.

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