I mean, this is a strained analogy, but if we want to frame it in that manner, it’s actually more like a striking worker returning to work after getting the better contract they struck for.
I can shorten your article.
Or just the stress of being fired from a high-skill job that he probably enjoyed, the stress of the lawsuit/the whole process of being a whistleblower, or the fear, stress, fear, and guilt of having even an indirect hand in the deaths and suffering of so many people - he maybe having had opportunity to do something…
this makes me think of that bit in Barbie where they distract the Kens by pretending to have never seen the godfather and are eager to both see the film and to listen to Ken’s running commentary about how great it is
Non-US voters (just over 20%) most likely didn’t give a shit about how “important” an award for Gladstone would be and went purely for performance. I suspect Stone and Hüller totally dominated there.
I highly doubt that’s the case, but if it’s true it’s probably for the best. The streamers don’t care about the film industry, it’s just something new for them to throw money at and conquer. They thought they could just give two acclaimed men in their 80s 200 million dollars each and rack up awards. They were wrong.…
Do newer voters think he’s pretentious or that watching his art is like “homework,” as one Twitter/X user suggested? Have his Marvel comments actually pissed that many people off? We’ll probably never know, but it’s certainly an odd look for the Academy.
Frankly, I think the main reason Killers of the Flower Moon didn’t win any awards is because they did not receive as many votes as the winners in their respective categories. Hope this helps!
Because it was underwhelming and bloated?
I do think there is also a misnomer that KOFM was dissed by not winning the actual Oscars. The very fact that it was nominated is the first stage of the awards. Those nominated films were picked as a handful of the best films of the year in their various categories. That is already “award #1". A number I have seen is…
People went up on stage, opened envelopes, and said Oppenheimer’s name a bunch, after which people who worked on Oppenheimer ascended the stage, got gold trophies, and said some stuff. That never happened with Killers of the Flower Moon.
Seriously? Nobody thought that movie was in the running for anything but Best Actress coming into the awards. The average review I read for the movie was: “Good, not great, not Scorsese’s best work”. If it doesn’t have Scorsese’s name on it, does it even get nominated?
I have not seen the movie yet. My unbiased take is that based on the hype before the movie came out, the reviews of the performances other than Gladstone’s, and the award season buzz it sounds like the movie as a whole was disappointing.
like yeah i think it would have done a lot better if it was up against CODA
you could remove every 2023 oscar nominated movie from existence and still have a super competitive awards show. it was just a massively good year for movies. kotfm blew me away, but so did oppenheimer, barbie, poor things, and a dozen others.
Counterpoint: IF you cared so much about the plights of our nation’s indigenous people you wouldn’t need a bloated Hollywood movie to remind you to fight.
This is 100% performative outrage because you don’t ACTUALLY care about their plight, you just want to appear as though you care because if you did care this…
I think the most interesting part of the movie was having such a passive protagonist. At least some of the runtime is justified, I think, by the need to give us enough time with Ernest to really draw out behavior that would otherwise suggest wild character shifts. One some level, he seems to truly care about Mollie.…
If that were true, then how come the white people awarded three Oscars to the uncomfortable slavery movie, 12 Years a Slave?
“Why did Killers Of The Flower Moon leave the Oscars empty-handed?”