Fascinating how the Marvel people just cannot abide the fact that not everybody in the world loves Marvel films and some people actually want to see something other than franchise movies.  Here’s Martin Scorsese, one of our greatest living directors, having to go to Netflix to get his movie made, and people just…

May be a consequence of the tyranny of the superhero movie and the death of regular old mid-budget films aimed at grownups.  You either get big franchise films, or you get independent films like this one that assume that art has to be depressing.

It’ll be eligible when it plays.

A Canadian film won this award—”The Barbarian Invasions”.

Thoughtcrime

The older I get, the less willing I am to watch movies like this.  Let’s watch people being sad and miserable for two hours!

Adam Driver and Cary Grant should not be mentioned in the same sentence.  It is OK to play the same guy in every movie when you are *Cary Grant*.

I think there are ways you could improve this category. First, make the nomination process more flexible—say, if a movie runs in New York or LA for a week and qualifies for the regular old Oscars, make said movie eligible for this award as well, assuming it’s not in English. Second, maybe expand the field. If it’s…

But that has no relation to nominating an English-language film in a foreign language category. This is like getting angry at an apple for not being an orange. This category is for films made in languages other than English. That’s the point.

They lost four aircraft carriers and we lost one.  That’s an emphatic victory.

I went through the whole gamut of emotions from huge excitement to crushing disappointment upon 1) hearing that somebody was making a movie about Midway and 2) finding out that fucking Roland Emmerich was that somebody.

“do we need SPOILER ALERTS for a historical drama”

I’d feel worse about Deadspin’s demise if one person, just one person, in that shop would acknowledge that Gawker was wrong to run the Hulk Hogan sex tape.

I remember watching “The Sixth Sense” in the movie theater, realizing about 2/3 of the way through that Bruce Willis never talked to anyone but the boy, and feeling very proud of myself afterwards.

Yes

It’s eligible for every other category, including Best Picture.

If it’s a “problem” for this film then it’s a “problem” for every film made in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, or Canada that is routinely ignored for Best Picture because that’s just the way it is.  Best Picture goes to either American or British productions, that’s just how it goes.

It’s wrong to say that it was designed to give “non-white” voices an award; all you have to do is look at the overwhelming preponderance of winners from France and Italy to figure that out.  But it *was* and *is* for films not made in English which is why this “controversy” is so goddamn dumb.

Are people just stupid?  This category is for films not made in English!  If it’s in English, it’s ineligible!  As for Nigeria competing for an Oscar in its official language, English, they have an award for that: Best Picture.

There is no such thing as a “nonfiction novel”.