Willem Dafoe is nominated for Best Supporting Actor, while Oldman is up for Best Actor.

I would also put my money on Oldman were I a betting man, but I’d much prefer seeing Daniel Kaluuya win.

Jim Carrey got snubbed twice after Globes wins, one in Drama and one in Comedy.

Perhaps my view is tainted too much by perceived authorial intent: I read about comparisons of the real guy to what’s depicted in the movie, and all the alterations seem to be to make him look better, particularly to a modern audience.

Here is hoping that Dafoe gets some Oscar love, amazing actor.

In 2011, the category was won by Paul Giamatti for Barney’s Version. (What’s that? I reviewed it, and I barely remember. It’s Canadian.) He was competing against Johnny Depp, who was nominated twice, for his scintillating turns in Alice In Wonderland and The Tourist; Kevin Spacey in Casino Jack; and Jake Gyllenhaal in…

A common misconception. An adapted screenplay is one that’s derived from an earlier written work: a book, an article, the script of an earlier film, etc.

I think it boils down to the extreme difference in the two awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association gives out the Globes; a very small group of reporters, compared to the I don’t know how many thousands of members strong Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Plus, the nominating process is already…

Weird! I fell asleep to Shape of Water, missing the entire fish fuck and the musical number (but popping back into awareness for the last third). This is why I have to refrain from calling it “bizarrely overrated third-tier Del Toro,” even though I really want to, because I simply haven’t earned that hot take yet.

That’s fair enough. I thought Dunkirk was the movie if the year. But it’s script was less ambitious than 2049's.

I was sobbing from when she started crying at the door I think (pretty sure that was the first time we see her crying) to the iPhone switch to the end. Just utter perfection.

I thought Luv was an excellent character that further illustrated the compassion of a replicant that is almost human and the coldness of a replicant that is almost a machine. Sylvia Hoeks played it perfectly.

Lesley Manville is in at least three of those films.

No, and bisexual grad student who falls madly in love with his boss’s son but knows it can never be more than a fling is actually pretty subtle. I know a lot of people gay and straight who were uneasy with the age difference in CMBYN but were won over by Hammer’s buttoned-down vulnerability. I liked Richard Jenkins a…

In the film he’s depicted as having successful expeditions, except when that other explorer guy he brings along ruins everything. His beliefs about what’s in the jungle and his methods of interacting with the natives are depicted as wiser than those of his peers. We never see him or his son actually die, and the…

That fucking ending, shot on an iPhone. Nothing else so sweeping and wondrous in movies last year.

this times 100. compared to Call Me By Your Name where I felt EVERYTHING. And it keeps losing to Shape of Water.

Mike Leigh? Yes please. Off to reserve a copy at the library.

Of all the acting nominees, I’m most pleased with Lesley Manville, the best thing about Phantom Thread if you ask me. I was unfamiliar with her before and checked her IMDb page on the way home from the theater to see if I had seen her in anything. Vera Drake is the only one in which her character had a name, and now I…

I haven’t seen that one or I, Tonya yet, but I was hoping they would get nominations to make it more likely that they’d come to my city.

Have you ever seen Pan’s Labyrinth? That movie broke my mind. The ending haunted me for a good long while.