That interview was fucking ridiculous to put it mildly. Hsu was indeed great. Curtis was very good. It’s hard to really appreciate her actual performance since so much of the viewing experience is “Jamie Lee Curtis is playing this character, doing this?” I think Bassett was also very good. Besides the aforementioned…

Yeah, majority non-English. It used to be “Best Foreign Language Film.” I think the idea is that to achieve the goals of recognizing “international” films, they need to exclude UK/AUS films which have tended to get exposure in the US but there have already been some films that got caught in this from other…

It’s Netflix so doesn’t have a traditional marketing campaign and it’s hard to get excited about a dreary film about such a somber subject that isn’t an original story. But, it’s very good for what it is. Nothing really new if you’ve read/seen the original adaptation or several similar movies (I think there is some…

*Angela Bassett stans have entered the chat*

Wasn’t that last year with CODA? Obviously not a blockbuster since it was on Apple TV but a crowd-pleaser—and, to many, not much else.

It always irked me that “Be Alive” was nominated when it wasn’t really “in” the movie—it plays over the credits, following the outro score. I’m not sure if it’s the first of this type to have been nominated but it adds essentially nothing to actual the film. It was an impressive production and performance (and it’s…

There’s an whole post on AVC about this topic but I agree that 2003 was a doozy of a whiff with Chicago. To me, lost in the debate is that Spirited Away should’ve won but there’s probably 10 other “normal” options I’d have taken over Chicago.

Counterpoint: It’s pretty hard to compare the two based on subject matter alone but Spotlight did deserve it IMO. I agree that it’s not the achievement of Fury Road nor pushed its genre forward in the same way but it’s a better film overall.

I know why this technically isn’t in the list (since it wasn’t nominated to have lost) but you can’t make a list about sci-fi and fantasy films that didn’t win without mentioning 1969. Fucking Oliver! basically swept (Best Picture, Best Director, Art Directions) when 2001 wasn’t nominated (Kubrick was nominated for…

With the jacket, it was giving me strong Teddy Perkins vibes.

They really don’t seem to be catering to non-meat eaters much lately, which is a shame.

Holy shit. I somehow didn’t realize that won. I’d add Far from Heaven, Talk to Her, Road to Perdition, Y Tu Mama Tabien as contenders though there’s not really a slam dunk other than...if any year was going to have an animated winner, Spirited Away by a fucking MILE over Chicago.

That was 50 years ago. It was a major happening in the industry at the time but media coverage was very different than today. It’s clearly a demographic thing but I don’t think most people know anything about this. The most I hear about it is occasionally someone will write shit about Wayne and Eastwood, mostly last…

“the HBO name turns off many potential subscribers,”

I’d take the other “Philadelphia” that was nominated.

I remember that from ER.

I’m definitely picking Inglorious Bastards or A Serious Man.

Fucking Chocolat was nominated that year.

My gripes from this list:

I agree with The Shape of Water, and liked Get Out better, but I’m taking Dunkirk (or maybe even Call me By Your Name or Phantom Thread) over it. Definitely The Social Network over The King’s Speech.