Dowd’s objection to 1917 is purely because of Sam Mendes, which is the policy of G/O media; to hate on every movie he’s ever done.

Orrr.. maybe realize that there is no such thing as “the best” anything in the art world and just like the nominations, the winners are all 100% subjective. Stop promoting this crap cause it doesn’t mean a damn thing.

1917 should win everything it’s up for.

I’ll refer you to the comments under their previous video blog for a pretty robust discussion about the characters and plot. One conclusion several of us reached is that the more you actually knew about the war the more you appreciated what Mendes did; the small details (and there are many) come across subtly, and I…

On the one hand, I’d vote for “Parasite”. On the other hand I kind of want “1917" to win just to piss off snotty critics like this one.

with a showboating white-elephant prestige picture like 1917 standing in its way

You might what to go back and rewatch, because Joker had precisely zero to do with while male rage.

I’m hoping The Irishman” gets shut out for being too long. 

Well, I did call her and opinions facile.

oof that is true.  Let’s call it a draw (of shit)

Shakespeare in Love is a vastly better film than Saving Private Ryan, which is one great battle scene followed by two hours of the most uninspired war movie cliches ever committed to film.

Shakespeare in Love. UGH. It did start a run, didn’t it? Think about it, prior to Shakespeare in Love I think I could get behind most of the prior winners (from the 1960s forward), other than maybe Rain Man and Driving Miss Daisy. But after SiL, we had these beauties: American Beauty, Chicago, Million Dollar Baby,…

The movie is about the rage of the underclass; it’s been called a movie about white male rage by the AV Club because they insist on seeing everything in the most reductive terms and in hitting certain political buzzwords in their titles.

One of the delegates at the Academy revealed to Hollywood Reporter who she’s voting for, and while some of her choices and opinions are pretty facile as I’d always imagined the Oscar voters’ voting decisions to be (JoJo Rabbitt is “cute”), didn’t even give Parasite much thought, she is absolutely right about The…

He was never convicted so to say “get to rape someone”, is misleading and false. This was no more than an opportunity to cash in on a false claim. Google the texts that were recovered from the so called “victim’s” phone.

Nice try.

Meanwhile, China is comparing Israel instituting a travel ban to the Holocaust.

Yeah - I’m a huge racist dick. My wife’s asian, and I’m ONLY voting for Andrew Yang. Lighten up.

Implying that someone’s digging their own grave by explaining something to the humorless?

Because... Wuhan, China is the epicenter, and so that’s what people call it -- the wuhan coronavirus.