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Sacheen Littlefeather accepted an Oscar for Marlon Brando, and she was pretending to be a Native American at the time. So she was acting and she accepted an Oscar for acting. Does that count?

That’s fair, and I’m not saying it’s utterly precluded from the category. Kubo was stop motion, which feels a little more “effects-y,” but I’d say that I don’t think of Kubo as being a film worthy of a special effects award either. What makes Spider-Man worthy of an effects award compared to any other animated movie…

Agree with you on Robert Downey Jr. and Ryan Gosling. I suspect one of the two of them will win it, but Robert De Niro was also great in Killers of the Flower Moon — able to convincingly play a nice grandfatherly type and a person who was intensely cruel.

For what it’s worth, I think that’s a perfectly reasonable distinction. Remember also that Barbie isn’t just a doll -- there are books, shows, television commercials, all of which establish who the character is.  Gerwig was unmistakably playing with the expectations set forth for the character in the screenplay.  It’s…

Between Nyad and True Detective, are we in the midst of a Foster-ssance?

This doesn’t make much sense. The point of the movie is that Ken was being overlooked.

It would seem a little strange to nominate an animated movie like Spider-Man for visual effects. What part of it is the “effect?” All of it? Spider-Man certainly had an impressive visual style, but I’d still say there’s an animated category to deal with especially impressive animated movies.

I was about to say that skit has not aged well, but I don’t think our standards for such things are dramatically different than they were in 2013. It’s astonishing that it was aired when it was.

I think it’s surprising, as I said, because it seems like Eccleston may wind up buying himself trouble. He clearly knew people were bound to speculate about who he was talking about, since he made clear he was not talking about Nicole Kidman. I would suspect Kate Winslet will be asked about this at some point, as will…

Sometimes red, sometimes blonde herring.

It is not, in fact, an idiom.

(I don’t actually know if it’s her, but the picture was too good to resist.)

We’ve finally found a fetish Pornhub won’t cater to.

I preferred Da Derp Dee Derp Da Teetley Derpee Derpee Dumb.

That was my thought when I read the headline, but it seems unlikely here. The discussion here came because of a sex scene that was in the latest episode of True Detective: Night Country, which aired last night. That’s why he was asked about intimacy coordinators.  

I think that’s an important point. I’m also a little wary, however, that Eccleston may have effectively accused someone anyway. How many sex scenes has Eccleston had with actresses who could qualify as “A-list?” It can’t be that many, especially since he took pains to say that one possibility was not his accuser.

I think it’s surprising that Eccleston said this, mostly because he probably bought himself a bunch of trouble. But I don’t think it’s fair to say that “whole confession was bizarrely inspired by Eccleston praising intimacy coordinators.”

So, on a tangentially-related note, do you think Cinta Kaz killed the hostages after the heist in Andor? She was the extremist in the group and was left alone with the hostages. After the heist, we see Kaz leaving the facility, but don’t see the hostages again.

All stories involving Native Americans now need to be titled “[Noun] of the [Noun] Moon.”