I believe that’s the country most heavily represented on the staff of cargo ships. So if people with military experience are best suited to becoming mercenaries/bandits, perhaps all those sailors provide plenty of recruits for pirates. On the other hand, that area isn’t nearly as lawless as the horn of Africa, where…

Hildur’s score for Tar isn’t eligible. There’s so much pre-existing music that her compositions are relatively brief.

Now, if you were a punk, that would be acceptable:

No, if thrillers exist outside of horror then it’s not a sub-category. Hitchcock was a master of the thriller, but his only horror movies are Psycho & The Birds.

Other noteworthy diversions include a near shut-out for Steven Spielberg’s The Fablemans, which is only represented in the Original Screenplay category.

with Lambs being the only one to take home the gold statue,

I disagree about Parasite fitting into the horror rather than thriller mode. It’s about a family trying to con a richer family, somewhat like a heist movie. If the film had been from the POV of the rich family being betrayed by their employees, it would be closer to horror.

The most recent Best Picture winner was a comedy-drama (as was the much-hated Green Book and the somewhat less hated The Artist). Birdman won and was even less dramatic, Parasite combined comedy with thriller elements, and Everything Everywhere... is currently considered the most likely to win that at Gold Derby.

Best Years of Our Lives is a great film, but it does not show “the horrors of war”. There is one character with injuries from the war, and it’s not depicted as a source of horror.

Alice Englert is better known as being the daughter of Jane Campion, hence her appearing in “Top of the Lake: China Girl” (and Vulture’s “Quiz: Can You Match Nepotism Babies to Defensive Quotes?”). She’s already directed some short films, including one starring Thomasin McKenzie.

Just earlier I was listening to the Blank Check podcast on Monkeybone where they discussed how Chris Kattan gave by far the best performance in that movie, and how he was so successful on SNL and cratered once he left (the inverse of your Robert Downey Jrs, Julia Louis Dreyfus, etc).

Maude from Harold & Maude is.

Florence Pugh has a solution for press tours:

Leo, and Spaceman

But John Mulaney did work for SNL (as a writer). When he tried to be on-camera for a TV series, it bombed.

King’s Pet Sematary and The Shining

I’m sure Brian Cox cares deeply about what the AV Club deems to be a “great look”.

Garden State was never good.

Perhaps if it were an ordinary noun, rather than a proper one. For example, the Austin Powers movies are not referred to as “Austins Powers”.

I could join in the complaints others have made, as well as some of my hobbyhorses in disliking certain sequels (Reeves’ Apes movies, post De Palma Mission Impossibles) more than most, but I would just like to say that Spielberg’s Jaws is not analogous to Lucas’ Star Wars. Star Wars was Lucas’ property which he…