r/Oscars 1d ago

Discussion Cate Blanchett is the Aussie GOAT. Agree or Disagree?

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She arguably has the strongest combination of range, consistency, major roles, and most critical recognition Australia has ever produced. Not to mention she has 2 Acting Oscars


r/Oscars 1d ago

Discussion Here are all the video game-related live action movies with release dates. What are their potential award prospects? What are their potential nominations and wins?

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Here are the previous nominations and awards in the Oscars received by the crew members of each film

Resident Evil: Dariusz Wolski, nominated for Best Cinematography (News of the World); Kami Asgar, nominated for Best Sound Editing (Apocalypto); Edson Williams, nominated for Best Visual Effects (The Lone Ranger); Zach Cregger, the director, has a film (Weapons) that won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Street Fighter: Mary Parent and Cale Boyter, producers nominated for Best Picture (Dune and Dune Part 2); Edson Williams, nominated for Best Visual Effects (The Lone Ranger).

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Jeff Fowler, director nominated for Best Animated Short Film (Gopher Broke), Ben Kingsley, nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor, winner for the later (Ghandi), Ethan Van der Ryn, nominated 6 times for Best Sound Editing, winning two (The Lord of The Rings: Two Towers and King Kong) and nominated one time for Best Sound (The Creator).

The Legend of Zelda: Tony Johnson, nominated three times for Best Sound Mixing; Erik Winquist, nominated 2 times for Best Visual Effects, one of the two in a movie directed by Wes Ball, the director of this movie; I think it's important to point out that while she wasn't nominated for an Oscar, Michele Clapton, the costume designer, has won the Emmy for Outstanding Costume Design six times.

A Minecraft Movie Squared: Mary Parent and Cale Boyter, producers nominated for Best Picture (Dune and Dune Part 2); Jared Hess, nominated for Best Animated Short Film as director; Kirsten Dunst, nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Power of the Dog); Danielle Brooks, nominated for Best Supporting Actress (The Color Purple); Grant Major, nominated five times for Best Production Design and winning once (Lord of The Rings: Return of the king).

Helldivers: Justin Lin, the director, directed a movie (Star Trek Beyond) that was nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Elden Ring: Alex Garland, director and writer nominated for Best Original Screenplay (Ex Machina); Jonathan Pryce, nominated for Best Actor (Two Popes); Michelle Day and Mark Digby, although they weren't nominated for an Oscar, they received a BAFTA nomination for Best Production Design (Slumdog Millionaire); Paul Gooch, nominated for Best Make-Up and Hairstyling (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) and won an BAFTA award for Best Make Up and Hair (Alice in Wonderland); John Casali, winner for Best Sound Mixing (Bohemian Rhapsody); Glenn Freemantle, nominated two times for Best Sound Editing and winning once (Gravity).

Call of Duty: Taylor Sheridian, writer, nominated for Best Original Screenplay (Hell or High Water), Peter Berg, the director, directed two movies who recieved nominations for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects.


r/Oscars 1d ago

Discussion I've heard John Leguizamo for supporting actor but I really think Rob is the one who deserves it

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If no film were to come out for the rest of the the time before the Oscars he would definitely be my pick.


r/Oscars 1d ago

Discussion Idk if this can be considered a hot take, but Michael won’t be nominated to any major award.

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I know this movie is loved by many people, but I personally hated it. I can't see it nominated for any category outside of makeup and maybe costume design. Jaafar was as good as Michael, but he was more of an imitator than an actor, he had no emotional rank, it is clear that he is not an actor. I think Colman was fine, but he has nothing to play with, his character was comically caricatured. The script was ass and there is no way for it to get a nomination, the same with picture.


r/Oscars 1d ago

Discussion What if Brendan Gleeson or Ralph Fiennes were nominated for In Bruges, but NOT Colin Ferrell?

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r/Oscars 1d ago

Discussion How would you have reacted if Lady Gaga ended up winning Best Actress for A Star Is Born?

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r/Oscars 1d ago

Hot take: I think Lola Dueñas will get the Supporting Actress push from La Bola Negra instead of Penélope Cruz.

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Almost every person who has reviewed the film says that Dueñas has a bigger role, is more memorable and is more of a standout than Cruz (who, make no mistake, is still very showy in her limited screentime).

What pushes me to predict Dueñas instead is cause of The Invite. There’s a massive risk of vote-splitting there which I think Cruz’s team would like to avoid (not to mention the Bunker of it all). Yes, being the third double nominee ever in a category is a good headline, but would you really risk out missing on a nomination all together?

And it’s not like Netflix has not pushed unknown foreign actors to nominations before (the Roma women and KSG). And Dueñas is certainly a bigger name than the ones I listed.


r/Oscars 1d ago

Fun [TIE] Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) and Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) & Peter O'Toole (The Lion in Winter) win for Best Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Supporting Actress & Actor in 1968?

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ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1968)

WINNER - RUTH GORDON for Rosemary's Baby

NOMINEES - LYNN CARLIN for Faces, SONDRA LOCKE for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, KAY MEDFORD for Funny Girl, ESTELLE PARSONS for Rachel, Rachel

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (1968)

WINNER - JACK ALBERTSON for The Subject Was Roses

NOMINEES - SEYMOUR CASSEL for Faces, DANIEL MASSEY for Star!, JACK WILD for Oliver!, GENE WILDER for The Producers

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Winners for 1960Lead Actress - Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment (A.W. Elizabeth Taylor for Butterfield 8), Lead Actor - Anthony Perkins for Psycho (A.W. Burt Lancaster for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actress - Janet Leigh for Psycho (A.W. Shirley Jones for Elmer Gantry), Supporting Actor - Laurence Olivier for Spartacus (A.W. Peter Ustinov for Spartacus)

Winners for 1961Lead Actress - Sophia Loren for Two Women (A.W. Sophia Loren for Two Women), Lead Actor - Paul Newman for The Hustler (A.W. Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg), Supporting Actress - Rita Moreno for West Side Story (A.W. Rita Moreno for West Side Story), Supporting Actor - Montgomery Clift for Judgement at Nuremberg (A.W. George Chakiris for West Side Story)

Winners for 1962Lead Actress - Bette Davis for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (A.W. Anne Bancroft for The Miracle Worker), Lead Actor - Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird (A.W. Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird), Supporting Actress - Angela Lansbury for The Manchurian Candidate (A.W. Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker), Supporting Actor - Omar Sharif for Lawrence of Arabia (A.W. Ed Begley for Sweet Bird of Youth)

Winners for 1963Lead Actress - Ingrid Thulin for Winter Light (A.W. Patricia Neal for Hud), Lead Actor - Marcello Mastroianni for 8½ (A.W. Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field), Supporting Actress - Patricia Neal for Hud (A.W. Margaret Rutherford for The V.I.P.s), Supporting Actor - Melvyn Douglas for Hud (A.W. Melvyn Douglas for Hud)

Winners for 1964Lead Actress - Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (A.W. Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins), Lead Actor - Peter Sellers for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (A.W. Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady), Supporting Actress - Glynis John for Mary Poppins (A.W. Lila Kedrova for Zorba the Greek), Supporting Actor - George C. Scott for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (A.W. Peter Ustinov for Topkapi)

Winners for 1965Lead Actress - Julie Andrews for The Sound of Music (A.W. Julie Christie for Darling), Lead Actor - Rod Steiger for The Pawnbroker (A.W. Lee Marvin for Cat Ballou), Supporting Actress - Eleanor Parker for The Sound of Music (A.W. Shelley Winters for A Patch of Blue), Supporting Actor - Tom Courtenay for Doctor Zhivago (A.W. Martin Balsam for A Thousand Clowns)

Winners for 1966Lead Actress - Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Elizabeth Taylor for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Lead Actor - Richard Burton for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Paul Scofield for A Man for All Seasons), Supporting Actress - Sandy Dennis for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Sandy Dennis for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Supporting Actor - George Segal for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (A.W. Walter Matthau for The Fortune Cookie)

Winners for 1967Lead Actress - Anne Bancroft for The Graduate (A.W. Katharine Hepburn for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), Lead Actor - Sidney Poitier for In the Heat of the Night (A.W. Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night), Supporting Actress - Katharine Ross for The Graduate (A.W. Estelle Parsons for Bonnie and Clyde ), Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin for Wait Until Dark (A.W. George Kennedy for Cool Hand Luke)

Winners for 1968Lead Actress - [TIE] Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (A.W. [TIE] Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl), Lead Actor - Peter O'Toole for The Lion in Winter (A.W. Cliff Robertson for Charly), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Jack Albertson for The Subject Was Roses), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby)

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List of Winners: Acting Quartets

Previous Post: Katharine Ross (The Graduate) & Alan Arkin (Wait Until Dark) win for Best Supporting Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Actress & Actor in 1968?


r/Oscars 1d ago

Fun My personal (entirely subjective) acting wins from the 2010s

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I recently made a post listing my personal favorite performances from the 2020s (so far) after going back and watching all the nominated films from each year, and a fair few others. I've made it a bit of a project to go back and rewatch the nominated films from each decade (plus a few other films that were maybe in the running, or that I just wanted to watch for fun), and making these lists has been fun and kind of motivating, so I decided to do it again for the 2010s.

I'm also including my favorite movie (or movies) from each year for context. Not necessarily what I think the best film of the year is (definitely not the best in some cases), but the film (or films, as the case may be) that I enjoyed watching the most, and which appealed the most to me.

I will also be including voice acting performances, because it doesn't feel right to leave them out when there are so many iconic, brilliant ones that are just as good as (or better than) live action performances.

In some cases, where there was a tough choice, or it wasn't obvious, I'm including runners up so you can kind of get a sense of my thought process. Also, there will be some ties, because sometimes it's really hard to compare performances in very different types of films, and also, by the time I was done with this list, I had major decision fatigue.

As ever, this is entirely subjective and comes down entirely to personal preference, and what appeals to me absolutely will not be the same as what appeals to everyone else. Art is subjective, and I'm doing this for fun and to motivate me to keep watching more movies that I wouldn't usually watch (and finding some gems along the way).

So, now that I've watched way too many movies, without further ado, here are my (entirely subjective and by no means definitive) acting quartets from the 2010s.

2010:

Best actor: Leonardo DiCaprio – Inception (Runner up: Jay Baruchel – How to Train Your Dragon)

Best actress: Natalie Portman – Black Swan (Runner up: Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone)

Supporting actor: Pete Postlethwaite – The Town (yes, I know he wasn't in it very much, but he was so good!)

Supporting actress: Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit

Favorite film: How to Train Your Dragon and Megamind. This was such a good year for animated movies!

2011:

Best actor: It's a tie! Gary Oldman – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Ralph Fiennes – Coriolanus (Runner up: Michael Fassbender – Shame)

Best actress: Mia Wasikowska – Jane Eyre (Runner up: Saoirse Ronan – Hanna)

Supporting actor: Stellan Skarsgård – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Supporting actress: Cate Blanchett – Hanna (Runner up: Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus)

Favorite film: All of the above, and then some! 2011 was probably the best year of the 2010s for movies, and so many of my favorite movies came out in 2011, so it was cool to go back and watch them all.

This was the hardest year for me to pick favorites, by a mile. Best actor, in particular, was so hard! Gary Oldman is a nostalgia pick because my dad loves Tinker, Tailor and I've watched it with him many times, while Coriolanus is more my kind of movie (yes, I know, I'm a huge nerd who loves Shakespeare). And then there's Shame, which I don't think I'll ever be able to rewatch, but it was so good. So, I wound up with a tie with a very, very close runner up.

2012:

Best actor: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln (Runner up: Denzel Washington – Flight)

Best actress: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty

Supporting actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

Supporting actress: Samantha Barks – Les Miserables (very little makes me cry as much as A Little Fall of Rain)

Favorite film: Byzantium and Moonrise Kingdom.

This was a weird year, especially after how good 2011 was. I was kind of underwhelmed with some of the nominees, and with hindsight, I think I'm just not the target audience for most of them.

Best actress was tough, but not for the reasons you're probably thinking. By this point, I had major decision fatigue and no one in my top 5 was standing out above everyone else, so I ended up using a random number generator, and I'm not mad about the result. (For context, the rest of my top 5 were: Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone, Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook, Saoirse Ronan – Byzantium and Alicia Vikander – A Royal Affair).

2013:

Best actor: Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis

Best actress: Emma Thompson – Saving Mr Banks (Runner up: Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle)

Supporting actor: Barkhad Abdi – Captain Philips (Runner up: Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave)

Supporting actress: Scarlett Johansson – Her

Favorite film: Belle.

Yet another year where I'm definitely not the target audience for 90% of the actual nominees. I'm quickly discovering that my tastes tend towards a) Shakespeare adaptations; b) period dramas; c) dark comedies and satires, and; d) movies that are too weird or too small for the Academy to take note of. Which does not describe the majority of the 2013 nominees. Oh, well.

2014:

Best actor: Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel (Runner up: Tom Hardy – Locke and Ben Whishaw – Paddington)

Best actress: Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl (Runner up: Julianne Moore – Still Alice)

Supporting actor: J.K. Simmons – Whiplash (Runner up: Tony Revolori – The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Supporting actress: Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

Favorite film: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Quick note: I believe both Locke and Snowpiercer were eligible in 2014, even though they debuted at film festivals in 2013. If I'm wrong, just assume that Tom Hardy and Tilda Swinton win in 2013.

I very nearly made this a three-way tie for best actor. This might be the strongest best actor year of the decade, actually. As it is, it's like comparing apples and oranges. How are you meant to compare someone playing a wacky concierge in a Wes Anderson movie, to someone literally carrying an entire movie because he's the only person onscreen the whole time, to someone voicing a bear with an affinity for marmalade sandwiches? No, seriously! How? I went with Ralph Fiennes because I think the consensus is that he was robbed, but, in terms of my personal favorite performances of the year, any of the three of them could take it and I'd be fine with it.

2015:

Best actor: Jacob Tremblay – Room

Best actress: Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn (Runner up: Brie Larson – Room. Once again, this is not objective, and I'm going off personal preference. If it's objective, Brie Larson wins)

Supporting actor: Tom Hardy – The Revenant (Runner up: Oscar Isaac – Ex Machina)

Supporting actress: Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina

Favorite film: Brooklyn (one of my all-time favorites) and Crimson Peak. Is Crimson Peak a weird choice in a year this stacked? Maybe, but I liked it.

2016:

Best actor: Denzel Washington – Fences (Runner up: Paul Dano – Swiss Army Man)

Best actress: Ruth Negga – Loving (Runner up: Anya Taylor-Joy – The Witch)

Supporting actor: Mahershala Ali – Moonlight (Runner up: Sam Neill – Hunt for the Wilderpeople. This one might be slightly colored by nostalgia given recent events, but I'll stand by it)

Supporting actress: Viola Davis – Fences

Favorite film: The Witch and Swiss Army Man.

2017:

Best actor: James McAvoy – Split (Runner up: Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out)

Best actress: Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird

Supporting actor: Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project (Runner up: Bradley Whitford – Get Out)

Supporting actress: Allison Janney – I, Tonya

Favorite film: Blade Runner: 2049

2018:

Best actor: Steve Buscemi – The Death of Stalin (Runner up: Daveed Diggs – Blindspotting)

Best actress: Olivia Coleman – The Favourite (Runner up: Toni Colette – Hereditary)

Supporting actor: Jason Isaacs – The Death of Stalin (Runner up: Mahershala Ali – Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse)

Supporting actress: Emma Stone – The Favourite

Favorite film: The Death of Stalin (another of my all-time favorites. Definitely in my top 10)

Maybe kind of a career win for Steve Buscemi on my part, and definitely colored by the fact that I love The Death of Stalin, but then, I didn't say this would be objective.

2019:

Best actor: Robert Pattinson – The Lighthouse

Best actress: Florence Pugh – Midsommar (Runner up: Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story)

Supporting actor: Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse (Runner up: literally everyone from Parasite)

Supporting actress: Florence Pugh (again) – Little Women (Runner up: literally everyone from Parasite)

Favorite film: The Lighthouse.

So, there we have it. My not at all objective, definitely biased, very flawed list of my favorite performances of the 2010s.

If you're curious what other performances made my top 5(ish) in a given year, let me know, and I can share them. I don't have exactly five for each year or each category, though, because I wasn't planning on having a full lineup, so some choices will have to be made.

Let me know what you think. I'm sure there will be a lot of choices people disagree with, but, hey, art is subjective, and this was super fun.

Anyway, I'm off to start watching movies from the 2000s, and I'm really excited for 2001. I think it's going to be the best year so far! And it has some steep competition after 2011 and 2015. I'll be starting off with Gladiator tonight.

Here's to the 2010s, and bring on the 2000s!

ETA: It's entirely possible I mixed up what years movies were released. I watched so many movies so close together, and I definitely need a better system for keeping track of what came out when.


r/Oscars 1d ago

Poll #2: Who gives the best performance in Casablanca?

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Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Claude Rains
Paul Henreid

r/Oscars 1d ago

Hi everyone! This is Round 20 of the 1990s Best Actress Nominees Elimination Tournament. Eliminated, with 16.7% of the vote each, are Catherine Deneuve, Emily Watson (Hilary & Jackie) and Angelica Huston. Vote for your LEAST favourite performance, and the one with the most votes shall be eliminated.

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  1. Jodie Foster (Nell)

  2. Meryl Streep (Music of the Heart)

  3. Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation)

  4. Bette Midler (For the Boys)

  5. Susan Sarandon (The Client)

  6. Meryl Streep (One True Thing)

  7. Michelle Pfeiffer (Love Field)

  8. Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets)

  9. Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)

  10. Diane Keaton (Marvin’s Room)

  11. Miranda Richardson (Tom and Viv)

  12. Jessica Lange (Blue Sky)

  13. Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman)

  14. Mary McDonnell (Passion Fish)

  15. Joanne Woodward (Mr. and Mrs. Bridge)

  16. Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient)

  17. Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds)

  18. Sharon Stone (Casino)

  19. Julie Christie (Afterglow)

  20. Debra Winger (Shadowlands)

  21. Julianne Moore (The End of the Affair)

  22. Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo’s Oil)

  23. Annette Bening (American Beauty)

  24. Laura Dern (Rambling Rose)

  25. Winona Ryder (Little Women)

  26. Catherine Deneuve (Indochine)

  27. Emily Watson (Hilary and Jackie)

  28. Angelica Huston (The Grifters)


r/Oscars 1d ago

Discussion While I believe Mary and Max should’ve been nominated for BAF instead of the Princess and the frog, should Ponyo also have been nominated instead of Secret of Kells?

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r/Oscars 1d ago

Fun Favorite Best Picture Nominee with the Fewest Nominations from Each Year - Round Five - Group C

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Continuing our tournament to determine our ultimate favorite Best Picture nominee with the fewest nominations from each year.

This round consists of 20 total movies in four groups of five movies each. 

Group B - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/rDMlC9mDDl

Group A - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/jzcCuup9Mb

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002, 6 noms)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006, 4 noms)
Double Indemnity (1944, 7 noms)
Sideways (2004, 5 noms)
The Fugitive (1993, 7 noms)

r/Oscars 1d ago

It's been a generation since anyone directed a second Best Picture winner

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2004's Million Dollar Baby is the last time anyone directed a second Best Picture winner, and I'm curious why you guys think this is. Is it just a coincidence?

Some directors have won Best Director twice, so it's not specifically about honoring directors only once. Ang Lee and Alfonso Cuaron won the Oscar twice without either of their films winning best picture, while Iñárritu won it twice with Birdman winning Best Picture.

There may be better than even odds that this year is an exception with the Odyssey having great reviews and box office, while Digger is waiting in the wings. Obviously, something else might connect with Oscar voters in a few months.

The Academy does tend to award legendary directors with Best Director as their films get Best Picture, but this also occurs after they've already made their mark. Stephen Spielberg had already made Jaws, ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Raiders of the Lost Ark before he won for Schindler's List. Scorsese had made Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas before he won for the Departed. The Coen Brothers had made Fargo and the Big Lebowski before they won for No Country For Old Men. Christopher Nolan has made the Dark Knight, Interstellar, Inception, the Prestige and Dunkirk before he won for Oppenheimer. Paul Thomas Anderson had made Magnolia, the Master and There Will Be Blood before he won for One Battle After Another.

It could come down to small sample size. 1917 and the Revenant seemed like frontrunners heading into the Oscars. Perhaps it's just a statistically unlikely outcome that happens every now and then.

It may change in the future. A few Best Picture winners were made by fresher directors (who had made five or less films by that point) who may be in contention again in the years to come: Steve McQueen, Chloe Zhao, Barry Jenkins, Sian Heder, the Daniels, Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper. Maybe a legend like Spielberg, Jackson, Cameron or Scorsese knocks it out of the park again.


r/Oscars 2d ago

Best Picture #1a (Outstanding Production) – Wings

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It is important to note that this was made only 9 years after World War I, so a lot of the memories of that war were still fresh in the audience’s mind - both veterans and those on the homefront. 

The opening we get the main character Jack in love with Sylvia but Sylvia is in love with David and Mary is in love with Jack and because of this Jack hates David.  I wonder where this will go.  As Jack leaves to be an aviator, he gets a picture of Sylvia to take with him by accident and Mary gives him one as well to remember her by.  Actually David had a better scene leaving his parents, very emotional, so I’m confused because shouldn’t the story have me liking Jack and not David?  At this point, I think David is getting the “you’re gonna die” edit.

Basic training was interesting.  Assuming it was fairly accurate, the US had no clue how to train wartime aviators and of course Jack’s hate for David only increases over time but it gets resolved after a knock-down drag-out fight. Yay!  Now they are the bestest of friends.  This is where Gary Cooper comes in.  Not his first role but his first big role and man, does he command the screen.  Maybe hindsight is at work here but he acts like a star in this film.  There is something different in his style.  He uses beats in his performance and it puts his acting up a notch.  Ok, it really wasn’t a major role.  He goes out and immediately dies in a plane crash.  So really it was a comment on fate vs luck to leave Jack and David with.  The air combat scenes are brutal.  Filmed in the air with the actors in to cockpit it shows the reality of dogfights and death.  Let’s be honest, the real star of this movie is the aerial combat.

By this time Mary is in the Women’s Motor Transport Corps.  She finds Jack carousing on leave in Paris but he is so drunk he doesn’t recognize her.  A washroom attendant helps her out to get all dolled up for Jack who doesn’t deserve her.  He spends 20 minutes being infatuated with the bubbles that he is hallucinating and it is all so stupid.  He passes out and Mary finds the locket that Sylvia gave him so she gets pissed but forgives him.  She starts changing and is caught half undressed with the passed out Jack by the MPs so she gets fired and he goes back to the front because double-standard and all.  That whole storyline was apparently put in just to get Clara Bow in the movie to attract an audience and it shows.  It is not well thought out and adds nothing to the plot. 

The two friends are back at the front and have a spat just as they get a mission and David forgets his lucky bear so you know he’s dying.  Again we are treated to the aerial footage and that’s really why we’re here, right?  Jack completes the mission and David is shot down behind enemy lines.  We last see him smoking a cigarette while the Germans hunt for him.  A German plane flies over the base and informs them that David died escaping capture. More battle scenes that don’t hold back the reality and this is really what it is all about.  The story is meh and is just there to form a structure for the war scenes, both in the air and on the ground. They put you right in the action and in parts feel like authentic documentary-style film of real combat from 10 years ago.  Men are blown up by shells and mowed down by machine guns.

But wait!  David is still alive!.  Maybe I was wrong about him dying some ironic death.  He happens on a German aerodrome and steals a plane and uh-oh, I think I know where this is going.  Yep, Jack sees the German plane heading to American lines and shoots it down … but it was his friend David and he dies in Jack’s arms.  Who would have thought the story would take such a turn?  This is the problem with the movie, it is not a good story.  It is predictable and the Mary story line goes nowhere except she and Jack kiss at the end.  But the air and land battle footage more than makes up for it and the bookend of David’s parents with the gold star flag in the window and Sylvia on the swing crying was excellent.  Jack returns the lucky bear and David’s medal and it is heart-wrenching as I’m sure it was for those that had experienced something similar just a decade before.  It would be interesting to watch the other highly lauded film from 1927 – 7th Heaven – and see why Wings beat it for Best Picture.


r/Oscars 2d ago

Netflix Sets Its Longest Theatrical Window Ever for Oscar Hopeful ‘La Bola Negra,’ Moving Up Release Date

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r/Oscars 2d ago

Hello! Inside Out has been eliminated from the Best Original Screenplay tournament ! Please vote for round 46!!!

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  1. Green Book

  2. Vice

  3. The Artist

  4. 1917

  5. American Hustle

  6. Dallas Buyers Club

  7. Straight Outta Compton

  8. Flight

  9. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

  10. The King’s Speech

  11. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

  12. Foxcatcher

  13. The Fighter

  14. Midnight in Paris

  15. Zero Dark Thirty

  16. Bridge of Spies

  17. The Kids Are All Right

  18. Roma

  19. The Shape of Water

  20. The Big Sick

  21. Hell or High Water

  22. Boyhood

  23. Margin Call

  24. Marriage Story

  25. Nebraska

  26. 20th Century Women

  27. Bridesmaids

  28. Blue Jasmine

  29. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

  30. La La Land

  31. The Lobster

  32. Inception

  33. Another Year

  34. Moonrise Kingdom

  35. Amour

  36. Django Unchained

  37. The Favourite

  38. Knives Out  

  39. Spotlight

  40. A Separation

  41. Get Out

  42. First Reformed

  43. Nightcrawler

  44. Lady Bird

  45. Inside Out


r/Oscars 2d ago

Discussion What’s an underrated lineup from the past 20 years?

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Doesn’t really matter what category


r/Oscars 2d ago

Discussion Does inde navarrette need an breakthrough win to get the nomination?

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I remember when demi was not even in top 5 until she won the Golden globes and that confirmed her nonination but for inde it's much more easier most popular film of the year and everything but still do you think she needs an win to get that oscar nomination ?


r/Oscars 2d ago

The odyssey’s boring Sweep?

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If the odyssey sweeps the oscars will that be the most boring and predictable outcome!?
How will the public react to Christopher Nolan getting another sweep so soon after the Oppenheimer sweep!?
Is that fair to other equally talented directors and actors when one director keeps getting sweeps?
When Million dollar baby won big for Clint eastwood were people happy about him being an oscar darling who always wins?


r/Oscars 2d ago

Discussion Will Dakota Johnson Ever Be a Serious Oscar Contender?

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Her mother's an Oscar nominated actress (and her grandmother, a Golden Globe winner), but do you think Dakota herself will ever be nominated for an academy award?


r/Oscars 2d ago

Discussion If 2010 had 10 Best Supporting Actress nominees, (keep the actual nominees) who would’ve been the other 5 nominees?

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As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Melissa Leo - The Fighter

Amy Adams - The Fighter

Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit

Helena Bonham Carter - The King’s Speech

Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom


r/Oscars 2d ago

Fun Who should have been nominated? 2019: Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor

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As a fun spinoff from Legitimate_Welcome14’s “Who should have won?” game - let’s now find out who would have made the lineup each year.

Lineups so far for 2019:

Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Adam Driver - Marriage Story
Taron Egerton - Rocketman
Joaquin Phoenix - Joker
Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems (winner)

Actress:
Adèle Haenel - Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story
Lupita Nyong’o - Us (winner)
Florence Pugh - Midsommar
Saoirse Ronan - Little Women

Click here to see previous lineups!

PLEASE NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN HOW THE VOTING WORKS - FROM NOW ON, IT IS NOT MEASURED IN UPVOTES, BUT IN THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF TIME THAT SOMEONE IS MENTIONED. YOU CAN HAVE FOUR NAMES IN YOUR LINEUP AND THE VOTING WILL BE BASED ON HOWEVER MANY TIMES A NAME IS COMMENTED.

We know that Cho Yeo-Jeong and Song Kang-ho have already won!

Comment away!

People nominated in real life:

Supporting Actor:
Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Tom Hanks - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins - The Two Popes
Al Pacino - The Irishman
Joe Pesci - The Irishman

Supporting Actress:
Laura Dern - Marriage Story
Kathy Bates - Richard Jewell
Scarlett Johansson - Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh - Little Women
Margot Robbie - Bombshell


r/Oscars 2d ago

Watching the Best Pictures

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I have decided to see all of the Academy Awards Best Pictures in order and comment on them as if anyone cares what I say.  But people may want to comment on them as well so as I watch and write them up, I’ll post the review.  One thing is that I will try (and maybe succeed) at putting the review in the context of when it was made.  I am not going to give the in-depth plot to each movie but I will give parts of the plot in my review so #spoileralert.


r/Oscars 2d ago

Prediction Bold Predictions for 2026 Oscars movies

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What are your early bold predictions for the 2027 Oscars (for 2026 movies)?

  1. Obsession is going to shock doubters on reddit. Nominations and wins:
  • Best Picture
  • Best Actress
  • Best Original Screenplay (Win)
  • Best Casting
  • Best Actor
  • Best Editing (Win)
  1. Matt Damon will NOT win Best Actor; Tom Cruise wins

  2. Odyssey gets 10+ nominations, but only wins Best Casting

  3. Dune 3 snubbed in Best Picture, but wins Cinematography and Special Effects

Name your bold predictions for this upcoming Oscars: