[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;53177915][B]Just because he's been snubbed for years doesn't mean we should give him a pity award for some mediocre movie[/B] when you could give it to Daniel Day-Lewis' retiring role, which was far and away the best acting I saw all year next to Timotheé Chalamet.
I'm convinced a lot of the academy didn't actually watch Phantom Thread and just felt obligated to give it best costume design because the movie's about a dressmaker lol[/QUOTE]
That's... literally what the Oscars has done for YEARS.
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Fair enough, it shouldn't be the precedent, but it's what's expected to be honest.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;53177915]Just because he's been snubbed for years doesn't mean we should give him a pity award for some mediocre movie when you could give it to Daniel Day-Lewis' retiring role, which was far and away the best acting I saw all year next to Timotheé Chalamet.
I'm convinced a lot of the academy didn't actually watch Phantom Thread and just felt obligated to give it best costume design because the movie's about a dressmaker lol[/QUOTE]
this is the Oscars, they only give things to films that have some kind of social significance.
Paul Thomas Anderson's only hope for winning big in the academy was Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood, now he's making very specific, personal films. Regardless how good the film is, do you think the role Day-Lewis played had real social significance?
Honestly Shape of Water was my last choice among the films i saw to take Best Picture. I'm fine with it getting Best Director, I like Del Toro, but it had massive problems. The first half is hugely rushed, so the romance comes out of nowhere except that it's obvious it was going to happen from the start. And since the romance is poorly-developed and kind of the main thrust of the whole film, it fell completely flat for me. I went in very receptive and came out with a bad taste in my mouth. The movie stood on Hawkins' performance and she couldn't even get the win for it, so I don't understand how it could deserve Best Picture, even from an objective standpoint.
Lady Bird was also fuckin' robbed. All-in-all reasonable wins but a few massively bad choices.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;53177967]Lady Bird was massively overhyped, but it still should have taken home best supporting actress.[/QUOTE]
Totally disagree that it was overhyped (honestly it was underhyped), but Laurie Metcalfe definitely deserved killed it, though I didn't see I, Tonya. And Frances winning best actress was the only thing that could placate me from Saoirse not winning it.
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I also managed to forget about the [sp]mystical merman healing powers[/sp] plot point in Shape of Water until now, and I regret remembering it. Super cliche, forced, and unnecessary.
I think Shape of Water deserved Best production design, but I found it extremely predictable and cliché.
I enjoyed Blade Runner way more and it wasn't even nominated for Best picture.
I can temper some of my complaints by saying I thought Hawkins, Jenkins, and Shannon were all very good in Shape of Water and I love seeing Michael Stuhlbarg in anything.
Can we have a year where the best animated feature Oscar ISNT a Disney movie? Loving Vincent is an actual achievement in animation while Coco is just your typical Disney film. I hate conspiracy theories,but I truly believe that Disney paid the Academy to get their one of their animated movies won every year in the Oscars.
[QUOTE=weyu6572;53178048]Can we have a year where the best animated feature Oscar ISNT a Disney movie? Loving Vincent is an actual achievement in animation while Coco is just your typical Disney film. I hate conspiracy theories,but I truly believe that Disney paid the Academy to get their one of their animated movies won every year in the Oscars.[/QUOTE]
[URL="https://www.cartoonbrew.com/award-season-focus/proof-that-oscar-voters-are-clueless-about-animation-109456.html"]It's more so the fact that the people who vote for Best Animated Feature are just really out-of-touch, and are only familiar with what Disney/Pixar puts out.[/URL]
Plus, the people voting don't have to watch all the nominees, so it's really an accountability issue from the Academy itself, which shouldn't be excusable regardless.
'Academy Award Winner Jordan Peele' man that is a beautiful sentence. I hope he plasters it all over anything else he does from here on.
Baby Driver should've won best sound mixing/editing
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;53178338]Baby Driver should've won best sound mixing/editing[/QUOTE]
"but war movie period piece"
-70 year old oscar voting group
dunkirk is great and all but baby driver basically set a new standard for musical editing
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;53177973]Totally disagree that it was overhyped (honestly it was underhyped), but Laurie Metcalfe definitely deserved killed it, though I didn't see I, Tonya. And Frances winning best actress was the only thing that could placate me from Saoirse not winning it.
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I also managed to forget about the [sp]mystical merman healing powers[/sp] plot point in Shape of Water until now, and I regret remembering it. Super cliche, forced, and unnecessary.[/QUOTE]
[sp]As with Pan's Labyrinth ending, I was under the assumption that the fantastical side could be taken with a grain of salt. The story was being told by someone who didn't see what happened after they entered the water and he said something along the lines of that was how he imagined it happened. Leaves it somewhat open to interpretation about what might have actually happened (idyllic fantasy or harsh unfair reality).[/sp]
[QUOTE=AXidenT;53178715][sp]As with Pan's Labyrinth ending, I was under the assumption that the fantastical side could be taken with a grain of salt. The story was being told by someone who didn't see what happened after they entered the water and he said something along the lines of that was how he imagined it happened. Leaves it somewhat open to interpretation about what might have actually happened (idyllic fantasy or harsh unfair reality).[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]The mystical merman healing powers occur before the ending. And even if that's the case, I don't think the film conveys it well or does anything interesting with it.[/sp]
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;53177915]Just because he's been snubbed for years doesn't mean we should give him a pity award for some mediocre movie [B]when you could give it to Daniel Day-Lewis' retiring role, [/B]which was far and away the best acting I saw all year next to Timotheé Chalamet.
I'm convinced a lot of the academy didn't actually watch Phantom Thread and just felt obligated to give it best costume design because the movie's about a dressmaker lol[/QUOTE]
so you dont want them to give pity awards out, but you want them to give DDL an award because it's his 'last ever role' (bollocks will it be his last ever role) ???
[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;53177919]:glare:[/QUOTE]
Darkest Hour was really disappointing for me. Churchill was mischaracterized in a lot of aspects to the point that (despite Oldman's performance) he lacked credibility. Also that pivotal subway scene was just plain absurd.
The Florida Project should've gotten nominated for Best Picture.
Really sad that Heroine didn't win their award.
That's my town right there.
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