Yeah, that's just what the Oscars needs, a lot of new categories. :rolleyes:
The biggest reason the Oscars aren't as popular as they used to be is they aren't the only game in town anymore. It seems every group imaginable now has their own movie awards that are all accessible in one way or...
I can't believe people care so much about the choice not to have read the Best Picture nominations. Those watching the show saw them all in clips throughout the telecast. Avid watchers know what they are already. Those turning in only to see what won Best Picture would already know what the...
Since AMPAS announced the new CASTING category, I thought it would be interesting to see what's been nominated and what won the award at the BAFTAS, who instituted the category in 2019.
2019
Joker (Shayna Markowitz)
Marriage Story (Douglas Aibel and Francine Maisler)
Once Upon a Time in...
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Also, another reason for that is the last two years there have been multiple acting Oscars given to the last two films. That hadn't happened since 2004's Million Dollar Baby won Actress and Supporting Actor.
For many years now MLB has had an opening couple of games layed by two teams in a different country as a showcase, I guess. I know previously a couple places they played was in Mexico and Australia. This year the San Diego Padres and the Los ANgeles Dodgers are playing two games in Seoul, South...
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Re: "Moon RIver": It won Best Song at the Oscars for 1961 films. The songs that are nominated are supposed to be original and written for the film in question. It wouldn't have been eligible had it been written or used previously.
Kander and Ebb had written a song titled "Maybe This Time"...
I only read the first few paragraphs and it's all about sequels, prequels, threequels, remakes, films based on video games...WTF? Besides Dune 2 things like: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Joker: Folie à Deux, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, and even Gladiator 2. Sequels to Inside Out and Moana.
I...
According to the article someone linked here, the presenters are asked to write their own remarks. I went back and looked for what was written:
The decision to bring back the ‘Fab Five’ concept — in which five previous winners paid tribute to this year’s five nominees in the acting categories —...
We don't know that they didn't ask any of them. A lot of people get asked to do things, but can't commit to it. So they don't happen. Sometimes even those who commit to something end up not doing it, like Michelle Pfeiffer this year. You can't assume things like this, no matter how great the...
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Do you guys really think that was a good show? Where have you all seen it since then? Are you just remembering it fondly, perhaps, because there were times I thought I'd love to see it again and see what it was like now. I recall watching it Sunday nights.
I wrote this in February on this...
This poll is as useless as most any movie ranking poll. It's only elevated by many because they only do it every ten years. They should never even rank them in the first place, just post the list in alphabetical order. I don't want to get into any arguments about any specific films, but they've...
In Episode 8 (so don't read any further if you don't want to know anything), I was glad for the scenes in which Harry Crosby was shown coping with lack of sleep and overwork during the D-Day operations (in his book he says he was up for 75 hours straight) and it was shown he was given some drugs...
Things I didn't know until this morning.
Late start...
The show started a bit late because there were about 1,000 Israel-Hamas protesters converging in the area and it caused limousines to get backed up around Sunset Blvd. and Highland Ave. and many started walking from there to the Dolby...
I don't think anyone's mentioned it, but I liked the acting award presentations with 5 previous winners in the category giving a tribute to one of the nominees. A nice moment for each, especially the ones that didn't get their name called.
They did that once before several years ago, and I'm...
If you know Jimmy Kimmel: Did anyone notice at the very end of the telecast the dog from Anatomy of a Fall outside on Hollywood Blvd. peeing on Matt Damon's star on the Walk of Fame? (Messi indeed!)
About that list of 47 "Brilliant FIlms" that didn't receive any Oscar nominations...
Brilliant is a term I wouldn't apply in toto to most of those films. I stopped reading that list not even halfway through. Who would think most of those would have been nominated for any Oscars, or most any...
I don't know if it was original or not, but I loved the Score of this film.
The last 15 years or so the Academy as a whole seems to have separated the awards from what's called the Top of the Line Awards (Picture, Director, Acting, Screenplay) from the Craft (technical) Awards. That's why...
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Someone who commented on this Variety article linked the other script (Frisco) in question and said:
this is a joke — the script is not even close!!!!
did anyone from Variety actually read the script
Creating conflict, an essential element in any screenplay!
Next year's screenplay nominees...
I was wondering if any of you have seen Gilligan's Island: The Musical.
I saw it in the early 1990s in San Diego. If you sat in the first couple rows of the theatre, which we did, your feet were in sand!
I thought it was immensely entertaining. I thought the songs were quite good. (By ex-Wings...
I just noticed that between Joe & I, we didn't agree on only three categories!
You gotta pick which song will win, though, not just who will win! IMO!
I was reading a column where a journalist was forecasting the winners and this is what they had to say about the
Best Song category:
Best...
PREDICTIONS
BEST PICTURE: Oppenheimer
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM: The Zone of Interest
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: 20 Days in Mariupol
BEST DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Anatomy of a Fall
SCREENPLAY...
I'll do mine now, too:
Maestro
The Holdovers
Poor Things
American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Anatomy of a Fall
The Zone of Interest
Past Lives
Killers of The Flower Moon
I just read an article which says:
The person in charge of putting together a TV network's schedule is the director of network programming. The job goes by many names, including president of TV entertainment, senior vice president for TV programming or vice president of program scheduling...
^^^ You added "the whole family dramedy" part when you originally just said:
If the family dramedy concerning Sterling K. Brown's character was cliched, the cliche would be him being ostracized from the family and understanding of his situation would be little to none and any growth on his...
I don't think the way TV series episodes aired was ever arbitrary, nor do I believe they were always intended to air in production order. Episodic series without continuing storylines could air episodes the way they wanted to. I always assumed that the creators/producers of a series chose what...