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I think they're trying to stop the "applause-o-meter" that has historically taken place during the segment, with the audience applauding loudly for the famous actors, but nothing for the lesser-known crew persons. If someone is performing, people are less likely to interrupt that performance...

They might as well combine sound mixing and sound editing into a single award, since both categories duplicated all the nominees and the same film won both. The Oscars won by The Shape of Water are exactly the awards it won at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

Or those with children just let their kids tell them who to vote for. Doubtful that the kids have watched all the nominees, but I'm sure they've all seen the latest Pixar film.

I find this pretty surprising given the current climate in Hollywood. I figured a nominated film written and directed by a woman would have been a slam-dunk for some recognition.

"I did it all by myself!" :laugh:

Did anyone else find it odd that they used the theme from Austin Powers, one of the most chauvinistic/sexist characters on film in recent memory, during Viola Davis' walk out on stage for Best Supporting Actor? Seemed kind of a weird choice in the year of #metoo.

The Fish Banging Movie Saving Lots of Privates LOL :laugh:

The new issue of EW predicts The Shape of Water as BP.

Get Out was released in February.

Caught up with Dunkirk in the HT a couple nights ago. The consensus of the room was that it was a good historically-inspired war film, but there didn't seem to be anything really unique about it that would elevate it to BP status. We were also kind of disappointed that the focus of the film was...

Yeah, I was only looking at more modern examples. Wings won at the the first ever Academy Awards, so they didn't really have any precedents/patterns yet; and there were only three nominees for Best Director against eight BP nominees when Grand Hotel won, so a lot of directors were left out that...

Driving Miss Daisy

The Grammys are having that sort of thing just now, with the blowback about the winners being mostly male. I haven't heard anyone explain in detail yet how the work of any of the losing artists (male or female) is superior to the winners, just that the men won because they're men and the women...

EW put Lady Bird on the cover, but as I recall their analysis inside the magazine they're not currently predicting it to win in most categories.

Lightest among the current DC Universe perhaps. Damning with faint praise, indeed.

Yeah, I was kind of disappointed, too, when I saw this a while back. Decent film, but not the transcendent experience I expected based on all the box office success and wild praise of the film at time of release. It was even disappointing as a horror film, save for a few minutes at the climax...

Exactly how I felt. I'm a huge fan of the original film and songs, and didn't care for any of the new songs. They felt out of place and seemed to lack the magic of the original songs. It's nearly impossible to duplicate the creations of the Ashman/Menken team during that time period. Mermaid...

It's a short film, you can view on YouTube: The producers of The Space Between Us have discounted any claims of plagiarism between the two films: https://scroll.in/reel/865963/the-shape-of-water-compared-to-2015-dutch-short-netherlands-academy-shuts-down-plagiarism-murmurs

I don't see any major surprises. They managed to freeze out (snub?) James Franco after the recent bad press, as all I see for The Disaster Artist is a screenplay nom. That film has won several awards in other recent handouts, so it's absence here is kind of notable. Also, I see the usual...