Thanks so much Roy, this is a LOT more fun than gaming out the elections, or at least I think it is. I’m pretty much with you except I think the Academy will want to go with Lily Gladstone as best actress. Onward to the incredibly glitzy and often artistically meritless results!
I imagine there's some place to make a bet these days.
" I got your film right here- The choice is plain and clear
Nolan is a lock to win it all this year!"
I have seen none of these movies. I will catch up at home when it's streamed. Not a good substitute but a 50-in TV helps.
I saw Goddard's "Weekend" last weekend (Go figure!) It was fantastic. A seriously classic film. Goddard really was a badass.
I know I saw it before in a class. I did not remember just how great it was . It's on the TCM tier of Max. Lovely print. Great color. No fair muting the sound in the traffic jam scenes. You were meant to be driven crazy by the honking Horns.
This right here could be the subtitle of the boss's whole oeuvre thingy. One line that captures both the shy query and also the demanding enforcement. The boss is The Boss for a reason or 3.
You’re not gonna believe this, but the only one I’ve seen is Barbie, which my roomie insisted on subjecting us to despite being aware of my general distaste for musicals. (Rocky Horror excepted, of course) I suspect it may win something given all the uproar it caused.
With the exception of Barbie, I haven't seen any of the nominated movies (Oppenheimer was very slow getting to Japan, hmmm...). Barbie was the best movie I've seen this year because a) I quite enjoyed it; b) I watched it in the theater with my daughter; and c) we hung out after and talked about it. I actually liked it A LOT more than I thought I would.
What I love about Roy's Oscar predictions is that it isn't just about the films themselves (although Roy writes wonderfully about that stuff too) but about reading the minds of the Academy, how the voters might balance their ticket, throw a bone to an industry veteran, etc. It's the behind-the-scenes intrigue of the Oscars, someone should definitely make a movie about that, I bet it would be GREAT.
Re: your giggles concerning Best Song... I still fondly remember when we could laugh that the Three Six Mafia had an Oscar and Martin Scorsese didn't. (Nothing against Marty of course, it was just funny.)
I predict Hayao Miyazakis "How Do You Live" will win best picture. Not now, of course, but in retrospect. For now, it will go down as perhaps the most sad and ridiculous omission in Academy Awards history, which is saying a lot. The final film of one of the greatest cinematic artists of all time doesn't even get nominated? And one that distills his best work and mostly surpasses it? Seriously? When we're all dead and gone and Barbenheimer is remembered only as a meme, critics will still be marveling over the incredible artistic achievement that is "How Do You Live"
But since that is unrealistic, I'll place my money on "Master Gardener." Good thing I don't have any, eh.
But I agree with your Oppenheimer sweep predictions. There were a couple movies I didn't see, but the ones I did were all good but not great. I thought "Barbie" came close, but the idiotic battle of the Kens towards the end totally ruined everything it had going for it previously. I guess my favorite was "Anatomy of a Fall" and Huller was definitely the best actress out of all the ones I saw. I re-watched "Asteroid City" and liked it much better the second time. I thought it was better than "Barbie," but apparently Wes Anderson fatigue is too much for the Academy to overcome.
Too bad the SOTU came too late for the awards season nominations, because Mike Johnson would have been a lock for best Supporting Comedic Actor in a Drama.
While Joe Biden delivered a (yes, fiery) speech and shut down the infantile howler monkeys in the audience, watching the muted ventriloquist's dummy behind his left shoulder sit uncomfortably for 90 minutes while contorting his face into every possible expression made watching the event must-see TV.
I've seen Barbie, and I've learned enough about the Bernstein prosthetic to conclude that it wasn't antisemitic. These alone don't qualify me to discuss much.
Have a good weekend, my worthy constituents (h/t Charlie Parker).
Here's an Oscars-related six-degrees-of-Kevin Bacon story:
I work at a small country airport, and once in a while we have helicopters from a certain company stop by for fuel. Usually they're in the neighborhood doing powerline patrols through the National Forest. The company is fairly small and only has a few helicopters.
So Mrs. Derelict and I go to see "The Holdovers," and in the scene where all the other kids are getting on the helicopter to go ski, the helicopter they're getting on belongs to this company. In fact, I have refueled that particular helicopter several times over the years. So I excitedly poked my wife and a said "I know that helicopter! And I probably know the pilot!"
A few weeks later, that very helicopter comes in for fuel. I mentioned to the crew that'd seen it in the movie and asked who was flying it so I could say I'd met a movie star. Well, turns out the guy flying the helicopter in the movie crashed a month or so after filming and was killed. He was apparently flying a medivac flight and hit wires.
My Oscar prediction--and I'm never wrong!--is that I'm going to be doing something else besides watching the Oscars.
Thanks so much Roy, this is a LOT more fun than gaming out the elections, or at least I think it is. I’m pretty much with you except I think the Academy will want to go with Lily Gladstone as best actress. Onward to the incredibly glitzy and often artistically meritless results!
Sounds good to me!
I imagine there's some place to make a bet these days.
" I got your film right here- The choice is plain and clear
Nolan is a lock to win it all this year!"
I have seen none of these movies. I will catch up at home when it's streamed. Not a good substitute but a 50-in TV helps.
I saw Goddard's "Weekend" last weekend (Go figure!) It was fantastic. A seriously classic film. Goddard really was a badass.
I know I saw it before in a class. I did not remember just how great it was . It's on the TCM tier of Max. Lovely print. Great color. No fair muting the sound in the traffic jam scenes. You were meant to be driven crazy by the honking Horns.
https://youtu.be/BAIlVCStp3c?si=VzZc4FsGqOs1cHc7
"I can’t be the only one who gets the giggles "
This right here could be the subtitle of the boss's whole oeuvre thingy. One line that captures both the shy query and also the demanding enforcement. The boss is The Boss for a reason or 3.
2 marks, Boss.
You’re not gonna believe this, but the only one I’ve seen is Barbie, which my roomie insisted on subjecting us to despite being aware of my general distaste for musicals. (Rocky Horror excepted, of course) I suspect it may win something given all the uproar it caused.
With the exception of Barbie, I haven't seen any of the nominated movies (Oppenheimer was very slow getting to Japan, hmmm...). Barbie was the best movie I've seen this year because a) I quite enjoyed it; b) I watched it in the theater with my daughter; and c) we hung out after and talked about it. I actually liked it A LOT more than I thought I would.
What I love about Roy's Oscar predictions is that it isn't just about the films themselves (although Roy writes wonderfully about that stuff too) but about reading the minds of the Academy, how the voters might balance their ticket, throw a bone to an industry veteran, etc. It's the behind-the-scenes intrigue of the Oscars, someone should definitely make a movie about that, I bet it would be GREAT.
Also, I got a vote for Best Performance by an Elderly Man in front of an Audience of Demented Hecklers.
Re: your giggles concerning Best Song... I still fondly remember when we could laugh that the Three Six Mafia had an Oscar and Martin Scorsese didn't. (Nothing against Marty of course, it was just funny.)
I predict Hayao Miyazakis "How Do You Live" will win best picture. Not now, of course, but in retrospect. For now, it will go down as perhaps the most sad and ridiculous omission in Academy Awards history, which is saying a lot. The final film of one of the greatest cinematic artists of all time doesn't even get nominated? And one that distills his best work and mostly surpasses it? Seriously? When we're all dead and gone and Barbenheimer is remembered only as a meme, critics will still be marveling over the incredible artistic achievement that is "How Do You Live"
But since that is unrealistic, I'll place my money on "Master Gardener." Good thing I don't have any, eh.
But I agree with your Oppenheimer sweep predictions. There were a couple movies I didn't see, but the ones I did were all good but not great. I thought "Barbie" came close, but the idiotic battle of the Kens towards the end totally ruined everything it had going for it previously. I guess my favorite was "Anatomy of a Fall" and Huller was definitely the best actress out of all the ones I saw. I re-watched "Asteroid City" and liked it much better the second time. I thought it was better than "Barbie," but apparently Wes Anderson fatigue is too much for the Academy to overcome.
Too bad the SOTU came too late for the awards season nominations, because Mike Johnson would have been a lock for best Supporting Comedic Actor in a Drama.
While Joe Biden delivered a (yes, fiery) speech and shut down the infantile howler monkeys in the audience, watching the muted ventriloquist's dummy behind his left shoulder sit uncomfortably for 90 minutes while contorting his face into every possible expression made watching the event must-see TV.
"Still mad about Lenny's nose" sounds like a clue in a cryptic crossword puzzle.
You may be "an old bum in chinos and a black t-shirt" but your writing cleans up well. Any thoughts about Saltburn?
I've seen Barbie, and I've learned enough about the Bernstein prosthetic to conclude that it wasn't antisemitic. These alone don't qualify me to discuss much.
Have a good weekend, my worthy constituents (h/t Charlie Parker).
Here's an Oscars-related six-degrees-of-Kevin Bacon story:
I work at a small country airport, and once in a while we have helicopters from a certain company stop by for fuel. Usually they're in the neighborhood doing powerline patrols through the National Forest. The company is fairly small and only has a few helicopters.
So Mrs. Derelict and I go to see "The Holdovers," and in the scene where all the other kids are getting on the helicopter to go ski, the helicopter they're getting on belongs to this company. In fact, I have refueled that particular helicopter several times over the years. So I excitedly poked my wife and a said "I know that helicopter! And I probably know the pilot!"
A few weeks later, that very helicopter comes in for fuel. I mentioned to the crew that'd seen it in the movie and asked who was flying it so I could say I'd met a movie star. Well, turns out the guy flying the helicopter in the movie crashed a month or so after filming and was killed. He was apparently flying a medivac flight and hit wires.
Never heard of Henry Sugar. Now I'll have to look it up.