NBR winners list for this year announced Best Film: One Battle After Another Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another Best Actress: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Best Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another Best Supporting Actress: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value Best Directorial Debut: Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby Breakthrough Performance: Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another Best Original Screenplay: Ryan Coogler, Sinners Best Adapted Screenplay: Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams Best Animated Feature: Arco Best International Film: It Was Just an Accident Best Documentary: Cover-Up Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners Outstanding Achievement in Stunt Artistry: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk TOP FILMS (in alphabetical order) Avatar: Fire and Ash F1 Frankenstein Jay Kelly Marty Supreme Rental Family Sinners Train Dreams Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Wicked: For Good TOP 5 INTERNATIONAL FILMS (in alphabetical order) Left-Handed Girl The Love That Remains The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sirāt TOP 5 DOCUMENTARIES (in alphabetical order) 2000 Meters to Andriivka Come See Me in the Good Light My Mom Jayne Natchez Orwell: 2+2=5 TOP 10 INDEPENDENT FILMS (in alphabetical order) The Baltimorons Bring Her Back Father Mother Sister Brother Friendship Good Boy If I Had Legs I’d Kick You The Mastermind Rebuilding Sorry, Baby Urchin
It’s also how I learned about so many older cultural references. I think I learned about opera classics from Looney Tunes
I was thinking about that with the Simpsons how Krusty is Bozo and Professor Frink is Jerry Lewis etc and know I found what Ren and Ren and Stimpy is from, plus Animaniacs had so many
If he can theoretically grant ANY wish, he has to have complete and total knowledge of everything that has ever and will ever exist
This release of Stranger Things seems like the first pop culture event in forever that just about everyone around me has tuned in to. Friends, my mom, coworkers, almost all of my students. That's to say nothing of the quality, I just can't think of the last time it happened. The Marvel movies, I guess? But I feel like half the kids (and me ) were tuned out on them.
maybe I'm out of the loop but I've heard next to no one talk about it I remember the end of Succession being a pop culture moment
It's like the only thing she has kept up with. She also watched The Bear, but my students don't know what that is.