My friends and I were so excited about The Beguiled and then it turned out to be a real nothing of a movie.
I really loved Priscilla. Like, to the point of being tempted to call it my favorite of the maybe 4 of hers I’ve gotten around to… though, I saw it in the theater, which I can’t say for Lost in Translation or Marie Antoinette. So, that greatly skews things. The other one I’ve seen is Bling Ring, which I honestly like? It’s lesser, and if it weren’t the third one of hers I’ve seen maybe the contrast would stick out more. If we’re comparing it to Spring Breakers, that’s unflattering, too. But, I saw it with lowered expectations and had a good time.
The way Best International Film works has always been the worst. Countries submit the nominees and directors have been punished for anythong critical of the government of their nations.
All good! I think it just takes the place of another actor who deserves recognition and will split the vote for whoever gets nominated twice. Sounds like a bad deal.
Any actor that gets nominated twice in the same category is not going to win. The narrative around the actor is almost as important as the movie itself.
I’ve never been an Oscar girlie, so what do I know. But, if anything, wouldn’t it make more sense to say an actor can have two roles listed for a single nomination? Instead of being in the same category twice. Just seems like a silly wrinkle to the game that’d be more likely to have a negative impact than a positive one.
It probably never should have been a rule to begin with, but it probably will likely never be an issue because these awards campaigns are carefully planned and millions of dollars are spent so studios are not going to release two movies at the same time with an actor competing for the same prize. Even having someone in Actor and Supporting Actor is a waste because voters are not going to award someone for both.
Jim Gaffigan showing up as a cab driver who is the adult version of the child jock in the movie 13 Going on 30 is the weirdest cameo so far in this experiment.
Would be interesting to go back and determine which actors produced two “Oscar worthy” performances in the same year
If Oscar worthy means the quality of other performances that have won in the past then pretty much any time an actor was in multiple films the same year would qualify.
They should have an Oscar for Killin It. Idk that Josh O'Connor deserved multiple lead nominations last year but he was undeniably Killin It
JLC got a lifetime achievement award for simply being in EEAAO while Hsu was ten times better in the same damn movie. I can't imagine how upset I'd be if, hypothetically, JLC got two noms and Hsu got none.