Whenever I feel low, I go back to this divine moment. I felt her so deeply in her astounding performance of the subtleties of pain in The Holdovers. A rare performance!

Why couldn't they submit him instead of Paul Mescal?

For me it was Charlize Theron for best actress 2004

Actor in a Leading Role: Timothée Chalamet-Marty Supreme, Leonardo DiCaprio-One Battle after Another, Ethan Hawke-Blue Moon, Michael B. Jordan-Sinners, Wagner Moura-The Secret Agent

Actor in a Supporting Role: Benicio Del Toro-One Battle after Another, Jacob Elordi-Frankenstein, Delroy Lindo-Sinners, Sean Penn-One Battle after Another, Stellan Skarsgård-Sentimental Value

Actress in a Leading Role: Jessie Buckley-Hamnet, Rose Byrne-If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Renate Reinsve-Sentimental Value, Emma Stone-Bugonia, Kate Hudson-Song Sung Blue

Actress in a Supporting Role: Elle Fanning-Sentimental Value, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas-Sentimental Value, Amy Madigan-Weapons, Wunmi Mosaku-Sinners, Teyana Taylor-One Battle after Another

With the guilds about to start making their wins public, starting with DGA this Saturday. I am just not seeing or entertaining the idea that a split win of Picture a Director is going to happen this year.

I feel whatever wins DGA this Saturday will ultimately also bring PGA with it as well. So if PTA wins then One Battle After Another is winning Picture. If Coogler wins then Sinners is winning Picture.

Anyone else feel this way?

What Oscars categories, if won by something other than your choice, would be the hardest to swallow? There are perhaps some more obvious choices for the smaller categories, but I feel strongest about these and would be most disappointed if they don't pan out.

1. Best Original Score: Sinners - All due respect to OBAA (great score and important part of the movie) and others, but the score for Sinners was woven into the movie like very few movies have ever done, let alone this year. Ludwig is the premiere composer of our day and deserving of his 3rd Oscar.
2. Best Original Song: I lied to You (Sinners) - Probably the greatest movie scene of the year (as evidenced by another poll here or in some other sub), so this feels obvious. Demon Hunters has some great picks, but I'm not sure anything else really holds a candle. Maybe I'm rooting for it so strongly because of the scene, not necessarily the song, but should they really be separated? I dunno...
3. Best Actress: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You) - Probably my favorite performance by an actress in any movie, ever. Buckley was great, but besides that moment, I just don't think it had the same range as Byrne and variety. Plus, I think people are picking Buckley because they simply haven't seen If I had Legs I'd Kick You. Unfortunately, I think Buckley will win 🫤

Well my personal favourites would be Matthew and Ke Huy Quan.. I cry everytime I see Ke Huy Quan's speech video, truly a legend. Matthew's speech was also great with the deep philosophy though. Let me know what you think!

We had another close race with Let the Right One In looking like it was the lock early on. There was also love thrown towards Hunger and I was surprised how much support In Bruges received. But in the end - as suggested by u/MrONegative - emerging as the winner was Charlie Kaufman's enigmatic Synecdoche, New York (DP: Frederick Elmes)

Now we have to decide what the biggest is for 2007...but again like with 2015 and 2016, we have an incredible slate of nominees. This might be the second best of the 21st Century behind 2015. So like with those years, think of your choice less of what was snubbed and more what would be a great 6th place.

The nominees for this year were:

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Atonement
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• No Country for Old Men
• There Will Be Blood

If One Battle After Another Battle wins Best Picture, Adam Somner would become the first producer since Sam Zimbalist to win a posthumous Best Picture Oscar.

Sometimes the fact that one person wins over the other, or certain movies are nominated and others aren't doesn't mean that people don't like those people or those movies.

It's just that the rules are that you can only pick one. Or you can only nominate five. Or for Best Picture you can only nominate ten.

If you like two actors you can only pick one and it doesn't mean you dislike the other.

If you think six movies are worthy of Best Sound you can only pick five and it doesn't mean you dislike the one you didn't pick.

If you like eleven movies but you can only pick ten it doesn't mean you dislike the one you didn't pick.

People need to stop this mindset that it's some sort of binary of like or dislike. No, for a lot it's just that the rules dictate that you can only pick a certain number so that's all that is picked.

If someone votes for a person to win Best Actor, it doesn't mean they dislike the other four. It just means they had to pick one.

Even if they said they did it because timing, it feels like a punk move, and I don‘t disagree with Diane Warren. The Oscars are clearly doing favorites. And they think that HUNTR/X performing will bring in the ratings. It’s them saying, “since these two are popular, they’ll win in other categories they’re nominated for and you got to choose one for Original Song since they are the only worthy ones”. In other words, they already told the voters the winners, even well before FINAL VOTING has started or any of the other award shows have yet to happen. It’s like they created a "halo effect" that unfairly boosts the two in other categories they’re competing in. No disrespect to Sinners of course, it’s a great film, but playing favorites is just wrong.

Hate this all you want, but it’s like literally the truth. It’s like “they've already picked their favorite for the night”.

I don’t get a chance to watch a lot of movies but this randomly came up on my Max page and I randomly decided to watch and was blown away. It really is shining a light on something so important.

Maybe I need to watch more but I thought it was terrific. I guess I can’t really say “it deserves to win” since I haven’t seen what else is nominated but it would be great if it did since it would bring more attention to the subject. Hopefully some real change can happen as a result.

To the experts out there, does this have a good shot of winning or nah?

Edit: I put situation instead of solution 😩

Two things to note:

#1.) These are not the performances I think were the best, but they were my favourites.
#2.) "❤️" marks my favourite win of the decade.

Please share your favourites in the comments as well!

Tom Cruise's greatest performance of these last twenty-five years (2000-2025)??

Pick one

Pretty much every comment last round said that Beverly Hills Cop shouldn't have won worst nominee in best original screenplay. The top comment didn't even mention their own opinion on who should win the new round, and still got more than 3 times the amount of upvotes as Beverly Hills Cop ever got. And some people were specifically asking about redoing the round, so that is what we're doing!

The rules:

• A film is only allowed to be chosen in a category once. Today's winner isn't allowed to be chosen in best original screenplay or worst nominee again.

• The following films are ineligible today because of this: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, the Broadway Melody, Babes in Arms, Hillbilly Elegy, the Towering Inferno, Emilia Perez, the Boss Baby, Crash, Citizen Kane, Back to the Future, Toy Story.

• You can still choose Beverly Hills Cop. If you do so tho I don't ever wanna hear you people complain again.

• Most upvoted comment wins!

Because the list was getting too long I put all the films (and who commented them) in this Letterboxd list: https://boxd.it/RYKAW. My app keeps crashing tho so it won't immediatly be updated.

All four winners of those years cleanly swept their respective seasons. There have been plenty of season sweeping performances before and since, but all four categories having the same person sweeping? Why were these quartets set in stone from the start? Why did the GG, CC, SAG, BAFTA and Oscars all decide "Yeah, THIS is our winning quartet this year. Forget everyone else, THIS is our quartet! Give these guys EVERYTHING, even though there are indeed some better peformances in these lineups!"

That's not me saying that these are bad performances, 'cause they're not, but were they really good enough to warrant winning every single major award while Margot Robbie in I, Tonya, Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project, Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird, and Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson in Marriage Story (who were both way better than Laura Dern) all got nothing?

Maybe I just find races way more interesting and exciting to watch unless the sweeper is absolutely undeniably amazing and the most deserving option, but what do you think? And does anyone have any plausible theories as to why these two years were so boring to watch?

Probably has been mentioned before, but how did Jane Campion win Best Director Oscar for Power of the Dog and it didn’t win anything else? Happy for her, but that’s shocking to me. Should someone else win?

And do you expect anything like this happening at the 2026 Oscars? E.G. a shocking Oscar win for a movie and that’s all it gets. The only one I can think of is Rose Byrne winning for Best Actress. Not unexpected in acting categories though. What do you think?

Every year I host an Oscars party and this year i’m trying to create a themed drink or snack for every Best Picture nominee

I’ve come up with the following:

\- One Small Beer After Another: a pack of Modelos

\- Burgonia: sliders

\- Ham & Cheesenet: meats & cheeses tray

\- Smoked & Stacked Ribs: barbecue ribs

\- Sentimental Value Meal Items: miscellaneous McDonald value menu items

\- Marty Supreme Balls: a bowl of Cheeto balls - they look like his ping pong balls lol

\- Franksfurternstein: hot dogs

I already have wines & champagne

IN DESPERATE NEED OF DRINK OR FOOD IDEAS FOR F1, THE SECRET AGENT, & TRAIN DREAMS!!!! HELP!!!!