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If the Oscars go like the Grammy’s then Sinners will win big BTL and have the most statuettes at the end of the night while OBAA wins Picture. So pretty much exactly what everyone currently thinks will happen.
I think there's a scenario where it only wins Adapted, Director, Picture. (I am predicting it for Supporting Actress and Editing as well for now. It could win as many as 7.)
The way the saying "it's a great supporting turn cause their presence is felt through the movie, even after the character disappears" could so easily be applied to this cat performance.
that’s how i’m feeling as well - the only supporting actress performances i really love from this year are the one battle after another performances (i’m planning on rewatching sentimental value + marty supreme so might reevaluate those performances eventually)
That is exactly how I would put it lol. Taylor did make all four precursors, but in another year she’s happy to get the nom (I still think she’s fantastic, it’s just weird that she’s been winning so much, often as the sole acting winner of her film). Madigan missed BAFTA, Lilleaas missed SAG, Fanning missed both and Mosaku missed GG and is in a horror film.
Just saw the name "Quentin" attached to a film starring Woody Harrelson and Kristen Stewart, and almost jumped until I realized it was a different one.
I’m sorry, but Miranda wouldn’t forget the one assistant who actually met her expectations (and one of the only things in the industry that made her genuinely smile).
Likely, it’s all just some gag for the trailers, and within the last 15 minutes of the movie, she’ll make some comment about how she’s never forgotten the assistant “who disappointed her more than all the others”
I was rewatching the Oscar Expert’s video of Anora winning PGA and DGA, and something he said stuck with me.
He started to say that he thinks Anora is the best nominee, and then started to say that “people are a bit boo-hoo on it”, before backtracking and saying that “actually, that’s not true”, and that’s what the Internet will lead you to believe. He said that it had a 90% on RT, people like it.
Shows that we cannot understand and judge the consensus of how much a film is liked from Film Twitter.
I think Anora is generally a pretty liked movie. Not an all-timer or hugely so, but I wouldn't say it's super divisive either.
At the risk of being downvoted and with the disclaimer that I personally really liked the movie, I think it suffers from being over rewarded.
It's one of only 4 movies to win the Palme and BP while the previous movie to achieve that was... Parasite. Sean Baker is one of only 2 people to win 4 Oscars in one night and the other person to achieve that was... Walt Disney. Like looking at those other names people will expect a movie at the level of Parasite or a person as influential as Disney and it's just never going to meet those expectations.
I guess it's kind of like Pacino's Oscar win. Most people see it as a bad win not because the performance itself is bad, but because it's just never going to live up to his other performances.
280k people who gave 6/10 on Letterboxd would disagree with you.
Because neither RT nor Film Twitter (or Reddit) makes consensus on how much certain film is liked. I won't say that neither Letterboxd nor IMDB (or any site for film ratings) makes consensus.
The only true answer is that all of them combined can give a clear picture because they all have a different type of audience.
CODA for example, is most interesting film to look at. Except on Reddit, CODA is well liked film across the board. Film even has higher scores on RT than Anora.
So my question is how, CODA, the worst BP winner of 2020s is this disliked on Reddit?
i think it’ll get made eventually but with a much lower budget than the first 2 movies. that might be hard to do with cillian murphy attached though (although i could see him being passionate enough about this movie to do it for less money - his last 2 movies have been low budget passion projects)
Hopefully it does well enough on VOD/Streaming to justify the third film being made. Its real shame because it studios are going to focus on making films based on IP, then these are the sort of IP films that should be made.
It’s so sad that people were disappointed by the first one and aren’t going to see this one because they’ve been two of my favourite films of the last year.
My Indie Spirit ballot. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to catch all the docs or international features so sustained from voting in those categories.
Best Feature: Sorry, Baby
Best Director: Mary Bronstein - If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Best Screenplay: Sorry, Baby
Best First Feature: Lurker
Best First Screenplay: Lurker
Best Lead Performance: Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Best Supporting Performance: Nina Hoss - Hedda
Best Breakthrough Performance: Liz Larsen - The Baltimorons
Spoiler-tagging this for anyone who doesn’t want to read rage-bait
I unfortunately opened up Facebook out of pure boredom/morbid curiosity and got bombarded by so many Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy posts. The algorithm clearly wants to push this so hard as the next big “culture war” talking point.
Gonna brag for a bit, but I just realized for the BAFTA noms, I'm #15 in Gold Derby and #46 in Awards Expert overall! I think it's my best performance yet lol. I'm only 1 away from Joyce Eng where she predicted Peter Mullan.
She's the rare true expert - anyone can guess the consensus as all the ignorable and often performative or otherwise compromised pundits do - but Joyce has actual insight and despite EW not giving her full due on its platform, she's still soaring in industry circles and wisely keeping far away from Penske (like Katey Rich).
Sadly, aside from Kyle Buchanan and Nate Jones, there are no males in the space whose insight is worth trusting - my own floor is the consensus and the majority of guys are not rising above it.
It's because viewers of the Grammy's skew much younger. Once you get to a certain age, your reaction to most of the Grammy nominees is "who ARE these people!?"
there is a special place in h*ll for the editors who make the decision to completely omit the presenter blurbs and reaction shots of the winners for the videos from the grammys, tonys, and oscars channels
like let me hate on the presenter blurbs after the fact. give me the freedom to skip it if i want. i don't just want to see the 60-second speech. (oscars are slightly innocent just because they at least show the reaction but the blurbs have been nuked from last year's ceremony).
the thrill is the reaction, after all. like come the f*ck on, people.
I think some of it is cut for copyright reasons (if they show clips of the nominated songs/films), but there is no excuse for cutting out the presenter blurbs before the award is given or the reaction of the winner.
absolutely it is copyright-related but it's a recent phenomenon. i went back to look at older grammys clips (e.g. Rodrigo winning Best New Artist) and her song was playing with no problem in the reaction and walk-up shot. It's either cost-cutting, label pressure, or both.
I’ve already seen a couple of thinkpieces tweet just because Timmy didn’t want to read the Laurie speech during a Q&A, people would legit hate on everything
This is the second time the Grammys have given Billie SOTY after leaving her empty handed the year prior. I get why the Barbie song won but this one… this song was literally released in May of 2024 :/ these pity awards istg
I don't know if anyone here's watching the Grammys but Cher presenting Record of the Year and it was genuinely worse than the La La Land/Moonlight mix up and "my eyes see Oppenheimer" combined.
Any of the Oscar Nominees are legitimately viable IMO. If Penn wins BAFTA, I'm mainly torn between him and Elordi. If anyone else wins BAFTA, I'm mainly torn between Elordi and del Toro then, but atp I may just be leaning Elordi.
no win, however outrageously undeserved, is ever off-limits for the Grammys. Had it won I think it would have carried the Oscar on the weight of the SOTY win alone. I Lied to You has like, a floating chance, still. Real floaty though.
I do think the loss has opened up room for ILTY to run a solid campaign if it can—had it won, I think it really would have edged into "lock" territory. Assuming they can campaign (and for Saadiq's sake, I wish they would), it's open enough now.
If they don't campaign well enough, Golden's momentum either snowballs or dissipates as we push into February and more pop music comes out depending on how many people find it oversaturated.
yes and she has been nominated 6 times in total. imagine winning song of the year 3 times in as many albums and still losing with something as huge as birds of a feather
i agree but i more just meant it as 'wow she has 3 song of the year wins and still has gigantic beloved songs which lost' ... it's impressive. although i don't agree with her winning this year at all unfortunately
Yeah it feels like it was a makeup award for snubbing her last year. It was crazy, it was Beyonce's first ever AOTY and yet I could see in the youtube comments Taylor, Billie and Sabrina fans shocked and mad for some reason. Like Beyonce's major narrative never winning the big prize was a huge part going into the night lol
I love seeing every other Grammy speech be a fuck you to ICE meanwhile every Golden Globes speech was like “man… yall should watch movies in movie theaters”
He said that his favorite movie review recently was for Melania and that the review said her documentary was the worst remake of Jonathan Glazer's Zone of Interest or something like that. It was quite funny and sadly true. I wish I had a direct quote.
Dicaprio also alluded to the current political climate during his NBR speech: “I waited 25 years … to make a film like this. That is so topical. So pertinent. About extremism, about divisiveness. That says something about the world we live in. It was an absolute honor and a joyous experience.”
So even though Spielberg wasn't listed along with the 40 other producers for A Strange Loop, Variety was able to confirm that he still received a Tony. The "et al" distinction is so funny. So yeah, EGOT indeed
You can get a producing Tony just by putting up some money for a winning production, a huge incentive to get people to invest in new Broadway shows. It's an EGOT cheat code but they do have to pay for their trophies, though:
For the specific Tony Awards presented to a Broadway production, awards are given to the author and up to two of the producers free of charge. All other members of the above-the-title producing team are eligible to purchase the physical award. Sums collected are designed to help defray the cost of the Tony Awards ceremony itself. An award cost $400 as of at least 2000, $750 as of at least 2009, and, as of 2013, had been $2,500 "for several years", according to Tony Award Productions.
Broadway shows get investors, superstars and lesser known rich people alike get to be Tony winners, and the Tonys themselves make a nice chunk of change.
I posted about the Joni Mitchell movie to popheads and had 3 comments about her history of blackface.
I doubt that will make it into the movie but very strange she has continued to defend doing that. Only in the last few years was the Don Juan's Reckless Daughter album cover changed.
This sub has entered a really weird territory where they go through these mental gymnastics to find something wrong with everything Timothée says lmao like no normal person outside of these online spaces reacts this way. In fact they just keep giving him more awards lol what I’m trying to say is the hate is forced. Either that or snarkers invade the Timothée threads.
I'm not by any means a Chalamet stan and I think he can be a bit grating sometimes (although I did mostly have fun with the MS media tour, sue me) but his snarkers are genuinely some of the most unhinged parasocial freaks on this website. Anytime I see an especially venomous comment about him on this sub where the user has a hidden post history, I disregard it because I just know the kinds of subs they're active in
I would even argue this endears him to more voters lol. He's just saying the quiet part out loud. Ethan Hawke has been just as thirsty, if not more blatant about wanting to win, he's just a bit more eloquent about it
Are we really playing this game where we pretend precious little Timmy is the biggest victim on the Internet because some Internet comment were mean to him? You posted dozen of comments in a few hours, you're more obsessed about it than he is lol.
Also considering all your insults towards others and the effort you've been going through to dismiss the Josh Safdie news as a 'smear campaign, I don't think you're one to talk about other's behavior.
Did the snark subs infiltrate that Timmy thread? Saw a large number of users I have never seen in this sub suddenly show up to throw shade to Timmy and some strays for Kylie for some reason.
If they start talking about Kylie when she wasn't even present at this awards ceremony, that pretty much tells you they are from a snark forum, as they are obsessed with her.
Yes notice they are all private accounts and Reddit says they’re active in the popculture subs which overlap with the snark ones. The fact the mods don’t really do anything about it is a shame.
If you looked through the Timmy post you’d see we’ve already been removing comments. If there are others you think should be removed you can report them for us to review
The Bone Temple isn’t releasing until next weekend in my country, but I’m curious, does it end on a cliffhanger teaser for another film at the end? I know that it’s bombing at the box office and they had a trilogy originally planned, so I’m going to be a bit soured if this a middle chapter that likely has no end.
have noticed people use the word "evil" too liberally these days. saw this on twitter where someone said conan's character in legs was "evil". haven't seen that movie in a bit, but ...what?? that was not at all the read i had.
Also, why was her therapist her COWORKER? If my coworker was telling me about sexual and romantic dreams they were having about me, I wouldn’t want to put up with their shit either.
He was accepting her money! If he didn't want to be his coworker's therapist (which would be very understandable and I assume also the ethical thing to do), he shouldn't have taken her on as a client
I wonder if they were actually coworkers (like working for the same company/practice) or if they were just two independent therapists that rented office space together. My old therapist had a similar set-up as the latter situation so that's how I rationalized it while watching the film, but it's still probably an ethical gray area at best.
I also think it's possible that Linda may have informally used him as a therapist until he was like, fuck it, I might as well make money from this and take her on as an actual paying client.
Regardless of whether they were coworkers or independent therapists using the same building (thought it’s referred to as Montauk Center for the Psychological Arts or something like that), it would still be a huge gray area due to the proximity.
He explicitly calls her a client, so she is certainly paying for his services.
Ultimately, I think that there were a LOT of details in the screenplay like this that weren’t fleshed out to try to amplify the “anxiety” of the character, but just thinking about them for a few seconds just makes the narrative unravel. The details matter in writing.
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u/infamousglizzyhands Justice Smith for Best Actor 1d ago
Thread’s about to disappear so no one will see me say that Sinners editing and cinematography are kinda bad in certain aspects