General Movie Thread

[Jimmy]

yep i care ❤️ 

[DFF]

Cats was... okay. Songs were done well. CGI a bit all over the place. Thought the whole thing flowed well enough. Basically, its pretty much bang average (2.5/5 etc) but almost feels decebt compared to the reviews. 

[Benjamin]

I am so up for this!

[Arjen Robben]

Continues to confuse me that Adam Sandler has been snubbed at all of these big awards shows for his performance in Uncut Gems, don't get it. Or Uncut Gems just getting no recognition in general.

BEST PICTURE

FORD V FERRARI
Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and James Mangold, Producers

THE IRISHMAN
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers

JOJO RABBIT
Carthew Neal and Taika Waititi, Producers

JOKER
Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers

LITTLE WOMEN
Amy Pascal, Producer

MARRIAGE STORY
Noah Baumbach and David Heyman, Producers

1917
Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall, Producers

ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh and Quentin Tarantino, Producers

PARASITE
Kwak Sin Ae and Bong Joon Ho, Producers

DIRECTING

THE IRISHMAN
Martin Scorsese

JOKER
Todd Phillips

1917
Sam Mendes

ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
Quentin Tarantino

PARASITE
Bong Joon Ho

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

ANTONIO BANDERAS
Pain and Glory

LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Once upon a Time...in Hollywood

ADAM DRIVER
Marriage Story

JOAQUIN PHOENIX
Joker

JONATHAN PRYCE
The Two Popes

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

TOM HANKS
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

ANTHONY HOPKINS
The Two Popes

AL PACINO
The Irishman

JOE PESCI
The Irishman

BRAD PITT
Once upon a Time...in Hollywood

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

CYNTHIA ERIVO
Harriet

SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Marriage Story

SAOIRSE RONAN
Little Women

CHARLIZE THERON
Bombshell

RENÉE ZELLWEGER
Judy

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

KATHY BATES
Richard Jewell

LAURA DERN
Marriage Story

SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Jojo Rabbit

FLORENCE PUGH
Little Women

MARGOT ROBBIE
Bombshell

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

THE IRISHMAN
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian

JOJO RABBIT
Screenplay by Taika Waititi

JOKER
Written by Todd Phillips & Scott Silver

LITTLE WOMEN
Written for the screen by Greta Gerwig

THE TWO POPES
Written by Anthony McCarten

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

KNIVES OUT
Written by Rian Johnson

MARRIAGE STORY
Written by Noah Baumbach

1917
Written by Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns

ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
Written by Quentin Tarantino

PARASITE
Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin Won; Story by Bong Joon Ho

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD
Dean DeBlois, Bradford Lewis and Bonnie Arnold

I LOST MY BODY
Jérémy Clapin and Marc du Pontavice

KLAUS
Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh and Marisa Román

MISSING LINK
Chris Butler, Arianne Sutner and Travis Knight

TOY STORY 4
Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera

CINEMATOGRAPHY

THE IRISHMAN
Rodrigo Prieto

JOKER
Lawrence Sher

THE LIGHTHOUSE
Jarin Blaschke

1917
Roger Deakins

ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
Robert Richardson

COSTUME DESIGN

THE IRISHMAN
Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson

JOJO RABBIT
Mayes C. Rubeo

JOKER
Mark Bridges

LITTLE WOMEN
Jacqueline Durran

ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
Arianne Phillips

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

AMERICAN FACTORY
Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert

THE CAVE
Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær

THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY
Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris and Tiago Pavan

FOR SAMA
Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts

HONEYLAND
Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska and Atanas Georgiev

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

IN THE ABSENCE
Yi Seung-Jun and Gary Byung-Seok Kam

LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU'RE A GIRL)
Carol Dysinger and Elena Andreicheva

LIFE OVERTAKES ME
John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson

ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN
Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan

WALK RUN CHA-CHA
Laura Nix and Colette Sandstedt

FILM EDITING

FORD V FERRARI
Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland

THE IRISHMAN
Thelma Schoonmaker

JOJO RABBIT
Tom Eagles

JOKER
Jeff Groth

PARASITE
Yang Jinmo

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

CORPUS CHRISTI
Poland

HONEYLAND
North Macedonia

LES MISÉRABLES
France

PAIN AND GLORY
Spain

PARASITE
South Korea

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

BOMBSHELL
Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker

JOKER
Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou

JUDY
Jeremy Woodhead

MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL
Paul Gooch, Arjen Tuiten and David White

1917
Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis and Rebecca Cole

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

JOKER
Hildur Guðnadóttir

LITTLE WOMEN
Alexandre Desplat

MARRIAGE STORY
Randy Newman

1917
Thomas Newman

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
John Williams

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

I CAN'T LET YOU THROW YOURSELF AWAY
from Toy Story 4; Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

(I'M GONNA) LOVE ME AGAIN
from Rocketman; Music by Elton John; Lyric by Bernie Taupin

I'M STANDING WITH YOU
from Breakthrough; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

INTO THE UNKNOWN
from Frozen II; Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

STAND UP
from Harriet; Music and Lyric by Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo

PRODUCTION DESIGN

THE IRISHMAN
Production Design: Bob Shaw; Set Decoration: Regina Graves

JOJO RABBIT
Production Design: Ra Vincent; Set Decoration: Nora Sopková

1917
Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
Production Design: Barbara Ling; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

PARASITE
Production Design: Lee Ha Jun; Set Decoration: Cho Won Woo

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

DCERA (DAUGHTER)
Daria Kashcheeva

HAIR LOVE
Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver

KITBULL
Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson

MEMORABLE
Bruno Collet and Jean-François Le Corre

SISTER
Siqi Song

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

BROTHERHOOD
Meryam Joobeur and Maria Gracia Turgeon

NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB
Yves Piat and Damien Megherbi

THE NEIGHBORS' WINDOW
Marshall Curry

SARIA
Bryan Buckley and Matt Lefebvre

A SISTER
Delphine Girard

SOUND EDITING

FORD V FERRARI
Donald Sylvester

JOKER
Alan Robert Murray

1917
Oliver Tarney and Rachael Tate

ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
Wylie Stateman

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
Matthew Wood and David Acord

SOUND MIXING

AD ASTRA
Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson and Mark Ulano

FORD V FERRARI
Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow

JOKER
Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod Maitland

1917
Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson

ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler and Mark Ulano

VISUAL EFFECTS

AVENGERS: ENDGAME
Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Matt Aitken and Dan Sudick

THE IRISHMAN
Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser and Stephane Grabli

THE LION KING
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Elliot Newman

1917
Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach and Dominic Tuohy

[Josh]

Unsurprising, but still ridiculous, that no women were nominated for directing and only 2 POC were nominated out of all 4 acting categories. Ana de Armas is a particularly glaring omission.

On the positive end, Parasite and Jojo Rabbit got several deserved nominations. Taika should’ve gotten a directing nomination though.

[Benjamin]

More like Oscarssoboring. The same old shit getting nominated for, well, the same old shit. I can't tell which double punch of white bland acting nominations is worse, the Two Popes or Bombshell. 

 

[Josh]

Also, I see no nominations for Booksmart and it deserves several.

[MDK]

57 minutes ago, Josh Mulaney said:

Unsurprising, but still ridiculous, that no women were nominated for directing and only 2 POC were nominated out of all 4 acting categories. Ana de Armas is a particularly glaring omission.

Who should have been nominated?

The Oscars are a self congratulatory wank fest anyway.

[Arjen Robben]

Awkwafina, maybe Zhao Shuzhen, and it was never gonna happen cause horror is just generally overlooked all the time but Lupita Nyong’o. Not seen Hustlers but isn’t Jennifer Lopez apparently great that?

Also Greta Gerwig and Lulu Wang.

[MDK]

6 minutes ago, Arjen Robben said:

Awkwafina

Angry Birds 2 has been criminally overlooked

[Josh]

Arjen made a pretty good list to start with. It’s just a problem the Oscars (and many award shows) have always had. It’s becoming more glaring over the years as we’ve heard more public discussion about it. (“We” meaning white people - POC have seen it from the start.)

To add to Arjen’s list, there are several great performances in Parasite, I previously listed Ana de Armas, and Taika gave a great performance in Jojo Rabbit. Plus, I’ve heard great things about Queen & Slim. I’m sure there’s more I’m not thinking of right now.

Plus, of the actors who actually were nominated, I’d imagine only a few were as deserving as, say, Ana de Armas or some of the others.

[Benjamin]

Most nominations are based off of name value, anyway, so the longer you've been around, the higher the chance of you getting nominated because of how established you are. It's why Anthony Hopkins is nominated for basically just existing while being filmed during the Two Popes, or Kathy Bates is nominated for one of the biggest wankfests Eastwood has directed in a while. 

I loved Marriage Story, the Irishman and Little Women, but getting two nominations each seems excessive when there's a billion other acting credits out there. Out of the twenty acting nominations available, there are only 13 movies, so almost half of them are from the same movies. Ali Wong, Park So-dam, Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Taylor Russell, Awkwafina, Jimmie Fails, Eddie Murphy, Kelvin Harrison Jr, I dunno, just felt like they didn't have to give Leo or Pacino another nomination. 

Due to Oscar nominations leading to more work for actors, I feel like it shouldn't just be a small select group of people that seem to be nominated frequently off the back of stronger performances from previous years, getting nominated for less stellar work they do in the current year.

And the directing and best film category, massive eurgh. It's like the Academy Awards are only for old white men. 

 

[Josh]

It’s almost like the voting body is predominantly white and male.

[Hobo]

I struggle to be interested in a lot of the films getting a lot of oscar attention. In particular Joker and The Irishman.

I booked tickets to see The Lighthouse when it gets released here at the end of the month. That I am very excited about.

I'd hope to get to Knives Out, Jojo Rabbit and Little Women eventually.

 

 

 

[Josh]

Can’t yet say for Little Women, but those other two are two of the year’s best.

[Benjamin]

13 minutes ago, Hobo said:

I struggle to be interested in a lot of the films getting a lot of oscar attention. In particular Joker and The Irishman.

I booked tickets to see The Lighthouse when it gets released here at the end of the month. That I am very excited about.

I'd hope to get to Knives Out, Jojo Rabbit and Little Women eventually.

 

 

 

Little Women is fantastic. 

I was halfway through the Lighthouse, and the first 20 minutes or so are certainly something, but I was watching it half-asleep so am going to get around to watching it in full sometime soon. 

[Colly]

On the plus side, this is a tremendous interaction.

 

[GoGo Yubari]

10 hours ago, Josh Mulaney said:

Also, I see no nominations for Booksmart and it deserves several.

Booksmart ruled but literally every time I asked someone who I knew would like it "hey, did you see Booksmart?" the answer was no. Shortly before I quit the movie theater I did an employee orientation on Regal's version of MoviePass, and it opened with an executive openly going "everyone who saw Booksmart loved it, how the hell do we get more people to go watch movies like that?"

Anyway, yeah, the acting fields are... honestly, "bad" isn't the word, I actually think pretty much all the performances I've actually seen that are nominated are good-to-great. But it is brutally white, with the only non-white nominee coming from the exact same Oscar-bait stuff that the Academy loves. Scarlett Johansson likely beating out both of The Farewell's best shots at a nomination is grating in particular given... well, the Scarlett Johansson of it all.

[Benjamin]

I really need to see Jojo Rabbit, 1917 and Knives Out.

Is Ford v Ferrari good? It looks incredibly boring. 

[JasonM]

1 hour ago, Benjamin said:

I really need to see Jojo Rabbit, 1917 and Knives Out.

Is Ford v Ferrari good? It looks incredibly boring. 

It's no Rush, and there's definite creative liberties made to make Ford look more great than they actually were (fudging the timeline). But for racing fans it's an enjoyable flick.