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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Super Last-Minute Oscar Predictions

Best Picture
 
It's the most up-in-the-air category this season, making for one of the most exciting Best Picture races in history. Best Picture is decided by a preferential ballot system that I am not going to explain but recommend you look up, which for many means that the least divisive nominee with the most fans wins - thus, The Shape of Water, which few dislike and which won the big prize at the PGA Awards and DGA Awards. But each Oscar year tends to follow a pattern, meaning your Best Picture winner is most likely whoever's won the most going in - thus, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, which triumphed at the SAG Awards, Golden Globes, and BAFTA Awards. But also, the past four winners first triumphed in the Best Film category at the Independent Spirit Awards - thus, Get Out, which just became the latest to win that honor on the eve of the Academy Awards.

(twists and turns, after the jump....)

Monday, January 22, 2018

Oscar Predictions

The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards are announced tomorrow! Here's who I think gets in...


Best Picture
Number of Nominees: 8 (getting that right is worth a point)
Call Me By Your Name
Dunkirk
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Possible spoiler: The Florida Project (half a point if it gets in)
In My Dreams: The Lost City of Z

The remaining categories after the jump.....


Best Director
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Craig Gillespie, I, Tonya
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jordan Peele, Get Out

In My Dreams: Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread

Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

In My Dreams: Charlie Hunnam in The Lost City of Z


Best Actress
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post

In My Dreams: Cynthia Nixon in A Quiet Passion


Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

In My Dreams: Rob Morgan in Mudbound

Best Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige Mudbound
Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

In My Dreams: Jennifer Ehle in A Quiet Passion

Best Original Screenplay
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

In My Dreams: Phantom Thread


Best Adapted Screenplay
Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
The Lost City of Z
Molly's Game
Mudbound


Best Score
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water

In My Dreams: Jane

Best Original Song
Beauty and the Beast - "Evermore"
Call Me By Your Name - "Visions of Gideon"
Coco - "Remember Me"
The Greatest Showman - "This Is Me"
Mudbound - "Mighty River"


Best Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water

In My Dreams: First They Killed My Father


Best Production Design
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
The Shape of Water

In My Dreams: mother!

Best Film Editing
Dunkirk
Get Out
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

In My Dreams: Jane


Best Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
The Greatest Showman
Phantom Thread
Victoria and Abdul

In My Dreams: Battle of the Sexes


Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Bright
Darkest Hour
Wonder

Best Sound Editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Last Jedi
The Shape of Water

Best Sound Mixing
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Greatest Showman
The Last Jedi
The Shape of Water


Best Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Last Jedi
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
War for the Planet of the Apes


Best Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman - Chile
In the Fade - Germany
Loveless - Russia
The Square - Sweden
The Wound - South Africa


Best Animated Feature
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
The LEGO Batman Movie
Loving Vincent

Best Documentary
Chasing Coral
City of Ghosts
Faces Places
Icarus
Jane

No idea with the animated shorts, so I just kind of threw darts...

Best Animated Short
"Cradle"
"Fox and the Whale"
"In the Heartbeat"
"Lost Property Office"
"Negative Space"

Best Documentary Short
"116 Cameras"
"Alone"
"Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405"
"Heroin(e)"
"Ten Meter Tower"

Best Live Action Short
"DeKalb Elementary"
"Facing Mecca"
"My Nephew Emmett"
"Rise of a Star"
"The Silent Child"


I am very much looking forward to being completely and woefully wrong tomorrow!

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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Top Ten of 2017

Before I unveil my Top Ten of the Year, there's something I forgot to do in yesterday's ranking of my Top 25 - 11: honorable mentions. As I mentioned, there were a number of movies that almost made it, but I just couldn't find room for. A special salute (and apology) to those flicks:


The Battleship Island
Ingrid Goes West
The Last Jedi
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Murder on the Orient Express
Oklahoma City
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Split
A United Kingdom

And now, my Top Ten of 2017, presented in alphabetical order...after the jump...

Monday, December 18, 2017

Tales of the Weird and True

It's Awards Season and Star Wars weekend, which means a lot to talk about. Beginning with...

The Shape of Water
dir: Guillermo del Toro
scr: Del Toro & Vanessa Taylor

Del Toro's adult fairy tale is a dreamy ballet of misfits and monsters, a valentine to the bizarre that's directed right at my heart. Yes, they made that aquatic creature sexy - you could bounce a coin off it - but they also made every character, hero and villain alike, a fully-realized, complicated person that still exists within this fantasy world. Magical.

The Last Jedi , The Disaster Artist, I, Tonya, and more, after the jump....

Monday, December 11, 2017

Golden Globe Nominees

It doesn't really feel like Awards Season until the Golden Globes make their announcement, you know? Sure, sure: National Board of Review and critics' groups are important and great time capsules for the year, but they just have winners; the Globes have nominees, suspense, anticipation! And oh, always a surprise...

I concern myself only with the film categories, beginning after the jump....