I’m at least happy to see a very strong online backlash to Emilia Perez winning.
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I’m not going to defend the movie, but I am happy to see Karla Sofía Gascón getting so much love.
EP is this years Green Book or Crash. Will be mocked in hindsight as a wtf were they thinking.
Here’s how Fanduel has the Oscar BP odds looking now.
Again, I look forward to actually having an informed opinion about a potential Brutalist win. I am disheartened that Anora has maybe begun to slip.
Haven’t seen it, but I would be happy to see it win things just to stick it to anti-trans people.
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I think the anti-trans people would LOVE for it to win Best Picture at the Oscars so they will have lots of material for their phoney victimhood narratives. They’ll say they don’t like it, but you know they will love the opportunity to complain about it and say that it proves that everything is rigged in favor of those lucky duck trans people. They’ll all jerk each other off (no homo) about how giving the movie an award is just “virtue signaling”, etc.
I have never been a believer in “woke has gone too far” but check out this clip from the best musical of the year 2024
https://x.com/ChloeNumberIII/status/1856694134263693571?t=UYVYMbhLkbUCo0ehCVxCSg&s=19
I don’t usually care about this stuff, but if there’s any proof that the GGs are rigged, it’s this beating wicked.
And I didn’t even think wicked was that great!
I think it’s great. He needs to embrace being a wingnut, pretending to be normal was not working.
He went to my high school, long after me.
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drip god
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GoldDerby is probably a more credible resource on this. They have a logjam at the top.
I assume this is pretty much how it will look until we see what kind of nomination strength certain movies show on Oscar nom announcement day (next Friday) and then the mid-February BAFTA/SAG awards.
Oscar Nominations 2025: Emilia Perez Leads Wicked and The Brutalist
It wasn’t all chalk, but no huge shocks in the nominations today. And, importantly: nothing that will create deeply stupid discourse that wasn’t already happening.
I’m Still Here in Best Picture wasn’t expected, but that one gets huge plaudits so it wasn’t a shock. I anxiously await it finally bothering to show up in February or something.
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By my count, only 14 movies in the 8 big categories that I usually watch. That’s fewer than normal. By my recollection, there’s usually close to 20.
You can watch Evil Does Not Exist to pad your number since it’s better than most of the nominees.
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It will be interesting to see how much the AI controversy hurts The Brutalist. It didn’t get a sound nomination, despite a nomination in the other main creative category, editing.
I also thought it was funny that Wicked had so many nominations but didn’t land one for Original Song. Was it all adapted or something? If so, how was it eligible for Original Score?
Needless to say, people in the industry are terrified about AI. I would expect it to have a huge impact on voting.
From wikipedia
the Academy Awards rule states that the song must be “original and written specifically for the motion picture,”
This rule means that when a film is adapted from a previously produced stage musical, none of the existing songs from the musical are eligible.
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I personally think the controversy disqualified it from winning Best Pic. The excuses are weak sauce and none of what they did is how AI is properly used in the audio post-production process, in my opinion (it turned AI into a creator). Just say what you did worked how you wanted it to and brush off the criticism. Saying that you tried all the other stuff like ADR and it didn’t work is weak. There are other ways to accomplish what they did without AI, but they said it would take too long. If it was used as little as LKG thinks it was, I highly doubt it would have taken too long. Their defense suggests it may have been used more than they claimed. As an FYI, I’m not familiar with the program that was used and can’t speak to its quality.
AI is used constantly in sound but it’s almost always used to deal with noise and technical sound problems inside noise reduction programs and plug-ins (AI can often provide a decent starting point but is almost never final quality I’d choose). It’s usually in the form of a ‘Learn’ button in whatever is being used, though some plug-ins are really blurring that line by just having you choose a style, it setting a start point, and only giving you control over one knob.
Today, I can now split mixed sound with AI, which is occasionally very useful. I wouldn’t use it in the way they did but can understand why they did. The problem is using AI to do your creative instead of as a tool to assist the creative is the third rail, and that’s pretty much what they did. And their defense of what they did didn’t work for me.
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