So apparently the deal with this is that if the characters already exist and were not made new for the movie, it can’t go into original. Which I guess extends to sequels, which is why, e.g. Before Sunset and Glass Onion were put in Best Adapted despite the stories being newly written for the screen.
https://x.com/shannonrwatts/status/1749817360155083110?s=46&t=k3YA52U8SV6oodQANcy20g
https://x.com/rhysr97/status/1749798563373035860?s=46&t=k3YA52U8SV6oodQANcy20g
https://x.com/shirleighshirlz/status/1749793346644488210?s=46&t=k3YA52U8SV6oodQANcy20g
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Those complaints were 100% inevitable, but aren’t really warranted. Gosling got into a weaker category.
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Ya it also assumes some “decision” was made to snub them.
Yep. And if Academy voters didn’t have any appreciation of Barbie’s themes, America Ferrera certainly wouldn’t have landed a surprise nomination in Supporting, heavily aided by the strength of a speech that more directly preaches at the audience than anything Robbie does in the movie.
Personally I put Ferrera’s nom in the same category as Sterling Brown’s: didn’t feel like it took powerhouse acting to play their roles, but both are such consistently enjoyable on-screen presences in everything they do that I’m happy for them regardless.
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I think the Gerwig miss is a real snub.
By now she should have several noms and at least one win.
Agreed, although if The Zone of Interest is as good as people say then there’s not a clear weak spot where someone is there but shouldn’t be. She’s had a bit of bad timing luck because 2020 and 2024 are two of the strongest Oscar years in existence and she happened to have two of her three major directorial works in those years.
Only real case she would have for a win so far would be the Lady Bird year, when I certainly would have preferred her over Guillermo del Toro and that whole Shape of Water train that came rolling through the year. (Shape of Water > Nomadland in the weak winners canon, but still.)
The Barbie project was still a massive success and she will continue to be able to make whatever choices she wants. I don’t doubt the Oscar is coming. It’s taken Nolan until this year to (seemingly) finally get one.
Looks like a better line-up than usual in Oscar nominations; hoping for a KOTFM sweep, although I could make an exception for either :
Emma Stone winning best actress, and accepting it as her character from the Curse, fake-apologizing to Lily Gladstone who so clearly deserved it more.
Justine Triet winning best director and doubling down on her anti-Macron Cannes speech, but this time in (poor) English
(her reaction to the nomination “c’est quoi best picture ça veut dire quoi”)
https://x.com/Zoooooooooooran/status/1749799534484689370?s=20
One of these things does not belong…
Hoooooly shit.
Stone on stage: “This award really belongs to Lily Gladstone, in fact pulls out checkbook come on up here sweety. How much do you think this is worth? Twenty, thirty grand?”
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Listened to a podcast about the sound design for zone of interest and it sounds like it plays a central role. That got me very excited to see it although I am still dreading the experience a little.
Was almost expecting that Sarah Hüller might be the first German nominated as a leading actress(actor) for an Oscar. But some googling told me there have been Germans winning it before.
Assuming confusedleo.jpg means my English phrasing skills were too weak to make the joke land ? Sad if true…
On that topic here is a fun interview with Justine Triet (+ her translator) from a few months ago.
Apparently they had originally planned to have “Jolene” playing instead of the 50 Cent beat, and even had some of the courtroom dialogue written around that, but ultimately they didnt get the music rights. It’s a shame, i feel like that would have increased my appreciation of the movie by at least 20%.
No, I honestly wasn’t sure whether you were endorsing the notion that Lily is way more deserving. There are a LOT of damn people out there who feel that way (whether they organically feel that way or have decided to feel that way), which is bizarre to me. But I get the joke from the Curse standpoint.
I’m definitely hoping Emma wins even though Lily was excellent. I was all for the notion of Lily winning until I saw Poor Things, which feels like it turned the race into a Blanchett-Yeoh redux.
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Ok got it, I haven’t seen Poor things so no opinion myself on whether Stone deserves it over Gladstone. I’d probably prefer LG to win it bc this would boost her career and ensure she gets great parts for at least half a decade (maybe even get ppl to watch Certain women and get interested in Kelly Reichardt), while I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot more of Stone whether she wins or not.
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