Amph 2025 Oscars (and other award season shows)

they're up early. 5.30am !

I'm rooting for Nominees to be Determined.

 

I'm sure Wicked will win plenty of the technical awards; but I'm surprised it's nominated for "Best Original Score". Is that normal for an adapted production of a longtime theatrical show?

 

Brutalist will nearly sweep its nominations as a political statement against the mass deportation initiative. It gets 7-8 wins

 

In 1961, West Side Story's movie score was nominated and won. My Fair Lady won in 1964 for "Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment" which was a category from 1963 to 1968. There might be more examples of movies that were Broadway shows first and the movie music went on to win awards.

 

Chicago was the last Best Picture winner though, right?

 

Yes, it won in 2003 for Best Picture and Best Sound (and others). Frida won for Best Original Score and Best Original Song went to Eminem (and others) for Lose Yourself.

 

I always root for Sawdust and Mildew to win:



@Rylo Ken Many in Hollywood are also bending at the knee, saying Trump can "revitalize" the movie industry to pre-COVID. I think the ketamine that Musk, Bezos, and a score of others were on at the inauguration is getting passed around Hollywood as well.

 

So, I think that's because there was like 50% more movie (or more!) than show so it likely qualified.

Also, isn't this a little bit weird that Sebastian Stan's performance in The Apprentice was deemed "better" than his performance in A Different Man?

 

Nothing for Challengers, not even Original Score. I'm way the **** behind on the other nominees, I've only seen Dune: Part II

A little baffling that Alien: Deepfake got a vfx nomination

 

Pretty impressive for The Substance as a type of horror movie to get so many noms.

 

I Saw the TV Glow was probably my favorite 2024 film I've seen and predictably it got zero nominations.

 

I thought the one shot I Saw the TV Glow might have was Best Song for Claw Machine, the one Phoebe Bridgers performs in the movie. Obviously, I would have nominated I Saw the TV Glow across the board in basically every category just speaking for myself.

There are, of course, a million things I could say about the movies they left out entirely (I Saw the TV Glow; Challengers; Blink Twice; etc.) or didn't nominate for enough (Nosferatu, etc.) or what have you.

I will just say as one positive comment on a smaller movie that I'm really glad to see Flow get a nomination for Best International Film as well as Best Animated Film. It's a really beautiful movie and I always like to see animated movies break out of the Best Animated category to get nominated in other categories. I highly recommend Flow.

And I am, of course, still tickled by the continued awards success of The Substance for all sorts of reasons. I would love to see Demi Moore take home that Oscar.

 

If Inside Out 2 wins best animated, you knew it's rigged. This seems to be the first time in a while that only a single Disney film made the cut.

 

I mean, IO2 is a brilliant film. I haven't seen the others, and I think Flow has the edge. I mean, I fell asleep during The Triplets of Bellville 20 years ago and it got a lot of positive praise...

 

And I fell asleep during IO2. To me, it did not hold up to the original at all. I didn't see what was so special about it.

 

Yeah, but I've seen your posts in the MLB thread and I know I trust Wocky's opinion more than yours. And he likes I, Robot...

 

Because opinions in the MLB thread factor in on opinions on the movies. Got it.

 

Really is typical of the Academy that the film written and directed by a trans person gets nothing, but this garbage is a best picture front runner:

 

I would say that Inside Out 2 isn't half as great as the original, but that still gives it room to be a mostly entertaining, funny and ultimately emotional movie. The first one was just so special and none of the insights in the second one land as powerfully as the first one did, nor is it as overall creative. But it's still totally fun and entertaining and I laughed a lot.

 

And the winner for Movie I've Never Heard Of But Got A Ton Of Nominations goes to Emilia Perez!

 

Emilia Perez is what happens when you go the "representation no matter what" route and have a white liberal bourgeois representation of people without their involvement at all.

 

Aka Crash pt 2

 

Well, near as I can tell, the only nominated movie I've seen is 'Inside Out 2". And I saw part of the end of "Dune 2' on TV and wasn't impressed. So, I pretty much have no idea how it'll turn out. Who's hosting this year?