Amph The 2019 Oscars

Crash, on the other hand, is timeless.

 

I actually really like both Milk and Frost/Nixon. Slumdog Millionaire is pretty solid too. Benjamin Button is good but I don't really need to see it again.

The best movie of 2008 is still Man on Wire though.

 

What's really great is that, if Citizen Kane is any indication, in like 60 years the Academy is just going to pretend Brokeback won anyway.

 

I will also say out of all of the Oscar song and dance bits of the last few years, Jackman doing the weird techno song about losing his screener of The Reader is still stuck in my head.

 

Just my opinions and guesses on 8 of the categories. My opinions may change but I'm not apologising for any of them.

Best Supporting Actor
Should Win Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Will Win Mahershala Ali, Green Book

Best Supporting Actress
Should Win Emma Stone, The Favourite
Will Win Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Adapted Screenplay
Should Win BlacKkKlansman
Will Win Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Original Screenplay
Should Win The Favourite
Will Win First Reformed

Best Director
Should Win Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Will Win Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Best Actor
Should Win Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Will Win Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

Best Actress
Should Win Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Will Win Glenn Close, The Wife

Best Picture
Should Win BlacKkKlansman
Will Win Roma

Anyone care to chime in?

 

Ding dong.

 

well I've yet to see any of those .

is Hereditary up for anything?

 

I would love to see Spike Lee win best director and best picture.

 

Um... quite, yes.

Not a single nomination out of the 24 categories. Sorry.

Me too.

 

https://boards.theforce.net/threads/the-2019-oscars.50050931/

 

Just my opinions and guesses on 8 of the categories. My opinions may change but I'm not apologising for any of them.

Best Supporting Actor
Should Win Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Will Win Mahershala Ali, Green Book

Best Supporting Actress
Should Win Emma Stone, The Favourite
Will Win Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Adapted Screenplay
Should Win BlacKkKlansman
Will Win Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Original Screenplay
Should Win The Favourite
Will Win First Reformed

Best Director
Should Win Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Will Win Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Best Actor
Should Win Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Will Win Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

Best Actress
Should Win Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Will Win Glenn Close, The Wife

Best Picture
Should Win BlacKkKlansman
Will Win Roma

 

First Reformed doesn't have a chance in hell of winning anything.

 

It won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Original Screenplay. That's a pretty DAMN good predictor of what'll win the Oscar. 11 (or 12, depending on how ya count) matches out of 13.

 

To see who wins Best Cinematography and Best Editing.

 

Mary Poppins was the best movie I saw this year and it's barely nominated for anything. Otherwise it would be my answer to "Should Win" for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor (Ben Whishaw, not Miranda actually), Best Score, Best Song, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design.

 

Felicity Jones should have been nominated for her performance as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On the Basis of Sex. I liked that film. As things stand, I favor Lady Gaga for Best Actress. I hope Christian Bale wins for Best Actor, though I would be satisfied with Bradley Cooper. Mahershala Ali should win for Best Supporting Actor. I favor Amy Adams for Best Supporting Actress.

 

Oh yeah and Emily Blunt won the SAG for Best Supporting for A Quiet Place but wasn't even nominated for the Oscar so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Every other injustice this year pales to Toni Collette not getting nominated for Hereditary. I mean, that's . . . there are no words.

And there are some big injustices. Ethan Hawke for First Reformed. Beale Street for Best Picture. Brian Tyree Henry for Best Supporting for Beale Street. Viola Davis & Daniel Kaluuya for Widows. Like my jaw literally dropped when I saw no Davis for Widows. That's just unbelievable.

And those are just the ones that actually had a shot. I mean, I'm not even talking about The Rider and Revenge and Annihilation and a host of others that are actually the "best pictures" of the year, by which I mean better than all or most of the nominees.

 

I actually went to a special seminar with Philippe Petit in NYC a few years after that movie was released. He really is an interesting, down-to-earth person and loves to talk about not just the 1974 stunt on the WTC but his other feats as well.

 

How does he feel about the Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie?

I bet I can guess.

 

Well he consulted on set with the movie; so I'd imagine he supported it. Levitt took lessons from Petit himself. I follow Petit's FB page and remember him promoting the film when it was being released.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/112...igh-wire-artist-has-strong-feelings-about-the

 

Annihilation was certainly one of my top 3 movies of the year, along with Mary Poppins Returns and Black Panther.

EDIT: Oh, probably top 4. Hereditary. A Quiet Place. Make it 5

 

Leave No Trace was probably my favorite of the year.

 

Oh **** how did I forget about Eighth Grade. Top 6! Honestly, that was the movie Ladybird wanted to be.