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The Goddamn Oscars

Considering that, by the time the broadcast airs, I will have seen every film nominated except two each in Live Action Short, Documentary Short and International Feature, I feel like I'm well placed to weigh in on who should and shouldn't win. So I'm going to post my rankings for what/who I feel deserves the win, with two or three each day. Starting with:

Film Editing
Everything Everywhere All At Once

Top Gun: Maverick
Tar
Elvis
The Banshees of Inisherin

International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front

Close
Argentina 1985
EO

Short Film (Animated)
The Ice Merchants

The Flying Sailor
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me The World is Fake and I Believe It
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
 
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Supporting Actor
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
Judd Hirsch (The Fablemans)

Production Design
Babylon

All Quiet on the Western Front
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Avatar: The Way of Water

Original Score
All Quiet in the Western Front

The Fabelmans
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Babylon
 
Oh apparently something happened at the ceremony last year some dude slapped another dude? I haven't seen anything about it nonstop on my social media feeds so if anyone could enlighten that'd be appreciated.
 

That Old Chestnut

A E S T H E T I C
(he/him)
Oh apparently something happened at the ceremony last year some dude slapped another dude? I haven't seen anything about it nonstop on my social media feeds so if anyone could enlighten that'd be appreciated.

Nah I'm sure security would do their absolute utmost to prevent such an lapse in safety and decorum from occurring.
 
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Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
Oh apparently something happened at the ceremony last year some dude slapped another dude? I haven't seen anything about it nonstop on my social media feeds so if anyone could enlighten that'd be appreciated.
Yeah, I think it was Cher and Nicholas Cage.

 

zonetrope

(he/him)
The best picture spread is pretty solid this year. I've seen five (Everything Everywhere, Top Gun, Tar, Fabelmans, Banshees), and they're all very good to great, and the current runaway favorite to win (Everything Everywhere) is one of the weirdest movies ever to break through with awards voters.
 

Johnny Unusual

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I've only seen Everything Everywhere and Fabelmans but both are great. The latter is more traditional Oscar bait but it's still really good. Pulling for Everything and I feel like that's how things might swing this year, as the awards seem to oscillate between boomer favs and actual great choices without relying on "THIS IS ABOUT THE MOVIES!".
 
Short Film (Live Action)
Night Ride

An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
(Won't see The Red Suitcase before broadcast)

Adapted Screenplay
Women Talking

Living
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story
All Quiet on the Western Front
Top Gun: Maverick
 
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Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Hong Chau (The Whale)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Original Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin

Tar
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Triangle of Sadness
The Fabelmans
 
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Best Actress
Cate Blanchett (Tar)

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie)
Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
Ana de Armas (Blonde) {no knock to the talented de Armas, but every aspect of Blonde was so bad that she really had nothing to work with}

Best Actor
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Bill Nighy (Living)
Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
Austin Butler (Elvis)

Costume Design
Elvis

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Babylon
Everything Everywhere All at Once
 
Animated Feature Film
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
Turning Red
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast

Cinematography
Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

All Quiet on the Western Front
Empire of Light
Tar
Elvis

Documentary (Short Subject)
Halout

The Elephant Whisperers
Stranger at the Gate
The Martha Mitchell Effect
(Probably won't see How Do You Measure a Year? before broadcast)
 
Original Song
Naatu Naatu (RRR)

Lift Me Up ( Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Hold My Hand (Top Gun: Maverick)
This Is a Life (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Applause (Tell it Like a Woman)

Makeup & Hairstyling
The Batman

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Whale
Elvis
All Quiet on the Western Front
 
Kind of funny how, every time a major organization posts about the Oscars, all the Facebook Boomers are all ELVIS FOR BEST PICTURE FOREVER!!!!!!!

It's a good movie but come on. Though I'm surprised they weren't turned off by all the black people and the hippity hop music in the one scene.
 
Also my personal Oscar for Coolest Fucking Scene goes to The Batman, which I finally watched last night:

 

Purple

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Kind of funny how, every time a major organization posts about the Oscars, all the Facebook Boomers are all ELVIS FOR BEST PICTURE FOREVER!!!!!!!

It's a good movie but come on. Though I'm surprised they weren't turned off by all the black people and the hippity hop music in the one scene.
Sequel when?
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Sound
Top Gun: Maverick

The Batman
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Elvis

Visual Effects
Avatar: The Way of Water

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Director
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Todd Field (Tar)
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Ruben Ostlund (Triangle of Sadness) {This spot should have gone to Sarah Polley for Women Talking}
 
I find it weird to follow this, especially with it's history of picking the respectable, conservative choice. Get Out notwithstanding. Remember in Cecil B Demented when he shoots that David Lean book? That.
 

Johnny Unusual

(He/Him)
I find it weird to follow this, especially with it's history of picking the respectable, conservative choice. Get Out notwithstanding. Remember in Cecil B Demented when he shoots that David Lean book? That.
I find they've been waffling lately. Everything IS an unconventional choice in some ways but remember that recently films that one include Del Toro's Black Lagoon slashfic and one of the wildest pitch black satires on the horrors of capitalism. Prior to those movies, The Fablemans seems like the lock because Hollywood loves movies about movies and film and I wouldn't whine if it won because while there ARE better movies this year, it's still great and not nearly the slap in the face that Green Book is. But I really do think Everything Everywhere All At Once is the frontrunner this year.
 
Documentary (Feature Length)
All That Breathes

Navalny
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
A House Made of Splinters
Fire of Love

Best Picture
The Banshees of Inisherin

All Quiet on the Western Front
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tar
The Fabelmans
Women Talking
Top Gun: Maverick
Avatar: The Way of Water
Elvis
Triangle of Sadness
 
I find it weird to follow this, especially with it's history of picking the respectable, conservative choice. Get Out notwithstanding. Remember in Cecil B Demented when he shoots that David Lean book? That.
Like Johnny said, the Best Picture winners have been less stodgy of late, and while I think Banshees was the best film released in 2022, I'd be happy with the Academy recognizing EEAAO's daring.

One problem that still exists is the Academy's hard on for actors playing famous people. While Austin Butler was good, Brendan Fraser, Bill Nighy, Paul Mescal and Colin Farrell all gave superior performances and had to build their characters themselves. Yet Butler could still run away with it. I guess it's just easier to day "yup, that person was sure just like that other person" and tick the box rather than analyze the nuances of a performance.
 
It's turning out that I'll see all but two nominees (The Red Suitcase for short film and How Do You Measure a Year? for short documentary), so I'll be updating the posts with the respective categories as I see them. It's going to be really cool as they show reels of the nominees in their categories and be familiar with nearly every single one of them.
 
Ram and NTR will not be performing Naatu Naatu at the Oscars. Might as well cancel the whole thing. Try again next year.
 
Happy for Ke Huy Quan but man did all four other actresses deserve the Oscar more than Jamie Lee Curtis.
 
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