The 90th Academy Awards (March 4, 2018) TV Show • Page 8

The smile on Andy Serkis' face was perfect when Apes was nominated for visual effects. He was so stoked.

 

personal preferences:
Best Picture: Ladybird/Phantom Thread, really torn
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Jenkins
Best Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Adapted Screenplay: Mudbound
Best Original Screenplay: The Big Sick
Best Cinematography: Roger Fucking Deakins
Best Score: Jonny Greenwood

 

actually pretty annoyed tracey letts didn’t get a nod for lady bird

 

If he loses this year, for this movie, we riot.

 

What is his competition there? Id say just the woman from mudbound for obvious reasons.

 

Blade Runner deserves a BP nom. Even if it’s just to round it out to 10.

 

I have not seen Mudbound or Darkest Hour. That being said, my picks would probably be:

Production Design: The Shape of Water (I'd be happy with Blade Runner too, but I give the nod to SoW because it didn'tt have the benefits of being based on a previous design)
Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049. Easiest choice.
Costume Design: Phantom Thread
Sound Editing: Baby Driver
Negative Short: N/A haven't seen any outside of clips of Dear Basketball.
Live Action Short: N/A
Original Score: Dunkirk. Another coin toss between this and Phantom Thread (and of course John Williams for Star Wars), but the score of Dunkirk was such a huge part of creating the non-stop tension. It was my favorite of the year, but I don't think it would be without that score.
Visual Effects: War for the Planet of the Apes. Another tough one, because Star Wars had some incredible visuals as did Blade Runner (in particular a certain scene with the character of Joi was absolutely stunning). But overall, gotta go the movie that had a main cast of apes and those things look as close to real as I think we can get right now.
Film Editing: Baby Driver. I'm not an expert in any of this, editing included. I I feel like the degree of difficultly had to be real high on this one.
Makeup & Hair Styling: N/A
Supporting Actor: William Defoe (should be Armie though)
Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf
Foreign Film: N/A. I do want to see A Fantastic Woman though
Doc Short: N/A
Doc Feature: N/A
Original Song: Sufjan Stevens (Wins by default it's the only one of these I've heard)
Animated Feature: Boss Baby (because fuck it)
Adapted Screenplay: Call Me By Your Name. It was the best of these, but I haven't read any of the source material for any of the nominees.
Original Screen Play: Get Out. Fuckk this is a tough category. Second choice would be Big Sick, but I'd be happy with any besides Billboard. Get Out did feel the most unique out of all of them, so it wins.
Leading Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis. I want to go Kaluuya, but DDL just kind of knocked it out of the park.
Leading Actress: Sally Hawkins. Amazing what she did without speaking. Loved it.
Directing: Paul Thomas Anderson. Coin toss between this and Peele, but again, I think PTA just kind of killed it.
Best Picture: Get Out. Dunkirk was my favorite movie of the year, but Get Out feels too culturally relevant and important not to give the nod.

 

Not only does Saiorse have 3 Oscar nominations by 23 but Jennifer Lawrence somehow did that already

 

I still can’t believe Phantom thread got six noms. I really thought it was going to be costumes and nothing else.

 

I haven’t seen phantom thread yet but I’ve heard RAVE reviews for it. My personal preference would be between Chalamet and Kaluuya for BA but it’s hard to imagine the academy wouldn’t give it to DDL on his “last” movie.

 

Ranking the BP noms worst to best:

Darkest Hour
Three Billboards
Dunkirk
Lady Bird
The Post
Call Me By Your Name
Get Out
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water

 

NO MORE RANKINGGGGG

 

I’m guessing Krieps was pushed as a lead? Which she is.

 

i’m not gonna try to recall the name from memory, but the dunkirk DOP seems pretty obvious as the main competitor

 

My favorites of the nominated:

Best Picture: Call Me By Your Name
Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet/Daniel Kaluuya
Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan
Best Director: Jordan Peele
Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe
Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf
Adapted Screenplay: Call Me By Your Name
Original Screenplay: Lady Bird
Original Song: Mystery of Love
Original Score: Phantom Thread

 

Hoping peele gets director so gerwig can get screenplay, otherwise a good chance Lady Bird goes home empty handed.

 

shit maybe i should see Get Out

 

Really excited to dig into the Documentary noms too. I've heard nothing but great things about Faces Places and Strong Island in particular. The latter is on Netflix.

 

Get Out is a great film, but best picture/best actor nominated film, it is not.

 

Mudbound is great and people should see it

 

Get Out has an actual chance, I think. I don't think it picks up noms in the categories it did if it's not legitimately in the running. In a normal year, no chance, but this one feels legitimately wide open.

 

Honestly had not heard of Mudbound before this morning, gonna check it out soon

 

I agree that I don't really think Get Out should win best picture, but I think it would be cool to see a movie like that win. It could kind of shake up what we think of when we hear "Oscar movie". I do remember really liking Kaluuya's performance.

 

Substitute director/best picture noms for Get Out with Blade Runner 2049. Don't think Kaluuya's acting is rightly nominated either, but I'd argue there is nothing worthy of nomination acting wise in Blade Runner either.

 

hope star wars wins at least visual effects simply for that hyperspace scene.