The 90th Academy Awards (March 4, 2018) TV Show • Page 18

Oscar at the Oscars? Oh my!

 

Sufjan!
Mary J. Blige, Common, Sufjan Stevens, More to Perform at Academy Awards

 

Behold The Most Prestigious Prize In Hollywood: The John C. Reilly Award

 

I’ve been putting in some serious movie time to see as many Oscar nominees this year. Down to a week now and have a few to go.

This is all I have left of the major categories. I’m not bothering with shorts or documentaries at this point. Also Coco is all that matters for animated.

Darkest Hour
Roman J Isreal Esq
All the money in the world
Mud bound
Molly’s Game

 

Four of the documentary features are on streaming services but I haven’t gotten around to seeing any of them yet. In terms of the major awards, The Florida Project is the only one I haven’t seen.

 

Family recreates scenes from all BP nominees

2018

 

Just saw Dunkirk again in theaters and I forgot just how insanely tense it is. Nolan is probably my outside favorite to take Director

 

All 89 Best Picture Oscar Winners Ranked | Feature | Slant Magazine

 

That list really gives you an idea of how bad the winners have been over the years. The Hurt Locker wasn't even the 14th best movie of the year it came out.

 

Still can't believe it beat Avatar

 

my dude

 

I'm still very confused about the love for certain films. The Hurt Locker, Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven specifically. Maybe I was too young to appreciate the latter two.

 

yeah i was shocked to see baby that high

 

What goes into those rankings is the retropect each movie has achieved, particularly its influence on film and culture since. Say if Three Billboards or Shape of Water wins BP, there is no way of knowing how we view either film 10 years from now.

BTW I was joking about Avatar

 

The Hurt Locker beating Inglorious Basterds in pretty much every category (including, somehow, Original Screenplay!) was such a damn letdown.

Also, I mean, that list thinks the Academy should've doubled down on Roman Polanski and given Best Picture to The Pianist in 2002, so I don't know how much stock anyone should put in its rankings.

 

Shakespeare in Love won best picture?! What the hell?

 

I like Million Dollar Baby more than I did before, but too many people overlook Eastwood's laziness as a coach of actors.

 

Assuming that documentaries and films in foreign languages cannot win Best Picture, these are the films that should have won this century:

2000: You Can Count on Me
2001: The Royal Tenenbaums
2002: Punch-Drunk Love
2003: Lost in Translation (Gerry is just too weird for them)
2004: Before Sunset
2005: The New World
2006: Children of Men
2007: There Will Be Blood
2008: Synecdoche, New York
2009: Inglourious Basterds
2010: Another Year
2011: The Tree of Life
2012: The Master (probably too weird for them, but 2012 is a weak year for American film)
2013: Before Midnight
2014: Boyhood
2015: Carol (although A Very Murray Christmas deserves it)
2016: Manchester by the Sea
2017: I haven't decided yet, Phantom Thread or The Lost City of Z

 

2000: Yi Yi
2001: Mulholland Drive
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003: Lost in Translation
2004: Before Sunset
2005: Brokeback Mountain
2006: Children of Men
2007: There Will Be Blood
2008: Synechdoche, New York
2009: Inglourious Basterds
2010: The Social Network
2011: The Tree of Life
2012: The Master
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
2014: Under the Skin
2015: Magic Mike XXL
2016: Moonlight
2017: A Ghost Story

 

I think feature length docs can be considered for nomination. Ebert was lobbying hard for Hoop Dreams to get a BP nod in 1994 and Michael Moore submitted Fahrenheit 9/11 for BP.

 

I know they can literally be nominated and win, but it is not at all realistic no matter how much I like something like The Act of Killing.

 

Up and Toy Story 3 were nominated for Best Picture even though they had their own category. Still, docs and foreign language films being nominated for BP seems unlikely. Crouching Tiger got a BP nom, but it had a pretty sizable American audience. I just remembered Amour got nominated too, though.