I feel like the Oscars would be way cooler and competitive if we have genres like best romance, horror yada yada and it would make directors and actors try new things just me?

What's one of those for you? I have a Cinema 101 class and tonight I showed my students "Soul" from Pixar. I know this got the Animation Oscar, but this really deserves a best picture nomination; I see it on the same level of quality and depth of character, emotion and just philosophy as Up or Toy Story 3. Is it because it got the shaft theatrically during the Pandemic and went right to Disney plus? It would've been cool to see it nominated and definitely deserved it over at least a few of the actual nominees for 2020/21

The nominees for the All-Time Oscar for Best CINEMATOGRAPHY are:

• 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), Geoffrey Unsworth
• BARRY LYNDON (1975), John Alcott
• BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017), Roger Deakins
• CHILDREN OF MEN (2006), Emamanuel Lubezski
• LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962), Freddie Young

Now let's nominate for All-Time BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:

1. Please format your answer as follows: Movie (Year). For example: The Elephant Man (1980).
2. Nominate a film released during the years the Oscars have been active (1927- 2024)
3. One film per comment
4. The film does NOT have to be a former nominee or winner
5. No 2025 movies
6. The FIVE top comments with the most upvotes will be our Best Makeup and Hairstyling nominees

Please list the actor name, and the movie they were a part of

Norbit being release in January of 2007, ruinning Eddie Murphy campaingn for Best Supporting Actor for Dreamgirls.

Kate Winslet moving to Supporting Actress to Lead Actress for "The Reader", causing Penelope Cruz to win Best Supporting Actress for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona".

The committee for Best Foreign Language Film boycotting City of God led to the creation of the shortlists and gave the movie 4 nominations at the following year, for Best Director, Best Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

Ben Affleck failing to get a Best Director nomination for "Argo" made the voters feel pity for him and gave him Best Picture.

Wall-E and The Dark Knight not getting a Best Picture nomination made the Academy expand the number of spots for Best Picture noms, causing Nickel Boys, Barbie, Top Gun: Maverick, I'm Still Here, Women Talking, Past Lives and etc to be nominated

Leonardo DiCaprio's lack of nomination for Titanic prevented the film to become the most nominated movie in Oscar history.

Renee Zellweger winning Best Actress at SAG, Golden Globes and Critic Choices for Chicago, and then losing the Oscar for Nicole Kidman, made the Academy feel sorry for her, which led to her Best Supporting Actress win for "Cold Mountain".

Eliminated - Belfast (2021), written and directed by Kenneth Branagh - 39.3% of all votes. Belfast won Best Original Screenplay at the 94th Annual Academy Awards, and received a total of 7 nominations, including nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Supporting Actor. The other films nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 94th Annual Academy Awards were Don’t Look Up, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, and The Worst Person in the World. Belfast also won Best Original Screenplay at the Golden Globe Awards and Critics’ Choice Awards, and received a nomination at the BAFTA Awards. The writer for Belfast, Kenneth Branagh, also wrote the screenplays for Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), and Hamlet (1996), just to name a few. His Academy Award for Belfast was his first and only Oscar for writing so far, and his second of two nominations for writing.

Fill out the form by just selecting the winner you most want to be ELIMINATED next. The more people who vote, the more competitive and fun the competition will be! Keep in mind, you’re voting for which film you think has the WORST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY. NOT which film is your least favorite.

Remaining Contestants: - Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe - Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes - Talk to Her, Pedro Almodóvar - Lost in Translation, Sophia Coppola - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Charlie Kaufman, Michael Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth - Little Miss Sunshine, Michael Arndt - Juno, Diablo Cody - Milk, Dustin Lance Black - The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal - The King’s Speech, David Seidler - Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen - Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino - Her, Spike Jonze - Birdman; Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris Jr, Nicolás Giacobone, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Spotlight, Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy - Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan - Get Out, Jordan Peele - Parasite, Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won - Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert - Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari - Anora, Sean Baker

Ranking so far:

1. Kenneth Branagh, Belfast

2. Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell

3. Green Book; Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga

4. Crash (Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco)

Use the reply thread for discussion!👇

Do you think that voice performances should be included in acting nominations?

I’m watching the awards contender and he did a video a while back of 10 voice performances that he thinks should’ve gotten Oscar nominations. He believes that voice performances should be on the same level as physical performances because you could still convey the same emotions.

If you look at the history as well, Scarlett Johansson got a nomination for critics choice for her and Eddie Murphy got a BAFTA nomination for Shrek

So do you think that voice performances should be eligible for Oscar nominations?

Which ones do you see winning an Oscar? Who will win first (besides Mikey)?

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Mine would 10000% be Isabelle Huppert in The Piano Teacher (2001, dir. Michael Heneke). Huppert is an accomplished actor but isn’t as popular in the states as I want her to be. And she’s always good, but this performance was scary good. This is one role I still think about. Who would you give your one wish to, regardless of country or popularity in the US?

Not based on their performance for their win but in general.

With 21.9% of the vote, James Coburn (Affliction) has been eliminated. Vote for the performance you liked the least in the form below and the one with the most votes will be eliminated.

VOTE HERE

40: Roberto Bengini (Life is Beautiful)

39: Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love)

38: Jessica Lange (Blue Sky)

37: Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules)

36: Jack Palance (City Slickers)

35: Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets)

34: Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets)

33: James Coburn (Affliction)

Let's do an all-time Oscars with a twist: exclusively for non-English films. We know a lot of incredible foreign films have gotten overlooked in the past, so here's the chance to vote for our favorites.

Rules:

1. Only feature films not primarily in English allowed - no documentaries or short films
2. No 2025 films
3. Films and performances do not have to be previous Oscar nominees or winners
4. Comment the name of the film, the year it was released and its primary language/country. If your choice has already been commented, give it an upvote instead of commenting again

All feature length Oscars categories, except International Feature (for obvious reasons), will be in contention.

We will start with the Best Animated Feature category. Top 5 upvoted comments will decide the nominees, which will be voted on once all the categories have been decided. Voting will be open for 24 hours.

Have fun!

(Tomorrow's category will be Best Makeup and Hairstyling)

Just a funny little nonsense question. Been (finally) watching The Sopranos and there was a funny little scene where a man tries to pawn off an Emmy and the cashier was basically like "Maybe if you had an Oscar... but TV???"

Obviously the divide between TV and film isn't as steep as it once was, but I was curious if there was any actor known for their television work that you'd love to see get some recognition for a movie performance.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLtJfRioYxjXNycqox4xC3x3AiC-6-Prlpvl3BRWqY2zgVMQ/viewform?usp=dialog

• 25. Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
• 24. Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
• 23. Reneé Zellweger (Judy)
• 22. Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)

Ranking:

1. The Broadway Melody

2. Crash

3. Cimarron

4. Cavalcade

5. The Greatest Show on Earth

6. The Great Ziegfeld

7. Gigi

8. Around the World in 80 Days

9. Tom Jones

10. Driving Miss Daisy

11. The Life of Emile Zola

12. Green Book

13. Out of Africa

14. Shakespeare in Love

15. Chariots of Fire

16. Going My Way

17. A Man For All Seasons

18. Oliver!

19. Gentleman's Agreement

20. Grand Hotel

21. The Artist

22. CODA

23. Nomadland

24. Braveheart

25. Dances with Wolves

Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln and Anne Hathaway for Lés Miserablés, coincidentally both the same year

So, I was on another thread about Benjamin Button, and I connected with someone who agreed with me about this thought I'd always had about Taraji P. Henson, so I'm putting it in the main thread to see if there are any other takers.

Taraji P. Henson deserved a nomination for I Can Do Bad All By Myself. Admittedly, the movie itself is not good. Tyler Perry forced a Madea cameo into a movie that would have been better off without it. The child actors weren't so good.

But Taraji is great. Her acting is fantastic. She sings in the movie, which is always a treat - hollywood should have her sing more often. It's a juicy complex role that requires her to show a transition from selfishness to empathy. She has to struggle with relationships with her man, children unexpectedly dropped in her lap, work, the church (I think hollywood struggles to appreciate modern movies where characters have an internalized religious struggle that ends with them going back to a church they've been avoiding). It's every bit the emotional journey character arc that hollywood usually loves.

There are plenty of instances of people getting nominated for good performances in bad or mediocre movies. Bette Davis and Meryl Streep combined have probably at least 10 of those type of nominations between the two of them. Admittedly, it happens more often for white women then black women, but Diahann Carroll was the only nominee in her movie. Heck, the winner the year Taraji should have been nominated was Sandra Bullock; part of her whole narrative was that she had delivered a great performance in a bad/mediocre movie (I actually don't think she was that good, or even good at all, more on that in a second).

And although no one would let Madea herself near the oscars, the Academy is okay with Tyler Perry when he does good work (Precious, and they gave him the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award).

The other nominees that year were Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Helen Mirren (The Last Station), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia). And the winner was Sandra Bullock for the Blind Side. I'm not aware of a strong case being made that year as far as someone obvious who placed sixth and should've have made the cut (at least not in the same way that almost everyone realizes that Julianne Moore was next down on the list the year that Natalie Portman won for Black Swan).

Sandra Bullock's win has generally been recognized as a mistake in retrospect. Most prognosticators had Meryl as the most likely winner if Bullock didn't win. I think the performance was too goofy for a movie that wasn't a comedy and that it just wasn't great overall. Most people I've seen comment on the actual quality of the performances agree that they were really the bottom two, and that the real top two should have been Carey Mulligan and Gabourey Sidibe. Opinions differ about who the rightful winner was, I would say Gabourey Sidibe, but I also agree that Carey Mulligan had an excellent performance and I would place her second.

I would argue that those are the only two performances in the group better than what Taraji did in I Can Do Bad All By Myself. I would boot out the two people who probably got the most votes, Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep. I'm not a Meryl hater, I think Devil Wears Prada is a performance for the ages that should be studied in acting classes, but of her nominated performances that I've seen, this is my least favorite. I am kind of a Sandra Bullock hater. I don't like that she gets to make crap for years and then get rewarded with, not a nomination, but a win, the first time people perceive her as doing something not completely terrible (I opposed Brendan Fraser and Demi Moore for the same reason). I think it's one thing for Jamie Lee Curtis who made some good movies and probably had some near misses (A Fish Called Wanda comes to mind), but for people making drivel for decades, I don't see why the reward should be a win on your firs go around, unless you really truly earned it. I don't love that she was immediately dubbed "America's Sweetheart" something no one called her before or since this oscar campaign. She was and is the white Jennifer Lopez who never figured out how to steal Ashanti's music. Haters come at me. I would keep Helen Mirren in the mix, though lower down. And I would give the 5th slot to Tilda Swinton in Julia - super underrated and Tilda has never gotten enough love outside of her one win (go watch Train Wreck and tell me she isn't underappreciated!)

Fences realesed on December 16th of 2016 by Paramount pictures. It was directed, co-produced and starred Denzel Washington and it is based on the 1985 theatre play by August Wilson and also starred Viola davis as the wife of the film. The received generally acclaim reviews from critics who praised the acting, screenplay and direction and grossed 64m at the box office worldwide against a budget of 24m. Davis won many major awards gor her performance and on 89th academy awards the film was nominated and won for one: Best picture, Best actor for Washington, Best adapted screenplay and Best supporting actress for Davis(WON).

Other than been the film that gave Viola her first oscar win. Fences isn't as a film talked as the other as La la land, Moonlight, Arrival and etc. As a winner, some fans of original play might had been happy that it won but the general it probably wouldn't be consider as high tier Best picture winner. Probably not the worst win of the decade but it wouldn't be that well regarded

the Academy has often reunited co-stars from some of the most iconic films ever for best picture. Seeing Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal present it this year was cool, but frankly, WHMS as good as it is, was definitely never a big Oscar player. It was fine, but ok.

My big hope was the 2022 ceremony, when it would have been exactly 30 years to the month that The Silence of the Lambs totally killed it at the Oscars and made massive history.

What was even more frustrating was that we knew Hopkins would be there to present best actress. He was 84, lives mostly in the UK, and we were lucky to get him to come over across the pond to be at the Oscars.

As for Foster, she’s totally an L.A.woman and it could have been relatively easy for a person in her 50s to hop on a limo and join Hopkins on the stage - at least that’s my feeling. I know she has a life and plans and all that, of course.

Anyways, there were some rumors online that we might actually get this big TSOTL reunion for the big award, but it obviously never happened.

Respectfully, Hopkins is almost in his 90s now and time is limited for everyone. I hope it eventually happens. Thanks for listening to my rant. I appreciate all opinions.

Calling on all the Oscar predictors here who have been following the race for at least a decade.

I'm a big fans of musicals but very new to the Oscar races. I saw the Into The Woods film a few months ago, and among the musicals community it was not well-liked, primarily because it made some serious cuts from the original, and James Corden. However, one award I'm surprised it didn't win was Costume Design. The costumes were really great, and represents each character relatively well. I also looked up the costumes for the winner that year (Grand Budapest Hotel), and while they look great, I'm not sure how they compared to that in Into The Woods.

So about this film - what is the general consensus on the movie here? How is it generally viewed? And what was the race for Costume Design like ten years ago? Please let me know! Thank you ❤️

The nominees for the All-Time Oscar for Best PRODUCTION DESIGN are:

• 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
• ALIEN (1979)
• BLADE RUNNER (1982)
• THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014)
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)

Now let's nominate for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Rules:

1. Please format your answer as follows: Movie (Year). For example: Black Narcissus (1947). You may add the Cinematographer's name, but it's not required.
2. Nominate a film released during the years the Oscars have been active (1927- 2024)
3. One film per comment
4. The film does NOT have to be a former nominee or winner
5. No 2025 movies
6. The FIVE top comments with the most upvotes will be our Best Cinematography nominees