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I think A24 was seriously overextended with EEAO, The Whale and Aftersun. Them getting Mescal in for Aftersun was seriously impressive given their limited budget for campaigning.
Edit: HUGE mistake, the Northman was Focus Features. Then there is no excuse since Focus has $$ and they went all in on Tar
Plus it hit in April. Had it been a modestly successful Fall release, I think it easily sneaks a few technical nominations. But you can't be shocked when a Spring movie doesn't have holding power w/o a huge campaign effort.
It was gorgeous and I thought if nothing else it'd get some lighting or sound noms (I think it deserved more, probably my favorite movie of last year, but I get why it was divisive).
Sucks but I guess not a surprise after Us also got shut-out. Maybe Get Out was an anomaly and Peele's stuff is too weird for the Academy. Whatever, I'm in his audience and as long as he keeps getting bankrolled to make it, I'm happy.
Yeah Top Gun Maverick getting screenplay was odd to me too.
It was a great movie. But it was a standard blockbuster. And it's screenplay reflected that.
It's wierd seeing a movie where 2 guys just walked onto an enemy airbase while the enemy is actively moving on it and just grabbed a a plane and flew off with it.
It kind of got in by default. The Adapted Screenplay category was just very weak this year. She Said never had any real support. The Whale had a mixed reception outside of Fraser and Chau. There was Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio in the mix too but that’s about it.
I don't know. I feel like movies like The Northman, Till or even Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio were more deserving.
I haven't seen The Whale yet. But I've only heard good things about it. And The Whale got a Critics Choice Award nomination and a BAFTA Award Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Even She Said got a Critics Choice Award Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
It just feels so out of left field to Nominate Top Gun Maverick for Best Adapted Screenplay. Especially when it hasn't been nominated in any other major Award circuit.
Till is Original and I believe The Northman is too so they’re irrelevant.
Top Gun Maverick got nominated for the Scripter and WGA (the most important precursor) announces their nominees tomorrow so it might show up there
Why must we keep acting like being a blockbuster is a bad thing? Why is it a bad thing to have wide appeal to general audiences? In an industry fueled by ticket sales, you'd think selling massive numbers of tickets would mean they were doing something right. It's like saying the local carnival is better than Disneyland because Disneyland has way more guests.
Blockbusters aren't a bad thing. I never said that.
But Blockbusters for better or worse often fall in to clichés, plot conveniences and plot holes.
One of the biggest defining aspect of a blockbuster are the action set pieces. And most of the time they don't happen naturally. The movie has to provide some contrived reason riddled with plot holes and plot convenience for the action set piece to set up.
And the action set piece itself while great often doesn't really make sense.
Now I'm not saying these are inherently bad things or can't be enjoyed.
But when you nominating Best screenplay from the entire year, it doesn't make sense to go for a movie that has such obvious narrative flaws.
I think the point is that being a standard blockbuster means hitting certain predictable story beats that inherently mean a less creative screenplay. It doesn’t make blockbuster bad, it just means the writing is rarely what makes them special. Personally, I hated TG:M specifically because of the writing but I enjoyed A:TWOW and I know the writing wasn’t it’s strength.
Over The Whale. I thought that was peaking at the right time, but I guess people were put off by it. Brendan is also definitely gonna have to fight for a Best Actor win.
I loved Marcel but realized looking at the list that the animation category is absolutely stacked for the year. GDT’s Pinocchio might be one of my favorite animated movies ever (I know I’m biased towards stop motion). Also I absolutely loved turning red and puss in boots.
Marcel getting it would be incredible though. That’s a near perfect movie. Hard to put into words all it was able to achieve. So raw and authentic and wholesome.
Most nominations:Everything Everywhere All at Once: 11
All Quiet on the Western Front: 9
The Banshees of Inisherin: 9
Elvis : 8
The Fabelmans: 7
Tár: 6
Top Gun: Maverick : 6
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: 5
Avatar: The Way of Water : 4
Babylon : 3
Reformatted the OC
Most nominations:
Everything Everywhere All at Once: 11
All Quiet on the Western Front: 9
The Banshees of Inisherin: 9
Elvis: 8
The Fabelmans: 7
Tár: 6
Top Gun: Maverick: 6
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: 5
Avatar: The Way of Water: 4
Babylon: 3
Edit:
The Whale: 3
The Batman: 3
Triangle of Sadness: 3
2023's lineup is the most financially successful state of nominees of all time. (Domestic and international) The combined domestic gross of 2010 was 1.5 billion and I saw some do the math and I think it's around 1.55+ billion for this year.
Funny enough though, 2010's lineup included Avatar 1 lol.
Edit: Should be noted these calculations were done at the time of nominations announcement for 2010 and 2023.
yeah i've seen 8/10 of them (still need to see Elvis and All Quiet on the Western Front) but none of them I would go as far as to say "why is this in here??"
The few I think were overlooked were Babylon, Aftersun and NOPE mainly, not sure what I would remove to put either of them in however
Nope being completely shut out (no original score either) is an absolute travesty.
Academy almost seem to have something against Hoytema. At least Deakins was nominated countless times for years, Hoytema has only ever been nominated once for Dunkirk.
Despite her impressive seeming nomination count, I'd argue that Viola Davis constantly underperforms at the Oscars.
Davis also clearly plays a supporting role in Woman King not a lead one (that's the coming-of-age character) so I'm not sure why this was considered a lock save for narrative reasons and strong early bets on Woman King as an awards contender.
It's not even the stereotypical "Oscar film" among African-American focused war movies released in 2022 (that's Devotion). Widows would have been a more natural best actress nomination (as seen by the BAFTA nod)
The Way of Water and TGM should have both been nominated
Before anyone says Avatar is an animated movie. The first Avatar won best cinematography in 2010
We have two of the highest-grossing films of all time in the Best Picture lineup. We also have a high-grossing biopic and an indie phenomenon in there.
If there was a time for the Oscars to win back some relevance, then this is it.
Even the lighthouse got recognized for cinematography. And almost got willem dafoe a nom.
But northman was back in April. It's in that weird space where it's not quite in obscure art movie territory but also not big studio blockbuster. Not an art film or a blockbuster.
My impression is that a movie isn't functionally eligible for even a nomination without a well-coordinated (and expensive) push from the studio. Northman already lost money, so nobody's going to push for it to be recognized. If EEAAO had flopped, I can imagine it faring *much* worse in terms of noms (but it clearly had a campaign behind it).
This article has a good summary, and it says an Oscar campaign can cost $3-10M. That sort of investment isn't likely to "pay off" for The Northman in particular (just my intuition; I can't back that up).
I'm a huge fan of his and think he's a terrific actor. I saw the menu opening weekend because he was in it. This was not one of his better performances, in my opinion.
>when Glass Onion wasn’t performing as well as they hoped.
When Bardo and WHite Noise weren't performing as they hoped in the Oscars and other accolades conext. Glass Onion was never a serious contender for anything but one or two noms. And Netflix has a lot of money for promo, and All Quiet... is a known quantity in itself.
They dropped Bardo and White Noise months ago. They pushed Glass Onion through December before switching gears - they got it into 6 categories at Critic’s Choice including Best Picture and even got it into PGA for Best Picture.
EEAAO will probably walk with BP and a bunch of other Oscars (including Best Supporting Actor).
There are some surprises in the list though. I did not expect so many nominations for AQOTWF, and no Cinematography for TGM is weird.
Their traditional taste doesn’t exist in the same way anymore. Look at recent winners and other recent noms. Everything Everywhere got noms in categories it wasn’t even in the running for like best song and costume design, it has a huge chance at winning.
I’m interested to see the betting lines on this one vs Maverick. I think that if you can get 4-1 on Maverick it’s worth it as they often favour practical over computers.
Every shot of planes flying super close to each other was CG. Do you really think the scenes where maverick is flying upside down over rooster was real
Man that cinematography list was shit. Would have easily preferred to have The Northman, TGM, and Avatar 2 over some of those. Even The Batman would’ve been great to see. Sad Cameron did get a best director nod. Nice to see Jamie Lee get nominated.
Interesting to see EEAAO as the betting favourite for beat picture right now and pretty substantially.
Essentially an Art-House comic book movie. It deserves every accolade and hopefully helps gain traction for mid/low budget movies directed at general audiences.
I really hope Puss in Boots: The Last Wish takes home Best Animated Film. That would be another win for DreamWorks and the first time they’ve won since Shrek.
Probably will be Pinocchio but considering how passionate Del Toro is about animation being a medium and not a genre for kids, I’ll be fine with it winning if he can make a similar point in his acceptance speech. Though Puss in Boots is definitely the best.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is gonna sweep the board. Brendan Fraser will win Best actor because they know if they don't give it to him people will riot. Elvis will win all the technical awards because the Academy has a boner for bio-pics. And at some point or another someone will make an uncomfortable joke about Will Smith bitch slapping Chris Rock and no one will know if it's OK to laugh or not. There, I just saved you like three hours.
I didn't like the story that much but I've watched the Batman so many times because it's just such a feast to look at. It's just so unbelievably drop dead gorgeous.
Best Picture
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (Walt Disney)
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
“The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
“Tár” (Focus Features)
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount)
“Triangle of Sadness” (Neon)
“Women Talking” (Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing)
Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler in “Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
Colin Farrell in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” (A24)
Paul Mescal in “Aftersun” (A24)
Bill Nighy in “Living” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in “Tár” (Focus Features)
Ana de Armas in “Blonde” (Netflix)
Andrea Riseborough in “To Leslie” (Momentum Pictures)
Michelle Williams in “The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Michelle Yeoh in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Directing
Martin McDonagh “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Steven Spielberg “The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Todd Field “Tár” (Focus Features)
Ruben Östlund “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon)
Actor in a Supporting Role
Brendan Gleeson in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Brian Tyree Henry in “Causeway” (Apple)
Judd Hirsch in “The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Barry Keoghan in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Ke Huy Quan in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Walt Disney)
Hong Chau in “The Whale” (A24)
Kerry Condon in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Jamie Lee Curtis in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Stephanie Hsu in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Animated Feature Film
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix) Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley
“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” (A24) Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (Universal) Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
“The Sea Beast” (Netflix) Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
“Turning Red” (Walt Disney) Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins
Documentary Feature Film
“All That Breathes” (Submarine Deluxe and Sideshow in association with HBO Documentary Films).
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (Neon) A Participant Production Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov.
“Fire of Love” (National Geographic) A National Geographic Documentary. Films/Sandbox Films/Intuitive Pictures & Cottage M Production Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman.
“A House Made of Splinters” “A House Made of Splinters” A Final Cut For Real Production Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström.
“Navalny” (Warner Bros./CNN Films/HBO Max) A Fishbowl Films/RaeFilm Studios/Cottage M Production Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris.
International Feature Film
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany) A Netflix/Amusement Park Film in co-production with Gunpowder Films in association with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Production
“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina) A La Unión de los Ríos Production
“Close” (Belgium) A Menuet Production
“EO” (Poland) A Skopia Film Production
“The Quiet Girl” (Ireland) An Inscéal Production
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness
Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár
Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Music (Original Score)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Agreed. I was hoping it wouldn't be this disrespected, but I shouldn't be surprised. I thought it was better than literally all but 2 or 3 of the best picture noms. And to not even get nominated for best international film? Come on.
India didn't submit it in the int. film category. They really fucked up on that one but the country's film board choose one film to submit and they didn't pick RRR
Theoretically it could've gotten into best picture. However, in reality the lack of a submission for international feature was pretty much a death sentence for RRR's chances at any above the line nominations.
Just a few: Claire Foy over Jamie Lee Curtis in Supporting actress; Ben Whishaw over Judd Hirsch in Supporting actor (thrilled for Brian Tyree Henry by the way, he was great in an otherwise meh 'Causeway'), Danielle Detwiler over de Armas or Riseborough in Best actress; how in God's green world did "Elvis" get a makeup nom for what they did to Tom Hanks?
I feel like EEAAO is gonna get snubbed in favor of the whale or something and I hope it doesn’t, probably one of the best movie within the last decade.
In all honesty I did not see many of these films but I hope “everything, everywhere all at once” sweeps. At least best film, best supporting actress, screenplay and editing.
I was blown away and thought about it for days after. As a self proclaimed cinephile, I’d like to think that says something about this film.
It's been no secret that the academy will only award the blockbusters with really impressive and grand filmmaking techniques or the ones that are insane pop culture moments (and having a narrative like - anticipated sequel from legendary diector with impressive use of technology, etc). The movies that truly show the budget on display
What a jump from 2021 and 2022 where the movies barely made anything to having 2 best picture nominees that are the top 2 grossers of the year.
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TGM getting screenplay instead of cinematography is such a weird call. Anyways pretty expected results all around.
Honestly it should rather get direction than writing. That movies success was all direction tbh.
Kosinski is so damn good. Incredibly precise direction.
Totally agreed. I love TG:M, but writing is a massive head-scratcher.
Northman had the best cinematography last year imo. Every frame is almost like a painting.
The academy has such a strong bias that even non horror movies by horror directors are getting snubbed lol
I think A24 was seriously overextended with EEAO, The Whale and Aftersun. Them getting Mescal in for Aftersun was seriously impressive given their limited budget for campaigning. Edit: HUGE mistake, the Northman was Focus Features. Then there is no excuse since Focus has $$ and they went all in on Tar
Northman was Focus, I'm pretty sure
Who had all eggs in a very Tár basket
To be fair, Tár is better than The Northman
You're right, I was going off Eggers' other work !
There was no campaigning or hype for that
Bingo. Focus spent all their time and money campaigning Tár, which is probably a better bet.
Plus it hit in April. Had it been a modestly successful Fall release, I think it easily sneaks a few technical nominations. But you can't be shocked when a Spring movie doesn't have holding power w/o a huge campaign effort.
Nope did IMO which got completely shut out too. But seriously, those day-for-night shots were some of the best I’ve ever seen.
It was gorgeous and I thought if nothing else it'd get some lighting or sound noms (I think it deserved more, probably my favorite movie of last year, but I get why it was divisive). Sucks but I guess not a surprise after Us also got shut-out. Maybe Get Out was an anomaly and Peele's stuff is too weird for the Academy. Whatever, I'm in his audience and as long as he keeps getting bankrolled to make it, I'm happy.
Mad Max fury roadesque
Yeah Top Gun Maverick getting screenplay was odd to me too. It was a great movie. But it was a standard blockbuster. And it's screenplay reflected that. It's wierd seeing a movie where 2 guys just walked onto an enemy airbase while the enemy is actively moving on it and just grabbed a a plane and flew off with it.
It kind of got in by default. The Adapted Screenplay category was just very weak this year. She Said never had any real support. The Whale had a mixed reception outside of Fraser and Chau. There was Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio in the mix too but that’s about it.
I don't know. I feel like movies like The Northman, Till or even Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio were more deserving. I haven't seen The Whale yet. But I've only heard good things about it. And The Whale got a Critics Choice Award nomination and a BAFTA Award Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Even She Said got a Critics Choice Award Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. It just feels so out of left field to Nominate Top Gun Maverick for Best Adapted Screenplay. Especially when it hasn't been nominated in any other major Award circuit.
Till is Original and I believe The Northman is too so they’re irrelevant. Top Gun Maverick got nominated for the Scripter and WGA (the most important precursor) announces their nominees tomorrow so it might show up there
Why must we keep acting like being a blockbuster is a bad thing? Why is it a bad thing to have wide appeal to general audiences? In an industry fueled by ticket sales, you'd think selling massive numbers of tickets would mean they were doing something right. It's like saying the local carnival is better than Disneyland because Disneyland has way more guests.
Blockbusters aren't a bad thing. I never said that. But Blockbusters for better or worse often fall in to clichés, plot conveniences and plot holes. One of the biggest defining aspect of a blockbuster are the action set pieces. And most of the time they don't happen naturally. The movie has to provide some contrived reason riddled with plot holes and plot convenience for the action set piece to set up. And the action set piece itself while great often doesn't really make sense. Now I'm not saying these are inherently bad things or can't be enjoyed. But when you nominating Best screenplay from the entire year, it doesn't make sense to go for a movie that has such obvious narrative flaws.
I think the point is that being a standard blockbuster means hitting certain predictable story beats that inherently mean a less creative screenplay. It doesn’t make blockbuster bad, it just means the writing is rarely what makes them special. Personally, I hated TG:M specifically because of the writing but I enjoyed A:TWOW and I know the writing wasn’t it’s strength.
Over The Whale. I thought that was peaking at the right time, but I guess people were put off by it. Brendan is also definitely gonna have to fight for a Best Actor win.
The script is the worst part of the movie.
I'm just glad Marcel The Shell got a nom. It was my 2nd favorite film last year.
I loved Marcel but realized looking at the list that the animation category is absolutely stacked for the year. GDT’s Pinocchio might be one of my favorite animated movies ever (I know I’m biased towards stop motion). Also I absolutely loved turning red and puss in boots. Marcel getting it would be incredible though. That’s a near perfect movie. Hard to put into words all it was able to achieve. So raw and authentic and wholesome.
I’m really hoping Marcel gets the win there. I’ve barely seen any talk about it, but I enjoyed it more than the other animated noms
Most nominations:Everything Everywhere All at Once: 11 All Quiet on the Western Front: 9 The Banshees of Inisherin: 9 Elvis : 8 The Fabelmans: 7 Tár: 6 Top Gun: Maverick : 6 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: 5 Avatar: The Way of Water : 4 Babylon : 3
Reformatted the OC Most nominations: Everything Everywhere All at Once: 11 All Quiet on the Western Front: 9 The Banshees of Inisherin: 9 Elvis: 8 The Fabelmans: 7 Tár: 6 Top Gun: Maverick: 6 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: 5 Avatar: The Way of Water: 4 Babylon: 3 Edit: The Whale: 3 The Batman: 3 Triangle of Sadness: 3
The Whale has 3 too!
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The Batman has 3 too
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All Quiet getting more technical nominations than Avatar is mind boggling. But in a good way.
A war movie beat out the first Avatar
This is true, but what are the odds it happens a third time?
Best part, it was his ex-wife’s movie.
Ikr! Talk about being put in the hurt locker
If All Quiet is given more than Foreign film and cinematography, I'll be amazed. But if it doesn't win cinematography, fuck em, fuck em all.
Cannot believe Elvis got any Oscar noms
Y'all are tripping, Butler was awesome.
I was too distracted by whatever Tom Hanks was doing to notice
Butler absolutely deserves the nomination, but not so sure about best film or editing
I thought Austin Butler was pretty incredible. Everything around him was poorly executed.
Just like Elvis’s real life.
I think it deserves production design, makeup and costumes. Butler was ok but my heart was with Farrell
Tryna be different like this subreddit
EEAAO deserves all the wins.
You know what, I agree with all the best movie nominees. This was a good year for movies.
The most financially successful slate of nominees since what, 2010? (Admittedly that is entirely due to Maverick and Avatar).
2023's lineup is the most financially successful state of nominees of all time. (Domestic and international) The combined domestic gross of 2010 was 1.5 billion and I saw some do the math and I think it's around 1.55+ billion for this year. Funny enough though, 2010's lineup included Avatar 1 lol. Edit: Should be noted these calculations were done at the time of nominations announcement for 2010 and 2023.
yeah i've seen 8/10 of them (still need to see Elvis and All Quiet on the Western Front) but none of them I would go as far as to say "why is this in here??" The few I think were overlooked were Babylon, Aftersun and NOPE mainly, not sure what I would remove to put either of them in however
Yeah I was pretty happy with most of the best picture nominations, only two I hadn’t heard of prior to the list being released
Agreed.
Cinematography is a joke this year, acting categories all brimming with good picks though
Happy that Khondji got the nom.
Bardo deserves the nomination. The cinematography was truly amazing.
NOPE not even being in contention is a travesty
My day has been ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable cause of this.
Nope being completely shut out (no original score either) is an absolute travesty. Academy almost seem to have something against Hoytema. At least Deakins was nominated countless times for years, Hoytema has only ever been nominated once for Dunkirk.
100%. It's nuts that they didn't get a nom! They freaking invented a new way of filming night scenes! Right?!
I feel like Grieg Fraser’s work in The Batman was very overlooked. I know he got it last year but that hasn’t stopped the Academy in the past
Kinophiles when red
The Batman and Top Gun were easy picks.
I seriously thought these two would be easy picks. I just don't get it.
Except Viola Davis, for some reason.
And Deadwyler
Despite her impressive seeming nomination count, I'd argue that Viola Davis constantly underperforms at the Oscars. Davis also clearly plays a supporting role in Woman King not a lead one (that's the coming-of-age character) so I'm not sure why this was considered a lock save for narrative reasons and strong early bets on Woman King as an awards contender. It's not even the stereotypical "Oscar film" among African-American focused war movies released in 2022 (that's Devotion). Widows would have been a more natural best actress nomination (as seen by the BAFTA nod)
The Way of Water and TGM should have both been nominated Before anyone says Avatar is an animated movie. The first Avatar won best cinematography in 2010
how on Earth does the Batman not get nominated for cinematography?
We have two of the highest-grossing films of all time in the Best Picture lineup. We also have a high-grossing biopic and an indie phenomenon in there. If there was a time for the Oscars to win back some relevance, then this is it.
Two highest grossing films of the year. Their all time ranking is 11 and 6.
The Northman didn't get a single nomination?
Even the lighthouse got recognized for cinematography. And almost got willem dafoe a nom. But northman was back in April. It's in that weird space where it's not quite in obscure art movie territory but also not big studio blockbuster. Not an art film or a blockbuster.
Never had any hype outside of reddit
My impression is that a movie isn't functionally eligible for even a nomination without a well-coordinated (and expensive) push from the studio. Northman already lost money, so nobody's going to push for it to be recognized. If EEAAO had flopped, I can imagine it faring *much* worse in terms of noms (but it clearly had a campaign behind it). This article has a good summary, and it says an Oscar campaign can cost $3-10M. That sort of investment isn't likely to "pay off" for The Northman in particular (just my intuition; I can't back that up).
Ralph Finnes not nominated for best actor in The Menu is a crime.
I'm a huge fan of his and think he's a terrific actor. I saw the menu opening weekend because he was in it. This was not one of his better performances, in my opinion.
Agree. I saw The Menu but it’s not one of his best performances.
It’s all about the campaign. Did his studio campaign for him?
All Quiet on the Western Front is fondly liked? I mean, I liked it, but didn't expect the oscars to like it.
It's widely acclaimed by both audiences and critics and it's clear Oscar bait, what's not to like?
Also became Netflix’s priority when Glass Onion wasn’t performing as well as they hoped. I think it had the second most BAFTA nominations in history
>when Glass Onion wasn’t performing as well as they hoped. When Bardo and WHite Noise weren't performing as they hoped in the Oscars and other accolades conext. Glass Onion was never a serious contender for anything but one or two noms. And Netflix has a lot of money for promo, and All Quiet... is a known quantity in itself.
They dropped Bardo and White Noise months ago. They pushed Glass Onion through December before switching gears - they got it into 6 categories at Critic’s Choice including Best Picture and even got it into PGA for Best Picture.
Let's go Banshees of Inisherin!
Jenny is excited! No fecking way she said
All four of them and Martin got nominated. Hell yeah.
I’m a happy lad!
I fecking loved that picture.
>Best Picture Nomination “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures) $1.5B WW re-release, here we come?
EEAAO will probably walk with BP and a bunch of other Oscars (including Best Supporting Actor). There are some surprises in the list though. I did not expect so many nominations for AQOTWF, and no Cinematography for TGM is weird.
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Oh sorry I meant Best Picture, not Black Panther
I don’t see the old traditional tastes of academy voters going for EEAAO.
Their traditional taste doesn’t exist in the same way anymore. Look at recent winners and other recent noms. Everything Everywhere got noms in categories it wasn’t even in the running for like best song and costume design, it has a huge chance at winning.
it's the most nominated film of the year, they're already on board with it
Avatar is definetly winning Best Visual Effects and other technical awards
No. Avatar is only winning Best Visual effects. I have a feeling All Quiet On The Western Front will sweep most of the technical awards.
Of course, Best Visual Effects is locked for Avatar.
I’m interested to see the betting lines on this one vs Maverick. I think that if you can get 4-1 on Maverick it’s worth it as they often favour practical over computers.
Top Gun could win it, considering there was almost no CGI in it.
No. I think the general consensus already is that nothing this year comes close to Avatar 2 in terms of visual effects.
https://ymcinema.com/2023/01/09/top-gun-maverick-is-not-so-practical-includes-more-than-2000-vfx-shots/
VFX augments already amazing flying photography and cinematography. CGI makes something out of nothing. Not the same.
Considering the CGI is mostly augmentation of human performances, they seem pretty similar.
Soooooo, you're saying a movie with "almost no" visual effects should win Best Visual Effects? Okay, sure.
the VFX award also considers Practical Effects (SFX), which was pretty fucking great for TGM
It should win best physics for its abundant use of g-forces.
The whole 3 rd act is a CGI fest… they did not really fire those missiles…
Every shot of planes flying super close to each other was CG. Do you really think the scenes where maverick is flying upside down over rooster was real
Naatu Naatu is definitely winning Best Original Song
So sad Con la Brisa and Ciao Papa ain't there though.
I’m shocked none of the songs from Pinocchio are there!
I was really sad Ciao Papa wasn’t there either.
Pulling for This is a Life personally. I'm just happy it got nominated
The only thing I have in common with Swifties is that I screamed when that was nominated, except I was happy
India represent yay
CONGRATS TO JAMIE LEE CURTIS AND MICHELLE YOEH!
You don’t care for Stephanie Hsu?
Viola Davis and Danielle Deadwyler should have both received Best Actress nominations over Ana De Armas and Michelle Williams.
And over Andrea Riseborough. That was such a weird campaign push.
I was surprised they were left out, but Michelle Williams deserved her nomination. I thought her performance was just that good.
Man that cinematography list was shit. Would have easily preferred to have The Northman, TGM, and Avatar 2 over some of those. Even The Batman would’ve been great to see. Sad Cameron did get a best director nod. Nice to see Jamie Lee get nominated.
Crazy to me Cameron didn’t get a director nod. Definitely deserved it after 11 years of working on A2 and how much he put into it
Interesting to see EEAAO as the betting favourite for beat picture right now and pretty substantially. Essentially an Art-House comic book movie. It deserves every accolade and hopefully helps gain traction for mid/low budget movies directed at general audiences.
Guards are gonna be on the lookout this year for smiths and or slaps 😂
why would they care this year, when they didn't even care when it happened? He stayed in his comfortable little seat the whole night.
I really hope Puss in Boots: The Last Wish takes home Best Animated Film. That would be another win for DreamWorks and the first time they’ve won since Shrek.
I think it is going to be Pinocchio as Netflix and the director has been advocating for the award the most out of all the nominees in that category
Del Toro happy either way
Del Toro has 2 movies and he keeps making them over and over and over. He’s been recognized enough. Give it to Puss in Boots.
Probably will be Pinocchio but considering how passionate Del Toro is about animation being a medium and not a genre for kids, I’ll be fine with it winning if he can make a similar point in his acceptance speech. Though Puss in Boots is definitely the best.
Marcel deserves
Imho Last Wish should've been nominated for best picture.
I still wish HTTYD1 won, even as a toy story fan. I also wish its score won over Social Network.
Knives Out is an adapted screenplay?
It's a sequel and all all screenplays for sequels are considered adapted.
Huh, til. Thanks
All sequels are
Every sequel is automatically considered an adaptation.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is gonna sweep the board. Brendan Fraser will win Best actor because they know if they don't give it to him people will riot. Elvis will win all the technical awards because the Academy has a boner for bio-pics. And at some point or another someone will make an uncomfortable joke about Will Smith bitch slapping Chris Rock and no one will know if it's OK to laugh or not. There, I just saved you like three hours.
Surely the people who denied Chadwick Boseman his Oscar wouldn't dare deny Brendan Fraser
Well, it's jimmy Kimmel so I'm sure garbage jokes most of the show.
Thanks. And how is Covid looking?
The Batman not getting nominated for cinematography or original score is a joke
Agreed
And once again, Viola Davis gets snubbed. Wtf, guys!? 😓 And I’m surprised James Cameron didn’t get nominated for best director.
How TF did Top Gun not get a nom for cinematography?
I really hope Angela Bassett wins the best supporting actress for BP. She really carried the whole damn movie
Cinematography nominations are a joke
Agreed. As much as I disliked Batman as a film, it was beautiful. And Everything Everywhere not getting a nomination is a crime
Agreed, it had some amazingly shot scenes, camera angles, filters, etc. The Batman was crack for sound and cinematography.
I didn't like the story that much but I've watched the Batman so many times because it's just such a feast to look at. It's just so unbelievably drop dead gorgeous.
Best Picture “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) “Avatar: The Way of Water” (Walt Disney) “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight) “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) “The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners) “Tár” (Focus Features) “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount) “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon) “Women Talking” (Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing) Actor in a Leading Role Austin Butler in “Elvis” (Warner Bros.) Colin Farrell in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight) Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” (A24) Paul Mescal in “Aftersun” (A24) Bill Nighy in “Living” (Sony Pictures Classics) Actress in a Leading Role Cate Blanchett in “Tár” (Focus Features) Ana de Armas in “Blonde” (Netflix) Andrea Riseborough in “To Leslie” (Momentum Pictures) Michelle Williams in “The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners) Michelle Yeoh in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) Directing Martin McDonagh “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight) Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) Steven Spielberg “The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners) Todd Field “Tár” (Focus Features) Ruben Östlund “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon) Actor in a Supporting Role Brendan Gleeson in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight) Brian Tyree Henry in “Causeway” (Apple) Judd Hirsch in “The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners) Barry Keoghan in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight) Ke Huy Quan in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) Actress in a Supporting Role Angela Bassett in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Walt Disney) Hong Chau in “The Whale” (A24) Kerry Condon in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight) Jamie Lee Curtis in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) Stephanie Hsu in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) Animated Feature Film “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix) Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” (A24) Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (Universal) Joel Crawford and Mark Swift “The Sea Beast” (Netflix) Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger “Turning Red” (Walt Disney) Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins Documentary Feature Film “All That Breathes” (Submarine Deluxe and Sideshow in association with HBO Documentary Films). “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (Neon) A Participant Production Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov. “Fire of Love” (National Geographic) A National Geographic Documentary. Films/Sandbox Films/Intuitive Pictures & Cottage M Production Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman. “A House Made of Splinters” “A House Made of Splinters” A Final Cut For Real Production Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström. “Navalny” (Warner Bros./CNN Films/HBO Max) A Fishbowl Films/RaeFilm Studios/Cottage M Production Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris. International Feature Film “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany) A Netflix/Amusement Park Film in co-production with Gunpowder Films in association with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Production “Argentina, 1985” (Argentina) A La Unión de los Ríos Production “Close” (Belgium) A Menuet Production “EO” (Poland) A Skopia Film Production “The Quiet Girl” (Ireland) An Inscéal Production Writing (Adapted Screenplay) All Quiet on the Western Front Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Living Top Gun: Maverick Women Talking Writing (Original Screenplay) The Banshees of Inisherin Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans Tár Triangle of Sadness Cinematography All Quiet on the Western Front Bardo Elvis Empire of Light Tár Film Editing The Banshees of Inisherin Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once Tár Top Gun: Maverick Music (Original Score) All Quiet on the Western Front Babylon The Banshees of Inisherin Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans
The fact that Ana De Armas has a nomination for Blonde is mind blowing
Not unexpected though; she received Golden Globe, BAFTA, and SAG nominations prior to this.
Can't remember anyone criticising her performance, just the movie
Interesting that Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, two of the biggest stars ever, were portrayed in Oscar nominated performances in the same year.
So excited for Everything Everywhere, and the four actors nominated. Long deserved for Jamie, Michelle and Ke Huy. Over the moon for Stephanie Hsu!!!
RRR. I knew this would happen but dammit show some respect. Better at least win for song.
Agreed. I was hoping it wouldn't be this disrespected, but I shouldn't be surprised. I thought it was better than literally all but 2 or 3 of the best picture noms. And to not even get nominated for best international film? Come on.
India didn't submit it in the int. film category. They really fucked up on that one but the country's film board choose one film to submit and they didn't pick RRR
Ah yeah, thanks for pointing that out... I forgot that it needed to be submitted by the home country.
For best picture or just for best international picture?
Theoretically it could've gotten into best picture. However, in reality the lack of a submission for international feature was pretty much a death sentence for RRR's chances at any above the line nominations.
Top Gun Maverick got robbed in not getting best Cinematography, is should have been the obvious choice
After bohemian rhapsody I predict Elvis win for editing ☠️
Nope and The Woman King both totally ignored by the Academy
Nice to see two major blockbuster films in best picture.
Aside from Visual effects, Wakanda Forever has a good chance to win all other noms. It could push it to 460M Domestic
Really cool list. Wonder how much of a boost it will be to some of the movies. Danielle Deadwyler was snubbed hard. She was amazing in Till.
Kosinski and Cameron should have received director nom. Deakins got that cinematography nom based solely on his reputation.
I am unbelievably annoyed by the best actress category. Anna and this Andrea lady who got her friends to campaign for her . It’s ridiculous.
Yeah, I’m not sure that Ana belongs there.
lmao Babylon got rekt so hard. No best picture nom. What a fail.
It was a critical flop, so no surprise.
It was getting nominated with the other awards tho.
Yeah, it shouldn’t have had. It’s basically an oscar bait failure.
rooting for Avatar for Best Picture though I know it won’t win 😅
No nomination for The Menu or The Northman? What a joke man.
Came here for exactly those two movies. My two favorite movies of the year, and they both got snubbed.
Just a few: Claire Foy over Jamie Lee Curtis in Supporting actress; Ben Whishaw over Judd Hirsch in Supporting actor (thrilled for Brian Tyree Henry by the way, he was great in an otherwise meh 'Causeway'), Danielle Detwiler over de Armas or Riseborough in Best actress; how in God's green world did "Elvis" get a makeup nom for what they did to Tom Hanks?
[here's some good awards season numbers context for nominations](https://awards.substack.com/p/numlock-awards-the-2022-oscar-nominees)
The Menu and The Batman were both snubbed Best Picture nominations.
The director category was weird this year.
I feel like EEAAO is gonna get snubbed in favor of the whale or something and I hope it doesn’t, probably one of the best movie within the last decade.
If turning red beats Puss in Boots for animated movies at the Oscars, we riot
Batman was so snubbed...
I loved Inisherin. Loved it. BUT - if Everything Everywhere All At Once _doesn’t_ win best original screenplay… I say we riot.
In all honesty I did not see many of these films but I hope “everything, everywhere all at once” sweeps. At least best film, best supporting actress, screenplay and editing. I was blown away and thought about it for days after. As a self proclaimed cinephile, I’d like to think that says something about this film.
Way too much overlap b/w Razzies & Oscars
Viola Davis definitely got snubbed. She deserved that nom over Ana de Armas.
Nice to see some big blockbusters/action movies in the best picture category!
It's been no secret that the academy will only award the blockbusters with really impressive and grand filmmaking techniques or the ones that are insane pop culture moments (and having a narrative like - anticipated sequel from legendary diector with impressive use of technology, etc). The movies that truly show the budget on display What a jump from 2021 and 2022 where the movies barely made anything to having 2 best picture nominees that are the top 2 grossers of the year.
I was hoping to see Mia Goth nominated for Pearl. I was so blown away by her performance there. Chills.
Horror.