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100% Accurate 2019 Academy Award Predictions

Kevin Hart is hosting. Oops, he’s not.
A new popular film category is happening. Oops, it’s not.
Kevin Hart is back hosting. Oops again, he’s not.
Only two Original Songs are being performed. Oops, now it’s all five.
Four categories will be announced during commercials. Oops, they’re back.

There’s a non-zero chance that the 91st Academy Awards are not actually announced on Sunday February 24th, from how the Academy is currently going. In the chance that they actually do happen, David and TJ will present their predictions in every category. We’ll break down the nominees, our predictions, and will present the prediction from the Darkest Timeline – the worst case thing that could happen… might just happen. Here we go.

Talkie Talk #144: First Reformed (2018)

Talkie Talk

Talkie Talk #144: First Reformed (2018)

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TJ, David, Chris, and Brent discuss Paul Schraeder’s 2018 film First Reformed, starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried. There’s a lot to unpack on this movie, so there was no need for a secondary topic!

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Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.

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State of the Race: The Gotham Independent Film Nominations 2018

It starts earlier and earlier every year. Today, October 19th, the first film award nominations just came out – for the Gotham Independent Film Awards. These are given annually from the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) “the largest membership organization in the United States dedicated to independent film” and the awards were founded in 1991.

A group of people decide on the nominations and awards, limiting the scope to films that could be considered independent – big budget studio movies are ineligible. But independent film has landed in the race just about every single year now – previous to 2017 when The Shape of Water won, the last four years have been indie winners for Best Picture, for 12 Years a Slave (2013), Birdman (2014), Spotlight (2015) and Moonlight (2016).

Last year Call Me By Your Name and Get Out were nominated for both the Gotham and the Oscar. Also had correlation between for acting (Willem Dafoe, Daniel Kaluuya, Margot Robbie, Saoirse Ronan, Mary J. Blige, and Timothee Chalamet), screenwriting (The Big Sick, Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, Lady Bird) and directing (Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele).

Without further ado, here are the 2019 nominations:

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