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TJ, David, and Brent get together to talk about the nominees for the upcoming Oscars. Listen along as we decide who should win each statuette. Enjoy, and happy Oscar weekend!
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A-hoy hoy dear listener. Gather your friends and family as we break down who we think should win each award at the Oscars this year. We are not predicting who we think WILL win, these are who we WANT to win. Timestamps below.
Live Action Short – 2:52
Doc Short – 10:56
Animated Short – 18:30
International Feature – 27:29
Documentary Feature – 32:47
Animated Feature – 39:06
Visual Effects – 44:27
Sound – 52:29
Original Song – 58:51
Original Score – 1:04:10
Production Design – 1:10:54
Makeup and Hairstyling – 1:17:13
Costume Design – 1:21:27
Editing – 1:28:00
Cinematography – 1:30:00
Original Screenplay – 1:37:07
Adapted Screenplay – 1:43:47
Supporting Actor – 1:51:31
Supporting Actress – 1:56:19
Best Actor – 2:02:06
Best Actress – 2:06:56
Director – 2:13:26
Best Picture – 2:15:13
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Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.
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We are in the thick of nomination season now, and while the annual nomination prediction episode of Talkie Talk is just around the corner, and our in-house Oscar analyst is working on a large piece to show you what the guild’s mean, we still want to keep you posted as the nominations come out!
The nominees are:
Contemporary Film:
A Star is Born
Crazy Rich Asians
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Ocean’s 8
Widows
Period Film:
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots
Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film:
A Wrinkle in Time
Aquaman
The Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Last year’s CDGA nominations:
Contemporary Film:
Get Out
I, Tonya
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Lady Bird
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Period Film (historically the best Oscar predictor):
Dunkirk
Murder on the Orient Express
Phantom Thread
The Greatest Showman
The Shape of Water
Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film (how do these not win more?)
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Thor: Ragnarok
Wonder Woman
The 2018 Oscars nominations (Phantom Thread took it down):
Phantom Thread
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul
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In case you want to keep your ear to the ground about the feature length documentaries that may make up the five nominees at the academy awards, I have compiled a list of movies that are on the academy “short list” and where you can find them right now to stream. Although all of them aren’t on here, I think there’s enough to sink your teeth into. Note: I listed only the cheapest option from JustWatch so your particular streaming service may be available also. I also erred on the side of popularity. In the cases where a movie was free on multiple platforms, both are listed.
There’s a movie on here that’s on Shudder. Weird.
Continue reading “State of the Race: Available Contenders for Documentary Feature”
AMPAS has published the list of animated shorts on its shorts shortlist. Thankfully, none of these are Olaf’s Frozen Adventure. Take a peek at the list of 10 below (asterisks indicate a link to the short film itself).
Continue reading “State of the Race: Best Animated Short Film”
Another treat has come in from the Academy. The number of films in the running to be nominated for Best Visual Effects has been narrowed down to a stable of only 20 movies.
As a regular contributor to The Media By Us, I try to do my part to keep my ear to the ground regarding Oscar nominations. But I’m not nearly as good at tracking festival news or regular blog and podcast updates. What I CAN do is pay attention to the primary source.
This past Thursday, the Academy released the list of 26 movies that were submitted for consideration for best Animated Feature Film. The list includes movies that haven’t met the requirements for official nomination (running in an LA theater) but are included nonetheless.
Here is the list of movies:
The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie
Cars 3
Cinderella the Cat
Coco
Despicable Me 3
The Emoji Movie
Ethel & Ernest
Ferdinand
The Girl without Hands
In This Corner of the World
The Lego Batman Movie
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Loving Vincent
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Moomins and the Winter Wonderland
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
Napping Princess
A Silent Voice
Smurfs: The Lost Village
The Star
Sword Art Online: The Movie – Ordinal Scale
Window Horses The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
This tMbU member has only seen one of the above selected movies, but if I had to vote, The Lego Batman Movie would definitely get my vote.
And Then There Were Ten – in which our intrepid hero goes back and expands the Academy Award Best Picture nominations to ten nominations, and goes about filling those hypothetical slots. This time – it’s 2008. Check out the previous entries here.
Chapter 4: The Quote-Unquote Comedy (A Three-Way Throwdown)
The “Comedy.” If you’re even reading this multi-post treatise of speculative Oscarology, then you’re probably already aware that comedies generally get little respect in this arena. Since the successful days of comedy/musicals in the 1950s, nominations are hard to come by and wins are harder still for comedies. 2008 is no slouch in this judgment, with zero comedies nominated for BP – the funniest of the bunch is probably Slumdog Millionaire, but one would be hard pressed to consider that a chuckle fest – aside from the poo scene – poo is funny.
In this self-celebration of seriousness, comedies are ranked as less significant than traditional dramas. Why do they get less love in this respect than their other genre compatriots? I don’t know yet – so, an analysis of the nomination statistics is in order. And later on, I’ll create my own Sadness Index to figure out a winner.
Continue reading “And Then There Were Ten: 2008, The Quote-Unquote Comedy”
And Then There Were Ten – in which our intrepid hero goes back and expands the Academy Award Best Picture nominations to ten nominations, and goes about filling those hypothetical slots. This time – it’s 2008 – the previous entry is The Dark Knight (Box Office Hero).
Chapter 2: Actors Acting for Acting Actors (Doubt)
The Actors’ showcase is a great way for a film to get its foot in the Academy door. More than that, an actor-friendly film is an established pathway to not just multiple acting nominations, but typically a Best Picture nomination as well. The Academy has only about 6,000 members – nearly a fourth of the members are actors. It is not a stretch to posit that Academy members are capable and even pre-dispositioned to recognize its own department as the key to an exceptional film. Our beloved statistics bear this out as well.
Continue reading “And Then There Were Ten: 2008, The Actors’ Showcase”
