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All Quiet on the Western Front led the BAFTA winners

I hope almost none of these winners reflect the Oscars, except Kerry Condon

Glad someone won an award for casting Tom Hanks!

therewillbeblus wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:35 am I hope almost none of these winners reflect the Oscars, except Kerry Condon

I’m about halfway done with this year’s Oscar nominees and I’ll be honest and say I think this is one of the all time best batches in all categories. There doesn’t really seem to be a choice that doesn’t make sense to win on some level in any category except Live Action Short and that category is always terrible. Even an All Quiet BP win doesn’t bug me given that it is still so weird to have a German language film win.

This is a unique year for me as well but a bit of the opposite. Usually there are at least one or two categories where I legitimately feel the best film or person was nominated and have a chance of winning and rally hard behind them for artistic reasons. This year I don’t think anyone who’s going to or has the chance to win is the best or even did an exceptional job, and yet it’s probably the year where I’ll overall be most satisfied with the outcomes, potentially all around, because it’s just really nice to see good people honored. Only Condon would really be in line with the best winning, but despite my dislike of Marvel, Angela Bassett is a treasure who’s been killing it for decades and I’ll gladly see her win and pretend it’s for Sunshine State. I’m so happy for Fraser, Ke Huy Quan, and (hopefully) the Daniels. Same with Polley, who I love and want to win even if I’ve heard the script for her film is its worst attribute. And for Everything Everywhere All at Once -a bizarre indie film reflexively biting off way more than it can chew and swallowing it anyways- to likely take home the top prize over so many boring choices, well, it reminds me of the Get Out hope from five years ago, even if I find neither film to be as phenomenal as others do. If Triangle of Sadness stood a chance in any of its categories I’d be more personally invested, but I’m excited to sit back and enjoy this one with distance

I guess Blanchett is that for me, but overall I think we’re at the same perspective. My absolute favorites are not necessarily nominated (though Fire of Love and Turning Red would be exciting wins), but nothing nominated seems like it would be a bad win.

Blanchett will be deserving but Yeoh winning would be so much more satisfying. It’s such an eclectic performance of talents in comedy, drama, and action- and incredibly understated next to the Oscar-outlined role of Lydia Tar. I’m honestly surprised Yeoh is even a contender

Everything Everywhere takes PGA top prize

Starting to look like nothing else has the combo of both broad and passionate support that would pose a challenge to this taking the big prize

Yeah, at this point it looks like the question is no longer if it will win Best Picture but how many other categories will it win? Because right now it appears to have an equal chance of winning as few as 3 or as many as 7.

I feel like Banshees will take screenplay as its win, with Bassett looking to keep her lead over Condon. Spielberg may sneak in director but otherwise we may see it take the top two prizes plus supporting actor. What’s confusing me is Butler pulling ahead of Fraser in the polls. I know this is the kind of perf the academy awards, but did I miss something that prompted him taking the lead? I mean, he’s not even the lead in his own movie

He won at BAFTA over presumed home-town favourite Colin Farrell, one of the many mystifying choices made by the British Academy.

If Farrell won the polls would've remained pretty tied between Butler and Fraser but a win for either of them would make them a presumtive favourite as has been the case.

DarkImbecile wrote: Sun Feb 26, 2023 1:52 pm Everything Everywhere takes PGA top prize

…and four of the top five SAG awards

DarkImbecile wrote: Mon Feb 27, 2023 3:14 am

DarkImbecile wrote: Sun Feb 26, 2023 1:52 pm Everything Everywhere takes PGA top prize

…and four of the top five SAG awards

This is what I get for starting my ballot earlier today.

Thrilled for Yeoh, though not holding my breath for this to reflect the Oscar. I also find it inexplicable that anyone could watch the movie and come away more impressed with Curtis than Stephanie Hsu

I really hope Michelle Yeoh wins the Oscar. Blanchett already won for Blue Jasmine and Tar might be a better movie than EEAAO (I haven't seen the former) but the latter warmed my heart so much. It's such a joyous, infectious movie.

Stephanie Hsu will perform “This Is a Life” with David Byrne in place of Mitski at the Oscars

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:25 am This year’s Independent Spirit Awards is a bit of a tough room

I'm unfamiliar with Minhaj's style, but the quotes jokes are so bad I'm not even sure they're jokes

The deadpan of the article saves me the awkwardness of watching it

therewillbeblus wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:55 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:25 am This year’s Independent Spirit Awards is a bit of a tough room

I'm unfamiliar with Minhaj's style, but the quotes jokes are so bad I'm not even sure they're jokes

But you liked the joke before!

swo17 wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 1:20 am

therewillbeblus wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:55 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:25 am This year’s Independent Spirit Awards is a bit of a tough room

I'm unfamiliar with Minhaj's style, but the quotes jokes are so bad I'm not even sure they're jokes

But you liked the joke before!

ianthemovie's delivery was better, they should've hosted the ceremony

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:25 am This year’s Independent Spirit Awards is a bit of a tough room

If you want to cringe, there's a video of Cate Blanchett hiding under the table to avoid participating in a dumb joke from the emcee, and then every subsequent person he asks doing the same

2+ hour DGA-hosted conversation between the six directing nominees

I don't know if we're posting our ballots for the winners yet, but with the last of the major guilds out of the way tonight I'm ready to get hurt again. There's one pick in here that I couldn't give up even if I don't think it's got the momentum. No prizes for guessing which.

Spoiler

BEST PICTURE
Everything Everywhere All At Once

BEST DIRECTOR
Daniels

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett

BEST ACTOR
Austin Butler

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kerry Condon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ke Huy Quan

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Everything Everywhere All At Once

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Women Talking

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
All Quiet on the Western Front

BEST EDITING
Everything Everywhere All At Once

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
All Quiet on the Western Front

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
DarkImbecile’s Pinnochio

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Navalny

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Elvis

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Elvis

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Babylon

BEST SOUND
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Way of Water

BEST SCORE
Babylon

BEST SONG
Naatu Naatu

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
An Irish Goodbye

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Boy, Mole, etc.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Stranger at the Gate

In any case, I look forward to going 17/23 for a third year in a row. Good luck, everyone!