Not an Academy Award issue specifically, but I do wonder how much longer gendered awards will continue.
Is there absolutely any reason for them to exist other than to double the number of awards presented? They could take the nominations up to 10 to make sure equal number of men and women are nominated.
The MTV Movie Awards have done it. Iād imagine some others will follow suit. Itāll be at least 35 years before the Oscars consider it though.
it was the perfect encapsulation of a 3/5 film imo
Looking forward to the endless Twitter rage when Green Book wins Best Picture (Iām sure itās as average as they say, but still fun watching everyone go nuts now itās the frontrunner)
Olivia Coleman winning an oscar would be up there the Kathy Burke winning the best actress at cannes
all the talk iāve seen around Green Book seems to say itās a good film, but there are too many controversies around it, rather than it being a bad/average film in itself
Watched it on a plane and it was, with the exception of Jesse Plemons, wall to wall cack.
It wasnāt dreadful (the set up of the film was coherent/amusing at least) but I was still very displeased with it overall. Was all very juvenile and not in a good way.
Iāve seen a lot of people say itās not a very good film too (and while some people say Viggo Mortensen is great in it, some say itās total caricacture - not that that stopped Gary Oldman winning last year!)
Obviously Iād like this yearās Oscars to be a fair and accurate reflection of the films of the year but am resigned to the inevitable frustration, as itās obviously a flawed system and Hollywood is what it is. Wonāt get worked up this year (unless First Man isnāt nominated for best film but even then I wonāt be too irked).
Maybe these nominations and eventual winners will be better without fucking Harvey Weinstein skewing everything. There must be a hangover period from his machinations.
Beautiful Boy is going to get nominations purely for its subject matter, isnāt it?
Weinsteinās influence on the Oscars had long waned even before his downfall to be honest
Timothee Chalamet will get nominated probably, not sure itāll get much else though
Looked terrible from the trailer, films where people ostentatiously try to win awards are the fucking worst.
Canāt blame Chalamet, lost to Gary Oldman in a fat suit last year, no wonder he went for drug addiction drama this time
Itās that what brought him down. If he hadnāt lost some of his lustre as a major player, heād have continued to get away with his vileness.
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Vice
Marina de Tavira, Roma
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Short film about the James Bulger case is nominated, thatāll go down well with the tabloids here
This patter is dreadful
If Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom doesnāt sweep the board then The Oscars will just be seen as irrelevant tbh.