Team Colman or Team Close?

I'm on my side. Always. 

Close, any day of the week. I might just be the only person in the U.K who's not in love with Colman.

I am Team Close (surprise! lol) - not just because of her Oscar history, but also because of the quality of her performance. It's major. I'm really not getting the strange aversion to her work or her film on this board (barring a few posters) - it reads as totally ageist to me.

Love Close but for tomorrow, I'm team Colman.

Don't seen Close, but Colman is so perfect.
Also I don't like Close speech.

So Colman, but I will be happy if Close wins, too.-

Colman's is my favorite performance in the lineup, so her, but she, Close and McCarthy (who's absolutely wonderful and deserves more recognition than she's getting) would all be fine winners.

I don't think it's ageism as much as it is the fact that The Wife doesn't offer much (or anything) else to be passionate about outside of Close's performance, which diminishes the enthusiasm surrounding it. Obviously this is all subjective and it's perfectly possible to disagree, but the consensus (both here and elsewhere) is that Close is saddled with limited material and is forced to do all the heavy lifting herself (which she does with aplomb, but still), and that prevents this performance from being as memorable as her career highlights from the past.

It's very similar to Still Alice in that regard, in that both women got strong (though not career-best) notices while the films themselves were written off as forgettable, largely listless vehicles to land beloved actresses their due accolades. If it seems that people were more excited to see Moore win than they are Close, it's mostly because Moore has been working non-stop since the 90s and has always been a consistently appreciated presence in high-profile projects, which is a status she's managed to maintain since her sweep (CC: @a24, let's get her some more love next year for Gloria Bell, please and thank you). Moore was also going through a bit of a career resurgence at the time, beginning with a BP nominee earlier this decade (The Kids are All Right) and following it up with her Emmy, Globe and SAG-winning turn in Game Change, a major role in a billion-dollar franchise (Hunger Games) and a Cannes-winning performance that very same year. That's some crazy career momentum she had there, which added to her narrative among cinephiles even if no one's listing Still Alice as one of their favorite Julianne Moore performances.

Then there's the fact that unlike Moore, Close is up against a massively charismatic contender in a film that's pretty much beloved all across the board. The Favourite handily won our Best Picture simulation and has people raving not just Colman's performance but also the entire cast including her co-leads, the directing, the screenplay, the period design, the cinematography and the music. She doesn't have to carry the film on her own; instead, she expertly plays off of other outstanding performers delivering one of the sharpest, most delightful scripts of the year. That Colman herself is such a warm and humble person only makes people root for her more.

That's just it, Zeb - I don't understand the hate for the film. Is it soapy? Sure. Unremarkable? Yeah. But downright bad? Hardly. Not even close. It's easily better than at least three of this year's Best Picture nominees.

Team either 😀

Horseshit. Affleck's robbery of Denzel wasn't as disgusting as Pacino's robbery of Denzel, but it was damn near close. And Pacino at least merited his make-up Oscar for the amount of times he got robbed. Affleck over Denzel was just a waste of an Oscar.

Only consolation is that outside of places like this, Affleck's win is already aging pretty badly. And that Fences loss is probably going to indirectly lead to Denzel breaking Nicholson's nomination record on the way to a third acting win.

I think Gone Girl was the movie that season with the biggest "fanbase", but none of them were members of the AMPAS. It had the biggest box-office of the category and the role of Amy became somewhat of an icon in the internet, but the Academy itself didn't seem to care about it. They didn't even throw it a bone in the screenplay category. I believe Pike would be the people's choice that year, but even still Moore was/is liked enough and also part of the "cool kids" crew.

Define Irony.

Glenn Close was defeated by the bunny lover