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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2021 1:46:15 GMT
The Bergmanian approach (i.e. intense close-ups of the actors' faces) was an odd but quite inspired choice, don't you think? (I know it really angered the film's costume designer, James Acheson.  ) I love this quote from All Movie Guide: What do you think?   |
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Post by stephen on Jan 9, 2021 1:48:03 GMT
I would've been fine with it over the eventual winner that year, but he wouldn't make my Top 20 in what I find to be a deceptively strong year for Best Director.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jan 9, 2021 2:29:46 GMT
Yeah, I'd say so. Even the actual winner (Barry Levinson for Rain Man) didn't neccesarily stand above him in any significant way. It was the kind of year where a lot of the acclaimed directing jobs and films felt evenly matched. Frears could have won the Oscar, and I don't think anybody would be saying "Barry Levinson got robbed".
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 9, 2021 3:16:40 GMT
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Post by dadsburgers on Jan 9, 2021 4:10:28 GMT
Yeah, I'd say so. Even the actual winner ( Barry Levinson for Rain Man) didn't neccesarily stand above him in any significant way. It was the kind of year where a lot of the acclaimed directing jobs and films felt evenly matched. Frears could have won the Oscar, and I don't think anybody would be saying "Barry Levinson got robbed". I'm surprised to remember that Levinson actually won for that |
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 9, 2021 10:05:31 GMT
Maybe but I'm not going to think twice about it when Cronenberg missed for his masterpiece in '88. I mean Frears over Mike Nichols maybe but the actor and director of the year were in Dead Ringers - a major studio release too (most subversive studio film........ever?) who were at joint tour de force level and compared to that field.....a whole different thing, even with Frears included.  |
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Post by ibbi on Jan 9, 2021 10:37:58 GMT
I mean he's probably more deserving of a spot than the eventual winner was, but I wouldn't have him in my top 5... Maybe not even 10.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 9, 2021 14:48:47 GMT
Yes, probably.
I could see him getting a spot instead of Nichols, Parker or Crichton. Not a very strong year for the category so he could have definitely been in.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jan 9, 2021 15:35:23 GMT
I mean I don't see why not. It's a well-directed well-staged movie, and one of the other nominees that year was Charles Crichton an old-guard type who's similar to Frears in his British "kitchen sink approach", but Frears was a lot more modern, and thus more interesting as a result.
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