Alternate Universe Oscars #18: Crash CLOSED

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Alternate Universe Oscars #18: Crash CLOSED Apr 8, 2024 17:53:52 GMT

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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 8, 2024 17:53:52 GMT

The idea of this poll is to take the BP winner of each year and reimagine them with the best director nominees of that year, and ask which director would make the best version of that film. If the BP winner was nominated in directing, that option will not be listed.

So our choices for Crash are...

George Clooney
Ang Lee
Bennett Miller
Steven Spielberg

Previous winners:
2022: Ruben Östlund's Everything Everywhere All at Once
2021: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's CODA
2020: Lee Isaac Chung's Nomadland
2019: Martin Scorsese's Parasite
2018: Spike Lee's Green Book
2017: Jordan Peele's The Shape of Water
2016: Kenneth Lonergan's Moonlight
2015: Lenny Abrahamson's Spotlight
2014: Wes Anderson's Birdman
2013: Martin Scorsese's 12 Years a Slave
2012: Steven Spielberg's Argo
2011: Woody Allen's The Artist
2010: Joel & Ethan Coen's The King's Speech
2009: James Cameron's The Hurt Locker
2008: David Fincher's Slumdog Millionaire
2007: Paul Thomas Anderson's No Country for Old Men
2006: Paul Greengrass's The Departed

Last Edit: Apr 12, 2024 19:47:24 GMT by Martin Stett

And so, let the curtain rise on tonight's dream

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Alternate Universe Oscars #18: Crash CLOSED Apr 9, 2024 13:24:35 GMT

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Post by finniussnrub on Apr 9, 2024 13:24:35 GMT

I know the idea is that if this director was going to make this film, what would be the best, but this is on instance, where I only see maybe later Clooney out of these directors (based on Suburbicon) making something this heavy handed and obvious, even Spielberg at his most obvious isn't making Crash at a conceptual level. And Crash is made more so by Haggis's direction, but it is what is from the script down.

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Alternate Universe Oscars #18: Crash CLOSED Apr 9, 2024 14:35:12 GMT

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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 9, 2024 14:35:12 GMT

Apr 9, 2024 13:24:35 GMT finniussnrub said:

I know the idea is that if this director was going to make this film, what would be the best, but this is on instance, where I only see maybe later Clooney out of these directors (based on Suburbicon) making something this heavy handed and obvious, even Spielberg at his most obvious isn't making Crash at a conceptual level. And Crash is made more so by Haggis's direction, but it is what is from the script down.

I'm pretty much assuming that director has final cut and some say in the writing process as well (if they're writers themselves then it would be their script, if not they still revise the script as needed according to their vision).

And so, let the curtain rise on tonight's dream

Alternate Universe Oscars #18: Crash CLOSED

Post by Martin Stett on Apr 8, 2024 17:53:52 GMT

Post by finniussnrub on Apr 9, 2024 13:24:35 GMT

Post by Martin Stett on Apr 9, 2024 14:35:12 GMT

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