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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 29, 2024 19:12:07 GMT
whew, I've been procrastinating A LOT on these this year but I'm finally ready to put 2023 behind me. Seen more films than ever with a total of 155 (including every feature film nominated for an Oscar minus Godzilla), and I think my noms will have a nice blend of more obvious picks with some under-the-radar stuff and passion picks, and no major snubs. I'd give 2023 a solid B. Not my favorite year but a step up from 2022, and it got better towards the end. Kore-eda outdid himself with Monster, Andrew Haigh made his most ambitious film yet, Wes Anderson is more Wes Anderson than ever, Todd Haynes is BACK, baby, and Nolan proved that a 3-hour movie about dudes talking in rooms (w/ Nolan dialogue) can be riveting. And although I didn't love Poor Things as much as most, I DO love that it propelled Yorgos fully into the mainstream. Lots to celebrate about 2023 cinema, lots of movies to nominate, so let's get on with it  full list of the 155 films we're working with (up 18 from last year) - released theatrically or on streamers between Jan 1st and Dec. 31st All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
All of Us Strangers
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Anyone But You
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Asteroid City
Ballerina
Barbie
Beau Is Afraid
Birth/Rebirth
BlackBerry
The Blackening
Blue Jean
Boston Strangler
Bottoms
The Boy and the Heron
The Burial
Butcher's Crossing
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Candy Land
Cassandro
Chevalier
Cobweb
Cocaine Bear
The Color Purple
The Creator
The Crime Is Mine
Dream Scenario
Dumb Money
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Earth Mama
Eileen
El Conde
Elemental
Evil Dead Rise
Extraction 2
Fair Play
Fallen Leaves
Femme
Ferrari
Fingernails
Flora and Son
Foe
Fremont
Golda
A Good Person
Gran Turismo
Green Border
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
The Holdovers
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How to Have Sex
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Infinity Pool
Inside
Io Capitano
The Iron Claw
John Wick: Chapter 4
Joy Ride
Kandahar
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Knock at the Cabin
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
The Little Mermaid
M3GEN
Maestro
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
May December
Memory
Missing
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Monica
Monster
Napoleon
The New Boy
Nimona
No Hard Feelings
No One Will Save You
Nyad
Of an Age
Oppenheimer
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Passages
Past Lives
The Peasants
Perfect Days
Polite Society
Poor Things
Priscilla
The Promised Land
Reality
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Renfield
Reptile
Robot Dreams
Rotting in the Sun
The Royal Hotel
Rustin
Rye Lane
Saltburn
Saw X
Sanctuary
The Settlers
Showing Up
Sisu
Society of the Snow
Somewhere in Queens
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Suitable Flesh
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Talk to Me
The Taste of Things
The Teachers' Lounge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Thanksgiving
Theater Camp
They Cloned Tyrone
A Thousand and One
The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan
To Catch a Killer
Totally Killer
The Unknown Country
Upon Entry
War Pony
When Evil Lurks
Wish
Wonka
The Wrath of Becky
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
You Hurt My Feelings
The Zone of Interest
Docs
20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Being Mary Tyler Moore
Beyond Utopia
Bobi Wine: The People's President
The Deepest Breath
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Pamela, a Love Story
The Pigeon Tunnel
Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed
Silver Dollar Road
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
To Kill a Tiger
Blindspots: the aforementioned Godzilla Minus One (very sorry I missed this one), but otherwise nothing major.
Int'l films: Christian Petzold's latest Afire, Ladj Ly's Bâtiment 5, Marco Bellocchio's Kidnapped, Thomas Cailley's The Animal Kingdom, Pietro Marcello's Scarlet, and two from Quebec: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person and Solo, also I skipped Duvernay's Origin (apologies to Frances Fisher)
Docs: Apolonia Apolonia, 32 Sounds, King Coal, Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, and some others
as always, some of these I will eventually see (Godzilla for sure), others I might not. We're moving on! nominations will be announced tomorrow night |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 30, 2024 23:34:45 GMT
kicking things off with... THE BIG NINEBEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEARAll of Us Strangers (Searchlight Pictures) Asteroid City (Focus Features) May December (Netflix) Monster (Gaga / Toho) Sanctuary (Neon)  BEST DIRECTORWes Anderson, Asteroid CityAndrew Haigh, All of Us StrangersHirokazu Kore-eda, MonsterTodd Haynes, May DecemberChristopher Nolan, Oppenheimer BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLESandra Hüller, Anatomy of a FallNatalie Portman, May DecemberMargaret Qualley, SanctuaryEmily Stone, Poor ThingsTeyana Taylor, A Thousand and One BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLENicolas Cage, Dream ScenarioPaul Giamatti, The HoldoversBarry Keoghan, SaltburnCillian Murphy, OppenheimerAndrew Scott, All of Us Strangers BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLEPenélope Cruz, FerrariClaire Foy, All of Us StrangersLily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower MoonJulianne Moore, May DecemberRosamund Pike, Saltburn BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLEJamie Bell, All of Us StrangersRobert De Niro, Killers of the Flower MoonRobert Downey Jr., OppenheimerPaul Mescal, All of Us StrangersEita Nagayama, Monster BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYAnatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet & Arthur Harari Asteroid City — Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola May December — Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik Monster — Yuji Sakamoto Sanctuary — Micah Bloomberg  BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAYAll of Us Strangers — Andrew Haigh American Fiction — Cord Jefferson The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial — William Friedkin Oppenheimer — Christopher Nolan Society of the Snow — J. A. Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, Nicolás Casariego  BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CASTAsteroid CityMonsterOppenheimerSaltburnSociety of the Snow TECHS / MISCBEST CINEMATOGRAPHYAll of Us Strangers — Jamie D. Ramsay El Conde — Edward Lachman Killers of the Flower Moon — Rodrigo Prieto The New Boy — Warwick Thornton Saltburn — Linus Sandgren BEST ORIGINAL SCOREAsteroid City — Alexandre Desplat The Boy and the Heron — Joe Hisaishi Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson The Peasants — Łukasz Rostkowski Robot Dreams — Alfonso de Vilallonga BEST FILM EDITINGAnatomy of a Fall — Laurent Sénéchal Asteroid City — Barney Pilling How to Blow Up a Pipeline — Daniel Garber Oppenheimer — Jennifer Lame Saltburn — Victoria Boydell BEST PRODUCTION DESIGNAsteroid City — Adam Stockhausen Killers of the Flower Moon — Jack Fisk Oppenheimer — Ruth De Jong Poor Things — Shona Heath & James Price Wonka — Nathan Crowley BEST COSTUME DESIGNBarbie — Jacqueline Durran Chevalier — Oliver Garcia Napoleon — Janty Yates & David Crossman Poor Things — Holly Waddington Saltburn — Sophie Canale BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLINGGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3MaestroOppenheimerPoor ThingsSociety of the SnowBEST STUNT & DANCE CHOREOGRAPHYBallerinaExtraction 2John Wick: Chapter 4Magic Mike's Last DanceMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part OneBEST SOUND EDITINGExtraction 2John Wick: Chapter 4The KillerNapoleonOppenheimerBEST SOUND MIXINGJohn Wick: Chapter 4The KillerOppenheimerSociety of the SnowThe Zone of InterestBEST VISUAL EFFECTSThe CreatorGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3NapoleonOppenheimerPoor ThingsBEST ORIGINAL SONG"Am I Dreaming" — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"Dear Alien Who Art in Heaven" — Asteroid City"Live That Way Forever" — The Iron Claw"Spinning Globe" — The Boy and the Heron"What Was I Made For?" — BarbieBEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMAnatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet Monster — Hirokazu Kore-eda Rotting in the Sun — Sebastián Silva Society of the Snow — J. A. Bayona The Taste of Things — Trần Anh Hùng BEST DEBUT FEATUREAmerican Fiction — Cord Jefferson How to Have Sex — Molly Manning Walker Palm Trees and Power Lines — Jamie Dack Past Lives — Celine Song A Thousand and One — A. V. Rockwell BEST DOCUMENTARY FILMBobi Wine: The People’s President — Moses Bwayo & Christopher Sharp The Disappearance of Shere Hite — Nicole Newnham Four Daughters — Kaouther Ben Hania Lakota Nation vs. United States — Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour — Sam Wrench ____________________________________________________ statistics-- Oppenheimer cleans up with 12 nominations, with Strangers and Asteroid next in line with 8 each -- Oppenheimer is the most-nominated film not to be included in BP. Just missed the top 5 -- A total of 49 films are nominated across 23 categories, exact same number as last year, meaning almost a third of the 2023 movies I watched received at least one nomination. It's all about spreading that love <3 -- Sanctuary is the newest inductee to the 3-nominee BP club. Love every second of it, but with its micro one-location narrative it only had purchase for acting, directing and writing, and there simply wasn't enough room in Abbott and Wigon's categories -- Most painful omissions of the night were Jeffrey Wright, Mia Goth ( Infinity Pool) and Catalina Saavedra ( Rotting in the Sun) for supporting actress, Rotting in the Sun and Dream Scenario (loved this one) for original screenplay, The Killer for cinematography, Oppenheimer for costumes --My lowest-ranked film to receive a nomination is The New Boy at #145. Highest-ranked film not to receive any nominations is Theater Camp at #27 -- Every film in the Oscar BP lineup is represented tonight, but several only received single nominations -- that's all for now! winners to be announced this coming Sunday night |
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It's Cillian, dahling.
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Post by stabcaesar on May 2, 2024 5:21:19 GMT
All of Us Strangers and May December <3
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 3, 2024 18:17:51 GMT
there were a couple movies from last year that I could not watch without smiling the whole damn time and Sanctuary was one of them. The ending was so satisfying (and hoooot)! One of the best kinky movies ever |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 6, 2024 1:21:02 GMT
we're doing this. Only 1 random writeup this year (I couldn't help myself). I could've scoured MAR to cobble together a scattered thoughts for most of the winners but eh... better things to do
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 6, 2024 1:22:22 GMT
Starting as always with debut, doc and IFF. BEST DEBUT FEATUREAmerican Fiction — Cord Jefferson How to Have Sex — Molly Manning Walker Palm Trees and Power Lines — Jamie Dack Past Lives — Celine Song A Thousand and One — A. V. Rockwell AND THE WINNER ISA THOUSAND AND ONE — Directed by A. V. Rockwell  BEST DOCUMENTARYBobi Wine: The People's President
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Four Daughters
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Taylor Swift: The Eras TourAND THE WINNER ISTHE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE — Directed by Nicole Newnham  BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMAnatomy of a Fall
Monster
Rotting in the Sun
Society of the Snow
The Taste of ThingsAND THE WINNER ISMONSTER — Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 6, 2024 1:24:35 GMT
on to the first round of techs ACHIEVEMENT IN STUNT & DANCE CHOREOGRAPHYBallerina
Extraction 2
John Wick: Chapter 4
Magic Mike's Last Dance
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part OneAND THE WINNER ISJOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 — Scott Rogers & Stephen Dunlevy  ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITINGAnatomy of a Fall
Asteroid City
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Oppenheimer
SaltburnAND THE WINNER ISOPPENHEIMER — Jennifer Lame  ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTSThe Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor ThingsAND THE WINNER ISOPPENHEIMER — Andrew Jackson, Giacomo Mineo, Scott R. Fisher, David Drzewiecki  ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHYAll of Us Strangers
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
The New Boy
SaltburnAND THE WINNER ISSALTBURN — Linus Sandgren  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 6, 2024 1:26:47 GMT
sound & music up next ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITINGExtraction 2
John Wick: Chapter 4
The Killer
Napoleon
OppenheimerAND THE WINNER ISOPPENHEIMER — Richard King & Michael W. Mitchell
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXINGJohn Wick: Chapter 4
The Killer
Oppenheimer
Society of the Snow
The Zone of InterestAND THE WINNER ISOPPENHEIMER — Willie D. Burton, Gary A. Rizzo, Kevin O'Connell (esp for how the mixing uses silence and distortion to chilling effect -- during the Trinity Test and the nightmarish gym scene for example)  ACHIEVEMENT IN ORIGINAL SCOREAsteroid City
The Boy and the Heron
Oppenheimer
The Peasants
Robot DreamsAND THE WINNER ISTHE BOY AND THE HERON — Music composed by Joe Hisaishi
BEST ORIGINAL SONG"Am I Dreaming" — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"Dear Alien Who Art in Heaven" — Asteroid City"Live That Way Forever" — The Iron Claw"Spinning Globe" — The Boy and the Heron"What Was I Made For?" — BarbieAND THE WINNER IS"WHAT WAS I MADE FOR?" — BARBIE; Music and lyrics by Billie Eilish & Finneas
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 6, 2024 1:33:45 GMT
up next, the craft techs ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLINGGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the SnowAND THE WINNER ISGUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 — Alexei Dmitriew, Lindsay MacGowan, Cassie Russek  ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGNBarbie
Chevalier
Napoleon
Poor Things
SaltburnAND THE WINNER ISNAPOLEON — Janty Yates & David Crossman (I've said these were the best outfits of Yates's career and I stand by that -- glorious, ostentatious and brimming with eye-popping color & detail)  ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGNAsteroid City
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
WonkaAND THE WINNER ISPOOR THINGS — Shona Heath & James Martin (you want the production design of a movie, especially a fantasy movie to immerse you in another world, and no other films did that as impressively or with as much variety and texture as Poor Things)  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 6, 2024 1:35:05 GMT
and now breaking into the Big 9 with screenplay and ensemble BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYAnatomy of a Fall
Asteroid City
May December
Monster
SanctuaryAND THE WINNER ISASTEROID CITY — Screenplay by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola I love Wes Anderson's pastel-tinted depressive deadpan humor. He was my screenplay winner for Moonrise and Budapest too and Asteroid City is more like those films than Isle of Dogs and French Dispatch. There's much depth to the film's themes about the numbing effects of grief but it's buried under so much aesthetic playfulness and rapidfire dialogues that loop back on each other in surprising and delightful ways (Augie burning his hand, the balcony scene with Robbie) that there's more than enough quirky Anderson-isms packed into Asteroid City for established fans to enjoy it on its own terms. It's only when you look twice that the sorrow truly peaks through, and at the heart of that sorrow a silver lining brimming with the hope of new possibilities and of moving on. The quarantine doesn't last forever.  BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAYAll of Us Strangers
American Fiction
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Oppenheimer
Society of the SnowAND THE WINNER ISALL OF US STRANGERS — Screenplay by Andrew Haigh  BEST ENSEMBLE CASTAsteroid City
Monster
Oppenheimer
Saltburn
Society of the SnowAND THE WINNER ISOPPENHEIMER — Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Jason Clarke, Dylan Arnold, Tom Conti, James D'Arcy, David Dastmalchian, Dane DeHaan, Alden Ehrenreich, Tony Goldwyn... [ stops to catch breath] ... Jefferson Hall, David Krumholtz, Matthew Modine, Scott Grimes, Macon Blair, Gregory Jbara, Harry Groener, Tim DeKay, Matthias Schweighöfer, Alex Wolff, Jack Quaid, Gary Oldman, etc...  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 6, 2024 1:35:43 GMT
up next, the actors! ACHIEVEMENT BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLEJamie Bell, All of Us StrangersRobert De Niro, Killers of the Flower MoonRobert Downey Jr., OppenheimerPaul Mescal, All of Us StrangersEita Nagayama, MonsterAND THE WINNER ISROBERT DOWNEY JR. as Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer ACHIEVEMENT BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLEPenélope Cruz, FerrariClaire Foy, All of Us StrangersLily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower MoonJulianne Moore, May DecemberRosamund Pike, SaltburnAND THE WINNER ISLILY GLADSTONE as Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon ACHIEVEMENT BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLENicolas Cage, Dream ScenarioPaul Giamatti, The HoldoversBarry Keoghan, SaltburnCillian Murphy, OppenheimerAndrew Scott, All of Us StrangersAND THE WINNER ISCILLIAN MURPHY as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer ACHIEVEMENT BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLESandra Hüller, Anatomy of a FallNatalie Portman, May DecemberMargaret Qualley, SanctuaryEmily Stone, Poor ThingsTeyana Taylor, A Thousand and OneAND THE WINNER ISSANDRA HÜLLER as Sandra Voyter in Anatomy of a Fall |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 6, 2024 1:36:26 GMT
last but not least... ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTINGWes Anderson, Asteroid CityAndrew Haigh, All of Us StrangersHirokazu Kore-eda, MonsterTodd Haynes, May DecemberChristopher Nolan, OppenheimerAND THE WINNER ISHIROKAZU KORE-EDA — Monster BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEARAll of Us StrangersAsteroid CityMay DecemberMonsterSanctuaryAND THE WINNER ISMONSTER — produced by Genki Kawamura, Kenji Yamada, Megumi Banse, Taichi Itô, Hijiri Taguchi  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 6, 2024 1:36:58 GMT
full list of winners PICTURE — MonsterDIRECTING — Hirokazu Kore-eda, MonsterLEAD ACTRESS — Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a FallLEAD ACTOR — Cillian Murphy, OppenheimerSUPPORTING ACTRESS — Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower MoonSUPPORTING ACTOR — Robert Downey Jr., OppenheimerORIGINAL SCREENPLAY — Asteroid CityADAPTED SCREENPLAY — All of Us StrangersENSEMBLE CAST — Oppenheimer____________________________________________________ CINEMATOGRAPHY — Linus Sandgren, SaltburnORIGINAL SCORE — Joe Hisaishi, The Boy and the HeronFILM EDITING — Jennifer Lame, OppenheimerPRODUCTION DESIGN — Shona Heath & James Price, Poor ThingsCOSTUME DESIGN — Janty Yates & David Crossman, NapoleonMAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3CHOREOGRAPHY — John Wick: Chapter 4SOUND EDITING — OppenheimerSOUND MIXING — OppenheimerVISUAL EFFECTS — OppenheimerORIGINAL SONG — "What Was I Made For?" DOCUMENTARY — The Disappearance of Shere HiteINTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM — MonsterDEBUT FEATURE — A Thousand and OneSTATS / Misc- Oppenheimer nukes the competition with 7 wins. Monster takes 3 and no one else nabbed more than 1 - Of the 49 films nominated across 23 categories, 15 took home wins, up 1 from last year. - May December and Society of the Snow are the most-nominated films (5 each) to go home empty-handed - congrats to this evening's return winners Wes Anderson and Andrew Haigh for writing, Linus Sandgren, Joe Hisaishi - My full Top 20 of 2023 on Letterboxdall right, that's more than enough. until next year |
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