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Post by Atrocity-Querelle on Dec 25, 2018 22:31:33 GMT
I came up with this as a little thought experiment a couple of weeks ago when I was hanging out with a friend who shares my love for Criterion and all other types of kino cinema. I posted it on the subreddit, too, but I didn't get too many replies, since I doubt most of the people there hold the Oscars in any sort of high regard. So I'll ask y'all, because I am lethally bored today, lol. Rules are simple, one category per film, do as many categories as you want. I abstained from a few of them myself, mainly the Short Film ones. And do feel free to berate my for my shitty hipster taste, by all means, haha.  My picks are: * Best Picture: Ghost World * Best Director: Sergei Parajanov, The Color of Pomegranates * Best Actor: Richard E. Grant, Withnail and I * Best Actress: Sheryl Lee, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me * Best Supporting Actor: Song Kang-ho, Secret Sunshine * Best Supporting Actress: Ronee Blakley, Nashville * Best Original Screenplay: El Norte * Best Adapted Screenplay: Manila in the Claws of Light * Best Ensemble: Cries & Whispers * Best Editing: All That Jazz * Best Foreign Language Film: Nights of Cabiria * Best Animated Film: Akira (don't actually care for it too much, but I haven't seen Fantastic Mr. Fox, Fantastic Planet, or Watership Down, so...) * Best Documentary: Close-Up * Best Cinematography: Marketa Lazarova * Best Production Design: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters * Best Costume Design: Ran * Best Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth * Best Visual Effects: House * Best Sound Mixing: RoboCop * Best Sound Editing: Eraserhead * Best Original Score: Paris, Texas * Best Original Song: "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out" from Harold and Maude |
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Post by stephen on Dec 26, 2018 3:57:37 GMT
Strictly Criterion releases?
Best Picture: The Thin Red Line
Best Director: David Lynch, Mulholland Dr.
Best Actor: Bob Hoskins, Mona Lisa
Best Actress: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist
Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov, Spartacus
Best Supporting Actress: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show
Best Ensemble: The Royal Tenenbaums
Best Original Screenplay: Paris, Texas
Best Adapted Screenplay: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Best Cinematography: Days of Heaven
Best Production Design: The Last Emperor
Best Costume Design: Barry Lyndon
Best Makeup: Videodrome
Best Visual Effects: Pan's Labyrinth
Best Film Editing: Z
Best Sound Mixing: Paths of Glory
Best Sound Editing: Eraserhead
Best Score: The Third Man
Best Song: "I'm Easy" ~ Nashville
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Post by Atrocity-Querelle on Dec 26, 2018 4:17:39 GMT
Strictly Criterion releases? Yep. I actually stretched it a bit with mine, including Akira, which was only issued through Laserdisc, haha. By that logic, someone could include Pulp Fiction in theirs if they wanted to. Those choices for Actress, Original Screenplay, Makeup, & Editing are dynamite by the way! A couple of your others were high up on my list, especially Production Design & Visual Effects. Both of those are probably my #2's in their category. And your pick of Hoskins really intrigues me, as I've not yet seen Mona Lisa, but I've always wanted to since he was a total boss. Sure I'll be in for a treat there. Very nice list overall, I can't argue with a single one out of the ones I've seen. It's definitely less hipster than mine, which I'm sure some might assume is just an exercise in contrarianism. I swear I'm the only person on the internet that cares about Lino Brocka, unfortunately. And I'm aping your Ensemble category, it hadn't occurred to me to include it in my list. Cheers! |
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Post by stephen on Dec 26, 2018 4:21:21 GMT
Strictly Criterion releases? Yep. I actually stretched it a bit with mine, including Akira, which was only issued through Laserdisc, haha. By that logic, someone could include Pulp Fiction in theirs if they wanted to. Those choices for Actress, Original Screenplay, Makeup, & Editing are dynamite by the way! A couple of your others were high up on my list, especially Production Design & Visual Effects. Both of those are probably my #2's in their category. And your pick of Hoskins really intrigues me, as I've not yet seen Mona Lisa, but I've always wanted to since he was a total boss. Sure I'll be in for a treat there. Very nice list overall, I can't argue with a single one out of the ones I've seen. It's definitely less hipster than mine, which I'm sure some might assume is just an exercise in contrarianism. I swear I'm the only person on the internet that cares about Lino Brocka, unfortunately. And I'm aping your Ensemble category, it hadn't occurred to me to include it in my list. Cheers! is an utter jewel of a movie, and Hoskins might very well be the most robbed person in the history of the Academy Awards. Guy won every single award under the sun for that performance, and lost the Oscar at the final hurdle to Paul Newman. But the film itself is a marvelous neo-noir, with Cathy Tyson and Michael Caine giving magnificent performances (Caine is better here than his Oscar-winning turn that same year, in my opinion). |
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Post by Atrocity-Querelle on Dec 26, 2018 4:27:19 GMT
Yep. I actually stretched it a bit with mine, including Akira, which was only issued through Laserdisc, haha. By that logic, someone could include Pulp Fiction in theirs if they wanted to. Those choices for Actress, Original Screenplay, Makeup, & Editing are dynamite by the way! A couple of your others were high up on my list, especially Production Design & Visual Effects. Both of those are probably my #2's in their category. And your pick of Hoskins really intrigues me, as I've not yet seen Mona Lisa, but I've always wanted to since he was a total boss. Sure I'll be in for a treat there. Very nice list overall, I can't argue with a single one out of the ones I've seen. It's definitely less hipster than mine, which I'm sure some might assume is just an exercise in contrarianism. I swear I'm the only person on the internet that cares about Lino Brocka, unfortunately. And I'm aping your Ensemble category, it hadn't occurred to me to include it in my list. Cheers! is an utter jewel of a movie, and Hoskins might very well be the most robbed person in the history of the Academy Awards. Guy won every single award under the sun for that performance, and lost the Oscar at the final hurdle to Paul Newman. But the film itself is a marvelous neo-noir, with Cathy Tyson and Michael Caine giving magnificent performances (Caine is better here than his Oscar-winning turn that same year, in my opinion). Oh I hear ya about that. People think Sally Hawkins got raw-dogged in 2008, but Hoskins won the BAFTA in addition to the Globe + big 3 critics awards! The poor fella must have been on the verge of a stroke after losing to a performance that has been so utterly forgotten. Thank you for the added details, it sounds super up my alley. I'd forgotten it was a Neil Jordan film for some reason, which is lame. Dude's pretty great, I think The Company of Wolves is hella underrated. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 26, 2018 19:53:04 GMT
excluded out-of-print releases, otherwise Z would definitely have been somewhere in here (probably for editing or adapted screenplay).
Best Picture: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Best Director: Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
Best Actor: Richard E. Grant - Withnail & I
Best Actress: Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov - Spartacus
Best Supporting Actress: Ingrid Thulin - Cries & Whispers
Best Original Screenplay: The Battle of Algiers
Best Adapted Screenplay: Barry Lyndon
Best Ensemble: 12 Angry Men
Best Editing: Traffic
Best Foreign Language Film: Vivre sa Vie
Best Animated Film: Watership Down
Best Documentary: I'v only seen a couple Criterion docs...I guess Pina
Best Cinematography: Days of Heaven
Best Production Design: Brazil
Best Costume Design: The Age of Innocence
Best Makeup: Naked Lunch
Best Visual Effects: Pan's Labyrinth
Best Original Score: Walkabout
excluded sound categories because I don't have them in my lineups pre-2000 right now. I didn't really start paying attention to sound in films until a year or so ago.
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Post by Sharbs on Dec 26, 2018 20:37:22 GMT
Best Picture: Le Notti Bianche
Best Director: Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita
Best Leading Actor: Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
Best Leading Actress: Joan Fontaine, Rebecca
Best Supporting Actor: Bill Murray, Rushmore
Best Supporting Actress: Katrin Cartlidge, Naked
Best Original Screenplay: A Brighter Summer Day
Best Adapted Screenplay: Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Best Cinematography: The Tree of Life
Best Original Score: Mulholland Dr.
Best Ensemble: Only Angels Have Wings
Best Film Editing: Harakiri
Best Production Design: The Leopard
Best Costume Design: Barry Lyndon
Best Makeup & Hair: Pan's Labyrinth
Best Sound Editing: Stalker
Best Sound Mixing: Ran
Best Visual Effects: Solaris
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2018 4:17:43 GMT
Usually don't break it down like this, but fuck it:
Best Picture: The Seventh Seal
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
Best Actor: Jean-Louis Barrault, Children of Paradise
Best Actress: Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive
Best Supporting Actor: Gary Farmer, Dead Man
Best Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons
Best Original Screenplay: Mulholland Drive
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ordet
Best Ensemble: Mulholland Drive
Best Editing: Dead Man
Best Cinematography: A Brighter Summer Day
Best Production Design: Ran
Best Costume Design: Barry Lyndon
Best Visual Effects: Eraserhead
Best Score: Contempt
Best Sound Editing: Eraserhead
Best Sound Mixing: Eraserhead
Best Song: "I'm Easy", Nashville
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2018 4:40:09 GMT
Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy
Best Director: David Lynch, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Best Actor: Benoît Poelvoorde, Man Bites Dog
Best Actress: Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria
Best Supporting Actor: Orson Welles, The Third Man
Best Supporting Actress: Nataasja Kinski, Paris, Texas
Best Original Screenplay: Mulholland Drive
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ran
Best Ensemble: Seven Samurai
Best Cinematography: The Seventh Seal
Best Editing: Persona
Best Score: Three Colors: Blue
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Post by Atrocity-Querelle on Dec 27, 2018 4:41:47 GMT
Usually don't break it down like this, but fuck it: Best Picture: The Seventh Seal Best Director: Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal Best Actor: Jean-Louis Barrault, Children of Paradise Best Actress: Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive Best Supporting Actor: Gary Farmer, Dead Man Best Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons Best Original Screenplay: Mulholland Drive Best Adapted Screenplay: Ordet Best Ensemble: Mulholland Drive Best Editing: Dead Man Best Cinematography: A Brighter Summer Day Best Production Design: Ran Best Costume Design: Barry Lyndon Best Visual Effects: Eraserhead Best Score: Contempt Best Sound Editing: Eraserhead Best Sound Mixing: Eraserhead Best Song: "I'm Easy", Nashville Gary Farmer, sweet baby Jesus do I like the way you think! Although I'd have him in lead, TBH. Otherwise, he'd probably be my choice too for the category. I just got my best friend into the film a couple weeks ago, he loved it so much that he ended up watching it 3 times in like a 48 hour window. I worship Dead Man, it's one of the most quotable and easily rewatchable films ever made. The new Criterion release is gorgeous, I begged my friend to get it during November's sale and I gasped audibly with joy when he showed me the box. Your choice of Barrault really intrigues me, I haven't seen the film yet but it was literally the first thing I ever added to my queue on Filmstruck and I've been dying to see it for ages. I'm strongly considering buying it, along with a couple other things, with some Christmas money. I'm looking at that, the Marseilles trilogy, the Three Colors trilogy, the new Criterion of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, and a couple of Kino's Zvyagintsev releases. I'll have to figure out which to prioritize over the others, lol. Cheers! |
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Dec 27, 2018 15:53:08 GMT
Picture: Fox and His Friends
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker
Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy
Actress: Gena Rowlands, Opening Night
Actor in Support: Rod Steiger, Jubal
Actress in Support: Judy Davis, Naked Lunch
Original Screenplay: From the Life of the Marionettes
Adapted Screenplay: Design for Living
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2018 18:40:46 GMT
Usually don't break it down like this, but fuck it: Best Picture: The Seventh Seal Best Director: Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal Best Actor: Jean-Louis Barrault, Children of Paradise Best Actress: Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive Best Supporting Actor: Gary Farmer, Dead Man Best Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons Best Original Screenplay: Mulholland Drive Best Adapted Screenplay: Ordet Best Ensemble: Mulholland Drive Best Editing: Dead Man Best Cinematography: A Brighter Summer Day Best Production Design: Ran Best Costume Design: Barry Lyndon Best Visual Effects: Eraserhead Best Score: Contempt Best Sound Editing: Eraserhead Best Sound Mixing: Eraserhead Best Song: "I'm Easy", Nashville Gary Farmer, sweet baby Jesus do I like the way you think! Although I'd have him in lead, TBH. Otherwise, he'd probably be my choice too for the category. I just got my best friend into the film a couple weeks ago, he loved it so much that he ended up watching it 3 times in like a 48 hour window. I worship Dead Man, it's one of the most quotable and easily rewatchable films ever made. The new Criterion release is gorgeous, I begged my friend to get it during November's sale and I gasped audibly with joy when he showed me the box. Your choice of Barrault really intrigues me, I haven't seen the film yet but it was literally the first thing I ever added to my queue on Filmstruck and I've been dying to see it for ages. I'm strongly considering buying it, along with a couple other things, with some Christmas money. I'm looking at that, the Marseilles trilogy, the Three Colors trilogy, the new Criterion of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, and a couple of Kino's Zvyagintsev releases. I'll have to figure out which to prioritize over the others, lol. Cheers! Yeah, you know I could definitely see Farmer as lead. I don't put much thought into categorizing things like that as a lot of people on here do, so I'm flexible. Glad to see some more love for Dead Man on here!  Such a brilliant, dense, evocative film. Children of Paradise is top tier, probably my favorite French movie ever made (beats out Contempt by just a bit, I think). |
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Such a brilliant, dense, evocative film. 