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Post by stephen on Jan 7, 2019 18:10:22 GMT
ADAPTED "BlacKkKlansman" "Black Panther" "Can You Ever Forgive Me? "If Beale Street Could Talk" "A Star Is Born"
ORIGINAL "Eighth Grade" "Green Book" "A Quiet Place" "Roma" "Vice"
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Post by morton on Jan 7, 2019 18:13:44 GMT
ADAPTED "BlacKkKlansman" "Black Panther" "Can You Ever Forgive Me? "If Beale Street Could Talk" "A Star Is Born" ORIGINAL "Eighth Grade" "Green Book" "A Quiet Place" "Roma" "Vice" One bright spot for the day so far is that Bohemian Rhapsody didn't hit all the guilds. Hallelujah WGA!!! I really thought it was going to after the events of the past 24 hours, and because A24 didn't seem to be campaigning its films that much this season. Also, I thought If Beale Street Could Talk was going to miss here because I went with "experts" who said that WGA would go more populist, but I'm happy that I was wrong about that.
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Post by finniussnrub on Jan 7, 2019 18:15:20 GMT
AAAAANNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDD First Man's launch just crashed right back to earth again. Black Panther over it in Adapted is a joke.
Sadly it seems the industry will keep encouraging Adam McKay's delusion that he's a clever writer. Also I guess premise alone will get you a nomination with A Quiet Place.
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Post by Viced on Jan 7, 2019 18:15:29 GMT
Poor Paul Schrader.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 7, 2019 19:13:37 GMT
Poor Paul Schrader is right. He's as doomed as Earth now. Probably only an outside shot at getting in if Green Book's backlash is *really* severe AND Vice underwhelms, or something like that.
Happy for Burnham, though. I really hope this helps get him into the Oscar line-up, but that's also unlikely as I'm sure most are predicting it to be this group but with The Favourite in place of Eighth Grade -- which would be a pretty lame batch of nominees at that point. Though it'll be really interesting to see what wins here with The Favourite, the presumed frontrunner, not in contention. We could very well see the same narrative as last year that allowed Get Out to overtake Three Billboards. Though that's certainly a scenario I'd root against, unless the script in question is Eighth Grade, which is -- possible? Similar to Get Out, it's written by a comedian-turned-debut filmmaker, missed out on a Globe nomination in the category but could win despise of that, etc... obviously Eighth Grade won't be the serious Best Picture contender that Get Out was, but its chances are worth considering.
Also disappointed that Crazy Rich Asians missed out in Adapted. I was really pulling for it here and have been predicting it for awhile, but now it seems like this is our five ... and it's underwhelming to see A Star is Born and Black Panther in its place instead.
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Post by quetee on Jan 7, 2019 19:19:48 GMT
What do all of these nominees have in common?
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 7, 2019 19:36:11 GMT
where the hell is The Favourite
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Post by flaiky on Jan 7, 2019 19:36:49 GMT
That nomination for A Quiet Place is laughable.
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Post by morton on Jan 7, 2019 19:39:59 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 7, 2019 19:40:41 GMT
ok, that's what I thought. Better than being snubbed, especially with this group of nominees
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Post by stephen on Jan 7, 2019 19:46:20 GMT
ok, that's what I thought. Better than being snubbed, especially with this group of nominees Indeed. It's not great that it was ineligible, as it might surrender momentum to something like Green Book . . . but BAFTA will probably go for it and we've had past winners overcome the eligibility issue before ( The King's Speech, Django Unchained, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman). Plus it depends on how well Green Book can weather any backlash that comes its way.
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Post by stephen on Jan 7, 2019 19:47:05 GMT
That nomination for A Quiet Place is laughable. You just gonna sit there and dog A Quiet Place when Vice is right there?
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 7, 2019 19:52:26 GMT
Was Death of Stalin eligible?
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 7, 2019 19:57:28 GMT
Eighth Grade over First Reformed? Eighth Grade, which is as clever as someone obsessed with their cracked phone cutting their finger on the crack. Oh wait. A movie that labors to mortify its lead, constantly, and also - devil's advocate - sexually exploits her. While also feeding all the big cliches, like the big parental monologue that makes everything right, right? Bc the girl who wins Most Quiet Award in her class (subtle as a tidal wave) would post embarassing video-blogs daily that get, literally, like, totally, 0 views. Also manages to be completely humorless. Except for the Gabe kid, who's a natural goof, and gets the best line "I like all the sauces, equally."
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Post by quetee on Jan 7, 2019 20:05:18 GMT
Eighth Grade over First Reformed? Eighth Grade, which is as clever as someone obsessed with their cracked phone cutting their finger on the crack. Oh wait. A movie that labors to mortify its lead, constantly, and also - devil's advocate - sexually exploits her. While also feeding all the big cliches, like the big parental monologue that makes everything right, right? Bc the girl who wins Most Quiet Award in her class (subtle as a tidal wave) would post embarassing video-blogs daily that get, literally, like, totally, 0 views. Also manages to be completely humorless. Except for the Gabe kid, who's a natural goof, and gets the best line "I like all the sauces, equally." These are peer awards so Paul's peers are hating on him for some reason. Who knows.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 7, 2019 20:08:50 GMT
Yas Eighth Grade!
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Post by stephen on Jan 7, 2019 20:09:31 GMT
Eighth Grade over First Reformed? Eighth Grade, which is as clever as someone obsessed with their cracked phone cutting their finger on the crack. Oh wait. A movie that labors to mortify its lead, constantly, and also - devil's advocate - sexually exploits her. While also feeding all the big cliches, like the big parental monologue that makes everything right, right? Bc the girl who wins Most Quiet Award in her class (subtle as a tidal wave) would post embarassing video-blogs daily that get, literally, like, totally, 0 views. Also manages to be completely humorless. Except for the Gabe kid, who's a natural goof, and gets the best line "I like all the sauces, equally." I don't know how you can criticize Eighth Grade for a lack of subtlety while championing First Reformed, which abandons nuance and subtext almost entirely in favor of being so pointedly on-the-nose. But you do you, boo. I actually think Eighth Grade is the best of the nominees in the category (yes, even over Roma). It does everything that Boyhood and other coming-of-age films tried and failed to do: it actually manages to feel honest, real, as if it were written by a contemporary of the period rather than some old fogie stumbling over buzzwords of the younger generation in an effort to be "hip." Bo Burnham's screenplay feels remarkably immersive without feeling voyeuristic; it's as though we were invited into Kayla's world rather than intruding. I'm still utterly stymied that a 27-year-old could write a script so confidently, particularly from the perspective of a 14-year-old girl.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 7, 2019 20:10:37 GMT
Eighth Grade over First Reformed? I’d take a lot over First Reformed.
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Post by morton on Jan 7, 2019 20:11:11 GMT
Was Death of Stalin eligible? Sorry it was ineligible too. I found a better article now that I didn't see it before. The first one I was going to link to was from Variety, but it opened up some kind of video, and made my computer run slow. So I clicked back and found another one.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 7, 2019 20:14:23 GMT
Was Death of Stalin eligible? Sorry it was ineligible too. I found a better article now that I didn't see it before. The first one I was going to link to was from Variety, but it opened up some kind of video, and made my computer run slow. So I clicked back and found another one. Bah, humbug. Well at least it got the NSFC win.
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Post by bruinjoe96 on Jan 7, 2019 20:18:15 GMT
I think we have our 5 Adapted Screenplay nominees here
For Original, I think you can replace A Quiet Place with The Favourite, and possibly Vice for Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Post by JangoB on Jan 7, 2019 20:59:40 GMT
Eighth Grade over First Reformed? Eighth Grade, which is as clever as someone obsessed with their cracked phone cutting their finger on the crack. Oh wait. A movie that labors to mortify its lead, constantly, and also - devil's advocate - sexually exploits her. While also feeding all the big cliches, like the big parental monologue that makes everything right, right? Bc the girl who wins Most Quiet Award in her class (subtle as a tidal wave) would post embarassing video-blogs daily that get, literally, like, totally, 0 views. Also manages to be completely humorless. Except for the Gabe kid, who's a natural goof, and gets the best line "I like all the sauces, equally." You're my hero.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 7, 2019 21:12:56 GMT
I don't know distinguished colleagues, in a year of really ludicrous screenplays - crazily contrived "horror" films like A Quiet Place (the scariest thing in it is the script!), artificially constructed hokum like Hereditary, preposterously straining so hard to make a 40 year story "contemporary" and FOUR credited writers to do it (Blackkklansman) or a fifth time adaptation (FIFTH - ASIB)......that now, in this thread I've got to read how First Reformed a screenplay that was basically all nuance AND subtext - the subplot about his son is better written than the entire screenplays of these other films for Godsakes (pun intended) - is criticized as somehow for having neither It's not my world, pass the Drano.......
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Jan 7, 2019 21:47:59 GMT
Imagine nominating A Quiet Place over something like First Reformed or Blindspotting.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 7, 2019 22:10:38 GMT
I’ll say this about First Reformed. The metaphysical dry humping was about as subtle as a jackhammer.
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