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Trying to watch more Harvey Keitel movies and need some recommendations.
2024.05.02 16:59 TheVampyresBride Trying to watch more Harvey Keitel movies and need some recommendations.
In my quest to watch more De Niro movies (see link in comments) I've really become a big fan of Harvey Keitel. They've worked together quite a few times and their scenes together are always golden. So I started watching more of Harvey's movies and I've been blown away by his performances. He's the type of actor that makes a movie better just by being in it. I checked out his imdb and he's been in A LOT of movies. I want to review the movies I've already seen here but I'd also like recommendations on some others I should check out.
Reservoir Dogs ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I immediately liked this movie after I first saw it. I've seen it a few times since and it gets better with each viewing. I think, so far, this is the best performance Keitel has ever given. His chemistry with Tim Roth is incredible. The acting and the dialogue really make the movie. And the non linear fashion of the storytelling makes this movie an unforgettable experience. One of Tarantino's best.
The Piano ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The music is the first thing I noticed about this film. It's hauntingly beautiful and makes this movie unforgettable. Obviously the acting is incredible all around. The eroticism is very well done. I knocked a star off because I wanted more backstory on Sam Neill and Harvey Keitel's characters. Also I thought the end happened kind of quickly.
Pulp Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm probably the only person in the world who isn't in love with Pulp Fiction. I've only seen it once so it may grow on me, but first impression is that I wasn't thrilled by it. Maybe I'm not used to movies that are comprised of many interconnected stories, but it just came off as random to me. I didn't care for Bruce Willis' character's story. I enjoyed the dialogue between Sam Jackson and Travolta and there is a certain charm to the film. I loved Harvey's Wolf character. I love how he can make a character with so little screentime so memorable. The acting is great overall and it's certainly a unique film.
Taxi Driver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Already reviewed Taxi Driver on my De Niro movie post but wanted to add that Keitel dominates the few scenes he's in and plays one of his most memorable characters to date perfectly. This has become one of my favorite movies of all time.
Falling In Love ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Already reviewed on my De Niro movie post. Standard love story between De Niro and Meryl Streep. Keitel is barely in it, but does well in the scenes he's in. Overall a sweet simple movie.
Holy Smoke ⭐️⭐️
I watched this movie because it was directed by the same woman that directed The Piano. I enjoyed that so I thought I'd enjoy this. Wrong. This movie has very strange comedy that feels out of place. The scenes with Keitel and Kate Winslet start off great then the movie morphs into something else completely. The end makes very little sense. I gave it 2 stars for the performances of the leads. I actually really enjoyed Keitel's performance and in the first half of the movie he plays the type of character that I usually like and he's perfect for. I just wish the rest of the movie had lived up to its potential.
The Two Jakes ⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a half
This movie is a long-awaited sequel to the classic film Chinatown. I enjoyed Chinatown and was looking forward to seeing the sequel. I've read many negative reviews for this movie, and I was curious how I'd feel after seeing it. I actually enjoyed the film. It's no Chinatown, but it's interesting to see an older Jake Gittes. I thought the movie needed editing as there were some unnecessary scenes in it. But I enjoyed Harvey's performance, his chemistry with Jack, and his emotional breakdown scene at the end of the film. I didn't see the twist of the film coming, so it made me appreciate the film more. It's hard to make a worthy sequel to a classic like Chinatown, but I appreciated this movie for the attempt.
Little Nicky ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is a very silly Adam Sandler comedy that I grew up watching. Since I've become a fan of Harvey's, I decided to rewatch the film and pay close attention to his performance as Satan. He does great and looks like he's having a good time. You can't expect much from a story like this one, and maybe it's the nostalgia in me, but I always enjoyed this film. I used to watch it with my brothers when I was a kid, and I find it just as funny as I did then.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One of Scorsese's earlier films. Harvey only has a few scenes, but boy, does he do a great job. He goes from charming to truly menacing in a short amount of time, and he does it perfectly. He's probably the most memorable thing about this film. Overall, I enjoyed the film but felt it dragged in the second half.
Finding Graceland ⭐️
Weird flick where Harvey plays a guy who thinks he's Elvis as a drifter and helps to emotionally heal the broken people who give him rides. Super forgettable movie. Harvey's performance was OK, but maybe required a little more charisma if he's going to play Elvis. But I don't think anything could've saved this movie.
From Dusk Til Dawn ⭐️
As a huge vampire lover I was surprised that I hadn't seen this movie in my youth. I was even more surprised that I didn't like it. Firstly this feels like 2 different movies. The first half is vastly different than the second half. Secondly while I found the characters played by George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino well acted, they were very unlikable. While I understand Tarantino's character is supposed to be a sick and evil bastard, by having Clooney's character still love and support him the writers make his character not much better. Weird for a main character to be that way. I found Keitel kind of underacting here and his character is pretty forgettable. As was Juliette Lewis. The movie also felt low budget and desperately needed some charm or comedy to offset the dark beginning of the film.
Cop Land ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Already reviewed in my De Niro movie list. Good movie with a great cast (Sylvester Stallone, De Niro, Keitel, Ray Liotta, and Robert Patrick).
Mean Streets ⭐️
Already reviewed in my De Niro movie list. Great performances by Keitel and De Niro but found the movie too low budget and didn't have much of a story. The end was good though.
The Irishman ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Already reviewed in my De Niro movie list. Liked certain parts but felt the movie was too slow and de aging was distracting. Also really wish Keitel was in it more.
Little Fockers ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Already reviewed in my De Niro movie list. Keitel only has like two scenes in this movie but I thought he was funny and the movie was silly but made me laugh quite a few times.
Bad Lieutenant ⭐️⭐️?
I've only seen the R rated version of this film. I hear that you need to see the NC17 version to appreciate it. But as it is I didn't really enjoy this film. The bulk of it is Keitel's character messed up on drugs. The raped nun story takes a backseat. But his performance is very believable and haunting. I'll review this one again when I've seen the full version.
City Of Industry ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ and a half
Simple action film. Keitel is badass and effective as an almost retired thief looking for revenge on the guy who murdered his brother on what should've been their last heist together. Keitel and Timothy Hutton as brothers have good chemistry together. Wish there was more scenes with them. The movie starts off promising but second half drags as he's looking for Stephen Dorff who plays the villain. Lucy Liu as a stripper and Elliot Gould as a loanshark is like the most random casting ever. But overall it's an OK movie if you want a simple revenge action flick and to see Harvey kick some ass.
Red Dragon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
As my one of my favorite films of all time is The Silence Of The Lambs, I've seen Red Dragon many times and enjoy it almost as much. I watched it recently and payed close attention to Keitel's performance. He's very believable as Jack Crawford and has great chemistry with Edward Norton's Will Graham. This is a great film that everyone should see, especially with a cast that includes Edward Norton, Keitel, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ralph Fiennes, and, of course, Anthony Hopkins as the infamous Hannibal Lecter.
The Grand Budapest Hotel ⭐️⭐️
I'm not a big Wes Anderson fan so this movie isn't really for me. But the colors are gorgeous and the story is interesting. It's got an awesome cast and great acting all around. Keitel isn't in it much but makes the most of the few scenes he has.
The Duellists ⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a half
This movie is simply stunning. It completely transports you to a different time. I heard that the dueling is some of the best you'll see in film and took the actors quite a while to practice. Those dueling scenes are some of the best scenes in the film. Even though it's called The Duellists I feel like the film mostly focuses on Keith Carradine's character. Wish Keitel was in it more and had more dialogue. But overall an enjoyable film.
Thelma and Louise ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A classic film that I hadn't seen til recently. This movie needs no introduction. As old as it is it still holds up today. Keitel isn't in it much but does well in the scenes he's in. Even though I knew how it ended it still struck me as one of the most powerful endings I've ever seen. Great film.
The Last Temptation Of Christ ⭐️⭐️ and a half.
I was very curious about this film due to the controversy it received when it first came out. I'm not a religious person but I've seen quite a few Jesus movies due to my parents' religious nature. This is one of the most unusual Jesus films I've ever seen. While I know it's not based on the gospels, it would be nice if more of the dialogue felt closer to them. The lack of accents are distracting. I understand having Jesus be more human and having doubts and fears but I wish he had more power and inspiration to give to his followers too. He's a little too human in this. The nudity felt unnecessary but that's just my opinion. I actually found the last 40 minutes to be the best part of the movie. To have Jesus see what his life would be like if he didn't need to be crucified and seeing the aftermath of that decision is very powerful. Satan's role in the film is also very well executed. I feel Satan's involvement is missing from most religious movies. Keitel does great as Judas in a very interesting take on the character and his impassioned speech to Jesus at the end of the film is moving. Overall an interesting take on the Jesus story but wish it was more familiar in certain areas.
Smoke ⭐️⭐️
This movie received pretty positive reviews, but I think what people are really seeing is two excellent performances in a movie with a subpar script. The movie is comprised of multiple stories that interconnect. That's not a problem, but I find that most of these stories aren't focused on enough and don't have satisfying resolutions. As a result, I feel like I'm watching a movie that's half finished. I also found some of the dialogue to be hammy and better suited to a stage play. But Harvey Keitel and William Hurt are so natural and brilliant in their performances that they make the movie appear good.
Blue In the Face ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a half
A companion film to Smoke that came out in the same year. I actually liked it a lot more. It doesn't really have a major story and is comprised mostly of interviews with random New Yorkers and customers coming into Auggie's cigar shop. This is what I expected Smoke to be, and I'm glad I watched this film. Before I started watching it I was having a pretty bad day and my thoughts went the suicidal ideation route. This movie actually made me feel better. All of a sudden I felt like I was with friends just having random conversations. Even though I know nothing about smoking or living in Brooklyn, I still found the conversations interesting and relatable. Especially about crime rates among youths and smoking becoming less popular. I liked seeing Keitel's Auggie character again even though they could've focused on him a little more. I also like that Victor Argo has a bigger role. Seeing him randomly pull out his guitar and start singing reminded me of my dad and made me a little emotional. I knocked off a star because I felt Auggie's girlfriend was annoying. As a Hispanic, I hate seeing over the top Latin performances where the "comedy" is that the Latino speaks funny. She feels like a caricature of a fiery latina. But other than that I enjoyed the film. It's very charming and reminds me of a different time. If you're expecting an actual film like Smoke, you might be disappointed. This isn't really a movie. It contains a lot of improv and documentary style filming. But if you know what you're getting from a movie like this, then you should enjoy it.
Dangerous Game ⭐️
This is one of those movies that I couldn't wait to be over. It does get better in the second half but I just didn't care by that point. It's one of those movies in a movie where Keitel plays a director making a film. You see the characters as they're filming but also as actors living their life outside the movie. I didn't understand if the movie is supposed to be mirroring Keitel's character's life as we don't really focus on his personal life until the second half. James Russo overacts and Madonna underacts. Keitel does very well and it's interesting to see the comparison between his performance and the much less talented leads. There is some good dialogue and it has an interesting concept, but the filming of the movie gets too repetitive and a bit disturbing with its subject matter. This movie feels like it's for a specific type of viewer and it's not me.
Shadrach ⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a half.
This is a fine movie that had the potential to be great. It clearly doesn't have a big budget and not many known actors which hurts it. But the story is a good one. It takes place in the 30s and focuses on a 99 year old black man named Shadrach who used to be a slave wanting to come back to the land he used to work so he could be buried there. Keitel is the patriarch of a lowclass family that live on the land now and also the descendant of the family that used to own Shadrach. The movie has a good concept, but I wish Shadrach spoke more. Being as old as he is he barely speaks at all. As it is, it doesn't really make sense for Keitel's character to end up doing as Shadrach requests as he's a pretty racist guy. If this had the old Hollywood trope of a prejudiced white guy who learns a lesson from a humble black guy it probably would've suited the story better. But it's an enjoyable little film and Keitel gives one of his best performances.
That's it so far. Thanks for reading. Remember to please leave some recommendations for more of Keitel's films and your thoughts on my reviews. I'll be editing this list as I watch more of his films.
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Reservoir Dogs ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I immediately liked this movie after I first saw it. I've seen it a few times since and it gets better with each viewing. I think, so far, this is the best performance Keitel has ever given. His chemistry with Tim Roth is incredible. The acting and the dialogue really make the movie. And the non linear fashion of the storytelling makes this movie an unforgettable experience. One of Tarantino's best.
The Piano ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The music is the first thing I noticed about this film. It's hauntingly beautiful and makes this movie unforgettable. Obviously the acting is incredible all around. The eroticism is very well done. I knocked a star off because I wanted more backstory on Sam Neill and Harvey Keitel's characters. Also I thought the end happened kind of quickly.
Pulp Fiction ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm probably the only person in the world who isn't in love with Pulp Fiction. I've only seen it once so it may grow on me, but first impression is that I wasn't thrilled by it. Maybe I'm not used to movies that are comprised of many interconnected stories, but it just came off as random to me. I didn't care for Bruce Willis' character's story. I enjoyed the dialogue between Sam Jackson and Travolta and there is a certain charm to the film. I loved Harvey's Wolf character. I love how he can make a character with so little screentime so memorable. The acting is great overall and it's certainly a unique film.
Taxi Driver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Already reviewed Taxi Driver on my De Niro movie post but wanted to add that Keitel dominates the few scenes he's in and plays one of his most memorable characters to date perfectly. This has become one of my favorite movies of all time.
Falling In Love ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Already reviewed on my De Niro movie post. Standard love story between De Niro and Meryl Streep. Keitel is barely in it, but does well in the scenes he's in. Overall a sweet simple movie.
Holy Smoke ⭐️⭐️
I watched this movie because it was directed by the same woman that directed The Piano. I enjoyed that so I thought I'd enjoy this. Wrong. This movie has very strange comedy that feels out of place. The scenes with Keitel and Kate Winslet start off great then the movie morphs into something else completely. The end makes very little sense. I gave it 2 stars for the performances of the leads. I actually really enjoyed Keitel's performance and in the first half of the movie he plays the type of character that I usually like and he's perfect for. I just wish the rest of the movie had lived up to its potential.
The Two Jakes ⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a half
This movie is a long-awaited sequel to the classic film Chinatown. I enjoyed Chinatown and was looking forward to seeing the sequel. I've read many negative reviews for this movie, and I was curious how I'd feel after seeing it. I actually enjoyed the film. It's no Chinatown, but it's interesting to see an older Jake Gittes. I thought the movie needed editing as there were some unnecessary scenes in it. But I enjoyed Harvey's performance, his chemistry with Jack, and his emotional breakdown scene at the end of the film. I didn't see the twist of the film coming, so it made me appreciate the film more. It's hard to make a worthy sequel to a classic like Chinatown, but I appreciated this movie for the attempt.
Little Nicky ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This is a very silly Adam Sandler comedy that I grew up watching. Since I've become a fan of Harvey's, I decided to rewatch the film and pay close attention to his performance as Satan. He does great and looks like he's having a good time. You can't expect much from a story like this one, and maybe it's the nostalgia in me, but I always enjoyed this film. I used to watch it with my brothers when I was a kid, and I find it just as funny as I did then.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One of Scorsese's earlier films. Harvey only has a few scenes, but boy, does he do a great job. He goes from charming to truly menacing in a short amount of time, and he does it perfectly. He's probably the most memorable thing about this film. Overall, I enjoyed the film but felt it dragged in the second half.
Finding Graceland ⭐️
Weird flick where Harvey plays a guy who thinks he's Elvis as a drifter and helps to emotionally heal the broken people who give him rides. Super forgettable movie. Harvey's performance was OK, but maybe required a little more charisma if he's going to play Elvis. But I don't think anything could've saved this movie.
From Dusk Til Dawn ⭐️
As a huge vampire lover I was surprised that I hadn't seen this movie in my youth. I was even more surprised that I didn't like it. Firstly this feels like 2 different movies. The first half is vastly different than the second half. Secondly while I found the characters played by George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino well acted, they were very unlikable. While I understand Tarantino's character is supposed to be a sick and evil bastard, by having Clooney's character still love and support him the writers make his character not much better. Weird for a main character to be that way. I found Keitel kind of underacting here and his character is pretty forgettable. As was Juliette Lewis. The movie also felt low budget and desperately needed some charm or comedy to offset the dark beginning of the film.
Cop Land ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Already reviewed in my De Niro movie list. Good movie with a great cast (Sylvester Stallone, De Niro, Keitel, Ray Liotta, and Robert Patrick).
Mean Streets ⭐️
Already reviewed in my De Niro movie list. Great performances by Keitel and De Niro but found the movie too low budget and didn't have much of a story. The end was good though.
The Irishman ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Already reviewed in my De Niro movie list. Liked certain parts but felt the movie was too slow and de aging was distracting. Also really wish Keitel was in it more.
Little Fockers ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Already reviewed in my De Niro movie list. Keitel only has like two scenes in this movie but I thought he was funny and the movie was silly but made me laugh quite a few times.
Bad Lieutenant ⭐️⭐️?
I've only seen the R rated version of this film. I hear that you need to see the NC17 version to appreciate it. But as it is I didn't really enjoy this film. The bulk of it is Keitel's character messed up on drugs. The raped nun story takes a backseat. But his performance is very believable and haunting. I'll review this one again when I've seen the full version.
City Of Industry ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ and a half
Simple action film. Keitel is badass and effective as an almost retired thief looking for revenge on the guy who murdered his brother on what should've been their last heist together. Keitel and Timothy Hutton as brothers have good chemistry together. Wish there was more scenes with them. The movie starts off promising but second half drags as he's looking for Stephen Dorff who plays the villain. Lucy Liu as a stripper and Elliot Gould as a loanshark is like the most random casting ever. But overall it's an OK movie if you want a simple revenge action flick and to see Harvey kick some ass.
Red Dragon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
As my one of my favorite films of all time is The Silence Of The Lambs, I've seen Red Dragon many times and enjoy it almost as much. I watched it recently and payed close attention to Keitel's performance. He's very believable as Jack Crawford and has great chemistry with Edward Norton's Will Graham. This is a great film that everyone should see, especially with a cast that includes Edward Norton, Keitel, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ralph Fiennes, and, of course, Anthony Hopkins as the infamous Hannibal Lecter.
The Grand Budapest Hotel ⭐️⭐️
I'm not a big Wes Anderson fan so this movie isn't really for me. But the colors are gorgeous and the story is interesting. It's got an awesome cast and great acting all around. Keitel isn't in it much but makes the most of the few scenes he has.
The Duellists ⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a half
This movie is simply stunning. It completely transports you to a different time. I heard that the dueling is some of the best you'll see in film and took the actors quite a while to practice. Those dueling scenes are some of the best scenes in the film. Even though it's called The Duellists I feel like the film mostly focuses on Keith Carradine's character. Wish Keitel was in it more and had more dialogue. But overall an enjoyable film.
Thelma and Louise ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A classic film that I hadn't seen til recently. This movie needs no introduction. As old as it is it still holds up today. Keitel isn't in it much but does well in the scenes he's in. Even though I knew how it ended it still struck me as one of the most powerful endings I've ever seen. Great film.
The Last Temptation Of Christ ⭐️⭐️ and a half.
I was very curious about this film due to the controversy it received when it first came out. I'm not a religious person but I've seen quite a few Jesus movies due to my parents' religious nature. This is one of the most unusual Jesus films I've ever seen. While I know it's not based on the gospels, it would be nice if more of the dialogue felt closer to them. The lack of accents are distracting. I understand having Jesus be more human and having doubts and fears but I wish he had more power and inspiration to give to his followers too. He's a little too human in this. The nudity felt unnecessary but that's just my opinion. I actually found the last 40 minutes to be the best part of the movie. To have Jesus see what his life would be like if he didn't need to be crucified and seeing the aftermath of that decision is very powerful. Satan's role in the film is also very well executed. I feel Satan's involvement is missing from most religious movies. Keitel does great as Judas in a very interesting take on the character and his impassioned speech to Jesus at the end of the film is moving. Overall an interesting take on the Jesus story but wish it was more familiar in certain areas.
Smoke ⭐️⭐️
This movie received pretty positive reviews, but I think what people are really seeing is two excellent performances in a movie with a subpar script. The movie is comprised of multiple stories that interconnect. That's not a problem, but I find that most of these stories aren't focused on enough and don't have satisfying resolutions. As a result, I feel like I'm watching a movie that's half finished. I also found some of the dialogue to be hammy and better suited to a stage play. But Harvey Keitel and William Hurt are so natural and brilliant in their performances that they make the movie appear good.
Blue In the Face ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a half
A companion film to Smoke that came out in the same year. I actually liked it a lot more. It doesn't really have a major story and is comprised mostly of interviews with random New Yorkers and customers coming into Auggie's cigar shop. This is what I expected Smoke to be, and I'm glad I watched this film. Before I started watching it I was having a pretty bad day and my thoughts went the suicidal ideation route. This movie actually made me feel better. All of a sudden I felt like I was with friends just having random conversations. Even though I know nothing about smoking or living in Brooklyn, I still found the conversations interesting and relatable. Especially about crime rates among youths and smoking becoming less popular. I liked seeing Keitel's Auggie character again even though they could've focused on him a little more. I also like that Victor Argo has a bigger role. Seeing him randomly pull out his guitar and start singing reminded me of my dad and made me a little emotional. I knocked off a star because I felt Auggie's girlfriend was annoying. As a Hispanic, I hate seeing over the top Latin performances where the "comedy" is that the Latino speaks funny. She feels like a caricature of a fiery latina. But other than that I enjoyed the film. It's very charming and reminds me of a different time. If you're expecting an actual film like Smoke, you might be disappointed. This isn't really a movie. It contains a lot of improv and documentary style filming. But if you know what you're getting from a movie like this, then you should enjoy it.
Dangerous Game ⭐️
This is one of those movies that I couldn't wait to be over. It does get better in the second half but I just didn't care by that point. It's one of those movies in a movie where Keitel plays a director making a film. You see the characters as they're filming but also as actors living their life outside the movie. I didn't understand if the movie is supposed to be mirroring Keitel's character's life as we don't really focus on his personal life until the second half. James Russo overacts and Madonna underacts. Keitel does very well and it's interesting to see the comparison between his performance and the much less talented leads. There is some good dialogue and it has an interesting concept, but the filming of the movie gets too repetitive and a bit disturbing with its subject matter. This movie feels like it's for a specific type of viewer and it's not me.
Shadrach ⭐️⭐️⭐️ and a half.
This is a fine movie that had the potential to be great. It clearly doesn't have a big budget and not many known actors which hurts it. But the story is a good one. It takes place in the 30s and focuses on a 99 year old black man named Shadrach who used to be a slave wanting to come back to the land he used to work so he could be buried there. Keitel is the patriarch of a lowclass family that live on the land now and also the descendant of the family that used to own Shadrach. The movie has a good concept, but I wish Shadrach spoke more. Being as old as he is he barely speaks at all. As it is, it doesn't really make sense for Keitel's character to end up doing as Shadrach requests as he's a pretty racist guy. If this had the old Hollywood trope of a prejudiced white guy who learns a lesson from a humble black guy it probably would've suited the story better. But it's an enjoyable little film and Keitel gives one of his best performances.
That's it so far. Thanks for reading. Remember to please leave some recommendations for more of Keitel's films and your thoughts on my reviews. I'll be editing this list as I watch more of his films.
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Last Update: + Back to Black actors + Actors from The Apprentice, The End, The Shrouds + Lily Gladstone, Fancy Dance, + Austin Butler, Dune, + Hard Truths Supporting Actors, + Amy Adams, Nightbitch
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE - Christopher Abbott / Bring Them Down 🇺🇸 - Casey Affleck / The Instigators 🇺🇸 - Demián Bichir / Without Blood 🇲🇽 - Raùl Briones / La Cocina 🇲🇽 - Adrien Brody / The Brutalist 🇺🇸 - Austin Butler / The Bikeriders 🇺🇸 - Vincent Cassel / The Shrouds 🇫🇷 - Timothée Chalamet / Dune: Part Two 🇺🇸 - Thomas Haden Church / Accidental Texan 🇺🇸 - Kevin Costner / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Kevin Costner / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Daniel Craig / Queer 🇬🇧 - Kieran Culkin / A Real Pain 🇺🇸 - Matt Damon / The Instigators 🇺🇸 - Colman Domingo / Sing Sing 🇺🇸 - Adam Driver / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Jesse Eisenberg / A Real Pain 🇺🇸 - Ralph Fiennes / Conclave 🇬🇧 - Andrew Garfield / We Live in Time 🇬🇧 - Richard Gere / Oh, Canada 🇺🇸 - Ryan Gosling / The Fall Guy 🇨🇦 - Tom Hanks / Here 🇺🇸 - Ed Harris / Long Day's Journey Into Night 🇺🇸 - Elliott Heffernan / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Chris Hemsworth / Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 🇦🇺 - Ethan Herisse / The Nickel Boys 🇺🇸 - André Holland / The Actor 🇺🇸 - André Holland / Exhibiting Forgiveness 🇺🇸 - Nicholas Hoult / Juror No. 2 🇬🇧 - Oscar Isaac / In the Hand of Dante 🇺🇸 - Barry Keoghan / Bird 🇮🇪 - Keith Kupferer / Ghostlight 🇺🇸 - George MacKay / The End 🇬🇧 - Paul Mescal / Gladiator 2 🇮🇪 - Shameik Moore / The Gutter 🇺🇸 - Cillian Murphy / Small Things Like These 🇮🇪 - Josh O'Connor / Challengers 🇬🇧 - Rudy Pankow / Accidental Texan 🇺🇸 - Joaquin Phoenix / Joker: Folie à Deux 🇺🇸 - Joaquin Phoenix / Polaris 🇺🇸 - Marco Pigossi / High Tide 🇧🇷 - Jesse Plemons / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Jeremy Pope / The Collaboration 🇺🇸 - Glen Powell / Hit Man 🇺🇸 - Bill Skarsgård / Nosferatu 🇸🇪 - Sebastian Stan / The Apprentice 🇺🇸 - Sebastian Stan / A Different Man 🇺🇸 - David Strathairn / A Little Prayer 🇺🇸 - Jeremy Strong / The Apprentice 🇺🇸 - Izaac Wang / Dìdi 🇺🇸 - John David Washington / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Ben Whishaw / Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie 🇬🇧
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE - Marisa Abela / Back to Black 🇬🇧 - Amy Adams / Nightbitch 🇺🇸 - Nykiya Adams / Bird 🇬🇧 - Uzo Aduba / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Michaela Coel / Mother Mary 🇬🇧 - Jodie Comer / The Bikeriders 🇬🇧 - Carrie Coon / His Three Daughters 🇺🇸 - Andra Day / The Deliverance 🇺🇸 - Ana de Armas / Eden 🇨🇺 - Danielle Deadwyler / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Ryan Destiny / Flint Strong 🇺🇸 - Kirsten Dunst / Civil War 🇺🇸 - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Nathalie Emmanuel / Megalopolis 🇬🇧 - Cynthia Erivo / Wicked: Part One 🇬🇧 - Lily Gladstone / Fancy Dance 🇺🇸 - Ariana Grande / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - Anne Hathaway / Mother Mary 🇺🇸 - Salma Hayek / Without Blood 🇲🇽 - Kirby / We Strangers 🇬🇧 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste / Hard Truths 🇬🇧 - Angelina Jolie / Maria 🇺🇸 - Felicity Jones / The Brutalist 🇬🇧 - Nicole Kidman / Holland, Michigan 🇦🇺 - Regina King / Shirley 🇺🇸 - Diane Kruger / The Shrouds 🇩🇪 - Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie à Deux 🇺🇸 - Jessica Lange / Long Day's Journey Into Night 🇺🇸 - Jane Levy / A Little Prayer 🇺🇸 - Alice Lowe / Timestalker 🇬🇧 - Mikey Madison / Anora 🇺🇸 - Rooney Mara / Polaris 🇺🇸 - Sonequa Martin-Green / My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸 - Noémie Merlant / Emmanuelle 🇫🇷 - Sienna Miller / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇬🇧 - Sienna Miller / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇬🇧 - Julianne Moore / Echo Valley 🇺🇸 - Katy O'Brian / Love Lies Bleeding 🇺🇸 - Mary-Louise Parker / Omni Loop 🇺🇸 - Florence Pugh / We Live in Time 🇬🇧 - Saoirse Ronan / Blitz 🇮🇪 - Saoirse Ronan / The Outrun 🇮🇪 - June Squibb / Thelma 🇺🇸 - Kristen Stewart / Love Lies Bleeding 🇺🇸 - Emma Stone / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Sydney Sweeney / Echo Valley 🇺🇸 - Tilda Swinton / The End 🇬🇧 - Anya Taylor-Joy / Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 🇬🇧 - Robin Wright / Here 🇺🇸 - Zendaya / Challengers 🇺🇸
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - Joe Alwyn / Kinds of Kindness 🇬🇧 - Utkarsh Ambudkar / My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸 - Michael Angarano / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Mamoudou Athie / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Jonathan Bailey / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - CJ Beckford / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Paul Bettany / The Collaboration 🇬🇧 - Paul Bettany / Here 🇬🇧 - Haluk Bilginer / Maria 🇹🇷 - Reed Birney / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Yura Borisov / Anora 🇷🇺 - Jamie Campbell Bower / Emmanuelle 🇬🇧 - Jamie Campbell Bower / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇬🇧 - Daniel Brühl / Eden 🇩🇪 - Austin Butler / Dune: Part Two 🇺🇸 - Louis Cancelmi / In the Hand of Dante 🇺🇸 - Sergio Castellitto / Conclave 🇮🇹 - Thomas Haden Church / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Benjamin Clémentine / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Kieran Culkin / A Real Pain 🇺🇸 - Vondie Curtis-Hall / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Willem Dafoe / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Harris Dickinson / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Carlos Diehz / Conclave 🇲🇽 - Martin Donovan / The Apprentice 🇺🇸 - Elliot Edusah / Hard Truths 🇬🇧 - Jacob Elordi / Oh, Canada 🇦🇺 - Giancarlo Esposito / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Jeff Fahey / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Mike Faist / Challengers 🇺🇸 - Laurence Fishburne / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Ray Fisher / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Ben Foster / Long Day's Journey Into Night 🇺🇸 - Morgan Freeman / My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸 - Gael García Bernal / Holland, Michigan 🇲🇽 - Leigh Gill / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Jeff Goldblum / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - Stephen Graham / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Tom Hardy / The Bikeriders 🇬🇧 - Ed Harris / My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸 - Corey Hawkins / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Fred Hechinger / Gladiator 2 🇺🇸 - Elliott Heffernan / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Brian Tyree Henry / Flint Strong 🇺🇸 - Anthony Hopkins / One Life 🏴 - Russell Hornsby / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Danny Huston / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Michael Imperioli / Oh, Canada 🇺🇸 - Samuel L. Jackson / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Derek Jacobi / Gladiator 2 🇬🇧 - John Earl Jelks / Exhibiting Forgiveness 🇺🇸 - Karren Karagulian / Anora 🇺🇸 - Barry Keoghan / Bring Them Down 🇮🇪 - Jude Law / Eden 🇬🇧 - John Lithgow / Conclave 🇺🇸 - Angus Macfadyen / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🏴 - Matthew Macfadyen / Holland, Michigan 🇬🇧 - Clarence Maclin / Sing Sing 🇺🇸 - John Malkovich / In the Hand of Dante 🇺🇸 - Colm Meaney / Bring Them Down 🇮🇪 - Tatanka Means / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Juan Minujín / Without Blood 🇦🇷 - Colin Morgan / Long Day's Journey Into Night 🇮🇪 - Rob Morgan / The Deliverance 🇺🇸 - Lucian Msamati / Conclave 🇿🇼 - James Nelson-Joyce / Bird 🇬🇧 - Brian F. O'Byrne / Conclave 🇮🇪 - Jack O'Connell / Back to Black 🇬🇧 - David O'Hara / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🏴 - David O'Hara / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🏴 - Al Pacino / In the Hand of Dante 🇺🇸 - Pedro Pascal / Gladiator 2 🇺🇸 - Will Patton / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Will Patton / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Tom Payne / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇬🇧 - Tom Payne / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇬🇧 - Guy Pearce / The Brutalist 🇦🇺 - Guy Pearce / The Shrouds 🇦🇺 - Adam Pearson / A Different Man 🇬🇧 - Mekhi Phifer / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Michael Potts / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Joseph Quinn / Gladiator 2 🇬🇧 - Paul Raci / Sing Sing 🇺🇸 - Lance Reddick / Shirley 🇺🇸 - Ving Rhames / The Instigators 🇺🇸 - Giovanni Ribisi / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Giovanni Ribisi / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Franz Rogowski / Bird 🇩🇪 - Michael Rooker / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Michael Shannon / The End 🇺🇸 - Will Sharpe / Emmanuelle 🇬🇧 - J.K. Simmons / Juror No. 2 🇺🇸 - Ethan Slater / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - Douglas Smith / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇨🇦 - Douglas Smith / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇨🇦 - Drew Starkey / Queer 🇺🇸 - Jeremy Strong / The Apprentice 🇺🇸 - Stanley Tucci / Conclave 🇺🇸 - Glynn Turman / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Glynn Turman / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Jon Voight / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Denzel Washington / Gladiator 2 🇺🇸 - David Webber / Hard Truths 🇬🇧 - Paul Weller / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Forest Whitaker / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Brandon Wilson / The Nickel Boys 🇺🇸 - Luke Wilson / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Luke Wilson / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Tony Winters / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Sam Worthington / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇦🇺 - Sam Worthington / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇦🇺
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - Oluniké Adeliyi / Flint Strong 🇨🇦 - Uzo Aduba / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Adria Arjona / Hit Man 🇵🇷 - Michele Austin / Hard Truths 🇬🇧 - De'Adre Aziza / Flint Strong 🇺🇸 - Maria Bakalova / The Apprentice 🇧🇬 - Marissa Bode / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - Jessica Brown Findlay / Mother Mary 🇬🇧 - Kathy Burke / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Gemma Chan / The Actor 🇬🇧 - Hong Chau / The Instigators 🇺🇸 - Hong Chau / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Joan Chen / Dìdi 🇨🇳 - Sian Clifford / Mother Mary 🇬🇧 - Glenn Close / The Deliverance 🇺🇸 - Toni Collette / Juror No. 2 🇦🇺 - Jodie Comer / The Bikeriders 🇬🇧 - Dolly de Leon / Ghostlight 🇵🇭 - Danielle Deadwyler / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Dale Dickey / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Michelle Dockery / Here 🇬🇧 - Ayo Edebiri / Omni Loop 🇺🇸 - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor / The Deliverance 🇺🇸 - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor / Exhibiting Forgiveness 🇺🇸 - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor / The Nickel Boys 🇺🇸 - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Isabelle Fuhrman / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Isabelle Fuhrman / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Valeria Golino / Maria 🇮🇹 - Ariana Grande / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - Chacha Huang / Emmanuelle 🇨🇳 - Ella Hunt / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇬🇧 - Ella Hunt / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇬🇧 - Sabrina Impacciatore / In the Hand of Dante 🇮🇹 - Felicity Jones / The Brutalist 🇬🇧 - Erin Kellyman / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Vanessa Kirby / Eden 🇬🇧 - Diane Kruger / The Shrouds 🇩🇪 - Sanaa Lathan / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Abbey Lee / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇦🇺 - Natasha Lyonne / His Three Daughters 🇺🇸 - Jena Malone / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Lesley Manville / Back to Black 🇬🇧 - Lesley Manville / Queer 🇬🇧 - Rooney Mara / La Cocina 🇺🇸 - Sally Messham / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Sienna Miller / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇬🇧 - Sienna Miller / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇬🇧 - Mo'Nique / The Deliverance 🇺🇸 - Natalie Morales / My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸 - Julianne Nicholson / Janet Planet 🇺🇸 - Connie Nielsen / Gladiator 2 🇩🇰 - Nora-Jane Noone / Bring Them Down 🇮🇪 - Elizabeth Olsen / His Three Daughters 🇺🇸 - Aubrey Plaza / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Margaret Qualley / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Kathleen Quinlan / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Kathleen Quinlan / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Kelly Reilly / Here 🇬🇧 - Renate Reinsve / A Different Man 🇳🇴 - Mica Ricketts / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Saoirse Ronan / Blitz 🇮🇪 - Isabella Rossellini / Conclave 🇮🇹 - Hunter Schafer / Mother Mary 🇺🇸 - Hayley Squires / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Sydney Sweeney / Echo Valley 🇺🇸 - Sydney Sweeney / Eden 🇺🇸 - Uma Thurman / Oh, Canada 🇺🇸 - Hannah Waddingham / The Fall Guy 🇬🇧 - Eileen Walsh / Small Things Like These 🇮🇪 - Emily Watson / Small Things Like These 🇬🇧 - Naomi Watts / Emmanuelle 🇬🇧 - Michelle Yeoh / Wicked: Part One 🇲🇾
And my personal predictions for the top 8 categories (alts are in no particular order):
Best Picture: - The Actor - Blitz - Conclave - Dìdi - Dune: Part Two - Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - My Dead Friend Zoe - Queer - A Real Pain - Sing Sing (winner)
(Alts: Joker: Folie à Deux, Hard Truths, Kinds of Kindness, Gladiator 2, Civil War, Nosferatu)
Best Director: - Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain - Steve McQueen – Blitz - George Miller – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (winner) - Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two - Sean Wang – Dìdi
(Alts: Greg Kwedar – Sing Sing, Ridley Scott – Gladiator 2, Mike Leigh – Hard Truths, Duke Johnson – The Actor, Luca Guadagnino – Queer, Edward Berger – Conclave)
Best Actor: - Daniel Craig – Queer - Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain - Colman Domingo – Sing Sing (winner) - Richard Gere – Oh, Canada - André Holland – The Actor
(Alts: Cillian Murphy – Small Things Like These, Ralph Fiennes – Conclave, Jeremy Pope – The Collaboration, David Strathairn – A Little Prayer, Sebastian Stan – A Different Man, Bill Skarsgård – Nosferatu)
Best Actress: - Kirsten Dunst – Civil War - Angelina Jolie – Maria - Lady Gaga – Joker: Folie à Deux - Sonequa Martin-Green – My Dead Friend Zoe - Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun (winner)
(Alts: Anya Taylor-Joy – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Jessica Lange – Long Day's Journey Into Night, Uzo Aduba – The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths, Zendaya – Challengers, Amy Adams – Nightbitch)
Best Supporting Actor: - Carlos Diehz – Conclave - Ed Harris – My Dead Friend Zoe - Samuel L. Jackson – The Piano Lesson (winner) - Paul Raci – Sing Sing - Paul Weller – Blitz
(Alts: Paul Bettany – The Collaboration, Drew Starkey – Queer, Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing, Elliott Heffernan – Blitz, Adam Pearson – A Different Man, Denzel Washington – Gladiator 2)
Best Supporting Actress: - Joan Chen – Dìdi (winner) - Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson - Natasha Lyonne – His Three Daughters - Natalie Morales – My Dead Friend Zoe - Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
(Alts: Emily Watson – Small Things Like These, Hayley Squires – Blitz, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, Erin Kellyman – Blitz, Kathy Burke – Blitz, Margaret Qualley – Kinds of Kindness)
Best Adapted Screenplay: - The Actor - Conclave - My Dead Friend Zoe (winner) - Oh, Canada - Sing Sing
(Alts: Small Things Like These, Joker: Folie à Deux, Queer, Dune: Part Two, The Collaboration, Hit Man)
Best Original Screenplay: - Blitz - Dìdi - Hard Truths - His Three Daughters - A Real Pain (winner)
(Alts: Kinds of Kindness, Omni Loop, Challengers, A Different Man, Exhibiting Forgiveness, Anora)
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Last Update: + Back to Black actors + Actors from The Apprentice, The End, The Shrouds + Lily Gladstone, Fancy Dance, + Austin Butler, Dune, + Hard Truths Supporting Actors, + Amy Adams, Nightbitch
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE - Christopher Abbott / Bring Them Down 🇺🇸 - Casey Affleck / The Instigators 🇺🇸 - Demián Bichir / Without Blood 🇲🇽 - Raùl Briones / La Cocina 🇲🇽 - Adrien Brody / The Brutalist 🇺🇸 - Austin Butler / The Bikeriders 🇺🇸 - Vincent Cassel / The Shrouds 🇫🇷 - Timothée Chalamet / Dune: Part Two 🇺🇸 - Thomas Haden Church / Accidental Texan 🇺🇸 - Kevin Costner / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Kevin Costner / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Daniel Craig / Queer 🇬🇧 - Kieran Culkin / A Real Pain 🇺🇸 - Matt Damon / The Instigators 🇺🇸 - Colman Domingo / Sing Sing 🇺🇸 - Adam Driver / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Jesse Eisenberg / A Real Pain 🇺🇸 - Ralph Fiennes / Conclave 🇬🇧 - Andrew Garfield / We Live in Time 🇬🇧 - Richard Gere / Oh, Canada 🇺🇸 - Ryan Gosling / The Fall Guy 🇨🇦 - Tom Hanks / Here 🇺🇸 - Ed Harris / Long Day's Journey Into Night 🇺🇸 - Elliott Heffernan / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Chris Hemsworth / Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 🇦🇺 - Ethan Herisse / The Nickel Boys 🇺🇸 - André Holland / The Actor 🇺🇸 - André Holland / Exhibiting Forgiveness 🇺🇸 - Nicholas Hoult / Juror No. 2 🇬🇧 - Oscar Isaac / In the Hand of Dante 🇺🇸 - Barry Keoghan / Bird 🇮🇪 - Keith Kupferer / Ghostlight 🇺🇸 - George MacKay / The End 🇬🇧 - Paul Mescal / Gladiator 2 🇮🇪 - Shameik Moore / The Gutter 🇺🇸 - Cillian Murphy / Small Things Like These 🇮🇪 - Josh O'Connor / Challengers 🇬🇧 - Rudy Pankow / Accidental Texan 🇺🇸 - Joaquin Phoenix / Joker: Folie à Deux 🇺🇸 - Joaquin Phoenix / Polaris 🇺🇸 - Marco Pigossi / High Tide 🇧🇷 - Jesse Plemons / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Jeremy Pope / The Collaboration 🇺🇸 - Glen Powell / Hit Man 🇺🇸 - Bill Skarsgård / Nosferatu 🇸🇪 - Sebastian Stan / The Apprentice 🇺🇸 - Sebastian Stan / A Different Man 🇺🇸 - David Strathairn / A Little Prayer 🇺🇸 - Jeremy Strong / The Apprentice 🇺🇸 - Izaac Wang / Dìdi 🇺🇸 - John David Washington / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Ben Whishaw / Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie 🇬🇧
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE - Marisa Abela / Back to Black 🇬🇧 - Amy Adams / Nightbitch 🇺🇸 - Nykiya Adams / Bird 🇬🇧 - Uzo Aduba / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Michaela Coel / Mother Mary 🇬🇧 - Jodie Comer / The Bikeriders 🇬🇧 - Carrie Coon / His Three Daughters 🇺🇸 - Andra Day / The Deliverance 🇺🇸 - Ana de Armas / Eden 🇨🇺 - Danielle Deadwyler / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Ryan Destiny / Flint Strong 🇺🇸 - Kirsten Dunst / Civil War 🇺🇸 - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Nathalie Emmanuel / Megalopolis 🇬🇧 - Cynthia Erivo / Wicked: Part One 🇬🇧 - Lily Gladstone / Fancy Dance 🇺🇸 - Ariana Grande / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - Anne Hathaway / Mother Mary 🇺🇸 - Salma Hayek / Without Blood 🇲🇽 - Kirby / We Strangers 🇬🇧 - Marianne Jean-Baptiste / Hard Truths 🇬🇧 - Angelina Jolie / Maria 🇺🇸 - Felicity Jones / The Brutalist 🇬🇧 - Nicole Kidman / Holland, Michigan 🇦🇺 - Regina King / Shirley 🇺🇸 - Diane Kruger / The Shrouds 🇩🇪 - Lady Gaga / Joker: Folie à Deux 🇺🇸 - Jessica Lange / Long Day's Journey Into Night 🇺🇸 - Jane Levy / A Little Prayer 🇺🇸 - Alice Lowe / Timestalker 🇬🇧 - Mikey Madison / Anora 🇺🇸 - Rooney Mara / Polaris 🇺🇸 - Sonequa Martin-Green / My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸 - Noémie Merlant / Emmanuelle 🇫🇷 - Sienna Miller / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇬🇧 - Sienna Miller / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇬🇧 - Julianne Moore / Echo Valley 🇺🇸 - Katy O'Brian / Love Lies Bleeding 🇺🇸 - Mary-Louise Parker / Omni Loop 🇺🇸 - Florence Pugh / We Live in Time 🇬🇧 - Saoirse Ronan / Blitz 🇮🇪 - Saoirse Ronan / The Outrun 🇮🇪 - June Squibb / Thelma 🇺🇸 - Kristen Stewart / Love Lies Bleeding 🇺🇸 - Emma Stone / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Sydney Sweeney / Echo Valley 🇺🇸 - Tilda Swinton / The End 🇬🇧 - Anya Taylor-Joy / Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 🇬🇧 - Robin Wright / Here 🇺🇸 - Zendaya / Challengers 🇺🇸
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - Joe Alwyn / Kinds of Kindness 🇬🇧 - Utkarsh Ambudkar / My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸 - Michael Angarano / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Mamoudou Athie / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Jonathan Bailey / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - CJ Beckford / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Paul Bettany / The Collaboration 🇬🇧 - Paul Bettany / Here 🇬🇧 - Haluk Bilginer / Maria 🇹🇷 - Reed Birney / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Yura Borisov / Anora 🇷🇺 - Jamie Campbell Bower / Emmanuelle 🇬🇧 - Jamie Campbell Bower / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇬🇧 - Daniel Brühl / Eden 🇩🇪 - Austin Butler / Dune: Part Two 🇺🇸 - Louis Cancelmi / In the Hand of Dante 🇺🇸 - Sergio Castellitto / Conclave 🇮🇹 - Thomas Haden Church / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Benjamin Clémentine / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Kieran Culkin / A Real Pain 🇺🇸 - Vondie Curtis-Hall / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Willem Dafoe / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Harris Dickinson / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Carlos Diehz / Conclave 🇲🇽 - Martin Donovan / The Apprentice 🇺🇸 - Elliot Edusah / Hard Truths 🇬🇧 - Jacob Elordi / Oh, Canada 🇦🇺 - Giancarlo Esposito / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Jeff Fahey / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Mike Faist / Challengers 🇺🇸 - Laurence Fishburne / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Ray Fisher / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Ben Foster / Long Day's Journey Into Night 🇺🇸 - Morgan Freeman / My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸 - Gael García Bernal / Holland, Michigan 🇲🇽 - Leigh Gill / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Jeff Goldblum / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - Stephen Graham / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Tom Hardy / The Bikeriders 🇬🇧 - Ed Harris / My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸 - Corey Hawkins / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Fred Hechinger / Gladiator 2 🇺🇸 - Elliott Heffernan / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Brian Tyree Henry / Flint Strong 🇺🇸 - Anthony Hopkins / One Life 🏴 - Russell Hornsby / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Danny Huston / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Michael Imperioli / Oh, Canada 🇺🇸 - Samuel L. Jackson / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Derek Jacobi / Gladiator 2 🇬🇧 - John Earl Jelks / Exhibiting Forgiveness 🇺🇸 - Karren Karagulian / Anora 🇺🇸 - Barry Keoghan / Bring Them Down 🇮🇪 - Jude Law / Eden 🇬🇧 - John Lithgow / Conclave 🇺🇸 - Angus Macfadyen / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🏴 - Matthew Macfadyen / Holland, Michigan 🇬🇧 - Clarence Maclin / Sing Sing 🇺🇸 - John Malkovich / In the Hand of Dante 🇺🇸 - Colm Meaney / Bring Them Down 🇮🇪 - Tatanka Means / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Juan Minujín / Without Blood 🇦🇷 - Colin Morgan / Long Day's Journey Into Night 🇮🇪 - Rob Morgan / The Deliverance 🇺🇸 - Lucian Msamati / Conclave 🇿🇼 - James Nelson-Joyce / Bird 🇬🇧 - Brian F. O'Byrne / Conclave 🇮🇪 - Jack O'Connell / Back to Black 🇬🇧 - David O'Hara / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🏴 - David O'Hara / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🏴 - Al Pacino / In the Hand of Dante 🇺🇸 - Pedro Pascal / Gladiator 2 🇺🇸 - Will Patton / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Will Patton / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Tom Payne / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇬🇧 - Tom Payne / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇬🇧 - Guy Pearce / The Brutalist 🇦🇺 - Guy Pearce / The Shrouds 🇦🇺 - Adam Pearson / A Different Man 🇬🇧 - Mekhi Phifer / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Michael Potts / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Joseph Quinn / Gladiator 2 🇬🇧 - Paul Raci / Sing Sing 🇺🇸 - Lance Reddick / Shirley 🇺🇸 - Ving Rhames / The Instigators 🇺🇸 - Giovanni Ribisi / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Giovanni Ribisi / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Franz Rogowski / Bird 🇩🇪 - Michael Rooker / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Michael Shannon / The End 🇺🇸 - Will Sharpe / Emmanuelle 🇬🇧 - J.K. Simmons / Juror No. 2 🇺🇸 - Ethan Slater / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - Douglas Smith / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇨🇦 - Douglas Smith / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇨🇦 - Drew Starkey / Queer 🇺🇸 - Jeremy Strong / The Apprentice 🇺🇸 - Stanley Tucci / Conclave 🇺🇸 - Glynn Turman / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Glynn Turman / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Jon Voight / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Denzel Washington / Gladiator 2 🇺🇸 - David Webber / Hard Truths 🇬🇧 - Paul Weller / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Forest Whitaker / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Brandon Wilson / The Nickel Boys 🇺🇸 - Luke Wilson / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Luke Wilson / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Tony Winters / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Sam Worthington / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇦🇺 - Sam Worthington / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇦🇺
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - Oluniké Adeliyi / Flint Strong 🇨🇦 - Uzo Aduba / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Adria Arjona / Hit Man 🇵🇷 - Michele Austin / Hard Truths 🇬🇧 - De'Adre Aziza / Flint Strong 🇺🇸 - Maria Bakalova / The Apprentice 🇧🇬 - Marissa Bode / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - Jessica Brown Findlay / Mother Mary 🇬🇧 - Kathy Burke / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Gemma Chan / The Actor 🇬🇧 - Hong Chau / The Instigators 🇺🇸 - Hong Chau / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Joan Chen / Dìdi 🇨🇳 - Sian Clifford / Mother Mary 🇬🇧 - Glenn Close / The Deliverance 🇺🇸 - Toni Collette / Juror No. 2 🇦🇺 - Jodie Comer / The Bikeriders 🇬🇧 - Dolly de Leon / Ghostlight 🇵🇭 - Danielle Deadwyler / The Piano Lesson 🇺🇸 - Dale Dickey / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Michelle Dockery / Here 🇬🇧 - Ayo Edebiri / Omni Loop 🇺🇸 - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor / The Deliverance 🇺🇸 - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor / Exhibiting Forgiveness 🇺🇸 - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor / The Nickel Boys 🇺🇸 - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Isabelle Fuhrman / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Isabelle Fuhrman / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Valeria Golino / Maria 🇮🇹 - Ariana Grande / Wicked: Part One 🇺🇸 - Chacha Huang / Emmanuelle 🇨🇳 - Ella Hunt / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇬🇧 - Ella Hunt / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇬🇧 - Sabrina Impacciatore / In the Hand of Dante 🇮🇹 - Felicity Jones / The Brutalist 🇬🇧 - Erin Kellyman / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Vanessa Kirby / Eden 🇬🇧 - Diane Kruger / The Shrouds 🇩🇪 - Sanaa Lathan / The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 🇺🇸 - Abbey Lee / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇦🇺 - Natasha Lyonne / His Three Daughters 🇺🇸 - Jena Malone / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Lesley Manville / Back to Black 🇬🇧 - Lesley Manville / Queer 🇬🇧 - Rooney Mara / La Cocina 🇺🇸 - Sally Messham / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Sienna Miller / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇬🇧 - Sienna Miller / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇬🇧 - Mo'Nique / The Deliverance 🇺🇸 - Natalie Morales / My Dead Friend Zoe 🇺🇸 - Julianne Nicholson / Janet Planet 🇺🇸 - Connie Nielsen / Gladiator 2 🇩🇰 - Nora-Jane Noone / Bring Them Down 🇮🇪 - Elizabeth Olsen / His Three Daughters 🇺🇸 - Aubrey Plaza / Megalopolis 🇺🇸 - Margaret Qualley / Kinds of Kindness 🇺🇸 - Kathleen Quinlan / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One 🇺🇸 - Kathleen Quinlan / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two 🇺🇸 - Kelly Reilly / Here 🇬🇧 - Renate Reinsve / A Different Man 🇳🇴 - Mica Ricketts / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Saoirse Ronan / Blitz 🇮🇪 - Isabella Rossellini / Conclave 🇮🇹 - Hunter Schafer / Mother Mary 🇺🇸 - Hayley Squires / Blitz 🇬🇧 - Sydney Sweeney / Echo Valley 🇺🇸 - Sydney Sweeney / Eden 🇺🇸 - Uma Thurman / Oh, Canada 🇺🇸 - Hannah Waddingham / The Fall Guy 🇬🇧 - Eileen Walsh / Small Things Like These 🇮🇪 - Emily Watson / Small Things Like These 🇬🇧 - Naomi Watts / Emmanuelle 🇬🇧 - Michelle Yeoh / Wicked: Part One 🇲🇾
And my personal predictions for the top 8 categories (alts are in no particular order):
Best Picture: - The Actor - Blitz - Conclave - Dìdi - Dune: Part Two - Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - My Dead Friend Zoe - Queer - A Real Pain - Sing Sing (winner)
(Alts: Joker: Folie à Deux, Hard Truths, Kinds of Kindness, Gladiator 2, Civil War, Nosferatu)
Best Director: - Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain - Steve McQueen – Blitz - George Miller – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (winner) - Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two - Sean Wang – Dìdi
(Alts: Greg Kwedar – Sing Sing, Ridley Scott – Gladiator 2, Mike Leigh – Hard Truths, Duke Johnson – The Actor, Luca Guadagnino – Queer, Edward Berger – Conclave)
Best Actor: - Daniel Craig – Queer - Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain - Colman Domingo – Sing Sing (winner) - Richard Gere – Oh, Canada - André Holland – The Actor
(Alts: Cillian Murphy – Small Things Like These, Ralph Fiennes – Conclave, Jeremy Pope – The Collaboration, David Strathairn – A Little Prayer, Sebastian Stan – A Different Man, Bill Skarsgård – Nosferatu)
Best Actress: - Kirsten Dunst – Civil War - Angelina Jolie – Maria - Lady Gaga – Joker: Folie à Deux - Sonequa Martin-Green – My Dead Friend Zoe - Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun (winner)
(Alts: Anya Taylor-Joy – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Jessica Lange – Long Day's Journey Into Night, Uzo Aduba – The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths, Zendaya – Challengers, Amy Adams – Nightbitch)
Best Supporting Actor: - Carlos Diehz – Conclave - Ed Harris – My Dead Friend Zoe - Samuel L. Jackson – The Piano Lesson (winner) - Paul Raci – Sing Sing - Paul Weller – Blitz
(Alts: Paul Bettany – The Collaboration, Drew Starkey – Queer, Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing, Elliott Heffernan – Blitz, Adam Pearson – A Different Man, Denzel Washington – Gladiator 2)
Best Supporting Actress: - Joan Chen – Dìdi (winner) - Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson - Natasha Lyonne – His Three Daughters - Natalie Morales – My Dead Friend Zoe - Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
(Alts: Emily Watson – Small Things Like These, Hayley Squires – Blitz, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, Erin Kellyman – Blitz, Kathy Burke – Blitz, Margaret Qualley – Kinds of Kindness)
Best Adapted Screenplay: - The Actor - Conclave - My Dead Friend Zoe (winner) - Oh, Canada - Sing Sing
(Alts: Small Things Like These, Joker: Folie à Deux, Queer, Dune: Part Two, The Collaboration, Hit Man)
Best Original Screenplay: - Blitz - Dìdi - Hard Truths - His Three Daughters - A Real Pain (winner)
(Alts: Kinds of Kindness, Omni Loop, Challengers, A Different Man, Exhibiting Forgiveness, Anora)
2024.03.24 14:46 Fun_Protection_6939 If there was a combined Oscar category of all the winners of the 1990's, where all the winners in every category went up against each other, who would win?
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- Dances With Wolves
- The Silence Of The Lambs
- Unforgiven
- Schindler's List
- Forrest Gump
- Braveheart
- The English Patient
- Titanic
- Shakespeare In Love
- American Beauty
- Kevin Costner-Dances With Wolves
- Jonathan Demme-The Silence Of The Lambs
- Clint Eastwood-Unforgiven
- Steven Spielberg-Schindler's List
- Robert Zemeckis-Forrest Gump
- Mel Gibson-Braveheart
- Anthony Mingella-The English Patient
- James Cameron-Titanic
- Steven Spielberg-Saving Private Ryan
- Sam Mendes-American Beauty
- Jeremy Irons-Reversal of Fortune
- Anthony Hopkins-The Silence Of The Lambs
- Al Pacino-Scent Of A Woman
- Tom Hanks (x2)-Philadelphia and Forrest Gump
- Nicholas Cage-Leaving Las Vegas
- Geoffrey Rush-Shine
- Jack Nicholson-As Good As It Gets
- Roberto Benigni-Life Is Beautiful
- Kevin Spacey-American Beauty
- Kathy Bates-Misery
- Jodie Foster-The Silence Of The Lambs
- Emma Thompson-Howards End
- Holly Hunter-The Piano
- Jessica Lange-Blue Sky
- Susan Sarandon-Dead Man Walking
- Frances McDormand-Fargo
- Helen Hunt-As Good As It Gets
- Gwyneth Paltrow-Shakespeare In Love
- Hilary Swank-Boys Don't Cry
- Joe Pesci-Goodfellas
- Jack Palance-City Slickers
- Gene Hackman-Unforgiven
- Tommy Lee Jones-The Fugitive
- Martin Landau-Ed Wood
- Kevin Spacey-The Usual Suspects
- Cuba Gooding Jr.-Jerry Maguire
- Robin Williams-Good Will Hunting
- James Coburn-Affliction
- Michael Caine-The Cider House Rules
- Whoopi Goldberg-Ghost
- Mercedes Ruehl-The Fisher King
- Marisa Tomei-My Cousin Vinny
- Anna Paquin-The Piano
- Dianne Wiest-Bullets Over Broadway
- Mira Sorvino-Mighty Aphrodite
- Juliette Binoche-The English Patient
- Kim Basinger-L.A. Confidential
- Judi Dench-Shakespeare In Love
- Angelina Jolie-Girl,Interrupted
- Ghost
- Thelma and Louise
- The Crying Game
- The Piano
- Pulp Fiction
- The Usual Suspects
- Fargo
- Good Will Hunting
- Shakespeare In Love
- American Beauty
- Dances With Wolves
- The Silence Of The Lambs
- Howards End
- Schindler's List
- Forrest Gump
- Sense and Sensibility
- Sling Blade
- L.A Confidential
- Gods and Monsters
- The Cider House Rules
- Picture-The Silence Of The Lambs (Alt.-Schindler's List)
- Director-Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List) (Alt.-Jonathan Demme)
- Actor-Anthony Hopkins (Alt.-Nicholas Cage)
- Actress-Jodie Foster (Alt.-Frances McDormand/Kathy Bates)
- Supporting Actor-Kevin Spacey (Alt.-Joe Pesci)
- Supporting Actress-Marisa Tomei (Alt.-This category is so weak, I guess Paquin, but it's really not even close)
- Original Screenplay-Fargo (Alt.-Good Will Hunting)
- Adapted Screenplay-L.A. Confidential (Alt.-The Silence Of The Lambs)
2024.03.23 02:17 Ok-Party-8785 Studio 54 Soundtrack CD’s Volume One and Two. If you want some great Disco 🪩 music. These two CDs are great. The movie 🎥 was ok. But, the soundtrack was excellent.
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2024.02.15 04:35 Realistic_Way2275 Holiday special
Anybody remember the holiday special, or I think it was a holiday special, were Thelma Hopkins, a.k.a. aunt Rachel sang Pure Imagination? I’ve been trying to find that clip for years…
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2024.02.03 22:17 Vexx50 Christian Thrift finds
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2024.01.20 23:35 SanderSo47 Directors at the Box Office: Ridley Scott
 | https://preview.redd.it/m3z6nhvz8odc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=f63a81779d571eec58707e1b4f9933985fb96e0b submitted by SanderSo47 to boxoffice [link] [comments] Here's a new edition of "Directors at the Box Office", which seeks to explore the directors' trajectory at the box office and analyze their hits and bombs. I already talked about a few, and as I promised, it's Ridley Scott's turn. Growing up, Scott admired science fiction films like It! The Terror from Beyond Space, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Them! But he never considered a filmmaking career until he watched 2001: A Space Odyssey, about which he said, "Once I saw that, I knew what I could do." In the 1960s, he secured a job as a trainee set designer with the BBC and one of his assignments was designing the Daleks' debut in Doctor Who, but a scheduling conflict prevented it from happening. He and his younger brother Tony (also a director) founded a production company so they could direct commercials, which were popular in the United Kingdom. But Scott didn't have a chance at a film until 1977. From a box office perspective, how reliable is he to deliver a box office hit? That's the point of this post. To analyze his career. The Duellists (1977)"Fencing is a science. Loving is a passion. Duelling is an obsession."His directorial debut. Based on Joseph Conrad's short story The Duel, it stars Harvey Keitel, Keith Carradine, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines, Robert Stephens, Tom Conti, and Stacy Keach. Set in France during the Napoleonic Wars, the film focuses on a series of duels between two rival officers, the obsessive Bonapartist Gabriel Feraud and aristocratic Armand d'Hubert, that spans nearly 20 years and reflects the political tumult of early 19th-century France. There's no box office data available. The film enjoyed very strong reviews, deemed as a very promising debut for Scott. He made a very first impression, but the second impression is also very important. Alien (1979)"In space, no one can hear you scream."His second film. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. It follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who, after coming across a mysterious derelict spaceship on an uncharted planetoid, find themselves up against an aggressive and deadly extraterrestrial set loose on the Nostromo. While studying cinema at the University of Southern California, Dan O'Bannon had made a science-fiction comedy film, Dark Star, with director John Carpenter. The film featured an alien, which was played for the comedic effect. The experience left O'Bannon "really wanting to do an alien that looked real." He started working on a script featuring alien, which would lean on horror. Ronald Shusett, meanwhile, was working on an early version of what would eventually become Total Recall. Impressed by Dark Star, he contacted O'Bannon and the two agreed to collaborate on their projects, choosing to work on O'Bannon's film first, as they believed it would be less costly to produce. Initially, Fox was not interested in greenlighting science fiction. However, after the gigantic success of Star Wars, they decided to give the project a chance. Scott was hired after the writers loved The Duellists, and he envisioned it as "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre of science fiction". Scott chose not to show the full Alien for most of the film, keeping most of its body in shadow to create a sense of terror and heighten suspense. The film originally was to conclude with the destruction of the Nostromo while Ripley escapes in the shuttle Narcissus. However, Scott conceived of a "fourth act" to the film in which the alien appears on the shuttle and Ripley is forced to confront it. He pitched the idea to Fox and negotiated an increase in the budget to film the scene over several extra days. Scott had wanted the alien to bite off Ripley's head and then make the final log entry in her voice, but the producers vetoed this idea, because they believed the alien should die at the end of the film. It was an immediate hit. It opened in 91 theaters, but it earned a fantastic $3.5 million in its opening weekend, and its $38.7K per-theater average was the best ever back then. Buoyed by fantastic word of mouth, it legged out and finished its worldwide run with $106 million, becoming one of the highest grossing R-rated films ever. It received critical acclaim and has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential science fiction and horror films ever made. Scott had just made a huge impression and he was just getting started.
Blade Runner (1982)"Man has made his match. Now it's his problem."His third film. Based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, it stars Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard reluctantly agrees to hunt them down. Both Scott and writer Hampton Fencher argued over the lead actor; Scott wanted Dustin Hoffman, while Fencher wrote the script with Robert Mitchum in mind. Eventually, Harrison Ford was chosen for his fantastic box office track record, and because he was interested in playing something with more depth. But Scott and Ford often clashed during filming, as Ford disliked the voice-overs. The rest of the cast wasn't difficult to find; Scott immediately got Rutger Hauer to play Roy Batty after watching him in Paul Verhoeven's films. Hauer rewrote his character's "tears in rain" speech himself and presented the words to Scott on set prior to filming. Contrary to popular belief, it was not improvised. Initially, it received polarizing reviews. There was praise for the production values and acting, but many felt that the story was very slow and lacked thrills. At the box office, despite Ford's box office power, it was a bomb, earning just $41 million worldwide on a $30 million budget, partly as it was facing competition from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. But soon enough, the film would garner a cult following and it's now proclaimed as one of the greatest and most influential science fiction films ever. A sequel, Blade Runner 2049, would be released in 2017, but with Denis Villeneuve taking over Scott.
Legend (1986)"There may never be another dawn."His fourth film. It stars Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert and Annabelle Lanyon, and revolves around Jack, a pure being who must stop the Lord of Darkness who plots to cover the world with eternal night. The film received mixed reviews, as critics felt that Scott couldn't add all elements to a coherent film. Cruise was a recognizable (but not big yet) star, but his presence didn't save the film, earning just $23 million, below its budget. The film achieved a cult following, but still remains one of Scott's least popular films.
Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)"He's a streetwise cop who just made detective. She's a stunning sophisticate who just saw a murder. A killer is the only thing they had in common. Until tonight."His fifth film. It stars Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, and Lorraine Bracco, and follows a police detective who has to protect a wealthy woman, who is a key witness in a murder trial. The film received favorable reviews, although critics said it felt very formulaic and felt it added nothing new. At the box office, Scott had his third bomb in a row, as the film couldn't recover his budget. He really needs a hit now.
Black Rain (1989)"An American cop in Japan. Their country. Their laws. Their game. His rules."His sixth film. It stars Michael Douglas, Andy García, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Yūsaku Matsuda and Tomisaburo Wakayama. The film focuses on two NYPD detectives who arrest a member of the yakuza and must escort him back to Japan. Once there, he escapes, and the two officers find themselves dragged deeper and deeper into the Japanese underworld. The film received mixed reviews from critics. But it had one thing going for it at the box office; Michael Douglas was a reliable box office star and this was his first film after winning the Oscar for Wall Street. Thanks to his presence, the film earned $134 million, Scott's first box office hit in 12 years.
Thelma & Louise (1991)"Somebody said "get a life"... so they did."His seventh film. The film stars Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, and a then-unknown Brad Pitt, and follows two friends who embark on a road trip that ends up in unforeseen circumstances. Scott was approached for the project, and he enthusiastically agreed to produce it. He didn't feel adequate in directing it, but Michelle Pfeiffer persuaded him to try it. Originally, Pfeiffer and Jodie Foster would play the leads and both were delighted with the project. But they had to drop out to scheduling conflicts, a decision that Pfeiffer regrets (Foster dropped for The Silence of the Lambs so she probably didn't regret it). Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn then offered to play the leads, but Streep later dropped out due to scheduling conflicts while Hawn was not considered right for the part. Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon were ultimately chosen. The two took extensive driving and shooting lessons in preparation for their roles. The film was a box office success, earning $45 million on a $16.5 million budget. It received acclaim, proclaimed as one of Scott's best films and became a landmark of feminist film. Scott received his first Oscar nomination for Best Director, while Davis, Sarandon and Khouri also received nominations.
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)"Centuries before the exploration of space, there was another voyage into the unknown."His eighth film. It stars Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, and Sigourney Weaver, and portrays a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on indigenous peoples. The film received negative reviews, particularly for its historical inaccuracy. It also massively bombed in North America, although it fared better in Europe.
White Squall (1996)"The strongest will in nature is the will to survive."His ninth film. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto, and Balthazar Getty, and follows a group of high school and college-aged teenagers who sign up for several months of training aboard a sail ship, a brigantine, and travel around half the globe when suddenly they are challenged by a severe storm. The film drew mixed reviews, and was another box office bomb. Oh Ridley.
G.I. Jane (1997)"Failure."His tenth film. It stars Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, and Anne Bancroft, and tells the fictional story of the first woman to undergo special operations training similar to the U.S. Navy SEALs. While Moore's performance was praised, the film drew criticism for its script, as many felt it leaned heavily in jingoism. Oh what a surprise, another box office bomb for Scott. Maybe the next one will be it...
Gladiator (2000)"A hero will rise."His 11th film. Based on the book Those About to Die (The Way of the Gladiator) by Daniel P. Mannix, it stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Tomas Arana, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel, Richard Harris, and Tommy Flanagan. It follows Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, murders his father and seizes the throne. Reduced to slavery, Maximus becomes a gladiator and rises through the ranks of the arena to avenge the murders of his family and his emperor. Writer David Franzoni was travelling through Eastern Europe, fascinated by the amount of arenas he ran into. Noticing the lack of gladiator films, he decided to start writing a story. When Scott was offered to direct, he was enticed by the idea of filming the world of Ancient Rome. However, he felt Franzoni's dialogue lacked subtlety and hired John Logan to rewrite the script to his liking. Logan rewrote much of the first act and made the decision to kill off Maximus's family to increase the character's desire for revenge. Oliver Reed died before filming all his scenes, so the visual effects production created a digital body double for the remaining scenes involving his character. The film opened with $34 million, Scott's biggest debut and the third biggest R-rated debut ever. The film enjoyed fantastic word of mouth, and women were a big portion of the film (45%) thanks to Crowe's presence. The film ended up grossing $187 million domestically and a colossal $460 million worldwide, becoming the 27th highest grossing film of all time. It received critical acclaim and has been hailed as one of Scott's most iconic works. It received 12 Oscar nominations and won five: Best Picture, Best Actor for Russell Crowe, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best Costume Design. While Scott lost Best Director, he finally made a Best Picture winner.
Hannibal (2001)"His genius, undeniable. His evil, unspeakable. His name, unforgettable."His 12th film. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris and the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, it stars Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Frankie R. Faison, Giancarlo Giannini, and Francesca Neri. It follows disgraced FBI special agent Clarice Starling as she attempts to apprehend cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter before his surviving victim, Mason Verger, captures him. After the huge success of The Silence of the Lambs, Harris started working on a sequel novel, and Jonathan Demme was interested in adapting it. After it was ready, Dino De Laurentiis purchased the rights for a record $10 million. Demme, Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster were signed to return, with Hopkins and Foster each getting paid $15 million and Demme getting as much as $19 million. While the novel was a big hit, Demme decided not to return, as he considered the novel as too gory and that he couldn't make something as good as The Silence of the Lambs. De Laurentiis visited Scott on the set of Gladiator and suggested he direct the film. Scott thought De Laurentiis was speaking about the Carthaginian general and replied: "Dino, I'm doing a Roman epic right now. I don't wanna do elephants coming over the Alps next, old boy." After receiving a manuscript, he decided to direct it, although he asked to change the ending, in which Lecter and Starling become lovers, deeming it unfitting for the characters and the audience. David Mamet was hired to write the script, but his draft was deemed very bad, so Steve Zaillian was brought in to rewrite it. Then it came another problem: Jodie Foster, who previously said she would definitely star in the sequel, chose not to return as as Clarice Starling. Foster said that the characterization of Starling in Hannibal had "negative attributes" and "betrayed" the original character, and she also wanted to prioritize her directorial debut, Flora Plum (which would later be cancelled). The options for her replacement were Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Gillian Anderson, Hilary Swank, Ashley Judd, Helen Hunt and Julianne Moore. While he had no power over the casting, Hopkins strongly recommended Moore, with whom he previously worked in Surviving Picasso. The producers also got Christopher Reeve to play Mason Verger, but Reeve dropped out when he found the character was a quadriplegic, facially-disfigured child rapist, so Gary Oldman signed instead. The film exceeded expectations at the box office. It opened with a gigantic $58 million debut, which was not only the biggest for an R-rated film, but it was also the third best ever. It eventually closed with a fantastic $351 million, one of the highest grossing R-rated films ever. But it didn't receive the acclaim that The Silence of the Lambs got back in 1991. While Hopkins was praised, the story, graphic violence and absence of Foster were criticized. Not the best follow-up for a Best Picture.
Black Hawk Down (2001)"Leave no man behind."His 13th film. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Jason Isaacs, Sam Shepard, Jeremy Piven, Ioan Gruffudd, Ewen Bremner, Hugh Dancy, Tom Hardy, Orlando Bloom, Ty Burrell, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and follows the crew of a Black Hawk helicopter that was shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu. The film performed only modestly at the box office, earning $172 million against its $92 million budget. But while Hannibal was not well received, this fared much better in that aspect. And Scott received his third Oscar nomination for Best Director.
Matchstick Men (2003)"Lie. Cheat. Steal. Rinse. Repeat."His 14th film. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, and Alison Lohman, and follows a phobic con artist and his protégé who are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly. The film enjoyed very good reviews. But it also failed in recouping its $62 million budget. Aaaaand we're back to the same old Scott.
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong."His 15th film. The film stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas, and Liam Neeson, and follows a heavily fictionalised portrayal of the events leading to the Third Crusade, focusing mainly on Balian of Ibelin who fights to defend the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from the Ayyubid Sultan Saladin. The film attracted mainly negative reviews on its release, with most of the complaints headed towards the story, lack of character development and Bloom's performance. The film was also a box office bomb; it was a disaster in North America, although it saved some face in Europe. Scott blamed Fox for the results, as he was forced to cut so much from the film and the marketing sold a love story when it wasn't the selling point. Scott then supervised a 194-minute Director's Cut, which received far better reviews, as the film offered much greater insight into the story and fleshed the motivations of individual characters. If you want to watch this film, this version is the one to go.
A Good Year (2006)"Everything matures... eventually."His 16th film. Based on the novel by Peter Mayle, it stars Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard, Didier Bourdon, Abbie Cornish, Tom Hollander, Freddie Highmore and Albert Finney. It follows Max, an investment broker, as he inherits his uncle's vineyard estate in France. When he prepares to sell it, his superior calls him back to London urgently, but he falls into a pool and misses his flight. While Scott decided to expand his range to romantic comedies, it was poorly received by critics and audiences. In North America, the film became his biggest box office disaster and remains his lowest attended film ever. Certainly not a good year.
American Gangster (2007)"There are two sides to the American Dream."His 17th film. Based on The Return of Superfly by Mark Jacobson, it stars Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Ted Levine, John Ortiz, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ruby Dee, Lymari Nadal and Cuba Gooding Jr. The film is loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts. After a few bombs, Scott finally got a hit. The film earned $269 million worldwide, which was great against its $100 million budget. It also received very positive reviews from critics and audiences.
Body of Lies (2008)"Trust no one. Deceive everyone."His 18th film. Based on the novel by David Ignatius, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Golshifteh Farahani, Mark Strong and Isaac. Set in the Middle East, it follows the attempts of the CIA and the GID of Jordan to catch "al-Saleem", a terrorist. Frustrated by their target's elusiveness, differences in their approaches strain relations between a CIA operative, his superior, and the head of Jordanian Intelligence. The film received mixed reviews; DiCaprio and Crowe were praised, but the story was considered cliché. Even with the popularity of Leo, it wasn't a box office hit; it only earned $115 million on a $70 million budget.
Robin Hood (2010)"Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions."His 19th film. Based on the Robin Hood legend, it stars Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Mark Strong, Mark Addy, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Eileen Atkins, and Max von Sydow. The film follows Robin Longstride and his fellow crusaders as they are drawn to the village of Nottingham, where they tackle the issue of corruption. Their efforts against the crown alter the balance of power in the world. Unsurprisingly, critics and audiences weren't really enthralled with the 100th Robin Hood film. It was unfavorably compared to other films, and Crowe's accent was mocked. The film earned $321 million worldwide, which could've been a very great result... if it wasn't for the fact that the film carried a colossal $200 million budget.
Prometheus (2012)"The search for our beginning could lead to our end."His 20th film. It is the fifth installment in the Alien franchise, serving as a prequel to the previous films, and stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall and Charlize Theron. Set in the late 21st century, the film centers on the crew of the spaceship Prometheus as it follows a star map discovered among the artifacts of several ancient Earth cultures. Seeking the origins of humanity, the crew arrives on a distant world and discovers a threat that could cause the extinction of the human species. Scott was not involved with the sequels to his iconic film, but by 2002, he started working on something that could mark his return. He was interested in exploring the engineered origins of the series' Alien creatures, and the "space jockey" (the extraterrestrial being, who briefly appears in Alien, as the deceased pilot of a derelict spaceship). James Cameron started working with him on a potential story, but decided to abandon the franchise after Alien vs. Predator, feeling that it killed the franchise's validity. Fox still wanted a new film, but they would only greenlight it if Scott returned. He signed, and Jon Spaihts was hired to write the script, although Damon Lindelof was then hired to rewrite it. While Spaihts used many aspects of the Alien film, Lindelof decided to use a more original story. After unveiling the name, the production team began to publicly distance the film from its Alien origins, and were deliberately vague about the connection between the films, believing it would build audience anticipation for the film. Thanks to a fantastic marketing campaign by Fox, the film was a huge box office success. It opened with $50 million in North America, closing with $126 million domestically and $403 million worldwide, becoming one of Scott's highest grossing films. But the reception was polarizing among critics and audiences; there was criticism for its unsolved plot points (David's motivations), questionable logic (the map guy getting lost, taking off your helmet on an uncharted planet, petting a snake alien) and its role in the franchise. James Cameron said he liked the film, although he also said that it "didn't add up logically."
The Counselor (2013)"Sin is a choice."His 21st film. It stars Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. The film deals with themes such as greed, mortality, love, and trust in the context of the Mexican drug trade. The extremely violent and bloodthirsty activities of drug cartels are depicted as the Counselor, a high-level lawyer, gets involved in a drug deal around the troubled Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/Texas border area. The film drew negative reviews from critics and audiences, with some questioning the film's message, bizarre characters and story. In North America, it was a bomb, but it saved face overseas, almost tripling its budget. In the years since, the film has seen a re-appraisal, although it remains a divisive film.
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)"Once brothers, now enemies."His 22nd film. Inspired by the biblical episode of the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt led by Moses and related in the Book of Exodus, it stars Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, Sigourney Weaver, and Ben Kingsley. After learning of his true lineage, Moses, a former general, rises against Pharaoh Ramesses II to help the Hebrews escape from Egypt. He faces several challenges and is strongly opposed by Ramesses. Ever since its announcement, the project drew controversy for two aspects. The first was Scott's claims that he would focus more on the "natural causes" of miracles, and deviate from the texts, drawing the ire of Christian groups. The second was the casting, as the film was criticized for casting white actors in Egyptian roles. Scott defended the decision, saying "I can't mount a film of this budget... and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such... I'm just not going to get financed." The film was poorly received by critics, with disdain towards the pacing, thin screenwriting, and lack of character development. Audiences were also negative, criticizing its inaccuracies, and Scott's honesty about his own atheism did not help its potential appeal to a religious audience. It was a disaster in North America, but it was stronger overseas. Nevertheless, the film failed to recoup its investment.
The Martian (2015)"Bring him home."His 23rd film. Based on the novel by Andy Weir, it stars Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Mackenzie Davis, Donald Glover, and Benedict Wong. The film depicts an astronaut's lone struggle to survive on Mars after being left behind and the efforts of NASA to rescue him and bring him home to Earth. After Fox optioned the film rights, Drew Goddard was hired to write and direct. While he would write the script, he would leave as director to focus on The Sinister Six. Scott was pursued, and he accepted as was attracted by the emphasis on science and thought a balance could be struck between entertainment and learning. After a slate of poorly received films, Scott got the best reviews of his career in years with the film. And he got a very much needed box office win; it earned a huge $630 million worldwide, becoming his highest grossing film ever. It received 7 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Scott still had it in him.
Alien: Covenant (2017)"The path to paradise begins in hell."His 24th film. It is the sixth installment in the Alien franchise and a follow-up to Prometheus, it stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, and Demián Bichir. It follows the crew of a colony ship that lands on an uncharted planet and makes a terrifying discovery. After the success of Prometheus, Fox immediately pressured Scott to make a new film. Scott wanted the film to follow Elizabeth Shaw in her quest to find the "paradise", which wouldn't include the xenomorphs in any way. The latter aspect was changed after the negative response to Prometheus. And while it was confirmed that Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender would reprise their roles, Rapace was confirmed to not appear. She still filmed scenes for a prologue, but she does not appear in the final film. While it was planned to course correct some of the previous film's mistakes, the film still received polarizing reviews, and that included negative reviews towards the ending to Shaw's character. It didn't replicat the box office success either; it earned $240 million worldwide, making it a box office disappointment. Scott plans to make another film, but there's been no update in years.
All the Money in the World (2017)"J. Paul Getty had a fortune. Everyone else paid the price."His 25th film. It stars Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, and Romain Duris, and it depicts the events surrounding the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and the refusal of his grandfather, the multi-billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, to cooperate with the kidnappers' extortion demands. Kevin Spacey originally played Getty, but sexual misconduct accusations were made against him two months after filming wrapped, so Plummer, Scott's original preferred casting choice for the role, was cast in the role and, one month prior to the rescheduled Christmas release, the 22 scenes featuring Getty were reshot within eight days. While the film was well received, it still flopped with just $56 million against its $50 million budget. Nevertheless, Plummer received an Oscar nomination for the film.
The Last Duel (2021)"The true story of a woman who divided a nation and made history."His 26th film. Based on the book by Eric Jager, it stars Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, and Ben Affleck. Set in medieval France, Jean de Carrouges, a knight who challenges his former friend, squire Jacques Le Gris to a judicial duel after Jean's wife, Marguerite, accuses Jacques of raping her. The events leading up to the duel are divided into three distinct chapters, reflecting the contradictory perspectives of the three main characters. While the film received very positive reviews, it was a massive box office disaster, earning just $30 million on a $100 million budget. While some blame the marketing, Scott said Disney/20th Century did well with the marketing, and instead blamed it on millenials not wanting to pay attention to the film. Whatever you say, Scott.
House of Gucci (2021)"A legacy worth killing for."His 27th film. It stars Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, and Al Pacino, and follows Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci, as their romance transforms into a fight for control of the Italian fashion brand Gucci. The film received mixed reviews for its tone and script. It hit $153 million worldwide, which is fine considering adult films were struggling during COVID.
Napoleon (2023)"He came from nothing. He conquered everything."His 28th film. It stars Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, and follows the story of Napoleon Bonaparte, primarily depicting the French leader's rise to power as well as his relationship with his wife, Joséphine. The film received polarizing reactions, and immense negative attention for its historical inaccuracy and tone. It earned $217 million worldwide, not recouping its $130 million budget, although Apple probably doesn't mind.
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The VerdictExtremely inconsistent.Scott knows how to draw audiences; you don't get to $4.5 billion if the public is not interested. The problem with Scott is that the quality of the scripts vary; some are great, others not so much. So despite being considered a great director, he won't be able to elevate a bad script into something watchable, and that may cause some bombs. But despite making some less-than-ideal films, there are still few qualities in them. Nevertheless, there's something to admire about him. He's 86 years old, but he still has the mind and energy of someone at least 30 years younger. Some directors consider retirement, but Scott is keeping himself busy; he just wrapped filming on Gladiator 2 and will begin a new film, Bomb, soon. And Scott is not afraid in expressing himself; here's Scott with all that sass against his critics. If there was an award for the biggest "hit-and-miss" director, Scott would have that and it wouldn't even be a contest. Hope you liked this edition. You can find this and more in the wiki for this section. The next director will be Sam Raimi. It's pizza time. I asked you to choose who else should be in the run and the comment with the most upvotes would be chosen. Well, we'll later talk about... Joel Schumacher. Interestingly, that's the second director to helm a Batman movie. This is the schedule for the following four:
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2023.10.05 02:57 Rleduc129 1991 Oscars ATL What If?
Bold for winner Best Picture: Barton Fink Beauty and the Beast Boyz n the Hood Bugsy JFK My Own Private Idaho The Prince of Tides The Silence of the Lambs Thelma & Louise Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Best Director:
Jonathan Demme- The Silence of the Lambs John Singleton- Boyz n the Hood Ridley Scott- Thelma & Louise James Cameron- T2 Oliver Stone- JFK
Best Actor:
Anthony Hopkins- The Silence of the Lambs Warren Beatty- Bugsy Robert De Niro- Cape Fear Nick Nolte- The Prince of Tides Robin Williams- The Fisher King
Best Actress:
Jodie Foster- The Silence of the Lambs Geena Davis- Thelma & Louise Kathy Bates- Fried Green Tomatoes Annette Bening- Bugsy Susan Sarandon- Thelma & Louise
Best Supporting Actor:
Jack Palance- City Slickers John Goodman- Barton Fink Harvey Keitel- Bugsy Laurence Fishburne- Boyz n the Hood Jeff Bridges- The Fisher King
Best Supporting Actress
Mercedes Ruehl- The Fisher King Angela Bassett- Boyz n the Hood Juliette Lewis- Cape Fear Diane Ladd- Rambling Rose Jessica Tandy- Fried Green Tomatoes
Best Original Screenplay:
John Singleton- Boyz n the Hood Callie Khouri- Thelma & Louise Coen Brothers- Barton Fink James Toback- Bugsy Richard LaGravanese- The Fisher King
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Ted Tally- The Silence of the Lambs Gus Van Sant- My Own Private Idaho Oliver Stone- JFK Pat Conroy & Becky Johnston- The Prince of Tides Linda Woolverton- Beauty and the Beast
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Best Director:
Jonathan Demme- The Silence of the Lambs John Singleton- Boyz n the Hood Ridley Scott- Thelma & Louise James Cameron- T2 Oliver Stone- JFK
Best Actor:
Anthony Hopkins- The Silence of the Lambs Warren Beatty- Bugsy Robert De Niro- Cape Fear Nick Nolte- The Prince of Tides Robin Williams- The Fisher King
Best Actress:
Jodie Foster- The Silence of the Lambs Geena Davis- Thelma & Louise Kathy Bates- Fried Green Tomatoes Annette Bening- Bugsy Susan Sarandon- Thelma & Louise
Best Supporting Actor:
Jack Palance- City Slickers John Goodman- Barton Fink Harvey Keitel- Bugsy Laurence Fishburne- Boyz n the Hood Jeff Bridges- The Fisher King
Best Supporting Actress
Mercedes Ruehl- The Fisher King Angela Bassett- Boyz n the Hood Juliette Lewis- Cape Fear Diane Ladd- Rambling Rose Jessica Tandy- Fried Green Tomatoes
Best Original Screenplay:
John Singleton- Boyz n the Hood Callie Khouri- Thelma & Louise Coen Brothers- Barton Fink James Toback- Bugsy Richard LaGravanese- The Fisher King
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Ted Tally- The Silence of the Lambs Gus Van Sant- My Own Private Idaho Oliver Stone- JFK Pat Conroy & Becky Johnston- The Prince of Tides Linda Woolverton- Beauty and the Beast
2023.08.03 20:15 whitneyahn August Predictions
All nominations are in order of chance for a nomination, not in order of chance to win should they be nominated.
General Notes: Last year we had around 54 films nominated, with 39 feature films. One thing I've noticed in both my predictions and those posted is we are seeing a much smaller number of films being predicted per category. So, I'm taking some bigger risks, letting some surprising films be snubbed in certain categories to better reflect the wide year of film we expect to have. Here, I have 37 features nominated.
Categories that have a history of being exceptionally insular are marked with an "IB". In such categories, I will notate previous awards history in this category, prioritizing AMPAS and industry awards.
Major Projections:
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General Notes: Last year we had around 54 films nominated, with 39 feature films. One thing I've noticed in both my predictions and those posted is we are seeing a much smaller number of films being predicted per category. So, I'm taking some bigger risks, letting some surprising films be snubbed in certain categories to better reflect the wide year of film we expect to have. Here, I have 37 features nominated.
Picture
- Oppenheimer, Universal Picture - July - 11 nominations
- Killers of the Flower Moon, Apple TV+ and Paramount Pictures - October - 9 nominations
- The Color Purple, Warner Bros. Pictures- December - 7 nominations
- Saltburn, Amazon Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - November - 8 nominations
- Dune: Part Two, Warner Bros. Pictures - November - 8 nominations
- Past Lives, A24 - June - 3 nominations
- May/December, Netflix - November - 3 nominations
- Napoleon, Apple - November - 7 nominations
- Ferrari, NEON - December - 5 nominations
- Anatomy of a Fall, NEON - October - 3 nominations
- Barbie, Warner Bros. - July - 5 nominations
- The Zone of Interest, A24 - January - 5 nominations
- Eileen, NEON - December - 2 nominations
- Priscilla, A24 - October - 1 nomination
- A Thousand and One, Focus Features - March - 2 nominations
- El Conde, Netflix - TBA - 2 nominations
- Poor Things, Searchlight Pictures - December - 2 nominations
- Cassandro, Amazon Studios - September - 0 nominations
- Next Goal Wins, Searchlight Pictures - November - 0 nominations
- The Bikeriders, 20th Century Studios - December - 0 nominations
- Golden Globe - Drama: Killers of the Flower Moon (also nominated: Saltburn, Dune: Part Two, Anatomy of a Fall, Oppenheimer)
- Golden Globe - Comedy/Musical: The Color Purple (also nominated: May/December, Barbie, Next Goal Wins, The Little Mermaid)
- Critics Choice: Oppenheimer
- SAG Ensemble: The Color Purple (also nominated: Saltburn, Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Barbie)
- PGA winner: Oppenheimer
- BAFTA winner: Saltburn
- Oscar winner: The Color Purple
Director - IB
- Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon - Oscar winner and 8-time nominee
- Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer - Oscar nominee
- Emerald Fennell, Saltburn - Oscar nominee
- Ridley Scott, Napoleon - 3x Oscar nominee
- Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest - 2x BAFTA nominee
- Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall - César nominee for First Film
- Michael Mann, Ferrari - Oscar nominee
- Taika Watiti, Next Goal Wins - Guild nominee
- Denis Villenueve, Dune: Part Two - Oscar nominee
- Todd Haynes, May/December - BAFTA nominee
- Pablo Larraín, El Conde - Spirit nominee
- Wes Anderson, Asteroid City - Oscar nominee
- Roger Ross Williams, Cassandro - Guild nominee; Oscar winner in Documentary Short and nominee in Documentary Feature
- David Fincher, The Killer - 3-time Oscar nominee
- Sofia Coppola, Priscilla
- Greta Gerwig, Barbie - Oscar nominee
- Celine Song, Past Lives - no significant awards history
- Golden Globe: Martin Scorsese (also nominated: Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Jonathan Glazer, Justine Triet)
- Critics Choice: Martin Scorsese (also nominated: Christopher Nolan, Emerald Fennell, Celine Song, Ridley Scott, Greta Gerwig, Denis Villenueve, Jonathan Glazer, Michael Mann, Justine Triet)
- DGA: Christopher Nolan (also nominated: Emerald Fennell, Martin Scorsese, Denis Villenueve, Ridley Scott)
- BAFTA: Jonathan Glazer (also nominated: Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Emerald Fennell, Justine Triet, Pablo Larraín)
- Oscar: Martin Scorsese
Categories that have a history of being exceptionally insular are marked with an "IB". In such categories, I will notate previous awards history in this category, prioritizing AMPAS and industry awards.
Actor
- Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
- Bradley Cooper, Maestro
- Joaquin Phoenix, Napoleon
- Teo Yoo, Past Lives
- Adam Driver, Ferarri
- Gael García Bernal, Cassandro
- Michael Fassenbader, Next Goal Wins
- Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
- Anthony Hopkins, One Life
- Colman Domingo, Rustin
- Paul Mescal, Foe
- Matt Damon, Air
- Peter Sarsgaard, Memory
- Golden Globe - Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio (also nominated: Joaquin Phoenix, Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Bradley Cooper)
- Golden Globe - Comedy: Ryan Gosling (also nominated: Michael Fassenbader, Matt Damon, Paul Giamatti, Jonah Hauer-King)
- Critics Choice: Leonardo DiCaprio (winner)
- SAG: Leonardo DiCaprio (winner)
- BAFTA: Barry Keoghan (winner)
Actress
- Fantasia, The Color Purple
- Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
- Greta Lee, Past Lives
- Natalie Portman, May/December
- Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One
- Vanessa Kirby, Napoleon
- Margot Robbie, Barbie
- Emma Stone, Poor Things
- Jessica Lange, Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Alicia Vikander, Firebrand
- Annette Bening, Nyad
- Jessica Chastain, Memory
- Kate Winslet, Lee
- Nicole Kidman; Holland, Michigan
- Golden Globe - Drama: Teyana Taylor (also nominated: Vanessa Kirby, Alicia Vikander, Sandra Huller, Greta Lee)
- Golden Globe - Comedy/Musical: Fantasia (also nominated: Natalie Portman, Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Halle)
- Critics Choice: Fantasia (also nominated: Emma Stone, Greta Lee, Margot Robbie, Teyana Taylor, Sandra Hüller)
- SAG: Fantasia (also nominated: Natalie Portman, Greta Lee, Margot Robbie, Vanessa Kirby)
- BAFTA: Sandra Hüller (also nominated: Alicia Vikander, Teyana Taylor, Fantasia, Greta Lee, Vanessa Kirby)
- Oscar: Fantasia
Supporting Actor
- Robert DeNiro, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Richard E. Grant, Saltburn
- Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer
- Ryan Gosling, Barbie
- Jacob Elordi, Saltburn
- John Magaro, Past Lives
- Charles Melton, May/December
- Alden Ehrenreich, Oppenheimer
- Colman Domingo, The Color Purple
- Raúl Castillo, Cassandro
- Tom Hardy, The Bikeriders
- Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry
- Austin Butler, The Bikeriders
- Matt Damon, Oppenheimer
- Willam Dafoe, Poor Things
- Jacob Elordi, Priscilla
- Gael García Bernal; Holland, Micigan
- Golden Globe: Robert DeNiro
- Critics Choice: Robert DeNiro
- SAG: Robert DeNiro
- BAFTA: Richard E. Grant
- Oscar winner: Robert DeNiro
Supporting Actress
- Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
- Taraji P. Henson, The Color Purple
- Penelope Cruz, Ferrari
- Anne Hathaway, Eileen
- Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
- Julianne Moore, May/December
- Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
- America Ferrera, Barbie
- Viola Davis, Air
- Florence Pugh, Oppenheimer
- Carey Mulligan, Maestro
- Helena Bonham Carter, One Life
- Rhea Perlman, Barbie
- Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
- Jodie Comer, The Bikeriders
- Isabella Rossellini, La Chimera
- Meritt Wever, Memory
- Niecy Nash-Betts, Origin
- Audra McDonald, Origin
- Golden Globes: Anne Hathaway (also nominated: Emily Blunt, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Rosamund Pike)
- Critics Choice: Lily Gladstone (also nominated: Emily Blunt, Taraji P. Henson, America Ferrera, Viola Davis, Julianne Moore)
- SAG: Taraji P. Henson (also nominated: Emily Blunt, Lily Gladstone, Anne Hathaway, Julianne Moore)
- BAFTA: Emily Blunt (also nominated: Taraji P. Henson, Lily Gladstone, Anne Hathaway, Julianne Moore, Penelope Cruz)
- Oscar: Taraji P. Henson
Original Screenplay
- Celine Song, Past Lives
- Emerald Fennell, Saltburn
- Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
- A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One
- Samy Burch, May/December
- Roger Ross Williams and David Teague, Cassandro
- Alex Convery, Air
- Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Asteroid City
- David Hemingson, The Holdovers
- Alice Rohrwacher, La Chimera
- Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer, Maestro
- Yuji Sakamoto, Monster
- Critics Choice: Saltburn
- WGA: Saltburn
- BAFTA: Saltburn
Adapted Screenplay
- Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
- Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
- Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, and Eric Roth, Dune: Part Two
- Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel, Eileen
- Taika Watiti and Iain Morris, Next Goal Wins
- Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
- Michael Mann and Troy Kennedy, Ferrari
- Sofia Coppola, Priscilla
- Tony McNamara, Poor Things
- Jeff Nichols, The Bikeriders
- David Lindsay-Abaire, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
- Ava DuVernay, Origin
- Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum, Dumb Money
- Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Dave Callaham; Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse
- Angela Schanelec, Music
- Golden Globe: Killers of the Flower Moon
- Critics Choice: The Zone of Interest
- WGA: Barbie
- BAFTA: The Zone of Interest
- Oscar: Killers of the Flower Moon
Animated Feature
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Sony Pictures Releasing
- Wish, Walt Disney Studios
- Elemental, Walt Disney Studios
- The Boy and the Heron, Toho and GKIDS
- The Peasants, New Europe Film Sales/Anonymous Content
- They Shot the Piano Player, Sony Pictures Classics
- Spellbound, Apple TV+
- Robot Dreams, NEON
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Paramount Pictures
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Netflix
Documentary
- 20 Days in Mariupol
- The Eternal Memory
- Stamped from the Beginning
- Four Daughters
- The Mother of All Lies
- They Shot the Piano Player
- Kokomo City
- Beyond Utopia
- Little Richard: I Am Everything
- Orwell
- Elegies
- Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
International Feature
- Zone of Interest, UK
- Monster, Japan [Alt. The Boy and the Heron]
- El Conde, Argentina
- La Chimera, Italy [if eligible]
- Four Daughters, Tunisia
- The Pot-au-Feu, France [Alt. Les Indésirables]
- About Dry Grasses, Turkey
- Afire, Germany [Alt. Perfect Days]
- The Mother of All Lies, Morocco
- Music, Serbia
- 20,000 Species of Bee; Spain [Alt. Creatura]
- Mama Wati, Nigeria
- Fallen Leaves, Finland
- Heaven and Hell, Taiwan
- Omen, Congo
- My Sailor, My Love; Ireland
- Elegies, Hong Kong
- The Green Border, Poland
- Shayda, Australia
- Riceboy Sleeps, Canada
- Youth (Spring), China
Costume Design - IB
- Janty Yates, Napoleon - Oscar winner
- Michael O'Connor, Firebrand - Oscar winner and 2-time nominee
- Sophie Canale, Saltburn - Emmy winner and Guild nominee
- Francine Jamison-Tanchuck, The Color Purple - Guild nominee
- Jacqueline Durran, Barbie - 2-time Oscar winner and 6-time nominee
- Jacqueline West, Dune: Part Two - 4-time Oscar nominee
- Holly Waddington, Poor Things - BIFA winner
- Jacqueline West, Killers of the Flower Moon - as above
- Mariestela Fernández, Cassandro - 6-time Ariel Award winner and 10-time nominee
- Lindy Hemming, Wonka - Oscar winner
- Stacey Battat, Priscilla - Satellite Award nominee
- Jenny Eagan, The Boys in the Boat - 4-time Guild winner and 3-time nominee; Emmy nominee
Major Projections:
- CDG Contemporary: Barbie (if in category, else Katina Danabassis for Past Lives)
- CDG Sci-Fi/Fantasy: Barbie (if in category, else Jacqueline West for Dune: Part Two)
- CDG Period: Saltburn
- Oscars: Barbie
Cinematography - IB
- Hoyte Van Hoytema, Oppenheimer - Oscar nominee
- Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon - 3-time Oscar nominee
- Lukasz Zal, The Zone of Interest - 2-time Oscar nominee
- Edward Lachman, El Conde - 2-time Oscar nominee
- Philippe Le Sourd, Priscilla - Oscar nominee
- Erik Messerschmidt, Ferrari - Oscar winner
- Dan Lausten, The Color Purple - 2-time Oscar nominee
- Dariusz Wolski, Napoleon - Oscar nominee
- Linus Sandgren, Saltburn - Oscar winner
- Claudio Miranda, Nyad - Oscar winner and nominee
- Robert Yeoman, Asteroid City - Oscar nominee
- Greig Fraser, Dune Part: Two - Oscar winner and nominee
- Shabier Kirchner, Past Lives - BAFTA winner (TV)
- Hélène Louvart, Firebrand - 3-time Spirit nominee, Berlinale lifetime achievement winner
- Robbie Ryan, Poor Things - Oscar nominee
- Daun Lausten, John Wick: Chapter 4 - as above
- Hélène Louvart, La Chimera - as above
- Erik Messerschmidt, The Killer - as above
- NYFCC: Daun Lausten, John Wick: Chapter 4
- LAFCA: Shabier Kirchner, Past Lives
- NSFC: Shabier Kirchner, Past Lives
- BAFTA: Lukasz Zal, The Zone of Interest
- ASC: Hoyte Van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
- BSC: Lukasz Zal, The Zone of Interest
- Oscars: Hoyte Van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Editing
- Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
- Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Joe Walker, Dune: Part Two
- John Poll, The Color Purple
- Claire Simpson and Sam Restivo, Napoleon
- Victoria Boydell, Saltburn
- Nick Houy, Barbie
- Affonso Gonçalves, May/December
- Barney Pilling, Asteroid City
- Julie Monroe, The Bikeriders
- Keith Fraase, Past Lives
- Oscars: The Color Purple
Hair and Make-Up
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Dune: Part Two
- Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3
- Maestro
- Ferrari
- Saltburn
- The Color Purple
- Barbie
- Napoleon
- Poor Things
- Firebrand
- Oppenheimer
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- Oscars: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3
Production Design
- Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Barbie
- Arthur Max and Elli Griff, Napoleon
- Paul D. Austerberry and Larry Dias, The Color Purple
- Suzie Davies and Charlotte Dirickx, Saltburn
- Patrice Vermette and Shane Vieau, Dune: Part Two
- Ruth de Jong and Claire Kaufman, Oppenheimer
- Adam Stockhausen and Kris Moran, Asteroid City
- Helen Scott and Hannah Spice, Firebrand
- Jack Fisk and Adam Willis, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Tamara Deverell, Priscilla
- Shona Heath, James Price and Zsuzsa Mihalek; Poor Things
- ADG Period: Napoleon
- ADG Fantasy: Barbie (if in category, else Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3)
- ADG Contemporary: Barbie (if in category, else Past Lives)
- Oscars: Barbie
Sound
- Dune: Part Two
- The Zone of Interest
- The Color Purple
- Napoleon
- Ferrari
- Oppenheimer
- Barbie
- The Bikeriders
- Maestro
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- Rebel Moon
- Priscilla
- Oscars: The Color Purple
Score - IB
- Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer - Oscar winner
- Hans Zimmer, Dune: Part Two - 2-time Oscar winner and 10-time Oscar nominee
- Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest - Oscar nominee
- Daniel Pemberton, Ferrari - Oscar nominee
- James Newton Howard, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - 7-time Oscar nominee
- Thomas Newton, Elemental - 15-time Oscar nominee
- Marcelo Zarvos, May/December - 2-time Emmy nominee and AACTA nominee
- Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon - Emmy winner and nominee
- Martin Phipps - 7-time Emmy nominee, guild nominee, and 2-time BAFTA winner and 3-time nominee
- Alexandre Desplat, Asteroid City - 2-time Oscar winner and 9-time nominee
- Alan Menken, Spellbound - 4-time Oscar winner and nominee
- Hildur Guðnadóttir, A Haunting in Venice - Oscar winner
- Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse - as above
- Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen, Past Lives - no awards history
Song
- "Dance the Night" by Dua Lipa, from Barbie
- "Gonna Be You" by Dolly Parton, Belinda Carlisle, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan and Debbie Harry, 80 For Brady (Diane Warren)
- "Wild Uncharted Waters" by Jonah Hauer-King, from The Little Mermaid
- "Eye for an Eye" by Rina Sawayama, from John Wick: Chapter 4
- "This Wish" by Ariana DeBose, from Wish
- "Found" by Nicky Youre, The Magician's Elephant (Diane Warren)
- “I’m Just Ken” by Ryan Gosling, from Barbie
- “Steal the Show” by Lauv, from Elemental
- “The Fire Inside” by Becky G, from Flamin’ Hot (Diane Warren)
- “Quiet Eyes” by Sharon Van Etten, from Past Lives
- “In My Head” by Mike Shinoda and Kailee Morgue, from Scream IV
- "For the First Time" by Halle, from The Little Mermaid
Visual Effects
- Dune: Part Two
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Rebel Moon
- Napoleon
- Oppenheimer
- Barbie
- The Marvels
- The Creator
- Napoleon
- Ferrari
- Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2023.07.16 19:10 DRAGON_LALALAND My 96th Academy Awards Winners & Nominees Predictions (July)
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best International Feature
Best Documentary Feature
Best Animated Feature
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Editing
Best Costume Design
Best Production Design
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Best Sound
Best Visual Effects
11 : Killers of the Flower Moon - Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor×2, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound - 4
10 : Dune: Part Two - Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Editing, Costume Design, Production Design, Makeup & Hairstyling, Sound, Visual Effects - 2
8 : Oppenheimer - Picture, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Original Score, Editing, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects - 1
7 : The Killer - Picture, Director, Actor, Cinematography, Original Score, Editing, Sound, Visual Effects
6 : Past Lives - Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Original Score, Editing - 3
Poor Things - Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design, Production Design
5 : Anatomy of a Fall - Picture, Director, Actress, Original Screenplay, International Feature - 1
The Color Purple - Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Song, Costume Design
The Zone of Interest - Director, Adapted Screenplay, International Feature, Cinematography, Original Score
4 : Barbie - Original Song, Costume Design, Production Design, Makeup & Hairstyling - 2
Rustin - Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay - 1
3 : Strangers - Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography - 1
2 : The Boy and the Heron - International Feature, Animated Feature - 1
The Iron Claw - Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - Makeup & Hairstyling, Visual Effects
Maestro - Actor, Makeup & Hairstyling
May December - Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay
Nyad - Actress, Makeup & Hairstyling - 1
Wish - Animated Feature, Original Song - 1
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- Past Lives (A24) (Winner)
- Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple)
- Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
- Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
- Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
- Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
- The Killer (Netflix)
- Strangers (Searchlight Pictures)
- The Color Purple (Warner Bros.)
- Rustin (Netflix)
Best Director
- Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
- David Fincher - The Killer
- Justine Trier - Anatomy of a Fall
- Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest
Best Actress
- Annette Bening - Nyad (Winner)
- Greta Lee - Past Lives
- Fantasia - The Color Purple
- Emma Stone - Poor Things
- Sandra Hüller - Anatomy of a Fall
Best Actor
- Colman Domingo - Rustin (Winner)
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Bradley Cooper - Maestro
- Michael Fassbender - The Killer
- Ben Whishaw - Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (NGNG)
Best Supporting Actress
- Lilly Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
- Julianne Moore - May December
- Audra McDonald - Rustin
- Maura Tierney - The Iron Claw
Best Supporting Actor
- John Magaro - Past Lives (Winner)
- Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things
- Robert Downey Jr. - Oppenheimer
- Jesse Plemons - Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Original Screenplay
- Celine Song - Past Lives (Winner)
- Dustin Lance Black and George C. Wolfe - Rustin
- Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik - May December
- Justine Trier and Arthur Harari - Anatomy of a Fall
- Sean Durkin - The Iron Claw
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Andrew Haigh - Strangers (Winner)
- Eric Roth - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Tony McNamara - Poor Things
- Jonathan Grazer - The Zone of Interest
- Jon Spaihts, and Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
Best International Feature
- Anatomy of a Fall / Anatomie d'une chute (FRANCE, NEON, Justine Trier) (Winner)
- The Zone of Interest / Strefa interesów (POLAND, A24, Jonathan Glazer)
- The Boy and the Heron / 君たちはどう生きるか (JAPAN, GKIDS, Hayao Miyazaki)
- El Conde (CHILE, Netflix, Pablo Larraín)
- Next Sohee / 다음 소희 (SOUTH KOREA, TBD, Jung July)
Best Documentary Feature
- Stamped from the Beginning (Netflix) (Winner)
- Beyond Utopia (TBD)
- Orwell (NEON)
- The Echo (TBD)
- 20 Days in Mariupol (PBS Distribution)
Best Animated Feature
- The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS) (Winner)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
- Nimona (Netflix)
- Wish (Disney)
- Elemental (Pixer / Disney)
Best Cinematography
- Rodrigo Prieto - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Hoyte van Hoytema - Oppenheimer
- Erik Messerschmidt - The Killer
- Łukasz Żal - The Zone of Interest
- Jamie D. Ramsay - Strangers
Best Original Score
- Hans Zimmer - Dune: Part Two (Winner)
- Ludwig Göransson - Oppenheimer
- Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen - Past Lives
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Killer
- Mica Levi - The Zone of Interest
Best Editing
- Thelma Schoonmaker - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Jennifer Lame - Oppenheimer
- Joe Walker - Dune: Part Two
- Keith Fraase - Past Lives
- Kirk Baxter - The Killer
Best Costume Design
- Jacqueline Durran - Barbie (Winner)
- Holly Waddington - Poor Things
- Jacqueline West - Dune: Part Two
- Oliver Garcia - Chevalier
- Francine Jamison-Tanchuck - The Color Purple
Best Production Design
- Barbie (Winner)
- Poor Things
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Dune: Part Two
- Oppenheimer
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
- Maestro (Winner)
- Nyad
- Dune: Part Two
- Barbie
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Best Sound
- Oppenheimer (Winner)
- Dune: Part Two
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Killer
- Ferrari
Best Visual Effects
- Dune: Part Two (Winner)
- Oppenheimer
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- The Killer
11 : Killers of the Flower Moon - Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor×2, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound - 4
10 : Dune: Part Two - Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Editing, Costume Design, Production Design, Makeup & Hairstyling, Sound, Visual Effects - 2
8 : Oppenheimer - Picture, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Original Score, Editing, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects - 1
7 : The Killer - Picture, Director, Actor, Cinematography, Original Score, Editing, Sound, Visual Effects
6 : Past Lives - Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Original Score, Editing - 3
Poor Things - Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design, Production Design
5 : Anatomy of a Fall - Picture, Director, Actress, Original Screenplay, International Feature - 1
The Color Purple - Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Song, Costume Design
The Zone of Interest - Director, Adapted Screenplay, International Feature, Cinematography, Original Score
4 : Barbie - Original Song, Costume Design, Production Design, Makeup & Hairstyling - 2
Rustin - Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay - 1
3 : Strangers - Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography - 1
2 : The Boy and the Heron - International Feature, Animated Feature - 1
The Iron Claw - Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - Makeup & Hairstyling, Visual Effects
Maestro - Actor, Makeup & Hairstyling
May December - Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay
Nyad - Actress, Makeup & Hairstyling - 1
Wish - Animated Feature, Original Song - 1
2023.06.03 21:49 DRAGON_LALALAND My 96th Academy Awards Winners & Nominees Predictions (June, Post Cannes)
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best International Feature
Best Documentary Feature
Best Animated Feature
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Editing
Best Costume Design
Best Production Design
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Best Sound
Best Visual Effects
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- Past Lives (Winner)
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Dune: Part Two
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Rustin
- Poor Things
- The Killer
- The Color Purple
- Strangers
- Oppenheimer
Best Director
- Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
- David Fincher - The Killer
- Celine Song - Past Lives
- Justine Trier - Anatomy of a Fall
Best Actress
- Annette Bening - Nyad (Winner)
- Fantasia - The Color Purple
- Greta Lee - Past Lives
- Emma Stone - Poor Things
- Sandra Hüller - Anatomy of a Fall
Best Actor
- Colman Domingo - Rustin (Winner)
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Bradley Cooper - Maestro
- Michael Fassbender - The Killer
- Ben Whishaw - Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (NGNG)
Best Supporting Actress
- Lilly Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Audra McDonald - Rustin
- Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
- Julianne Moore - May December
- Maura Tierney - The Iron Claw
Best Supporting Actor
- John Magaro - Past Lives (Winner)
- Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things
- Jesse Plemons - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Jeremy Allen White - The Iron Claw
Best Original Screenplay
- Celine Song - Past Lives (Winner)
- Dustin Lance Black and George C. Wolfe - Rustin
- Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik - May December
- Justine Trier - Anatomy of a Fall
- Sean Durkin - The Iron Claw
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Andrew Haigh - Strangers (Winner)
- Tony McNamara - Poor Things
- Eric Roth - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Jonathan Grazer - The Zone of Interest
- Kelly Fremon Craig - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Best International Feature
- Anatomy of a Fall / Anatomie d'une chute (FRANCE, Justine Trier) (Winner)
- The Zone of Interest / Strefa interesów (POLAND, Jonathan Glazer)
- How Do You Live? / 君たちはどう生きるか (JAPAN, Miyazaki Hayao)
- El Conde (CHILE, Pablo Larraín)
- Next Sohee / 다음 소희 (SOUTH KOREA, Jung July)
Best Documentary Feature
- Stamped from the Beginning (Winner)
- Beyond Utopia
- The Orwell
- The Echo
- The Stroll
Best Animated Feature
- How Do You Live? (Winner)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Elemental
- Wish
- Nimona
Best Cinematography
- Rodrigo Prieto - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Hoyte van Hoytema - Oppenheimer
- Erik Messerschmidt - The Killer
- Łukasz Żal - The Zone of Interest
- Jamie D. Ramsay - Strangers
Best Original Score
- Hans Zimmer - Dune: Part Two (Winner)
- Ludwig Göransson - Oppenheimer
- John Williams - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Killer
- Mica Levi - The Zone of Interest
Best Editing
- Thelma Schoonmaker - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Joe Walker - Dune: Part Two
- Keith Fraase - Past Lives
- Kirk Baxter - The Killer
- Matthew Hannam - The Iron Claw
Best Costume Design
- Jacqueline Durran - Barbie (Winner)
- Holly Waddington - Poor Things
- Jacqueline West - Dune: Part Two
- Oliver Garcia - Chevalier
- Francine Jamison-Tanchuck - The Color Purple
Best Production Design
- Barbie (Winner)
- Poor Things
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Dune: Part Two
- The Color Purple
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
- Maestro (Winner)
- Nyad
- Poor Things
- Dune: Part Two
- Barbie
Best Sound
- Dune: Part Two (Winner)
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Killer
- Ferrari
Best Visual Effects
- Dune: Part Two (Winner)
- Oppenheimer
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- The Killer
2023.04.05 11:31 DRAGON_LALALAND My 96th Academy Awards Winners & Nominees Predictions (April)
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best International Feature
Best Documentary Feature
Best Animated Feature
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Editing
Best Costume Design
Best Production Design
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Best Sound
Best Visual Effects
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- Past Lives (Winner)
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Dune: Part Two
- Poor Things
- Maestro
- The Color Purple
- Rustin
- Strangers
- How Do You Live?
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Best Director
- Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
- Celine Song - Past Lives
- Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
- Miyazaki Hayao - How Do You Live?
Best Actress
- Annette Bening - Nyad (Winner)
- Fantasia - The Color Purple
- Greta Lee - Past Lives
- Emma Stone - Poor Things
- Carey Mulligan - Maestro
Best Actor
- Colman Domingo - Rustin (Winner)
- Bradley Cooper - Maestro
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Yoo Teo - Past Lives
- Ben Whishaw - Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (NGNG)
Best Supporting Actress
- Lilly Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Taraji P. Henson - The Color Purple
- Audra McDonald - Rustin
- Kaimana - Next Goal Wins
- Maura Tierney - The Iron Claw
Best Supporting Actor
- John Magaro - Past Lives (Winner)
- Willem Dafoe - Poor Things
- Jesse Plemons - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Jeremy Allen White - The Iron Claw
Best Original Screenplay
- Celine Song - Past Lives (Winner)
- Emerald Fennell - Saltburn
- Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black - Rustin
- Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer - Maestro
- Sean Durkin - The Iron Claw
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Andrew Haigh - Strangers (Winner)
- Tony McNamara - Poor Things
- Eric Roth - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Miyazaki Hayao - How Do You Live?
- Taika Waititi and Iain Morris - Next Goal Wins
Best International Feature
- How Do You Live? / 君たちはどう生きるか (JAPAN, Hayao Miyazaki) (Winner)
- About Dry Grasses / Kuru Otlar Üstüne (TURKEY, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
- El Conde (CHILE, Pablo Larraín)
- La Chimera (ITALY, Alice Rohrwacher)
- Next Sohee / 다음 소희 (SOUTH KOREA, Jung July)
Best Documentary Feature
- Stamped from the Beginning (Winner)
- Beyond Utopia
- The Stroll
- The Echo
- 20 Days in Mariupol
Best Animated Feature
- How Do You Live? (Winner)
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Elemental
- Wish
- High in the Clouds
Best Cinematography
- Rodrigo Prieto - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Hoyte van Hoytema - Oppenheimer
- Erik Messerschmidt - The Killer
- Claudio Miranda - Nyad
- Cevahir Sahin and Kürsat Üresin - About Dry Grasses
Best Original Score
- John Williams - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Winner)
- Hans Zimmer - Dune: Part Two
- Ludwig Göransson - Oppenheimer
- Alexandre Desplat - Barbie
- Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen - Past Lives
Best Editing
- Thelma Schoonmaker - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
- Joe Walker - Dune: Part Two
- Michelle Tosoro - Maestro
- Keith Fraase - Past Lives
- Matthew Hannam - The Iron Claw
Best Costume Design
- Holly Waddington - Poor Things (Winner)
- Jacqueline Durran - Barbie
- Jacqueline West - Dune: Part Two
- Mark Bridges - Maestro
- Janty Yates - Napoleon
Best Production Design
- Poor Things (Winner)
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Dune: Part Two
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
- Maestro (Winner)
- Dune: Part Two
- Poor Things
- Barbie
- The Color Purple
Best Sound
- Dune: Part Two (Winner)
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- The Killer
Best Visual Effects
- Dune: Part Two (Winner)
- Oppenheimer
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Spaceman
2023.03.14 04:38 tulipcanary Recapping our eight day Belize trip.
Just returned from a trip to Belize - our plans were largely reliant upon the threads in this community, so wanted to share our final itinerary for future travelers. My BF (24M) and I (22F) are recent college graduates who love the outdoors, exploring, and being active, but both work long hours at our desk jobs, and wanted to take a trip that would allow us to scratch our itches... We are NOT resort-people.
We had a great trip, but this is just the way we did it - there are a ton of other ways to explore this beautiful country! Hopefully this is helpful to anyone in the shoes I was wearing a few weeks ago.
Itinerary Overview: Friday: Travel Day to San Ignacio Saturday: Mountain Pine Ridge Reserve Tour Sunday: ATM Cave Monday: “Black Hole Drop” Tuesday: Travel Day to Hopkins + a few stops Wednesday: Cooking Lesson, Hike at Cockscomb Jaguar Preserve Thursday: Snorkeling, Bioluminescent Bay Friday: Hike at Mayflower Bocawina Sunday: Travel Home
Detailed Itinerary: Friday: Southwest Flight from HOU to BZE, Private Cab with Abe Gutierrez from BZE to San Ignacio Saturday: Mountain Pine Ridge Reserve Tour with MayaWalk Tours (Rio Frio Cave, Rio on Pools, Big Rock Falls), dinner at Guava Limb Sunday: ATM Cave Tour with Patrick Bradley Monday: “Black Hole Drop” Tour through Ian Anderson’s Cave Branch but arranged by Patrick Bradley. Caves Branch is the only provider of this tour. Transportation with Ben arranged by Patrick Bradley, drive through Belmopan on the ride home Tuesday: Cab with Abe from San Ignacio to Hopkins with three stops: Cahal Pech Archaeological Preserve, Lamanai Chocolate, Inland Blue Hole, Dinner at Chef Rob’s Wednesday: Cooking lesson at Palmetto Grove through Airbnb, Guided Ben’s Bluff Hike at Cockscomb Jaguar Preserve with Get to Know Belize Adventures Thursday: Half Day Snorkel Tour with Get to Know Belize Adventures, Bioluminescent Bay Tour with Get to Know Belize Adventures Friday: Guided Antelope Falls Hike with Get to Know Belize Adventures. Massages booked at Hopkins Pharmacy - woman’s name was Anna? Saturday: Cab from Hopkins to BZE booked through Abe with a different driver, Southwest Flight from BZE to HOU.
Daily Review: Friday: Very easy flight and always easy to fly out of Hobby. Loved having Abe pick us up - he greeted us with cold beer and picked out a spot for lunch along the way to San Ignacio. He also drove us around San Ignacio to give us the lay of the land before dropping us off at our Airbnb which was helpful.
Saturday: The Mountain Pine Ridge Tour was a great first day. Entertaining, engaging, and beautiful - felt like the right amount of exploration for our first day. Rio Frio cave is very impressive, and way bigger than it looks in pictures. Rio on Pools was fun to explore and play around in. Similar to Johnson’s Shut Ins in Missouri. Big rock falls was beautiful, deep water and strong currents near the falls. Dinner at Guava Limb was pretty good, looked like you couldn’t really choose a bad dish.
Sunday: Our group was the first group to reach the cave that day. Getting to be the first ones into the cave (and experiencing the entire thing without other groups behind you) makes it absolutely with booking with Patrick over anybody else. By the time we reached the end of the cave where the ruins lie, the room was packed with other groups behind us. On our way out, our group elected to go the more adventurous route, which included some tight squeezes and deep drops. My BF wished the entire cave was more like this and was expecting more of an adventure tour than seeing the Mayan pots and remains. Patrick says this a few times throughout, but all the artifacts are really just left out in the open exactly where they were left by the Mayans. Anything similar I have seen elsewhere is locked up behind glass. To see what you see at ATM you need a PhD and funded research expedition. Definitely a treat to see.
Monday: Black Hole Drop was one of our favorites. Beautiful cave formations covered by rainforest. Stark contrast to ATM where there is no sunlight or greenery. We wished there was a bit more time to explore the collapsed cave or go down into the cave itself, but time did not allow. Particularly liked one of our guides, Thelma. She assured us that all of their rappelling equipment is replaced every 6 mo - 1 year.
Tuesday: I found the most value in our private cab on this ride because of the stops. We were not originally going to go to Cahal Pech (or any ruins) this trip - we have found in the past that we are more impressed with nature and get a bit bored at the ancient sites (this was our experience after completing the Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu). After our Airbnb host and Abe highly recommended we go, we decided to make the stop. We actually loved Cahal Pech. The museum is very digestible, we were the only people walking around, and it felt like our own untouched ancient Mayan site to explore - no gated areas or ropes. The Blue Hole was worth a stop along the way but similar to other swimming spots we saw. I did not personally like the stop at Lamanai Chocolate. The owner was a gross old ex pat who made several demeaning comments to both me and his young local wife.
Wednesday: The cooking lesson at Palmetto Grove was fun and informative. I was not at all familiar with Garifuna culture and this lesson felt like a good bit of context. After cooking, the owner threw in a drumming lesson for free, which, to me, backed up her statement that the cooking and the drumming is really just a show for tourists, but it is also the best way to keep their culture alive and carry it on to younger generations - she really cared. The Ben’s Bluff Hike at the Jaguar preserve was incredible. Tough, but absolutely beautiful. We loved our guide, Gregorio. We probably did not need to do this hike as a tour, but it was nice to talk more with Gregorio about local culture and politics.
Thursday: This snorkel tour was probably my favorite snorkeling experience I have ever had. The guide came into the water with us and pointed out specific things. That said, the half day tour was PLENTY for both of us… we both actually probably would have rather stayed at the bar on the island and skipped the second half. This afternoon was a nice amount of leisure time to explore Hopkins. The evening Bioluminescence Tour was probably the highlight of the trip. Unlike anything I have ever seen before - felt like magic. We swam in the bay at the end and it was like being covered in pixie dust. But MY GOD did we stink after. Very itchy too. It is dark out so you don’t really think about the fact that you are swimming in algae water. Swimming was totally worth it but I wish I brought a wet wipe to use immediately after swimming.
Friday: I requested that the tour company arrange this hike for us. Again, we could have done this without the guide, but it was nice to have him. VERY difficult hike where for parts you are climbing over rocks and hanging onto rope. Not sure why but I thought we were hiking up to a very tall, skinny waterfall which was not the case. I preferred the view at Ben’s Bluff. Enjoyed this but probably would pick something else. We ended up getting massages this afternoon. This was the best massage of my life.
Saturday: We left five hours before our for the airport because there is one road from Hopkins to the airport. The BZE airport is small and extremely chaotic. The United line was very long. We were very happy to be on Southwest. Security/customs took about 15 minutes. Very quick to go through customs once we landed at Hobby as well.
Overall: I was worried initially that this trip would have way too many activities going on, but I thought this was an amazing trip, and appropriate down-time for me. I liked the order we did things particularly in terms of required energy level, and sun exposure (we got super burned the first day then had a few days to recover). BF wishes we had one day with nothing planned, but also would not have forgone any of the activities we did for leisure time. Best activities IMO were Black Hole Drop, Bioluminescent Bay, and Ben’s Bluff Hike. We both preferred Hopkins to San Ignacio - we found locals to be much more outgoing, and we preferred the food here. However, the amount of time we spent in both places felt very appropriate.
We did not rent a car and were both very satisfied with our transportation.
I think this trip ended up costing about $5000 total ($2500 each), which felt well worth it. We saved by staying at Airbnbs, and could have saved by doing hikes on our own, and taking group/public transportation from/to the airport.
Tips: The San Ignacio market is open every day, NOT just Saturdays. People open around 7am and close before 4pm. Bring cash to spend at restaurants - american dollars are accepted everywhere. I had read that credit card is accepted everywhere but found this to be inaccurate. An Amex will basically be useless, even to book a lot of your tours. There is ONE ATM in Hopkins.
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We had a great trip, but this is just the way we did it - there are a ton of other ways to explore this beautiful country! Hopefully this is helpful to anyone in the shoes I was wearing a few weeks ago.
Itinerary Overview: Friday: Travel Day to San Ignacio Saturday: Mountain Pine Ridge Reserve Tour Sunday: ATM Cave Monday: “Black Hole Drop” Tuesday: Travel Day to Hopkins + a few stops Wednesday: Cooking Lesson, Hike at Cockscomb Jaguar Preserve Thursday: Snorkeling, Bioluminescent Bay Friday: Hike at Mayflower Bocawina Sunday: Travel Home
Detailed Itinerary: Friday: Southwest Flight from HOU to BZE, Private Cab with Abe Gutierrez from BZE to San Ignacio Saturday: Mountain Pine Ridge Reserve Tour with MayaWalk Tours (Rio Frio Cave, Rio on Pools, Big Rock Falls), dinner at Guava Limb Sunday: ATM Cave Tour with Patrick Bradley Monday: “Black Hole Drop” Tour through Ian Anderson’s Cave Branch but arranged by Patrick Bradley. Caves Branch is the only provider of this tour. Transportation with Ben arranged by Patrick Bradley, drive through Belmopan on the ride home Tuesday: Cab with Abe from San Ignacio to Hopkins with three stops: Cahal Pech Archaeological Preserve, Lamanai Chocolate, Inland Blue Hole, Dinner at Chef Rob’s Wednesday: Cooking lesson at Palmetto Grove through Airbnb, Guided Ben’s Bluff Hike at Cockscomb Jaguar Preserve with Get to Know Belize Adventures Thursday: Half Day Snorkel Tour with Get to Know Belize Adventures, Bioluminescent Bay Tour with Get to Know Belize Adventures Friday: Guided Antelope Falls Hike with Get to Know Belize Adventures. Massages booked at Hopkins Pharmacy - woman’s name was Anna? Saturday: Cab from Hopkins to BZE booked through Abe with a different driver, Southwest Flight from BZE to HOU.
Daily Review: Friday: Very easy flight and always easy to fly out of Hobby. Loved having Abe pick us up - he greeted us with cold beer and picked out a spot for lunch along the way to San Ignacio. He also drove us around San Ignacio to give us the lay of the land before dropping us off at our Airbnb which was helpful.
Saturday: The Mountain Pine Ridge Tour was a great first day. Entertaining, engaging, and beautiful - felt like the right amount of exploration for our first day. Rio Frio cave is very impressive, and way bigger than it looks in pictures. Rio on Pools was fun to explore and play around in. Similar to Johnson’s Shut Ins in Missouri. Big rock falls was beautiful, deep water and strong currents near the falls. Dinner at Guava Limb was pretty good, looked like you couldn’t really choose a bad dish.
Sunday: Our group was the first group to reach the cave that day. Getting to be the first ones into the cave (and experiencing the entire thing without other groups behind you) makes it absolutely with booking with Patrick over anybody else. By the time we reached the end of the cave where the ruins lie, the room was packed with other groups behind us. On our way out, our group elected to go the more adventurous route, which included some tight squeezes and deep drops. My BF wished the entire cave was more like this and was expecting more of an adventure tour than seeing the Mayan pots and remains. Patrick says this a few times throughout, but all the artifacts are really just left out in the open exactly where they were left by the Mayans. Anything similar I have seen elsewhere is locked up behind glass. To see what you see at ATM you need a PhD and funded research expedition. Definitely a treat to see.
Monday: Black Hole Drop was one of our favorites. Beautiful cave formations covered by rainforest. Stark contrast to ATM where there is no sunlight or greenery. We wished there was a bit more time to explore the collapsed cave or go down into the cave itself, but time did not allow. Particularly liked one of our guides, Thelma. She assured us that all of their rappelling equipment is replaced every 6 mo - 1 year.
Tuesday: I found the most value in our private cab on this ride because of the stops. We were not originally going to go to Cahal Pech (or any ruins) this trip - we have found in the past that we are more impressed with nature and get a bit bored at the ancient sites (this was our experience after completing the Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu). After our Airbnb host and Abe highly recommended we go, we decided to make the stop. We actually loved Cahal Pech. The museum is very digestible, we were the only people walking around, and it felt like our own untouched ancient Mayan site to explore - no gated areas or ropes. The Blue Hole was worth a stop along the way but similar to other swimming spots we saw. I did not personally like the stop at Lamanai Chocolate. The owner was a gross old ex pat who made several demeaning comments to both me and his young local wife.
Wednesday: The cooking lesson at Palmetto Grove was fun and informative. I was not at all familiar with Garifuna culture and this lesson felt like a good bit of context. After cooking, the owner threw in a drumming lesson for free, which, to me, backed up her statement that the cooking and the drumming is really just a show for tourists, but it is also the best way to keep their culture alive and carry it on to younger generations - she really cared. The Ben’s Bluff Hike at the Jaguar preserve was incredible. Tough, but absolutely beautiful. We loved our guide, Gregorio. We probably did not need to do this hike as a tour, but it was nice to talk more with Gregorio about local culture and politics.
Thursday: This snorkel tour was probably my favorite snorkeling experience I have ever had. The guide came into the water with us and pointed out specific things. That said, the half day tour was PLENTY for both of us… we both actually probably would have rather stayed at the bar on the island and skipped the second half. This afternoon was a nice amount of leisure time to explore Hopkins. The evening Bioluminescence Tour was probably the highlight of the trip. Unlike anything I have ever seen before - felt like magic. We swam in the bay at the end and it was like being covered in pixie dust. But MY GOD did we stink after. Very itchy too. It is dark out so you don’t really think about the fact that you are swimming in algae water. Swimming was totally worth it but I wish I brought a wet wipe to use immediately after swimming.
Friday: I requested that the tour company arrange this hike for us. Again, we could have done this without the guide, but it was nice to have him. VERY difficult hike where for parts you are climbing over rocks and hanging onto rope. Not sure why but I thought we were hiking up to a very tall, skinny waterfall which was not the case. I preferred the view at Ben’s Bluff. Enjoyed this but probably would pick something else. We ended up getting massages this afternoon. This was the best massage of my life.
Saturday: We left five hours before our for the airport because there is one road from Hopkins to the airport. The BZE airport is small and extremely chaotic. The United line was very long. We were very happy to be on Southwest. Security/customs took about 15 minutes. Very quick to go through customs once we landed at Hobby as well.
Overall: I was worried initially that this trip would have way too many activities going on, but I thought this was an amazing trip, and appropriate down-time for me. I liked the order we did things particularly in terms of required energy level, and sun exposure (we got super burned the first day then had a few days to recover). BF wishes we had one day with nothing planned, but also would not have forgone any of the activities we did for leisure time. Best activities IMO were Black Hole Drop, Bioluminescent Bay, and Ben’s Bluff Hike. We both preferred Hopkins to San Ignacio - we found locals to be much more outgoing, and we preferred the food here. However, the amount of time we spent in both places felt very appropriate.
We did not rent a car and were both very satisfied with our transportation.
I think this trip ended up costing about $5000 total ($2500 each), which felt well worth it. We saved by staying at Airbnbs, and could have saved by doing hikes on our own, and taking group/public transportation from/to the airport.
Tips: The San Ignacio market is open every day, NOT just Saturdays. People open around 7am and close before 4pm. Bring cash to spend at restaurants - american dollars are accepted everywhere. I had read that credit card is accepted everywhere but found this to be inaccurate. An Amex will basically be useless, even to book a lot of your tours. There is ONE ATM in Hopkins.
2023.02.24 23:28 StarWarsJordan Early 2024 Oscar Predictions
Best Picture
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- The Color Purple(WINNER)
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Past Lives
- May December
- Dune Part II
- The Holdovers
- Maestro
- Oppenheimer
- One Life
- How Do You Live?
- Bradley Cooper for Maestro(WINNER)
- Colman Domingo for Rustin
- Leonardo DiCaprio for Killers of the Flower Moon
- Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers
- Anthony Hopkins for One Life
- Fantasia Barrino for The Color Purple(WINNER)
- Natalie Portman for May December
- Greta Lee for Past Lives
- Regina King for Shirley
- Margot Robbie for Barbie
- Jonathan Pryce for One Life(WINNER)
- Jesse Plemmons for Killers of the Flower Moon
- Robert De Niro for Killers of the Flower Moon
- John Magaro for Past Lives
- Charles Melton for May December
- Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon(WINNER)
- Taraji P. Henson for The Color Purple
- Danielle Brooks for The Color Purple
- Julianne Moore for May December
- Carey Mulligan for Maestro
- Blitz Bazuwule for The Color Purple(WINNER)
- Martin Scorcese for Killers of the Flower Moon
- Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer
- Todd Haynes for May December
- Celine Song for Past Lives
- Celine Song for Past Lives(WINNER)
- Samy Burch for May December
- David Hemmingson for The Holdovers
- Hayao Miyazaki for How Do You Live?
- Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer for Maestro
- Martin Scorcese and Eric Roth for Killers of the Flower Moon(WINNER)
- Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer
- Denis Villenueve, Eric Roth, and Jon Spaihts for Dune Part II
- Marcus Gardley for The Color Purple
- Lucinda Coxson and Nick Drake for One Life
- Hoyte van Hoytema for Oppenheimer(WINNER)
- Greg Fraser for Dune Part II
- Rodrigo Prieto for Killers of the Flower Moon
- Matthew Libatique for Maestro
- Phedon Papamichael for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Jennifer Lame for Oppenheimer(WINNER)
- Thelma Schoonmaker for Killers of the Flower Moon
- Joe Walker for Dune Part II
- Jon Poll for The Color Purple
- Keith Fraase for Past Lives
- Dune Part II(WINNER)
- Oppenheimer
- The Color Purple
- Barbie
- Wonka
- Dune Part II(WINNER)
- Oppenheimer
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- The Little Mermaid
- Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
- Barbie(WINNER)
- Wonka
- Dune Part II
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Color Purple
- Maestro(WINNER)
- Dune Part II
- Beau is Afraid
- Barbie
- Rustin
- Ludwig Gorransson for Oppenheimer(WINNER)
- Hans Zimmer for Dune Part II
- Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen for Past Lives
- John Williams for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Alexandre Desplat for Barbie
- Lin Manuel Miranda/Alan Menken for TBA from The Little Mermaid(WINNER)
- Siedah Garrett/Brenda Russell/Stephen Bray/H.E.R.? for TBA from The Color Purple
- Diane Warren for "Gonna Be You" from 80 for Brady
- Neil Hannon for TBA from Wonka
- TBA(my best guess is Dua Lipa/Doja Cat) from Barbie
- Dune Part II(WINNER)
- Oppenheimer
- The Little Mermaid
- Maestro
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- How Do You Live?(WINNER)
- Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
- Super Mario Bros.
- Elemental
- Wish
2023.01.11 22:40 autobuzzfeedbot 26 Actors Who Were So Freaking Good, Despite Only Being In The Movie For, Like, One Scene
- Evan Peters (as Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver), who's responsible for one of the coolest movie scenes ever, despite only being on screen for 5 minutes and 15 seconds in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
- Molly Shannon (as Tracy), who only had one scene but should have EGOT'd anyway for her three-minute performance in The Santa Clause 2.
- Drew Barrymore (as Casey), who only appeared in the first 12 minutes of Scream.
- Viola Davis (as Mrs. Miller), who was nominated for an Oscar after appearing in only one scene in Doubt.
- Jonathan Groff (as King George III), who received an Emmy nomination after appearing in less than 10 minutes of the stage recording of Hamilton.
- Anthony Hopkins (as Hannibal Lecter), who won the Best Actor Oscar despite being on screen for only 24 minutes of The Silence of the Lambs.
- Rooney Mara (as Erica Albright), who only had about five minutes of total screen time in The Social Network.
- Kimberly Adair Clark (as Honey, Frozone's wife), who was so iconic even though she only had a couple lines in The Incredibles.
- Donnie Wahlberg (as Vincent Grey), who was soooo incredibly haunting, despite only appearing on screen for about three minutes in The Sixth Sense.
- Bill Murray (as himself), who was somehow only in about five minutes of Zombieland.
- Vanessa Redgrave (as Old Briony), who was so deserving of an Oscar nomination (but somehow didn't get it) after her single monologue at the end of Atonement.
- Denis Ménochet (as Perrier LaPadite), who was only on screen during the opening sequence in the 153-minute Inglourious Basterds.
- Anne Hathaway (as Fantine), who won an Oscar after appearing in less than 15 minutes of the 158-minute Les Misérables.
- Harry Belafonte (as Jerome Taylor), who made such a lasting impression from just one monologue in BlacKkKlansman.
- Julia Butters (as Trudi Fraser), who was in less than 10 minutes of the 161-minute Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
- Matthew McConaughey (as Mark Hanna), who was physically on screen for only about five minutes of the three-hours-long Wolf of Wall Street.
- Mariah Carey (as Ms. Weiss), who was only in a few short scenes in Precious.
- Gene Jones (as the gas station proprietor), who only appeared in a single four-minute scene in No Country for Old Men.
- Michelle Williams (as Randi Chandler), who got an Oscar nomination after appearing in less than 10 minutes of Manchester by the Sea.
- Alfred Molina (as Rahad Jackson), who was so chaotic and fantastic in a single scene of the 155-minute Boogie Nights.
- Kenneth Tigar (as the old man), who was soooo memorable, even though he literally only had two lines in The Avengers.
- Thelma Ritter (as an uncredited Macy's shopper), who was so iconic in her first onscreen role, despite only being featured in two minutes of the original Miracle on 34th Street.
- Robert Englund (as Freddy Krueger), who's somehow only on screen for seven minutes, despite literally being the antagonist of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
- William Hurt (as Richie Cusack), who got an Oscar nomination after being featured on screen for only nine minutes in A History of Violence.
- Judi Dench (as Queen Elizabeth), who won an Oscar after being on screen for only eight minutes of Shakespeare in Love.
- And Alan Rickman (as Professor Snape), who was only on screen for 1 minute and 15 seconds in the first Deathly Hallows movie, accumulating only 43 minutes of total screen time for all eight Harry Potter films.
2023.01.11 17:34 JVM23 2023 Oscar presenter wish list - Pre-nomination wish list
Picture - John Bailey
Director - Jane Campion
Actor - Tom Hanks (Austin Butler), Russell Crowe (Colin Farrell), Forrest Whittaker (Brendan Fraser), Colin Firth (Bill Nighy), Robert Duvall (Tom Cruise), Anthony Hopkins (Paul Mescal)
Actress - Gwyneth Paltrow (Cate Blanchett), Jessica Chastain (Viola Davis), Helen Mirren (Danielle Deadwyler), Julianne Moore (Michelle Williams), Julie Andrews (Michelle Yeoh), Helen Hunt (Ana de Armas), Nicole Kidman (Margot Robbie)
Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin (Paul Dano), Jim Broadbent (Brendan Gleason), Mark Rylance (Barry Keoghan), Troy Kotsur (Ke Huy Quan), Robert De Niro (Eddie Redmayne), Timothy Hutton (Judd Hirsch), Mahershala Ali (Brian Tyree Henry)
Supporting Actress - Regina King (Angela Bassett), Rene Zellwegger (Jessie Buckley), Marisa Tomei (Kerry Condon), Vanessa Redgrave (Jamie Lee Curtis), Ariana De Bose (Stephanie Hsu), Octavia Spencer (Janelle Monae), Tilda Swinton (Hong Chau)
Screenwriting Awards - Matt Damon and Emma Thompson
Animated Feature - Brad Bird and Jennifer Lee
International Film - Ang Lee and Susanna Bier
Documentary Feature - Questlove
Original Score - Hans Zimmer
Editing - Alfonso Cuaron and Thelma Schoonmaker
Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki
Production Design - Stuart Craig
Costume Design - Colleen Attwood
Sound - Ben Burtt
VFX - Phil Tippett
Makeup and Hair - Rick Baker
Original Song - Adele and Elton John
Live Action Short - Andrea Arnold and Martin McDonagh
Animated Short - Nick Park and Torill Kove
Documentary Short - Ben Proudfoot and Cynthia Wade
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Director - Jane Campion
Actor - Tom Hanks (Austin Butler), Russell Crowe (Colin Farrell), Forrest Whittaker (Brendan Fraser), Colin Firth (Bill Nighy), Robert Duvall (Tom Cruise), Anthony Hopkins (Paul Mescal)
Actress - Gwyneth Paltrow (Cate Blanchett), Jessica Chastain (Viola Davis), Helen Mirren (Danielle Deadwyler), Julianne Moore (Michelle Williams), Julie Andrews (Michelle Yeoh), Helen Hunt (Ana de Armas), Nicole Kidman (Margot Robbie)
Supporting Actor - Alan Arkin (Paul Dano), Jim Broadbent (Brendan Gleason), Mark Rylance (Barry Keoghan), Troy Kotsur (Ke Huy Quan), Robert De Niro (Eddie Redmayne), Timothy Hutton (Judd Hirsch), Mahershala Ali (Brian Tyree Henry)
Supporting Actress - Regina King (Angela Bassett), Rene Zellwegger (Jessie Buckley), Marisa Tomei (Kerry Condon), Vanessa Redgrave (Jamie Lee Curtis), Ariana De Bose (Stephanie Hsu), Octavia Spencer (Janelle Monae), Tilda Swinton (Hong Chau)
Screenwriting Awards - Matt Damon and Emma Thompson
Animated Feature - Brad Bird and Jennifer Lee
International Film - Ang Lee and Susanna Bier
Documentary Feature - Questlove
Original Score - Hans Zimmer
Editing - Alfonso Cuaron and Thelma Schoonmaker
Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki
Production Design - Stuart Craig
Costume Design - Colleen Attwood
Sound - Ben Burtt
VFX - Phil Tippett
Makeup and Hair - Rick Baker
Original Song - Adele and Elton John
Live Action Short - Andrea Arnold and Martin McDonagh
Animated Short - Nick Park and Torill Kove
Documentary Short - Ben Proudfoot and Cynthia Wade
2022.10.07 17:08 JVM23 2023 Oscar presenter wish list - October update
Using the five former acting winner concept for the acting awards (using presently predicted nominees) but with former category winners who have co-starred with my predicted nominees:
Best Actor
Austin Butler (Elvis) - Tom Hanks (co-star in Elvis)
Diego Calva (Babylon) - Anthony Hopkins (due to Calva not co-starring with previous Best Actor Oscar winners)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) - Russell Crowe (co-star in Winter's Tale)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale) - Forest Whittaker (co-star in The Air I Breathe)
Bill Nighy (Living) - Colin Firth (co-star in Love Actually)
ALT: Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick) - Jamie Foxx (co-star in Collateral)/Jack Nicholson (co-star in A Few Good Men)
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett (TAR) - Gwyneth Paltrow (co-star in The Talented Mr Ripley)
Danielle Deadwyler (Till) - Helen Mirren (co-star in The Leisure Seeker)
Margot Robbie (Babylon) - Nicole Kidman (co-star in Bombshell)
Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans) - Julianne Moore (co-star in After the Wedding)
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) - Kate Winslet (co-star in Avatar: The Way of Water)
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Dano (The Fabelmans) - Alan Arkin (co-star in Little Miss Sunshine)
Brendan Gleason (The Banshees of Inisherin) - Jim Broadbent (co-star in Gangs of New York)
Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans) - Timothy Hutton (co-star in Ordinary People)
Brad Pitt (Babylon) - Christoph Waltz (co-star in Inglourious Basterds)
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once) - Troy Kotsur (due to Quan not co-starring alongside any former Best Supporting Actor winners)
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley (Women Talking) - Renee Zellweger (co-star in Judy)
Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) - Marisa Tomei (co-star in Captain America: Civil War)
Claire Foy (Women Talking) - Maggie Smith (co-star in The Lady in the Van)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once) - Ariana DeBose (due to Hsu not co-starring alongside any former Best Supporting Actress winners)
Janelle Monae (Glass Onion) - Octavia Spencer (co-star in Hidden Figures)
Other categories
Picture - John Bailey (AMPAS president)
Director - Jane Campion
Screenwriting awards - Matt Damon and Emma Thompson (former winners)
Animated Feature - Brad Bird and Jennifer Lee (former winners and to honour Phil Lord and Chris Miller's desire for industry professionals to present this category)
Documentary Feature - Questlove
International Film - Ang Lee
Original Score - Hans Zimmer (assuming he's not nominated for The Son)
Editing - Alfonso Cuaron and Thelma Schoonmaker
Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki (or if he's not nominated, Roger Deakins)
Best Costume Design - Colleen Atwood
Best Production Design - Stuart Craig and Rick Heinrichs
Best Visual Effects - Joe Johnston and Phil Tippett
Best Sound - Ben Burtt
Best Make-up and Hair - Rick Baker
Best Original Song - Elton John and Adele
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Best Actor
Austin Butler (Elvis) - Tom Hanks (co-star in Elvis)
Diego Calva (Babylon) - Anthony Hopkins (due to Calva not co-starring with previous Best Actor Oscar winners)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) - Russell Crowe (co-star in Winter's Tale)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale) - Forest Whittaker (co-star in The Air I Breathe)
Bill Nighy (Living) - Colin Firth (co-star in Love Actually)
ALT: Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick) - Jamie Foxx (co-star in Collateral)/Jack Nicholson (co-star in A Few Good Men)
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett (TAR) - Gwyneth Paltrow (co-star in The Talented Mr Ripley)
Danielle Deadwyler (Till) - Helen Mirren (co-star in The Leisure Seeker)
Margot Robbie (Babylon) - Nicole Kidman (co-star in Bombshell)
Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans) - Julianne Moore (co-star in After the Wedding)
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) - Kate Winslet (co-star in Avatar: The Way of Water)
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Dano (The Fabelmans) - Alan Arkin (co-star in Little Miss Sunshine)
Brendan Gleason (The Banshees of Inisherin) - Jim Broadbent (co-star in Gangs of New York)
Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans) - Timothy Hutton (co-star in Ordinary People)
Brad Pitt (Babylon) - Christoph Waltz (co-star in Inglourious Basterds)
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once) - Troy Kotsur (due to Quan not co-starring alongside any former Best Supporting Actor winners)
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley (Women Talking) - Renee Zellweger (co-star in Judy)
Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) - Marisa Tomei (co-star in Captain America: Civil War)
Claire Foy (Women Talking) - Maggie Smith (co-star in The Lady in the Van)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once) - Ariana DeBose (due to Hsu not co-starring alongside any former Best Supporting Actress winners)
Janelle Monae (Glass Onion) - Octavia Spencer (co-star in Hidden Figures)
Other categories
Picture - John Bailey (AMPAS president)
Director - Jane Campion
Screenwriting awards - Matt Damon and Emma Thompson (former winners)
Animated Feature - Brad Bird and Jennifer Lee (former winners and to honour Phil Lord and Chris Miller's desire for industry professionals to present this category)
Documentary Feature - Questlove
International Film - Ang Lee
Original Score - Hans Zimmer (assuming he's not nominated for The Son)
Editing - Alfonso Cuaron and Thelma Schoonmaker
Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki (or if he's not nominated, Roger Deakins)
Best Costume Design - Colleen Atwood
Best Production Design - Stuart Craig and Rick Heinrichs
Best Visual Effects - Joe Johnston and Phil Tippett
Best Sound - Ben Burtt
Best Make-up and Hair - Rick Baker
Best Original Song - Elton John and Adele
2022.07.22 09:23 Rfowl009 July Predictions for the 95th Academy Awards (Most Categories)
- BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER 20th Century Studios
BABYLON Paramount Pictures
BARDO Netflix
ELVIS Warner Bros.
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE A24
THE FABELMANS Universal Pictures
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Apple TV+
SHE SAID Universal Pictures
THE SON Sony Pictures Classics
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Paramount Pictures
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING -
BABYLON Damien Chazelle (Paramount Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (A24)
THE FABELMANS Steven Spielberg (Universal Pictures
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Martin Scorsese (Apple TV+)
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund (NEON)
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -
BARDO Daniel Giménez Cacho (Netflix)
ELVIS Austin Butler (Warner Bros.)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Leonardo DiCaprio (Apple TV+)
THE SON Hugh Jackman (Sony Pictures Classics)
THE WHALE Brendan Frasier (A24)
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -
BABYLON Margot Robbie (Paramount Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Michelle Yeoh (A24)
I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY Naomi Ackie (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
SHE SAID Carey Mulligan (Universal Pictures)
TÁR Cate Blanchett (Focus Features)
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -
ARMAGEDDON TIME Anthony Hopkins (Focus Features)
BABYLON Brad Pitt (Paramount Pictures)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Brendan Gleeson (Searchlight Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Ke Huy Quan (A24)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Jesse Plemons (Apple TV+)
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -
BABYLON Jean Smart (Paramount Pictures)
THE FABELMANS Michelle Williams (Universal Pictures)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Lily Gladstone (Apple TV+)
SHE SAID Samantha Morton (Universal Pictures)
THE SON Vanessa Kirby (Sony Pictures Classics)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY -
BABYLON Damien Chazelle (Paramount Pictures)
BARDO Nicolás Giacobone & Alejandro G. Ińárritu (Netflix)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (A24)
THE FABELMANS Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner (Universal Pictures)
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund (NEON)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY -
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Eric Roth (Apple TV+)
SHE SAID Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Universal Pictures)
THE SON Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller (Sony Pictures Classics)
THE WHALE Samuel D. Hunter (A24)
WOMEN TALKING Sarah Polley (United Artists)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen Rivkin & Ian Silverstein (20th Century Studios)
BABYLON Tom Cross (Paramount Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Paul Rogers (A24)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Thelma Schoonmaker (Apple TV+)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Eddie Hamilton (Paramount Pictures)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Russell Carpenter (20th Century Studios)
BABYLON Linus Sandgren (Paramount Pictures)
BARDO Darius Khondji (Netflix)
THE FABELMANS Janusz Kaminski (Universal Pictures)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Rodrigo Prieto (Apple TV+)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Dylan Cole, Ben Procter & Vanessa Cole (20th Century Studios)
BABYLON Florencia Martin & Anthony Carlino (Paramount Pictures)
ELVIS Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Shaun Barry, Beverley Dunn & Daniel Reader (Warner Bros.)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Jack Fisk & Adam Willis (Apple TV+)
WHITE NOISE Jess Gonchor & Claire Kaufman (Netflix)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN -
BABYLON Mary Zophres (Paramount Pictures)
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER Mobolaji Dawodu (Walt Disney Studio Pictures)
ELVIS Catherine Martin (Warner Bros.)
THE FABELMANS Mark Bridges (Universal Pictures)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Jacqueline West (Apple TV+)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING -
BABYLON Arjen Tuiten, Jaime Leigh McIntosh & Heba Thorisdottir (Paramount Pictures)
THE BATMAN Michael Marino (Warner Bros.)
ELVIS Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Angela Conte & Louise Coulston (Warner Bros.)
GOLDA Karen Hartley & Suzi Battersby (Bleecker Street Media)
THE WHALE Judy Chin & Adrien Morot (A24)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC, ORIGINAL SCORE -
BABYLON Justin Hurwitz (Paramount Pictures)
THE BATMAN Michael Giacchnio (Warner Bros.)
THE FABELMANS John Williams (Universal Pictures)
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO Alexandre Desplat (Netflix)
TÁR Hildur Guðnadóttir (Focus Features)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Tony Johnson & David Chrastka (20th Century Studios)
BABYLON Steven Morrow (Paramount Pictures)
THE BATMAN Andy Nelson, Stuart Wilson, Craig Henighan, Phil Barrie & Diego Perez (Warner Bros.)
ELVIS Wayne Pashley, David Lee & Michael Minkler (Warner Bros.)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Mark Weingarten, Mark Taylor & Rowan Watson (Paramount Pictures)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Richard Baneham, Povani Rao Boddapati, Joe Letteri & J.D. Schwalm (20th Century Studios)
THE BATMAN Russell Earl, Anders Langlands, Dan Lemmon & Dominic Tuohy (Warner Bros.)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Zak Stoltz (A24)
NOPE Ed Bruce & Guillaume Rocheron (Universal Pictures)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Ryan Tudhope, Bryan Litson & Scott R. Fisher (Paramount Pictures)
- BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM -
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO Netflix; directed by Guillermo Del Toro & Mark Gustafson
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON A24; directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
MY FATHER'S DRAGON Netflix; directed by Nora Twomey
STRANGE WORLD Walt Disney Studio Pictures; directed by Don Hall
TURNING RED Walt Disney Studio Pictures; directed by Domee Shi
- BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM -
BARDO Netflix; Mexico
CLOSE A24; Belgium
CORSAGE IFC Films; Austria
DECISION TO LEAVE Mubi; South Korea
RRR Sarigama Cinemas; India
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AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER 20th Century Studios
BABYLON Paramount Pictures
BARDO Netflix
ELVIS Warner Bros.
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE A24
THE FABELMANS Universal Pictures
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Apple TV+
SHE SAID Universal Pictures
THE SON Sony Pictures Classics
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Paramount Pictures
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING -
BABYLON Damien Chazelle (Paramount Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (A24)
THE FABELMANS Steven Spielberg (Universal Pictures
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Martin Scorsese (Apple TV+)
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund (NEON)
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -
BARDO Daniel Giménez Cacho (Netflix)
ELVIS Austin Butler (Warner Bros.)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Leonardo DiCaprio (Apple TV+)
THE SON Hugh Jackman (Sony Pictures Classics)
THE WHALE Brendan Frasier (A24)
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -
BABYLON Margot Robbie (Paramount Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Michelle Yeoh (A24)
I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY Naomi Ackie (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
SHE SAID Carey Mulligan (Universal Pictures)
TÁR Cate Blanchett (Focus Features)
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -
ARMAGEDDON TIME Anthony Hopkins (Focus Features)
BABYLON Brad Pitt (Paramount Pictures)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Brendan Gleeson (Searchlight Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Ke Huy Quan (A24)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Jesse Plemons (Apple TV+)
- BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -
BABYLON Jean Smart (Paramount Pictures)
THE FABELMANS Michelle Williams (Universal Pictures)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Lily Gladstone (Apple TV+)
SHE SAID Samantha Morton (Universal Pictures)
THE SON Vanessa Kirby (Sony Pictures Classics)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY -
BABYLON Damien Chazelle (Paramount Pictures)
BARDO Nicolás Giacobone & Alejandro G. Ińárritu (Netflix)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (A24)
THE FABELMANS Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner (Universal Pictures)
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund (NEON)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING, ADAPTED SCREENPLAY -
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Eric Roth (Apple TV+)
SHE SAID Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Universal Pictures)
THE SON Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller (Sony Pictures Classics)
THE WHALE Samuel D. Hunter (A24)
WOMEN TALKING Sarah Polley (United Artists)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen Rivkin & Ian Silverstein (20th Century Studios)
BABYLON Tom Cross (Paramount Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Paul Rogers (A24)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Thelma Schoonmaker (Apple TV+)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Eddie Hamilton (Paramount Pictures)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Russell Carpenter (20th Century Studios)
BABYLON Linus Sandgren (Paramount Pictures)
BARDO Darius Khondji (Netflix)
THE FABELMANS Janusz Kaminski (Universal Pictures)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Rodrigo Prieto (Apple TV+)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Dylan Cole, Ben Procter & Vanessa Cole (20th Century Studios)
BABYLON Florencia Martin & Anthony Carlino (Paramount Pictures)
ELVIS Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Shaun Barry, Beverley Dunn & Daniel Reader (Warner Bros.)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Jack Fisk & Adam Willis (Apple TV+)
WHITE NOISE Jess Gonchor & Claire Kaufman (Netflix)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN -
BABYLON Mary Zophres (Paramount Pictures)
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER Mobolaji Dawodu (Walt Disney Studio Pictures)
ELVIS Catherine Martin (Warner Bros.)
THE FABELMANS Mark Bridges (Universal Pictures)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Jacqueline West (Apple TV+)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING -
BABYLON Arjen Tuiten, Jaime Leigh McIntosh & Heba Thorisdottir (Paramount Pictures)
THE BATMAN Michael Marino (Warner Bros.)
ELVIS Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Angela Conte & Louise Coulston (Warner Bros.)
GOLDA Karen Hartley & Suzi Battersby (Bleecker Street Media)
THE WHALE Judy Chin & Adrien Morot (A24)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC, ORIGINAL SCORE -
BABYLON Justin Hurwitz (Paramount Pictures)
THE BATMAN Michael Giacchnio (Warner Bros.)
THE FABELMANS John Williams (Universal Pictures)
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO Alexandre Desplat (Netflix)
TÁR Hildur Guðnadóttir (Focus Features)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Tony Johnson & David Chrastka (20th Century Studios)
BABYLON Steven Morrow (Paramount Pictures)
THE BATMAN Andy Nelson, Stuart Wilson, Craig Henighan, Phil Barrie & Diego Perez (Warner Bros.)
ELVIS Wayne Pashley, David Lee & Michael Minkler (Warner Bros.)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Mark Weingarten, Mark Taylor & Rowan Watson (Paramount Pictures)
- BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS -
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Richard Baneham, Povani Rao Boddapati, Joe Letteri & J.D. Schwalm (20th Century Studios)
THE BATMAN Russell Earl, Anders Langlands, Dan Lemmon & Dominic Tuohy (Warner Bros.)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Zak Stoltz (A24)
NOPE Ed Bruce & Guillaume Rocheron (Universal Pictures)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK Ryan Tudhope, Bryan Litson & Scott R. Fisher (Paramount Pictures)
- BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM -
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO Netflix; directed by Guillermo Del Toro & Mark Gustafson
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON A24; directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
MY FATHER'S DRAGON Netflix; directed by Nora Twomey
STRANGE WORLD Walt Disney Studio Pictures; directed by Don Hall
TURNING RED Walt Disney Studio Pictures; directed by Domee Shi
- BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM -
BARDO Netflix; Mexico
CLOSE A24; Belgium
CORSAGE IFC Films; Austria
DECISION TO LEAVE Mubi; South Korea
RRR Sarigama Cinemas; India
2022.05.13 15:49 DRAGON_LALALAND My 95th Oscar Winner & Nominee Predictions (May)
BEST PICTURE
・Amsterdam
・Babylon
・Everything Everywhere All at Once
・The Fabelmans
・Killers of the Flower Moon
・Poor Things
・Rustin
・She Said (Winner)
・Thirteen Lives
・Women Talking
Alt: Avatar: The Way of Water, Bardo, Broker, Decision to Leave, Don't Worry Darling, Empire of Light, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Next Goal Wins, The Son, The Woman King
BEST DIRECTOR
・Park Chan-Wook - Decision to Leave
・Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans (Winner)
・Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon
・Maria Schrader - She Said
・Sarah Polley - Women Talking
Alt: James Cameron - Avatar: The Way of Water, Alejandro González Iñárritu - Bardo, Damien Chazelle - Babylon, Koreeda Hirokazu - Broker, Olivia Wilde - Don't Worry Darling, David Fincher - The Killer, Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
BEST ACTRESS
・Naomi Ackie - I Wanna Dance with Somebody
・Regina King - Shirley (Winner)
・Carey Mulligan - She Said
・Emma Stone - Poor Things
・Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Alt: Cate Blanchett - TÁR, Olivia Colman - Empire of Light, Viola Davis - The Woman King, Danielle Deadwyler - Till, Frances McDormand - Women Talking, Florence Pugh - Don't Worry Darling, Emma Thompson - Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
BEST ACTOR
・Christian Bale - Amsterdam
・Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
・Coleman Domingo - Rustin (Winner)
・Brendan Fraser - The Whale
・Hugh Jackman - The Son
Alt: Austin Butler - Elvis, Adam Driver - White Noise, Michael Fassbender - The Killer, Michael Fassbender - Next Goal Wins, Park Hae-il - Decision to Leave, Tom Hanks - A Man Called Otto, Bill Nighy - Living
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
・Jessie Buckley - Women Talking
・Laura Dern - The Son
・Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
・Zoe Kazan - She Said
・Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans (Winner)
Alt: Whoopi Goldberg - Till, Dakota Johnson - Cha Cha Real Smooth, Vanessa Kirby - The Son, Margot Robbie - Amsterdam, Margot Robbie - Babylon, Sadie Sink - The Whale, Tang Wei - Decision to Leave
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
・Paul Dano - The Fabelmans (Winner)
・Willem Dafoe - Poor Things
・Jesse Plemons - Killers of the Flower Moon
・Seth Rogen - The Fabelmans
・Ben Whishaw - Women Talking
Alt: Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon, Anthony Hopkins - Armageddon Time, Song Kang-ho - Broker, Brad Pitt - Babylon, Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ashton Sanders - I Wanna Dance with Somebody, John David Washington - Amsterdam
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
・David O. Russell - Amsterdam
・Damien Chazelle - Babylon (Winner)
・Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at Once
・Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner - The Fabelmans
・Dustin Lance Black & George C. Wolfe - Rustin
Alt: Jamed Gray - Armageddon Time, Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin, Koreeda Hirokazu - Broker, Cooper Raiff - Cha Cha Real Smooth, Park Chan-wook & Jeong Seo-kyeong - Decision to Leave, Katie Silverman, Carey Van Dyke & Shane Van Dyke - Don't Worry Darling, Jordan Peele - Nope
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
・Eric Roth - Killers of the Flower Moon
・Tony McNamara - Poor Things
・Rebecca Lenkiewicz - She Said (Winner)
・Noah Baumbach - White Noise
・Sarah Polley - Women Talking
Alt: James Cameron & Josh Friedman - Avatar: The Way of Water, Rian Johnson - Knives Out 2, Jason Headley & Angus MacLane - Lightyear, Taika Waititi & Iain Morris - Next Goal Wins, Florian Zeller - The Son, Samuel D. Hunter - The Whale, Arice Birch & Sebastián Lelio - The Wonder
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
・Alcarràs (Spain)
・All That Breathes (India)
・Decision to Leave (헤어질 결심, South Korea) (Winner)
・Klondike (Клондайк, Ukraine)
・Leila's Brothers (برادران لیلا、Iran)
Alt: Bardo (Mexico), Before, Now and Then (Nana, Indonesia), Broker (브로커, South Korea), R.M.N (Romania), Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita, Belgium), Holy Spider (Sweden)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
・All That Breathes
・Bad Axe
・Descendant
・Fire of Love (Winner)
・The Territory
Alt: Aftershock, Donna, The Janes, Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, Last Flight Home, The Natural History of Destruction, Navalny
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
・Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
・Lightyear (Winner)
・Pinocchio
・Strange World
・Turning Red
Alt: Apollo 10 1⁄2, The Bad Guys, Charlotte, Inu-oh, My Father's Dragon, Suzume no Tojimari, Wendell and Wild
BEST CINEMATGRAPHEY
・Russell Carpenter - Avatar: The Way of Water
・Linus Sandgren - Babylon
・Roger Deakins - Empire of Light
・Rodrigo Prieto - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
・Sayombhu Mukdeeprom - Thirteen Lives
Alt: Darius Khondji - Bardo, Greig Fraser - The Batman, Matthew Libatique - Don't Worry Darling, Janusz Kaminski - The Fabelmans, Erik Messerschmidt - The Killer, Luc Montpellier - Women Talking, Ari Wegner - The Wonder
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
・Justin Hurwitz - Babylon (Winner)
・Michael Giacchino - The Batman
・John Williams - The Fabelmans
・Alexandre Desplat - Pinocchio
・Hildur Guðnadóttir - Women Talking
Alt: Simon Franglen - Avatar: The Way of Water, Ludwig Göransson - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Bones and All, Thomas Newman - Empire of Light, Robbie Robertson - Killers of the Flower Moon, Nicholas Britell - She Said, Hildur Guðnadóttir - TÁR
BEST EDITING
・Paul Rogers - Everything Everywhere All at Once
・Sarah Broshar - The Fabelmans
・Thelma Schoonmaker - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
・Hansjörg Weißbrich - She Said
・James D. Wilcox - Thirteen Lives
Alt: Jay Cassidy - Amsterdam, David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin & Ian Silverstein - Avatar: The Way of Water, Tom Cross - Babylon, William Hoy & Tyler Nelson - The Batman, Unknown (Kirk Baxter?) - The Killer, Yana Gorskaya & Nicholas Monsour - Next Goal Wins, Yorgos Mavropsaridis - Poor Things
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
・Mary Zophres - Babylon (Winner)
・Ruth E. Carter - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
・Catherine Martin - Elvis
・Alexandra Byrne - Empire of Light
・Holly Waddington - Poor Things
Alt: J.R. Hawbaker & Albert Wolsky - Amsterdam, Arianne Phillips - Don’t Worry Darling, Mark Bridges - The Fabelman, Jacqueline West - Killers of the Flower Moon, Gersha Phillips - The Woman King, Unknown - Women Talking, Odile Dicks-Mireaux - The Wonder
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
・Avatar: The Way of Water
・Babylon (Winner)
・Empire of Light
・Killers of the Flower Moon
・Poor Things
Alt: Asteroid City, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Don't Worry Darling, Elvis, The Fabelmans, Spaceman, Women Taking
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
・Babylon
・The Batman
・Elvis
・Poor Things
・The Whale (Winner)
Alt: Empire of Light, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, Golda, The Northman, White Noise, The Woman King
BEST SOUND
・Avatar: The Way of Water
・Babylon
・Killers of the Flower Moon
・Top Gun: Maverick (Winner)
・Thirteen Lives
Alt: The Batman, Empire of Light, The Killer, Next Goal Wins, Lightyear, Spaceman, The Woman King
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
・Avatar: The Way of Water (Winner)
・The Batman
・Doctor Strange in Multiverse of Madness
・Top Gun: Maverick
・Thirteen Lives
Alt: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Jurassic World: Dominion, Nope, Spaceman, Thor: Love and Thunder
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・Amsterdam
・Babylon
・Everything Everywhere All at Once
・The Fabelmans
・Killers of the Flower Moon
・Poor Things
・Rustin
・She Said (Winner)
・Thirteen Lives
・Women Talking
Alt: Avatar: The Way of Water, Bardo, Broker, Decision to Leave, Don't Worry Darling, Empire of Light, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Next Goal Wins, The Son, The Woman King
BEST DIRECTOR
・Park Chan-Wook - Decision to Leave
・Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans (Winner)
・Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon
・Maria Schrader - She Said
・Sarah Polley - Women Talking
Alt: James Cameron - Avatar: The Way of Water, Alejandro González Iñárritu - Bardo, Damien Chazelle - Babylon, Koreeda Hirokazu - Broker, Olivia Wilde - Don't Worry Darling, David Fincher - The Killer, Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
BEST ACTRESS
・Naomi Ackie - I Wanna Dance with Somebody
・Regina King - Shirley (Winner)
・Carey Mulligan - She Said
・Emma Stone - Poor Things
・Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Alt: Cate Blanchett - TÁR, Olivia Colman - Empire of Light, Viola Davis - The Woman King, Danielle Deadwyler - Till, Frances McDormand - Women Talking, Florence Pugh - Don't Worry Darling, Emma Thompson - Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
BEST ACTOR
・Christian Bale - Amsterdam
・Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
・Coleman Domingo - Rustin (Winner)
・Brendan Fraser - The Whale
・Hugh Jackman - The Son
Alt: Austin Butler - Elvis, Adam Driver - White Noise, Michael Fassbender - The Killer, Michael Fassbender - Next Goal Wins, Park Hae-il - Decision to Leave, Tom Hanks - A Man Called Otto, Bill Nighy - Living
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
・Jessie Buckley - Women Talking
・Laura Dern - The Son
・Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
・Zoe Kazan - She Said
・Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans (Winner)
Alt: Whoopi Goldberg - Till, Dakota Johnson - Cha Cha Real Smooth, Vanessa Kirby - The Son, Margot Robbie - Amsterdam, Margot Robbie - Babylon, Sadie Sink - The Whale, Tang Wei - Decision to Leave
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
・Paul Dano - The Fabelmans (Winner)
・Willem Dafoe - Poor Things
・Jesse Plemons - Killers of the Flower Moon
・Seth Rogen - The Fabelmans
・Ben Whishaw - Women Talking
Alt: Robert De Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon, Anthony Hopkins - Armageddon Time, Song Kang-ho - Broker, Brad Pitt - Babylon, Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ashton Sanders - I Wanna Dance with Somebody, John David Washington - Amsterdam
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
・David O. Russell - Amsterdam
・Damien Chazelle - Babylon (Winner)
・Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at Once
・Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner - The Fabelmans
・Dustin Lance Black & George C. Wolfe - Rustin
Alt: Jamed Gray - Armageddon Time, Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin, Koreeda Hirokazu - Broker, Cooper Raiff - Cha Cha Real Smooth, Park Chan-wook & Jeong Seo-kyeong - Decision to Leave, Katie Silverman, Carey Van Dyke & Shane Van Dyke - Don't Worry Darling, Jordan Peele - Nope
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
・Eric Roth - Killers of the Flower Moon
・Tony McNamara - Poor Things
・Rebecca Lenkiewicz - She Said (Winner)
・Noah Baumbach - White Noise
・Sarah Polley - Women Talking
Alt: James Cameron & Josh Friedman - Avatar: The Way of Water, Rian Johnson - Knives Out 2, Jason Headley & Angus MacLane - Lightyear, Taika Waititi & Iain Morris - Next Goal Wins, Florian Zeller - The Son, Samuel D. Hunter - The Whale, Arice Birch & Sebastián Lelio - The Wonder
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
・Alcarràs (Spain)
・All That Breathes (India)
・Decision to Leave (헤어질 결심, South Korea) (Winner)
・Klondike (Клондайк, Ukraine)
・Leila's Brothers (برادران لیلا、Iran)
Alt: Bardo (Mexico), Before, Now and Then (Nana, Indonesia), Broker (브로커, South Korea), R.M.N (Romania), Tori and Lokita (Tori et Lokita, Belgium), Holy Spider (Sweden)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
・All That Breathes
・Bad Axe
・Descendant
・Fire of Love (Winner)
・The Territory
Alt: Aftershock, Donna, The Janes, Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, Last Flight Home, The Natural History of Destruction, Navalny
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
・Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
・Lightyear (Winner)
・Pinocchio
・Strange World
・Turning Red
Alt: Apollo 10 1⁄2, The Bad Guys, Charlotte, Inu-oh, My Father's Dragon, Suzume no Tojimari, Wendell and Wild
BEST CINEMATGRAPHEY
・Russell Carpenter - Avatar: The Way of Water
・Linus Sandgren - Babylon
・Roger Deakins - Empire of Light
・Rodrigo Prieto - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
・Sayombhu Mukdeeprom - Thirteen Lives
Alt: Darius Khondji - Bardo, Greig Fraser - The Batman, Matthew Libatique - Don't Worry Darling, Janusz Kaminski - The Fabelmans, Erik Messerschmidt - The Killer, Luc Montpellier - Women Talking, Ari Wegner - The Wonder
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
・Justin Hurwitz - Babylon (Winner)
・Michael Giacchino - The Batman
・John Williams - The Fabelmans
・Alexandre Desplat - Pinocchio
・Hildur Guðnadóttir - Women Talking
Alt: Simon Franglen - Avatar: The Way of Water, Ludwig Göransson - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Bones and All, Thomas Newman - Empire of Light, Robbie Robertson - Killers of the Flower Moon, Nicholas Britell - She Said, Hildur Guðnadóttir - TÁR
BEST EDITING
・Paul Rogers - Everything Everywhere All at Once
・Sarah Broshar - The Fabelmans
・Thelma Schoonmaker - Killers of the Flower Moon (Winner)
・Hansjörg Weißbrich - She Said
・James D. Wilcox - Thirteen Lives
Alt: Jay Cassidy - Amsterdam, David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin & Ian Silverstein - Avatar: The Way of Water, Tom Cross - Babylon, William Hoy & Tyler Nelson - The Batman, Unknown (Kirk Baxter?) - The Killer, Yana Gorskaya & Nicholas Monsour - Next Goal Wins, Yorgos Mavropsaridis - Poor Things
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
・Mary Zophres - Babylon (Winner)
・Ruth E. Carter - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
・Catherine Martin - Elvis
・Alexandra Byrne - Empire of Light
・Holly Waddington - Poor Things
Alt: J.R. Hawbaker & Albert Wolsky - Amsterdam, Arianne Phillips - Don’t Worry Darling, Mark Bridges - The Fabelman, Jacqueline West - Killers of the Flower Moon, Gersha Phillips - The Woman King, Unknown - Women Talking, Odile Dicks-Mireaux - The Wonder
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
・Avatar: The Way of Water
・Babylon (Winner)
・Empire of Light
・Killers of the Flower Moon
・Poor Things
Alt: Asteroid City, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Don't Worry Darling, Elvis, The Fabelmans, Spaceman, Women Taking
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
・Babylon
・The Batman
・Elvis
・Poor Things
・The Whale (Winner)
Alt: Empire of Light, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, Golda, The Northman, White Noise, The Woman King
BEST SOUND
・Avatar: The Way of Water
・Babylon
・Killers of the Flower Moon
・Top Gun: Maverick (Winner)
・Thirteen Lives
Alt: The Batman, Empire of Light, The Killer, Next Goal Wins, Lightyear, Spaceman, The Woman King
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
・Avatar: The Way of Water (Winner)
・The Batman
・Doctor Strange in Multiverse of Madness
・Top Gun: Maverick
・Thirteen Lives
Alt: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Jurassic World: Dominion, Nope, Spaceman, Thor: Love and Thunder
2022.03.23 23:50 Shagrrotten The Night ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ Devoured the Oscars
Taken from: https://www.theringer.com/oscars/2022/3/23/22991780/silence-of-the-lambs-oscars-sweep-academy-awards-big-five
On March 30, 1992, Jonathan Demme’s cannibalistic thriller became just the third movie to sweep the Academy Awards’ big five categories. Since then, no other movie has done it.
By Keith Phipps Mar 23, 2022
The Oscars didn’t traditionally give awards to cannibals. But on March 30, 1992, for the first time since 1976 and only the third time in the history of the Academy Awards, one film won the “Big Five,” walking away with Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay (whether original or adapted), Best Actor, and Best Actress. A grisly thriller filled with graphic violence, disturbing imagery, flung bodily fluids, and, yes, generous discussion of cannibalism, The Silence of the Lambs checked only a few of the boxes usually associated with Oscar-winning films. Yet more than a year after it arrived in theaters, nothing could stand in the film’s way on Oscars night (not even noisy protests outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion). It was, unexpectedly but undeniably, the year of the cannibal.
Then again, pretty much everything about The Silence of the Lambs seemed unlikely. That Thomas Harris’s bestselling 1988 novel would be turned into a movie was probably inevitable; that Jonathan Demme would direct the adaptation was not. Demme got his start making exploitation films for Roger Corman like his directorial debut, 1974’s Caged Heat (one of the era’s best women-in-prison movies). But it was the 1977 film Citizens Band (a.k.a. Handle with Care), an ensemble piece inspired by the Citizens’ Band craze, in which Demme came into his own as a director of eccentric comedies filled with memorable, carefully crafted characters. He made another thriller, 1979’s Last Embrace, and then moved on to Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift, Something Wild, and Married to the Mob. Demme had made memorable digressions with the masterful Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense and an inventive film version of Spalding Gray’s monologue Swimming to Cambodia, but by the end of the ’80s, everyone knew he made warm, quirky, deceptively complex comedies. Then, suddenly, he didn’t. As Sheila Benson wrote in her Los Angeles Times review of The Silence of the Lambs, “The Jonathan Demme of Something Wild or Melvin and Howard or Stop Making Sense might not be the first director one would think of for suspense or bloody terror; his touch has always seemed lighter, his interests more quirky and off the mainstream. So much for pigeonholing.”
In retrospect, however, the shift looks less shocking—and like less of a shift altogether. Something Wild begins as a madcap comedy but changes gears radically midway through with the arrival of a dangerous character played by Ray Liotta. By film’s end, it’s taken a deadly, suspenseful turn, yet it plays like a Demme film throughout thanks largely to a pervasive sense of empathy. For all that sets it apart from Demme’s previous films, The Silence of the Lambs has that same empathy in abundance, as do its central characters. FBI agent Clarice Starling and psychiatrist–serial killer Hannibal Lecter share a tremendous gift for understanding other people, though they apply that gift differently. If The Silence of the Lambs wasn’t a film Demme previously seemed likely to make, it was one for which he was nonetheless unusually well suited.
When Demme joined, the film already had acclaimed playwright Ted Tally in place as screenwriter. It would soon add Anthony Hopkins as Lecter and—after Demme’s first choice, Michelle Pfeiffer, turned down the role—Jodie Foster, a recent Best Actress winner for The Accused, as Starling. Nothing about the film’s pedigree suggested it would be a run-of-the-mill cop versus killer movie. But nothing about it suggested it would become a multi–award winning Oscar favorite, either. Silence entered wide release on February 14, 1991, a date far removed from the usual year-end window for awards contenders.
Orion Pictures, the studio behind The Silence of the Lambs, was no stranger to the Academy Awards, having won Best Picture prizes for Amadeus and Platoon. A few weeks after Silence’s release, Dances With Wolves would repeat the feat, but nothing about the studio’s treatment of Silence suggested it was being positioned to do the same. “There’s no way Orion saw it as an awards contender,” says Katey Rich, who covers the Oscars and other awards for Vanity Fair.
Silence would soon, however, become a much-needed hit for Orion. The movie earned widespread critical acclaim and enjoyed sustained box office success, debuting in the top spot and stayed there for five weeks. Even after being supplanted by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, the film stuck around and ultimately earned $131 million at the domestic box office.
It stuck around in other ways, too, becoming an era-defining pop culture reference point. As 1991 rolled on, even the seemingly vanishing few who hadn’t seen the film couldn’t help encountering its (frequently misquoted) famous lines, jokey references to cannibalism in late-night monologues, and sketch show parodies. Though no other February release had generated awards buzz—sorry, King Ralph—Silence made a deep enough impression to become a contender months later, joining the Oscars race alongside a handful of (mostly late-year) releases like JFK, The Fisher King, The Prince of Tides, Thelma & Louise, Rambling Rose, Boyz n the Hood, Bugsy, and (most surprisingly) Beauty and the Beast.
As that race escalated, no discernible consensus pick emerged. The L.A. Film Critics Association bestowed Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay honors to Bugsy and awarded its acting prizes to Nick Nolte for The Prince of Tides and Mercedes Ruehl for The Fisher King. (Ruehl would eventually win an Oscar for that role in the Best Supporting Actress category.) The National Society of Film Critics threw its weight behind Mike Leigh’s Life is Sweet and David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch. The New York Film Critics Circle, however, would prove to be a bellwether, honoring Silence, Demme, Foster, and Hopkins in the top categories (while picking Naked Lunch screenplay over Tally’s work). “Critics giving something a push can really make a huge difference and make a studio think, ‘Oh, we better do something about this,’” Rich notes, adding, “I think we dismiss the power of critics when it comes to the Oscars, a lot of times for good reason, but that kind of drumbeat can really make a big difference.”
When the Academy announced nominations for the 64th Academy Awards on February 19th, JFK, The Prince of Tides, Bugsy, and Beauty and the Beast all received Best Picture nominations alongside Silence. With 10 nominations, Bugsy picked up more than any other film, followed by JFK (with eight) and The Prince of Tides and The Silence of the Lambs (with seven each). As the first animated film to contend for Best Picture, Beauty’s nomination became one of the top points of discussion in the run-up to the ceremony. Every Oscars season has its story lines and animation’s newfound mainstream respectability became one of them, along with the controversy over JFK’s free interpretation history and Barbra Streisand’s failure to secure a Best Director nominee despite The Prince of Tides’s seven nominations in other categories.
The story line around Silence involved a different sort of outrage. In this current era of instant online reactions and instant, unshakable controversies it’s hard to imagine how loud a protest had to be to be heard in 1992. But, in the midst of Oscars season, ACT UP and Queer Nation made sure their objections to Silence of the Lambs (and the gay killer played by Tommy Lee Jones in JFK), were heard via a loud protest outside the Academy Awards ceremony with chants of “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Homophobia has got to go!,” a round of heckling directed at Foster (“Quick, get out of the closet. There’s a big moth in there.”), and multiple arrests. It was the culmination of more than a year’s worth of discomfort that had been building since the film’s release. Earlier in 1991, GLAAD had spoken out against the homophobia they perceived in the portrayal of Jame Gumb, the serial killer played by Ted Levine who kidnaps women to skin them for their flesh in an attempt to make a wearable suite of female flesh.
As Jeffrey Bloomer pointed out in a 2017 analysis for Slate, the controversy predated the creation of the vocabulary and understanding to object to Silence’s depiction of Gumb as transphobic. And though the film, like the novel before it, goes out of its way to note that Gumb isn’t really transgender, it’s easy to see why Silence stirred objections, particularly in the context of its times, when depictions of LGBTQ+ characters were rare and usually unflattering, if not outright hateful. Fairly or not, the protests seemed to take Demme by surprise. “I hadn’t been paying attention to the absence of positive gay characters all that much, so I came away from the protests enlightened,” he told Rolling Stone in 1994. Whatever the director’s intent, Gumb’s portrayal remains an element with which even admirers of the film continue to wrestle. “Silence of the Lambs is a perfect movie,” Emily St. James wrote in Vox last year. “Except it’s also a movie that helped perpetuate one of the worst, most transphobic stereotypes of all.”
The protests continued outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Oscars night, where, for a while, it looked like Silence of the Lambs might not get much more notice than Billy Crystal’s memorable entrance, in which he was wheeled in on a hand trolly wearing a straitjacket and mask restraint. (“I look like the goalie for the SAG hockey team,” he quipped.) As the film lost in two technical categories (Best Editing and Best Sound), the jokes focused more on the presidential primaries, Orion’s woes, and Streisand’s exclusion than any of the nominees. A group of astronauts thanked Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award–winner George Lucas from orbit, and Satyajit Ray accepted an honorary Oscar from his hospital bed. But when the evening arrived at the top awards, it was Silence all the way. A seemingly surprised Demme made pains to praise Harris’s “extraordinarily moral and an amazing book,” but Foster’s acceptance speech would prove to be the most memorable. She thanked Demme “not just for his talent but for his goodness” and teared up as she referred to Clarice as an “incredibly strong and feminist hero.” To cap the evening, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor announced Silence’s Best Picture win. At that point, it was no surprise.
But what did it all mean? At the time, Chicago Tribune critic Dave Kehr suggested the night marked a sea change: “The sweep for the extremely violent Silence suggests that the Academy has reached a long-delayed but inevitable turning point away from the warm-hearted, humanistic films that have traditionally taken home Oscars and toward the coarser, more commercial sensibility that actually sells most of today’s tickets.” If Kehr was a bit off in overlooking Silence’s humanistic qualities—think of the heartbreaking way Demme’s camera lingers over the bedroom of one of Gumb’s victims as Clarice thumbs through her belongings—he was right about its outlier status among Oscar winners. With the exception of Platoon, the previous decade or so of Best Picture winners alternated between intimate dramas (Rain Man, Ordinary People, Terms of Endearment) and sweeping spectacles (Gandhi, The Last Emperor, Out of Africa).
A horror film at heart, Silence of the Lambs didn’t fit either category. But if Silence’s wins didn’t break the Academy of its tendency to nominate a certain type of film, as Kehr suggested it would, it at least nudged it in a new direction. Wins for Unforgiven and Schindler’s List would soon follow amongst more traditional victors like Forrest Gump. Orion Pictures’s financial troubles would hinder its ability to be adventurous in the years that followed, but in retrospect, it’s evident that Miramax and other indie (and indie-ish) studios thrived on the ground Orion helped clear. Silence also had an even more profound impact on television via procedurals that began employing far more gore than in the past and shows like The X-Files, which borrowed the movie’s general aesthetic and looked to Clarice as inspiration for the character of Dana Scully.
Whether the sweep could happen again remains another question. The stars aligned for one film to take the big five only twice before: It Happened One Night in 1935 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1976. Little seems to unite those films beyond being, in Rich’s words, “big, broadly loved movies with two major male and female performances.” That combination might not sound like that much of a rarity, but in the years since Silence of the Lambs, only seven films have locked down nominations in the five top categories: The Remains of the Day, The English Patient, American Beauty, Million Dollar Baby, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and La La Land. Of these, American Beauty came closest to joining Silence and its predecessors. (Annette Bening’s loss to Hilary Swank for Boys Don’t Cry spoiled the feat.) It’s hard to imagine a movie never repeating the achievement, but it’s just as hard to picture the theoretical movie that might.
Maybe that’s for the best. In March of 1991, Dances With Wolves defeated Goodfellas for Best Picture, Kevin Costner beat Martin Scorsese as Best Director, and it all seemed like business as usual. Meanwhile, in theaters, audiences were surprised and shaken by a disturbing, deeply considered, and remarkably executed movie about an erudite cannibal, a killer with a basement dungeon and a gift for needlework, and an FBI agent determined to seek justice. If few could have predicted that the world would embrace such a film before its release, fewer still could have imagined its night of victory one year later. It would be foolish to try to create a film built to win every top prize. But when one that can pull off that trick does emerge—a film so widely embraced and undeniably remarkable that of course its wins make sense—Silence of the Lambs suggests it will be difficult to stop, with or without characters with a taste for human flesh.
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On March 30, 1992, Jonathan Demme’s cannibalistic thriller became just the third movie to sweep the Academy Awards’ big five categories. Since then, no other movie has done it.
By Keith Phipps Mar 23, 2022
The Oscars didn’t traditionally give awards to cannibals. But on March 30, 1992, for the first time since 1976 and only the third time in the history of the Academy Awards, one film won the “Big Five,” walking away with Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay (whether original or adapted), Best Actor, and Best Actress. A grisly thriller filled with graphic violence, disturbing imagery, flung bodily fluids, and, yes, generous discussion of cannibalism, The Silence of the Lambs checked only a few of the boxes usually associated with Oscar-winning films. Yet more than a year after it arrived in theaters, nothing could stand in the film’s way on Oscars night (not even noisy protests outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion). It was, unexpectedly but undeniably, the year of the cannibal.
Then again, pretty much everything about The Silence of the Lambs seemed unlikely. That Thomas Harris’s bestselling 1988 novel would be turned into a movie was probably inevitable; that Jonathan Demme would direct the adaptation was not. Demme got his start making exploitation films for Roger Corman like his directorial debut, 1974’s Caged Heat (one of the era’s best women-in-prison movies). But it was the 1977 film Citizens Band (a.k.a. Handle with Care), an ensemble piece inspired by the Citizens’ Band craze, in which Demme came into his own as a director of eccentric comedies filled with memorable, carefully crafted characters. He made another thriller, 1979’s Last Embrace, and then moved on to Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift, Something Wild, and Married to the Mob. Demme had made memorable digressions with the masterful Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense and an inventive film version of Spalding Gray’s monologue Swimming to Cambodia, but by the end of the ’80s, everyone knew he made warm, quirky, deceptively complex comedies. Then, suddenly, he didn’t. As Sheila Benson wrote in her Los Angeles Times review of The Silence of the Lambs, “The Jonathan Demme of Something Wild or Melvin and Howard or Stop Making Sense might not be the first director one would think of for suspense or bloody terror; his touch has always seemed lighter, his interests more quirky and off the mainstream. So much for pigeonholing.”
In retrospect, however, the shift looks less shocking—and like less of a shift altogether. Something Wild begins as a madcap comedy but changes gears radically midway through with the arrival of a dangerous character played by Ray Liotta. By film’s end, it’s taken a deadly, suspenseful turn, yet it plays like a Demme film throughout thanks largely to a pervasive sense of empathy. For all that sets it apart from Demme’s previous films, The Silence of the Lambs has that same empathy in abundance, as do its central characters. FBI agent Clarice Starling and psychiatrist–serial killer Hannibal Lecter share a tremendous gift for understanding other people, though they apply that gift differently. If The Silence of the Lambs wasn’t a film Demme previously seemed likely to make, it was one for which he was nonetheless unusually well suited.
When Demme joined, the film already had acclaimed playwright Ted Tally in place as screenwriter. It would soon add Anthony Hopkins as Lecter and—after Demme’s first choice, Michelle Pfeiffer, turned down the role—Jodie Foster, a recent Best Actress winner for The Accused, as Starling. Nothing about the film’s pedigree suggested it would be a run-of-the-mill cop versus killer movie. But nothing about it suggested it would become a multi–award winning Oscar favorite, either. Silence entered wide release on February 14, 1991, a date far removed from the usual year-end window for awards contenders.
Orion Pictures, the studio behind The Silence of the Lambs, was no stranger to the Academy Awards, having won Best Picture prizes for Amadeus and Platoon. A few weeks after Silence’s release, Dances With Wolves would repeat the feat, but nothing about the studio’s treatment of Silence suggested it was being positioned to do the same. “There’s no way Orion saw it as an awards contender,” says Katey Rich, who covers the Oscars and other awards for Vanity Fair.
Silence would soon, however, become a much-needed hit for Orion. The movie earned widespread critical acclaim and enjoyed sustained box office success, debuting in the top spot and stayed there for five weeks. Even after being supplanted by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, the film stuck around and ultimately earned $131 million at the domestic box office.
It stuck around in other ways, too, becoming an era-defining pop culture reference point. As 1991 rolled on, even the seemingly vanishing few who hadn’t seen the film couldn’t help encountering its (frequently misquoted) famous lines, jokey references to cannibalism in late-night monologues, and sketch show parodies. Though no other February release had generated awards buzz—sorry, King Ralph—Silence made a deep enough impression to become a contender months later, joining the Oscars race alongside a handful of (mostly late-year) releases like JFK, The Fisher King, The Prince of Tides, Thelma & Louise, Rambling Rose, Boyz n the Hood, Bugsy, and (most surprisingly) Beauty and the Beast.
As that race escalated, no discernible consensus pick emerged. The L.A. Film Critics Association bestowed Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay honors to Bugsy and awarded its acting prizes to Nick Nolte for The Prince of Tides and Mercedes Ruehl for The Fisher King. (Ruehl would eventually win an Oscar for that role in the Best Supporting Actress category.) The National Society of Film Critics threw its weight behind Mike Leigh’s Life is Sweet and David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch. The New York Film Critics Circle, however, would prove to be a bellwether, honoring Silence, Demme, Foster, and Hopkins in the top categories (while picking Naked Lunch screenplay over Tally’s work). “Critics giving something a push can really make a huge difference and make a studio think, ‘Oh, we better do something about this,’” Rich notes, adding, “I think we dismiss the power of critics when it comes to the Oscars, a lot of times for good reason, but that kind of drumbeat can really make a big difference.”
When the Academy announced nominations for the 64th Academy Awards on February 19th, JFK, The Prince of Tides, Bugsy, and Beauty and the Beast all received Best Picture nominations alongside Silence. With 10 nominations, Bugsy picked up more than any other film, followed by JFK (with eight) and The Prince of Tides and The Silence of the Lambs (with seven each). As the first animated film to contend for Best Picture, Beauty’s nomination became one of the top points of discussion in the run-up to the ceremony. Every Oscars season has its story lines and animation’s newfound mainstream respectability became one of them, along with the controversy over JFK’s free interpretation history and Barbra Streisand’s failure to secure a Best Director nominee despite The Prince of Tides’s seven nominations in other categories.
The story line around Silence involved a different sort of outrage. In this current era of instant online reactions and instant, unshakable controversies it’s hard to imagine how loud a protest had to be to be heard in 1992. But, in the midst of Oscars season, ACT UP and Queer Nation made sure their objections to Silence of the Lambs (and the gay killer played by Tommy Lee Jones in JFK), were heard via a loud protest outside the Academy Awards ceremony with chants of “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Homophobia has got to go!,” a round of heckling directed at Foster (“Quick, get out of the closet. There’s a big moth in there.”), and multiple arrests. It was the culmination of more than a year’s worth of discomfort that had been building since the film’s release. Earlier in 1991, GLAAD had spoken out against the homophobia they perceived in the portrayal of Jame Gumb, the serial killer played by Ted Levine who kidnaps women to skin them for their flesh in an attempt to make a wearable suite of female flesh.
As Jeffrey Bloomer pointed out in a 2017 analysis for Slate, the controversy predated the creation of the vocabulary and understanding to object to Silence’s depiction of Gumb as transphobic. And though the film, like the novel before it, goes out of its way to note that Gumb isn’t really transgender, it’s easy to see why Silence stirred objections, particularly in the context of its times, when depictions of LGBTQ+ characters were rare and usually unflattering, if not outright hateful. Fairly or not, the protests seemed to take Demme by surprise. “I hadn’t been paying attention to the absence of positive gay characters all that much, so I came away from the protests enlightened,” he told Rolling Stone in 1994. Whatever the director’s intent, Gumb’s portrayal remains an element with which even admirers of the film continue to wrestle. “Silence of the Lambs is a perfect movie,” Emily St. James wrote in Vox last year. “Except it’s also a movie that helped perpetuate one of the worst, most transphobic stereotypes of all.”
The protests continued outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Oscars night, where, for a while, it looked like Silence of the Lambs might not get much more notice than Billy Crystal’s memorable entrance, in which he was wheeled in on a hand trolly wearing a straitjacket and mask restraint. (“I look like the goalie for the SAG hockey team,” he quipped.) As the film lost in two technical categories (Best Editing and Best Sound), the jokes focused more on the presidential primaries, Orion’s woes, and Streisand’s exclusion than any of the nominees. A group of astronauts thanked Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award–winner George Lucas from orbit, and Satyajit Ray accepted an honorary Oscar from his hospital bed. But when the evening arrived at the top awards, it was Silence all the way. A seemingly surprised Demme made pains to praise Harris’s “extraordinarily moral and an amazing book,” but Foster’s acceptance speech would prove to be the most memorable. She thanked Demme “not just for his talent but for his goodness” and teared up as she referred to Clarice as an “incredibly strong and feminist hero.” To cap the evening, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor announced Silence’s Best Picture win. At that point, it was no surprise.
But what did it all mean? At the time, Chicago Tribune critic Dave Kehr suggested the night marked a sea change: “The sweep for the extremely violent Silence suggests that the Academy has reached a long-delayed but inevitable turning point away from the warm-hearted, humanistic films that have traditionally taken home Oscars and toward the coarser, more commercial sensibility that actually sells most of today’s tickets.” If Kehr was a bit off in overlooking Silence’s humanistic qualities—think of the heartbreaking way Demme’s camera lingers over the bedroom of one of Gumb’s victims as Clarice thumbs through her belongings—he was right about its outlier status among Oscar winners. With the exception of Platoon, the previous decade or so of Best Picture winners alternated between intimate dramas (Rain Man, Ordinary People, Terms of Endearment) and sweeping spectacles (Gandhi, The Last Emperor, Out of Africa).
A horror film at heart, Silence of the Lambs didn’t fit either category. But if Silence’s wins didn’t break the Academy of its tendency to nominate a certain type of film, as Kehr suggested it would, it at least nudged it in a new direction. Wins for Unforgiven and Schindler’s List would soon follow amongst more traditional victors like Forrest Gump. Orion Pictures’s financial troubles would hinder its ability to be adventurous in the years that followed, but in retrospect, it’s evident that Miramax and other indie (and indie-ish) studios thrived on the ground Orion helped clear. Silence also had an even more profound impact on television via procedurals that began employing far more gore than in the past and shows like The X-Files, which borrowed the movie’s general aesthetic and looked to Clarice as inspiration for the character of Dana Scully.
Whether the sweep could happen again remains another question. The stars aligned for one film to take the big five only twice before: It Happened One Night in 1935 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1976. Little seems to unite those films beyond being, in Rich’s words, “big, broadly loved movies with two major male and female performances.” That combination might not sound like that much of a rarity, but in the years since Silence of the Lambs, only seven films have locked down nominations in the five top categories: The Remains of the Day, The English Patient, American Beauty, Million Dollar Baby, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and La La Land. Of these, American Beauty came closest to joining Silence and its predecessors. (Annette Bening’s loss to Hilary Swank for Boys Don’t Cry spoiled the feat.) It’s hard to imagine a movie never repeating the achievement, but it’s just as hard to picture the theoretical movie that might.
Maybe that’s for the best. In March of 1991, Dances With Wolves defeated Goodfellas for Best Picture, Kevin Costner beat Martin Scorsese as Best Director, and it all seemed like business as usual. Meanwhile, in theaters, audiences were surprised and shaken by a disturbing, deeply considered, and remarkably executed movie about an erudite cannibal, a killer with a basement dungeon and a gift for needlework, and an FBI agent determined to seek justice. If few could have predicted that the world would embrace such a film before its release, fewer still could have imagined its night of victory one year later. It would be foolish to try to create a film built to win every top prize. But when one that can pull off that trick does emerge—a film so widely embraced and undeniably remarkable that of course its wins make sense—Silence of the Lambs suggests it will be difficult to stop, with or without characters with a taste for human flesh.