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Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Now riddle me this: Why were Jim Carrey and Ryan Gosling not nominated for Best Actor for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Blue Valentine respectively even though their co-stars Kate Winslet and Michelle Williams were nominated for Best Actress? How do you watch either of these movies and go "Yeah, make sure the woman gets into Best Actress, but don't bother making sure the man also gets into Best Actor even though he's the other half of the reason the movie works as well as it does!"

Nominate them too, you cowards.

(I personally would have ditched Depp and Franco in the 2004 and 2010 Best Actor lineups in favor of Carrey and Gosling, in case you're curious.)

The segments for There Will Be Blood and Punch-Drunk Love are the only two in this video that I haven't been able to figure out the background tracks for.

She was last alphabetically when she was nominated and won for Erin Brockovich, but for her other three nominations, which she didn't win for, she was either second to last (Steel Magnolias and August: Osage County) or right in the middle (Pretty Woman).

In this alternate timeline where Annette wins for American Beauty and Being Julia over Hilary in Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby, how would those wins for Annette be viewed? And how would those losses for Hilary be viewed? Would we be saying Hilary should've won instead for one or both of those? And how would Annette rank among other two-time Best Actress winners like Jodie Foster and Emma Stone?

He was 29 when he won for The Pianist alongside 33-year-old Catherine Zeta-Jones, 35-year-old Nicole Kidman and 51-year-old Chris Cooper.

Then he was 51 when he won again for The Brutalist alongside 25-year-old Mikey Madison, 42-year-old Kieran Culkin, and 46-year-old Zoe Saldana.

Those names in that font would fit right in on the posters for Iron Man or The Day After Tomorrow.

They have to be from the same award season, obviously.

I'll start by saying Critics Choice and SAG winner Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man > Oscar winner George Clooney in Syriana.

>!What if this infamous moment in the finale was the end of Steve Harrington?!<

Michael Caine getting a second win for The Cider House Rules over the potential first of anyone else in that lineup was complete and utter bullshit then and only looks worse and worse the more time passes.

Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry is generally held in a good regard, though I've seen more than a few conversations saying "cis actors shouldn't play trans people" and I'm pretty sure Hilary herself once said she probably wouldn't do this part these days, so yeah.

Then there's Kevin Spacey in American Beauty... his character is a creepy loser that leers after a teenager. I can think of no finer example of Harsher in Hindsight than this.

Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted, though, is not only a highlight of the supporting actress wins of the 90s, but it isn't a case of the worst option in the lineup by a landslide winning for some reason unlike Caine, nor is it a role Angelina probably wouldn't do today unlike Swank, nor does it look a little awkward these days given her real life behavior unlike Spacey. (At least I don't think it does. Don't tell me if she actually is a rebellious sociopath that belongs in a psychiatric ward...)

Alternate timeline time: Frances McDormand still has 3 acting wins, but for her supporting roles in Mississippi Burning, Almost Famous, and North Country instead of her leading roles in Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Nomadland.

No longer Best Supporting Actress winners in this timeline are:

1. Geena Davis, The Accidental Tourist (1988)
2. Marcia Gay Harden, Pollock (2000)
3. Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener (2005)

Winning Best Actress those years instead of her in this timeline (or at least my picks) are:

1. Brenda Blethyn, Secrets and Lies (1996)
2. Margot Robbie, I, Tonya (2017)
3. Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

How would these supporting wins and lead losses for Frances be viewed in this alternate timeline?

Aliens (1986) reference aside, as awesome and tense as the opening demodog invasion of Hawkins Lab in The Mind Flayer is, there's just one question I have for an otherwise amazing opening sequence: How/why DID the power go out?

Owens sounds the alarm right before the demodogs broke through the polycarbonate separating the control room from the gate, and then they break down the metal door leading to the control room before swarming the lab and killing almost everyone... but how does that cause a blackout? We don't see them ramming into any generators or chewing up any powerlines, nor do the lights flicker at any point until right before the power goes out. And Bob just has to pull some levers up to turn the power back on.

Okay now I'm imagining some demodogs reaching up and pulling the levers down in the first place to kill the power. I mean we do see a few dead bodies in the breaker room...

Acting lineups where four of the nominees won at some point before, during, or after that particular ceremony... and none for Gretchen Weiners, bye.

Here are the Gretchen Weiners's in each of these lineups:

1. 1989 Best Supporting Actress: Lena Olin
2. 1991 Best Actress: Bette Midler
3. 1995 Best Actor: Massimo Troisi
4. 1997 Best Actress: Helena Bonham Carter
5. 1999 Best Actor: Richard Farnsworth
6. 2000 Best Actor: Ed Harris
7. 2001 Best Actor: Tom Wilkinson
8. 2002 Best Supporting Actress: Queen Latifah
9. 2009 Best Actor: Jeremy Renner
10. 2011 Best Actor: Demian Bichir
11. 2013 Best Actress: Amy Adams
12. 2017 Best Actor: Timothee Chalamet

You'd think a particularly strong Best Picture frontrunner as reliant on the performances as this would've been a serious player for Best Actor, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress, but nope.

Heath Ledger didn't win shit that awards season, 'cause Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote swept.

Jake Gyllenhaal won the BAFTA for supporting actor, but wasn't even nominated at the Golden Globes, and the Critics Choice and SAG went to Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man (who would've gotten my vote personally), and the Oscar ended up going to the GG winner, George Clooney in Syriana.

Michelle Williams tied at the Critics Choice with Amy Adams in Junebug, but didn't win anything else. The Golden Globe, SAG and ultimately the Oscar went to Rachel Weisz in The Constant Gardener. Rachel was frauded into lead at BAFTA for some reason, which went to Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line as part of her sweep that season, and Michelle lost the supporting actress BAFTA to Thandiwe Newton in Crash, who wasn't nominated at the Oscars.

Why weren't they more win-competitive? Was the competition just too strong to the point where it canceled out the on-paper advantage of them being in the stronger movie? And would you say Heath and Jake (being 26 and 25 that awards season) were victims of the Academy's well known age bias against younger men?

1. Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter - Best Actress, 1980
2. Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies - Best Actor, 1983
3. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line - Best Actress, 2005
4. Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake in Crazy Heart - Best Actor, 2009

Two months ago, he watched nine of the top ten most watched Netflix original movies. (Number 1 is KPop Demon Hunters, these are 2-10)

And in his review of the 98th Oscars, which was uploaded on March 18, he confirmed it was for a video when he said "I'm watching a lot of Netflix original movies for a video no one asked me to do, and I regret doing wholeheartedly."

So when is "I watched the top ten most watched Netflix original movies so you don't have to" or "I watched the top ten most popular Netflix original movies because I hate myself" or "Yes, Netflix original movies really are THAT bad" or whatever it's gonna be titled gonna get here?

I'd love for him to see how peak JFK (1991) is.