Brokeback Mountain is such a masterpiece. It's a film to appeal to many different audiences (both queer or not) and is such a pivotal film in history...
...and it lost to Crash.
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Nominees only!
2010: Inception
2011: A Separation
2012: Moonrise Kingdom
2013: Blue Jasmine
2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015: Inside Out
2016: The Lobster
2017: The Big Sick (HM: Lady Bird)
2018: The Favourite
2019: Knives Out
American Sniper
Joker
The Theory of Everything
Hidden Figures
The Ides of March
The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Little Women
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Nominees only!
2010: Toy Story 3
2011: Moneyball
2012: Silver Linings Playbook
2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
2014: Whiplash
2015: Carol
2016: Lion
2017: Logan
2018: A Star is Born
2019: The Irishman
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
The Fugitive (1993)
Only nominees!
2000: You Can Count On Me
2001: Memento
2002: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2003: Finding Nemo
2004: The Incredibles
2005: The Squid and the Whale
2006: Pan's Labyrinth
2007: Ratatouille
2008: In Bruges (HM: WALL•E)
2009: Up (HM: Inglourious Basterds)
A good example is Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street. Absolutely hilarious and helps make the film a laughing riot.
Nominees only!
2000: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001: Shrek
2002: Adaptation
2003: City of God
2004: Before Sunset
2005: A History of Violence
2006: Borat (HM: Children of Men)
2007: There Will Be Blood
2008: Doubt
2009: An Education (HM: Up in the Air)
Excellent film, watched it for the first time. So funny and surprisingly moving.
God what a mess...
First off, The Imitation Game is a good film. Great example of Oscar bait, for a fact. As a film, it's good. I think the film's script is very good, but c'mon... it really shouldn't have won. It's a nomination worthy script but I'm just not sure that it's worthy of a win.
Whiplash is an incredible film with an extraordinary screenplay. The thing though is that it's kinda a hard film to identify where it actually should be. The Academy put the film in Adapted because it is "based" on a proof of concept short film of the same film... which is based on the film's screenplay which was already written... so yeah. It's technically original, but the academy counted it as Adapted because the short was produced earlier. It's weird. Im fine with that though since... because it got thrown into Adapted and there was thus an empty slot in Original, that slot went to Nightcrawler in its only nomination.
The other three, The Theory of Everything, Inherent Vice, and American Sniper, are kinda just... ehh scripts that don't really earn a nomination. That category was incredibly weak though so I could see them nominating one or two of these.
The real stinger is Gone Girl, a film with a brilliant, pitch perfect screenplay. So riveting, complex, interesting. It got snubbed... IIRC it got into every single precursor (it even won CC). I feel that, if the Imitation Game was weaker that year, it could've maybe gone and won, but alas, we will never know.
Thoughts?
Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea
Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Denzel Washington (Training Day)
Today I watched Logan today with my paps, and I was really impressed with this film. I get now why it is widely considered one of if not the greatest superhero movies of all time. What a masterpiece of a film, so dark and gritty yet so beautiful thematically all at once. I kinda dislike superhero movies but this one really impressed me.
I think the fact it only got an Adapted Screenplay nomination (which is heavily inspired -- that whole category that year was very inspired) is odd... it should've gotten something else, maybe a BTL or hell maybe a Picture nom over something like Darkest Hour, or Actor or something. What do you think of this film?
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My grandaunt acted in a show called The Young Riders from 89-91 (she was in the main cast) and she starred alongside Josh Brolin and Melissa Leo, with guest James Cromwell. So that's pretty cool.
Sadly she passed away in 2018. RIP Yvonne ❤️
Nominated for Best Actress for An Education (2009), Promising Young Women (2020), and Maestro (2023).
I haven’t watched Maestro so I can’t put my opinion on that one, but I really love her two performances that were nominated that I’ve seen, and they would’ve been my winner if I chose. Mulligan also should’ve been nominated for Shame imo.
I think this is a great, well deserved nomination. It’s not really subtle but it’s not really big either, but he is a scene stealer. Every single second of the film, you’re thinking of Bale’s character. Thoughts?
