Academy Awards 2024

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

I agree with another poster that excellent restrained performances don’t always get recognized as much as showy performances. I can’t know if it’s racism or not.

Personally, I think Beyonce should have won.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm embarrassed to admit that I never knew Cillian was pronounced as such. Despite watching the entirety of Peaky Blinders.

He's kind of awkward but endearing and humble. It confirms my belief that public speaking is so difficult -- even if you are a talented actor.

Cillian

Celtic

That's Irish

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like people who can't see the worth in Moonlight are either racist, homophobic or both.

It's considered one of the best films yet made in this century and I'm still angry that the cast and crew didn't get their moment in the sun because of the cockup with the envelopes at the Oscars that year.

It's a brilliant film, full of brilliant performances.

And yes, I'm going there - Oscars so white 2024. Again.

25% of the acting winners weren't white, and 50% of the writing winners weren't white.

Yup - two black people took home Oscars and a group of Asians did. And all the rest where white, white, white.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

Gladstone gave a more subtle and restrained performance, and the academy members often vote for bigger, showier performances like Stone's instead. In fact, the same thing happened when Glenn Close was widely expected to win Best Actress for The Wife, which was a masterpiece of subtlety, but Olivia Colman took the award for The Favourite, in which she squawked and screamed the whole movie. Both Stone and Colman were directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Olivia Coleman was great in The Favourite

I bet even Emma Stone wishes Lily Gladstone won

I promise not to make this whole thread about Gaza - but hot d**n it would have been nice for even one of the people who felt compelled to make last night about Gaza to have mentioned the hostages.

Jonathan Glazer spoke to ALL the victims of the current conflict:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like people who can't see the worth in Moonlight are either racist, homophobic or both.

It's considered one of the best films yet made in this century and I'm still angry that the cast and crew didn't get their moment in the sun because of the cockup with the envelopes at the Oscars that year.

It's a brilliant film, full of brilliant performances.

And yes, I'm going there - Oscars so white 2024. Again.

25% of the acting winners weren't white, and 50% of the writing winners weren't white.

Yup - two black people took home Oscars and a group of Asians did. And all the rest where white, white, white.

So what? You’re petty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

Gladstone gave a more subtle and restrained performance, and the academy members often vote for bigger, showier performances like Stone's instead. In fact, the same thing happened when Glenn Close was widely expected to win Best Actress for The Wife, which was a masterpiece of subtlety, but Olivia Colman took the award for The Favourite, in which she squawked and screamed the whole movie. Both Stone and Colman were directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

I'm still bewildered how Glenn lost.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

Gladstone gave a more subtle and restrained performance, and the academy members often vote for bigger, showier performances like Stone's instead. In fact, the same thing happened when Glenn Close was widely expected to win Best Actress for The Wife, which was a masterpiece of subtlety, but Olivia Colman took the award for The Favourite, in which she squawked and screamed the whole movie. Both Stone and Colman were directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Olivia Coleman was great in The Favourite

I bet even Emma Stone wishes Lily Gladstone won

I promise not to make this whole thread about Gaza - but hot d**n it would have been nice for even one of the people who felt compelled to make last night about Gaza to have mentioned the hostages.

Jonathan Glazer spoke to ALL the victims of the current conflict:

It was not appropriate to appropriate a holocaust movie to talk against holocaust appropriation by “the occupation”, especially when the pro Palestinian side absolutely is appropriating the holocaust constantly.

[Anonymous]

Can we stop giving the final envelope to old people? It's not working out too well. Also, anyone catch what the message in oversized font was taped to Pacino's envelope? I'm assuming it was instructions that he breezed right past.
I watched Poor Things this past weekend and knew to expect to to be weird going in, but I have to agree with OP-I don't get the hype about her performance. During the first half it was as though she was mimicking a disabled person, so hard to watch, and the second half is her just getting it on with a bunch of people and while I get she's liberating herself from her baby brain, etc. and going through this transformative experience, it seemed like forced acting to me. Could not stand Ruffalo but maybe that was the point. I just think the academy likes her and this was more a popularity contest.

[Anonymous]

I’m just Ken was the only part worth watching, so clever and well done with the Marilyn Monroe Gentlemen prefer blondes hommage. The rest was boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we stop giving the final envelope to old people? It's not working out too well. Also, anyone catch what the message in oversized font was taped to Pacino's envelope? I'm assuming it was instructions that he breezed right past.
I watched Poor Things this past weekend and knew to expect to to be weird going in, but I have to agree with OP-I don't get the hype about her performance. During the first half it was as though she was mimicking a disabled person, so hard to watch, and the second half is her just getting it on with a bunch of people and while I get she's liberating herself from her baby brain, etc. and going through this transformative experience, it seemed like forced acting to me. Could not stand Ruffalo but maybe that was the point. I just think the academy likes her and this was more a popularity contest.

I also really disliked Stone's performance. It ruined the movie for me. I thought the other performances, the visuals, the writing were all intriguing. Her performance had weird theater kid energy to me and didn't work for me at all. A huge point of her character is the vulnerability of having a child's brain development in an adult body, but her performance felt hard and pointed to me. I'm honestly shocked she won.

I love Lily Gladstone and hope she gets more and better roles after this but she was given too little to work with in FoTKM. She did a lot with it but a lot of her performance is just vibes because the movie really focused much more on DiCaprio. He role is not fully fleshed out and her interiority and motivations are often unclear as a result. Not Gladstone's fault -- I think it was a mistake for Scorcese to try and tackle that subject matter and wish someone else had made that movie.

I would have given it to either Sandra Hüller (great performance in *perfect* movie) or Mulligan (great performance that elevated otherwise very mediocre movie). Though I haven't seen Nyad yet, but an Oscar is somewhat superfluous for Benning at this stage.

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The straps on Emily Blunt's dress drove us nuts all night.

The way they were two inches above her shoulders. I did not like that effect. It was so distracting, even more so when sitting.

I know it was constructed like some armor suit--but no Bueno.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we stop giving the final envelope to old people? It's not working out too well. Also, anyone catch what the message in oversized font was taped to Pacino's envelope? I'm assuming it was instructions that he breezed right past.
I watched Poor Things this past weekend and knew to expect to to be weird going in, but I have to agree with OP-I don't get the hype about her performance. During the first half it was as though she was mimicking a disabled person, so hard to watch, and the second half is her just getting it on with a bunch of people and while I get she's liberating herself from her baby brain, etc. and going through this transformative experience, it seemed like forced acting to me. Could not stand Ruffalo but maybe that was the point. I just think the academy likes her and this was more a popularity contest.

Agreed. It’s not that hard to read nominne’s names and actually making it clear you’re announcing the winner. They worry too much about getting a revered older actor for the Best Picture category but it’s awkward an embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

Gladstone gave a more subtle and restrained performance, and the academy members often vote for bigger, showier performances like Stone's instead. In fact, the same thing happened when Glenn Close was widely expected to win Best Actress for The Wife, which was a masterpiece of subtlety, but Olivia Colman took the award for The Favourite, in which she squawked and screamed the whole movie. Both Stone and Colman were directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Olivia Coleman was great in The Favourite

I bet even Emma Stone wishes Lily Gladstone won

I promise not to make this whole thread about Gaza - but hot d**n it would have been nice for even one of the people who felt compelled to make last night about Gaza to have mentioned the hostages.

Jonathan Glazer spoke to ALL the victims of the current conflict:

It was not appropriate to appropriate a holocaust movie to talk against holocaust appropriation by “the occupation”, especially when the pro Palestinian side absolutely is appropriating the holocaust constantly.

You are not the arbiter or gatekeeper of who gets to invoke the Holocaust. If a Jewish man who produced an Oscar winning movie about the perpetrators of the Holocaust isn’t allowed to make a statement about Holocaust appropriation, I’m not sure who fits your criteria. Probably only those who involve the Holocaust to defend Israel’s attacks on Gazan civilians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

Gladstone gave a more subtle and restrained performance, and the academy members often vote for bigger, showier performances like Stone's instead. In fact, the same thing happened when Glenn Close was widely expected to win Best Actress for The Wife, which was a masterpiece of subtlety, but Olivia Colman took the award for The Favourite, in which she squawked and screamed the whole movie. Both Stone and Colman were directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Olivia Coleman was great in The Favourite

I bet even Emma Stone wishes Lily Gladstone won

I promise not to make this whole thread about Gaza - but hot d**n it would have been nice for even one of the people who felt compelled to make last night about Gaza to have mentioned the hostages.

Jonathan Glazer spoke to ALL the victims of the current conflict:

It was not appropriate to appropriate a holocaust movie to talk against holocaust appropriation by “the occupation”, especially when the pro Palestinian side absolutely is appropriating the holocaust constantly.

I'm going to let the JEW Jonathan Glazer make his own decisions about what's appropriate in terms of talking about human rights, the holocaust, and the current genocide in Gaza.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel that Lily Gladstone should have been awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhardt in Killers the Flower Moon? Sorry, but it smacks of the usual Academy racism to hand that to Emma Stone. Seriously?!

Gladstone gave a more subtle and restrained performance, and the academy members often vote for bigger, showier performances like Stone's instead. In fact, the same thing happened when Glenn Close was widely expected to win Best Actress for The Wife, which was a masterpiece of subtlety, but Olivia Colman took the award for The Favourite, in which she squawked and screamed the whole movie. Both Stone and Colman were directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Olivia Coleman was great in The Favourite

I bet even Emma Stone wishes Lily Gladstone won

I promise not to make this whole thread about Gaza - but hot d**n it would have been nice for even one of the people who felt compelled to make last night about Gaza to have mentioned the hostages.

Jonathan Glazer spoke to ALL the victims of the current conflict:

It was not appropriate to appropriate a holocaust movie to talk against holocaust appropriation by “the occupation”, especially when the pro Palestinian side absolutely is appropriating the holocaust constantly.

You are not the arbiter or gatekeeper of who gets to invoke the Holocaust. If a Jewish man who produced an Oscar winning movie about the perpetrators of the Holocaust isn’t allowed to make a statement about Holocaust appropriation, I’m not sure who fits your criteria. Probably only those who involve the Holocaust to defend Israel’s attacks on Gazan civilians.

The movie stands on its own, for its own important historical value, especially since Glazer was granted exceptional access and support to tell his story. Given this, any appropriation, from any side, is inappropriate. I am not surprised you make assumptions though.