Showing posts with label Oscars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscars. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

2023 Oscar Nominations

Best Picture
    All Quiet on the Western Front
   ✔ Avatar: The Way of Water
   ✔ The Banshees of Inisherin
   ✔ Elvis
   ✔ Everything Everywhere All at Once
   ✔ The Fabelmans
   ✔ Tár
   ✔ Top Gun: Maverick
   ✔ Triangle of Sadness
   ✔ Women Talking

Best Actor
   ✔ Austin Butler, Elvis
   ✔ Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
   ✔ Brendan Fraser, The Whale
   ✔ Paul Mescal, Aftersun
   ✔ Bill Nighy, Living

Best Actress
   ✔ Cate Blanchett, Tár
    Ana de Armas, Blonde
    Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
   ✔ Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
   ✔ Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor
   ✔ Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
    Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
   ✔ Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
   ✔ Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
   ✔ Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actress
    Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
   ✔ Hong Chau, The Whale
   ✔ Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
   ✔ Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
   ✔ Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
   ✔ The Banshees of Inisherin
   ✔ Everything Everywhere All at Once
   ✔ The Fabelmans
   ✔ Tár
   ✔ Triangle of Sadness

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
    All Quiet on the Western Front
   ✔ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
   ✔ Living
   ✔ Top Gun: Maverick
   ✔ Women Talking

More Oscar Nominations

Tuesday, February 08, 2022

2022 Oscar Nominations

Best Picture
   ✔ Belfast
   ✔ CODA - winner
   ✔ Don’t Look Up
   ✔ Drive My Car
   ✔ Dune
   ✔ King Richard
   ✔ Licorice Pizza
   ✔ Nightmare Alley
   ✔ The Power of the Dog
   ✔ West Side Story

Best Actor
   ✔ Javier Bardem - Being the Ricardos
   ✔ Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
    Andrew Garfield - Tick, Tick … Boom!
   ✔ Will Smith - King Richard - winner
   ✔ Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Actress
   ✔ Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye - winner
   ✔ Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter
    Penélope Cruz - Parallel Mothers
   ✔ Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos
   ✔ Kristen Stewart - Spencer

Best Supporting Actor
   ✔ Ciarán Hinds - Belfast
   ✔ Troy Kotsur - CODA - winner
   ✔ Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog
   ✔ JK Simmons - Being the Ricardos
   ✔ Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress
   ✔ Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter
   ✔ Ariana DeBose - West Side Story - winner
   ✔ Judi Dench - Belfast
   ✔ Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog
   ✔ Aunjanue Lewis - King Richard

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
   ✔ Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) - winner
   ✔ Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay & David Sirota)
   ✔ Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
   ✔ King Richard
    The Worst Person in the World

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
   ✔ CODA (Sian Heder) - winner
   ✔ Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe)
   ✔ Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve)
   ✔ The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
   ✔ The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)

More Oscar Nominations

Sunday, April 25, 2021

93th Academy Awards

Over the last few years, Sharon and I have enjoyed working our way through the Oscar nominated films and then watching the Academy Awards show. Hopefully, we will be able to host an Academy Awards party again some day!

This year, I ended up picking three of five major categories correctly, including Best Picture (Nomadland), Actor in a Supporting Role (Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah) and Actress in a Supporting Role (Yuh-jung Youn, Minari). I incorrectly bet on Chadwick Bosemen for Actor in a Leading Role and Andra Day for Actress in a Leading Role. Frankly, I thought that both Hopkins and Ahmed had stronger performances than Boseman, but I thought that they would award Boseman the trophy posthumously. Given that the shows producers moved the Best Actor category to the end, I think they also thought that Boseman was going to win! I knew the Best Actress category was a toss up, but thought that Day had a very strong performance.

Sharon was very unhappy with Frances McDormand's Best Actress win. When we watched the Nomadland, Sharon was very vocal about not liking the movie. She was apoplectic when McDormand won. As McDormand said during the show, I think that Sharon would have liked the movie more if we had seen it on a big screen.

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

2017 Oscar Nominations

My predictions are shown in red.

In 2014, I got five out of five in these categories. In 2015, I got three out of five. In 2016, I got four out of five.

BEST PICTURE
   Arrival
   Fences
   Hacksaw Ridge
   Hell or High Water
   Hidden Figures
   La La Land
   Lion
   Manchester by the Sea
   Moonlight - [ACTUAL WINNER!]


ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
   Isabelle Huppert, Elle
   Ruth Negga, Loving
   Natalie Portman, Jackie
   Emma Stone, La La Land
   Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins


ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
   Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
   Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
   Ryan Gosling, La La Land
   Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
   Denzel Washington, Fences

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
   Viola Davis, Fences
   Naomie Harris, Moonlight
   Nicole Kidman, Lion
   Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
   Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
   Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
   Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
   Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
   Dev Patel, Lion
   Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals

More Oscar Nominations

Thursday, January 14, 2016

2016 Oscar Nominations

My predictions are shown in red.

In 2014, I got five out of five in these categories. In 2015, I got three out of five.

Although everyone and their brother says The Revenant is winning Best Picture, it is not in my top four of the eight films. I Am picking Spotlight! I would rather be wrong than pick The Revenant!

Best picture
   Spotlight
   The Revenant
   Mad Max: Fury Road
   The Big Short
   Bridge of Spies
   Brooklyn
   Room
   The Martian

Actor in a leading role
   Leonardo DiCaprio - The Revenant
   Matt Damon - The Martian
   Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs
   Bryan Cranston - Trumbo
   Eddie Redmayne - The Danish Girl

Actress in a leading role
   Brie Larson - Room
   Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn
   Cate Blanchett - Carol
   Jennifer Lawrence - Joy
   Charlotte Rampling - 45 Years

Actress in a supporting role
   Rooney Mara - Carol
   Jennifer Jason Leigh - The Hateful Eight
   Alicia Vikander - The Danish Girl
   Kate Winslet - Steve Jobs
   Rachel McAdams - Spotlight

Actor in a supporting role
   Sylvester Stallone - Creed
   Mark Rylance - Bridge of Spies - [ACTUAL WINNER!]
   Mark Ruffalo - Spotlight
   Christian Bale - The Big Short
   Tom Hardy - The Revenant


The 2021 Oscar nominations are here.

The 2020 Oscar nominations are here.

The 2019 Oscar nominations are here.

The 2018 Oscar nominations are here.

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The 2014 Oscar nominations are here.

The 2013 Oscar nominations are here.

The 2010 Oscar nominations are here.

The 1988 Oscar nominations are here.

The 1975 Oscar nominations are here.