Cillian wins it
Film Oscars 2024
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Never in doubt.
Hopefully they get Best Picture as well. Fingers Crossed.
Cilian Murphy (Oppenheimer) wins Best Leading Actor.
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) wins Best Director.
Emma Stone (Poor Things) wins Best Leading Actress.
Oppenheimer wins Best Picture.
Final count for films with multiple wins:
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) wins Best Director.
Emma Stone (Poor Things) wins Best Leading Actress.
Oppenheimer wins Best Picture.
Final count for films with multiple wins:
- Oppenheimer... 7
- Poor Things... 4
- The Zone of Interest... 2
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Pacino wanted to get to the afterparty before all the good beer was gone.
So basically what everybody expected anyway
I liked Oppenheimer. Glad it swept, including the actors.
Ryan Gosling performing “I’m just Ken” was the highlight of the show
Ken was the best part of Barbie by a mile
And ended his speech with a thank you in Irish, the good man that he is.
Oppenheimer cleaned up. Won all the big awards pretty much, except best actress. Poor things won a few in the minor categories, but it’s Nolan’s night.
Well deserved. Most of the other best picture nominees were pretty crap this year. Although Anatomy of a Fall was good and I haven’t seen zone of interest or past lives. Kotfm was terrible, Poor Things was just weird, unsettling and had some shite acting. The Holdovers was an extremely okay film. Good enough, but one of the best films of the year, really? And Barbie? Please….feck off
That’s an extended SNL sketch. American Fiction is an amusing, lighthearted comedy, but nothing special. And Maestro just a Bradley Cooper wankfest.
Well deserved. Most of the other best picture nominees were pretty crap this year. Although Anatomy of a Fall was good and I haven’t seen zone of interest or past lives. Kotfm was terrible, Poor Things was just weird, unsettling and had some shite acting. The Holdovers was an extremely okay film. Good enough, but one of the best films of the year, really? And Barbie? Please….feck off
That’s an extended SNL sketch. American Fiction is an amusing, lighthearted comedy, but nothing special. And Maestro just a Bradley Cooper wankfest.
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It was not in doubt. It had an over 90% chance of winning.Hopefully they get Best Picture as well. Fingers Crossed.
I agree with your takes, hot as they may be. Your views on American Fiction, Maestro, KotFM, Holdovers is taking the words right out of my mouth.Oppenheimer cleaned up. Won all the big awards pretty much, except best actress. Poor things won a few in the minor categories, but it’s Nolan’s night.
Well deserved. Most of the other best picture nominees were pretty crap this year. Although Anatomy of a Fall was good and I haven’t seen zone of interest or past lives. Kotfm was terrible, Poor Things was just weird, unsettling and had some shite acting. The Holdovers was an extremely okay film. Good enough, but one of the best films of the year, really? And Barbie? Please….feck off
You should see The Zone of Interest and Past Lives, though, because those are third and fourth best films of the year.
I picked 19 winners correctly at my Oscars party. I won a bag of chocolates.
Is this the first time an Oscar winning movie has been available to watch on a streaming service at the time of the ceremony?
Bravo Nolan!
I would imagine at least the last 4 have been, the first 2 because of the pandemic meant they would have gone to streaming quickly and the 2 most recent because they came out earlier in the year (rather than the usual Oscar-y movies coming out in the UK and Ireland around the turn of the year).
Guess I need to finally get round to watching Oppenheimer then
Do you mean paid for? 'Cos I've been waiting for it to get onto Netflix/Amazon/Now etc.
Do you mean paid for? 'Cos I've been waiting for it to get onto Netflix/Amazon/Now etc.
I was actually thinking of Poor Things, which is on Disney +.
Ah, so in general a film thats one one of the big awards?
I think lots have - Everything Everywhere was on streaming last year when it one the big gong.
Thinking of Oscar winners, specifically. Maybe it’s happening a lot recently. Always used to feel like you’d have to wait for them to come out on DVD or streaming, so Oscar buzz could get bums on seats in the cinema. Another nail in the coffin for cinemas, I guess. Especially the smaller, art house cinemas that screen films like Poor Things.
In my local cinemas they’ve been showing all the Oscar nominated film again recently. It’s been marketing as Oscar week.
Poor Things played yesterday and had a decent number of people. Although I imagine the overall impact is small.
Worth going to the cinema for this in case it's still on where you are, absolutely flew by despite the length and the second half was particularly brilliant.
Well deserved for both CIllian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. They were both excellent in their roles in Oppenheimer.
It should have been his 3rd, honestly. The Wind Rises is a much better film than Frozen.
But I'm surprised! I haven't seen that Spiderman film but I keep hearing that it's one of the greatest animated films of all time. I thought that The Boy and the Heron stood no chance.
Awards mostly made sense, quite happy for some of them in particular.
Bet he's shaking in his boots right now.
I'm not a big fan of Nolan's recent work but this was a very good film indeed. Loved it.
Tenet was utterly shite but I quite liked Dunkirk. Missed a bit of climax perhaps but I could see what he was going for.
Agree, and Interstellar was another awesome cinema experience, if that still counts as recent work.
I haven't liked a Nolan film since Inception, but yeah I reckon I'll enjoy this.
Such a rare event that a film that I think should clean house actually cleans.
I didn't like Oppenheimer that much and I'm generally not a fan of Nolan, but I haven't seen enough of the other films to be annoyed by the decision. But Oppenheimer is still better than previous winners like Green Book so it doesn't really matter.
I think it's good that audience hits have started winning Oscars again. For a long time the Oscars managed to annoy both mainstream watchers and highbrow watchers. Films like EEAAO and Oppenheimer are good "compromises".
I think it's good that audience hits have started winning Oscars again. For a long time the Oscars managed to annoy both mainstream watchers and highbrow watchers. Films like EEAAO and Oppenheimer are good "compromises".
dont think Oppenheimer is on any of our services yet (UK/Ireland) It is due on SKY cinema soon though
It wasn't my favourite film of last year necessarily but I'd say it ranks in the top 3/top 5 of films having won the top nod since the turn of the century.
I've only seen 17 of the 25 best pictures winners from this century, but I'm not sure if Oppenheimer would make my top 5. But it's definitely in the top half.
For me, LOTR and Parasite are in a league of their own.
Well deserved. They should have done the acceptance speech in Japanese. Surely, we have the tech to do live English subtitles for foreign acceptance speeches.
Really want to see Minus One but don’t see a release soon.
Didn’t watch as awards shows are incredibly dystopian and strange given current world events. But I did see that Jonathan Glazer and Mark Ruffalo mentioned Gaza which was a positive.