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Film Oscars 2025
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He was himself. If you like his brand of comedy then he delivered.
Got 15 out of 18 predictions correct, pleased about that.
That movie sends a profound message to women who has always been pressured to thinking they need to look a certain way. Demi was the perfect person for that role because she exudes that aura of aging with grace. It's all about encouraging women to love their bodies
Love the guy. I’m only going to watch the highlights for him
What ones did you not get right?
I flailed pretty hard this year, but I'm happy for Anora. I prefer it when the awards are spread around a bit more to all the nominees.
You serious? Demi Moore has had an absolute shit-ton of plastic surgery, which is the opposite of aging gracefully.
Conan's best moment: "You know, Anora is having a good night," he said of the Mikey Madison-starring film. "Yeah, that's great. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian."
I got 0/18 correct, probably because I didn't make any predictions and I know very few of the people / films on there. Pleased with that.
He was fine with what he did. Not too OTT, like he often does.
No Other Land winning was great. It’s also showing on Channel 4 on Tuesday.
I do love Conan, might be worth watching the highlights for him.
Anora was good fun and all but Jesus is that the best they could do? What a weak year.
Anora was good fun and all but Jesus is that the best they could do? What a weak year.
Call me Nostradamus @Wing Attack Plan R
Only if you consider that is nominated or wins is an accurate representation of cinema that year (which it isn't).
Yeah you and sweet square know everything about movies go you. Go watch megalopolol again
I don't think you need to know everything about movies to know Anora wasn't the best film of 2024, or that the Academy has a tendency of being swayed by politics and lobbying. I don't even think you need to know much, so you should be ok.
I thought it was pretty obvious from posting in the "Oscars 2025" thread that I was referring to films involved in the Oscars and not the wider year in general.
I don't think you need to know everything about movies to know Anora wasn't the best film of 2024, or that the Academy has a tendency of being swayed by politics and lobbying. I don't even think you need to know much, so you should be ok.
Go back to the cluuub.
While I didn't think Anora was the best film out of the nominees, I think it was an inspired choice of the Academy. Conclave, The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown would all have been safer choices.
Also great that Mikey won. The winning supporting performances were obviously very good, but the cateogory fraud is a bit much for me.
Also great that Mikey won. The winning supporting performances were obviously very good, but the cateogory fraud is a bit much for me.
I have no interest in seeing any of the films nominated this year and going by the box office returns nor do most most people.
I know you can have trash like fast and furious as best film but there has to be a medium ground surely.
There films that tend to get awarded Oscars are mostly predictable fare copying previous winners down the years and made solely just for that purpose.
I know you can have trash like fast and furious as best film but there has to be a medium ground surely.
There films that tend to get awarded Oscars are mostly predictable fare copying previous winners down the years and made solely just for that purpose.
I don't think you need to know everything about movies to know Anora wasn't the best film of 2024, or that the Academy has a tendency of being swayed by politics and lobbying. I don't even think you need to know much, so you should be ok.
What do you mean?
Two of them were huge hits, though. A few more were solid hits. You're never going to get 10 good/great films that all were huge hits. It's good that they are recognizing smaller films as well.
Mentally ill idiot.
Cool, I've been a fan of Baker since Tangerine. So I'm really happy he's doing really well.
Watched Anora at the weekend and enjoyed it a lot but it didn't scream Oscar winner to me. That said none of the other nominees were any better so it speaks more about the selection, lots of okay films this year but nothing amazing.
Just watched Anora yesterday, such a fantastic movie imo.
Think Mikey deserves it for the best actress.
Think Mikey deserves it for the best actress.
Watched Anora right after the ceremony. It was considerably worse than both The Substance and Conclave, which were the other two I decided to watch this year.
We spend two hours with the main character and we don't know pretty much anything about her personality/struggles. There's also no character development (unless she realizing what was gonna happen is, which also breaks suspension of disbelief). Most (if not all) characters were caricatures, particularly the villians looked like they come from Home Alone. Sound editing and photography aren't great either.
I assume the ending is supposed to be symbolic and kind of the end of the main character's journey but the "WTF" sensation is too big to appreciate that. On the other hand, there's a lot of sex and cursing so there's that going on for the movie.
Aaanyway, that was just another Oscar ceremony finally over. I want to see I'm Still Here when it's available, plus the short film about Gaza and the short animated film (watched Flow already and loved it, very beautifully done and with a great story).
We spend two hours with the main character and we don't know pretty much anything about her personality/struggles. There's also no character development (unless she realizing what was gonna happen is, which also breaks suspension of disbelief). Most (if not all) characters were caricatures, particularly the villians looked like they come from Home Alone. Sound editing and photography aren't great either.
I assume the ending is supposed to be symbolic and kind of the end of the main character's journey but the "WTF" sensation is too big to appreciate that. On the other hand, there's a lot of sex and cursing so there's that going on for the movie.
Aaanyway, that was just another Oscar ceremony finally over. I want to see I'm Still Here when it's available, plus the short film about Gaza and the short animated film (watched Flow already and loved it, very beautifully done and with a great story).
Song, Best Actress and Editing. My second choices won in those.
Of all the best picture nominations I saw this year, Dune 2 was by far my favourite; and the one I could watch over and over again. Most of the others were really good too, although The Substance did nothing for me. I find it pretty shocking Villeneuve wasn’t even nominated for best director.
The films I like the most rarely win. My tastes are probably too mainstream. To win best picture a film has to contain sufficient levels of suffering and/or symbolism. It helps if it’s a bit weird, but not too weird. Although the opposite is true for best actor categories.
Dune reminds me of when a beautiful mind won over Fellowship of the Ring. A Besutiful Mind was a decent movie but FoTR was one I enjoyed orders of magnitude more, and one I’ve seen multiple times. I’ll almost certainly watch Dune 2 a few more times in my life, but I doubt I’ll ever revisit any of the other nominees.
The films I like the most rarely win. My tastes are probably too mainstream. To win best picture a film has to contain sufficient levels of suffering and/or symbolism. It helps if it’s a bit weird, but not too weird. Although the opposite is true for best actor categories.
Dune reminds me of when a beautiful mind won over Fellowship of the Ring. A Besutiful Mind was a decent movie but FoTR was one I enjoyed orders of magnitude more, and one I’ve seen multiple times. I’ll almost certainly watch Dune 2 a few more times in my life, but I doubt I’ll ever revisit any of the other nominees.
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Dune 2 was undoubtedly better than Anora. It was also better than The Brutalist, which I thought was also a very good film.
Compared to the other nominees? What was it based on? Acting skills or a combination of a few unique qualities compared to the others?
Let’s go to Vegas!
They're all generally skilled people when they get to this stage (emphasis on generally, cos there's some hacks who make the cut too). It's more about how people are moved by performances and enjoy them.
I personally thought Mikey Madison's performance lacked substance, she was great fun in Anora but played a loudmouth for 2 hours with little depth. She's got charisma and she's very believable in the part, but I (personally) won't remember it as a performance for the ages. Karla Sofia Gascon was never going to win it anyway after the past tweets came up, and Demi Moore was good but it seemed like the initial buzz for The Substance died down when people started to look hard at it and realise that its message was a little too basic to resonate beyond a few weeks of clever marketing. I haven't seen the two other female lead performances, I doubt I'll ever watch Wicked (no interest), but I'm pretty sure Fernanda Torres is amazing
Agreed. Dune was done dirty in my opinion but anyway. Thought Demi Moore was spectacular in the substance despite the move being average.
Regarding Dune, I saw some Oscars commentators say there is a feeling that (as with the LOTR films) the final installment of the trilogy would be the big Oscar winner, as recognition of the entire trilogy.
Adrien Brody seems like an absolute dose.
I’m another person who believes that Demi truly deserves to win this award. I think she should get it. However, I also believe that Maddison’s performance is worthy and well-deserving of the award as well----she is good enough too. In my view, all three of them, including Fernanda, are deserving. I don’t probably understand the hateful comments directed towards Mikey. This year has a very solid for the actress side.