#Oscar Winning Film

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RAY (2004) Dir. Taylor Hackford

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"Am I not Merciful?" - Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus (Gladiator, 2000)

Pt. 1, Pt. 2

[thejitterbug]

MICHELLE YEOH. STEPHANIE HSU. ANGELA BASSETT. OSCAR NOMINEES.

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ANATOMY OF A FALL (2023) dir. Justine Triet CONGRATULATIONS ON 5 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS!

Sandra Hüller, Actress in a Leading Role Justine Triet, Directing Laurent Sénéchal, Film Editing Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Original Screenplay Anatomy of a Fall, Best Picture

[arspoeticamaia]

palme d’or winner ~ directed by sean baker

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all quiet on the western front is literally a movie discussing the futility of war, of how little boys sign up to march to their death because of propaganda fed to them by their teachers and mentors who prey on their idealistic view on life. it is a film that makes you watch death after death after death, without giving you a single cause or philosophy or ideal for you to soothe yourself with—because there is none. there are only boys and men, bleeding cold and alone on the dirt and mud. there is no worth. there is no reason. there is only death.

and you reduce it to a "war movie". it's based off a book brave enough to depict the realities of war in the charged political climate of 1929, and you call it "the war movie".

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Photo Stills From One of My Favorite Movies of All Time “Waves” (2019).

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Aaaaand of course the Oscar’s insults animation once again 🥲

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Boy and the Heron won the Oscar I’m so happy :D

[ohimtherebabey]

gerard. he's always been my older brother.

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Authority Reasserts Its Rights, LM 1.8.4 (Les Miserables 1978)

“There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!”

Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the collar of his coat. He said:—

“Javert—”

Javert interrupted him: “Call me Mr. Inspector.”

“Monsieur,” said Jean Valjean, “I should like to say a word to you in private.”

“Aloud! Say it aloud!” replied Javert; “people are in the habit of talking aloud to me.”

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fun fact a huge reason why editing, despite being one of the most important jobs in filmmaking next to writing, directing, and cinematography, is largely ignored and unrecognized is because it was seen as women’s work for a long time. people learn about kubrick and hitchcock and spielberg and scorsese, but do you know thelma schoonmaker, who was scorsese’s editor for over 50 years?

the term “film editor” was first used to describe margaret booth, who worked in the film industry between 1915 and 1987. because of the low value of the position and her ultimate high level position at MGM, it’s estimated that there’s hundreds of films out there she worked on uncredited. she shaped the craft.

jaws was going to be a terrible movie until spielberg’s editor, verna fields, showed him what it could feel like if they avoided showing the shark itself and instead focused on reactions and POVs. she had her own editing lab at home, which if you don’t know what editing labs looked like before digital editing, was insane. she pioneered the fucking natural wipe transition that’s used in pretty much every movie today. she tutored george and marcia lucas! also her nickname was the “mother cutter” which is just badass

marcia lucas, by the way, was george lucas’s story and film editor. it’s pretty well known by now that most of the parts that made star wars strong came from her. the problem with attribution between them eventually led to their divorce, as george lucas kept getting credit for her ideas and skill.

when people think of filmmakers, they think of writers and directors and actors, but there are three phases to making a movie: pre-production, production, and post production, and by and large the reason post production is forgotten i because it was a women’s job for a long time—made easier because they could put the women in a dark room where they didn’t have to see them. but without editors movies would just be a bunch of separate, out of order video and audio clips in a huge folder. in the same way you can’t have a movie without a script or actors or a camera, you cannot have a movie without editors. and they should not be forgotten to time in favor of the male auteurs who took or received most of the credit

[maximura]

Asian Excellence at the 2023 Oscars Nominee Luncheon: Stephanie Hsu, Hong Chau, Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh.

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And it's not even close

[doyouknowthisactor]

By "roles" I mean playing a different character, and in a different piece of media; someone playing one character across a franchise only counts as one thing for the purposes of this poll, as does playing multiple characters in one franchise/piece of media

Below are some of this actor's roles. Please only check after voting!

The Office US as Michael Scott (6 Emmy nominations)

Foxcatcher as John du Pont (Oscar nomination)

The 40-Year-Old Virgin as Andy

Little Miss Sunshine as Frank Ginsburg

Carell has one additional Emmy nomination.

He is married to actor Nancy Walls.

More roles