#Oscar best picture noms

[neon-persimmon]

Oscar best picture noms personal best to worst

1. Zone of Interest

2. Oppenheimer

3. American fiction

4. Barbie

5. Poor things

6, 7, and 8, by virtue of being unseen, the holdovers, anatomy of a fall, past lives

9. Maestro

10. Killers of the Flower Moon

[theoscarsproject]

Working Girl (1988). When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.

Deeeelightful. This is just seriously so much fun and emboldened with great comedic performances, strong writing, and a romance that's as much about self-love as it is about falling in love. Really special little 80s romcom with a stellar cast. 7/10.

[tvnacity]

man, people criticized barbie for being a sanitized intro to feminism but clearly that’s the level it needed to be at considering the academy watched the whole thing and went yeah… director (and main actress) whom??? We Must Nominate Ken

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

...wait, people are genuinely upset that greta gerwig didnt get nominated for best director for the toy commercial movie when the movie got nominations for best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best original song, best production design, best costume design, best picture, and best adapted screenplay for which greta gerwig was nominated?

[falllpoutboy]

may december left out of the acting nominations entirely…

[sleevebuscemii]

anyway i think award shows should stop trying to be funny. you’re never gonna be relevant again just accept that but especially and most importantly you will Never be relevant again by being funny.

[yaraaflor]

ngl I’m soooo happy eeaao got so many oscar noms bc it is such an extraordinary film but the fact that nope was snubbed in literally every category (while fucking top gun and avatar got best picture noms) is absolutely criminal. nope was hands down the best film of the year next to eeaao. and while i haven’t seen it i find it stunning that the woman king was also completely snubbed after the great reviews it got. every time the oscars manage to do something right they still fuck up monumentally in some other way. the racism, the misogyny, and in particular the antiblackness run appallingly deep.

[jonbutter]

only 1 person out of over 700 voted for Maestro lol

[narumi-gens]

“the academy has a gender bias and a genre bias working against Greta and Margot’s favor” and “the academy loves Ryan Gosling and probably tripped over themselves in the rush to nominate him in a showy comedic supporting role in a movie that was a box office hit” are two statements that can both be true at the same time.

[theoscarsproject]

A Soldier's Story (1984). An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

While it'll never quite stack up when it comes to the In the Heat of the Night comparisons (the two films share a director and thematic throughline after all), this is still an excellent, intelligent thriller grounded in great performances and a sharp script. Denzel Washington's the clear standout (I can't believe this is only his second feature!), but he's bolstered by a great cast all around. Just a really great watch. 8/10.

[deadmegumi]

The batman won best score in my heart

[gambitandrogues]

unstoppable force vs immovable object (desire to watch movies vs inability to sit still)

[sanstropfremir]

honestly i also think that groups arent going to award's shows anymore is also because its not only rigged but you also already know whos gonna win. like if they have 10 awards you already know b'ts is gonna get at least 3 whether they deserve it or not because otherwise fans will eat them alive, thats 7 awards left then you have male and female rookie which, well it excludes anyone who isnt a rookie, 1 award for best male (excludes women) 1 award for best female (excludes men), an award for solo artists, and then like performance of the year or something. so you basically have 50 groups sitting there ineligible for half the awards and not being able to get the other half because the same 5 groups always get them so like..... why even go at that point

yea i agree, awards shows across genre have been losing their sway for a couple of years. i think kpop ones are a particularly acute microcosm bc there are not very many types of awards, and there are really stark differences between the 'top tier' of groups and the rest of the ones that make up the majority of the industry, despite the industry being relatively small. even though there's numerically less groups debuting in the last twoish years (i did a quick survey of the wikipedia list of debuts by year to check numbers and it was about 30ish per year in the 2010s but so far it's been about 20ish for the 2020s. however this does include subunits and project groups so it's not a totally accurate figure), all those numbers compound on each other since there aren't the same amount leaving the industry as entering. so overall, these awards shows continue to be stacked towards the groups with the biggest companies and fanbases, even though there's better art that deserves that recognition being made by increasingly more and more groups that go completely unnoticed and have no chances of being noticed.

[sleevebuscemii]

‘the holdovers nominated for best screenplay academy award’ the funniest sentence in the entire world

[ghost-in-the-corner]

women talking women talking women talking women talking wome-

[saintjudes]

half the movies that are nominated for a globe won't be in cinemas here until spring lol