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Nominations:

Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)
Malte Grunert, Producer

Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century Studios)
James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers

The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures)
Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

Elvis (Warner Bros)
Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers

Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers

The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures)
Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers

Tár (Focus Features)
Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers

Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)
Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers

Triangle of Sadness (NEON)
Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers

Women Talking (United Artists Releasing/Orion Pictures)
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers

Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler in Elvis

Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin

Brendan Fraser in The Whale

Paul Mescal in Aftersun

Bill Nighy in Living

Actor in a Supporting Role
Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin

Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway

Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans

Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin

Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in Tár

Ana de Armas in Blonde

Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie

Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans

Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Hong Chau in The Whale

Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin

Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Animated Feature Film
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Joel Crawford and Mark Swift

The Sea Beast
Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger

Turning Red
Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins

Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
James Friend

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Darius Khondji

Elvis
Mandy Walker

Empire of Light
Roger Deakins

Tár
Florian Hoffmeister

Costume Design
Babylon
Mary Zophres

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Ruth Carter

Elvis
Catherine Martin

Everything Everywhere All at Once
Shirley Kurata

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Jenny Beavan

Directing
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Todd Field, Tár

Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness

Documentary Feature Film
All That Breathes
Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov

Fire of Love
Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman

A House Made of Splinters
Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström

Navalny
Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris

Documentary Short Film
The Elephant Whisperers
Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga

Haulout
Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev

How Do You Measure a Year?
Jay Rosenblatt

The Martha Mitchell Effect
Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison

Stranger at the Gate
Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones

Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

Elvis
Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond

Everything Everywhere All at Once
Paul Rogers

Tár
Monika Willi

Top Gun: Maverick
Eddie Hamilton

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What will win (what should win):

Best Picture

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Tár)

Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler in Elvis (Paul Mescal in Aftersun)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once (Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin)

Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in Tár (yep)

Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin)

Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front - James Friend (yep, although NOPE should have been nominated for sure) 

Directing
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans (Todd Field, Tár)

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1 hour ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

What will win (what should win):

Actor in a Supporting Role

Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once (Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin)

I'd suggest Barry Keoghan should win over Gleeson.

Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin)

Agreed (on Kerry Condon).

Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front - James Friend (yep, although NOPE should have been nominated for sure) 

Somewhat disappointed Banshees didn't get a nomination for cinematography.

Directing
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans (Todd Field, Tár)

I really need to see Tar.

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My picks

Best Picture


All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)

Actor in a Leading Role

Brendan Fraser in The Whale

Actor in a Supporting Role

Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin

Actress in a Leading Role


Cate Blanchett in Tár

Actress in a Supporting Role

Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin

 

 

 

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9 hours ago, Red Five said:

Imagine 5, 10, 20 years ago someone telling you that Top Gun 2 will be nominated for Best Picture. 

Thank you for summing up my thoughts. Exactly.

There are a lot of movies here that I haven't seen. I've read Tar is very good.

I didn't finish Everything, Everywhere all at Once. 

I've written tiresomely about the Banshees. Kerry Condon getting an Oscar would be most pleasing. I thought Colin and Brendan were great as well. Keoghan and Condon share one of the best comical/sad scenes I've ever seen. It's a masterpiece of all aspects of movie making.

I don't care about Avatar. I don't much care about the Fablemans either. I liked All Quiet on the Western Front but frankly don't remember it well.

I look forward to checking out all the contenders. I may even make some worthless predictions.

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My personal best picture rankings:

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Banshees of Inisherin

Tar

Women Talking

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All Quiet on the Western Front

Triangle of Sadness

Top Gun Maverick

Avatar

yet to see: Elvis and Fabelmans

I think any of the first four films are worthy winners.

 

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My take on who i think should win/will win.

Best Pic:

EEAOT/EEAOT

Best Actor:

Colin Farrell/Brenden Fraser

Best Actress:

Cate Blanchett/Cate Blanchett (I personally think this is the biggest no brainer of all the categories)

Supporting Actor:

Ke Huy Quan/Ke Huy Quan

Supporting Actress:

Kerry Condon/Angela Bassett

Director:

The Daniels/Spielberg

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1 hour ago, someguy said:

My personal best picture rankings:

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Banshees of Inisherin

Tar

Women Talking

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All Quiet on the Western Front

Triangle of Sadness

Top Gun Maverick

Avatar

yet to see: Elvis and Fabelmans

I think any of the first four films are worthy winners.

 

Have seen EEAAO and Banshees.  Would be fine with either winning BP.

Planning to see AQOTWF this weekend.  Have been meaning to watch it since it was available streaming.

Top Gun Maverick.  Seriously?  LOL.  No.  (Saw it in the theater and thought it was just as stupid as the first one).  Pure popcorn fuel, nothing more.

Will probably watch Fabelmans before the awards.  No interest in seeing Avatar (first one was stupid, why would I waste another 3 hours of my life?) or Elvis.

 

Would like to see Tar; not sure if Women Talking is something I really want to watch based on the trailers I've seen so far.

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On a somewhat unrelated note, if any of you have any interest in supporting independent film (and in particular Longhorn filmmakers), there is a short film that premiered at Sundance this week written, directed, and produced by recent UT grads.  It's called "When You Left Me On That Boulevard."  It's in the Shorts Program 3 and is available to watch online with a $25 purchase (that gives you unlimited access to all of the shorts in the festival).

The grads involved are personal friends.  If you watch, please consider voting for it for the audience award.

https://thedailytexan.com/tag/when-you-left-me-on-that-boulevard/

https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/638a1ceb77dd3d4add80684c

 

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Excuse me while I whip this out. The Fablemans was shit. If it wasn't Spielberg it wouldn't even close enough to sniff the wahfty aroma of a nom. It and Elvis do not belong in this group.

Maverick should win a shitload of tech awards for cinematography and strong to very strong for Best Picture. All Quiet is it's biggest threat.

I tried to watch The Banshees of Inisherin, but had to bail because I was looking around for a sharp object to slit my jugular, and I like both Brenden and Colin. I just think the US may not be the best market. 

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Watched Elvis. Understood what they were trying to do. Hanks did as accurate impersonation of Tom Parker as possible. Music was great. Cinematography was great. But it ain't Best Picture worthy. Liked Bubba Ho-Tep better.

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43 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Everything will win everything. Hollywood can’t pass up the opportunity to make a social statement and they definitely won’t when there’s finally a legitimate candidate for that purpose.

Wait, what is the social statement in rewarding that movie? Just that the most of actors are non-white?

Part of the story is the immigrant experience I guess, but it’s not really up on any kind of soapbox about it. And it’s about way more than just that. It’s about literally everything. 

This is a movie where there is an extended scene of a fight to be the one to shove a trophy up your own ass. Making it a fait accompli winner because it’s woke or whatever seems like a lazy take. 

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50 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Everything will win everything. Hollywood can’t pass up the opportunity to make a social statement and they definitely won’t when there’s finally a legitimate candidate for that purpose.

Hollywood can’t pass up the opportunity to make a social statement, so it’s going to choose a movie primarily concerned with the search for meaning in a meaningless existence over the overt social statements in Triangle of Sadness, Women Talking, Tar, Avatar and countless others who weren’t nominated? Top notch analysis.

Edit: fuck, Uncle beat me by a split second.

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Cate has been my favorite actress since Elizabeth, she's absolutely incredible in everything. i hope she gets to join the 3+ Oscar group!

having said that...Tar sounds emotionally and intellectually stressful and unpleasant lol. which is fine, lots of great movies are like that. i'll get around to it bc I just love her 😊

actually...most of those movies are real downers! makes Maverick stand out lol 😄

 

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54 minutes ago, RPM said:

Maverick should win a shitload of tech awards for cinematography and strong to very strong for Best Picture. 

 

Cracking Up Lol GIF by HULU

No way in hell. The technology and cinematography in Avatar is light years ahead of anything in this "AMERICA FUCK YEAH" popcorn flick, not that Avatar should win best picture.

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2 hours ago, RPM said:

Watched Elvis. Understood what they were trying to do. Hanks did as accurate impersonation of Tom Parker as possible. Music was great. Cinematography was great. But it ain't Best Picture worthy. 

Completely agree.  I loved the cinematography, but the next morning after watching, I don't think I could have specifically described one other single thing that I really liked about the movie. 

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i have not seen elvis yet, may not ever see it, but i am curious.  did tom hanks suck in it? 

rarely do you find a movie that's up for best picture (in multiple award shows) and a lead actor + director who are also up for awards, yet a two-time best actor winner playing a specific character (with fat suit/makeup/accent) has not been mentioned at all for a nomination anywhere i've seen.

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3 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Yeah, did not like Elvis.  Actually stopped watching Everything.

Just too darn loud.

 

My wife had the same reaction.  She was out about halfway through.

4 hours ago, RPM said:

Watched Elvis. Understood what they were trying to do. Hanks did as accurate impersonation of Tom Parker as possible. Music was great. Cinematography was great. But it ain't Best Picture worthy. Liked Bubba Ho-Tep better.

Hell, I thought the Banshees cinematography should have been up for an Oscar (I don't think it was nominated though).

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Michelle Yeoh will win best actress. I haven’t seen the movie and have no idea if she’s fantastic or terrible, but they’re pushing the “First Asian actress to be nominated”, angle awfully hard. The Academy lives for this stuff these days! Just the world we live in.

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Michelle Yeoh will win best actress. I haven’t seen the movie and have no idea if she’s fantastic or terrible, but they’re pushing the “First Asian actress to be nominated”, angle awfully hard. The Academy lives for this stuff these days! Just the world we live in.

You guys in here talking about EEAAO and related awards being some social statement are wild. I honestly have no idea what you are talking about.

Cate Blanchette will probably win for Tar. She has won every award they have been head to head on. She is a queen and deserves every award she is ever up for.

If Yeoh does win, it is incredibly deserved. There is literally no one else in the world who could do the physical, comedic and emotional beats she plays in that movie. That movie does not exist without Michelle Yeoh. Tar would be a lesser film without Blanchette but would still exist.
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Back to Elvis:

- Hanks chooses the most bizarre accent in movie history to portray the Colonel. Director just says cool, Tom Hanks is my movie. No notes. 

- Hanks is only other actor in a starring role in the entire movie.

- Hanks is nominated and will probably win the Razzie for Elvis.

- Yet this piece of shit has “serious “Best Picture buzz.” Well f*** me. I don’t get Hollywood. 

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Just realized that the only movie I watched in 2022 was the Bob's Burgers Movie which I loved. Only time I stepped in a theater and I didn't watch a movie on tv/streaming (other than the usual Christmas season ones I see every year). 

Wife and I were talking about starting every one of the best picture movies in February and giving each 30 min before deciding whether to bail or keep going. Just looking over the list and basic synopsis of each I'm looking forward to Banshee, Everything, All Quiet, and Triangle of Sadness while thinking Tar and Women Talking don't sound like what I'll like. Im so so on watching Top Gun 2 and really don't want to watch Avatar since I didn't like the first one. But you never know until you start it. 

9 hours ago, PantsTent said:

Living in a house with a wife and 2 teenage daughters, I have zero desire to watch something called “Women Talking “. Watching a movie is an actual small chance of escaping women talking.

Same here. Teenage daughters are the worst

On 1/24/2023 at 8:27 PM, Reynolds Woodcock said:

Out on Peacock this Friday I think. I’m continually surprised how much I use Peacock. Nope, She Said, Violent Night, SICK (which rules), and Ticket to Paradise are all streaming now. 

You're not the first guy to be surprised to find out how much he loves the Cock

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3 hours ago, Stringer said:

There is literally no one else in the world who could do the physical, comedic and emotional beats she plays in that movie.

I agree. In fact, I'd argue she's the greatest artist in the history of human civilization. 

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12 hours ago, MoJames said:

 

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No way in hell. The technology and cinematography in Avatar is light years ahead of anything in this "AMERICA FUCK YEAH" popcorn flick, not that Avatar should win best picture.

CGI vs actual 100 ft AGL at Mach 2

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