This weekend, we will get two more pieces to the puzzle as to what will be our big winner at the Oscars.The key thing to note about where we are in film history right now, how it’s all evolved, is simply that THE PRODUCER used to be the star of the Best Picture race, way way way way back when. And they still kinda remained the star as we moved through the Miramax/Weinstein/Scott Rudin-era in the 90s and 2000s, where the name of the producer on the movie was enough to get that movie taken very seriously, from conception on through to release.
Now, if you look at the Best Picture race not just this year but for the past several years, the hyphenate, or “auteur” — the person who writes, directs, produces and sometimes stars in their own movie — means that figuring out the winner often entails figuring out whether people want to award one person for everything, or if they figure because a person’s name is on any of the major categories, why bother throwing a whole bunch of awards at them? They get their Oscar, let’s spread the wealth.
With the fall of both Weinstein and Rudin, we saw a vanishing of the prominent producer in Hollywood, all save one. There is still one big name out there: a producer from the old days when producers ruled. And that person has been a titan in Hollywood for decades now: Jerry Bruckheimer. Top Gun: Maverick is his first and only Oscar nomination. He shares producing credit with Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, and David Ellison.
But still, he was the producer on the first Top Gun, and on a ridiculous number of film and television projects over the years. The question is whether the producers are going to be able to unplug themselves from the elitist bubble of what Hollywood and the Oscars have become, or whether they will give credit where credit is due.
And just for the hell of it, because after this season I won’t be able to write about Top Gun: Maverick anymore, I’ll just say this: it’s a perfect film. It proved that MOVIES STILL WORK. That only Hollywood can make MOVIES LIKE THAT. Quoting the BBC’s Nicholas Barber:
The key to its wide appeal
And it didn’t matter if you hadn’t memorised the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It didn’t matter if you weren’t a fan of horror movies, cartoons, or blockbusters about theme-park dinosaurs. Here was a romantic-comedy-drama-action-thriller – which is another way of saying that it was simply a Hollywood movie that everyone could enjoy. To people who had stayed away from cinemas since before the pandemic, Top Gun: Maverick felt like a warm welcome home.
Still, it was a bittersweet feeling – as if we were being welcomed home, but we had to leave again soon. Even while we were cheering, laughing and crying at the film, we were aware, on some level, that it was a one-off. Not only was Top Gun: Maverick terrifically well made, it was based on an intellectual property that was recognisable but not over-familiar, it boasted the movies’ brightest superstar, alongside another actor poignantly returning to the screen in the wake of cancer treatment, and it came out just after the peak of a pandemic. How could any studio recreate a phenomenon like that? There have been articles asking what Hollywood could learn from the film’s staggering success, but the answer is: nothing. Top Gun: Maverick won’t set any trends because it isn’t part of a trend. It’s unique.
Unique, why? Because Bruckheimer is a producer who knows how to give the people what they actually WANT, not what Hollywood thinks they should want. This film was like crawling across a city in ruins and happening upon an ice cream truck where people are giving you the most delicious ice cream you’ve ever had in your life, and GODDAMN it tastes good. No one is lecturing you about anything, or trying to push you toward a point of view or tying to FIX YOU. They’re simply reaching out their hand and saying, here you go.
The bittersweet feeling stirred up by Top Gun: Maverick came from knowing that it was a supersonic blast from the past. It was the last of its kind – just as its hero was the last of his. It marked the end of an era. But as long as the film was on the screen, we could tell ourselves that it hadn’t ended yet.
The screenwriters put it best. “The future is coming – and you’re not in it,” says Ed Harris’s Rear Admiral Cain. “Your kind is heading for extinction.”
“Maybe so, sir,” says Pete. “But not today.”
What I want, what most of us want, is THAT BACK. How do we get that back? It starts with appreciating what it is we have right now. We have great directors, great producers, movie theaters that need filling — and we have movie stars. So what’s it gonna take, people? How bad is it going to have to get?
I know all of this is pointless because I know what’s coming next. CUT TO: And the Producers Guild Award goes to Everything Everywhere All At Once. And you know, that’s fine. It is. It’s a movie that bedazzled people and ignited the industry in wonder. It’s not exactly an ice cream truck, though, is it. It’s more like, oh I don’t know, a gourmet espresso booth? Great in its own way, for sure, but…
I am mostly kidding (Hannibal does it to amuse himself).
The bottom line is this: It will likely come down to how much they LIKE Top Gun: Maverick and how much they like Everything Everywhere All At Once, or whether some other movie might bubble up to the surface in a shocker, like… The Fabelmans? TAR?
Just as I thought Steven Spielberg should have won the DGA but my head told me Everything Everywhere was going to win, Top Gun: Maverick deserves to win the PGA but my head tells me the unstoppable frontrunner will devour that award too. Either way, a few of us are going down with the ship simply because there just some years where reality is hard to face and this is one of those years. If the producers aren’t going award the one movie that has revived the dying corpse of Big Hollywood, then what are we doing here, people? What is the point? If even the people who MAKE MOVIES can’t be bothered to award that level of success then the’ve chosen their fate.
So which writer-directors are also co-producers this year?
James Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Todd Field, TAR
Which films aren’t produced by their writer-director:
Women Talking
All Quiet on the Western Front
Triangle of Sadness
Looking back through Oscar and PGA history, for their first few years of this century they seemed to kind of care about success, with wins like Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Chicago, Return of the King. But over time, up to and including last year, they just followed their heart-light, like every other group in town. That is likely to be what happens this year as well.
That said, here are our PGA predictions:
Feature
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Mark Johnson
Top Gun: Maverick – Sasha Stone, Marshall Flores, Clarence Moye
The Fabelmans — Ryan Adams
Documentary
Fire of Love — Johnson, Flores, Moye
Navalny — Adams, Stone
Animated
GDT’s Pinocchio — Stone, Johnson, Flores, Moye
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On — Adams
And here are the charts, with thanks to Marshall:
You can enter our PGA predictions contest here.
FINAL THING i want to share some images of unforgettable masterpieces here- in cinema.. hti is from the GREAT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS only to point out the evocative unforgettable power of cinema when greast stories are allowed to be told..wihtout fear or cultural intimidation that is so damn prominent in awards season today.. HERE THE POINT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS WHILE ADAPTED FROM THE BIBLE CECIL B. DEMILLE ADAPTED AND WAS INSPIRED BY MIX OF HISTORIANS, THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, AND THE BIBLE THE FILM TO THIS DAY STANDS AS TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF TRUE ORIGINALITY IN MANNER AND RESPECTABILITY COMBINATI9ON OF CREDIBLE SOURCE MATERIAL WAS ASSEMBLED IN A VERY COHERRENT SCRIPT AND THE RESULT WELL.. IMAGES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES YOU SIMPLY DONT GET THESE MAGICAL MOMENTS IN HALF OSCAR CONTENDERS THIS YEAR OR ANY YEAR IN LAST 15 YEARS yet in 1956-57 year as case in point you got this ultra strong field to which that year is testament of what THIS ERA IS CAPABLE OF REGARDLESS OF SOCIAL MEDIA, DIGITAL REVOLUTION AND IN HOME VIEWING ACCESSIBUILITY INCREASING GREAT STORIES AND AMBITION THAT LEAVE LASTING IMPACT NEVER DIE OH FOR THE RECORD FILMS OF 56-57 AAS CASE IN POINT AND SINCE THEN TIULL 15 YEARS AGO EVEN OSCAR CONTENDER MAKE EONS MORE SENSE THAN UTTER NONSENSE HNOTION OF EEAAO!
OH and for the record fukin EEAAO visual effects are clunky, cheesy and truly make a mockery of true genuine sci fiction of prior films oscar should seen glass ceiling shattered of YEARS DECADE AGO.
comparatively in 1956-57 LOOK AT HEIGHT OF VISUAL EFFECTS ACHIEVED BEFORE COMPUTERS NOT JUST THAT EXTENT MAGNITUDE THE EFFECTS ENHANCE – NOT DETRACT FROM THE STORY IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS KEY MOMENTS!
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How , many people hear truly LOVE EEAAO here dont say you do just cos you concede it gonna win stand up FOR WHAT YOU TRULY LOVE THAT BE MEMORABLE LASTING LEGACY best of YOUR CHOICE! oh by the way include films that been snubbed outright too not just ones that are nomnated..which TOP 3 IN ORDER OF WHAT YOU LOVE ARE ONES YOU FEEL ARE YOURS ONLY YOUR BEST PIC CHOICE?
IS EEAAO truly the masterpiece above all others that you seen as you leave cinemas relative to all other oscar contenders ?
Oh and by the way i find it nothing short of amusing and insulting @Jesus that you presume to compare THE DANIELS TO THE SUPERIOR CALIBRE OF LIST FILMMAKERS sorry you cannot put THE DANIELS in company of Fincher, Jones, Scott Brothers even if as is like THE DANIELS WIN DGA and PGA THAT DOES NOT CHANGE A THING MOST PEOPLE OVERWHELMINGLY AGREE WITH ME IRREFUTABLY NO QUESDITON FILMS THAT SCOTT BROTHERS , FINCHER AND SPIKE JONZE HAVE DONE HAVE HAD WAY SUPERIOR LASTING IMPRESSION, HIGHER MEMORABILITY AND GREATER RESONANCE THAN WHAT EEAAO HAVE IN TIME…SORRY THAT THE HARD FACT.
Not sure what mr Alonso you trying to achieve by even mentioning the Daniels in same post as these FAR GREATER PROVEN FILMMAKERS THAT SHOULD WON LONG BEFORE THE DANIELS WIN. Their task is made easier by trheir film born out of the confused state of online activism..and i say again…as far as independent film goes i sorry to say oscar lowered the bar way too much here.. Michelle Yeohs OWN CORUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON and the lower budget PARASITE in top 25 for highest grossing independent films in top 50 according to wikipedia, EEAAO for all it flashiness and overhyped ‘relevance’ could NOT EVEN BREAK TOP 25. 70 million nowadays domestic for independent film is simply not as great as it would have been say a decade ago. PARASITE AND CROUCHING TIGER PROVE THIS not to mentione the other 23 in TOP 25 EEAAO comes in at dismal 36 of all independent films made in MODERN ERA ALONE.
OSCAR SHOULD RAISE THE BAR HERE THEY BEEN WAY TOO LENIENT ON INDEPENDENT FILMS AS IT PROVEN TOP 25 IN TOP 50 MAKE AT MINIMUM 100 MILLION WITH MODERATE WIDE CINEMA RELEASE, 100 MILLION IS BARE MINIMUM! OUGHT TO BE FORM NOW ON~ ! INDEPENDENT CINEMA HAS SHOWN IT CAN MIX IT WITH THRESHOLD OF BIG FILMS AT EDGE OF START TO ANYWAY SO THAT WHAT OSCAR SHOULD EXPECT~! UNDER 100 MILLION FOR AMOUINT SCREEN EEAAO ON IS PRETTY DAMN POOR! IN TODAYS DAY AND AGE!
So tell me again how the FUK EEAAO is so greater success story than likes of those other filmmakers you DARE to put the daniels in company of? Fincher and the Scotts and Spike Jonze too give us a break sheeesh!
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the clear PGA favorite, according to historical precedents (I’ve now looked at pretty much everything that could be relevant, to see the big picture) and Top Gun: Maverick comes out as very unlikely to win. It’s arguably not even top 5.
Some details:
The only problem for Everything Everywhere All at Once is no above-the-line wins at BAFTA, which only Birdman has managed to overcome before to win the PGA, since BAFTA became an Oscar precursor. But the others all have bigger issues. This, at least, has that one precedent. Also, Everything Everywhere All at Once is the only movie up for the PGA that won either the DGA or the BAFTA Best Film award, and around 80% of all PGA winners have won at least one of these. (The percentage is the same, give or take 1-2%, for the preferential years.) These are the two main industry precursors for the PGA win, in terms of wins. The DGA is, of course, the best predictor, and BAFTA Best Film is one of the best, behind it.
Next-most likely is probably The Banshees of Inisherin. The only problem it has (apart from not winning the DGA or BAFTA Best Film) is that it hasn’t won any above-the-line Critics Choice awards, which, same as for the Best Picture Oscar, has been a 100% “must”, so far, for PGA winners.
The Fabelmans is unlikely because of the same Critics Choice above-the-line wins rule, as well as the lack of BAFTA above-the-line wins and the lack of a BAFTA Best Film nomination, which only CODA has overcome since BAFTA became a precursor and went from 4 to 5 slots in the top category (before that, there was also Apollo 13).
Next in line after that would be Tár, whose main issue is that it didn’t win the DGA, the Globe for Best Picture or the Critics Choice for screenplay. (The latter standing in for the WGA, which is always later. The rule also works with the WGA instead of it, of course, which also takes care of The Silence of the Lambs and The Crying Game, the only pre-Critics Choice Awards PGA winners that didn’t win either the DGA, a BP Globe or both.) No PGA winners in the Critics Choice era (and, basically, given that the two mentioned above very likely would have won the Critics Choice for screenplay, had there been one, given that they won both the WGA and the Oscar) have been able to do without these.
Top Gun: Maverick seems very unlikely, as I said, looking at precedents and patterns. Its problems are, in full:
– no Oscar nominations for either directing or acting (all PGA winners have had one or the other, if not both);
– no Critics Choice above-the-line win;
– no DGA, Globe picture or Critics Choice screenplay win (both of these last two, to reiterate, also have zero exceptions, all-time, among PGA winners);
– no SAG nominations (1917 is the only exception in the SAG era);
– no BAFTA Best Film nomination or above-the-line wins.
If it somehow beats all of these and still wins the PGA… Could be interesting… But I guess it most probably won’t. Even Elvis has a set of issues that seem slightly easier to overcome. The other movies not up for the DGA have even bigger issues and nobody expects any of them to win, anyway, so I won’t give details for those. (Except on request.)
Everything won Editing. That’s above-the-line in my book, especially since I count editing as major. Moonlight didn’t win any BAFTAs.
Moonlight also didn’t win the PGA, though… 🙂 This is about predicting the PGA, not the Oscar.
I agree editing is big. But there aren’t any editing-only BAFTA winners that won the PGA (so, at least for now, it doesn’t warrant inclusion). EEAAO should become the first one.
Right, right. God bless Top Gun, if it wins tonight. I am banking on EEAAO. Banshees and The Fabelmans are a possibility.
Yeah, I think it was reasonable to give EEAAO about an 85-90% chance to win this, at least. Since about 80% of the time the DGA or BAFTA BP winner prevails, plus it had a clear (though not large) advantage in terms of the other, more prohibitive rules. (A single 1-exception rule to beat vs. one or more no-exception rules for all others.)
Well you called it again
🙂 Not much of a call, it was pretty obvious it would win. But it’s good that the analysis of historical rules and patterns had the right winner. It usually does, of course… Even at PGA, which isn’t the most predictable bunch. (At the Oscars, it’s pretty much always right, if one knows how to do it and uses all of the lessons of the past properly. That’s my bet, anyway, that there’s a way to read the industry precursors that always provides the correct winner. And… so far, so good! The current version of the system, last modified, in essence, after the Green Book year, is 3/3 – and, of course, also 100% for the previous PGA years, since that’s how I build it -, even if a slight addition had to be made last year, as an unprecedented situation arose. It wasn’t a change to the system, that’s just been my approach from the start, to only use situations that have happened before to predict, and since that one hadn’t, it was a judgement call, but the more logical interpretation, according to what the rest of the PGA era tells us is the way to read these things, prevailed, which was a win.)
I guess even more interesting is how unlikely the numbers made Top Gun: Maverick look for this PGA win. That was the most useful part of the analysis, I guess, since some people were still predicting that to win. I, myself, had not realized it would have broken quite so many strong rules, had it won, until I looked at everything in-depth… Should prove useful in future years, when trying to determine the likely PGA winner, this system I’ve built. I don’t think I left anything out that’s relevant. I was pretty thorough, this time. I had looked at a few things in previous years, but only a few, and this time I looked at all of the strongest possible clues. Should be a pretty solid system, if I’m right about that.
Everyone pray that Top Gun wins PGA. Yes, it would be the worst choice in their history, but something has to stop EEAAO. At least TG:M has Jennifer Connelly.
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Ms Connelly was pretty stunning when she younger too as shevis now which film that from though?
Career Opportunities, a visual masterpiece of cinema.
FWIW, connected with some local Irish folx I know here in NYC, and they all saw and hated Banshees of Inisherin. They said “the story was shite”. These folx also hated Belfast.
Well, do they at least like Lucky Charms?
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well, since Banshees was written by an Irishmen who has written many many plays that take place in Ireland and has an amazing reputation as a playwright and a filmmaker, I will ignore your Americanized Irish acquaintances.
LOL, they’re not Americanized. The point is Belfast didn’t win, Banshees won’t either.
In addition to being Academy voters they must also be Democratic voters in Georgia!
I sorry to the EEAAO fans i do respect what YOU feel that YOU feel it best pic frontrunner but this my issue NEVER been bout disrespecting how YOU FEEL it about how broader extreme activist community minority misrepresent truth behind EEAAO and how OSCAR HAVE TAKEN THE BAIT BIG TIME at expense of silent majority neeeds in awards season to get cinema back to TRUE GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT and for awards season to reflecxt it.
This comes with reassurance that I unqeuivocally do NOT disrespect whatsoever people who prefer EEAAO i disrespect unequivocally the extent the ACADEMY AND THE GUILDS elevate this as the breakthrough example of a worthy science fiction glass ceiling shatterer and their choice to prioritise for lgbtiq causes EEAAO complete washing away of it serious profound nature around issues of lgbtiq when another contender in TAR takes the issue more seriously as it should
as i explained in my front i opening on those who purport to misrepresent and overstate the ‘importance or social relevance of EEAAO’.
as follows:
by the way everyone this is my new strategy- to COUNTER the twitter propaganda that it the GUILDS AND THE ACADEMY take as gospel way too much..cos they think this represents in some distorted disilussioned way way we we all SHOULD THINK which is UTTER BULLSHIT!
I set a trap.. too i determined to root out the ugly side of twitter activism and i EXPOSE it to the few here who think that twitter should have level of power and influence over awards season that it had for far.. too.. LONG!
SOMEBODY HAS TO CHALLENGE THEM fortunately i built hell of lot steel to cop abuse…NOW WE SEE in how they reply just how nasty and vile they will be – only i not gonna sit and take it i will EXPOSE IT.. right here to you all.
So you can all see well most you know understand thankfully.. just how big danger to awards season existence and purpose twitter and social media is as a ‘shining light’ for Academy and Guilds to put on a damn pedestal..
The huffing and puffing of EEAAO as the most significant gamechanger for lgtiq is absolute insult to other films done this more profoundly and ESPECIALLY given a lgtiq themed film yet to win best picture it has to be the RIGHT one and TAR is that one..note hypocrisy on twitter and farcebook too- they cheer blindly for EEAAO without realising as some you pointed out TAR is more profound and respectful in way it represents lgtiq related dilemmas..in impacting trying balance out professional and personal matters..without one interfering with other trying make mainstream industry – muisic cooexist with the personal..
sorry but it just extraordinary hypocrisy this awards season is displaying with TAR gettingf so few nominationsand EEAAO getting most..AWARDS SEASON TRULY REACHED POINT OF DREADFUL HIGH FARCE BY PREFERENCING FILM THAT STRUGGLES TO CONSISTENTLY TAKE LGTIQ ISSUES SERIOUSLY HOW CAN ANYONE DO SO WHEN THERE IS TOOOO MUCH GOING ON IN MOST OF EEAAO FILM?
WHAT A MISSED OPPORTUNITY WE WITNESSING BY BASED ON PATH OSCAR HEADED ON, THAT SHOULD BE TAR THAT SHOULD BE BIGGEST OF PROGRESSIVE CONTENDERS I NO ISSUE WITH THAT AT ALL NOT EEAAO!
This is my view..sop be mindful those who may decry me i respect YOU liek eeaao I CANMT CONTROL that unlike twitter i dont presume to..but i fearless in my view of eeaao and to me and number others i spoken to and reflective most comments here lot of people NOT BUYING WHAT GUILDS AND OSCAR WANT US TO it appears- that EEAAO is a frontrunner deservedly so…
MY CRITICISM ALWAYS BEEN AT GUILDS AND ACADEMY HUFFING AND PUFFING OVERSTATING THROUGH AWARDS EEAAO has been given of late…much moer so than those who love eeaao..there is another troubling obersvation too.
what do Chloe Zhao, Rob Marshall,, and The Daniels have in common? (looking like oscar winners? well.. frankly.. in last 20 years there been way MORE first time ONE OFF ONE HIT WONDER filmmakers that been unable to remotely replicate success of there ONLY oscar winner or oscar nominated film for best pic i cannot recall ANY PRIOR 20 yr period where there been soo many one hit wonder filmmakers that have won .
Hence a insult to more established filmmakers who yet to win..and who mark has been felt and more impactful than that of THE DANIELS or Zhao..it NOT RACIST to point out fact and fact i add Rod Marshall only proves i not putting spotlight just on pple dioff ethnicity like what on earth ahs Rob Marshall done since Chicago?
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hey everyone! have a CLOSE LOOK at this UPGRADE to the CLASSIC SCENE in this CLASSIC FILM you notice something.. different between the plane and the foreground here?
COCAINE BEAR IS FRESH RATING OF 82% ON RT it ALREADY made 2 million previews and it had massive hit of 16 million hits on you tube films already a success one surprise hits of the year.
We should all be so thrilled for Elizabeth Banks she is lovely.. fearless courageous one heck of a way to reginite your filmmaking career when you been at crossraods wtih some false filmmaking starts like her remake of Charlie’s Angels eeeek! totally unecessary!
Oh dear did i give away the hint as to the ‘upgrade’ in this picture?
with full credit to Elizabeth Banks from her twitter handle
Oh and BEFORE others go all righteous and point out to me ” oh but why are you getting behind an activist filmmaker?” when you oppose it? ”
geee..lemme think Elizabeth Banks does not buy into the hysteria and confected outrage and as her gem of a film ‘ Cocaine Bear’ Proves she may be a actvist or sorts but hell she would not do a film like or titled as has type of content that ‘Cocaine Bear’ has.
She is absolutely right if you checkj out her interviews..that : ” women are still underrepresnted with doing certain genres..i determined to break the glass ceiling”- well she has and she won many admirers because of that.
This isan example of measured and absolutely REASONABLE advocacy she not type that whingjes and bleats and stabs people in back online she type she has her views but as she says as well with her children: ” she wants her kids to take world as it is work within that not as we prefer it to be”
i share vid clip anyway…if i have slightly misquoted Elizabeth Banks i apologise but what i say is overall largely consistent to what she getting at.
You gotta admire that..there is such a think as BALANCE of activism as form of passion whilst not losing site of making sure film audiences go to film to ENJOY IT.. controversial cos it hasnt been done before crazy? you betcha but i wager people will talk abiout ‘Cocaine Bear’ for first half of this year.
Elizabeth Banks is leading the way for female filmmakers in NEXT FRONTIER HERE- to show that more ‘blokey’ genre can be directed just as well by women as it is by men too…i hoper one day her ambition is realised with oscar nominatin clearly not for this film
then again…something to think about if as we seem to see EEAAO fiulm of that messy, contradictory, convoluted, confusing, headache inducing nature can win best picture then why the FUK CANT COCAINE BEAR?
Heck i even wager big time more people would enjoy get TENFOLD MORE out of a drug induced cocaine bear terrorising anyone and everyone just to get another hit of the Coke..than they woudl to relive EEAAO perhaps least watchable best pic contender i can think of in new millennium and THAT IS DAMNING.
Cocaine Bear must have pretty decent script otherwise why wouild it get such big audience approval and solid critic ratings- for record 82% RT rating cocaine bear is ONLY 6 % off EEAAO 88% rating..worth noting too.. all critics on average rated ‘All Quiet, Fablemans, Banshees, and course Top Gun Maverick considerably higher than EEAAO. overrated much? you betcha.
Anyway i ghave away the ‘surprise’ in this classic scene…you think bad enough he chased by pilot in the plane ey?
Kudos to WETA DIGITAL too if there ONE OSCAR next year cocaine bear may get HAS to be creation fo most realistic beast EVER created on big screen gee how WETA have revolutionised face of film effects and visual effects since LOTR wow! KING KONG, AVATAR, AND NOW COCAINE BEAR WOW!
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Oh come on Saha. You with your Top Gun.:)) Give it a break! Not even Tom Cruise cares as much.
PGA starts at 10:30 Eastern. Honorary awards out the wazoo, so fair warning.
David O. Selznick Achievement: Tom Cruise
Norman Lear Achievement: Mindy Kaling
Milestone Award: Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, WB Pictures Group co-CEOs
Stanley Kramer Award: The cast of ‘Till’.
Final SAG presenters: Quinta Brunson, Janelle James, Jenny Slate, Orlando Bloom, James Marsden and Mark Wahlberg.
I hope the Oscars bring back some actual A List talent as presenters this year.
As long as they allow Ana to present, all will be fine.
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I feel like Clarence in that I’m no longer sold on EEAAO winning Best Picture. I agree it’s a go down with the ship kind of year, and I’m leaning towards predicting All Quiet.
It would be a deserving and stealthily winner because it wasn’t in PGA or SAG.
EEAAO sweeping the guilds is so depressing. Jesus, save us.
@disqus_AAXklMk9X2:disqus can’t help you with that, I’m afraid.
I actually could, but I don’t want. I love EEAAO
That’s what I meant!
Is this just preparation to discredit EEAO once it wins? The movie isn’t my favorite but it has obviously connected with the audience and voters. Why work so hard to push it down when we should celebrate that a unique weird movie like that can achieve huge success?
no mate…it nmore case of most us know other far better memorable films made this year some them that have been totally snubbed and too many like TOP GUN MAVERICK that been completely undermined missing obvious socars and more more people getting sick of oscars increasingly formulaic threadbare attitude to their own oscars.. excitement and inspiration has been completely sucked dry not so much the directors of EEAAO fault i academys getting sucked in to the tribal parasitic culture that the filmmakers of that excuse for a film a derviative from. i remind everyone THE DANIELS best renowned achievmeent before this were MUSIC videos sure you have to start somewhere but surely you think filmmaker of some pedigree dones something that has some sort of impression even at a localised level would have MORE CHANCE being deted as best picture and director than THE DANIELS?
This is why people are keen to not s much discredit if it wins or wins but doesnt mean we need to respect that it oscars choice on contrare on contrare….
oh, just because they were doing music videos (or ads) is reason enough to say they don’t deserve the awards they are collecting???
David Fincher
Spike Jonze
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Mark Romanek
Michel Gondry
Antoine Corbjin
Johnathan Glazer
… just some names that started like that. None has an Oscar yet…
… and Spike Lee, John Landis and Martin Scorsese actually shot music videos throughout their career, a couple of them, among the most iconic ever.
it the NATURE must be emphasized of THE DANIELS music videos and their influences VERY DIFFERENT to all tyhe above- suffice to say you ought to know all those above filmmakers are established and PROVEN successes the DANIELS ARE NOT AND BY WAY WHY YOU DEFENDING THE DANIELS WHEN YOU YOURSELF BEEN VERY CRITICAL OF EEAAO? i know you have you said soyourself bit crossing both sides of st on your aprt confusingyour position there..
no offense but I think you have a problem with understanding my posts…
I love EEAAO, it directly entered my top 10 of the Century when I saw it. What I have been critical of, is its chances to win Best Picture and anything else beyond having strong shots at Actress, S. Actor, Original Screenplay and Film Editing, and only sure that Quan was an almost unbeatable narrative for the win.
Yeoh, I always have doubts because of Cate
Screenplay, there’s Banshees, specially
Film Editing, it’s a coin toss with Top Gun: Maverick
EEAAO could easily go 11-1 at Oscar night, and I wouldn’t even wink in surprise… another of my fave films of all time, The Color Purple, which was also risky at the time (a musical drama about a lesbian african-american woman), went 11-0 and Spielberg snubbed even from the directing nom (at least he was replaced with Kurosawa’s Ran)
OH MY APOLOGIES.. just give you heads up i always respected you and your point diff view to mine as i stated before my issue is with oscars path consistently stubbornly choosing smaller independent film over film that matter entertain us en masse NOT people here like you mate who cheer for films like EEAAO i still cant stand it i not a fan not because of anything to do with it advocacy for lgtiq i absolutely respect that but there been better films made past i look back should won best picture before film that more parody than serious drama to me anyway that where i come from.
sorry my misunderstanding i really hope this year brings more joy to you than to all us in past few uyears as we come out of pandemic can live our lives tyour awesome fella mate.. always respected your view you been long standing and rational as i hope i been tro you.. my confusion not withstanding
even Steven Spielberg has shot a music video. It happens to be one of the worst music videos I’ve ever seen. It’s like they were stuck at an airport and had 15 minutes to kill.
https://youtu.be/pOcfW0zv7cY
I love simplicity… so I feel the video totally fits the song…
One of my faves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cums6Q1qA0
and also this one – from one of 2021’s best debut albums, Man on Man… the video made with collaboration of fans and friends. Couldn’t be more simple, and becomes actually touching. Of course, not for the red cap followers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul-fKgEH4II
I had accidentally turned off comments for a few minutes on the “Make or Break Weekend page.
https://www.awardsdaily.com/2023/02/24/2023-oscar-predictions-a-make-or-break-weekend/#comment-6123616290
— but now my clumsy mistake is fixed. Sorry about that.
Hollywood does not need saving. It is fine the way it is, and it should adapt to the changing world.
Movie theaters are the ones that need saving IMHO.
Having one or two movies that rake in a billion plus dollars a year wont save movie theaters. To save theaters, people need to go to the theaters more than once in 3 months.
Having a bunch of movies that are new, fresh, innovative, connect with the audience at an emotional level, and bring in a 100 million dollars through word of mouth will save the theaters. TGM, Avatar WOW contributed to butts in seats. EEAAO also did that to a certain extent, Elvis did that for middle America, Nope did that — and a bunch of other commercial movies did that.
The year with best box office collections in recent memory was 2018, and it had 35 movies that made more than 100 Million Dollars in domestic box office. The way Hollywood can replicate this is by green lighting more innovative projects instead of trying to recreate another TGM.
No point in going on and on about how awarding TGM is the only way to save something. It is not, and TGM winning an oscar wont make more people spend their hard earned money at the box-office in a couple of months. This is just a convenient narrative.
I agree completely, I really feel sad seeing Sasha talking about EEAAO as if it is this unprofitable tiny movie that only elitist people in a bubble watched when it actually played a big role in getting people to show up to cinemas and it’s one of the few films I can name from this year where I know non film people who saw and loved it.
I also think we need to find ways to get more butts in seats for some of the great films that people have been skipping recently. An autobiographical film about the childhood of one of our greatest living directors should have been one of those 100 million dollar films and we should be taking a serious look to think how we can get people to show up to cinemas for these smaller but still significant films again.
I agree completely, I really feel sad seeing Sasha talking about EEAAO as if it is this unprofitable tiny movie that only elitist people in a bubble watched when it actually played a big role in getting people to show up to cinemas and it’s one of the few films I can name from this year where I know non film people who saw and loved it.
I also think we need to find ways to get more butts in seats for some of the great films that people have been skipping recently. An autobiographical film about the childhood of one of our greatest living directors should have been one of those 100 million dollar films and we should be taking a serious look to think how we can get people to show up to cinemas for these smaller but still significant films again.
Perfect
Totally agree. Sasha and others need to accept the changing landscape and stop lamenting for the past. We should celebrate innovative movies that manage to overcome streaming to succeed at the box office. The industry is never the same again and the Oscars will never be the same again. Once we accept that, then we can celebrate movies again instead of all these Debbie downer posts.
Top Gun didn’t save theatres. If Top Gun saved anything, it is the idea of old Hollywood, a mystique regarding ownership of cinematic story-telling, the studio system, as it were, where a measure of independence in making a picture could be acheived if you were a known money-making quantity. But what did that look like, in practice, in fact? Well, it was misogynist Hollywood, it was predatory Hollywood, it was very much white Hollywood. Old Hollywood told you to sit down, watch stars do their thing, and take it like a bum on a seat and enjoy it. If you aren’t represented up there on the screen, so what? You’re probably a commie, or a foreigner.
So Top Gun is just a last kick at that can, a representation of something that probably needs to pass at this point, and literally nothing more. Aftersun at a theatre is a shared experience that most films don’t even come close to, because it is about us, in our deepest and nakedest essence. Top Gun at the theatre is crappy popcorn, sugary syrup flavored sparkling water, and mindless drivel on the screen that means absolutely nothing, but tells us relentlessly that Tom Cruise is a *#%STAR%#*, and at the bottom, it’s all about being the best. There’s nothing about us in that film at all. It is the nadir of so-called entertainment, as meaningful as a fireworks display.
what an IGNORANT STUPID UNCALLED for assessment and a dead set shallow one if ever i heard one OMG! NOTHING NOTHING whatsoever that you say that equates REMOTELY intentions or notion that TGM is misogynist who the one i wonder who blatantly MISREPRESENTING THE TRUTH goes on that is EXACTLY the DANGER socialist online progressives sound like misrepresesnt truth and attack long standing tradition TOP GUN didnt single handedly save theatres course not NOBODY saying that you are simply MANIPULATING the truth behind the narrative…by huffing and puffing what you LIKE TO THINK people are exaggerating YOU then can generate – such is the method to screw loose insanity of online socialist parasites that are ruining award season relevance or original long standing purpose- you CREATE a sensationalist story so you can propagate it and tear it down.
IT TYPE OF dog act that online tribe predators thrive on – but if you NOT from that faction then please clarify what you about who heck you are cos your tone and asttidue sure hell sound like straight out of digital playbook of such tribalism taken to socialist extreme.
Top Gun Maverick is NOT MISOGYNIST and it concept in it plot is far more layered than dumbing it down…your resentment of ‘old past’ hollywood is based on the ill convieved notiin that cinema’s so called ‘evolution’ means films need to veer AWAY FROM CINEMA MAINSTREAM audiences UNLESS the fuilms PANDER TO THE SOCIALIST MINORITY ON ALL FRINGE PROGRESSIVE ISSUES TO MORALISE AND TEACH US IS THAT WHAT YOU SAYING?
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT SASHA RIGHTFULLY OBJECTED TO THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT top gun maverick represents… hell not even AVATAR panders to strict moralising you insist and others of your ilk.. my G-d!
Maverick’s success is not measured by it star power purely but telling type of stories audiences want- to tune of 3/4 billion box office i dont see EEAAO doing that as i highlighted b efoe EEAAO FAILED TO ,MAKE TOP 25 ALL TIME INDEPENDENT FILJMS IN BOX OFFICE? YOU AND OTHERS DECLARE THIS IS FUTURE OF CINEMA YOU TOTALLY SMEAR IN YOUR RAGE AND OTHERS LIKE YOU ROLE 0F TOP GUN MAVERICK TO REMIND US WHAT BASICS DONE ULTRA WELL IN FILJMMAKING CAN DELIVER WHEN BUILT ROUND TELLING UNFORGETTABLE STORY THAT INSPIRES AND KEYS INTO THE MAJORITY CONCIOUSNESS.
SO TELL ME DONT MAKE EXCUSES FOR STREAMING ERA OR DIGITAL ERA IT LAME DUCK SHIT HOW MANY PEOPLE CARE OR REMEMBER THE MORE PEDESTRIAN MORALISING SOCIAL DRAMAS WON BEST PICTURE MOSTLY OVER LAST DECADE EY? AND HOW MUCH HAVE THEY FUKIN WELL MADE?
I let you work it out but frankly if you cant then it proves where you are from.
Top gun Maverick got highest of critical acclaim and incredible phenomenal audience rating average of 95% ACROSS ALL PUBLIC REACTION INDICATORS…Also i like to point out the integration of black latino characters in top guin maverick support cast proves dispells your reckless theory that this is old outdated white persons rubbish..
It bulldust claims like this that if any thing could lead to blowback in PGA if enough people carry attitude you do who vote for producers guild resentment to overegged push their luck sociopathic progressive demographic of guilds is building by year gradyally surely..BAFTA delivered form of backlash if you honestly think BAFTA is alone in going for more traditional albeit foreign made but more universal essential experiential traditional film in ALL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT if you think this emerging blowbvack isolated to BAFTA just pause for thought on that.
Top Gun Maverick above all proves the potential of basic story done really well..soar above the politics of the day, HAS REVIVED BOX OFFICE SPECIFICALLY for traditonal contemporary block buster and become the greatest sequel made behind Dark Knight and The Two Towers in last 30 years…how i know that? look no further at a time was perceived before way of water came out has to be said…. top gun maverick would not reached so many and captured their hearts and souls in way it has if it failed to fire but m,ore than fire..colossal 30 + years or bit over since first one..this film mre than sequel it abs9olute tour de force both ambitious, contemporary and state of the art filmmaking at it near flawless best to me many others anyway.
But las decade of this SOCIALOGICAL EXPERIMENT AS MOST US REGARD IT AS IN AWARDS SEASON HAS BACKFIRED SPECTACULARLY FACTS, THE OSCAR SHOW RATINGS DECLINE EVEN BEFORE THE PANDEMIC BY AVERAGE – 12 MILLION EVEN BEFORE STREAMING BECAME DOMINANT I MAY ADD, AND YES IT RELEVANT WITHIN REASON NEAR TOTAL LACK OF BOX OFFICE VALUE YOU GROUP ALL OCAR IN LAST 7 YRS TOGETHER AND STILL NOT COME VEN CLOSE TO TOP GUN MAVERICK SINGLE YEAR GROSS. OR ENTHUSIASM .
Top Gun Maverick clearly is more than just old stale ‘salvaging’ operation to represent what is in the past.. TRUE POWER OF FILMMAKING AT WORK HERE IS ETERNAL just cos it does not PANDER to your or MINORITY of others moralising at centre of it message or oike bloody EEAAO eek to reflect the ‘intersecting ‘ societal moves in confusing naive contradicting myriad of ways does not mean whatsoever idea of big screen blockbuster EVENT deserves to NOT win best picture it absolutely DOES as it used to BEFORE this torrid self destructive to oscars intention period began BEFORE the pref ballot
My “fringe” issue is the quality of cinema, and the deleterious effect that the nostaligic idea of Hollywood studios being the keepers of greatness has on creating mainstream taste and expectations. The film I cited, aside from Top Gun II, was Aftersun, which has nothing to do with any agenda or socialism or political correctness or whatever you’re on about. It’s just an absolute masterpiece of a film that’s been overlooked.
‘nostalgia’ is not the problem mate…COS I TELL YA RITE NOW public long for that more than your fake claim of the ‘deleterious effect’ not many here agree with you here..certainy not the billions that seen top gun maverick make it most successful film last year either…it THAT attitude you present which si the THREAT to holywood awards seaosn. and public attitudes to it.
‘gatekeepers’? rrriiight there a big distinction between several decades of EARNING THE ENTITLEMENT AND RIGHT AND HAVING IT GIFTED TO YOU WHAT YOUR CHEERING FOR IS THE DECLINE WHERE PUBLIC VOTE WITH THEIR FEET! OF AWARDS SEASON RELEVANCE AND APPEAL…WELL RATINGS ETC HAVE SPOKEN or are you implying most of us just gullible drones brainwashed by the ‘establishment?’
Sure you may not be a ‘fringe dweller’ but you certianly dont have respect for history…let alone the several decades that enabled oscar to exist was NOT BECAUSE OF THE INDIE FILM WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE AS I STATED BEFORE AS MOST US KNOW 65% OF OSCAR WINNERS HAVE BEEN EMBRACED BY THE PUBLIC EVER SINCE..BUT NOW AS DECLINE IN RATINGS PROVE BEYOND ANY DOUIBT WHATSOEVER…THE % IN LAST 15 YEARS OF CINEMA OF LARGELY RESPECTED REVERED BEST PIC WINNERS IS DOWN TO UNDER 35% OF WINNERS.
WHY? BECAUSE THERE BEEN TOO MANY SMALL OBSCURE SOCIOLOGY MAJORING TYPE CURRENT AFFAIRS SOCIETY DRIVEN MICRO- SPOTLIGHT THEMED PICTURES THAT HAVE TOTALLY DENIGRATED THE APPEAL MEANING OF OSCAR RACE TO MOST OF US…FILMS THAT CATER TO ULTRA NARROW ACTIVIST CAUSES.
Clarify by all means that you certainly NOT for record low period of declining oscars rating, relevance and meaning..it pretty reckles to advoctate for FURTHER DECLINE of awards season that what your saying? help us to understand.
I do apologise for assuming you are a ‘fringe dwelller on line activist’ but then there another group of people that sound similar to them that perhaps through no fault of your own you inadvartently fell into ‘ IGNORANCE OF WHY HOW OSCARS CHANGES ARE DESTROYING THE SOUL OF WHAT OSCAR USED TO BE.
It not you it me arguably cos i HAD A GUTFUL MORE THAN EVER of apologists seeking to denigrate and berate the academy that and even mroe so oscar gullibiltiy in as ‘Sasha says: “films trying to moralise, hector and teach us right from wrong in todays world’
Not just you …i appreciare you being rational it broader CANCER that engulfing and infecting all of awards season more often than not in last 15 years i can assure you i NOT OJNLY ONE that tired of it!
But the type of films you take aim at ‘ gatekeepers’ you refer to contributed to sensible modernisation of cinema since the 1980’s they in turn leant themselves from great filmmakers of decade before that do you HONESTLY THINK most those influences made HOLLYWOODS OSCAR great MOST OF THE TIME before last 15 years- were pandering to limited demographic,?
Hardly… I not even gonna begin to list the memorable amazing best picture winners each decade but here goes: oh and it includes best picture contenders some in same year worthy of greatness too such was depthj and broad appeal of contenders:
not just winners:
in no particular order thou8gh i try chronology: (bold **= memorable oscar winner -masterpiece/classic), bold on it own = still big oscar winner leaves impression
2021 – “CODA”
2020 – “Parasite”
2019 – “Green Book”
2018 – “The Shape of Water”
2017 – “Moonlight”
2016 – “Spotlight”
2015 – “Birdman”
2014 – “12 Years a Slave”
2013 – “Argo”
2012 – “The Artist”
2011 – “The King’s Speech”
2010 – “The Hurt Locker”
2009 – “Slumdog Millionaire”
_______________________________ – THE PREF BALLOT ERA (GOING INTO 8TH AND 9TH DECADE
2008 – “No Country for Old Men”
2007 – “The Departed”
2006 – “Crash”
2005 – “Million Dollar Baby”
2004 – “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
2003 – “Chicago”
2002 – “A Beautiful Mind”
2001 – “Gladiator”
_______________________________ – SEVENTH DECADE
2000 – “American Beauty”
1999 – “Shakespeare in Love”
1998 – “Titanic”
1997 – “The English Patient”
1996 – “Braveheart”
1995 – “Forrest Gump”
1994 – “Schindler’s List”
1993 – “Unforgiven”
1992 – “The Silence of the Lambs”
1991 – “Dances With Wolves”
_______________________________ – SIXTH DECADE
1990 – “Driving Miss Daisy”
1989 – “Rain Man”
1988 – “The Last Emperor”
1987 – “Platoon”
1986 – “Out of Africa”
1985 – “Amadeus”
1984 – “Terms of Endearment”
1983 – “Gandhi”
1982 – “Chariots of Fire”
1981 – “Ordinary People”
_______________________________ – FIFTTH DECADE
1980 – “Kramer vs. Kramer”
1979 – “The Deer Hunter”
1978 – “Annie Hall”
1977 – “Rocky”
1976 – “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
1975 – “The Godfather Part II”
1974 – “The Sting”
1973 – “The Godfather”
1972 – “The French Connection”
1971 – “Patton”
_______________________________ – FOURTH DECADE
1970 – “Midnight Cowboy”
1969 – “Oliver!”
1968 – “In the Heat of the Night”
1967 – “A Man for All Seasons”
1966 – “The Sound of Music”
1965 – “My Fair Lady”
1964 – “Tom Jones”
1963 – “Lawrence of Arabia”
1962 – “West Side Story”
1961 – “The Apartment”
_______________________________ – THIRD DECADE
1960 – “Ben-Hur”
1959 – “Gigi”
1958 – “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
1957 – “Around the World in 80 Days”
1956 – “Marty”
1955 – “On the Waterfront”
1954 – “From Here to Eternity”
1953 – “The Greatest Show on Earth”
1952 – “An American in Paris”
1951 – “All About Eve”
_______________________________ – SECOND DECADE
1950 – “All the Kings Men”
1949 – “Hamlet”
1948 – “Gentleman’s Agreement”
1947 – “The Best Years of Our Lives”
1946 – “The Lost Weekend”
1945 – “Going My Way”
1944 – “Casablanca”
1943 – “Mrs. Miniver”
1942 – “How Green Was My Valley”
1941 – “Rebecca”
_______________________________ – FIRST DECADE
1940 – “Gone with the Wind”
1939 – “You Can’t Take It with You”
1938 – “The Life of Emile Zola”
1937 – “The Great Ziegfeld”
1936 – “Mutiny on the Bounty”
1935 – “It Happened One Night”
1933/1934 – “Cavalcade”
1932/1933 – “Grand Hotel”
1931/1932 – “Cimarron”
1930/1931 – “All Quiet on the Western Front”
1929/1930 – “The Broadway Melody”
1928/1929 – “Wings”
Dan Feeny probably did not see the same Top Gun Maverick movie that you and I did. I really did not see anything in this film that is representative of a truly problematic Hollywood tropes of the yesteryears. TGM is a perfectly fine film.
That said, I find your comments disturbing Aaron. You are painting an entire category of people with a broad brush and doing the exact same thing you accuse others of. For example: Socialist Progressives? Socialists are by definition not progressives and ViceVersa.
You constantly attack EEAAO. In this case Dan did not even mention it. EEAAO does not represent anything you accuse it of, it is just a movie about people trying to be their best. Why do you find it so offensive that you need to attack it at every chance you get? Name one thing that EEAAO preaches that you disagree with in principle? This is getting very tiring very fast. Please try to be a bit more pro your fav movies and bit less hateful about other movies. That is how the comment section can be fun for everyone.
‘DISTURBING?’ well you clearly not tolerated what i did personally and in my past workplaces…and you clearly not lived for last 22 years under the oppressive environment of closest thing in a democratic state of equivalent nearly of an autocrat leader… you clearly have NO CLUE DO YOU?
I make NO APOLOGY FOR CASTIGATNG some of the generaiton i mentioned if oyu bother read my other comments SOME NOT ALL people of younger generaiton i even defined line between what is acceptable constructive and NECESSARY in contributing to cinema from the youngest generaiton- i will stand UP FOR the silent majority while the tradtional demographic that SHY AWAY FROM TAKING A STAND let oscar chew itself to bit and pieces with it tendrils and guts all over the shop mauled by the PARISITIC MOTIVATIONS of the online activist forces..
And i make no apology the two directors that be feted with film industrys greatest honor are anyone can see unless you pick path of denial – i think you do- would absoutely refelcted through their presentiation of a chaotic world…EEAAO has NO REDEEMING FEATURE WHATSOEVER as a best pic contender very entertaining and funny but THAT IT it borne out of self cynicism and narcissistic byprfoduct of the activist ‘collision’ ofideologies it soo is NOTHING OF CALIBRE OF TRUE SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECES THAT HAVE DEFINED DECADES.
Yes i do respect role of young filmmaker and their views differ to mind to a point..but long before i started REALLY FIRE ALL 8 CYLINDERS here..i was HOPING NOT to have to UNLEASH and put certian people in their place..
Oh zand by the way in my own past experience i tried to be receptive of the very type of parasitic predators that oscar are inviting through online activism to redefine severealy seriously badly their trajectory and LACK OF APPEAL ORT CARE FOR MOST PEOPLE of awards season.
If you look at overall oscar history there been a fair natural NATURAL evolution of films won best picture…every decade in oscars history has NOT NEEDED THE FORCEFUL FORCE OR IMPOSITION of noisy minority yes they are contributors to society and particularly case in poin the hippie years and birth of green peace in a democracy that their right i absolutely dont disrespect pple with alternate views.
BUT THERE ARE THOSE TO THIS DAY THAT HAD TRHEIR WAY FOR FAR TOO LONG AND RESULTS SHOW IN DECLINING OSCAR RATINGS AND OSCAR THAT PUT ITSELF IN MORTAL PERIL IN WAY I NOT SEEN IN ALL DECADES GONE INCLUDING THE HIPPIE/ GREENPEACE YEARS…
The destructive nature of online activism and how it translated into film is RED FLAG ZONE GALOR CLEARLY YOU NOT EXPERIENCED THE TRUE UGLY DARK CYNICAL SIDE OF ONLINE ACTIVISM AND NATURE OF NUMBER OF PROTESTS OF FAR LEFT ARE DISRUPTIUVE, DANGEROUS AND HIDESOUS LIKES WE NOT SEEN FROM THAT SIDE OF ACTIVIST DIVIDE IN LONG TIME!
Sacred historic art works are being abused and vandalised in public museums, protesters CHAIN THEMSELVES TO trucks and cars not only holding up traffic causing traffic jams but also ENDANGERING HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE pedestrians.
I tried to reason and be frieend on my journey years ago people sympathetic to online rampant activism that oscar is FAR TOO KEEN TO LISTEN TO and i tell you now if you experienced WHICH CLEARLY YOU HAVE NOT WHAT I HAVE you would know – THERE IS NO SAVING THEM FROM THEIR INSANE IDEAS… you either THEM OR YOUR NOBODY to them and they will how down an condemn your view even when you TRY MAKE PEACE WITH THEM.
I tell uyou now you honestly think right wing extremism is only biggest threat>? well difference is right wing extremism thank b”H has lost it footing long ago in awards season as far as films made by extrewme racist bigots.
NOW IT TIME FOR AWARDS SEASON TO QUARANTINE AND OUST THE HARD LINE LEFTIES APOLOGISTS …they are MORE DESTRUCTIVE TO OUR CULTURAL FABRIC THERN YOU MAY REALISE.
Now as i stated before IF YOU STOP BEING LAZY AND READ MY PAST REMARKS..
CODA AND PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN are not films that derive from activist community.. by the way NOT ALL LEFTISTS ARE EXTREME LEFT RADICAL ACTIVISTS it important distinguish between the two.
Even within myself as natural course of civilisation based evolution i grown to accept appreciate hardship and challenges in our society esp given my late diagnosis ..
BUT IT WAY THE ACTIVIST GROUP EXPLOIT, DISTORY AND MISREPRESENT DISABLED, INDIGENOUS, RACE AND ENVIRONMENAL ISSUES.
How do i know they are misrepresented overrepresented? look at the failure of academy’s 15 yr long experiment overall to convert these oscar winners into memorable films who impact is felt after year their oscar win? failure to improve ratings.
THIS IS INHEERENT REASON AND DANGER OF EEAAO WINNING.
I sorry but it is to be WORST OSCAR WINNER EVER AND LAST TYPE OR CALIBRE OF SCI FI FILM WORTHY OF HONOR OF BREAKING SCI FI CURSE..
CODA was not made by what i unapologetically call : “young blowins from online activism crap any educated person can see the directors derivtive of the chaotic actvisim clash sphere hence their endless clashing of images all but drowning out nature of message u say is true at heart of film but not previaling dominate theme pple remember after start of film get lost in all chaos, and carnage it like the film ABUSES ITSELF !! just like the pattern of behaviour i witnessed and been recieving end first hand.
So be wary…for hardlt ‘distrubing’ number of my friends are more left wing but they DO NOT ESPOUSE TYPE OF WARPED SOCIETAL WORLD VIEW EEAAO DOES and other films like it.
What MOST AMUSING is that these blow ins people of ‘ the daniels’ calibre NOT TRANS, THEY NOT GAY, THEY ARE NOT BLACK and yet.. they think they in position to judge overall nature of way world is ? nu ber critics have NOT ENDORSE EEAAO INDEED fact not even some of moderate LEFT critics gorups this awards season have given EEAAO best picture outside of advocacy organisations call themselves ‘critics’ EEAAO has failed to win any individual critics awards.
And TAKE NOTE DESPITE IT HUUUGE NOMINATIONS IN BAFTA… EEAAO didnt win much major at all not mayn awards overall at that too…
So prepare yourself cos the blowback is coming i make no apology for speaking for those without fear or intimidation who afraid to speak their mind…cos i tell you now just like online, just like in my state of Victoria it radical left that wishes to make it own rules irrespective of societal MODERATE LEFT AND RIGHT sensiblities that i do respect.
last but not least CODA is one BEST MOVIES IN NEW MILLENIUM cos it done by filmmaker who WORKED with DEAF mature people and b it namesake way film played out with whopping 90% sign language given deafness is indeed most prevailing arguably disability in the world as has been for loooong time.. for a film to give voice to disabled community so sweetly, powerfully and realistically with no shortage of willingess put some really awesome humor to liven up what could been blander film, CHILD OF DEAF ADULTS wellk sorry that above and beyond what online far left activists can comprehend.
As for PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN well how can one argue against film made by INSPIRED by the haunting injustices or fact the filmmaker who herself had her OWN LIVED EXPERIENCE of that film of victim of heinous sex crime and injustice of the law and temptation to take things in her own hands..? these are LIVED EXPERIENCE NOT SOCIALIST LUNATIC FAR LEFT ACTIVISM.
I WAGER WITH YOU THIS MAJORITY OF ORGANISERS OF THESE EVENT TO DO NOT COME FROM THAT LIVED EXPERIENCE and IF they started off as protest groups doing so , then they been well and truly hijacked by the agrieved resentful demographic gfuess what? THEY ARE MOSTLY NOT BLACK, NOT GAY, NOT LGBTIQ NOT DISABLED they are organisations now that EXPLOIT ORIGINAL GOOD INTENTION OR ORIGINAL GOAL OF such organisations.
turned into a perverted contorted monstrosity ..
You would know if you had lived experience dealing with these people.
I KNOW THE LINE BETWEEN THOSE WHO HAVE ALTERNATE VIEW TO MINE THAT I WELCOME AND THOSE WHO MAKE EXCUSES FOR ROLE OF SUCH RABID OUT OF CONTROL FORCES THAT AWARDS SEAOSN HAS EMPOWERED IN LAST 15 YEARS..!!
I will NEVER tolerate the ignorant posteboy pinup of EEAAO as some sort or films of that now or in future champion of ‘pple trying be at their best’ i dont agree. i never will.
THERE IS FAR MORE DARKER EXTREME EMERGENCE OF ACTIVISM not all activism is evil or ill intended but when certain organisations dont think through or put limit as to therir cause fail to define it it inevitably GET EXPLOITED and this becomes UBER DANGEROUS for awards season to embrace.
They are on verge tking that to extreme and SELLING MOST US OUT.,
I do have more traditional leanings i proud that fact but i equally proud of fact i respect trials and tribulations of REAL PEOPLE who struggle whoare of moderate left and WHO STARTING GET VERY CONCERNED LET ME TELLL YOU NOW OF OVEREMPHATIC SINGLE ISSUE CAUSE ACTIVISM. cos it not representative truly of WHO THEY ARE!
So THINK BEFORE YOU DECALRE MY VIEW ‘DISTRUBING’ i tell you what we agree on TRUMP IS ULTRA DISTURBING I HOPE HE NVER GETS TO WHITEHOUSE I WOULD VOTE REPUBLICAN BUT IF IU WERE IN STATES WHERE VOTING NOT COMPULSORY I NOT VOTE AT ALL IF TRUMP WAS CANDIDATE!
I HOPE NOBODY SUBSCRIBES TO TRUMP SECOND PRESIDENCY but i cant stop that i not here to stop other pples views but i WILL call out what i vehemently against.. trust me mate i know i been there i SEEN IT…
There IS A COUNTER REVOLUTION by traditional moderate cross forces building behind scenes of awards seaosn…this COULD be last time Oscar go path they will for best picture until they can find their voice i be voice for them! absolutelysomeone need to stand up and damn well stick it to meglamanical stealthy online activist brigade time they PUT IN THEIR PLACE ..
do not sympathise with them or overhyp EEAAO worst excuse for oscar overdue reognition of sci fi film and big hollywood studio wont even get the honor given they produced we expreienced greatest sci fi films across last few decades that a JOKE and this decision will haunt the academy for decasdes when EEAAO breaks the mould..
I hope you find happiness and contentment in life Aaron.
lol! you are hilarious balu i wager with you i have way more contentment beyond awards season sehnanigans and internal conflict and divisive direciton and path anyday, hour or year…that pretty damn poor reply on your part..you dobetter than that..not that i care given your utter ignorance of i told you on my background..
Dear Aaron – You wrote “and you clearly not lived for last 22 years under the oppressive environment”. You also wrote – “You would know if you had lived experience dealing with these people.”
Based on what you wrote, I assumed that you had some pretty negative life experiences that made you who you are today. Obbviously, I might be wrong. I did not experience the same emotions, so I cant relate to your comments.
If you are already content and happy, super. Good for you. I wish you continued happiness in life.
“Unique, why? Because Bruckheimer is a producer who knows how to give the people what they actually WANT, not what Hollywood thinks they should want. This film was like crawling across a city in ruins and happening upon an ice cream truck where people are giving you the most delicious ice cream you’ve ever had in your life, and GODDAMN it tastes good. No one is lecturing you about anything, or trying to push you toward a point of view or tying to FIX YOU. They’re simply reaching out their hand and saying, here you go”
WOW GO SASHA !! This one most emotive rally cry for awards season gain common sense that as heartlelt as it is profound i resd on u forum in DECADES i been here.
That is MASSIVE PRAISE INDEED from your no. 1 supporter since AD inception 25 yrs ago Sasha to you and u AD staff i grnuinely gope u revognize my high praise!
look inconvenient truth whqt help me get over disappointing big time best pic wimners far too oftrn since pref ballot began .. is that….i EXPECT but by no means ACCEPT disapointment nothing but that helps to neutre how much it stung and lingered for me..
The pro activist forces that EXPLOITED oscars blimd naivety snd gullibility see their award season as you say to ‘ fix the US and worlds problems’ ( note to the guilds to the Oscars – that ONLY JOB of governmemt at all levels NOT film industry.!)..
THESE FORCES OF FAR LEFT SOCIOLOGICAL PATHOLOGICAL LURID ACTIVISM THAT OSCAR HAVE ENABLED FOR FAR TOO LOMG MAY CROW END EACH YEAR BERATE MOST US BRAGGING THEIR ‘BABY’ BEAT OUT EVERYONE ELSE BUT AS SAYING GOES:
” YOU MAY WIN LAST FEW OR NEXT – GIVE OR TAKE I PREDICT 1-2 MORE YRS OF BATTLES U WIN ( BEFORE BRUTAL BLOWBACK BY TRADITIONAL GUARD FIGHT BACK WHEN THEY CANT TAKE DESTRUCTION INTETNALLY AND EXTERNALLY OF OSCARS RELEVANCE ONCE FAR GREWTER TO US)… BUT YOU WILL LOSE THE WAR!!
SO STRAP YOURSELVES IN MY FELLOW LEGION FOLLOWERS WHO PRAY FOR OSCARS SALVATION LIBERATION FROM THIS ACTIVIST SOCIOPATHIC LUNACY OBSESSION.. OSCARS DAY OF REDEMPTION WILL COME..
WE JUST NEED TO WAIT TILL ACTIVIST FORCES ARE AT THEIR “ENDGAME “:C WHATVI DID THEIR ? WE ARE LIKE ‘ THE AVENGERS’ LIKE THRM WE ARE SAVING OURSELVES WHEN WECGALVANISE ENOUGH OF COMMOM SENSE MAJORITY CROWD WHEN WR HAVE COURAHE AND IN TIMIMG STRIKE OUT AND DEFEAT THIS QUASI SOCIALIST MULYI HEADED BEAST !! HANG IN THRIR FOLKS FOR MORE SHORT TERM DISAPPINTMENT.
THE COUNTER REVOLUTION IS COMING DERPLY TRAGIC HENCE TOP GUN MAVERICK WONT WIN PGA ACTIVISTS HAVE STRANGLEHOLD BUT IN NEXT FEW YRS THEIR GRIP IS STARTING TO SLIP.. JUST OSCAR SND GUILDS SOOO SLOW SEE WHAT SASHA I SOMEVOTHERS POINTING OUT …
Are we sure those are Sasha’a teams’ predictions and not hopedictions? Ryan having fableman winning PGA is especially baffling
On the stats front, we have “three” viable options for the PGA win:
1) Everything Everywhere All at Once: DGA winner, no critical Oscar snubs
2) The Banshees of Inisherin: Screenplay frontrunner, no critical Oscar snubs.
3) TÁR: Acting frontrunner, no critical Oscar snubs.
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4) The Fabelmans: missed BAFTA Best Film, missed Editing.
5) Top Gun: Maverick: missed BAFTA Best Film, missed Directing, Acting.
still, there are elements that make TGM the most likely winner here.
1) Arguably the PGA’s wet dream: to turn an iconic but almost forgotten IP from more than 30 years ago, into the b.o. story of the year, plus earning raves all around and universal acclaim on all fronts.
2) A golden chance to reward not only Tom Cruise – who’s getting a career award also, this year – but Jerry Bruckheimer, who has earned so many billions to the industry – with arguably way lesser films.
3) The call back to another time, the age of practical effects, practical stunts, and specially the theatre experience. Producers are inherently interested in supporting the theatre business, as the Black Widow Disney+ debacle showed. A film that is designed for IMAX or 3D will earn more sympathies here than a movie that could be perfectly and almost equally enjoyed at a streaming service, like, say, The Whale, The Banshees of Inisherin or Tár. Even EEAAO.
4) Avatar 2 probably isn’t a competition to TGM as it could be the actual end of the franchise – who am I kidding, probably not, but sequel isn’t announced yet! – while we have at least 3 more Avatars in production or pre-production
So, you give me stats. However, logic says it’s TGM and then next in line, EEAAO… can anything else win? Sure. But it would be kind of surprising. If EEAAO wins this and Quan and the Ensemble win SAG, it’s game over. Will be a question of how many EEAAO will win at Oscars… Picture + S. Actor + Film Editing probably in the worst of the cases, but great shot at Director + Actress + S. Actress (just look at JLC’s campaign, specially aimed to Oscar, she doesn’t care about any other award) + Original Screenplay + Costume… I think it can win up to 8, if the EEAAO fever continues.
I don’t really see why people are high on Top Gun here. Lets review:
(1) Top Gun hasn’t won a single major award this season. No Globe wins. No BAFTA wins. No CCA wins, besides Cinematography (not even up for Oscar).
(2) Yes, it’s the #1 grossing film of 2022. Although Avatar, might take that crown. But that’s not the objective of the award. It’s a Best Picture prize. It’s the producers favorite film of the year. I think people view the film as “fun” and “exciting”.
(3) The PGA and DGA typically align with each other. 12 out of the last 15 years. This is indeed EEAAO for the taking. The “weirdness” factor doesn’t seem to be hurting it this awards season. People have EEAAO at the top of their ballots.
(4) What precedent does Top Gun have? Look at the past winners of the award. What previous winner can you point to?
what an uninspiring selection and year. Western Front should have been here. I blame Netflix
Spot on NETFLIX are like a pseudo online dictator their way or the highway they try control and i convinced bribe and blsckmail their producers who express interst working with them.
They are miled worse than their competitors as amazing as all quiet on western front id i acknowledge as i said before that given it actual account from war veteran related to their generation who served on the front i cant remrmber backgriund exactly… but there oveeall us far MORE worrying trend:
THE ORIGINAL WON BEST PICTURE decades ago while it told from german perdpective it still SAME battle same scenario same setting. Is HOLLYWOODS OSCARS qutomatically buying into retelling oc same stories that won best picture been nominated before ?
West Side Story is exceotion last year but this is emergibg triuing trend very much so.. remakes or retelling are gonba qualify as oscar contenders from niw on?
German perspective regaedless u can make case all quiet this year jyst altered perspective more crddibke may be but we seen story before in original.
We seen anti war film genre play out ad nauseum before frankly oscar lowering bat too much for remskes ..i suppose so prrfivtably the UNECESSARY REMAKE of The Color Purple be a favourite cos it speaks to resonates with blacks ?
No the NOT a reasob that remake be favoured contender.. a number people would absolutely cringe at idea of ANOTHET color purple being made is it being made to curry favour with minorities ? Or is it sincere deeper telliing of some regard as Spielbergs best film in msny ways ? I dont some do… suddenly 11 oscar niminated snubbed films become big player jjst cos directed by black filmmaker so somehow that makes it rocket to likely fsbouritism ?
Give me a break it really shows how harsh academy and brutal unjhstifiably against fresh new genres thry snubbed ad nauseum and simultaneoisly will EXCUSE remakes retelling whatever u want to calk thrm from same hardline rule ?
Oscar even nominating remskes only proves how bereft of fresh ideas and vision in other films many likely be BETTER thsn next years ‘ color purple’ Oscar choose to be.
It a crurl joke and big middle finger to their own history ti put so much stovk in remskes retelling.
I do maintain ” all quiet ” be worrthy upset winber for best pic this year but honestly ? Rrgardless of shift in perspective just cos it german perspective with more crdibility thsn originsl telling honestly is oscar going doen the dreaded path of trying reweite it own history ?
First All quiet won best picture plenty pple wuestion logic and what oscar believe in if all quiet wibs best picture..again ??
Here a i dea is anyone in oacars STUPID ENOUGH to gice oscar nominations to remake of The Dark Knight or heaven forbid ” the Godfather ” or ” sound of music ” just cos it directed by foreign filmmsker ?
It a valid question MUST be debated Oscar choose forget their precedent and past histoty at THEIR PERIL.
Biggest problem if all hear is netflix Refuse to allow film of this calibre on big screen…. so how fuk can we have some proper input ub how brilliant this new iteration all quiet realky is ?
I hope we wll should nect year ‘colir purple” remake does NOT getsny major oscar noms certwinly not best pic nomination. Besides if oscar play their cards right nect yrs oscar be too crowded for a remake .
If argument pple make next years color purple remske is ” oh cos it directed by black filmmaker ” lordvhelp us all and what then if only ( likely ) at best ALMOST as good as originsl ? NO RESPECT OSCAR HAVE FOR THEIR OWN HISTORY ZIP! THRY BETTER BLOODY CGANGE THAT
TÁR at Berlinale.. 🙂
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I’d say that the only winners that actually make sense are TGM, EEAAO and Avatar 2, for PGA. Anything else would surprise me.
I think Top Gun Maverick owns this, as well. Still, EEAAO is the rightful PGA story of the year, and we shouldn’t understimate that not only the Daniels, but also the Russos are producing the film… and the Russos have earned Hollywood billions and billions of b.o. returns (plus video sales and merchandising)… so basically Top Gun: Maverick may even be an upset rather than the natural frontrunner.
EDITED: The deciding factor is, if given that PGA is giving Tom Cruise a special award this year, would make them free to go to anything else, or they would like to double crown him (as Bruckheimer is also a producer of the film!)… I have the feeling that they are going to go for gold rather than for risk.
Jeee sus! Mate u climbing amongst my favoueites here esp extrnt u praise TGM i didnt expect HOWEVER NOTE HOLLYWOOD HYPOCRISY AFTER the Russos produced the BIGGEST post ROTK cinema ‘ infinity war trilogy ‘ we almost call it to fail to award Russo brothers fir Endgame a truly momentous unforgettwble astonishinh ulyimate pop culture masterpiece and ONLY aftrr thus far the Russos get totally unforhivably Snubbed with Endgame now the pga are gonna OVERXOMLENSATE thrm for much lessrr memorable film that history shows alrrwady is NOT Russos best produced work ? Same i owe u story it INEXCUSABLE awarding russos now too late compensate fir snubing ENDGAME easily reflexted in my recent chart in top 10 in last 23 yrs NO QUESTION ! HIGH FARCE this is part of problem of oscars clearly in order fix this i owe u habit rhry need fix more pressing priblems like pref ballot listening to enabling empoweribg overepresenting the activist voices etc
By way everyone example outrageous cinema that is looking back masterpiece in comedy is delightful mischievous high farce of ‘ rat race’ absolute gem cos writters filmmaker one only jerry zucker do film on instinct resulting in some most farcical outrqgeous politically jncorrect moments that been uncomfortsnly absent in comedy in cinema for long time. No cynicism just outlandish hilarious fun and farce and boy one best casts rver assembledcfor a comedy too rat race will wnter my sooon be updated list looking like a “60 in 40 ” list cominh up ..loking back what we love is like our anaesthetic to relieve us from disaapointmrnt to come this year …
Just as a snapshot i genuinely believe most you who post here…. “are SENSIBLE bigger picture go see films cos u love em not cos u value their moralising ” type film goers …
Represent the FORGOTTEN people in awards season.. dont forget as Sasha points out there PLENTY of producers and filmmakers who believe what we do. BRUCKHEIMER IS JUST tip of iceberg there… they believe what we do.. we still waiting oraying oscar and guilds come to OUR majority party sooner rather than ltr ey?
I was taking care of something for work and drove past an AMC multiplex slated for closing and then a Regal that just closed and all I could think was “thank god Top Gun saved theaters”
Here here you rule ( some reasob i was thinking in what i was saying ” o doyle rules” from billy madison lol but that just would not stick on awards seasom to quote line ftom billy madison ey?)
I have to ask this in all seriousness, are you an AI bot writing words at random?
I doubt AI bots capable wriring wirh insight depth and length i do mate hard take u suggestion seriously
Well, they should have made the sequel sooner so by now we could be praising Top Gun X or 11 for the Oscars.
Seriously though, the loss of jobs is really sad but that’s the reality (That I see at least which is no longer the future, it’s now). Theaters have gone the way of records & other that things some old fashioned fans can’t let go of and believe are “sacred” things we need to protect against ruthless / clueless youth and their advanced fads (aka technology / progress).
The guilds have one final chance to redeem themselves. Break away from the relentless inevitability of the f’n Danielses and give it to Way of Water. It is appalling that once more, the wrong and undeserving movie, an independent movie, again, is going to ace out the uncrowned best picture.
Assuming of course you think that not giving an award to an independent film that showcases intelligence, wit, and the mastery of how to use a limited budget to the fullest extent would be a “redemption” and not “a celebration of why people love movies to begin with” lol
What does it being an independent film have to do with its artistic merits?
It’s that when the Academy gets down to brass tacks in voting for BP nominees and the winner, they’ll go with the indie film first. They’ll rationalize it by saying that a mainstream blockbuster with fans and critics; the money is the reward. If only that were 100% true.
That’s nonsense. Studio films have always had the advantage at the Academy Awards; it’s only recently that independent films have even been able to get into the conversation regularly.
The PGA has announced its starry lineup of presenters, and they include:
Angela Bassett, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, Austin Butler, Billy Eichner, Bob Odenkirk, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Danielle Deadwyler, Dave Burd, Diego Luna, Eugenio Derbez, Hannah Einbinder, Hong Chau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jay Ellis, Kate Hudson, Ke Huy Quan, Kerry Condon, Leslie Odom, Jr., Michelle Williams, Michelle Yeoh, Mo Amer, Monica Barbaro, Nicole Byer, Paul Dano, Robert Rodriguez, Ron Howard, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sandra Oh, Sherry Lansing, and Stephanie Hsu.
And don’t forget: The PGA is presenting its Stanley Kramer Award, which salutes films that deal with social issues, to ”Till,” and its David O. Selznick Award, for a lifetime of work, to Tom Cruise!
(GoldDerby.com will host a PGA podcast, Sat., Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m., as winners are announced.)
TGM is far from a perfect film, and I still don’t see why the sequel to a well known action film making lots of money is surprising and unexpected. That sort of thing happens a lot.
Btw, why aren’t the Russo brothers nominated for Best Picture? Shouldn’t they be?
marginally off topic… HISHE Avatar: The Way of Water is out on youtube and it’s hilarious, and clearly explains why Avatar 2 isn’t an Adapted Screenplay nominee and makes kind of a questionable pick for Best Picture…
also, Ant Man 3 Pitch Meeting is up… I have to say, Pitch Meeting, How it Should have Ended and Honest Trailers are my 3 musts after I see a successful movie, always worth some laughs, regardless your opinion on the film in question.
Fave? Wonder Woman 1984 Pitch Meeting. Laughed so hard…
Lol I’ll check it out
The 2022 Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts (AACTA) International Awards Winners:
Best Film: Avatar: The Way of Water
Best Director: Baz Luhrmann, Elvis
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, TÁR
Best Actor: Austin Butler, Elvis
Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
AACTA International Awards: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ wins Best Picture https://www.goldderby.Com/article/2023/aacta-international-awards-avatar-the-way-of-water
Here’s a clickable link
https://www.goldderby.com/article/2023/aacta-international-awards-avatar-the-way-of-water/
I am here for a Top Gun PGA win.
isn’t this the first time there was a preferential ballot (who can keep track!) so maybe there will be a surprise.
I was under the impression that since the Oscars and the PGA expanded the field of their Best Picture nominees (up to 10) in 2010, they’ve been using the preferential ballot.
I;m sorry. I meant this year.
It will probably go to EEOAO.
How Top Gun ; Maverick shocked the world ! Just wait and see what Cocaine Bear does this weekend !! Top gun is not America any more !
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