Here is the newly released promo video:
“What if an awards show was actually a movie?” Hey, check out that history making Halle Berry. Hm.
https://youtu.be/Q9IPCxxcsYA
LOS ANGELES, CA – Show producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh today announced the ensemble cast to present at the 93rd Oscars®, which airs live on ABC on Sunday, April 25, at 8 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. PDT.
Starring, in alphabetical order, are Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Bong Joon Ho, Don Cheadle, Bryan Cranston,Laura Dern, Harrison Ford, Regina King, Marlee Matlin, Rita Moreno, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, Renée Zellweger and Zendaya.
“In keeping with our awards-show-as-a-movie approach, we’ve assembled a truly stellar cast of stars,” said Collins, Sher and Soderbergh. “There’s so much wattage here, sunglasses may be required.”
Additional talent joining the show to be announced.
The 93rd Oscars will be held on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby® Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and international locations via satellite, and will be televised live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
I apologize in advance for posting this in as many different places as possible, for obvious reasons! It’s easy to skip over, anyway, once voted.
Hey, guys! It’s that time again… 🙂 On the eve of the opening of Oscar voting this year, all who have seen each of the eight Best Picture nominees at the Oscars this year (or, at the very least, all but Mank – which, unfortunately, clearly has no shot at winning either here or at the Oscars – and maybe Judas and the Black Messiah – which probably also hasn’t got much of a chance, although this is less clear) are warmly invited to post their ranked ballots (personal order of preference, of course, not winning chances) in reply to this comment (to facilitate tabulation at the end), for the 10th Annual Best Picture Preferential Ballot Simulation I will have run – with many thanks, of course!…
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I plan on seeing both The Father & Judas and the Black Messiah in time to vote for this myself, for a change. (Or at least the former – time is genuinely a consideration for me this year, there’s a lot going on precisely in these final few weeks before the Oscars. I couldn’t quite manage to see everything of relevance in time the last two years – in those cases, due to some things not quite being out/available in my part of the world yet -, hence I didn’t get to vote. It will be nice to get to do that again.) I’m probably going to keep voting open until Monday or Tuesday, which coincidentally is roughly equivalent to the Oscar voting period. I usually do this right after BAFTA but, even so, this has never quite happened before. Anyway, my current ranking is:
1. Promising Young Woman
2. Nomadland
3. Mank
4. The Trial of the Chicago 7
5. Sound of Metal
6. Minari
The most interesting thing about this simulation, as past contributors will remember, is that there is now a running seven-year streak (arguably eight, as Silver Linings Playbook didn’t necessarily do worse than Argo’s other challengers in 2013 at the Oscars) of the likely runner-up for Best Picture at the Oscars finishing either in second or virtually tied for second place in this as well. (Details below. As can be seen, the Oscar-winner has come in first before, three times. But never in second – 0/9…) The beginning of this streak coincides with the year I started holding these simulations at both Awards Daily and on the old IMDb Message Boards. (The first two years I only collected votes at IMDb.) Obviously, this year looks like the most locked-in one (in Best Picture) since at least the Argo year. Personally, I don’t quite consider either that or Nomadland locks – like The Artist or The King’s Speech, for example -, but both were mighty close, despite their two respective stats-relevant misses (Argo, being snubbed for directing, Nomadland, not getting either the ensemble mention or at least two acting nominations at SAG, a tally which only Braveheart could not match or trump, out of all of the SAG era Oscar Best Picture winners). So, I would say it’s still not 100% clear that Nomadland will win (and we’ve certainly been given plenty of reasons to almost always doubt the front-runner the last 6-7 years) and it might help to know which movie is not likely to upset it (as per this stat about coming in second place in this simulation), plus it’s always nice to get a clearer picture about what you guys all think are the best of the nominees. 🙂
The history:
2011 The Social Network —– details not saved (second place was Black Swan, I believe)
2012 – not held –
2013 Zero Dark Thirty ——— 37-24 over Silver Linings Playbook
2014 Her ————————– 33-33 tied with Gravity, won 19-18 on total first place votes
2015 Birdman ——————– 62-61 over Boyhood
2016 Mad Max: Fury Road — 51-37 over The Revenant
2017 Moonlight —————— 41-32 over La La Land
2018 Phantom Thread ——— 39-33 over Call Me By Your Name *
2019 The Favourite ————- 45-30 over Roma
2020 Parasite ——————- 46-14 over The Irishman *
* Three Billboards was tied with Call Me By Your Name at the moment when one had to be eliminated in third place (on tiebreaks). 1917 was three votes behind The Irishman when Parasite reached 50%+1 of the votes, but was ranked ahead of The Irishman on just as many ballots as not (30-30), so it, too, was extremely close to coming in second place. (Only Parasite’s utter domination – the most crushing win ever seen in one of these -, which took away most of the ballots, probably prevented it from at least tying for second.
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just saw “Two Distant Strangers” on Netflix (A-, *****) and it seems to be kind of the logical choice for Short Film Live Action, given the zeitgeist and the trial taking place during voting time. Still… I can see plenty of AMPAS members rejecting completely this piece of art, for the portrayal of the police. I see what the filmmaker did, and why, and I understand and endorse it, but I think this film can be easily misunderstood as pure anti-blue or anti-white hate speech (which isn’t). I would like to see it win, but I have serious doubts it will (so far, I bet it will)
Also, off topic, but it can have collateral damage in the movie industry… the PlayStore-gate can really damage Sony (I don’t know who is aware of what’s going on, but it will definitively have shock-waves in the movie industry). To summarize, Sony is closing the PlayStore for PS3, PSP and PSP-Vita, which is translated that digital games (and DLC) won’t be supported anymore for those consoles… however, it is even worse. Those who have already downloaded their digital games, won’t be able to delete them as they won’t be able to reload them in the future, PLUS, when the inner clock battery of the console runs out, even the downloaded games won’t be able to be played as they need the confirmation of the PlayStore, if they inner clock isn’t working. But it is even worse, as today I found out that PS4 has this problem but multiplied, because it also calls the PlayStore for the disc games, and when in the future Sony would close PS4 PlayStore as well, it won’t allow owners to play their own videogames anymore. Unconfirmed if this planned obsolescence is also working on PS5, but certainly sales of PS5 will drop, logically, adding salt to the injury of the lack of production because of Covid19. This will damage inmensely the corporation who was already eager to sell the movie/tv section (Marvel is probably eager to receive Spider-Man rights for free or a minimal pay) but it also issues a warning on audiences buying entertainment online as digital, with questions of what could stop being playable in the future under which conditions. This is just starting this days, so right now it is unpredictable which moves are corporations – and governments – going to make, but it is expected that users will be sueing Sony for transforming the consoles they bought… into bricks.
Google it up, there are plenty of news articles and youtube videos explaining the problem – way better than I could do.
When I had visited the Dolby Theatre for a tour the tour guide had said that the Academy spends $3.5 million on the Awards gala and the income is $5 million from broadcast fees. No wonder they wanted a live show. A lot is at stake. Last year 23.6 million viewers tuned into the awards ceremony. This year it may be 15 million viewers given what has been happening with the other awards shows. That would be almost half the viewership from two years ago. ABC will do well to get 20 million viewers.
I think Soderbergh realizes if this audience drops below 10 million, ABC will have little option but to renegotiate their TV deal with AMPAS to terms more favorable to the network. How much longer can ABC sit there and see the ratings for their flagship entertainment annual event in freefall faster than Rudy Colludy’s hair dye goo that trickled down his face? 😀
Man really believes Disney is running away from the Oscars following their first Best Picture win non-attached to Harvey Weinstein in history?
It WAS a FFS movie (former Fox Searchlight) first
All they need now is Clint, Stallone, Arnold s and Tom cruise as presenters than it really be a real oscar we cant refuse
They should have all the presenters be from Marvel movies* and in fact the show can be designed like a gigantic comic book. They want people to tune in, yes?
*Except maybe also Daniel Craig in his role from Knives Out. And keep Zendaya.
So instead of making an actual movie trailer OR allowing the public to choose the presenters (which would at least drive some engagement) they come out with this drivel? Just a list of names… Someone fire the Academy’s marketing team and agency.
is this a parody?
Nope, it’s legit. Deadline confirmed it. 15 presenters. That’s all.
Doesn’t the “And More” imply more than just these
More is a rap group that will perform the 5 nominated songs.
nope it says more to come lmao