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Oscars 2024
Omg it's 20 minutes until the ceremony. I prioritized watching my tenth best picture nominee, The Zone of Interest, over leaving time to write up reactions and make my picks (not predictions). List below copied from The New York Times.
Best Picture
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Oscars 2023
Here I am in front of the red carpet telecast again, 2.5 hours before the ceremony. I caught all 10 best picture nominees, but I have a few gaps in the acting categories I would have liked to have filled had the work demands of the last month been less intense. Let me find someone's awards nomination list to cut and paste into this post so I can ( Read more... ) -
It's Oscar Day again! 2022 picks.
Here we are again! I did well watching movies this year and have seen 25 films, accounting for 78% of the 32 films nominated outside of the short, documentary, and international film categories, and 92% of the 99 nominations. I have seen all the nominees in all these categories except best animated feature, costume design, makeup and hairstyling, ( Read more... ) -
Oscar Day picks--2021
Oscar Day is one of my three favorite holidays. I got a late start watching films in this pandemic year. Oddly, I have seen 0 of 5 films in the Visual Effects category, which is usually easy because it's stocked with the big event blockbusters. Today I've seen none of them. When the nomimations were announced--indeed even two weeks ago--I had only ( Read more... ) -
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1953)
Onwards I plod towards the completion of this blog series on the Universal Classic Horror films, started in 2008. This third "Abbot and Costello meet the monsters" installment is perhaps the most simple, primitive installment so far--and also I think it is my favorite.
Compared to MEET FRANKESTEIN (1948) and MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN (1951), the ( Read more... ) -
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN (1951)
Ten years! It's been 10 years almost to the day since the last entry in my Universal Classic Horror blog series. According to a list, available then but now gone from Wikipedia, there are 51 films in the classic Universal Horror film series, starting with THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1921) and ending with THE MOLE PEOPLE (1956). I watched and ( Read more... ) -
Oscar Picks 2019
The telecast starts at 6 PST. I have now seen 16 of the nominated films (51%) including all eight best picture nominees, accounting for 71% of the nominations (not counting short films, documentaries, or foreign films unless they are nominated in other categories, as four of them are). Here are my thoughts:
Best Picture
Black Panther ( Read more... ) -
Oscar films by number of nominations
This is a list of films nominated for Oscar by number of nominations. When I make these lists, I omit films nominated in the categories of Live Action Short, Animated Short Film, Best Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, and Foreign Language Film unless the films are also nominated in a another (non-omitted) category. Of which there are three ( Read more... ) -
Oscar Nominees 2019
Here are the nominations for the Oscars tomorrow. So far, I've seen 14 films, including 7 of 8 of the Best Picture nominees.
Best Picture
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star Is Born
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GREEN BOOK (2018)
I just saw GREEN BOOK, which was a lot more entertaining than I expected. Hell of an entertaining picture. I'm very impressed by Viggo Mortensen (especially, since it's a star turn for him, but also Mahershala Ali). But... it's also a parable about how white racists are not so bad, they're also cuddly and misunderstood and capable of learning (at ( Read more... )