Oscars 2024

JP Liz V1

Jimmy Kimmel is back as host for the 96th Academy Awards in March

With both the Golden Globe nominations and Critics Choice nominations out the big hitters are Killers of the Flower Moon, Barbie, Oppenheimer and Poor Things

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/golden-globes-nominations-list-nominees-2024-1235831576/

https://variety.com/2023/film/awards/critics-choice-nominations-2024-full-list-barbie-1235835620/

MfMan

Will Cillian Murphy become the first man born in Ireland to win a Best Actor Oscar? Is Carey Mulligan good odds for Best Actress? Will a relative outsider like 'Everything Everywhere...' come with a late run?

pixelburp

Woulds Carey Mulligan be the first Oscar Winner to have starred in Doctor Who?

Electric Nitwit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121518856#Comment_121518856

😉.

JP Liz V1

The Globes are tonight and Cillian seems favourite to beat Leo for drama actor

Emma Stone a favourite contender for drama actress

Agent Coulson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121518856#Comment_121518856

Dr Who himself Peter Capaldi is an Oscar winner.

MisterAnarchy

Oppenheimer looks set to clean up, best actor, best supporting actor, best adapted screenplay, best director and best picture.

bnt

Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph took the top Golden Globes for The Holdovers, so I'd say both are in contention for Oscars this year. Giamatti and director Alexander Payne are a potent combination, though I can't believe Sideways was released twenty years ago this year. (Payne won for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2005.)

FortuneChip

It didn't look like there was a single shock/upset in the Globes last night.

TV awards (to best of my knowledge) all went to the right place. Equally, the main movie awards all looked deserved.

A part of me would have loved Ebon Moss-Bachrach to nab supporting actor for his superb Forks episode in The Bear, but my head knows Tom Wambsgans was the right pick. If they split it the way they split Lead Actor/Actress by category I'm sure he'd have gotten it.

MfMan

Where is the surprise (if any) going to come on Oscars night? Could 'our own' Cillian be yet pipped at the post? Lily Gladstone is favourite in the Best Actress slot but it's a strong field, with Carey Mulligan, Emma Stone and Annette Bening (well 'overdue') all in with a shout. Maybe here is the most wide-open sector.

JP Liz V1

Well Barbie won the new GG category no surprise as it was the biggest film of the year

No Cecil B DeMille special award at the GG

Oppenheimer has to be the Oscar favourite for picture and director and I'm hoping best actor for Cillian

MisterAnarchy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121586991#Comment_121586991

Its hot favourite for Best Picture, director, actor, supporting actor and adapted screenplay.

Caquas

I don’t know if the GGs will survive their re-invention or if they are a reliable guide to the Oscars but Cillian Murphy richly deserved his award and must be favourite for the Oscars. He carried a three hour movie which spent most of its time in lecture halls and Committee rooms. Such intensity!

The Oscars have been tarnished in recent years but they still elevates the winners to a special category in the industry. I think Cillian Murphy has true greatness in his future. Anyone making a biopic or a gangster movie (or both - John Gotti!) should have him top of their list for male lead.

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121586991#Comment_121586991

I didn't really enjoy Barbie or Oppenheimer.

I think I've normal taste in film. For Oppenheimer I was bored towards the end, shifting around in my seat.

I thought Barbie wasn't funny or interesting.

JP Liz V1

SAG Nominations

https://tvline.com/awards/sag-awards-nominations-2024-full-list-nominees-1235110668

JP Liz V1

Critics Choice awards tonight

JP Liz V1

Emma Stone and Paul Giamatti won best actress and best actor at The Critics Choice Awards, front runners now presumably for taking the same at Oscars

JP Liz V1

Sandra Hüller scored double nominations with BAFTA could she also with Oscars

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121637336#Comment_121637336

Such a shame France didn’t put Anatomy of a Fall up for best foreign film.

JP Liz V1

Nominations Out

Best Actor

• Bradley Cooper, "Maestro"
• Colman Domingo, "Rustin"
• Paul Giamatti, "The Holdovers"
• Cillian Murphy, "Oppenheimer"
• Jeffrey Wright, "American Fiction"
• 
  

Best Actress

• Annette Bening, "Nyad"
• Lily Gladstone, "Killers of the Flower Moon"
• Sandra Hüller, "Anatomy of a Fall"
• Carey Mulligan, "Maestro"
• Emma Stone, "Poor Things"
• 
  

Best Director

• Justine Triet, "Anatomy of a Fall"
• Martin Scorsese, "Killers of the Flower Moon"
• Christopher Nolan, "Oppenheimer"
• Yorgos Lanthimos, "Poor Things"
• Jonathan Glazer, "The Zone of Interest"

JP Liz V1

Best Picture

• "American Fiction"
• "Anatomy of a Fall"
• "Barbie"
• "The Holdovers"
• "Killers of the Flower Moon"
• "Maestro"
• "Oppenheimer"
• "Past Lives"
• "Poor Things"
• "The Zone of Interest"

JP Liz V1

Best Supporting Actor

• Sterling K. Brown, "American Fiction"
• Robert De Niro, "Killers of the Flower Moon"
• Robert Downey Jr., "Oppenheimer"
• Ryan Gosling, "Barbie"
• Mark Ruffalo, "Poor Things"
• 
  

Best Supporting Actress

• Emily Blunt, "Oppenheimer"
• Danielle Brooks, "The Color Purple"
• America Ferrera, "Barbie"
• Jodie Foster, "Nyad"
• Da'Vine Joy Randolph, "The Holdovers"

Agent Coulson

Greta and Margot not getting nominations continues to show what a joke the Oscars have turned into over the last 20 years or so.

~Rebel~

I can kinda understand the Margot Robbie one... while it's a really good performance, the playfulness and whimsy of the role was always gonna count against her - especially when viewed in comparison to the grounded grit and raw emotion of Sandra Hüller's performance, who is far and away the best of anyone in the category for me this year. I'd still have picked Margot ahead of one or two others, but I get it. (feel at least one of Portman or Moore deserved a nomination for May December too, but it seems they weren't even in the running)

Greta Gerwig not getting a nomination is a total misstep though. Hoping Justine Triet gets that one, as unlikely as that is since she's lower profile, it's just the best directing performance of the lot (and would be my Best Picture winner as well).

JP Liz V1

I was sure the director category had increased nominees but 5 seems to be the max even though 10 best picture nominees

MfMan

Nothing at all for Saltburn either, and with Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal also absent, it's a cold enough house ultimately for Irish thespians.

JP Liz V1

Element Pictures is behind Poor Things

johnny_ultimate

TBH the best actress category is pretty stacked, so can’t really begrudge any exclusions there. I haven’t seen Nyad granted, but Gladstone, Stone and Hüller all give remarkable performances, and even in the so-so Maestro Mulligan is the best thing in it by far. I’d give it to Gladstone as I think her performance is an all-timer, but it’s one of the better selections out of this year’s categories.

Ditto director - all exceptional filmmakers there, and while you could list a dozen ‘snubs’ - in a just world, Miyazaki would be the runaway favourite - it’s five rock solid (if fairly predictable) choices. Jonathan Glazer for me is the only one who made a true knockout film - and Zone of Interest is the best of the Best Pictures nominee too - but again all decent choices, even with several dozen excellent films not making the cut.

The absence of May December in the big categories is bizarre though. Charles Melton at the very least should have been guaranteed a nomination.

expectationlost

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121661324#Comment_121661324

who would remove from the nominees?

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121660869#Comment_121660869

I didn't particularly like Barbie, Oppenheimer or The Holdovers.

I didn't find Barbie funny or insightful.

Oppenheimer started well but really dragged

I got bored of The Holdovers and turned it off after an hour.

Margot Robbie's a fantastic actor though and her day will come. I guess she has to choose her roles more wisely.

Man Vs ManUre

Was the deepest breath not in the running for best documentary?? Surprised not to see it there.

Agent Coulson

Penelope Cruz also unlucky not to get a nomination.

Thought Pugh was better than Blunt as well. No love for saltburnt anyway

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121661518#Comment_121661518

Thank god. Anything with mescal is odious and boring.

All about Murphy.

Electric Nitwit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121661824#Comment_121661824

Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer reminds me of Michelle Williams in Manchester By The Sea - not that much screentime at all, but one brilliant scene that sticks with you

Agent Coulson

To be fair it would be quite funny if it was Ken who won the Oscar for Barbie.

bucketybuck

I have no idea whatsoever why it would be a shock that Gerwig or Robbie missed out on nominations.

Take the pink tinted glasses off and the simple fact is that there wasn't really anything great about the movie or her performance. It was good, sure, but it would be a very weak year if that was considered the best of the lot.

There will be fake outrage that "women" are being overlooked but come on, it was the event that made Barbie, not the movie itself.

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121662673#Comment_121662673

The movie was excellently directed though, with a far more unique approach to the story than anyone expected. I can understand the performance being overlooked for sure, but as a director she really nailed it. The world building, the timing and pacing, the consistency of all the performances, the balance of tone - all the stuff you look from in a director, she got just right. And of course got brilliant responses across the board from fans and critics alike (aside from a very very small but vocal minority). I wouldn't have had her as the winner, but i'd have her execution above one or two others that got nominated.

I haven't seen Zone of Interest yet, and i really like Glazer's work usually so that might well change my mind - but until I see that, it's Justine Triet by a distance over the other names for me.

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121662624#Comment_121662624

Could do for song

CastorTroy

Haven't seen Barbie yet buy I'm sure the only reason their lack of nomination is making the news is because more have seen that film than the others in the actress category. Like there are 10 nominees for best film so would assume best actress and director would mostly come from those, yet no word about the other films on that list not being nominated for actor/actress/director.

Although it probably won't win, happy to see Nimona get nominated for animation.

Didn't see it listed but thought they were doing a popular film category this year.

pixelburp

It's a not always untrue rule-of-thumb that the Oscar generally ignore Comedy or Horror with the big prizes; not that surprised Robbie or Gerwig were ignored 'cos they only headlined a "comedy" film.

johnny_ultimate

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121663772#Comment_121663772

It's worth remembering Poor Things is very much a comedy as well so if anything comedic performances are very well represented this year, between Stone, Ruffalo and Gosling. The latter two particularly are as big and broad comedic performances as you're likely to get.

I'm a big Gerwig fan and thought Barbie was a delight. I certainly would welcome a nomination for her - but again it was a packed best director race so there's always going to be absences. And in the best actress category as great a job as Robbie does, she's no more deserving of a nomination than Natalie Portman, Greta Lee or Cailee Spaeny were IMO. The film has also always battled with the irony that in such a woman-led film the most standout, crowd-pleasing performance was actually from a man.

Man Vs ManUre

I haven’t seen Maestro and have only heard bad things about it, and based on that I would say that DiCaprio should have been nominated instead of Cooper. Now Flower Moon isn’t his best acting performance (don’t think he will ever top Wolf of Wall Street) but he was very solid as always in it.

Jack Daw

I haven't seen the Barbie film but I've heard enough about it and the themes involved to get the jist of it. If Ryan Gosling getting nominated and 2 women not getting nominations recreates the apparent theme of the movie, the sense of entitlement people have been showing in their reaction to Gerwig and Robbie not getting nominated seems to sum up modern feminism perfectly.

murpho999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121665015#Comment_121665015

You don't think he topped Wolf of Wall St with The Revenant that he won his Oscar for?

FortuneChip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121665550#Comment_121665550

Some of the Twitter narrative reads as if Gosling was nominated at the expense of Robbie. "I mean, she literally plays the title role... but Ken gets nominated" 🙄 (Do not watch The Dark Knight, or I, Tonya, The Fighter, hell even Jerry Maguire).

The movie was a massive cultural hit, it returned an insane box office, and it's nominated for EIGHT Oscars.

It's not Margot Robbie's best work. It's not Greta Gerwig's best work. There's not some conspiracy denying them their nominations. Best Actress is particularly strong too.

Man Vs ManUre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121665708#Comment_121665708

The revenant was great and so was his performance in it. And he deserved to win the Oscar for it. But he should have won it few years earlier for WOWS instead of Matthew McConaghy in Dallas Buyers Club. That performance in WOWS is better than the revenant in my opinion.

Jack Daw

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121665765#Comment_121665765

Dallas Buyers Club was typical Oscar bait.Worthy although fairly boring film with an actor performing a role against type involving a physical transformation for the role.

I'd argue McConaughey if he did deserve an Oscar ever it was for Killer Joe which was an incredible film and performance by him. It was a movie that was so alive and fresh.

murpho999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121665765#Comment_121665765

Mmm, I think McConnaughy was a worth winner and WOWS was not as good a performance by Leo.

Anyhow, hard to take your complaint about Cooper being nominated ahead of him if you haven't seen his performance in the film.

Man Vs ManUre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121666169#Comment_121666169

Well Maestro is an absolute turd of a film from what I’ve heard so I won’t be watching it. KOTFM is a great epic film similar to there will be blood and assassination of jj, with 3 great performances. Anyway I can see why he didn’t get nominated for it as his character is just a stooge to De Niro and it’s not a showy role like DDL in there will be blood.

I prefer the revenant as a film over WOWS but the performance in WOWS is better.

MfMan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121665015#Comment_121665015

If Cooper played a corpse in Maestro he'd still be a better actor than LDC.