Academy Awards (Oscars 2022)

If I remember correctly, Golden Globes winners were strong candidates for Oscar nominations but not necessarily Oscar wins.

I thought I read somewhere that Nightmare Alley was tipped for some. Strange not seeing it listed at all in the Globes winners. Maybe it wasn't eligible to apply

Nominations aren't out yet!

You hold it against Colman that she was opted for selection in lead role in a film revolving around Queen Anne where she in fact played Queen Anne?? Weisz already the recipient of an Oscar so not really a big deal and I'm sure some people would contest she herself stole it from Michelle Williams that year ha.

They selected Regina King in the category Weisz was actually nominated in then. Competent performance in a bang average movie but probably just the tonic the year directly after the whole hashtag Oscarssowhite business.

Jessie Buckley for Best Supporting Actress and "Careen Hinds" for Best Supporting Actor. Not bad for Ireland! Van Morrison also nominated for Best Original Song, and a slew of noms for Belfast in general. Saw it the other day, really enjoyed it!

Lovely to see Penelope Cruz getting a nom well deserved she is terrific in Parallel Mothers.

Ciaran Hinds well deserved a lovely humble fella and a proper character actor.

Can’t believe Denzel got nominated for that awful MacBeth film.

I was really hoping Alana Haim would get nominated, she was excellent but I did suspect the role wasn't quite 'serious' enough for the Academy.

That's a best director nom for Spielberg in six different decades!

no Catroina Balfe😕 and RTE news bigging her up last night

Think the same on both counts...

RE: Gaga, clearly shes a competent actress but I get the feeling she's been thrown nominations due to that alone.

Prior to watching House of Goofy I heard Jared Leto was like he was in a different film and exceptionally bad but really he is most definitely in the same film just an exaggerated "It'sa me Mario" accent that pretty much everyone else had going on with the exception of Adam Driver who was more composed and Al Pacino who was am mostly Al Pacino. It was a bizarre amusing watch but not something I'd revisit I was surprised it was in the mix for Oscars buzz at the time of watching, so omission for the big gongs no real thing now.

RE: Catriona Balfe, that's a shock! Thought Belfast was okay a decent fare but she excelled in a role that was integral to it assumed given it's overall praise for and tips for best picture her performance would be the obvious candidate to run alongside it. It was a leading performance but other awards standings have her down as supporting role as can be the case with these things. Kirsten Dunst for instance surely a lead role probably had 10 times more screentime than Dench and gets to run in the same category!

It's a very poor year as suspected, I've personally seen half the films in best picture (Power of Dog,Dune,Nightmare Alley,Belfast,Don't Look Up).

Dune was my favourite of the bunch and as good as it was is not a complete film not least because there's obviously a second part to come, might have guessed Villeneuve for director (which he didn't get) up for best picture then, strange one.

Don't Look Up, McKay can do no wrong it seems. It's better than Vice and that managed to get nominated too so not the surprise inclusion some people may think, no chance of winning though.

If the frontrunners really are Belfast and Power of the Dog, I'd like to see Belfast win if only on the basis that it bored me less, that's where I'm at ha.

Of the ones I haven't seen Drive my Car seems the most intriguing, will give the P.T. Anderson one a go too not sure about the rest.

Do we really want to see Bono up on stage giving a cringey acceptance speech??

Doesn’t the James Bond sing always win?? At least it has the past few films anyway.

Bit surprised Van the Man got a nod given his stance on matters covid, thought the academy would have steered clear of that (rightly or wrongly) but I suppose he's not being nominated for Best Medical Advice