Awards Season

cue another week of painful coverage on all Irish media outlets on Jessie Buckley. I am delighted she won, she's a very natural kind of person too……… but my God they've already overdone it, what are they going to do now she won the Oscar? They seem to be camped out here in Killarney for months. What more can be said? Well done Jessie, brilliant, hope you win more! But most of us are already sick of the overhype and non stop coverage for months on Jessie. (Newstalk had Andrea Gilligan and the Lunctime Live crew here last week!)

p.s. Hoping Jessie will re-think her speeches, I cringe when I listen to them.

Fair play to Jessie Buckley. Great achievement. Saw some comments about her speech. Just watched it there. Expected it to be cringe, based on other comments. But I thought it was lovely. Came across as very genuine. The UK comment about mother's Day grated on me a little when I read about it. But the reality is that the mothers day comment was in context of the movie, and the character (I think) - which is UK based. So I think it may be taken out of context. In any case, it is none of my business !!! Just delighted for her on the best actress award.

Couldn't disagree more.

Amazing to see horror movies and roles be recognised. When was the last time horror won two of the acting awards? Silence of the Lambs maybe? Sinners was absolutely brilliant in every way.

And as for One Battle, I gotta say it was one of the best movies i've seen in a long time. I'm not even a huge PT Anderson fan but I was gripped from the start. Sean Penn very deserving of his Oscar win too.

I haven't seen all of the Best Picture nominees, but I really enjoyed every one I saw. Maybe F1 was the only surprising one. I realise everyone loved it but I was indifferent.

The other ceremonies give way more time. Eg the lifetime achievement award that Harrison Ford won a few weeks back, he spoke for about 8 minutes and it was incredibly entertaining.

I really think Chalamet should have won best actor. He carried the entire film on his back and was fantastic as the weasel who always had a way out, no matter who he had to screw over.

Jordan is a talented actor and has star power but his role in Sinners was not major award worthy. He did a fine job and obviously had more difficulty playing two roles, although some would say it's the same role twice. But he wasn't even the best performance in that movie. Big up Delroy!

Historically the Oscars has been a political battlefield so I wonder how much Timbo shot himself in the foot with his pot shots at the ballet.

Delighted for Jessie. Now that is a performance that blew me away. I knew she was going to be a serious contender when I saw her dramatic role in "Men", even though the film was mental.

I remember Benicio del Toro on Graham Norton a few weeks back and the missus asking me if he has a chance. I said as long as Sean Penn is nominated then he doesn't. Again, that's an award winning performance.

I read somewhere Timothys comments on ballet were made after voting had closed.

Would agree Delroy was best actor in Sinners but didn't see much between Jordans acting and Timothy in Marty Supreme. I was less wowed by Timothys performance, I just the saw the actor doing a funny accent , but I didn't enjoy the movie so that may have the reason for not thinking much of performance.

Good to see a horror actor getting an award.

I once saw Juliette Binoche receive an award. She got up and gave a very dignified speech. The contrast made the others look so childish.

Do people really care about the speeches that much? I thinks it's more the honour of receiving the award, the speech being good or bad just is not something I care about.

Precisely. Thought Jessie Buckley was embarrassing. The chaotic heart of a mother or some such tripe, gimme a break. All this rehearsed spontaneity is just so fake.

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They just aren’t making as many films as they used to. So the likes of “Sinners”, a good film, gets onto the Oscar pantheon of great films.
The days of film review tv shows reviewing 4 or 5 interesting new releases (and aimed at adults) every week - are long gone.
similarly, the days when you could go to the cinema every week and have something new worth watching.

And a lot of teenagers now (not all of them of course) have absolutely no interest in going into a cinema to watch a film.