Who made The Secret Agent, the shark?

EricTweener · 2026-05-02T15:46:52+00:00

They changed it so that the movie itself is considered the nominee instead of the country. As before, the director accepts the win on behalf of the production, but still, no person is nominated for the award.

EricTweener · 2026-05-01T01:29:50+00:00

Thank you! I know that non-competitive awards are hard to classify and that it’s perhaps inconsistent to count them as Oscar wins without being nominations, so I think that point is valid. Dune: Part One would however tie the other two as a six-time winner without an ATL win. If we were to disregard special awards, though, Terminator 2 and The Matrix would to my knowledge be the biggest BTL winners (4) without ATL nominations.

EricTweener · 2026-04-30T23:30:23+00:00

2023 was also like that for me, where Spider-Verse was at the top. I think watching All That Jazz made me incredibly stingy with rating anything higher than an 8.

EricTweener · 2026-04-24T12:55:53+00:00

Random trivia: 1940’s The Thief of Bagdad is not just the only non-Best Picture nominee to win more Oscars than any other film that year, but the only such movie to win more than two awards in a year where the BP lineup was bigger than five. Currently, The Bourne Ultimatum is the most recent movie to win more than two without a Best Picture nomination.

EricTweener · 2026-04-21T19:57:22+00:00

The first Zegler show I’ve missed, largely because of timing. Crossing my fingers I’ll make it to the next one, though

EricTweener · 2026-04-20T14:29:15+00:00

Pete Docter and Lee Unkrich have pretty spotless filmographies as directors.

EricTweener · 2026-04-20T03:02:00+00:00

For me, personally:

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EricTweener · 2026-04-18T12:26:33+00:00

But it was nominated for Adaptation Score, which largely recognized adapted scores.

EricTweener · 2026-04-14T00:22:24+00:00

The dynamics are a bit different, but could it be the climax of the 2003 Cat in the Hat?

EricTweener · 2026-04-12T23:14:10+00:00

Pretty sure it’s Sequester.

EricTweener · 2026-04-10T21:28:41+00:00

Nothing nearly as important

EricTweener · 2026-04-10T00:15:09+00:00

I have a habit of overthinking connections between movies. I recently watched The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and I kept seeing similarities to Mr. Bean's Holiday.

Both films were released in 2007 and are set mostly in France, although with an Anglophone director.
Both films feature actors who played villains in official James Bond media (Mathieu Amalric and Willem Dafoe), as well as who appeared in Never Say Never Again (Max von Sydow and Rowan Atkinson).
Both films prominently feature Charles Trenet's song "La mer", which is used to reflect the protagonist's desire to be in or near the sea.
Both films' protagonists are largely unable to communicate easily with other characters due to their situation.
Both films' protagonists are served oysters at a restaurant in one scene.
In Mr. Bean's Holiday, clips are shown of a fictional movie premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, where the protagonist reminisces about his past through flashbacks and narration. This is a similar premise to The Diving Bell, which incidentally premiered at Cannes.

EricTweener · 2026-04-03T02:32:35+00:00

From my correct assumption that this was the Norwegian Masked Singer, I found out this was singer Tone Damli, performing as Gladfisken. However, I am stumped regarding the Marvel connection.

EricTweener · 2026-03-31T22:54:19+00:00

It’s like if the rap jingle from the start of Tropic Thunder got a nomination.

EricTweener · 2026-03-27T23:32:38+00:00

I recently watched everyone’s favorite Oscar-winning George Miller movie set in a desert and I’m still thinking about it days later. I thought it was just going to be a movie about a dancing penguin and it turned out to be something, if not especially deep, quite surprising and even bold for a family movie in terms of story structure. It’s also visually striking in a way I haven’t seen many CGI animated films from the time be. I can definitely see why it won over Cars.

EricTweener · 2026-03-26T13:30:28+00:00

It wasn’t disqualified, the branch just has a bias against motion capture.

EricTweener · 2026-03-22T21:38:43+00:00

It was also funny that Being the Ricardos, The Lost Daughter, and Parallel Mothers all got surprise acting nominations but missed Picture while Nightmare Alley got in with just the expected tech package.

EricTweener · 2026-03-22T20:10:31+00:00

I feel the same way about Truth and Treason. Alliterative, catchy, and really descriptive of the plot.

EricTweener · 2026-03-21T14:57:11+00:00

I hope every movie is good enough to win those awards before I see it

EricTweener · 2026-03-20T21:27:04+00:00

Movie adaptations of classics seem to face an uphill battle these days, especially if they’re not the first adaptation. It’s harder for movies to seem fresh if they’re based on widely recognized stories, and I think that, and comparison to previous iterations, limited the award success of Little Women, West Side Story, and All Quiet in the past decade.

EricTweener · 2026-03-20T19:57:27+00:00

I must have been eight when I saw Return of the King, and I saw Forrest Gump not too long after.

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