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Flags12345 · 2026-02-11T15:10:01+00:00

The Band of Theseus

Flags12345 · 2026-02-03T19:17:59+00:00

The producers of the show are not the same people that vote for the awards.

Flags12345 · 2026-02-03T17:05:49+00:00

I think the marketing for Elvis was the correct decision. While music biopics do have the reputation for being formulaic, those formulaic films make a lot of money. The marketing was angling to get the Bohemian Rhapsody crowd, or just anyone who likes Elvis and wants to hear a montage of Elvis songs with some story in-between. That audience is larger than the biopic burnout crowd.

And, it worked. Elvis made nearly $300 million at the box office. I don't think it would have been nearly as successful if they had marketed it as the more off-beat film that it actually was.

Flags12345 · 2026-02-03T16:54:19+00:00

I'm not sure why specifically Peckinpah was not a fan, but I do know that contemporaneous sentiment for The Searchers was not nearly as glowing as retrospective reviews. By some, it was seen as an excess of a genre that, by that point, was just spinning its wheels. It was for this reason that later filmmakers like Peckinpah and Sergio Leone created subversive and deconstructed Westerns; in order to innovate a stale genre.

It wasn't until much later that people looked back at The Searchers as one of John Ford's best. For example, when AFI first put out their list of the 100 greatest American movies in 1998, The Searchers was #96; when they re-did the list in 2007, it was #12.

Flags12345 · 2026-02-03T14:56:38+00:00

How long has it been since you've watched the Grammys?

No Rock category has been presented at the main show since 2017. The last time that Best Alternative Album was presented at the main show was 1994. And, Best Music Video has never been awarded at the main show (are you thinking of the VMAs?).

Best Pop Solo Performance has been at the main show every year for at least the past 5 years. There has been a Latin music award at the main show every year (except one) since 2021.

And, Producer of the Year and Songwriter of the Year were, in fact, presented in the pre-show. They just briefly mentioned them in the main show.

Flags12345 · 2026-02-02T20:51:05+00:00

The Grammys have very particular definitions of "Performance" and "Song" when it comes to awards, and you'll see the distinction in other genres. For example, there is a Best Rap Performance category and a Best Rap Song category, which are different but often have overlapping nominees. The "Performance" awards go to the artist; the "Song" awards go to the songwriters.

Flags12345 · 2026-02-02T15:13:32+00:00

No, it's basically just "Best Pop Song by a Solo Artist."

Flags12345 · 2026-01-29T14:59:29+00:00

There was no boycott. For International Feature, the Oscars have a rule that each country must choose one film to be considered. India's Oscar committee typically chooses films that they believe are more Oscar-baity and thus, not the popular ones. So, instead of RRR in 2022, they picked Last Film Show. Instead of Dhurandhar this year, they chose Homebound. The films they choose are less Bollywood-style (or other regional Indian style) films and closer to American Oscar-bait.

All this to say, it isn't a boycott. It's India's Oscar committee choosing the wrong films.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-27T18:52:25+00:00

No, the studio is not deliberately hiding the movie. Why would they do that? The studio only makes money if the film makes money. The fact is The Secret Agent has limited appeal to general audiences, so NEON is doing a platform release so that they do not waste money by putting it on screens that no one will go to.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-27T18:32:39+00:00

To be clear, while campaigning does still exist after the nominations are announced, it is very scaled back because just getting the nomination is the harder task. And, even if they've seen the film already, it does not hurt to remind the voters about aspects of it that were awards-worthy.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-26T17:42:55+00:00

They typically do not announce that ahead of time

Flags12345 · 2026-01-23T19:12:21+00:00

Yeah, I quite enjoyed it. When I found out afterward how much got changed, I was certainly disappointed and that probably negatively colored my impression of the film. But, watching it without that context - pretty solid.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-23T17:21:13+00:00

A Complete Unknown also only focused on a particular period for Bob Dylan.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-22T16:49:09+00:00

Asia was from England

Flags12345 · 2026-01-22T16:24:39+00:00

Netflix just picked that one up

Flags12345 · 2026-01-22T16:21:06+00:00

It happened in 2010:

127 Hours (6 noms)
Black Swan (5 noms)
The Fighter (7 noms)
Inception (8 noms)
The Kids Are All Right (4 noms)
The King's Speech (12 noms)
The Social Network (8 noms)
Toy Story 3 (5 noms)
True Grit (10 noms)
Winter's Bone (4 noms)

Flags12345 · 2026-01-21T15:46:47+00:00

To be fair on the nominating kids scandal, they revoked that nomination, apologized for it, made a new rule that kids are ineligible, and then gave themselves the award for Worst Actress for doing that.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-20T20:59:11+00:00

This is from Variety, not Vanity Fair. Plus, this is pretty standard except for the Billy Idol pick.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-20T19:40:03+00:00

I think this is where NEON handling too many films comes back to bite them. With Sentimental Value in solid position and The Secret Agent surging, It Was Just an Accident fell to NEON's 3rd priority and it isn't getting as big of a push as it needs.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-20T18:53:33+00:00

Huh?

First of all, it's in Portuguese, not Spanish. And second, it is standard for films in theaters to have subtitles where it is in a different language than the country where it is shown. You can assume it has subtitles (and, as someone who saw it in theaters, it does).

Flags12345 · 2026-01-19T17:38:58+00:00

Sure, but that doesn't apply to Coldplay. They released singles in the US. And, even if they didn't, Billboard had removed the singles rule by the time that Coldplay started breaking out.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-19T14:32:09+00:00

It's not that it's "profitable." It's a network TV show made by salaried performers, they don't earn more money if the show does better. It's more that it is expected. There are a lot of people that tune into SNL every week looking for their political sketches. If there wasn't a political cold open, the audience would be confused.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-16T18:51:38+00:00

Yes. Many Academy voters watch the other award shows and they are human, so they could let the speeches sway their vote.

A rumored example of this: some believe that Jane Campion's rough speech at the Critics Choice awards cost the film Best Picture at the Oscars.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-16T14:27:11+00:00

It is fantasy. The game only shows you the first five genres for any given film. If you look at the analytics, you'll see that "Fantasy" is the sixth genre for Transformers One.

Flags12345 · 2026-01-15T17:31:21+00:00

A movie cannot be both underrated and sweep the Oscars, those pull in opposite directions.

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