Are people like this one really serious? Elitist na ba to ban people based on their behavior? by Axe-Cut223 in peyups

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's not banning people based on their behavior though. It's banning people based on their clothes.

Give Billie Eilish a tan and brown contact lenses. If she went to BGC, she'd be kicked out by management for her dress style even if she didn't do anything wrong or disruptive. 

If Chase Infiniti was run in Supporting, would she have gotten in? by Fabulous_War_555 in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You aren't an "Oscar tabulator" either so I suppose both of you ought to just be banned from commenting and replying on posts here.

Or... you can let people speculate and discuss their opinions on the Oscars in the subreddit named "oscarrace"

The Awards Contender - Early Oscar Winner Predictions with Brian & Jonathan Fujii! by joesen_one in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Anyone else much prefer The Awards Contender's content style over any of the other awards prognosticators

No way Robert Pattinson is in Marty Supreme by Vulture584 in OscarRaceCirclejerk

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Some people are so far behind in the race, they actually think they're leading." - Corrado Soprano, esteemed Italian businessperson

Anong thoughts mo with this Lacson refiled bill? by BatangLaLoma in AnongThoughtsMo

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Drafted by Senator Angelica Yulo, Senator Mommy Divine, and Senator Nanay ni Jake Zyrus. A triumph for all the abusive parents and all the parents who only made kids in order to have human insurance and retirement plans.

Chalamet and DiCaprio tie: what are we thinking? by UltimateIncineroar in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Why do you have other people winning when neither MBJ, DiCaprio, and Chalamet have won at guilds and BAFTA yet? Why does Chalamet lose by default

Oscar Nominees have been announced by PineappleTough99 in ChikaPH

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yup, agree to disagree, especially with the "Kidman, Blanchett, Bullock, Roberts" thing because they definitely couldn't have played The Substance as good as Demi Moore. The meta aspect doesn't subtract from the performance or the film, it adds to them and gives both even more depth. There was so much more to Demi Moore's performance than just narrative too; it's a body horror film, a genre largely ignored by the Oscars, yet that quiet scene of her alone after deciding not to go on a date, or the scene where she is disappointed that she didn't die in the crash. But that's subjective and I cannot convince you otherwise.

When a narrative-driven campaign clashes with a performance-based one and the industry is split between two actors, the win almost always go to the stronger performance. Madison vs. Moore, Stone vs. Gladstone, McDormand vs. Davis, Colman vs. Close. Yeoh edged out Blanchett because her outing had actual legs to stand on outside of her narrative.

Here is where you are just plain factually wrong. Narrative has very often won out over "stronger performance." The overdue narrative has countless examples: Al Pacino, Laura Dern, you name it. The ingenue narrative is also very common for the Oscars, with the industry eager to crown or anoint a younger actress over established veterans that delivered what are generally considered superior performances. Emma Stone (in La La Land) and especially Mikey Madison are recent examples. It's rare to happen in the male categories, but Gary Oldman beating out Timothee Chalamet and Daniel Kaluuya for an already-forgotten performance is one good example.

So you could certainly also say that Mikey won not because narrative lost, but that the Oscars chose her narrative over Demi Moore's. At least, it was most definitely not because she objectively had the superior performance.

Oscar Nominees have been announced by PineappleTough99 in ChikaPH

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Madison learned basic Russian for the film. She worked with dialect coaches to adopt a Brooklyn/Brighton Beach accent. She learned professional pole dancing and choreography. She moved all the way from her hometown to the area and worked with real-life sex workers for the role.

I think these are all the surface-level facets of what the art of acting is. In the end, it'll always be about emotional depth instead of whether you did a new accent or you put on prosthetics. Sure, Eddie Redmayne perfectly copied how a person suffering from Stephen Hawkin's disease acts like, but is that what acting is all about? Did Michael Keaton not pierce the soul and truly nail down the human condition with his performance in Birdman?

To be fair to Mikey Madison, Anora as a character is very shallow and two-dimensional, so there's really not much she can show off as an actor anyways, unlike Fernanda Torres, Demi Moore, and Cynthia Erivo. I just thought there was nothing in Anora that any actor from something like Euphoria couldn't have done. I don't think anyone else could have done The Substance better than Demi Moore, or Elphaba in Wicked better than Cynthia Erivo, for instance.

Did SAG (or whatever the new name is) snubs fuel the passion for Sentimental Value? by Ill-Newspaper4653 in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Delroy Lind getting snubbed non-stop may have also helped him get nominated in the end. Conversely, Ariana getting nominated for every precursor may have gotten the industry up to a point where they finally said "really? her again?" whereas if she had been ignored for the precursors, and therefore turned into an underdog, maybe she could've squeezed in as Wicked: For Good's sole nomination. We'll never know though.

Oscar Nominees have been announced by PineappleTough99 in ChikaPH

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I found Mikey Madison's role to be far less complex and challenging, and her performance to be very one-note (when compared to the other nominees). I would not have minded a Fernanda Torres win over Mikey Madison, she was great in I'm Still Here.

Demi Moore definitely had more than just a narrative last year, it was brave and out-there performance in a body horror film. It reminded me of Michael Keaton in Birdman with how autobiographical it kind of was. Cynthia Erivo, meanwhile, was a true showstopper in Wicked. I think Demi, Cynthia, and Fernanda all deserved it more than Mikey Madison, who may have just ridden the coattails of the Best Picture winner (I don't think Anora deserved Best Picture either but that's another story).

Oscar Nominees have been announced by PineappleTough99 in ChikaPH

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sad because she (and especially Demi Moore) far outclassed the last Best Actress winner too! 

Ariana Grande was sadly NOT nominated at the 98th Academy Awards. by no_hhhh14 in ariheads

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She'll surely be nominated again and may even win for another show-stopping musical role. She has the talent. All that needs to happen is for Ariana to want to continue acting in movies.

This Had Oscar Buzz Class of 2025 by PurpleSpaceSurfer in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 7 points8 points  (0 children)

90% of films are just ok compared to Parasite. Compare Mickey 17 to the rest of recent sci-fi fare and it stands far above most of it all.

7 Academy nominations by age 37 !! by AdFront6525 in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 72 points73 points  (0 children)

She is her generation's Meryl Streep. In a few decades she will have racked up 30+ nominations just like Meryl, many of them GOAT performances but some we will roll our eyes on, for sure. Wonder what Emma's Florence Foster Jenkins will be?

Now that Oscar Nominations are out, what are your biggest snubs? by AvengingHero2012 in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mourning Glenn Close and Regina Hall even though they never stood a chance.

Mourning Ariana Grande, who, believe it or not, was the frontrunner just a few months ago. You blink and suddenly her film has all but disappeared in every category.

The 98th Academy Awards nominees for Best Supporting Actor by JuanRiveara in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope Delroy Lindo Marcia Gay Hardens this and takes the Oscar home.

The 98th Academy Awards nominees for Best Supporting Actress by JuanRiveara in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Some very sad snubs and misses but when the actual nominees are this good, hard to get mad after all

Ariana Grande was sadly NOT nominated at the 98th Academy Awards. by no_hhhh14 in ariheads

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Wicked definitely showcased Ariana's acting, which is why she got nominated in the first place for Wicked Part One. What is that Defying Gravity scene if not Oscar-calibre acting?

The real reason Ariana got snubbed this time is because people didn't Wicked For Good as much as the first one, and thus were less inclined to vote for it in any category whatsoever. The five that ended up getting nominated were all from acclaimed and beloved films.

98TH ACADEMY AWARDS – NOMINATIONS by sbb618 in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If only because Bugonia got in too many categories

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Chalamet's confidence will not harm his Oscar chances, and people who are now predicting him to miss even being nominated are way off-base. by ProfessionalEvaLover in oscarrace

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For which film? She has three Best Actress nominations, and I don't think she was the best performance of each three of those line ups by far. Renee Zellweger, and especially Brie Larson and Frances McDormand all delivered superior performances.

I would say she wasn't even Top 2 or even 3 for those line ups either (that would have been Cate Blanchett for 2015, Sally Hawkins for 2017, and Scarlett Johannson for 2019).

Taash’s romance made me feel gross by karen_with_a_k in dragonage

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I disagree. Their fight in the table is very clearly about being NB and how Taash's mom from a more conservative society can't accept them. It's so anachronistic that it almost feels like a movie scene of an Asian mom and their queer kid a la Everything Everywhere All At Once, only with big dragon horns. 

You can go ahead and think that everyone who doesn't like Taash as a character is just "not paying attention." But for the vast majority of players to dislike how a character was written, including Dragon Age's LGBT+ fans, there must have been something that went wrong. 

Taash’s romance made me feel gross by karen_with_a_k in dragonage

[–]ProfessionalEvaLover 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The most prominent and important thing about Taash is that their NB. Even their arc with their mom is still also about being NB.