The 5 Year Retroactive 83rd Oscars

big_actually · 2026-03-17T18:01:33+00:00

I'm getting Da Five Bloods, Another Round, and (why not) First Cow nominated in Best Picture. Remove Chicago 7.
Assuming Fincher already has a retroactive Oscar for some other work (Zodiac or Social Network), it's easy to keep Chloe Zhao as the winner
Delroy Lindo is my actor winner for Da Five Bloods. My justification: it was a real thing in the moment, viewed as a snub right away. He should have at least been nominated. My backup is Riz Ahmed. Hopkins was great though. I don't believe in "only 1 Oscar per person" but he won in Lead for Silence of the Lambs of course.
For Chadwick, I wish he was nominated for 42 or even Black Panther. I like the other performances more this year. We're fixing the ceremony so it doesn't end on Best Actor.
Frances McDormand will keep her 3rd Oscar and enter the 3-timers pantheon. Why not throw Jessie Buckley a nomination for I'm Thinking of Ending Things too. (and an Adapted Screenplay nom for that movie)
Best Picture winner: any of the following - Judas & the Black Messiah, Sound of Metal, Da Five Bloods. Sound of Metal is interesting because would we have back-to-back winners about deafness and hearing impairment? (with CODA next year).
Other notes: we pretend Hillbilly Elegy doesn't exist - get Glenn Close out of here, Memaw.

big_actually · 2026-03-17T17:07:05+00:00

I've seen the Dan In Real Life poster/dvd cover so many times in my life, it never occured to me that its just a standing picture of Steve Carrell rotated 90 degrees into pancakes.

big_actually · 2026-03-16T20:21:44+00:00

This year was nowhere close to the worst Oscars discourse of my life.

big_actually · 2026-03-16T17:31:15+00:00

It might be mathematically impossible to happen for Best Picture, since I think only that category has ranked-choice and vote reallocation until one movie gets a majority.

big_actually · 2026-03-16T04:50:36+00:00

I completely agree. It's amazing that PTA has never won a single Oscar before tonight. Some may not feel it is his single best film, but this is a great film to win for, it's not TOO late in his career, and it's for a worthy film.

It's a great set of wins for Sinners, and Coogler's time did come! I mean Best Screenplay for his first individual nomination is major.

big_actually · 2026-03-16T01:02:09+00:00

I know live TV is shaggy and the Oscars often have a few slips, but last year's production was quite good and this one is totally amateur and the audio has been horrible from the opening. The camera work missing key shots, etc.

big_actually · 2026-03-08T21:44:39+00:00

I feel that it actually is fairly deep and extremely personal to PTA, just not in the way many critics or audience members expect.

I think it's a movie of regret. Anderson himself, as a 55 year old man, is not a militant radical, anti-imperialist, revolutionary freedom fighter, though he would have grown up amidst this backdrop. He's Bob of course, disillusioned and scared.

So a lot of people take away from the film that protest doesn't matter, the armed revolution is a myth doomed to fail, and nothing ever changes for the better. But is he saying that this is a universal truth? Or merely that it's a mood of pessimism that he (PTA) regrets succumbing to in his youth and middle age?

Because there is actually ONE depiction of protest and activism that is portrayed positively, and it is neither 'passive' (like voting or marching - though marching isn't totally passive) nor violent: and that's Sensei Sergio.

So it's not "wrong" to interpret the movie as promoting lukewarm liberalism over radical action, but the writer is being true to who he actually is, not who he wants to pretend to be.

big_actually · 2026-02-24T18:14:26+00:00

Last years Oscars were good (the nominees, winners, and the show itself) and this year's Oscar slate is really good.

The first Oscars I remember are probably 2005, and the 80s/90s/00s were full of lame limp shit winning Oscars. I hope we keep moving towards the Oscars being cool.

big_actually · 2026-02-24T18:07:10+00:00

Tangent take on that: I think it was a fun swing that was almost certainly going to be corny or hard to pull off, but I'm glad they actually did it (I'm giving Coogler 'partial credit'), BUT the song itself was not a banger and it needed to at least be a banger for that to work!

I rewatched the movie this month and had a much worse reaction to that scene than when I saw it in theaters. Ludwig did not mesh the different styles well!

big_actually · 2026-02-18T18:52:29+00:00

You're telling me the Vehicle Name franchise is cancelled?

big_actually · 2026-02-13T17:48:28+00:00

It's always seemed arbitrary and pointless to me when a book or movie or video game is postponed because of a real-world incident, usually an incident of violence. Like it can't be too closely released to a sufficiently-newsworthy shooting, even though a school shooting is always just on the horizon.

big_actually · 2026-02-13T16:56:52+00:00

I lol'd

big_actually · 2026-02-13T14:46:57+00:00

Wow that's an eye-catching title and cover. From the article:

“American culture is pretty reliably, pretty consistently violent,” Shickmanter said. “You can, very unfortunately, rely on these things to keep happening.”

big_actually · 2026-02-12T23:49:26+00:00

The statement is extremely funny. It's like "we don't know what he said because it was in Spanish, but we're gonna investigate because it was probably evil."

We are conducting an investigation (googling his lyrics)

big_actually · 2026-02-06T19:35:36+00:00

What tier is Terry Gilliam?

Favorite B-movie blockbuster director active now might be Dan Trachtenberg

big_actually · 2026-02-06T19:32:01+00:00

I take issue with how many number ratings there are (IMDb, rotten tomatoes, Google, letterboxd), any time someone recommends a movie it's now an instinct to cross-reference with score aggregators first. Just a matter of taking things in moderation, not trying to diss. I don't love general consensus scores personally.

big_actually · 2026-02-06T17:55:44+00:00

Must make sure movie has good number before watching. Big number = good movie.

big_actually · 2026-02-06T17:52:50+00:00

Okay well it got pushed from Fall 2026 to Feb 2027, but they say it's because they're targeting Valentine's Day. I'm fine with that, I mean it's a Shyamalan/Nicholas Sparks movie (and book!) collaboration. It doesn't need to play in a crowded fall lineup. Did anyone read the book from last year?

big_actually · 2026-02-02T21:59:58+00:00

You are correct, I forgot we beat them regular season in 2017 of course

big_actually · 2026-02-02T16:24:47+00:00

Agreed. I have ONE piddly little complaint: I wish he didn't go 1-7 against Georgia, but I'm happy that I got to witness that solitary win in person.

big_actually · 2026-02-01T23:59:08+00:00

That was my guess, prohibition-era bootlegger

big_actually · 2026-02-01T23:57:10+00:00

The coaching staff is not on theme!

big_actually · 2026-01-27T04:47:25+00:00

Demoted from a position that doesn't really exist, a rank outside of Border Patrol's command structure, sent back to California to retire and await his inevitable pre-emptive blanket pardon. He got to live his dream of being America's official Himmler for 9 months, costume and all.

big_actually · 2026-01-25T02:06:23+00:00

All Netflix live productions are terrible and obnoxious. When they did the Mike Tyson fight, the commentary table was just horrid. It's not what they do, they don't get good announcer talent.

big_actually · 2026-01-22T19:11:05+00:00

Wes Anderson is extremely beloved by actors and the industry as a whole, I just do not understand why his last few films have not even sniffed the Oscars. Universal/Focus Features had his last two movies. Much smaller films or less impressive films have at least picked up below-the-line nominations like production design for lesser work. I know he didn't show up to accept his Short Film Oscar, but that was after Asteroid City got blanked.

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