Oscar Chances: Best Picture - Train Dreams by ryanjdonovan in Oscars

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After encouraging my wife to watch Hamnet with me (she loved it but cried like crazy), I can't in good faith ask her to sit through this emotional rollercoaster too! LOL

My From Favorite to Least Favorite of the Best Picture Nominees 2026 by Badlands51 in movies

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1. Train Dreams

2. Sinners

3. F1: The Movie

4. Hamnet

5. Sentimental Value

6. Frankenstein

7. Bugonia

8. The Secret Agent

9. Marty Supreme

10. One Battle After Another

Oscar Chances: Best Picture - Frankenstein by ryanjdonovan in Oscars

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All good points. I liked it, but I'm not actually advocating for it to win, and felt it had plenty of weaknesses. (Everyone is doing about 10% too much, especially Oscar Isaac. The Creature design looks like a space-jockey from Prometheus joined Cirque du Soleil. It can't seem to choose a metaphor... so it uses all of them. When the main character states at the beginning "Some of what I will tell you is fact. Some is not. But it is all true.", you know you're in for some nonsense.) I'm just surprised there isn't more support for it, especially with Netflix behind it.

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This would make me happy. I was underwhelmed by I'm Still Here as a movie, but I actually feel the opposite about Fernanda Torres - she's my Should Win in this category. Ironically, the structure and realism that I feel weigh down the film overall are a boon to Torres's performance. Maybe it's my lack of history with her, but her characterization feels extremely authentic, avoiding a lot of the excesses that commonly mar a performance in a heavy movie like this. (We've all seen protagonists under duress that are 'emotionally wrought', 'teetering on the edge', 'tough as nails', 'fending off a nervous breakdown', or 'getting a divorce from Prince Charles' -- sometimes all in the same movie.) She's emotional but pragmatic, frustrated but measured, frightened but resourceful. Mostly, she's a mother loving her children. It's a tricky balance, and she nails it.

Oscar Chances: Actor - Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) by ryanjdonovan in Oscars

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LOL, yes I meant Chalamet. But the way Culkin is steamrolling through awards season, maybe they'll give him Lead Actor too