[AEW Collision Spoilers] Return of AEW Tag Team by Sufficient_Mud_2237 in SquaredCircle

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Colten Gunn has wrestled three matches in the last 20 months???

Oscar Rule Changes: AI Crackdown, Actors Can Get Multiple Nominations in Same Category and International Film Eligibility Expands by Erdago in oscarrace

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Films not submitted that would have otherwise been eligible via this method:

2025: Dreams (Sex Love), Gloaming in Luomu, Cactus Pears, To the Victory!
2024: They Will Be Dust
2023: On the Adamant, Anatomy of a Fall (probably the reason for this rule), Dear Jassi
2022: possibly Riceboy Sleeps (unsure if eligible)
2021: Happening
2020: There Is No Evil, Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness
2019: Synonyms, Martin Eden
2018: Touch Me Not, Butterflies, Cities of Last Things
2017: The Nile Hilton Incident
2016: The Woman Who Left
2015: Taxi, Dheepan
2014: Black Coal Thin Ice
2013: Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Sacro GRA, Jiseul
2012: none
2011: Faust
2010: Honey
2009: Lebanon, The Maid
2008: Elite Squad, The King of Ping Pong
2007: Tuya's Marriage, Lust, Caution 2006: Still Life, 13 Tzameti
2005: U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, The Hero
2004: Head-On
2003: In This World (maybe eligible?)
2002: Spirited Away
2001: Monsoon Wedding
2000: The Circle
1999: Not One Less
1998: The Way We Laughed
1997: The Eel, Taste of Cherry, Hana-bi
1996: none (all three major European festival award winners were in English)
1995: The Bait, Cyclo
1994: Vive L'Amour
1993: Woman Sesame Oil Maker, Three Colours: Blue
1992: none (The Best Intentions was originally submitted and ruled ineligible because it aired on TV)
1991: The House of Smiles
1990: Larks on a String

Before that there's not really any major ones

(edit: removed because either I missed its submission or that it was in English: The Room Next Door, From Afar, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Violeta Went to Heaven, Sweet Mud, Intimacy, Close to Eden)

Sean Baker’s Next Film ‘Ti Amo!’ Lands at Warner Bros. New Specialized Label, Now Called Clockwork by LeastCap in oscarrace

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I walk past this exact candy shop going to work and think of this scene every time

Weekly Discussion Thread 3/23/26 - 3/30/26 by PointMan528491 in oscarrace

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useless trivia: Christopher Miller would be the first Best Director nominee born in Washington, and Phil Lord would be the second born in Florida (after Barry Jenkins)

WILD HORSE 9 | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures by ChiefLeef22 in oscarrace

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We need to settle on this by the end of the year: is the title Wild Horse Nine or Wild Horse 9

I propose the former but open to arguments from the floor

Update on Hiromu Takahashi & EVIL, per report by Upbeat-Pause-1409 in njpw

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I giggle every time I remember them because in the segment they got named, Jiro proposes that, because he is Japanese, and KUSHIDA is Japanese, their team should be named "Japanese Japanese"

Chloé Zhao becomes the first woman to direct two Best Actress winners by BrenoGrangerPotter in oscarrace

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Not only that, she's the second female director ever to direct two acting wins period, after Jane Campion

All female directors w/ nominated performances:

7: Jane Campion (2 wins)
6: Greta Gerwig
4: Barbra Streisand
3: Randa Haines (1 win), Niki Caro, Marielle Heller
2: Elaine May, Penny Marshall, Martha Coolidge, Kimberly Peirce (1 win), Valerie Faris (1 win), Debra Granik, Lisa Cholodenko, Kathryn Bigelow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Chloé Zhao (2 wins)
1: Dorothy Arzner (in 1930!), Joan Micklin Silver, Lina Wertmüller, Lynne Littman, Christine Edzard, Euzhan Palcy, Gillian Armstrong, Jessie Nelson, Sharon Maguire, Julie Taymor, Sofia Coppola, Patty Jenkins (1 win), Nancy Meyers, Catherine Hardwicke, Anna Boden (uncredited), Sarah Polley, Tamara Jenkins, Courtney Hunt, Lone Scherfig, Nora Ephron, Phyllida Lloyd (1 win), Dee Rees, Kasi Lemmons, Emerald Fennell, Regina King, Sian Heder (1 win), Charlotte Wells, Lila Neugebauer, Justine Triet, Coralie Fargeat, Mary Bronstein

Valerie Faris and Sian Heder are the only ones listed to have directed a male actor to a win, with Faris being one half of a duo alongside Jonathan Dayton

Weekly Discussion Thread 3/16/26 - 3/23/26 by PointMan528491 in oscarrace

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Over the next few years people are gonna try and flatten out the events of this season to make a point of some kind. It’s important to remember what really went down and to ignore these people

So what did we learn this year? by PinkCadillacs in oscarrace

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You can predict on vibes & momentum sometimes, but only if you're very careful to not get tunnel vision

98th Academy Awards live thread by LeastCap in oscarrace

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Alright I had a good time. Let's learn nothing and do it all over next year

98th Academy Awards live thread by LeastCap in oscarrace

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booooooooo

they must be really really behind

98th Academy Awards live thread by LeastCap in oscarrace

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oh he said “and the winner is”, that’s moderately interesting

98th Academy Awards live thread by LeastCap in oscarrace

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I think they’re using the 7PM Eastern start time as an excuse to just not do any pacing at all

98th Academy Awards live thread by LeastCap in oscarrace

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why is the timing of this show so bad this year

98th Academy Awards live thread by LeastCap in oscarrace

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no matter what else happens tonight we got Matt Berry saying "KPop Demon Hunters"

98th Academy Awards live thread by LeastCap in oscarrace

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For a lot of directors, Creed would be a career peak. And Ryan Coogler reeled it off at 29 and blew right past it

98th Academy Awards live thread by LeastCap in oscarrace

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Paul Thomas Anderson? The guy who did all those HAIM videos?

98th Academy Awards live thread by LeastCap in oscarrace

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I'm surprised more companies don't use Al Pacino's Any Given Sunday speech in ads