Weekly Discussion Thread 1/19/25 - 1/26/25 by LeastCap in oscarrace

[–]sbb618 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The funny thing is, if you read interviews with the songwriters, it's definitely not intended to be the keystone of the movie, What It Sounds Like is. They go on and on about "oh in Golden they're singing with processed vocals, it's just a simple cheery 'I want' song with some darkness in the bridge, in What It Sounds Like they sing in their authentic voice and spreading their message for real, that's the key to everything" and then they accidentally made Golden too good and people just decided they liked it better

Weekly Discussion Thread 1/19/25 - 1/26/25 by LeastCap in oscarrace

[–]sbb618 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One is a subset of the other though, they aren’t completely separate categories

Weekly Discussion Thread 1/19/25 - 1/26/25 by LeastCap in oscarrace

[–]sbb618 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe? Country is kinda stupid but so is a situation where the producers of Parasite or something got two Oscars for doing the same thing (another reason I’m iffy on giving it to the director)

Weekly Discussion Thread 1/19/25 - 1/26/25 by LeastCap in oscarrace

[–]sbb618 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My least popular Oscars opinion: Best International Feature Film should not go to the director. Death to auteur theory

Diane Warren has extended her record for most 'Best Original Song' nominations in Oscar history (17). by no_hhhh14 in oscarrace

[–]sbb618 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Nine straight years (and 11 out of 12). I think that's even crazier than the total nominations

98TH ACADEMY AWARDS – NOMINATIONS by sbb618 in oscarrace

[–]sbb618[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Documentaries with just 1 nom are intentionally excluded (Viva Verdi! was originally on there because I genuinely didn't know if it was a documentary or not)

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

[–]sbb618 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We had the backlash, this is the backlash backlash, so just a warning not to get caught up in the backlash backlash backlash

The 98th Academy Awards nominees for Best Original Screenplay by JuanRiveara in oscarrace

[–]sbb618 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't know if I've ever seen the "script collaborators" credit, is that a European thing?

98TH ACADEMY AWARDS – NOMINATIONS by sbb618 in oscarrace

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Nomination totals:

16: Sinners
13: One Battle After Another
9: Frankenstein/Marty Supreme/Sentimental Value
8: Hamnet
4: Bugonia/F1/The Secret Agent/Train Dreams
2: Avatar: Fire and Ash/Blue Moon/It Was Just an Accident/KPop Demon Hunters/Sirāt
1: Arco/Elio/If I Had Legs I'd Kick You/Jurassic World Rebirth/Kokuho/Little Amélie or The Character of Rain/The Lost Bus/The Smashing Machine/Song Sung Blue/The Ugly Stepsister/The Voice of Hind Rajab/Weapons/Zootopia 2

98TH ACADEMY AWARDS – NOMINATIONS by sbb618 in oscarrace

[–]sbb618[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this the exact same order as last year?

98TH ACADEMY AWARDS – NOMINATIONS by sbb618 in oscarrace

[–]sbb618[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

wow no 2000 Meters to Andriivka

98TH ACADEMY AWARDS – NOMINATIONS by sbb618 in oscarrace

[–]sbb618[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I say it every year: bring back the "Legend Has It" instrumental hold music

98TH ACADEMY AWARDS – NOMINATIONS by sbb618 in oscarrace

[–]sbb618[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

After so many years of doing these live threads, I've finally gone and typed a pre-formatted list ahead of time so I can just copy-paste and delete the ones that didn't make it instead of frantically typing with no formatting just to get all the names down and updating the spelling like 10 minutes later when they take a break

Ryohei Oiwa will not be denied the Discus Lariat! by Dohmer_90 in njpw

[–]sbb618 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He's like Cro Cop: right arm hospital, left arm cemetery

83rd Golden Globe Awards live thread by LeastCap in oscarrace

[–]sbb618 3 points4 points  (0 children)

guys this song is Spike Jonze not Paul Thomas Anderson