Academy Award Nominees - 2023 Oscars

[btimbit]

Lol, I mean, I enjoyed Top Gun, it was fun despite how over the top silly the entire premise was. But Oscar nominee? Come on

[Hack&Lube]

I want these two righteous dudes to win Oscars after having their careers killed for decades

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

It was a mediocre movie. It was far too long, and didn't really understand what it was. It could have made for a good kids movie given all the nonsense, but then they put R rated content which felt really forced. "Look at us being edgy!" The "sci-fi" aspects were silly, and by halfway through the movie they just kept changing the rules so it worked for the plot at that moment. It will probably get best picture, becuase the academy doesn't understand what a great movie is anymore(and hasn't for years).

I think it is subjective like all art and entertainment. I'm personally not a Michelle Yeoh fan but I can see why many people have felt this film had a big impact on them and I've seen many accolades and reactions to this film where it is one of the best films of all time to some folks.

[Engine09]

I went to see "Everything Everywhere" during the first week in theaters, read some good reviews so I was kinda excited. I wanted to like it, was ready to enjoy it, left kinda disappointed and immediately forgot about it.

When judging movies I look back at home long it stayed in my mind, sometimes a couple days or even a week. I consider writing style and directing decisions and most of the time read behind the scenes articles and dig more into the story.

Yeah, very subjective and personal. This movie didn't connect with me at all, I forgot about it before leaving the parking lot.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Lol, I mean, I enjoyed Top Gun, it was fun despite how over the top silly the entire premise was. But Oscar nominee? Come on

Oh man...you're discounting how heavily steeped the Oscars are in BS.

Ya see...with Top Gun, Cruise is credited as a Producer so if it wins Best Picture then ol' Tom finally gets a statue.

And then there is the almost guaranteed pressure from the psychotic Scientology community...

[Fighting Banana Slug]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

NFB Short nominated about a sailor thrown 2 km after the Halifax Explosion and lived.

https://www.nfb.ca/distribution/film/flying-sailor-the

Too much horn.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug

Too much horn.

The perfect amount of flaccid penis though.

[timun]

I think AMPAS is making a tacit admission that they need to spice up the nominees lists with movies people have actually watched.

Can anyone here name the last couple "Best Picture" winners off the top of their head? I can't. Googling the lists of nominees, and their box office receipts (bolded were winners):

2020:
Nomadland — $39.5M ($3.7M domestic)
The Father — $24.5M ($2.1M dom)
Judas and the Black Messiah — $7.5M ($5.5M dom)
Mank — $0, Netflix release
Minari — $15.3M ($3.1M dom)
Promising Young Woman — $18.9M ($6.5M dom)
Sound of Metal — $0.5M ($0 dom; Amazon Prime release)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 — (Netflix release)

2021:
CODA — $1.9M ($0M dom; Apple TV+ release)
Belfast — $48.9M ($9.3M dom)
Don't Look Up — $0.8M ($0M dom; Netflix release)
Drive My Car — $15.4M ($2.4M dom)
Dune — $402.0M ($108.3M dom)
King Richard — $39.4M ($15.1M dom)
Licorice Pizza — $33.3M ($17.3M dom)
Nightmare Alley — $39.6M ($11.3M dom)
The Power of the Dog — $0.3M ($0M dom; Netflix release)
West Side Story — $76.0M ($38.5M dom)

2022:
All Quiet on the Western Front — $0, Netflix release
Avatar: The Way of Water — $2,045.9M ($602.0M dom)
The Banshees of Inisherin — $29.1M ($9.4M dom)
Elvis — $287.3M ($151.0M dom)
Everything Everywhere All at Once — $104.1M ($70.0M dom)
The Fabelmans — $21.8M ($15.1M dom)
Tár — $7.2M ($6.0M dom)
Top Gun: Maverick — $1,488.7M ($718.7M dom)
Triangle of Sadness — $22.3M ($4.2M dom)
Women Talking — $1.2M ($1.2M dom)


The only one from the 2020 list I've seen is Promising Young Woman, and I've only even heard of a couple others. The 2021 list is populated by movies I've mostly heard of, but again only one that I've seen (Licorice Pizza). The 2022 list? I've heard of all of them, and seen two (The Banshees of Inisherin and Top Gun: Maverick). Judging by box office, a ####-ton more people have also seen these movies, as compared to 2020 and '21.

Certainly the Covid pandemic was a factor in the box office receipts, but there were still movies out there making hundreds of millions of dollars. Nomadland wouldn't even get a whiff at being in the top 40 biggest movies of the year, and it was far and away the highest grossing of the nominees.

[Nadal Fan]

I'm glad Top Gun 2 is nominated for BP. Great action movies always used to always get nominated until recently. Avatar, Inception, Mad Max Fury Road and The Fugitive were all nominated in the past for Best Picture.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Nadal Fan

I'm glad Top Gun 2 is nominated for BP. Great action movies always used to always get nominated until recently. Avatar, Inception, Mad Max Fury Road and The Fugitive were all nominated in the past for Best Picture.

Oh definitely, but I personally don't think it belongs on that list with those movies, that's for sure

[sketchyt]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

It was a mediocre movie. It was far too long, and didn't really understand what it was. It could have made for a good kids movie given all the nonsense, but then they put R rated content which felt really forced. "Look at us being edgy!" The "sci-fi" aspects were silly, and by halfway through the movie they just kept changing the rules so it worked for the plot at that moment. It will probably get best picture, becuase the academy doesn't understand what a great movie is anymore(and hasn't for years).

I agree with all of this but the performances were, at worst, very good.

[Nadal Fan]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Oh definitely, but I personally don't think it belongs on that list with those movies, that's for sure

I agree to an extent, it's only nominated because it made over a billion dollars. If it made as much as the Independent Day sequel it wouldn't have been nominated


I'd like to see the Academy recognize horror movies more, I'm still annoyed Toni Collette wasn't nominated for Heridetary .

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Nadal Fan

I agree to an extent, it's only nominated because it made over a billion dollars. If it made as much as the Independent Day sequel it wouldn't have been nominated

I'd like to see the Academy recognize horror movies more, I'm still annoyed Toni Collette wasn't nominated for Heridetary .

I'd like to see 'The Academy' assembled into a room that is subsequently welded shut from the outside and set on fire.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Locke

I'd like to see 'The Academy' assembled into a room that is subsequently welded shut from the outside and set on fire.

I need the academy. Their nominations tell me what I shouldn’t waste time watching

[troutman]

https://www.razzies.com/razz-newz.html

WORST PICTURE
Blonde
Disney’s Pinocchio
Good Mourning
The King’s Daughter
Morbius

WORST ACTOR
Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) Good Mourning
Pete Davidson (Voice Only) Marmaduke
Tom Hanks (As Gepetto) Disney’s Pinocchio
Jared Leto / Morbius
Sylvester Stallone / Samaritan

WORST ACTRESS
Bryce Dallas Howard / Jurassic Park: Dominion
Diane Keaton / Mack & Rita
Kaya Scodelario / The King’s Daughter
Alicia Silverstone / The Requin

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by sketchyt

I agree with all of this but the performances were, at worst, very good.

Sure, yes, they were. They should get indivdual awards, but it's not a best picture.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Brendone

I need the academy. Their nominations tell me what I shouldn’t waste time watching

Horse hockey balderdash!!

[Wormius]

How is supporting and lead actor categories determined in something like Banshees of Ininsherin. I'd say both Farrell and Gleeson were co-leads.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Really? Farrell is in basically every scene. Gleeson isn't.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I believe it’s completely at the studio's discretion which category they submit for. Often it’s done to avoid conflicts in a movie with two main roles so they don’t split the vote in a specific category.

At least that’s how it works at the globes. It’s why you get weird nominations for the musical/comedy category because studios want to avoid the stacked drama category.