My favorite moment in Little Women was a small one. The sisters pay a sudden, brief visit to their wealthy neighbors. They roll in like a hurricane of positivity, and bring joyous tumult into a stuffy, lifeless space. They are color and noise and warmth, and then they leave.
And the camera is placed in such a place, the shot is held for such a length, that their absence is palpable. When they leave the room, so does the color, the noise, the warmth. It is a beautiful, aching moment - what a loving (and overtly feminine) family brings to a space, and how it feels to lose it. With a single, perfect shot.
The whole movie is filled with that blend of empathy and craft, and Greta Gerwig is a brilliant director.
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Neither Memory nor Macavity would have been nominated anyway because they're not new for the movie
Neither Memory nor Macavity would have been nominated anyway because they're not new for the movie
There was some new orchestration for some of the songs that they might have been able to use as a weird way to slip through with them.
But it looks like Beautiful Ghosts was the nominee for the Globes so I don't know if they were even trying that.
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Best Animation Feature Rapid Reax:
- Toy Story 4 gets nodded over Frozen 2; someone over at Disney is fuming they didn't get their 40% chance of winning this year.
- Anime still gets the shaft on nominations; not even 2019's darling Weathering With You made the cut.
- On the other hand; the Netflix effect seems stronger that ever this year: Two of the noms (Klaus and I Lost My Body) are exclusives(?) to the streaming network.
32 animated features were submitted this year. Here's the full list from ANN:
Abominable
The Addams Family
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Another Day of Life
Away
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Children of the Sea
Dilili in Paris
Frozen II
Funan
Genndy Tartakovsky's ‘Primal’ – Tales of Savagery
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
The Last Fiction
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Marona's Fantastic Tale
Missing Link
Ne Zha
Okko's Inn
Pachamama
Promare
Rezo
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Spies in Disguise
The Swallows of Kabul
This Magnificent Cake!
The Tower
Toy Story 4
Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris
Weathering With You
White Snake
- Toy Story 4 gets nodded over Frozen 2; someone over at Disney is fuming they didn't get their 40% chance of winning this year.
- Anime still gets the shaft on nominations; not even 2019's darling Weathering With You made the cut.
- On the other hand; the Netflix effect seems stronger that ever this year: Two of the noms (Klaus and I Lost My Body) are exclusives(?) to the streaming network.
32 animated features were submitted this year. Here's the full list from ANN:
Abominable
The Addams Family
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Another Day of Life
Away
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Children of the Sea
Dilili in Paris
Frozen II
Funan
Genndy Tartakovsky's ‘Primal’ – Tales of Savagery
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
The Last Fiction
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Marona's Fantastic Tale
Missing Link
Ne Zha
Okko's Inn
Pachamama
Promare
Rezo
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Spies in Disguise
The Swallows of Kabul
This Magnificent Cake!
The Tower
Toy Story 4
Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris
Weathering With You
White Snake
Weathering With You didn't have an eligible Western release last year
Parasite is gonna get so many spite second place votes that it’s gonna kill.
(Personally I think 1917 is gonna be a first place or nah situation, because old people...also it is very good, and the Oscars cannot resist very good War movies.)
I also think that Once Upon a Time and Parasite are going to eat each other, thanks to people splitting on wanting to give Tarantino his makeup Oscar and “No we are not old and white and racist I will vote for cool move, Parasite”.
- Toy Story 4 gets nodded over Frozen 2; someone over at Disney is fuming they didn't get their 40% chance of winning this year.
- Anime still gets the shaft on nominations; not even 2019's darling Weathering With You made the cut.
- On the other hand; the Netflix effect seems stronger that ever this year: Two of the noms (Klaus and I Lost My Body) are exclusives(?) to the streaming network.
32 animated features were submitted this year. Here's the full list from ANN:
Abominable
The Addams Family
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Another Day of Life
Away
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Children of the Sea
Dilili in Paris
Frozen II
Funan
Genndy Tartakovsky's ‘Primal’ – Tales of Savagery
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
The Last Fiction
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Marona's Fantastic Tale
Missing Link
Ne Zha
Okko's Inn
Pachamama
Promare
Rezo
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Spies in Disguise
The Swallows of Kabul
This Magnificent Cake!
The Tower
Toy Story 4
Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris
Weathering With You
White Snake
God I forgot Lego Movie 2 came out last year and also that it is the best animated movie of that year AND the best Lego movie
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I voted. I didn’t see a bunch of them but kept my guiding principle of refusing to vote for the Joker anytime it showed up regardless of how that hurts me.
My favorite moment in Little Women was a small one. The sisters pay a sudden, brief visit to their wealthy neighbors. They roll in like a hurricane of positivity, and bring joyous tumult into a stuffy, lifeless space. They are color and noise and warmth, and then they leave.
And the camera is placed in such a place, the shot is held for such a length, that their absence is palpable. When they leave the room, so does the color, the noise, the warmth. It is a beautiful, aching moment - what a loving (and overtly feminine) family brings to a space, and how it feels to lose it. With a single, perfect shot.
The whole movie is filled with that blend of empathy and craft, and Greta Gerwig is a brilliant director.
I loved that scene, and the similar earlier scene when Laurie walks the girls home from a party and the family whirlwind swoops in to take care of Meg. It's a neat trick that she pulls off that flush of emotion and yanks it away twice to emphasize the family dynamic and it works so well both times.
My favorite scene, though, is that exchange between Amy and Laurie in Paris in her studio. The bit where she tells Laurie that she either wants to be great or nothing is just perfect. It's be easy for that to come across as overly smug or whiny (the usual path most adaptations take with Amy), but Florence delivers it in this perfectly convincing matter-of-fact way that says she's thought about it, knows it's a personal weakness, but has accepted it and is trying to make the best life she can despite her limitations, and man, that just slays me. It's just a beautiful little moment of reality and self-acceptance.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
- Toy Story 4 gets nodded over Frozen 2; someone over at Disney is fuming they didn't get their 40% chance of winning this year.
- Anime still gets the shaft on nominations; not even 2019's darling Weathering With You made the cut.
- On the other hand; the Netflix effect seems stronger that ever this year: Two of the noms (Klaus and I Lost My Body) are exclusives(?) to the streaming network.
32 animated features were submitted this year. Here's the full list from ANN:
Abominable
The Addams Family
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Another Day of Life
Away
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Children of the Sea
Dilili in Paris
Frozen II
Funan
Genndy Tartakovsky's ‘Primal’ – Tales of Savagery
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
The Last Fiction
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Marona's Fantastic Tale
Missing Link
Ne Zha
Okko's Inn
Pachamama
Promare
Rezo
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Spies in Disguise
The Swallows of Kabul
This Magnificent Cake!
The Tower
Toy Story 4
Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris
Weathering With You
White Snake
God I forgot Lego Movie 2 came out last year and also that it is the best animated movie of that year AND the best Lego movie
Yeah, that's what stood out to me from the list-- that movie feels like a decade ago and it's still such a bummer that it didn't grab a foothold. Absolutely my favorite of the Lego movies I've seen and yeah, probably my favorite animated film of last year
Primal being submitted is weird! I guess you could submit a single episode as a short film? It's a TV show, submit it to the Emmy's.
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None of these movies up for editing have a single star wipe in them!
My favorite moment in Little Women was a small one. The sisters pay a sudden, brief visit to their wealthy neighbors. They roll in like a hurricane of positivity, and bring joyous tumult into a stuffy, lifeless space. They are color and noise and warmth, and then they leave.
And the camera is placed in such a place, the shot is held for such a length, that their absence is palpable. When they leave the room, so does the color, the noise, the warmth. It is a beautiful, aching moment - what a loving (and overtly feminine) family brings to a space, and how it feels to lose it. With a single, perfect shot.
The whole movie is filled with that blend of empathy and craft, and Greta Gerwig is a brilliant director.
In light of Greta Gerwig not getting nominated for directing Little Women I was like, "fuck and they didn't even nominate her for directing Lady Bird either," but they uh, did, and then I was like, "I bet she should have fuckin' won that year too!" and then I got a look at the other nominees and that was a legitimately good year for the category, like, Jordan Peele and Guillermo del Toro are in there!
and then I got mad that Allison Janney won instead of Laurie Metcalf again, smh
I haven't really paid much attention to the Oscars in the past. Right not it seems like the consensus is that Greta Gerwig got snubbed for best director. I think Little Women in one of the best movies I've seen this year so my inclination is to agree, but it did get nominated for Best Picture. Generally what is the line that makes a movie Best Picture worthy, but not best director, or vice versa? I'm mostly curious in what would a director need to do for their movie to legitimately deserve a Best Picture nomination, but not a Best Director nomination.
So this is complicated for me because I come from a theatre world. In both theatre and film directors and actors are tasked with interpreting a script, and the effect of those choices is usually how I determine how good the directing was-- I can't tell you much about shot composition, let alone how much of it belongs to directing vs cinematography, but the deliberate placement of scenes, a newer or more specific interpretation of a character (as minor incident points out above, Amy), those sort of things tend to make me think the direction is impressive
Things get murky because the most impressive choices I found in the movie (which I loved and would probably give Best Picture to, though a lot of that is recency bias) were in how the movie jumped around the timeline, which resulted in the brilliant handling of the Amy/Laurie romance (and how it informed the Jo/Laurie relationship), as well as the parallel scenes of Beth's recovery and death. But I'd bet that in this case, those choices were made at the screenwriting stage as an interpretation of the book, rather than at the directing stage as an interpretation of the script. And Gerwig did get nominated for Adapted Screenplay. And as someone who loves film but understands directing from a theatrical perspective, I'm ill-equipped to explain why Gerwig deserves the director nom when she already has screenplay beyond "well, I liked that movie the most, so she's the best"
Of course, directors are also often the primary decision maker on a project, so any triumph or failure of a work could potentially be attributed to them
Another thing that often leaves me with an impression of great direction is if the director's voice comes through, if the feel and tone and message and themes of the work feel specific to them. And Little Women absolutely feels of a piece with Ladybird, so I'm inclined to think the direction succeeds.
- Toy Story 4 gets nodded over Frozen 2; someone over at Disney is fuming they didn't get their 40% chance of winning this year.
- Anime still gets the shaft on nominations; not even 2019's darling Weathering With You made the cut.
- On the other hand; the Netflix effect seems stronger that ever this year: Two of the noms (Klaus and I Lost My Body) are exclusives(?) to the streaming network.
32 animated features were submitted this year. Here's the full list from ANN:
Abominable
The Addams Family
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Another Day of Life
Away
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Children of the Sea
Dilili in Paris
Frozen II
Funan
Genndy Tartakovsky's ‘Primal’ – Tales of Savagery
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
The Last Fiction
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Marona's Fantastic Tale
Missing Link
Ne Zha
Okko's Inn
Pachamama
Promare
Rezo
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Spies in Disguise
The Swallows of Kabul
This Magnificent Cake!
The Tower
Toy Story 4
Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris
Weathering With You
White Snake
God I forgot Lego Movie 2 came out last year and also that it is the best animated movie of that year AND the best Lego movie
Not to mention that means 'Catchy Song' got snubbed for Best Original Song as well.
- Toy Story 4 gets nodded over Frozen 2; someone over at Disney is fuming they didn't get their 40% chance of winning this year.
- Anime still gets the shaft on nominations; not even 2019's darling Weathering With You made the cut.
- On the other hand; the Netflix effect seems stronger that ever this year: Two of the noms (Klaus and I Lost My Body) are exclusives(?) to the streaming network.
32 animated features were submitted this year. Here's the full list from ANN:
Abominable
The Addams Family
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Another Day of Life
Away
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Children of the Sea
Dilili in Paris
Frozen II
Funan
Genndy Tartakovsky's ‘Primal’ – Tales of Savagery
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
The Last Fiction
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Marona's Fantastic Tale
Missing Link
Ne Zha
Okko's Inn
Pachamama
Promare
Rezo
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Spies in Disguise
The Swallows of Kabul
This Magnificent Cake!
The Tower
Toy Story 4
Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris
Weathering With You
White Snake
God I forgot Lego Movie 2 came out last year and also that it is the best animated movie of that year AND the best Lego movie
Not to mention that means 'Catchy Song' got snubbed for Best Original Song as well.
Super Cool tho
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- Toy Story 4 gets nodded over Frozen 2; someone over at Disney is fuming they didn't get their 40% chance of winning this year.
- Anime still gets the shaft on nominations; not even 2019's darling Weathering With You made the cut.
- On the other hand; the Netflix effect seems stronger that ever this year: Two of the noms (Klaus and I Lost My Body) are exclusives(?) to the streaming network.
32 animated features were submitted this year. Here's the full list from ANN:
Abominable
The Addams Family
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Another Day of Life
Away
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Children of the Sea
Dilili in Paris
Frozen II
Funan
Genndy Tartakovsky's ‘Primal’ – Tales of Savagery
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
The Last Fiction
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Marona's Fantastic Tale
Missing Link
Ne Zha
Okko's Inn
Pachamama
Promare
Rezo
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Spies in Disguise
The Swallows of Kabul
This Magnificent Cake!
The Tower
Toy Story 4
Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris
Weathering With You
White Snake
God I forgot Lego Movie 2 came out last year and also that it is the best animated movie of that year AND the best Lego movie
Not to mention that means 'Catchy Song' got snubbed for Best Original Song as well.
Super Cool tho
Anything that gets Lonely Island on a stage works too.
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And the camera is placed in such a place, the shot is held for such a length, that their absence is palpable. When they leave the room, so does the color, the noise, the warmth. It is a beautiful, aching moment - what a loving (and overtly feminine) family brings to a space, and how it feels to lose it. With a single, perfect shot.
The whole movie is filled with that blend of empathy and craft, and Greta Gerwig is a brilliant director.
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There was some new orchestration for some of the songs that they might have been able to use as a weird way to slip through with them.
But it looks like Beautiful Ghosts was the nominee for the Globes so I don't know if they were even trying that.
- Toy Story 4 gets nodded over Frozen 2; someone over at Disney is fuming they didn't get their 40% chance of winning this year.
- Anime still gets the shaft on nominations; not even 2019's darling Weathering With You made the cut.
- On the other hand; the Netflix effect seems stronger that ever this year: Two of the noms (Klaus and I Lost My Body) are exclusives(?) to the streaming network.
32 animated features were submitted this year. Here's the full list from ANN:
Abominable
The Addams Family
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Another Day of Life
Away
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Children of the Sea
Dilili in Paris
Frozen II
Funan
Genndy Tartakovsky's ‘Primal’ – Tales of Savagery
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
The Last Fiction
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Marona's Fantastic Tale
Missing Link
Ne Zha
Okko's Inn
Pachamama
Promare
Rezo
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Spies in Disguise
The Swallows of Kabul
This Magnificent Cake!
The Tower
Toy Story 4
Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris
Weathering With You
White Snake
Weathering With You didn't have an eligible Western release last year
(also it's not that good)
(Personally I think 1917 is gonna be a first place or nah situation, because old people...also it is very good, and the Oscars cannot resist very good War movies.)
OUATIH is by far his most Oscar-baity one though
it literally stars Hollywood people as action heroes who save Hollywood from serial killers
it's even more gratuitous than Argo
God I forgot Lego Movie 2 came out last year and also that it is the best animated movie of that year AND the best Lego movie
Oh Tarantino absolutely knew what he was doing with OUATIH.
Argo was Ben Affleck taking a wild shot in comparison.
Even though I liked Shape of Water, it’s kind of the same thing there with the theater subplot and the dance number.
Unless it’s Del Toro doing the Oscar bait Gundam movie that will happen in the next 20 years.
The first is Kathryn Bigelow
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I believe strongly that Joker will win Best Picture and it will crush my entire being
actors, directors, and producers love that goddamn movie
I’m hoping 1917 can put it down due old white people loving that stuff.
I loved that scene, and the similar earlier scene when Laurie walks the girls home from a party and the family whirlwind swoops in to take care of Meg. It's a neat trick that she pulls off that flush of emotion and yanks it away twice to emphasize the family dynamic and it works so well both times.
My favorite scene, though, is that exchange between Amy and Laurie in Paris in her studio. The bit where she tells Laurie that she either wants to be great or nothing is just perfect. It's be easy for that to come across as overly smug or whiny (the usual path most adaptations take with Amy), but Florence delivers it in this perfectly convincing matter-of-fact way that says she's thought about it, knows it's a personal weakness, but has accepted it and is trying to make the best life she can despite her limitations, and man, that just slays me. It's just a beautiful little moment of reality and self-acceptance.
I think they just got confused that the award was for most editing.
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Yeah, that's what stood out to me from the list-- that movie feels like a decade ago and it's still such a bummer that it didn't grab a foothold. Absolutely my favorite of the Lego movies I've seen and yeah, probably my favorite animated film of last year
Primal being submitted is weird! I guess you could submit a single episode as a short film? It's a TV show, submit it to the Emmy's.
No nomination for best director though. No woman nominated for that at all, again.
5 women ever have been nominated for best director.
And the academy is apparently really proud that almost a third of the nominated are women.
So this is complicated for me because I come from a theatre world. In both theatre and film directors and actors are tasked with interpreting a script, and the effect of those choices is usually how I determine how good the directing was-- I can't tell you much about shot composition, let alone how much of it belongs to directing vs cinematography, but the deliberate placement of scenes, a newer or more specific interpretation of a character (as minor incident points out above, Amy), those sort of things tend to make me think the direction is impressive
Things get murky because the most impressive choices I found in the movie (which I loved and would probably give Best Picture to, though a lot of that is recency bias) were in how the movie jumped around the timeline, which resulted in the brilliant handling of the Amy/Laurie romance (and how it informed the Jo/Laurie relationship), as well as the parallel scenes of Beth's recovery and death. But I'd bet that in this case, those choices were made at the screenwriting stage as an interpretation of the book, rather than at the directing stage as an interpretation of the script. And Gerwig did get nominated for Adapted Screenplay. And as someone who loves film but understands directing from a theatrical perspective, I'm ill-equipped to explain why Gerwig deserves the director nom when she already has screenplay beyond "well, I liked that movie the most, so she's the best"
Of course, directors are also often the primary decision maker on a project, so any triumph or failure of a work could potentially be attributed to them
Another thing that often leaves me with an impression of great direction is if the director's voice comes through, if the feel and tone and message and themes of the work feel specific to them. And Little Women absolutely feels of a piece with Ladybird, so I'm inclined to think the direction succeeds.
From what I understand it has two, so definitely less.
Might enter anyway for the lulz.
Yeah I made a lot of picks for movies I really hope don't win those categories, but the Academy has burned all the faith I've given them.
Not to mention that means 'Catchy Song' got snubbed for Best Original Song as well.
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Super Cool tho
Anything that gets Lonely Island on a stage works too.
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I've got to watch Jojo Rabbit and then I'll be set on my best picture noms, and then the true work will begin
this awards season has been a mess for usual predictable metrics, so it's anyone's game still!