At first glance a good list. Big noms for Top Gun and Avatar mean they’ll be more popular interest in the ceremony this year.
Regarding the Best Picture category - which for whatever reason was required to include 10 films - there are several that can immediately be eliminated: Avatar, Elvis and Triangle of Sadness didn't do well critically so they can be immediately disregarded (why there are there at all is beyond me). All Quiet on the Western Front is a remake of a better movie, so that's probably out. Top Gun is, nevertheless, still Top Gun. That's out. Which leaves: Tar Everything Everywhere Banshees Fablemans Women Talking
Huh? All three did fine critically. That said I think the winner is probably going to be Banshees or The Fablemans.
No they didn't. They score in the 60s on Metacritic. "Doing well critically" means 80s and above. Many critics deemed these mediocre-to-bad films and, as such, none of them has even the tiniest chance of winning.
Metacritic uses a green, yellow, red system. All three are in the green, which is positive. It’s literally color coded. No, that’s your own arbitrary take. Green Book was in the 60s as well and it won Best Picture.
When it comes to winning an Oscar, it's typically not enough to merely be "green" on metacritic. Those films were not well received, by Oscar winning standards. As for Green Mile - it was not a good movie, IMO, but it did (unexpectedly) win an Oscar. That was certainly an outlier, but it did happen. Same thing with "Crash" - bad movie that did not do well critically, but for some reason won.
You wrote they didn’t do well critically, which is a different statement altogether. They did well critically. Did they do Oscars good? Who knows, but insinuating those films had meh or bad critical receptions isn’t accurate. I was talking about Green Book. Different movie. Still the point stands.
Oh, God - I had forgotten about Green Book. That one was truly bad - and embarrassing as well. No, did not do well critically at all. A 62 is not good!
It absolutely is. Also, the cutoff for "universal acclaim" is an 80 on Metatritic. Please try to have your fact accurate before attempting to disagree with me.
“Universal acclaim” is different from not doing well critically. By your guide anything less than an 80 is “not doing well” critically. That’s ridiculous.
Ugh Avatar is nominated for Best Picture. It should get visual awards but no way it will get Best Picture. Saying that knowing that Top Gun's visuals are all real rather than computer generated I hope they steal all the same awards they are nominated for including sound.
Yes and Michelle Yeoh will win Best Actress. I feel like Jaime Lee and Stephanie may split votes for Supporting.
My early predictions for the winners of the major awards: Picture: Everything Everywhere All at Once Direction: Everything Everywhere All at Once Lead Actor: Brendan Fraser (The Whale) Lead Actress: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) ← the one I'm most certain of Supporting Actress: Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) Original Screenplay: Everything Everywhere All at Once ← the one I'm least certain of Adapted Screenplay: Women Talking
Everything Everywhere All At Once did nothing for me at all when I watched on Blu-ray a few months ago, I even got up and turned it off after 45 minutes (and I never do that). Gonna have to give it another go on Showtime and see what I missed.
My personal picks, for contrast: Picture: Tár Direction: Aftersun [not nominated at the Oscars] Lead Actor: Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) Lead Actress: Cate Blanchett (Tár) Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) Screenplay: Tár
The 15 films with the most Oscar wins in history. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/academy-awards-2023-most-oscars-ever.html Titanic - Ben Hur - The Lord of the Rings Return of the King : 11 West Side Story (1961): 10 The English Patient - The Last Emperor - Gigi: 9 Amadeus - Gandhi - Slumdog Millionaire - Cabaret - Gone with the Wind - From Here to Eternity - On the Waterfront - My Fair Lady: 8
There are some movies on that best picture list I want to see (Everything..., The Fablemans, Tar) but the only one I actually saw was Elvis and it wasn't bad. Looking back at this year of movies... there really weren't too many great ones imo. Lots of hype over somethings that seem kind of ordinary. My favorite movies that came out in 2022: I Want You Back The Valet Bullet Train Glass Onion
i saw both 'everything everywhere' and 'banshees' and i would not walk across my living room to see either one of them again. i guess i just don't get it anymore.
