Guy Lodge

Thank you, the correct take.

All fruit is good

Oh, the UK oddsmakers didn’t have him nearly that long — the film is SO popular here, it was clearly an upset possibility — but it still would have been a nice bit of pocket money.

Meant to put a little money on Robert Aramayo and forgot to do so, but it would have been a nice dinner out.

I want to know all about the folding sink.

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I think a lot of voters are going to reach this conclusion as they get around to watching the movie.

How the hell is “power” a subheading of “style”?

Werner Herzog and Sabrina Carpenter. Together.

Holy SHIT

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“For over three decades”

I’ve been. It’s tacky beyond belief.

Just saw someone say he was surprised Jafar Panahi didn’t get a Best Director nomination because “he has such a great narrative,” and guys, the world is bigger than awards season.

Yeah, not sure what’s going on there.

Seeing a lot of posts asking how THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE could be so overlooked when THE BRUTALIST did so well last year, and I admire both films, but the Corbet-Fastvold connection doesn’t mean they’re like for like. Both are big swings, but one is stately and classical, and the other is wild.

My now-annual awards season reminder: just because the Academy decided on the term “international film” as a euphemism for “non-English-language film” to make themselves sound less parochial, doesn’t mean we all have to follow suit. “International film” means pretty much nothing at all.

A supporting campaign for Infiniti would have been defensible, but I think they did the right thing — and I commend any actor in a borderline lead/supporting part who takes the harder route.

Agreed, and wrong that it didn’t even make the shortlist last month! At least Johnnie Burn has his Zone of Interest Oscar.

That one was slightly more in the Academy’s typical prestige-biopic wheelhouse, but yeah.

Yeah, and that had a kind of wave of sentiment behind it that this does not. But it’s fine! Not mad at it.

Mescal was good in HAMNET, but attempting to pass him off as a supporting actor in that film was ridiculous, so I’m not mad he missed while Lindo, a film-enhancing asset in a genuinely supporting role, got the nod instead. (Yes, Elordi and Skarsgard are leads too, but one small victory at a time.)

Anyway, Joseph Kosinski has now directed more Best Picture nominees than David Lynch did, and that’s why the Oscars, as much as they delight and entertain us nerds every year, should never be taken to heart.

I had quite a good time with F1, but it is one of the more arbitrary popcorn blockbusters ever to find its way into the Best Picture category — it’s extremely well-made but not exactly artistic, popular but not exactly a pop-culture phenomenon, liked by many but adored by… who?

That we now every year have multiple films scoring double-digit nomination tallies does suggest to me that voters are watching fewer films than they did before — in an odd way, I think expanding the Best Picture field has narrowed the prospects for films that aren’t in that discussion.

Nominations I’m happiest for that weren’t a given:
- SIRAT in Sound
- ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in Production Design
- UGLY STEPSISTER in Makeup
- Kate Hudson in Actress
- Fanning in Supporting Actress
- SINNERS MVP Lindo in Supporting Actor
- SECRET AGENT in Casting
- WICKED: FOR GOOD in nowhere

Honestly, most of Wells’ followers today are probably donating to ICE, so I guess this counts as the worthier cause.

It’s strange that he professes to hate Trump so much, given that their interests and priorities are pretty well aligned.

May we all move through life with the confident entitlement of Jeff Wells scolding his readers for only giving him $3000 for a free jolly to Cannes