Griffin has one month to fine-tune his “Turn the Lights Down Low” rendition
05.03.2026 03:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Griffin has one month to fine-tune his “Turn the Lights Down Low” rendition
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Frederick Wiseman in Other People’s Children saying “Yes, life is long.”
16.02.2026 21:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm halfway through the novel now :( Is there an existing "definitive" adaptation? I've been meeting to see the Arnold, but maybe the Wyler would be the place to start?
04.02.2026 16:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Last Time (I Seen the Sun)" - Sinners
"Clothed by the Sun" - The Testament of Ann Lee
"As Alive As You Need Me To Be" - TRON:Ares
"Train Dreams" - Train Dreams
"Open the Door" - The Twits
3/3
"Lose My Mind" - F1
"You Are My Homeward" - How to Train Your Dragon
"Golden" - KPop Demon Hunters
"My Baby" - Materialists
"I Feel Alive" - A Minecraft Movie
"I Lied to You" - Sinners
2/3
Ahead of tomorrow's Shortlist, here's my preferred lineup of 15. Not a sterling year (...compared to what...), but there are some keepers hidden in there!
"Clouds Away" - Arco
"Our Love" - The Ballad of Wallis Island
"Fight Like a Girl" - Ballerina
"The Risk" - A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
1/3
Another year of marveling at the Best Original Song submissions. This year has a 2x Platinum-selling single, our first AI-generated(!) submission that's also under litigation(!!), and more Diane Warren knockoffs than you think are possible. As well as, obv, the genuine article. Feast or famine:
12.12.2025 13:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Breaking my long posting drought to affirm that Gilded Age is the best show on television and Clock Twink is Fellowes’ crowning achievement.
28.07.2025 02:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0…So you’re telling me these gays *haven’t* ever met a neat lady? :(
29.05.2025 03:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Re: Katy et al
youtu.be/9BqokmjV7l4&...
WI Supreme Court results for Dane County WI showing Crawford kicking Schimel’s ass
Goes without saying that the great state of Wisconsin made me happy today, and feeling particularly proud of the turnout and (yes, expected) blowout in my beloved Dane County. Forward!
02.04.2025 03:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
15 years since I competed to this at the World Irish Dance Championships and it STAYS at the top of my running playlist. Nothing sounds more like 2009.
open.spotify.com/track/4B7k5X...
Back in 2015 Sean Baker showed Tangerine at the UW Cinematheque and afterwards I shook his hand and congratulated him on his work, so yes I do take this as a personal victory
03.03.2025 04:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cannot get this track out of my head or out of my rotation:
open.spotify.com/track/3h1SAC...
From last week: I joined my friends on @oscarwild.bsky.social to sigh heavily about the state of Best Original Song and other auditory categories. We now have three (3) people rooting for Diane!
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A scene from Hard Truths with its six principal characters.
This week I caught up with Mike Leigh’s HARD TRUTHS, a film I’ve been in the tank for since it announced early last year. Happiness is just one of many intense emotions it brings me. A highlight: the presence of a bouquet of flowers and its treatment by three separate characters. Mike Leigh 4ever
27.01.2025 04:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Omg a mirror-image experience: during my intermission tonight a group of older women were like “And now this got a lot but that Emilia Perez got the most! I’m so looking forward to seeing that one.” A real before/after between us.
26.01.2025 03:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To crib from NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, and to maintain my sanity, my goal is to post something (anything) that made me happy this week for…as long as I can!
To begin: I’ve got a Hex Hector playlist regularly on shuffle, and this track has by far taken the lead.
open.spotify.com/track/6qOokT...
"The Journey" from "The Six Triple Eight"
"Out of Oklahoma" from "Twisters"
"No Better" from "Ultraman"
"Kiss the Sky" from "The Wild Robot"
"Harper and Will Go West" from "Will & Harper"
3/3
"Let It Roll" from "The Garfield Movie"
"In Time" from "His Three Daughters"
"The Idea of You" from "The Idea of You"
"Claw Machine" from "I Saw the TV Glow"
"Beyond" from "Moana 2"
"New Brain" from "Smile 2"
2/3
Ahead of tomorrow's Shortlist announcement, here's my preferred lineup. What I'd give to have a lineup of these otherwise extremely non-Oscary movies...
"Electric Energy" from "Argylle"
"Compress/Repress" from "Challengers"
"Custer Park" from "Dandelion"
"Mi Camino" from "Emilia Perez"
1/3
Devastated to say that no, her songs were either not submitted or (more likely) not eligible. Justice for “Release”
13.12.2024 20:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
At the… other… end of the list is this Matthew Morrison stunner from what appears to be a vanity project for the director’s daughter?
youtu.be/h2Xy8Vm_c4Y?...
My #1 song in the list with a bullet is the Ariana DeBose / Boy George song from, yes, ARGYLLE. Get into it
open.spotify.com/track/50S5bD...
You and I, sir, have very different taste :) I might like “Winter Coat” if it were sung by someone else!
13.12.2024 14:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gonna spotlight some important gems today… Did you know there’s an eligible song from Megalopolis? Sung by one “Vesta Sweetwater” (Grace VanderWaal in character)
youtu.be/Q625nzwoOjQ?...
We've got our typical buckets represented:
- Documentary end credits
- Animation
- Indie original musicals
- Faith-based films
- Singer-Actors contributing to their own movie
- Compilation soundtracks
- Christmas!
- and Diane Warren
