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More Oscar Nominated Films - 1938 Can you pick films nominated for multiple Oscars, but not Best Picture, by a brief description of the plot?

After this quiz, only ten Oscar years are left in the quiz series. So the end is near...

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More Oscar Nominated Films - 1939 Can you pick films nominated for multiple Oscars, but not Best Picture, by a brief description of the plot?

We are entering the 30s with my quiz series, and after many weeks with an unreasonably large number of nominees, we are suddenly back in single digits.

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🎂"Being nasty doesn't require intellect; any moron can be abusive. The distinguishing factor of great wit is to be nasty with style."

Happy 100th, Kenneth Williams!

Let's Get Physical - My collection of DVDs and BluRays I never compiled a list of all the films I own as physical media (collection that has been builing up over 25 years already), because when I thought it would be nice to do, it were already too many to...

Can my own collection of physical media compete with the Criterion Closet?

I say it does. After all, does the Criterion Closet have both Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter AND Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies? I doubt it.

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British television brought back Mock the Week just in time.

I already can't wait for this weekend's episode.

Seen only three so far, as Marty Supreme and Blue Moon will get their theatrical releases in the next few weeks.

As for the other three:
1. DiCaprio
2. Moura
3. Jordan

All three of them would be excellent winners.

Bonus:
Adonis Tanta in Dracula (the Radu Jude one)

Still hoping If I Had Legs will get a theatrical release here, so I will sit that one out for now.

As for the other four:
1. Buckley
2. Hudson
3. Reinsve
4. Stone

As I am missing one, I get two bonus mentions, right?
Leonie Benesch in Late Shift
Chase Infiniti

More Oscar Nominated Films - 1940 Can you pick films nominated for multiple Oscars, but not Best Picture, by a brief description of the plot?

And we have reached the end of the 40s. The series is approaching the home stretch now, and with it the odd early years of the Academy.

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Someone is entering his modern era. When did you start watching releases from the 2020s?

Humpty Dumpty, a unicorn, the Big Bad Wolf, and gay Hitler.

Somehow Snatch Game characters have gotten a little bit out of hand.

I just find it deeply silly to go with the narrative that the guy who plays Shakespeare in a movie about Shakespeare is a supporting actor.

(Also, I honestly believe it bit him in the back, because I think he might have had a better shot with a lead actor campaign.)

Why would you have nominated Mescal in Supporting?

1. Lindo
2. Del Toro
3. Penn
4. Elordi
5. Skarsgard (he is great, but we do not endorse category fraud here)

Bonus:
Adonis Tanta in Kontinental '25

Two more reasonable bonus picks, from films that were on their radar:
Robério Diógenes in The Secret Agent
Aidan Delbis in Bugonia

More Oscar Nominated Films - 1941 Can you pick films nominated for multiple Oscars, but not Best Picture, by a brief description of the plot?

It's time for 1941 - so the years of nearly indistinguishable war movies swamping my quiz series is pretty much over.

So no more excuses for low scorers!

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1. One Battle After Another
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2. Dunno... maybe Hamnet?
3. Or maybe Bugonia?
4. The one marred by wall-to-wall narration
5. The other one.

Can't remember the last time this category was so lopsided.

More Oscar Nominated Films - 1942 Can you pick the performances that snatched an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress when given a brief description of the character?

After all those 2025 have all been taken care of, quiz-wise, it's time to dip back again into the 1940s.

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I simply refuse to accept that these songs are as old now as Stairway to Heaven was when they came out.

I was listening to a classic rock radio station today, and between TNT by AC/DC and Sympathy for the Devil by the Stones, they played All the Small Things by Blink 182 and Along Comes Mary by the Bloodhound Gang.

On, I repeat, a classic rock station.

It made me feel so old.

For these things, you might use a candlestick in the library, a lead pipe in the kitchen, a dagger in the ballroom and a wrench in the billiard room.

So it's innocuous uses of Cluedo murder weapons in Cluedo rooms.

As I said: very silly, but wonderful.

What connects these four things: Reading in the Dark; Plumbing under the sink; Staging Duncan's death on the dance floor; Tightening a bolt on the billiard table

Just when I thought I couldn't love this show more than I already do, they open their series finale with this incredibly silly question.

Never change, Only Connect.

I went to a costume party dressed as a ticket to the Melania movie but nobody's buyin it

Looking forward to the shirtless pics.

But the fact that she called it "Relentless" at least shows she has a hint of irony about herself.

More Oscar Nominated Films - 2025 Can you pick films nominated for multiple Oscars, but not Best Picture, by a brief description of the plot?

And that's a quiz in every series for this year's batch of Oscar nominees.

And it will be back to the 40s next week.

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To stay on brand for once:
Margit Carstensen as Agnes Shakespeare in Hamnet
Irm Hermann as Linda in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Brigitte Mira as Claire Sardina in Song Sung Blue
Eva Mattes as Nora Borg in Sentimental Value
Hanna Schygulla as Michelle Fuller in Bugonia

Oscar Nominated Films - 2025 Can you pick films nominated for Best Picture, Best International Feature Film, and Best Animated Feature Film by a brief description of the plot?

My regular quiz series will return next week. This week, I still have to do some housekeeping after last week's nominations.

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I don't even remember the last time I have seen so much snow. At least 30 cm overnight.

Oscar Nominated Screenplays - 2025 Can you pick the films that snatched an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay when given a brief description of the plot?

Making new entries to my Oscar quiz series, one day at a time.
Here is the Screenplay quiz.

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2025 Shortlisted Live-Action Shorts ranked A ranked list of all the films on the Academy's shortlist for the 2024 Oscar for Best Live-Action Short. Last year's list 2023 list 2022 list 2021 list

Usually, the Academy nominates my least favorite films from the short film shortlists, but for Live Action Short film, they nominated my #1, 2, 3, 4, and 8 this year.

I am impressed they suddenly found taste.

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Oscar Nominated Performances - 2025 Can you pick the performances that snatched an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress when given a brief description of the character?

Hooray for a new batch of Oscar nominees!
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