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| This is a comments thread about Blog Post: Oscar Predictions and Other End Of 2024 Lists by Scott Bettencourt |
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Curious that you put DUNE PART TWO in your ten favorites and ten expected nominees for Best Picture, but not in the films that you personally would nominate for Best Picture. Make it make sense! (DUNE PART TWO, for all its shortcomings, was my favorite picture of the year.)
I share your sentiments re CONCLAVE ( a thousand times better than ALL QUIET) so I'm surprised you give that short shrift as well (e.g., Fiennes deserves his nomination for that film).
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Jan 20, 2025 - 1:58 PM
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SBD
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Supporting Actress | JOAN CHEN - DIDI
It's incredibly likely this won't happen for real, but she was indeed terrific in this movie; a sweeter and more patient mother than the jackass main character deserved. Her work in this movie really hits home how misused she was in schlock like On Deadly Ground and Judge Dredd (though the "Bitch!" "Judge Bitch!" exchange from the latter still makes me giggle).
MY LEAST FAVORITE FILMS OF 2024 | AFRAID
Made my personal list, too, which is a damn shame. A movie about the ever more tangible threat of AI replacing talented craftspeople, making humans complacent and turning us against what we wrongly assume to be threats is as timely as it gets. The first half really dug into these issues. What's more, it was a kick to see John Cho in another Sony-produced, August-released "technology, amirite?" thriller after the infinitely superior Searching and Keith Carradine was a delight as his boss. Then, the second half happens and it's like AI actually took over the production. So many unanswered questions that spoiled the whole experience.
PIECE BY PIECE
I've only seen the trailer, but...if studios are really going to resort to ludicrous gimmicks to make and sell their music biopics, maybe it's time to send music biopics the way of Old Yeller. (People can tell me otherwise until the Earth flies off its axis and crashes into the sun. The monkey gimmick of Better Man is goofy.) A Complete Unknown didn't seem to employ any gimmicks and it's getting good reviews and box office without caveats. Go figure.
MY FAVORITE THINGS FROM THE MOVIES OF 2024 | Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt in The Fall Guy, reminding us what charismatic stars in big screen romances are supposed to be like.
I'm sorry, but even now, the romance angle of this otherwise pretty darn good movie struck me as phony. So, Blunt was just able to waste plenty of studio time and money reshooting one stunt just to punish Gosling? Also, late in the film, he was on the phone with her repairing their relationship while bad guys were trying to kill him?
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September 5 would be my choice for best picture of 2024 as well.
For the most part I agree with your predictions. However I would be rather surprised if Karla Sofía Garcòn and Zoe Zaldana would not get nominated as best actress and supporting actress for Emilia Perez and Kieran Culkin as best supporting actor for A Real Pain.
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