OK I'm feeling slow here - what exactly is pulling a Zhang Ziyi? And why was her ballot entertaining last year?
I'm happy for Gary that he got a nomination, and I haven't seen Demian Bichir's performance so I can't begrudge him the nomination either (and I agree with you that I'd rather an under the radar performance get nominated than a lazy big Hollywood performance). I'm just disappointed Michael Fassbender (and Michael Shannon) couldn't sneak in there. I guess I should at least be thankful that they didn't get snubbed in favour of Leo. It's still a pretty solid category. I haven't seen Tinker Tailor so I'm rooting for Dujardin.
I'm so blah about those additional Best Picture nominees because I was really hoping to see all the nominated films this year and it would have been perfect if they had cut out those three, because then I'd only have TTOL left. Blaaarg.
It's pretty obvious from the nominations that Bridesmaids and Dragon Tattoo kept up traction with AMPAS while Drive fell off completely. And clearly they have a boner for ELIC.
I'm surprised Rooney Mara displaced Tilda instead of Glenn Close, but it's not that odd for the Oscars to ignore a Tilda performance in an arthouse film. The one time they did award her it was for her most mainstream movie.
Oh god, if the Israeli film beats A Separation, it'll be a shit storm.
OH GEEZ. But really, if anything else is going to win in this category it's going to be the Holocaust movie. The Holocaust movie always wins in the Foreign Films category.
Until Tilda this year, Zhang Ziyi in 2005 was considered the ultimate "snub" in that she got nominated for the Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG but lost out on the Oscar nomination (most likely to Keira Knightley). But this year, Tilda got all three of those plus BFCA! So it's an even bigger snub. Her ballot was fun because of what she said about them, and the fact that some of the longshots on her list ended up making the nominations! So there's kind of a joke around that her ballot has the magic touch. lol.
A Better Life was just an OK movie, but I thought Bishir gave a good performance. It's definitely one of those performances that would have enough SUPER passionate supporters because he's playing this dedicated, long-suffering father character. It's the kind of stuff that affects people emotionally so much that it makes sense that it'd sneak past a more cold or unlikable performance like Shame.
I'm very surprised that they had 9 nominees. Nine was like the maximum they got when doing those simulations for past years, and idk, this just felt like such a weak year to me. It just shocks me that 9 films got more than 5%.
I think they pretty much hated Drive, Shame and We Need to Talk About Kevin. lol. I mean, nothing except for a measly sound nod for Drive? The Tilda snub is just really weird because it's not like We Need to Talk About Kevin was THAT far off in its little indie corner like I Am Love and especially Julia (that movie made like $20,000? lol). It got so much attention at Cannes, plus Tilda was getting in even with groups as mainstream as the SAGs and National Board of Review. I think it was a lot of factors, but I don't think it's as simple as the Academy doesn't like indies or non-mainstream stuff. Tree of Life is pretty far from mainstream, and the acting branch has nominated stuff like Laura Linney for The Savages and Javier Bardem for Before Night Falls.
Haha, I guess it's already been like 4 years since the last Holocaust movie won that category. Seems about the right time for another. Although The Counterfeiters wasn't a terrible win at least. The competition sucked that year.
I'm happy for Gary that he got a nomination, and I haven't seen Demian Bichir's performance so I can't begrudge him the nomination either (and I agree with you that I'd rather an under the radar performance get nominated than a lazy big Hollywood performance). I'm just disappointed Michael Fassbender (and Michael Shannon) couldn't sneak in there. I guess I should at least be thankful that they didn't get snubbed in favour of Leo. It's still a pretty solid category. I haven't seen Tinker Tailor so I'm rooting for Dujardin.
I'm so blah about those additional Best Picture nominees because I was really hoping to see all the nominated films this year and it would have been perfect if they had cut out those three, because then I'd only have TTOL left. Blaaarg.
It's pretty obvious from the nominations that Bridesmaids and Dragon Tattoo kept up traction with AMPAS while Drive fell off completely. And clearly they have a boner for ELIC.
I'm surprised Rooney Mara displaced Tilda instead of Glenn Close, but it's not that odd for the Oscars to ignore a Tilda performance in an arthouse film. The one time they did award her it was for her most mainstream movie.
Oh god, if the Israeli film beats A Separation, it'll be a shit storm.
OH GEEZ. But really, if anything else is going to win in this category it's going to be the Holocaust movie. The Holocaust movie always wins in the Foreign Films category.
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A Better Life was just an OK movie, but I thought Bishir gave a good performance. It's definitely one of those performances that would have enough SUPER passionate supporters because he's playing this dedicated, long-suffering father character. It's the kind of stuff that affects people emotionally so much that it makes sense that it'd sneak past a more cold or unlikable performance like Shame.
I'm very surprised that they had 9 nominees. Nine was like the maximum they got when doing those simulations for past years, and idk, this just felt like such a weak year to me. It just shocks me that 9 films got more than 5%.
I think they pretty much hated Drive, Shame and We Need to Talk About Kevin. lol. I mean, nothing except for a measly sound nod for Drive? The Tilda snub is just really weird because it's not like We Need to Talk About Kevin was THAT far off in its little indie corner like I Am Love and especially Julia (that movie made like $20,000? lol). It got so much attention at Cannes, plus Tilda was getting in even with groups as mainstream as the SAGs and National Board of Review. I think it was a lot of factors, but I don't think it's as simple as the Academy doesn't like indies or non-mainstream stuff. Tree of Life is pretty far from mainstream, and the acting branch has nominated stuff like Laura Linney for The Savages and Javier Bardem for Before Night Falls.
Haha, I guess it's already been like 4 years since the last Holocaust movie won that category. Seems about the right time for another. Although The Counterfeiters wasn't a terrible win at least. The competition sucked that year.
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