2020 Nominations - — Page 2

Lighthouse deserved more nods, it is a masterpiece.

Lupita should've been there over Ervio.

Pugh should've been nominated for Midsommar, she gave the best performance male or female of the year.

Rebecca Ferguson should've also got a nod for her amazing turn in Doctor Sleep.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood shouldn't have been nominated for anything.

It was not a good year for female or black filmmakers when compared to last year hence the lack of nominees in technical categories. Let's hope next year is better for them.

Hopefully Parasite sweeps the biggies, but it won't. It'll be the same usual boring old white men club that wins every time they fart out their next mediocre boy movie x

My opinions:

1) While I wasn't a big fan of the film (mostly the second half), I do agree that Lupita should have been nominated over Erivo.

2) While there is an uproar, I agree with the Academy that Greta Gerwig should not have been nominated since the direction was nothing special.

3) Even though it wasn't going to happen, I also wish Rebecca Ferguson would have been nominated for "Doctor Sleep."

4) In regards to the uproar about the Oscar nominees that I am seeing on Facebook and other places......I, legit, want to ask the people complaining if they have actually seen any of these movies or performances (which I know a good deal have not) or are they just jumping on the bandwagon. You can't say, "Jennifer Lopez should be nominated" when you didn't see her performance. I agree that Hollywood needs to be more diverse BUT you shouldn't get nominated to meet a quota or prevent backlash either.

Updated On: 1/14/20 at 09:33 AM

I doubt Parasite will win. I can see a world in which Joker or Jojo Rabbit takes the top prize because the Academy sucks that way. If not then probably The Irishman. I don't really see any of the others winning.

Roscoe said: "I'll call it for Ho or Tarantino as Best Director, with probably the Tarantino winning Best Picture.
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It's a somewhat ironic and cruel twist of fate that most great directors end up winning awards for their worst work instead of their best.

The fact he can win anything for OUATIH and yet didn't win for Pulp Fiction (and beaten by Forrest frickin Gump at that) is a travesty.

Impossible2 said: "spiderdj82 said: "917 will end up winning best picture with a possible best director for Mendes."

I think that's their safest and least controversial bet."



Totes agree.

I also don’t get the love for Joker, it was a one note performance. He started crazy and stayed that way for the endless two and bit hours. That film was a chore to get through, no real story arc , crazy , crazier , craziest. A real head scratcher on the love that’s been piled on.

I guess Sam Mendes is a lock for directing 1917 after winning the Directors Guild award and the film itself seems like a pretty big favorite for Best Picture. I liked the film overall but I admit to feeling a bit bummed that it might win the biggest awards. The direction is a gimmick, and not even a new gimmick. The plot itself doesn't really touch on larger themes about the futility of that war, and it's not much of a character study either. It's deliberately a small story of a reluctant hero and it gets a little stupid in its final third. It feels like Mendes is getting the directing nods because it was most directed film. Again, I liked it when I saw it despite some qualms.

But in a year that includes Parasite, a brilliant and rich film that had much more to say, and even Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a flawed but thoroughly entertaining movie that nonetheless left me feeling melancholy, or the Little Women remake, 1917 feels like such a typical, safe choice even among the nominees.

I'm not so sure the voting system won't work in 1917's favor too. Parasite seems to have emerged as the lead challenger, but I just have my doubts that a bunch of people will have it as their #2 choice behind, say, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Joker, or Jojo Rabbit. (I realize that some prognosticators and a betting site has Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as their choice, because of Tarantino and Hollywood honoring itself and all, but I can't remember a three-film race where the third film wins. Maybe I'm not remembering.)

It seems like Parasite will get its share of #1 votes, but I can easily imagine others ranking it lower because of the language barrier. An older, more conservative voter might go with 1917 and then a film like The irishman.

Seems like it's setting up this way...

Best Picture - 1917 (with Parasite as a possible upset candidate)

Director: Sam Mendes for 1917

Acting awards: the actors who have have been winning everything

Best Original Screenplay: Tarantino (Bong a possible upset candidate)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Greta Gerwig for Little Women

Cinematography: 1917

Best International Film: Parasite

I was pretty happy with all the winners last night. Each category seemed pretty well deserved for the most part. No huge surprises in the acting categories. I haven't seen Parasite yet but I noticed my local theater is still showing it so hopefully I can catch it this weekend.

Somebody needs to give the translator for the Parasite team a raise. She was just terrific at remembering those long speeches and then translating them to English.

Biggest snub of the night was to Netflix. They had the most nominations and the least wins. It was also weird not seeing any of their ads since Disney wouldn't allow it.

1917 won what it should've, but in no way was it B.P/Director worthy.

Irishman won exactly what it deserved...nothing.

Other than that I thought everything else was spot on apart from Brad Pitt who should've been nominated for Ad Astra but would never have won for that so they put him up for OUATIH instead.

So happy for Parasite, amazing film and the first to actually deserve it's B.P win since Schindler's List IMHO x