Oscar Balloting Begins. What are your top three FYCs?
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 11:52AM 
Tomorrow's the day awards-freaks, January 5th, 2017. Oscar nomination balloting begins. Where the buzz falls now is where the buzz settles. AMPAS branch voters have just 8 days to finalize their ballots (they're due by the 13th). January 14th through 23rd then becomes our awards purgatory and on the 24th when nominations are read we learn who goes to heaven and who is cast out for good, forever doomed to be considered a "snub" to their future fans. Pardon the tortured analogy but the Oscars are our religion!
This past week has been a very strong week for La La Land and Fences with fantastic box office grosses for each as they went wide. The hottest titles from October and November (Manchester, Moonlight, Arrival) can also feel pretty safe about their potential nomination hauls. But there are several titles that are a bit harder to read in terms of possible Oscar love. Those are the titles that expanded too late for a definitive take from the precursors (20th Century Women, Lion, Silence, and Hidden Figures) and their counterparts, the titles that were too "old" (i.e. released before October like Sully, Hell or High Water, Florence Foster Jenkins, Captain Fantastic, Zootopia, Love & Friendship) for precursor season's problematic but blatantly obvious "shiny new toy" syndrome in which everything that's just opened must be prioritized above all else.
If you had three FYCs and three FYCs to impress on Oscar voters this week, what would they be?
FYC, Oscars (16), Punditry, release dates
Reader Comments (82)
Best Picture - The Lobster
Best Actress - Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Best Supporting Actor - Tom Bennett (Love & Friendship)
Dear Academy,
For Your Consideration
The Dressmaker - Best Costume Design/Marion Boyce and Margot Wilson (and Winslet).
Captain Fantastic - Best Art Direction/Erick Donaldson
Miss Peregrine - Best Song: "Wish that You Were Here"/Florence & The Machine
Yours,
Sincerely
Best Picture, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay - Lion (I think its safe, but don't want to be complacent)
Best Actor - Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)
Best Picture, Supporting Actress - Hidden Figures (all are great, but particularly would like Janelle Monae to be cited)
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Best Picture: Love and Friendship
Best Supporting Actor: Tom Bennett (for Love and Friendship, although he was also one of the best things about Mascots)
Best Supporting Actor: Ben Foster, Hell or High Water (Jeff Bridges is great in this, but really?)
Dear Academy,
Best Original Screenplay: Chris Kelly for Other People
Best Supporting Actor: Trevante Rhodes in Moonlight
Best Production Design: Ghostbusters
And Dear Nat, for your special categories,
Best Actress in a Limited or Cameo Role: Katy Mixon in Hell or High Water
Best Ensemble: Everybody Wants Some!!
Best Sex Scene: Other People
@Paul, I totally agree with you about Tom Bennett and Mascots!!!
My 3 FYCs:
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Best Picture: Hidden Figures
Best Actress: Taraji P. Henson, Hidden Figures
Best Actress: Rebecca Hall, Christine
Jackie for Picture, Director, and Score!
Rickman, Rickman, Rickman. Just for a nomination, to say "sorry we didn't nominate you earlier. SOME people, stopped doing their job for you (his work in Dogma was conversation worthy) after 1995."
Ralph Fiennes for A Bigger Splash. Dear film God's, please.
Best costume design for The Dressmaker.
Isabelle Huppert.
My three FYCs:
Best Supporting Actress: Paulina Garcia for Little Men
Best Supporting Acfor: Ralph Fiennes For A Bigger Splash
Best Sound Mixing: The Witch
I'm going to cheat here, but...
Best Supporting Actress:
Kate Dickie, The Witch
Eva Green, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Janelle Monáe, Hidden Figures
Best Supporting Actor:
Tom Bennett, Love & Friendship
Alden Ehrenreich, Hail, Caesar!
Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay:
Kelly Fremon Craig, The Edge of Seventeen
Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster
Richard Linklater, Everybody Wants Some!!
BA: Annette Bening in 20th Century Women
BSA: Andre Holland in Moonlight
BSA: Janelle Monae in Hidden Figures
For Your Consideration:
Best Actress: Sandra Huller, Toni Erdmann
Best Editing: O.J.: Made In America (I would say Best Picture, but I think this one has some small chance of happening, a la Hoop Dreams. Such a mammoth, nuanced feat of editing!)
Best Score: Laurent Perez Del Mar, The Red Turtle
Best Actress: Kim Min-Hee, THE HANDMAIDEN
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert, ELLE
Best Supporting Actor: Trevante Rhodes, MOONLIGHT
Best Supporting Actor: Alden Ehrenreich, Hail, Caesar!
Best Supporting Actor: Ralph Fiennes, A Bigger Splash
Best Original Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Everybody Wants Some!!
Actress: Taraji P. Henson, Hidden Figures
Supporting Actress: Kathryn Hahn, Bad Moms
Supporting Actor: Andre Holland Moonlight
Co-sign Theis -- Academy please nominate The Dressmaker - Best Costume Design/Marion Boyce and Margot Wilson.
This nomination is similar to Priscilla of the Desert or Dallas Buyers Club. A small indy film that revolves around the costumes dreamt up by Kate Winslet. Really good work done on a shoe string budget.
2/ Annette Benning (I just watched Jackie & was not greatly impressed by Portman) so I'm hoping the hype doesn't deprive a more worthy nomination.
3/ Best Director - Denis Villeneuve -Arrival - It's a high profile film but Villeneuve is likely to be squeezed out by higher profile directors.
FYC - Lucas Hedges Best Supporting Actor Manchester By the Sea
I really think he is the forgotten gem of this film. Affleck and Williams get all the attention usually when discussing this film... but he brings such humor/heartache/realness to this role its amazing.
Best Actress--Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Best Actor--Colin Farrell, The Lobster
Best Supporting Actor--Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
** Best Supporting Actress--Janelle Monae, Hidden Figures
Best Score--Micha Levi, Jackie
Best Cinematography--Jarin Blaschke, The Witch
FYC:
Best Actor: Chris Pine
Best Actor: Colin Farrell
Both are better than Garfield in their roles and in better movies than Garfield who is inexplicably looking like a lock for a nomination
Best Supporting Actor: Peter Saarsgard. His performance in Jackie is certainly worthy . And seven nominations for Jeff Bridges seems so unbalanced compared to all the fine actors still waiting for their first.
Best Adapted Screenplay: Certain Women
Best Actress: Mary Elizabeth Winstead - 10 Cloverfield Lane
Best Production Design: The Handmaiden
ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURES OF ARTS ANS SCIENCES
For your consideration
MAKE THEIR TABLES MORE HAPPY PLACES WITH OSCARS THERE!
Ralph Fiennes - A Bigger Splash
Isabelle Huppert - Elle
Chan-wook Park - The Handmaiden (director, adapted screenplay)
Oscar voters need to watch Krisha, The Lobster, and The Dressmaker and come to the appropriate conclusions.
Best Supporting Actor: Alden Ehrenreich in Hail, Caesar!
Best Lead Actress : Ruth Negga in Loving (and best director Jeff Nichols)
Best Original Score: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis for Hell or High Water
Easy!
Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures)
Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)
Janelle Monae (Hidden Figures)
I'm also going to cheat here:
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FYC 1 - "HAIL, CAESAR!": Best Picture; Best Supporting Actor (Alden Ehrenreich); Best Supporting Actress (Scarlett Johansson); Best Cinematography; Best Production Design; Best Makeup & Hair
FYC 2 - "PATERSON": Best Actor (Adam Driver)
FYC 3 - "NOCTURNAL ANIMALS": Best Picture; Best Director (Tom Ford); Best Supporting Actor (Michael Shannon); Best Adapted Screenplay; Best Editing (nom); Best Original Score
FYC 4 - "LOVING": Best Actress (Ruth Negga)
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and finally
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FYC 5 - "and the Oscar for Best Actress goes to... Isabelle Huppert, Elle!"
Best Picture - The Lobster
Best Supporting Actor - Alden Ehrenreich
Best Score - Cliff Martinez, The Neon Demon
Best Production Design & Best Costume Design - The Childhood of a Leader
Yeah I guess 4 is cheating, but 4 immediately came to mind. And I definitely support those suggesting Paulina Garcia for Best Supporting Actress. Really wish she'd gotten into the conversation. Great work.
FYC:
1. Best song: Pink - Just like fire
(would love to see her hanging down the academy stage on ropes)
2. Please, please don't forget that in the first part of the year there was one male supporting acting job, that shined above the rest and that's Ralph Fiennes in Bigger splash,..
I'm sure you even didn't notice the jem that was the best female supporting actress:
3. Kate Dickie in "The Witch"...
PS. FYC "King's choice" for the best picture, best foreign language film, best cinematography, best actor, best costume design, best adapted screenwriting, best original score, best editing, best production design, best costume design, best sound editing, best sound mixing,
Best Picture - The Lobster
Best Actor - Joel Edgerton - Loving
Best Adapted Screenplay - Love & Friendship
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert "Elle"
Best Actress: Kate Beckinsale "Love and Friendship"
Best Actor: Ethan Hawke "Born to Be Blue"
Best Picture - JACKIE
Best Director - Pablo Larraín, JACKIE
Best Original Score - Mica Levi, JACKIE
Best Picture - The Handmaiden
Best Animated Feature - Sausage Party
Best Actress - Ruth Negga
1) Best Actor: Chris Pine, Hell or High Water
2) Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Silence
3) Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert, Elle
FYC
Best Actress- Meryl Streep FFJ
Best Supporting Actor- Hugh Grant FFJ
Best Costumes Best Makeup Best Production Design- FFJ
Dear Oscar Voters,
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:
Best Supporting Actress - Riley Keough, "American Honey"
Best Supporting Actress - Kathryn Hahn, "Bad Moms"
Best Original Score - Matthew Margeson, "Eddie the Eagle"
Hugs,
George
P.S. Two extra considerations:
Best Actress - Ellen Page, "Tallulah"
Best Supporting Actress - Julianne Moore, "Maggie's Plan"
It's all for Isabelle Huppert for Elle. Every prayer.
But I sure do wish Shia LaBeouf had a shot for American Honey and Paulina García in Little Men.
FYC
Best Costume Design: Everybody Wants Some!!
Delightful (recent) period detailing, with costuming that both accentuated and reflected character beats. And the guys looked sexy as hell.
Best Supporting Actress: Kate McKinnon, Ghostbusters
It's an out there, comedic performance fuelled by a unique and eccentric physicality, everyone buzzed about McKinnon after the film bowed and quite rightly too, easily one of the most memorable turns this year.
Best Film: Julieta
Almodovar's latest is not only his best film since Volver but also a evocative mix that understands crippling depression and the impact of separation.
Can I make them all Supporting Actor?
-Andre Holland in Moonlight
-Alden Ehrenreich in Hail, Caesar
-Tom Bennett in Love and Friendship
Original screenplay: Other People
Best original song: "Drive it like you stole it" Sing Street
Supporting Actor: John Goodman "10 Cloveefield Lane"
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Zootopia
BEST PICTURE: Zootopia
BEST FILM EDITING: Eye In The Sky
Supporting Actor - Tom Bennett (Love & Friendship)
Cinematography - Café Society
Original Score - Light Between Oceans
Best Actress: Emily Blunt, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
Best Supporting Actor: Alden Ehrenreich, HAIL, CAESAR!
Best Supporting Actress: Lily Gladstone, CERTAIN WOMEN
Best Picture: Jackie
Best Picture: The Handmaiden
Best Supporting Actress: Laura Linney "Nocturnal Animals"
Academy Members: Feel free to consider Jackie and The Handmaiden in all other categories, too.
Sidenote: i jus wish tt Elle was released in UK last Dec, instead o a botched up later date o Jan/feb. Huppert wld be nom n wld seriously win the BAFTA!
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain (Miss Sloane)
Best Director: Pablo Larrain (Jackie)
Best Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro (Cafe Society)
Mine are pretty obvious choices which is what made it all the more frustrating that they did not get any traction at all
Coleman - The Lobster
Fiennes - That one movie
Alden - Hail Cesar
FYC:
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: YOUR NAME.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: RALPH FIENNES, A BIGGER SPLASH
BEST PICTURE: THE WITCH
Considering realistic (though not necessarily all likely) contenders:
Best Actress: Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Best Supporting Actor: Ralph Fiennes, A Bigger Splash
Best Cinematography: Moonlight