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)
FYC...
Daniel Radcliffe - Best Actor - Swiss Army Man
The Neon Demon - Best Cinematography
Whatshisdoofus - Supporting Actor - Love and Friendship
Lily Gladstone, Supporting Actress for "Certain Women"
Alden Ehrenreich, Supporting Actor for "Hail, Caesar!"
"Hunt for the Wilderpeople" for Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Supporting Actress: Jena Malone for The Neon Demon
Best Cinematography: Natasha Braier for The Neon Demon
Best Original Score: Cliff Martinez for The Neon Demon
supporting actor: alden ehrenreich - hail, caesar!
original screenplay - the lobster
adapted screenplay: hunt for the wilderpeople
FYC
Best Picture - Christine
Best Actress - Rebecca Hall, Christine
Best Supporting Actress - J. Smith-Cameron, Christine
Best Costume Design "The Dressmaker"
Best Supporting Actor: Ralph Fiennes "A Bigger Splash"
Hugh Grant "Florence Foster Jenkins"
Best Supporting Actress: Molly Shannon "Other People"
Best Picture: Sing Street
Best Supporting Actor: Ralph Fiennes
Best Supporting Actor Alden Ehrenreich
FYC:
Best Supporting Actor/Actress: Janelle Monae, Trevante Rhodes, and Andre Holland from MOONLIGHT
Best Editing: CAMERAPERSON
Best Actor: Joel Edgerton, LOVING
Supporting Actress: Molly Shannon - Other People
Cinematography: The Handmaiden
Picture: Toni Erdmann
But I haven't seen nearly enough of the films.
Best Supporting Actress-Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women
Best Original Screenplay-Mike Mills, 20th Century Women
Best Cinematography-Bradford Young, Arrival
Best Supporting Actor: Ralph Fiennes, A Bigger Splash
Best Supporting Actor: Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight
Best Production Design: The Handmaiden
Molly Shannon, Best Supporting Actress
Janelle Monae, Best Supporting Actress
Taraji P. Henson, Best Actress
FYC:
BEST ACTRESS: AMY ADAMS IN ARRIVAL
Best Supporting Actor: Liam Neeson in Silence
Best Original Screenplay: Toni Erdmann
Visual Effects-Kubo and the Two Strings
Art Direction-Jackie
Costume-Everybody Wants Some (I mean this seriously, but also-god bless Kari Perkins)
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:
Supporting Actor: Alden Ehrenrecih / HAIL, CAESAR!
Original Score: HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE
Original Screenplay: Jared Bush, Phil Johnston / ZOOTOPIA
BSA: Fiennes and Rhodes
BA: Farrell
Best Supporting Actress: Molly Shannon - Other People
Best Actress: Sally Field - Hello, My Name is Doris
Best Picture: Everybody Wants Some!!!
FYC: consider dropping the gender divide in acting awards.
Paulo - no way. so many more films have male leads and larger male casts in general that even in a field of 10 acting nominations it'd be very easy for it to be dominated by men.
DjDeeJay, I do see your point - but it does need to be questioned at some stage, even if to make the point about the lack of roles for women. Everyone just takes this division as "natural" and the original reason was not the lack of roles for women... Yes, we are able to compare performances of "males" and "females" - but it is 2016 and nobody is trying.
(even worse, 2017 ;-) )
Ruth Negga
Tom Bennett
Joel Edgerton
Best Supporting Actress - Lupita Nyong'o for Queen of Katwe
Best Actress - Ruth Negga for Loving
Supporting Actor - Simon Helberg, Florence Foster Jenkins
Cinematography - Vittorio Storaro, Café Society
Best Score - Cliff Martinez, The Neon Demon
Best Actress
Rebecca Hall - Christine.
Best Original Screenplay
Hello, my Name is Doris
Best Song
La La Land - Audition
Only three??
I will try to stay in the realm of possible that late in the game:
BEST ACTOR : Joel Edgerton - LOVING
So easy to dismissed. Why is subtlety so often overlooked?
BEST COSTUME DESIGN : Giulia Piersanti - A BIGGER SPLASH
You really feel those caracters. Ingenious heterogeneity.
BEST DIRECTOR : Yorgos Lanthimos - The Lobster
Yes, the screenplay. But I think we should celebrate the man who create the world for this screenplay to be believable in the first place.
In all the previous statements, here is the top 15 that I go behind more strongly:
Best Picture: The VVitch
Best Actress: Molly Shannon - Other People
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert - Elle
Best Actress: Ruth Negga - Loving
Best Actress: Rebecca Hall - Christine
Best Supporting Actor: Trevante Rhodes - Moonlight
Best Supporting Actor: Lucas Hedges - Manchester-by-the-Sea
Best Supporting Actress - Riley Keough - American Honey
Best Supporting Actress: Lily Gladstone - Certain Women
Best Supporting Actress: Olivia Coleman - The Lobster
Best Supporting Actress: Kate Dickie - The VVitch
Best Original screenplay: Chris Kelly - Other People
Best Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke - The VVitch
Best Sound Editing: The VVitch (GOOD ONE - Matt St Clair)
Best Score: Cliff Martinez - The Neon Demon
Best Actress: Annette Bening (please take away Amy Adams)
Best supporting actress: Nicole Kidman
No one making noise for Silence?
3 FYCs for Oscar:
-Best Animated Short: Blind Vaysha (Ushev is way overdue for a nom)
-Best Director: Denis Villeneuve (or as Entertainment Tonight says, Villaneuvé)
-Best Song: 'The Ballad of Wiener-Dog' (best in show)
@brookesboy - I think because hardly anyone has seen it yet?
My top three FYC would be ANY nominations for Other People, Swiss Army Man and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Best Supporting Actress, Viola Davis (Fences)
Best Leading Actor, Denzel Washington (Fences)
Best Motion Picture, Fences