Eight Links Out
Friday, December 21, 2018 at 5:22PM 
• Deadline 10 upcoming films that were given by funding from the British Film Institute... including a new meaty role for Sally Hawkins
• Filmmaker picks the 10 best films directed by women this year from Kenya's Rafiki through the US indie Madeline's Madeline. The biggest grosswer on the list is You Were Never Really Here by Lynne Ramsay...
• TFE <-- which, in case you missed our year in review of box office hits, is only the 8th biggest grosser among female helmed films this year just behind Leave No Trace and Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• The Muse "Penny Marshall and the Movies That Shaped Me"
• Gold Derby if Lady Gaga wins two Oscars this February she'll be the fifth woman to accomplish that trick in one night (but first actress).
• Pajiba picks some favourite movie costumes of the year and thankfully doesn't ignore contemporary films
• Electric Literature why recent movies about queer friendships are so revolutionary
• Awards Daily talks to Black Panther's editor Michael Shawver about some of the movie's best scenes and a compliment from Francis Coppola
• /Film you have just one week to watch Pixar's animated short finalist Bao online. It's soooo adorable
Reader Comments (8)
At this point, I don't want Glenn Close or Olivia Colman to win Best Actress nearly as much as I want Lady Gaga to lose it.
Too bad The Shape of Water upstaged Sally's performance in Maudie.
Ecstatic to see any mention of Happy As Lazzaro and You Were Never Really Here.
But really dejected that Sara Colangelo's masterclass in direction The Kindergarten Teacher seems to have impressed no one else.
Also are people treating The Tale as "TV"? Why is it coming up on no top 10 lists?
All four of the above would rank in my Top 10 of the year - and not because of any "diversity" brownie points, strictly and purely based on merit.
I just saw "If Beale Street Could Talk" the other night and want to say that Colman Domingo's sweater in the bar scene is a WANT. It had four colors of stripes on the shoulders, pocket, and wrists and I loved it.
Likelihood (Don't let precursors and such fool y'all): Close then Colman then Gaga.
Bao, aka The Other Dumplin'
I agree with 'peggy sue.' Sally turned in two incredible Oscar-worthy performances with Maudie and TSOW. Of the two, Maudie gets my vote, but both roles were incredibly risky, and in risky films, too. It's a shame she couldn't be nominated for both. 3Billboards was right in McDormand's wheelhouse...a fastball down the middle of the plate. It would have been remarkable if she HADN'T knocked it out of the park.
LMAO SAME @BRUNO
Academy will lose all remaining respect if that happens.