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3 days til the Oscars - comment party.
Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 2:03PM 
With only 3 days til the Oscars let's share our 3 utmost (positive only please) wishes for the big night. I'll start
1. For a half-shocking Oscar-winning acting quartet that goes like so: Close / Cooper / King / Grant
2. That Black Panther wins Best Costume Design
3. That the musical performances and speeches are all so entertaining and buzzy that the Academy at large realizes how stupid they've been all season and falls immediately back in love with their own brand, distances themselves from the clutches of ABC, elects entirely new leadership in each branch who all love both movies and the Oscars as a once annual event worth really embracing.
Is this too much to ask?
Reader Comments (53)
1. Black Panther best picture
2. Best Actress tie between Close and Colman
3. basically your number, LOL
I'm gonna predict Black Panther for Best Picture and hope it happens for fun surprise of the night along with costume, prod and score.
Hmmm a tie between Close and Colman would be an intriguing result. But this isn't the BFCA, so I think that's out of the realm of reality.
So mine are:
1. Glenn Close
2. Glenn Close
3. Glenn Close
1.That they DO have a surprise host. This be near impossible but the Whoopi Goldberg rumors gave me the excitement that there are ways to reinvigorate the show without sacrificing its integrity.
2 .That Glenn Close’s speech be one for the ages. How can she top her Globes speech?
3. Remember that year in which the actual costumes of the films nominated were modeled in a runway? I think it was 1996 and Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Pierce Brosnan presented. … Please Academy , do that! That was fun!
I'm sure Glenn Close is winning so I'll use my wishes elsewhere
1. Richard E. Grant wins Supporting Actor
2. Rachel Weisz wins Supporting Actress
3. Shoplifters wins Foreign Film
1. Grant for supporting actor
2. Cooper for actor
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me? for adapted screenplay
1. Paul Schrader wins Original Screenplay
2. Richard E. Grant wins Supporting Actor
3. Spike Lee wins Director
All would make for good tv and go down well in history.
1.Glenn Close
2.Glenn Close
3.Glenn Close
Only three?
1- Glenn Close win (could tie with Olivia or Melissa) and her speech be historical and makes everyone cry and gives her a standing ovation during it.
2- Richard E. Grant, Bradley Cooper and Rachel Weisz being the acting winners of this year (I hate cooper but he is good in ASIB and I don't want him winning another Oscar in the future!)
3 - Shoplifters, Cold War, The Favourite, The Favourite or Vice, The Favourite, Spile Lee (Yorgos is a wild dream), The Favourite or Blackkklasman wins the Oscara of foreign film, cinematography, production design, editing, original screenplay, directing and best picture over ROMA.
Secret wish? Whoopi Goldberg being the secret host
1. Glenn Close
2. Glenn Close
3. Glenn Close
1. The Cinematography, Editing, and Makeup/Hairstyling winners give the most memorable acceptance speeches of the night just to stick it to the Academy.
2. Spike Lee wins Best Adapted Screenplay to finally have a competitive Oscar.
3. Richard E. Grant pulls off the upset.
1. Glenn Close wins
2. Richard E Grant wins
3. Nicholas Britell's If Beale Street Could Talk takes best original score because have you listened to it lately? It's just beautiful.
Bonus wish: the Academy politely tells current Academy President John Bailey to fuck off, along with ABC, and next year everything goes 100% more smoothly.
ALSO: Spike Lee & Blackkklansman win at least 1 or 2 Oscars. That would make me so happy.
1. Ruth Carter (for costume design)
2. Spike Lee (for director) (give Cuarón cinematography!)
3. Can You Ever Forgive Me (for adapted)
Nathaniel - When can we expect final predictions?
I'm rooting for Blackkklansman, The Favourite, Can You Ever Forgive Me and A Star is Born. Those four plus Widows would've been an all-time-great lineup in the olden days of five nominees.
Actually, almost all of my wins come from those five movies, give or take First Man.
Three surprises that I could see happening:
1. A Spike Lee win for director.
2. A Richard E. Grant win for supporting actor because another win for Mahershala Ali in such a short time span when Denzel is still holding at two himself is not a good look.
3. A Black Panther sweep in the technical categories.
If that quartet wins, all will be forgiven. The host drama, the Bohemian Rhapsody nominations, the presentation flip-flop - all of it.
Rob - I have been listening to the score for Beale Street nearly every day, and yes, it is an all-timer. It would have been #4 on my list.
Glenn Close wins Best Actress
Paul Schrader wins Best Original Screenplay
Shoplifters wins Best Foreign Language Film
Best Pic/Actors: The Favourite/Cooper/Coleman/Weisz/Grant
Best Foreign: Shoplifters
And Bohemian Rhapsody wins nothing, ESPECIALLY RAMI F'kn MALEK!!!!!!!!!!!
1. Cooper for Best Actor
2. Grant for Best Supporting Actor
3. A Star Is Born for Best Picture
an all-shocking acting quartet that goes like this: Cooper/Colman/Grant/Weisz
roma for best picture but cold war for foreign film
free solo for documentary
if any year seems like it could maybe give us some surprises, it's this one. which will make it all the more depressing when all the same people win again!
1.- Glenn Close
2.- Glenn Close
3.- Glenn Close
1. Bradley Cooper for ASIB
2. Richard E. Grant for CYEFM
3. PLEASE PLEASE Rachel Weisz in The Favourite!
@Rob and @Suzanne: I agree with you 100% about Brittel's exquisite score for BEALE STREET, but I'm not predicting it. Best score almost always matches up with a best picture nominee. Blanchard or Göransson are more likely winners, stats-wise.
Since there's been talk in this thread of ties, I had this funny but nightmarish vision. Gary Oldman (or whoever does Best Actress) says "ladies and gentlemen, we have a tie!" Then proceeds to announce Lady Gaga and Yalitzia Aparicio.
1. Olivia Colman or Melissa McCarthy for Best Actress (sorry, Glenn folks, but this was a good not great performance,and I don't care if she is "due".)
2. Richard E. Grant for Best Supporting Actor
3. Shoplifters for Best Foreign
I would love for someone to win an Oscar and pull a Shane Douglas. For those who aren't familiar with pro wrestling, this is what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kpEjrKqf3s
@Pam: Did you actually see The Wife?
In solidarity!
1. Glenn Close
2. Glenn Close
3. Glenn Close
My least favorite nominee can win in every other category, and I’ll be fine as long Glenn gets her due.
#itstime
My three wishes are that the Oscar prognosticators/predicters/bloggers have been wrong all along.
1. The Favourite wins Picture, Director, Supporting Actress (Weisz), Original Screenplay, Editing, Costumes, Production Design.
2. Close / Cooper / Grant / Weisz
3. Bohemian Rhapsody and Black Panther get NOTHING !!!!!!!
It's unfortunate that Close has not already won for either Garp or Dangerous Liaisons (which would have been deserved, especially considering that she was beat by Jodi Foster for that movie-of-the-week looking message movie (that must have stung)! But Close has been given gifts that she did not deserve. I'm speaking of the ridiculous nominations for The Natural and The Big Chill. Hence, I tend to view her as a five time nominee (the BAFTAS found her worthy only twice). In part, I believe the seven nominations scenario drives this narrative of "being due" to a large extent, so much so that the breathlessness has reached hyperbole, if not monomania. Of course, undoubtedly, many of you would/will reject that notion and I believe that you believe her performance in The Wife was the gold standard. I don't. When she wins, what I will come away with is the irony that she won for that movie-of-the-week looking message movie---which, to me, feels apropos.
@Ishamel: Did you actually see The Wife?
I may weep if Close doesn't get her trophy. I may have to leave the room to avoid seeing her face.
Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book tying for best picture. Lets just get that shit out of our system.
Three surprises I would love to see but for sure won’t be happening:
1. Gaga and Sam Eliott win their Acting prizes.
2. The Favourite wins editing and directing.
3. First Reformed wins screenplay, if nothing more than for a lifetime achievement.
And of course, even with the request that comments stay positive, there are those that are incapable of not being toxic. Shame.
Mine:
1) Isle of Dogs for Score
2) Grant for Supporting Actor
3) Black Panther for Costume Design
@Bruno Of course I saw it....I hope you are not being condescending. I already admitted that Close has rabid admirers of her work in The Wife. I am just not one of them (and believe me, I'm not alone).
@Ishmael: That's fine, I'm not being condescending but I feel I have to check because SO many people are arguing against her in the film without having seen it. There's no such thing as "of course" someone I don't know did something on the internet.
1. That all the presenters practice their lines and make sure that any jokes land.
2. That the diversity of the nominees is reflected in the winners. Not all white men in the tech categories and shorts.
3. That we get the pleasure of a delightful acceptance speech from an overwhelmed but so deserving Richard E. Grant.
@Bruno I don't make opinions unless they are informed. I loathe people who do. So thanks for taking me at my word. But could you please explain this sentence to me?:
"There's no such thing as "of course" someone I don't know did something on the internet."
I'm having trouble deciphering it.
Basically just because someone on the net comments on a film doesn't mean they "of course" have seen it.
Got it ...thanks.
1. I could live with almost anything if Richard E. Grant pulls off an upset.
2. Even though technically I rank them both third in their nominated categories, I’m rooting for Close and King, and I’ll be let down if they don’t win.
3. Academy Award-winner Nicole Holofcener
1. Richard E. Grant wins Supporting Actor
2. The Favourite wins Best Picture
3. The Favourite wins Best Screenplay (original)
1. Glenn gives an inspiring acceptance speech on par or even exceeds her GG one
2. Grant n Weisz pull a v welcoming upset in their respective categories!!
3. The Favourite wins Best Picture!! 😁
That's all.....
@Bruno. Yep, thanks for asking. My favorite Glenn performance(s) is what she does in every single episode of Damages. Then, Dangerous Liaisons. Then, Fatal Attraction. Then, World According to Garp.
@Pam: That's a great list, I'd probably agree although I might put The Wife ahead of Garp and DL ahead of Damages. Good thing for her she's not going up against her past performances!
The only thing I really want is a surprise appearance by Meryl and her estatic reaction when Glenn wins.