What are your 4 wishes for nomination morning?
Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 5:20PM Yesterday was the final day of voting for the nominations for 93rd annual Academy Award nominations. Since there are four days until the nominations are announced please name your 4 non-locked up dreams for Monday morning. I'll go first...
- A surprise nomination for my pfavourite pfilm star Michelle Pfeiffer who feels like she's running in 7th place but hasn't quit campaigning (very unlike her to do this much press!) so you never know. Whether or not you love French Exit (or have even seen it) -- she was in the dread sixth spot for me* which hurts me more than you know, trust -- three nominations for that level of talent is shamefully stingy. If I ran the world she'd have 7 nominations and 3 Oscars already. (Yes, equal to Ingrid Bergman's Oscar stats; she's that much of a movie goddess)
- For Youn Yuh-Jung to get a Best Supporting Actress nomination. I know pundits, professional and amateur alike, think she's locked up but she's really not. Oscar has been so stingy with Asian actors even when their films are Best Picture locks as we've noted many times over the years at TFE. Would be nice if the Academy could finally get over this hurdle with Minari since they haven't been able to get over it with other Asian-centric movies that they themselves loved like Slumdog, Memoirs of a Geisha, Crouching Tiger, Parasite, Ran, and The Last Emperor. All of those films, no matter what you think of them individually, had at least one but sometimes two obvious options for acting honors. Obviously not every buzzed performance was nomination worthy -- just as it's always been with any random group of films starring white actors -- but the fact that none happened despite other big nominations is telling. And not flattering to AMPAS.)
- For First Cow to get at least 1 nomination (Director? Adapted Screenplay? Cinematography?). It would be a pity for it not to have any after being in the critical conversation for so much of 2020.
- For Sound of Metal, one of my own Best Picture nominees*, to have a good morning. It feels like it's on the cusp of several categories but only secure in two: Actor and Sound.
* P.S. Yes, the Film Bitch nominations are done in all the Oscar parallel categories with 11 more "special" awards to come (Limited Performance x 2 and all seven "Best Scene" categories). We'll try to finish them all within a week's time so we can put 2020 behind us. I don't pay much attention to Film Bitch stats since the fun is in making the lists but out of curiousity I looked it up because the nomination stats seemed very low and I was right to be curious. Minari and Nomadland are now the joint record-holders of lowest nomination tally for a nomination leader (six nods each). The previous record holder was Lady Bird (2017) with 7 nominations in its year. While I was looking this up I discovered that Moulin Rouge! (2001) is the all time most nominated picture at the Film Bitch Awards with 14 nominations and 12 Years a Slave (2013) is in second place with 13 nominations. These stats are mostly very surprising to me. I know I know. We should put it in all book form. Who will buy ;) ?
Reader Comments (84)
Ellen Burstyn and Paul Raci.
1) Glenn Close’s eight nom. Ok, Hillbilly Elegy was savaged by critics and mocked by the web but Glenn proves again her worth with the role of Mawmaw and her calling would show the substantial irrelevance of her detractors
2) Two/Three actors from Minari nominated
3) Academy Award nominee Kelly Reichardt would sound so great
4) Chloe Zhao, Emerald, Regina, Kelly...at least two of them in Best Director line-up
My 4:
1. Man who sold his skin will get it's best interational film nom as it deserves!
2. The painter and the thief will sneak into 5 doc conimations!
3. Another round will add up it's international nom with best film, best actor and best director (this year's Parasite, proving once and for all that non english movies are just as good!
4. Kajillionare will get best screenplay nomination or anything...
PS. Michelle Pfeiffer anytime! (and I haven't seen the pfilm)
I would like for Palm Springs to appear in there somewhere.
One nomination would be cool.
1. Alan Kim & Paul Raci nominated for Best Supporting Actor
2. Tahar Rahim nominated for Best Actor (haven't seen it yet, but I'll take my chances
3. Something - anything! - for Never Rarely Sometimes Always
4. Something - anything! - for First Cow
I'll stick to the positives and leave out what I'd like to see "snubbed".
I would just hope that Pfeiffer at least gets nominated. I’m not crazy about her performance but I think she’s easily worth putting in their over some other people.
I would like Pike and Mulligan to get in but those seem like semi-givens. Other than that I’m kind of stumped and have no real horse in this race. Agreed about first cow.
1) Nine nominations for Sound of Metal, including Best Picture and Actor
2) Eight nominations for Promising Young Woman, including Best Picture and Actress
3) Fewer than three nominations for The Trial of the Chicago 7, with a maximum of one marquee category
4) A single nomination for Hillbilly Elegy (Best Makeup and Hairstyling)
My 4 wishes:
• Michelle Pfeiffer, French Exit for Actress
• Kelly Reichardt, First Cow for Director
• The Assistant for Original Screenplay
• The Father for Film Editing
1. Paul Raci for Best Supporting Actor
2. Steven Yeun for Best Actor
3. Emerald Fennell for Best Director
4. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ for Screenplay
- Maria Bakalova
- Paul Raci
- First Cow anywhere
- No Boseman in Supporting (He'll deservingly win Actor. No need to nominate him again where he didn't truly deserve it. Leave that spot open for Racy, Turman, Kim...)
- No Chicago 7 in Director or Score (Direction mediocre at best, score was noticeably bad.)
I hope Oscar doesn't pass up the opportunity to welcome Michelle Pfeiffer, Jodie Foster and Ellen Burstyn back to the party. I haven't seen their films but those are careers that can't be celebrated enough. All of them could do with one more Oscar nomination.
My number one wish is a surprise nomination for Candice Bergen, because she really deserves it.
1) Close, Burstyn, Youn, Foster and Colman for Best Supporting Actress
2) Mads Mikkelsen and Tahar Rahim for Best Actor
3) Chloe Zhao, Regina King and Emerald Fennell for Best Director
4) Alan Kim e Paul Raci for Best Supporting Actor
That Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan get nominations and Saoirse beats Kate’s record for first to five. Remember at the beginning of the season that seemed like a sure thing?
- Bakalova in
- Close out
- Boseman out
- Davis & Mulligan out
- Bonus Round: No Kaluuya. I want frontrunners dropped.
1. Raci and Youn Yuh Jung supporting performances
2. La Llorna and Man Who Sold His Skin, international film
3. Delroy Lindo (I know)
4. Time best documentary or Jingle Jangle (song, costumes)
I know this is technically more than 4 but I am the Critics Choice of posters today, lol.
Wishing for the best Monday.
1. Paul Raci
2. Delroy Lindo
3. FIRST COW anywhere
4. DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD for Doc
Make it happen, AMPAS!
Sigourney Weaver shits all over Pffeifer and she only has three career nominations from long ago as well. At least she has good company.
Bo Burnham for Best Supporting Actor (he completely held together the RomCom section of the film)
Turntables from All In for Best Original Song
La Llorona for Best International Feature
No. 7 Cherry Lane for Best Animated Feature
Most of all, Carey Mulligan (for the win)
plus three near impossible longshots:
Supporting Actor: William Sadler "Bill & Ted Face the Music"
Dan Stevens "Eurovision Song Contest"
Supporting Actress: Essie Davis "True History of the Kelly Gang"
I only have one wish:
That the nominees are as unpredictable as the Baftas
If so (which I doubt) I might consider rewatching the show after I voluntarily abstained since 2009.
1. Delroy Lindo in actor. At this point, I'm prepared for the snub but he is so good and his film is so strong. He's had a career of great performances and campaigned really hard. Spike also doesn't get enough credit for being great with actors.
2. Glenn Close in Hillbilly. She's great here and worthy of a nom. It's easy to paint her as overdue, but she really provides some strong moments in this film that are really moving. Her scene at the door with meals on wheels delivery guy and her scene with the urine are underplayed beautifully, highlighting her characters' strength and pride.
3. Han Ye-Ri in Best Actress. The film wouldn't work without her and she's very believable. There's also just an emotional rawness to her character that works.
That's all.
4 wishes
1. Borat subsequent movie film gets nominated for best picture
2. Frank langella gets nominated for supporting actor(trial of the Chicago 7)
3. Brian dennehy gets nominated for driveways, second posthumous Oscar behind Chadwick boseman
4. Onward gets nominated for animated feature
Pfeiffer, Ahmed, Burstyn & Raci in the 4 acting categories pleeeeeaaase
I would buy that book in a heartbeat!
1. A surprise Best Actress nom for Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth).
2. The Forty-Year-Old Version in Best Original Screenplay.
3. Candice Bergen (Let Them All Talk) in Supporting Actress.
4. Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Night in Miami) in Best Actor.
All long shots, I know.
Surprised you are rooting for First Cow. I thought you hated Kelly Reichardt movies.
I'm just waiting for the Razzies so that Music gets all of the awards!
1. Paul Raci gets nominated for supporting actor
2. MInari gets the most nominations including best picture
3; Burstyn over Close
4. Wolfwalkers gets snubbed
1. The Father nominated for Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Director and Screenplay. Does this count as four?
2. Bo Burnham for Best Supporting Actor
3. Any nomination for Palm Springs
4. Steven Yeun for BestActor
1. A surprise Best Actress nom
2. Tahar Rahim in Best Actor
3. Keeping Youn Yuh-jung in Supporting Actress
4. No. 7 Cherry Lane for Best Animated Feature
Sound of Metal Best Picture
Vanessa Kirby Best Actress
Mary Rylance Supp Actor
One Night In Miami Song
My 4 non-locked wishes:
1. Delroy Lindo in Best Actor
2. Toni Collette surprising nom for I’m thinking of ending things
3. Eurovision for Costume Design
4. Bacurau recognized somewhere
1. Da 5 Bloods nominated for nothing except, perhaps, Lindo for Best Actor. He is literally the only good thing about the godawful mess of a film.
2. Paul Raci for Best Supporting Actor.
3. I’m Thinking of Ending Things for anything.
4. Sound of Metal for anything in the sound categories.
I agree with 3 on your Best Actress list.
Mt Ballot
1- McDormand
2 - Kirby
3 - Coon
4- Mulligan
5 - Day
I'll buy your book!
As for Oscar wish list, your #2 and #3 are mine. (#4 would be, too, except I'm pretty confident Sound of Metal will do well.)
I also wish for either Regina King or Emerald Fennell to get in for best director (in an ideal world both would, but I think that's too much to hope for).
And Mads M for actor, though I really don't see that happening. Sadface.
Film Bitch Awards in book form?! I WILL BUY!
Delroy Lindo and Ben Affleck in Best Actor
Michelle Pfeiffer and Elisabeth Moss ("The Invisible Man") in Best Actress
Ellen Burstyn and Youn Yuh-jung in Best Supporting Actress
3 Women in Best Director.
1. Riz Ahmed. Likely. I hope he actually wins.
2. An all women and/or people of color slate for Best Director. Look, there’s really 8-10 top directors and none of the top white men would be suffering an injustice if they were left out due to some combination of these: Zhao, Lee, Fennel, King, Chung, Reichardt, and King. Okay, that’s probably not gonna happen. How about four out of five, and then Fincher?
3. Both Youn Yuh-jung and Steven Yuen getting in.
4. "La Llorona" being nominated for International Feature.
4 Wishes for nomination morning (assuming Nomadland is safe in all its categories)
Paul Raci to snag that 5th slot for Supporting Actor
Sound of Metal to make it into Best Picture
Amanda Seyfried to hang on in Supporting Actress
Eurovision’s “Husavik” in Best Song
Tahar Rahim, Paul Raci, Riz Ahmed, Vanessa Kirby - all I want this year. :)
I should amend/add: a director lineup that also includes Lee Isaac Chung fo' sho.
I would ABSOLUTLY buy a Film Bitch Awards book. Hell, I'd even gift a few copies to friends!
As for Oscar wishes? Alongside what everyone else's, mine is Zendaya in Actress. I know her and the film have lost steam (by a lot...), but I still wanna see her getting in for that pure Movie Star Performance.
1. Palm Springs - best original screenplay
2. Palm Springs - best editing
3. Delroy Lindo - 5 Bloods
4. Elizabeth Moss - Invisible Man
Lindo for Best Actor
1. A screenplay nomination or, better yet, a picture nomination for PALM SPRINGS
2. Alan Kim for supporting actor
3. Swankie for supporting actress
4. "Husavik" for best original song.
5. No nomination for Jared Leto
1) I've been saying this for months. I will not believe Promising Young Woman is getting in until the film is announced. The Academy Awards historically do not take well to horror films and I could easily see the film miss every category except Original Screenplay. I don't want that, but I won't be surprised.
2) I hope Paul Raci gets in for Supporting Actor.
3) I feel confident that Onward is getting in for Animated Feature, but it's still something I hope to see.
4) Speedcubers getting in for Documentary short. I'm just worried that it's not "serious" enough to actually get nominated.
Glenn Close
Glenn Close
Glenn Close
Glenn Close
She has so many haters in the digital sphere I have to be superstitious and give my four Oscar wishes to her. Geraldine Page it.
My realistic four wishes are:
Emerald Fennell in director
Collective in Documentary
Quo Vadis, Aida? in Int’l
Welcome to Chechnya in visual effects
My wildest dreams: And Then We Danced and The Forty Year Old version for everything!
Frank Langella for Supporting Actor
Candice Bergen for Supporting Actress
Kelly Reichardt for Best Director
Florian Zeller for Best Director
1- ROSAMUND PIKE getting nominated alongside Mulligan, Kirby, and Loren, so no McDormand ( I've grown so tired of her) and Davis, who is supporting, can sit this one out.
2- CARRIE COON, sublime in The Nest getting a surprising nomination rounding up the Best Actress category.
3- ANOTHER ROUND getting nominations for Best Film (instead of Mank), Director (instead of Fincher, yeah I DID NOT like Mank AT ALL) & Actor (Mads Mikkelsen, alongside Boseman, Ahmed,Yeun and Lindo)
4- SONIA BRAGA showing up as Supporting Actress for Bacurau, SA is so all over the place that it may actually happen. Braga, Close, Colman, Yuh-Jung and Fishback.