Caption This

by Murtada Elfadl

Who had the best time at the Golden Globes? I nominate.....

Not only did Patricia Arquette give a rousing speech in which she managed to bring together the threat of war with Iran, the climate disaster in Australia and the upcoming American elections; she did so while never taking off her blue tinted glasses. And for some reason she appeared with a viking crown at the after parties. May the mystery of why she wore this never be explained.

One tiny trivia; did you know Arquette has won three Golden Globes in the last five years? For Boyhood, Escape at Dannemra and this year's The Act. In the process she beat Meryl Streep twice. 

However let's have fun in the comments by captioning the photo or imagining where she got the viking crown from. Have at it.

Toys, battle angels and photoreal lions dominate the VES Awards

by Nathaniel R

Alita Battle Angel, The Lion King and Toy Story 4 led the pack at the annual Visual Effects Society nominations though Toy Story 4 is not one of the finalists for the Visual Effects Oscar. (Inexplicably the Oscar finals had to make room for Cats which received zero nominations from the VES.) Sadly the VES completely ignored Ad Astra which was an unfortunate miss for the Oscar finalist list and suffers a further indignity here. What's a beautiful well reviewed sci-fi drama gotta do to get some respect? 

The nominations and a few comments are after the jump...

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33 Days till Oscar

33 is sometimes called 'the Jesus year' but how many people have won the Oscar while sporting Jesus hair. Not too damn many. We can only think of Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club, Best Supporting Actor), Robert Richardson (three wins in Cinematography), and Ludwig Goransson (Black Panther's score) if you don't require the beard with the long hair. Christian Bale (The Fighter) almost applies but then he went and cut his hair between the Globes and Oscar night in the winter of 2011. Anyone else?

Florals (before) spring? Groundbreaking.

Miranda Priestley would not approve! 

more florals after the jump...

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DGA (semi) surprises with a Taika Waititi nomination

by Nathaniel R

Taika is a previous Oscar nominee for Live Action Short. He could become an Oscar nominee in additional categories this year (Best Director and Best Screenplay)

Making a clean sweep of the major guild nominations, Jojo Rabbit is also in with the Directors Guild of America. This was not totally expected but neither is it much of a surprise since his "anti-hate satire"has performed well all season with awards bodies, despite very vocal detractors and a modest box office performance. Yes, it grossed just a little less than Parasite but since it has Hollywood stars and is in English it wasn't half the breakout word-of-mouth smash that the former was. Where the DGA is always more interesting is in their less Oscar-buzzed "first time feature" category. The nominees are after the jump...

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