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Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 11:30PM by Nathaniel R
We have a new Red Carpet Lineup to obsess over. And now a visual retrospective of the past eight years of Best Actress & Supporting Actresses on Oscar night...
Friday, March 2, 2018 at 8:27PM by Nathaniel R
Frances, Jamie, and Saoirse got the call. They're 3 of the 20 nominees.
The Oscar correlative Film Bitch Award nominations are now complete with the addition of all four acting categories. There's very little Oscar correlation this time with the exception of Best Actress. Hope you enjoy! Extra "fun" categories coming soon.
Part 1 - Film, Director, Picture
Part 2 - Acting Categories
Part 3 - Visuals
Part 4 - Music and Sound (and Nomination Totals)
...and in case you missed it, the top ten list write-up.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 3:56PM John and Matthew are watching every single live-action film starring Meryl Streep.
#9 — Karen Silkwood, a real-life chemical technician turned labor union activist and whistleblower.
“Karen Silkwood has come to stand for so many things to so many people that I had to start all over again in trying to play her as a person, not a symbol. I really don't think we can know much about people after they're not there to tell us. All their real, real secrets die with them. At the end of this whole experience of making this movie, I thought about those minutes before Karen's car went off the road, and I missed her.”
— Meryl Streep, 1983
MATTHEW: Meryl Streep appears in every scene and what feels like nearly every shot of Silkwood, which marked the first but certainly not the last time that the actress would play a real person. Streep’s career was technically still in its early stages when Silkwood’s cameras began rolling in Texas in 1982, but it was already replete with shelves of awards and a peerless level of respectability that prompted co-star Cher to crack this gem about first meeting Streep: “I thought it was going to be like having an audience with the Pope”
Friday, February 23, 2018 at 1:20PM Hi, we’re John and Matt and, icymi, we are watching every single live-action film starring Streep...
#8 — Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Holocaust survivor now fighting back personal demons as a Brooklyn émigré.
JOHN: Meryl Streep is as defined by Sophie’s Choice as Tiffany's is by diamonds. Her “choice” is perhaps the most notorious scene in Streep’s oeuvre, known by people who have no idea that The Deer Hunter or Silkwood or Ironweed even exist. In only our eighth entry, we have already arrived at the performance in which the legend of Streep was crystallized forever...
Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 4:00PM by Eric Blume
Mike Leigh nabbed his second Best Director nomination and his third Original Screenplay nomination with his 2004 film Vera Drake (he has yet to win any Oscars despite seven nominations across those two categories). Imelda Staunton scored an Actress nod as well for this tale of the vibrant eponymous character who “helps girls out” as part of her many job and family responsibilities. Her actions carry a brutal cost, and the film still carries incredible power.
Fourteen years later, Vera Drake has aged beautifully, perhaps in part because Leigh has structured and staged it in a classical framework...
