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Thursday
Mar182021

The New Oscar Actor Hierarchy - Anthony & Denzel Rising

by Nathaniel R

We last updated the male version of this list (see the actress list here) just after Leonardo DiCaprio was finally crowned for The Revenant (2015) but it's time for some adjustments. What follows is a list of Oscar's 34 All Time Favorite Actors. The only brand new addition to the list is Anthony Hopkins who enters the exclusive club due to two new consecutive nominations (including this year's bid The Father) significantly changing his previous 4/1 record. But there are other big changes. Actors who improved their standing since the last update five seasons ago are Denzel Washington (up several notches and a tier due to Fences and Roman Israel Esq), Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio (up a handful of notches each due to recent nominations), Jeff Bridges and Al Pacino (up a couple of notches each), and Daniel Day Lewis (up a tier with that Phantom Thread nomination but the same numeric placement -- the higher up you go the harder it is to rise much after all). A handful of other men are getting very close to joining this club after recent Oscar favor, too.

This royal club is restricted to men with 5 or more nominations. Only the acting statistics are accounted for so George Clooney, for example, is not (yet) ranked...

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Monday
Mar012021

Top Ten: Greatest Onscreen Pigs

Did you know that it's National Pig Day? Now you do! The day was created back in 1972. To celebrate we thought we'd list the ten best screen pigs of all time with apologies to Pua from Moana and more. If we've forgotten an essential pig, we trust you'll let us know in the comments.

TEN BEST SCREEN PIGS

Let's start with a beauty from a doomed production...

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Monday
Jan252021

AFI Honors: Bridgerton, Ma Rainey, Chicago 7, Nomadland, etc...

Like the National Film Registry but in a more 'in the now' kind of way the American Film Institute offers up a top ten list each year meant to denote American screen entertainments that are "culturally and artistically representative" of the artform that year. This year's jury included luminaries like Oscar winner Marlee Martlin, Oscar nominees Cynthia Erivo and Rian Johnson, Honorary Oscar winner Wes Studi, 2021 Kennedy Center Honoree Debbie Allen, Emmy winner Amy Sherman-Palladino, Director Lulu Wang, film historians like Molly Haskell, Mark Harris, and Leonard Maltin, and many more including critics from Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, TV Guide, and The Washington Post. Here's what they came up with after the jump...

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Monday
Jan112021

International Oscar Race Pt 1: The Contenders List and where to see them

Listen up Oscar fans and international cinema aficioniados. We'd been holding off on this three part deep dive into the list of titles vying for Best International Feature Film until the Academy's announcement. Sadly we hear through the grapevine that they're not actually making this list "official" until very late in January. In other words, less than two weeks after they announce the 90 plus titles, they'll be cutting most of them when the finalist list of ten is announced on February 9th. This is no way to treat the movies, giving them such a tiny window of "official" attention. So we're sharing the list of 93 titles (a record) now and doing our deep dive now... with the caveat that one or two titles might change in late January when the Academy makes this official. If things do change we'll republish the list and the articles then. If they don't, we can just link back. 

NOTES ON THIS LIST: For more details on the films like genre, plot, running time, directors, please see the corresponding Oscar charts linked below. If we've reviewed or written about the movie itself or the country's Oscar history, it's linked below. If the title has a * by it, that means it's got an arguably high profile going into the screenings / voting period (though that's no guarantee of a nomination) by way of either its filmmaking team, noisy campaign, media coverage, or festival heat...

CHART 1  Albania through Greece 

Finland. Denmark. Egypt. Costa Rica

  • Albania, Open Door
  • Argentina, The Sleepwalkers
  • Armenia, Songs of Solomon
  • Austria, What We Wanted  (streaming on Netflix)
  • Ecuador, Emptiness
  • Egypt, When We're Born
  • Estonia, The Last Ones
  • Finland, Tove
  • France, Deux/Two of Us

 

CHART 2 Guatemala through Pakistan

Hong Kong. Nigeria. Latvia. Iceland

  • Japan, True Mothers
  • Jordan, 200 Meters
  • Kazakhstan, The Crying Steppe
  • Kenya, The Letter
  • Kosovo, Exile
  • Kyrgyzstan, Running to the Sky
  • Latvia, Blizzard of Souls / The Rifleman 
  • Lebanon, Broken Keys
  • Lesotho, This is not a Burial, It's a Ressurection * FIRST SUBMISSION
  • Lithuania, Nova Lituania  (streaming on MUBI)
  • Luxembourg, River Tales
  • Malaysia, Roh/Soul
  • Mexico, I'm No Longer Here * (streaming on Netflix)
  • Mongolia, Veins of the World
  • Montenegro, Breasts
  • Morocco, The Unknown Saint
  • Netherlands, Bulado
  • Nigeria, The Milkmaid
  • North Macedonia, Willow
  • Norway, Hope
  • Pakistan, Zindagi Tamasha/Circus of Life

CHART 3 - Palestine through Vietnam

Ukraine. Sweden. Poland. Vietnam

  • Saudia Arabia, Scales
  • Senegal, Nafi's Father
  • Serbia, Dara in Jasenovac
  • Singapore, Wet Season
  • Slovakia, The Auschwitz Report
  • Slovenia, Stories from the Chestnut Woods
  • South Africa, Toorbos
  • South Korea, The Man Standing Next (available to rent)
  • Spain, The Endless Trench (streaming on Netflix)
  • Sudan, You Will Die at 20  FIRST SUBMISSION
  • Suriname, Wiren   FIRST SUBMISSION
  • Sweden, Charter
  • Switzerland, My Little Sister

This list is also available on Letterboxd if you'd like to track your viewing.

INITIALLY ANNOUNCED BUT NOT ON OSCAR'S SCREENING LIST

Algeria's Heliopolis, Belarus's Persian Lesson (disqualified as not Belarusian enough), Canada's Funny Boy (disqualified due to too much English language), Bhutan's Lunana: Yak in the Classroom, Portugal's Listen (disqualified due to too much English language), and Uzbekistan's 2000 Songs of Farida.

Are you planning on seeing any of these films? If you've already seen some which are you rooting for?  

Saturday
Jan092021

The 25 Oldest Nominees of All Time in Best Supporting Actress

by Nathaniel R

Since Claudio was just discussing Ellen Burstyn's estimable Oscar history and the fact that she'd become the oldest acting nominee of all time (in any of the four categories) if the Academy picks her for Pieces of a Woman, we figured it was time for an Oscar list. (Cue talkback: when isn't it time for an Oscar list, Nathaniel?)

Which older women has Oscar gazed at fondly in the Supporting Actress category? Supporting (for both men and women) typically skews older than Lead since Hollywood prefers midtwenties to mid fortysomethings for protagonists. Herewith the women who broke through the wall of ingenues, girlfriends, wives, and mothers, to score Oscar nominations in Best Supporting Actress category later in life... 

25 OLDEST NOMINEES IN BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

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