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95th Oscars Honoring the Films of 2022 CEREMONY: March 12th, 2023
AND THE WINNERS ARE... THE DANIELS (Kwan & Scheinert)
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"Daniels" aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE |
Todd Field TAR |
Martin McDonagh BANSHEES OF INISHERIN |
Ruben Ostlund TRIANGLE OF SADNESS |
Steven Spielberg THE FABELMANS |
Who SHOULD win? (vote daily) |
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HOW'D I DO ON MY PREDICTIONS? |
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| 4/5 I missed Ruben Ostlund (Triangle of Sadness) predicting Charlotte Wells (Aftersun) which is hilarious since I had had Ruben Ostlund in my predictions from June onward until the 'final call'. Whoops. | ||||
WHO WAS LEFT OUT? |
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James Cameron (Avatar The Way of Water), Baz Luhrmann (Elvis) and Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun Maverick) received some key precursor attention. Other directors with buzz were Charlotte Wells (Aftersun) who had won numerous "first film" prizes. We suspect though that it was Edward Berger in sixth place for All Quiet on the Western Front given how much the film overperformed in nomination, falling just one nomination short of tying the record for most-nominations-for-a-non-english-language-film (a record currently held jointly by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Roma) We'll never know who was in sixth place among those five but other directors who had buzz at one point or another during the season were Park Chan-Wook (Decision to Leave), Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King), SS Rajamouli (RRR), and Sarah Polley (Women Talking), and Jerzy Skolimowski (EO) |
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WHO WILL WIN? |
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The Globe went to Spielberg (The Fabelmans) and the Critics Choice went to the Daniels (EEAAO). It feels up in the air at the moment but we're leaning towards a Pic/Director split as that's become more common. UPDATE: Shortly after the Globes it became clear that Spielberg's chances were fading and The Daniels emerged as the clear frontrunners. |
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TRIVIA TIME! This is the first time in history wherein all the Best Director nominees were also nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category. |
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Star Signs: Aquarius & Gemini Born in Westborough Massachussetts and Birmingham, Alabama respectively. They met at film school in Boston. Dan Kwan and Daniel Schienert, known as "The Daniels" are the third directing duo to be nominated at the Oscars. The first was Robert Wise & Jeremy Robbins (West Side Story, 1961), who won, the second was Warren Beatty & Buck Henry (Heaven Can Wait, 1978) who lost, and the third was the Coen Bros (No Country For Old Men, 2007) who also won and then they lost for True Grit, 2010... so statistically (with a tiny sample study) the Daniels have a 50% chance of winning. Dan Kwan is the only director nominated this year who was also the star of a hit music video. |
Star Sign: Pisces Born in Pomona, California Todd is actually his middle name. Before becoming a director he was a successful actor appearing in several movies in the 1990s as well as a regular supporting actor on the great TV series Once & Again Though Field has six Oscar nominations overall, this is his first in Best Director. All three of his features have been Oscar nominated in multiple categories. In the Bedroom (5 nominations), Little Children (3 nominations). If TÁR (6 nominations) wins anything it will be the first of his films to win an Oscar. |
Star Sign: Aries Born in Camberwell, England (to Irish parents) Martin McDonagh is only the second winner of Best Live Action Short (Six Shooter, 2005) to go on to a Best Director nomination at the Oscars. The first was Taylor Hackford (Teenage Father, 1979) later nominated for Ray (2004) |
Star Sign: Aries Born in Styrsö, Sweden Östlund is the fourth Swede to be nominated for Best Director. His predecessors were Jan Troell and Ingmar Bergman, who were both first nominated in the 1970s. Like them he also first came to Oscar fame via the Best International Feature category first. Inbetween those giants and Östlund was Lasse Hallström who was nominated twice. Östlund is the 9th director to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice. Of his predecessors in double-Cannes win, only Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part 2, 1974) and Michael Haneke (Amour, 2012) chased one of their Palme wins with a Best Director nod at the Oscars. Though directors are not "official" nominees in Best International Feature, they should be, so spiritually he was already an Oscar nominee via The Square (2017), his first Palme d'Or winner. |
Star Sign: Sagittarius Born in Cincinnatti Ohio Steven Spielberg has now tied William Wyler for the stat of "director with most films nominated for Best Picture. The Fabelmans is Spielberg's 13th film to score that honor. Spielberg is now with Martin Scorsese for second place in "Most Best Director Nominations". They each have 9. The all time leader is William Wyler with 12 Best Director nominations though John Ford has the most wins (4) Spielberg is currently in a massive tie for 3rd most winning Best Director. If he wins his third Oscar he'll tie Wyler & Capra for second place of most wins. John Ford currently holds the record with 4 Best Director wins. |