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Awards Season 2020

#1 Post by mfunk9786 » Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:26 am

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Here's to another poisonous year of feature film awards!

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#2 Post by kcota17 » Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:55 am

Reserving this space for when Nolan wins Best Director and Picture for Tenet.

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#3 Post by mfunk9786 » Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:56 am

You'll be waiting a long, long time

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#4 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:06 am

I dream of a year where PTA and Mike Mills battle it out for the top prizes, don’t let me down 2020

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#5 Post by Big Ben » Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:08 am

To be honest I was pleased with how 2019 turned out in the end...mostly. Surely 2020 can't screw it up?

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#6 Post by Cremildo » Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:54 am

kcota17 wrote:
Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:55 am
Reserving this space for when Nolan wins Best Director and Picture for Tenet.
I'm pulling for Ridley Scott and The Last Duel, but that kind of film doesn't get much Academy love anymore, and only four of his films have ever become awards contenders, so it's an extreme long shot.

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#7 Post by Parasite » Tue Feb 11, 2020 7:29 pm

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#8 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Feb 11, 2020 8:38 pm

Parasite wrote:
Tue Feb 11, 2020 7:29 pm
I predict that another member of the Coppola family will win an Oscar: Roman Coppola for The French Dispatch.
Not unless they announce a new category for "Best Story"

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#9 Post by Parasite » Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:15 pm

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#10 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:47 pm

Well color me surprised, touché. I wish I was friends with a great writer, could have a few fun pow-wows spewing my ideas, have them sit down and write the script and then show up to win an Oscar (I’m being ridiculous but something doesn’t feel equitable here)

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#12 Post by DarkImbecile » Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:20 pm

Academy Rules Streamed Films Eligible, Merges Sound Categories

Since I know many of us have been deeply concerned: yes, Trolls World Tour will be Oscar-eligible:
“THR” wrote:This season, and until further notice, films can qualify for the competition without screening for at least one week in a Los Angeles-area theater, the longstanding barrier for entry; after all, all movie theaters in L.A. and most of the country remain shuttered indefinitely.

Instead, films that were scheduled for theatrical release, that meet the other eligibility requirements and that are made available for Academy members to view on the organization's members-only streaming service, Academy Screening Room, within 60 days of being made available on a publicly available streamer or VOD service, will be in the running. (This covers any and all films that scrapped their theatrical release due to the coronavirus crisis in favor of another method of reaching consumers, such as Trolls World Tour.)

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#13 Post by Never Cursed » Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:51 pm

It's buried in there, but good on them for relaxing the percentage reqs for original score nominations - I think Birdman would have been eligible for the award under the new rules

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#14 Post by colinr0380 » Sun May 03, 2020 1:16 pm

Was that the issue that caused problems over Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood being eligible back in the day?
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#15 Post by Never Cursed » Sun May 03, 2020 5:19 pm

Yes, but it still would be ineligible under the new rules, since the majority of the film's music was taken from sources outside the score

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#16 Post by dda1996a » Mon May 04, 2020 6:00 am

Now if only we can find a reason why Nick Cave & Warren Elise's score for The Assassination of Jesse James wasn't nominated...

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#17 Post by Never Cursed » Fri Jun 12, 2020 1:45 pm

The Academy changes its Best Picture rules again: starting with the Oscars after this upcoming one (which I guess means that they're still banking on having an Oscars for this year), the minimum and maximum number of films in the category will be ten. The Academy is also attempting to mitigate the pressure of awards season by having films available on its streaming service on a quarterly basis, rather than just during voting.

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#18 Post by domino harvey » Fri Jun 12, 2020 3:01 pm

Good. The eight or nine thing has been weird, better to normalize it again at a steady number. Plus we’d get more fun left field noms that way

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#19 Post by Ribs » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:13 pm

You say that, but assuming we go down to the next most nominated movies, that leaves last year’s runner-ups... Bombshell and The Two Popes?

There are def years it’d have been Carol or something we’d actually be happy to see but don’t think it’s a lock this will bring new types of movies into the biggest race.

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#20 Post by knives » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:21 pm

This reminds me. Have you given up on the Oscars project? I don't see word from the last two years.

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#21 Post by Never Cursed » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:24 pm

I feel like this might help A24 more than any one other studio (maybe First Reformed and The Farewell would have gotten picture noms). And I'm glad to hear that you are taking the news so well, domino, given that it'll only increase your future kevyip!

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#22 Post by domino harvey » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:35 pm

knives wrote:
Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:21 pm
This reminds me. Have you given up on the Oscars project? I don't see word from the last two years.
I’m still missing a few films from the last couple years. I’ll get to them eventually!

And Ribs, true, perhaps. But I wonder if people will vote differently like they did when the category first expanded and we got stuff like District 9, which was never getting nommed the traditional way

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#23 Post by Ribs » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:59 pm

I just have a hard time imagining any movie getting nominated with NO other nominations - Selma and the Post had just one other but at least that was something (Grand Hotel is the only BP winner with only two nominations, if you were curious - I think Grand Illusion is the only nominee ever to have no other noms?). Which is why I find it suspect people assume that last slot would have went to The Farewell or Uncut Gems or what have you when they couldn’t break through anywhere else.

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#24 Post by domino harvey » Fri Jun 12, 2020 5:00 pm

I think last year one spot would have gone to Knives Out, but of course all any of us can do is speculate

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#25 Post by knives » Fri Jun 12, 2020 5:03 pm

Honestly the last few years have been so daring relative to expectation that to argue against the possibility of interest is ridiculous. They haven't nominated only bland music biopics.

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