We continue our journey to the Oscars with more technical awards. I feel like the sound nominations are always kind of disrespected and honestly, misunderstood. I mean, I feel like every year we have another conversation about what exactly is the difference between sound mixing and sound editing, and then we nod our heads hearing …
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I need to speed things up with those Oscar posts because February 9th is approaching rapidly. Today I bring you a very quick list of my preferences in three categories that are all about the look of the film. Sadly, it becomes clear that in all the Best Picture-adjacent categories I simply do not care …
The time has come for ranking one of the „main” categories (even if I personally think it should not be considered that – why is „best actor” more important than, for example, „best documentary short”, but I digress…). Here we have a group of white men only (yes, Antonio Banderas is a Spanish man from …
And now we are entering a territory in which the nominations are completely baffling to me. Three of those films absolutely do not deserve to be even considered for awards (period) of technical nature. Alas, it is what it is. 5. Jojo Rabbit, Tom Eagles This film was a disappointment in every way for me. …
I enjoyed all of the nominated features in one way ot another. And that is great! So far the „lesser” (in the view of the public) categories have the best films to offer. 5. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World The only reason How to Train Your Dragon is lowest on the list …
If nothing else, this year gave us a good batch of nominations in the live action shorts category. Just a side-note, I could swap the placements 2-4 in whichever order because they are equally good. 5. The Neighbors’ Window A couple in NYC is settled in their routine of being together for a long time …
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I think acting categories brought the most disappointments as far as Oscar nominations go this year. The Best Supporting Actor might actually be the least problematic (I’m not sure if there were any glaring snubs here) but, let’s be honest, it’s not exactly exciting. Still, here is my ranking. 5. Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes …
Today, I am continuing my Oscars series and ranking the nominated animated short films. As always, these are the short films easiest to view online. I feel like it would be a good idea for ALL the short film producers to consider making them more easily available since the pre-Oscars time might be the time …
I would like to write a post for each category, ranking all the nominees. I thought I would start with Best Original Song even though I really do not have a lot of strong feelings here. I think all of the nominated songs are… fine. There is nothing particularly awful here, but there is no …
How can I sum up 2019 in movies… For a large part of the year, I actually thought it was quite weak film-wise, for the longest time the top of my „year ranked” list was filled with 2018 films released a year late in my country. But, thankfully, something happened in the autumn/winter and I …
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