I liked the Elvis bio-pic, but not as much as everyone else did. I liked the Batman movie script, but the acting and lighting issues make me not want it to win anything.
I liked Glass Onion. But movies with that much comedy typically don’t win. I would’ve expected more from The Menu, not because it was great, but because it was different, and different usually gets more academy notice. On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 5:23 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Did read that Puck News piece, but also scattered other pieces of news > and gossip. She was unknown to me (though I saw Amsterdam, and am one of > the few people I know who enjoyed it; I did not know she was in it. Still I > doubt anyone thinks that without the celebrity Twitter campaign she would > have been nominated for an Oscar. Notice by end of today (Tuesday in US) > gripes are starting to roll in about actresses who presumably got bumped to > make room for her, including Viola Davis. > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 8:21 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I suspect that I've read the same Puck pieces on Andrea Riseborough and >> "To Leslie" that PGage has. I believe the film got a very limited UK >> release back in October, but it completely passed me by at the time. But >> Riseborough isn't an unknown in any way, at least in the UK. For instance, >> she has a part in David O Russell's Amsterdam which came out around the >> same time (that film was a disappointment for me...) and has won various >> smaller awards over the years. >> >> The film seems to be available to rent on the usual streaming services, >> so I'll check it out too. >> >> Of the Best Picture noms, I've only seen four of the ten so far. In the >> UK, three are on streaming platforms - The Banshees of Inisherin on >> Disney+, Everything Everywhere All At Once on Prime Video and All Quiet on >> the Western Front on Netflix. Elvis and Triangle of Sadness are available >> to rent. Avatar: The Way of Water and Tar are in cinemas now (Tar only came >> out a week or so ago), and The Fabelmans and Women Talking have yet to be >> released here! The Fabelmans comes out this Friday, and I think Women >> Talking a couple of weeks later. >> >> Personally I hate the winter rush to release all the good stuff at once. >> It seems self-defeating, but there you go. >> >> In tangentially related news, the BAFTA film awards are partially fixing >> something they've not managed to do for years - and be broadcast live on >> TV... a bit. For unknown reasons, the BBC has not shown the awards live for >> years now, instead showing them on a delay. But in a time of social media, >> it means every single award is "spoiled" if you stray near your phone or >> laptop. This year, they'll still be on a delay until they aren't. The final >> four awards will be live. I assume that some editors somewhere will be >> judiciously removing animated short awards and so on for a package at the >> end, meaning that a three hour live show that starts at 6pm and finishes at >> 9pm will be compressed into a TV show that has to hit a live point at about >> 8.30pm or something to hand out the final four awards live. I'm sure >> there'll be some kind of in-room 15 minute intermission to cover over the >> gap. >> >> >> Adam >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 3:31 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> At first glance I am most interested in the best actress nomination for >>> Andrea Riseborough. I can’t remember if this has been discussed here; she >>> is a little know actress in an extremely low budget and little noticed film >>> (“To Leslie”), whose non-existent Oscar chances suddenly blew up in late >>> December when a gaggle of A-List actors began tweeting superlative praises >>> for her performance, seemingly spontaneously, culminating in Cate Blanchett >>> name checking her in a gush during her acceptance speech for her Critics >>> Choice Award last week. I first noticed this on my own Twitter feed with a >>> tweet from Ed Norton, which seemed peculiar enough that I searched for, and >>> found, many more. >>> >>> >>> I have not yet seen the film (but will, as I try to see all films >>> nominated in major categories every year), perhaps the social media >>> blizzard is justified solely on the merits, though if so this would have to >>> be the most impressive acting performance in history. More likely it is a >>> good enough performance (I have seen it described as rather showy by less >>> effusive reviewers) that got the social media celebrity supercharge >>> treatment via Riseborough’s representation by CAA, which also reps a number >>> of the Tweeting stars. The film had zero budget, and could not afford a >>> single ad, and it doesn’t require too much imagination to picture CAA >>> asking it’s top talent to watch the film and post something ice, and then >>> initiating a perfect storm of romantic crusade for the poor underdog plus >>> Puckish delight at pulling one over on the public and big studios, with >>> perhaps some old AIDS ribbon era Hollywood conformity leading some fearful >>> of being left out for jumping on board. >>> >>> >>> Even so there was widespread speculation that the push was too little >>> too late, and now that she actually got the nomination I wonder if some are >>> sorry, as it must have pushed some established actress out of the >>> nominations, perhaps a friend to some of the social media amplifiers. >>> >>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 6:09 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023 (link) >>>> >>>> Reactions here. >>>> >>>> B >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/08cc7e08-d3c3-41d4-a3fe-77ae545d7badn%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/08cc7e08-d3c3-41d4-a3fe-77ae545d7badn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJtaOGuYu7%2BX05a_Q05Y_G6fTP6YiVd5n_kwc1wJjVcaw%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJtaOGuYu7%2BX05a_Q05Y_G6fTP6YiVd5n_kwc1wJjVcaw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGCzVD%2BXkB4thDucSe_YW54FfATBA2_OjEvQf%3DFoZk%3DFRg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGCzVD%2BXkB4thDucSe_YW54FfATBA2_OjEvQf%3DFoZk%3DFRg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2Btti4gkhqGUgKgUgw%2B1dggqFu4BZ5pa%3D1TJdjZLEbzZg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2Btti4gkhqGUgKgUgw%2B1dggqFu4BZ5pa%3D1TJdjZLEbzZg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. 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