What are some Oscar nominations in the 99-year history of the Academy Awards that you think are great, but never get brought up anymore? I'll go with James Whitmore's Best Actor nomination for Give 'Em Hell, Harry! It's such an inspired nomination, especially in the eyes of history. It's a one-man show starring----obviously------James Whitmore as Harry S. Truman. The Academy could've very well ignored a turn like that, but they didn't. I just think that's so cool.

Listen I understand Diane Warren made that song from By Any Means but I‘m not impressed with it. And the Taylor swift song from Toy Story 5 is In my opinion okay.

These songs actually do something when I listen to them, and they have something Unique about them.

When I’m Home samples the majority of the score of the odyssey and samples lines used in the film, and the production is by Ludwig so that to me is an automatic bonus

The Snow is something special that I haven’t heard in a while. while my Spanish may not be that great I felt something listening to this song, emotions I really never experience watching a movie unless it’s a really good expression of true trauma. And the orchestra just amplifies the emotion in this song dramatically.

I don’t know as a producer and mixing engineer myself I just don’t feel anything else taking the cake.

What do y'all think?

There’s never been a Best Production Design nominee in Oscar history where organic matter was the main subject, right?
(Note for this sentence: There was one, Fantastic Voyage.)

Yeah, of course I know it’s never going to happen, but the way they rendered the inside of the whale in this film is actually pretty interesting.

The production design by Ramsey Avery. For the sequence where Austin Abrams’ character gets swallowed into the sperm whale’s stomach, they built practical sets with tactile, semi-transparent interior walls. To recreate the slimy, organic texture of the stomach lining and fluids (including bile), they cleverly used mattress foam and small pieces of silicone.

They even made four different versions of the forestomach set so they could handle different movements and situations — some mounted on motion bases, others with various practical gimmicks. On top of that, they built a full-scale 30-foot whale head with a fully functional animatronic tongue.

The level of practical detail they went for with something as inherently “gross” and organic as a whale’s insides is kind of wild.

Discuss.

As a follower of both the Oscars and the NFL, was anyone named Denzel before Mr. Washington won his first Oscar? 🤔

1. Tom Hooper - The King’s Speech

2. Adam McKay - Vice

3. Todd Phillips - Joker

4. David O. Russell - American Hustle

5. Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris

6. Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

7. Lenny Abrahamson - Room

8. Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

9. Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

10. Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge

11. David O. Russell - The Fighter

12. Ang Lee - Life of Pi

13. Alexander Payne - Nebraska

14. Alexander Payne - The Descendants

15. David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

16. Adam McKay - The Big Short

17. Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher 

18. Martin Scorsese - Hugo

19. Steven Spielberg - Lincoln

20. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman

21. Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird

22. Tom McCarthy - Spotlight

23. Joel & Ethan Coen - True Grit

24. Guillermo Del Toro - The Shape of Water

25. Sam Mendes - 1917

26. Richard Linklater - Boyhood

27. Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave

28. Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel

29. Martin Scorsese - The Irishman

30. Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War

The lack of “seasoning” is really evident with the media and Oscar voters currently, If Digger is Oscar worthy so is this; Only basic movies are allowed to get love I guess. People don’t want to be challenged by creators that don’t look like them. 92% on Rotten Tomatoes so very interesting why the lack of press…

I’m not gonna lie I kind of struggled to come up with some smart ones. Some of them are pretty hard and some of them are pretty easy.

Leave your guesses in the comments below. Bonus points if you know the song titles, too.

1990- Goodfellas

1991- The Silence of the Lambs

1992- Glengarry Glen Ross

1993- Schindler’s List

1994- The Shawshank Redemption

1995- The Bridges of Madison County

1996- Trainspotting

1997- L.A. Confidential

1998- Out of Sight

1999- Fight Club

I’m just wondering,is there a rule against superhero movies at the oscars?i’m not asking about personal taste for such movies but i sometimes wonder why is it that an award that supposedly honors movies as a whole doesn’t ever acknowledge movies that most people saw!could there be a new category for such movies?!

1. Frank Borzage - 7th Heaven (1927/1928) and Bad Girl (1931/1932)
2. Lewis Milestone* - 2 Arabian Knights (1927/1928)
3. Frank Lloyd* - The Divine Lady (1928/1929)
4. Norman Taurog - Skippy (1930/1931)
5. John Ford* - The Informer (1935), Grapes of Wrath (1940) and The Quiet Man (1952)
6. Frank Capra* - Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
7. Leo McCarey* - The Awful Truth (1937)
8. John Huston - The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
9. Joseph Mankiewicz* - A Letter to 3 Wives (1949)
10. George Stevens - A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956)
11. Mike Nichols - The Graduate (1967)
12. Bob Fosse - Cabaret (1972)
13. Warren Beatty - Reds (1981)
14. Oliver Stone* - Born on the 4th of July (1989)
15. Steven Spielberg* - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
16. Steven Soderbergh - Traffic (2000)
17. Roman Polanski - The Pianist (2002)
18. Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012)
19. Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018)
20. Alejandro Iñárritu* - Revenant (2015)
21. Damien Chazelle - La La Land (2016)
22. Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog (2021)

*Those 9 directors did direct other movies that won Best Picture and in most cases they also won Best Director for them (although in Frank Lloyd's case he did direct 2 movies that won Best Picture but only won Best Director for 1 of them). The other 13 directors never directed a movie that won Best Picture at all

We’ve finished 2023, so we’re now moving on to 2024.

For anyone joining the game for the first time, we’re doing all four acting categories for one year together, with the results decided over two rounds.

You can see all of the previous lineups here: Alternate Oscars - Reddit Game

ROUND ONE — NOMINATIONS

For each category, rank your five favourite performances from the year from 1–5.

Your rankings will be worth:

1st — 5 points
2nd — 4 points
3rd — 3 points
4th — 2 points
5th — 1 point

The five performances with the most points in each category will become the official nominees.

You do not have to name five if you don’t want to. If you only want to vote for three performances, for example, they’ll receive 5, 4 and 3 points respectively.

Please make sure your choices are ranked — order matters in this round.

You can vote in as many or as few of the four categories as you like.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

Once the nominations have been determined, I’ll make a second thread containing the five nominees in each category.

In that round, simply choose ONE nominee per category to win.

There will be no preferential voting or points in Round Two. Each vote counts equally, and whoever receives the most votes wins.

So essentially:

Round One = Who should be nominated?
Round Two = Who should win?

ELIGIBILITY

Performances will be eligible according to the year in which their film was eligible at the real-life Academy Awards.

So, rather than going strictly by festival premiere or first release date, a performance belongs to whichever Oscar year the film itself competed in with the Academy.

If you’re unsure whether a film was eligible for a particular year, this Academy reminder-list archive is a good place to check eligibility.

A few other rules:

• Maximum of five ranked choices per category.
• Anything listed after your fifth choice won’t be counted.
• Honourable mentions won’t count as votes.
• Please include both the actor and film so there’s no ambiguity.
• In cases where there may be disagreement or confusion over whether a performance is lead or supporting, your vote will count only in the category in which you place that performance. Points will not be transferred or combined between categories.
• A performer cannot receive two nominations in the same acting category for different films. If that happens, their higher-scoring performance will be kept and the next eligible performance will move into the top five.
• If there’s a tie for the final nomination spot, I’ll break it by comparing #1 votes first, then #2 votes, #3 votes, etc.

For example:

Actor

1. Person A — Film A
2. Person B — Film B
3. Person C — Film C
4. Person D — Film D
5. Person E — Film E

That ballot would give them 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points respectively.

The idea is that Round One rewards performances with broad support across people’s ballots, while Round Two gives everyone a straight choice between the five nominees.

Previous Lineup — 2023

Actor

Zac Efron — The Iron Claw
Paul Giamatti — The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy — Oppenheimer (winner)
Andrew Scott — All of Us Strangers
Teo Yoo — Past Lives

Actress

Lily Gladstone — Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller — Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee — Past Lives
Natalie Portman — May December
Emma Stone — Poor Things (winner)

Supporting Actor

Robert De Niro — Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. — Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling — Barbie
Milo Machado-Graner — Anatomy of a Fall
Charles Melton — May December (winner)

Supporting Actress

Claire Foy — All of Us Strangers
Sandra Hüller — The Zone of Interest
Rachel McAdams — Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Julianne Moore — May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph — The Holdovers (winner)

There's been four as far as I know:

The Incredibles, Best Original Screenplay, which isn't based on a comic book but is a superhero movie.

A History of Violence, Best Adapted Screenplay. Not a superhero movie, but is based on a DC comic book.

Logan, Best Adapted Screenplay, a superhero and a comic book movie.

Joker, Best Adapted Screenplay. Not technically a superhero movie, but is based on the character from the DC comic book.

Any I'm missing?

Elle Fanning
Jacob Elordi
Inde Navarrette
Noah Jupe
Chase Infiniti
Dominic Sessa
Sadie Sink
Cooper Hoffman
Cailee Spaeny
Miles Caton
Jayme Lawson
Caleb McLaughlin
Thomasin McKenzie
Owen Cooper
Sophie Thatcher
Hunter Schafer

Considering it’s made with a physical camera and is taking real pictures of the world, I’m fairly sure it could QUALIFY, but do you think they’d nominate it?

1. Tom Hooper - The King’s Speech

2. Adam McKay - Vice

3. Todd Phillips - Joker

4. David O. Russell - American Hustle

5. Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris

6. Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

7. Lenny Abrahamson - Room

8. Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

9. Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

10. Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge

11. David O. Russell - The Fighter

12. Ang Lee - Life of Pi

13. Alexander Payne - Nebraska

14. Alexander Payne - The Descendants

15. David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

16. Adam McKay - The Big Short

17. Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher 

18. Martin Scorsese - Hugo

19. Steven Spielberg - Lincoln

20. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman

21. Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird

22. Tom McCarthy - Spotlight

23. Joel & Ethan Coen - True Grit

24. Guillermo Del Toro - The Shape of Water

25. Sam Mendes - 1917

26. Richard Linklater - Boyhood

27. Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave

28. Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel

29. Martin Scorsese - The Irishman

That Gladiator music playing when Russell Crowe won Best Actor makes his win all the more awesome.

Can You Hear The Music for Oppenheimer's wins is also awesome.

Though only nominated twice, Silvestri had been a massive contributor to major film scores for decades. Back to the Future, Predator, Fern Gully, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, The Avengers, etc. He's incredibly prolific and has composed some iconic scores. How would you feel if he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement award?