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The nominations for the 2021 Oscars were recently announced so I thought I'd put them here, along with my predictions.  I was pleased to see a lot of nominations for Sound of Metal, The Father and Promising Young Woman, my favourite films from last year.  I've not included the short categories because I've not seen any of them.

My predictions are in bold.

Best Picture
The Father

Judas and the Black Messiah

Mank

Minari

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Director
Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)

David Fincher (Mank) 

Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) 

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) 

Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) 

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) 

Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) 

Anthony Hopkins (The Father) 

Gary Oldman (Mank) 

Steven Yeun (Minari) 

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) 

Andra Day (The United States v. Billie Holiday) 

Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) 

Frances McDormand (Nomadland) 

Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7) 

Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) 

Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami) 

Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) 

Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) 

Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy) 

Olivia Colman (The Father) 

Amanda Seyfried (Mank) 

Yuh-jung Youn (Minari) 

Best Animated Feature Film
Onward

Over the Moon

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

Soul

Wolfwalkers

Best Adapted Screenplay
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

The Father

Nomadland

One Night in Miami

The White Tiger

Best Original Screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah

Minari

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Original Song
“Fight for You,” (Judas and the Black Messiah)

“Hear My Voice,” (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

“Húsavík,” (Eurovision Song Contest)

“Io Si (Seen),” (The Life Ahead)

“Speak Now,” (One Night in Miami)

Best Original Score
Da 5 Bloods - Terence Blanchard 

Mank - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross 

Minari - Emile Mosseri 

News of the World - James Newton Howard 

Soul - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste 

Best Sound
Greyhound

Mank

News of the World

Soul

Sound of Metal

Best Costume Design
Emma

Mank

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mulan

Pinocchio

Best Cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah

Mank

News of the World

Nomadland

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Documentary Feature
Collective

Crip Camp

The Mole Agent

My Octopus Teacher

Time

Best Film Editing
The Father

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best International Feature Film
Another Round

Better Days

Collective

The Man Who Sold His Skin

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Emma

Hillbilly Elegy

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mank

Pinocchio

Best Production Design
The Father
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mank

News of the World

Tenet

Best Visual Effects
Love and Monsters

The Midnight Sky

Mulan

The One and Only Ivan

Tenet

I've gone with my heart with a lot of these predictions as this is a lot less predicable as last year's awards.

@Conwanna do the same as last year, winner chooses a film for the loser to review?  You know you loved watching Rock Horror last year 😉 

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3 hours ago, LimeGreenLegend said:

@Conwanna do the same as last year, winner chooses a film for the loser to review?  You know you loved watching Rock Horror last year 😉 

Hahah I almost bought the movie poster. Hahaha

yeah you know I’m in for the Oscar Prediction Game. It’s just too bad I really can’t punish you the way you can me with those musicals, brah.

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With the Oscars happening on the 25th of April it's time once again for the film club to honour the little gold, bald man.  We've already done best picture and best actor winning films, so this year I was going to spin for the remaining big categories,

Best director

Best actress

Best supporting actor

Best supporting actress

Best screenplay (both categories)

If anyone wants me to throw in any other Oscar category the post it here and I'll add it to the mix.  I'll spin for the winner on Friday, so you got a couple of days to let me know 🙂 

robin williams oscars GIF

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Since I have work the next couple of nights I spun early in case I forgot 😄 

The winning category for April's Oscar extravaganza is...

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Now it's time to nominate any film that won the Oscar for Best Director.  The winner will be picked on Sunday.

I'll kick things off by nominating the most recent winner of the award, b*ng Joon-ho and his film Parasite, one of the best films I've ever seen.

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Nominations so far:

Parasite - B0ng Joon-ho

Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle

Brokeback Mountain - Ang Lee

No Country for Old Men - Joel and Ethan Coen

The Bridge on the River Kwai - David Lean

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 Parasite, never heard of it.

I was here wondering why I don't even touch the TV to watch anything anymore as the last vivid movie I can recall was 300 when my DVD Player was the $h!+. Reminiscing about the old days when I was happy just to come home turn the TV on & kick my feet up. Then I did a little TV Land Soul Searching only to find out Clint's 90, Pacino 77, De Niro is the same, Caddyshack was released months shy of 41 years ago & all the good tv channels have their own special subscription fee to watch shows I don't relate to.

Jesus! I guess the mystery is solved. Those old guys are probably kicking it at home with the grand kids or chasing tail at a retirement home or HOA retirement community, we sometimes forget that time moves on as actors & actresses rotate out of Hollywood & transition into other interests, while we are still there waiting for their next action pack movie to get released believing they are on a hiatus.

I'm glad you guys keep the Film Club going even though I am not searching through it often, but every now & again it guides me to a few movies within a genre I long forgot about or missed back when it released.

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21 minutes ago, Smurf said:

we sometimes forget that time moves on as actors & actresses rotate out of Hollywood & transition into other interests while we are still there waiting for their next action pack movie to get released believing they are on a hiatus.

That's why I love finding new young directors and actors.  It makes films feel fresh and it's always exciting when they get recognition and wider appeal.  Promising Young Woman and Sound of Metal are both films by first timers and I'm so glad that they're getting a lot of awards nominations right now.

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@LimeGreenLegendWhats up brother man. Here are my picks for tonight. Will you be watching it Live? 

 

My predictions :

Best Picture

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) 
 

Best Director 

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) 

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Anthony Hopkins (The Father) 

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Frances McDormand (Nomadland) 

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) 

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Yuh-jung Youn (Minari) 

 

Best Animated Feature Film

Soul

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

The White Tiger

 

Best Original Screenplay
Minari

 

Best Original Song
“Hear My Voice,” (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

 

Best Original Score
Da 5 Bloods - Terence Blanchard 

 

Best Sound
Mank

 

Best Costume Design
Mulan

 

Best Cinematography

Nomadland

 

Best Documentary Feature

My Octopus Teacher

 

Best Film Editing
Nomadland

 

Best International Feature Film

Collective

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Hillbilly Elegy

 

Best Production Design

Mank

 

Best Visual Effects

Mulan


*edited to include Best Director pick. which was the same as yours Lime. I was not cheating.

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@Consome interesting choices there, I like it.  I think you've won the acting categories, but I won't change, gonna stick with my heart choices, not switch to my head choices.  

I'm working tonight, but I'll try to keep an eye on things.  

Already have some ideas for what I want you to watch should I win, and they're not all musicals 😄 

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Just now, LimeGreenLegend said:

@Consome interesting choices there, I like it.  I think you've won the acting categories, but I won't change, gonna stick with my heart choices, not switch to my head choices.  

I'm working tonight, but I'll try to keep an eye on things.  

Already have some ideas for what I want you to watch should I win, and they're not all musicals 😄 

I wanted to pick a lot of your picks but in the spirit of competition I went with who could surprise. I hope you are putting a book together of all your reviews cause you have quite the viewing library. You are like a professor. Go teach film, my man.

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It was a close call @Con but in the end I came out on top 10-9! 

You absolutely crushed the acting awards but I made it up with the technical awards.  Between us we're pretty good at predicting this sh*t!  

As for the film I would like you to review, you'll be thankful that it's not a musical 😄 

You may actually like this, it's by Lars von Trier, whose film The House that Jack Built I recall you enjoying, and it stars Willem Dafoe, who I know you are a fan of.  I want you to watch this for a specific scene, which I won't even hint at, but you'll know it when it happens.  I have reviewed this somewhere on the site, so you may already know what I'm talking about, but you have to see it to believe it. 

I would like you to review 2009's Antichrist.

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