Oscars 2025: The B+ Nominations Ballot
’bout that time again. Gonna do the thing.
It tickles me to no end that the Academy looks to be doubling down on non-mainstream choices at the top. They did all this stuff to try to expand the field to get higher profile stuff in to placate those looking to watch the show for entertainment value and the voters are simply putting in more foreign films instead because the American studio system is committed to putting out garbage most of the time. So now there’s even less for the people who only watch a couple of movies a year and nothing out of the realm of the conventional. I love it. I love it the way Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw loves Black girls.
This also means that the deliberate expansion of the voting body the Academy began however many years ago has bore fruit in that people are legitimately picking the movies they liked best and aren’t just falling in line with what studio PR teams tell them are the best (and also reflects that a younger overall demographic is going to have broader tastes than the old guard). Some still will still always get through, but the notion that it is highly likely we’ll have a Best Picture list with multiple foreign nominees on it this year and not Avatar or Wicked absolutely thrills me.
Anyway, time to pick nominees. (more…)
Pic of the Day: “Okay, so you had a dream about this place. Tell me.” “Well, it’s the second one I’ve had, but they’re both the same. They start out that I’m in here, but it’s not day or night. It’s kind of half-night, you know? But it looks just like this… except for the light. And… I’m scared like I can’t tell you. Of all people, you’re standing right over there… by that counter. You’re in both dreams and you’re scared too. I get even more frightened when I see how afraid you are and then I realize what it is. There’s a man… in back of this place. He’s the one who’s doing it. I can see him through the wall. I can see his face. I hope that I never see that face, ever, outside of a dream.” (25th Anniversary)
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