Pic of the Day: “I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” (35th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “Fuck. You’re delusional. I mean, you’re insane, why would you even want this? Yes, I loved you and then all we did was resent each other, try to control each other. We caused each other pain.” “That’s marriage.” (10th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “You have to dominate the swordfish. Only then can you sauté it.” (15th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “Will you do as I advise?” “Madame, you will be surprised.” “You mean?” “Anything to please the Queen!” (95th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “If they can whack a President, they can whack a president of a union. You know it and I know it.” (5th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “How about we listen to a little music? “…How did you know? I love this song!” (20th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “There is no escape from the Caine, save death. We’re all doing penance, sentenced to an outcast ship, manned by outcasts, and named after the greatest outcast of them all.” (70th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “Klopek… what is that, Slavic?” “NO.” “‘Bout a nine on the tension scale, Reub.” (30th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “Does this mean… Woody’s a lost toy?” “He’s not lost. Not anymore.” (5th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “You still worried?” “About Andy? Nah, it will be fun while it lasts.” “I’m proud of you, cowboy.” “Besides, when it all ends I’ll have old Buzz Lightyear to keep me company – for infinity and beyond.” (25th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “Inherent vice in a maritime insurance policy is anything that you can’t avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters, and Doc wondered what that meant when it applied to ex-old ladies.” (10th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “I’m going to run. You can’t stop me. I’m going to run even if I don’t get a single vote!” (75th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “Great moments are born from great opportunity. And that’s what you have here, tonight, boys. That’s what you’ve earned here tonight. One game. If we played ’em ten times, they might win nine. But not this game. Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay with them. And we shut them down because we can! Tonight, we are the greatest hockey team in the world. You were born to be hockey players. Every one of you. And you were meant to be here tonight. This is your time. Their time is done. It’s over. I’m sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw ’em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it.” (20th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “I thought we were gonna get television. The truth is… television is gonna get us.” (30th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “I’d like to make one good score and back off…” “Back off to what?” (55th Anniversary)
Pic of the Day: “Can you be so cruel?” “Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters.” (75th Anniversary)
And the Nominees Are… (2023)
I’m sure I said the same thing last year, but I had no idea what to expect with this one. Last year I was in the middle of life chaos and all of a sudden it was like “time for awards season!” This year, no chaos, but all of a sudden it was December and January and these things were out and I had barely finished watching things from the year and had to scramble to get halfway caught up on the shorts and documentaries and foreign films (and even then, I’m not sure I got to halfway) and then, within the span of like, three weeks, find out where everything was at and find the time to throw together nominations guesses.
I posted my predictions article yesterday without having had the time to look over anything a second time, convinced I was gonna do horribly. I thought, “Okay, if I can go 68-70%, I can escape feeling okay.” Both fortunately and unfortunately for me, it’s been the same 10 films all over the ballot. Which is good, since it cuts down on having to think about random stuff getting on and makes you feel like you’ve got a baseline of doing okay. But it’s also bad bad because you can fall into the trap of accidentally guessing the same five films to get more nominations than is reasonably possible.
I saw the nominations, but I haven’t yet gone through and seen what the totals are for everything and looked at the big picture. And I bet, once I do, we’ll end up with everything largely in the range of getting a number of nominations that ‘make sense’ for them. And that’s mostly what I’m gonna be looking for here, since, by and large, there weren’t a lot of ‘oh WOW’ moments for me. A couple of snubs, a couple of ‘oh, okay, they nominated that’. But, to me, the only nomination or omission that moved the needle for me happened in Sound. So it seems like a pretty straightforward year and I’m sure I didn’t actually do as horrible as it felt like I did. As I say — there’s always a certain percentage of this that’s going to be unknowable chaos. You have to expect that. So anything within the chaos range is understandable.
Anyway, let’s take a look at what was nominated and what it all means going forward (and, most importantly, how I did in guessing everything). (more…)
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