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Pic of the Day: “It would be so nice if something would make sense for a change.” (75th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “The original thinker – the innovator – mustn’t mind seeming a little foolish to his contemporaries. He must always look to his star… In the end, he may still fail. That’s unimportant. If he is true to himself, he won’t be too unhappy or embittered, even in failure, and will still speak for what is good.” (75th Anniversary)
The B+ Oscar Ballot: Guide to the 98th Academy Awards
We broke a lot of barriers this year — multiple foreign Best Picture nominees, the overall nominations mark, a brand new category for casting, the highest concentration of nominations among top films. This year has six films with 8+ nominations. I don’t even have to look to know that’s the most there’s ever been.
Which tells me that, ultimately, we’re probably gonna settle into what’s been happening the past few years, which is sweeps at the top, and then a couple of categories that could go in surprising ways near the bottom of the ballot. So… mostly the same as always.
Though this year feels more fun because it feels like at least two acting categories (if not three) can legitimately go multiple ways. Normally we have three locked acting categories and one that feels open. There’s only one locked acting category at the moment. But then, below the line looks fairly locked. So it balances.
This is a year where I revel in focusing on a scorecard than straight winners and losers, because it’s pretty clear what the contenders are. So I don’t really have a horse in the race for what’s gonna win. I’m just gonna let them do what they do and see if I can figure it out. I’m also fortunate that a lot of things I like are going to win, so there’s very little room for disappointment and mostly I’ll just be happy for what wins. (more…)
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Pic of the Day: “The song you sang tonight. What was it about?” “It was about… what it is to need another person.” “Can you sing it for me?” (5th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “Who is you Chiron?” “I’m me, man. Ain’t trying to be nothing else.” (10th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “I’ve always believed in numbers, in equations, in logic and reason.But after a lifetime of such pursuits: I ask What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career – the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are the only reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you.” (25th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “What happened today was just the beginning. We’re gonna lose this war.” (40th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “If I can’t win, I won’t run!” “If you don’t run, you can’t win.” (45th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “That car is dirty, Cloudy. We’re going to sit here all night if we have to.” (55th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “Oh confound all this. I’m not a scholar, I don’t know whether the marriage was lawful or not but dammit, Thomas, look at these names! Why can’t you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship!” “And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?” (60th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: ♫ “I feel pretty / Oh, so pretty / I feel pretty and witty and bright / And I pity / Any girl who isn’t me tonight. / I feel charming / Oh, so charming / It’s alarming how charming I feel / And so pretty / That I hardly can believe I’m real.” ♫ (65th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “I came to Paris to study and to paint, because Utrillo did, and Lautrec did, and Roualt did. I loved what they created and I thought something would happen to me too. Well, it happened all right. Now, what have I got left? Paris. Maybe that’s enough for some, but it isn’t for me anymore, because the more beautiful everything is, the more it will hurt without you.” (75th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “You wrote me that when you got home, you and I were going to be married. If you wrote that once, you wrote it a hundred times. Isn’t that true?” “Yes, but things are different now.” “Have you changed your mind?” “Have I said anything about changing my mind?” “No. That’s just it. You haven’t said anything about anything… I don’t know what to think, Homer. All I know is, I was in love with you when you left and I’m in love with you now. Other things may have changed but that hasn’t.” (80th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday.” (85th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “Did you have to kill him?” “No, I could have let him kill me.” (95th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “From that time on, Basil and I were a close team. We had many cases together, but I’ll always look back on that first with the most fondness; my introduction to Basil of Baker Street, the great mouse detective.” (40th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “On September 3rd 1973, at 6:28pm and 32 seconds, a bluebottle fly capable of 14,670 wing beats a minute landed on Rue St Vincent, Montmartre. At the same moment, on a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically made two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth. Meanwhile, in a 5th-floor flat, 28 Avenue Trudaine, Paris 9, returning from his best friend’s funeral, Eugène Colère erased his name from his address book. At the same moment, a sperm with one X chromosome, belonging to Raphaël Poulain, made a dash for an egg in his wife Amandine. Nine months later, Amélie Poulain was born.” (25th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “Ladies and gentlemen, I won’t take up too much more of your time. It’s been a long trial, and I don’t want you to be away from your families any longer than you have to. I realize I said a lot of things in this courtroom and I hope I didn’t offend nobody. But I just wanted to show you that I’m not a gangster. I’m just a gagster. I’m not gonna read from this. I promised you a long time ago I would speak from the heart. Now, I know the government tried piling up all this evidence in front of you. They showed you photos and you think it’s me and my friends meeting together, it’s probably some kind of criminal conspiracy. You see this picture? You recognize that one in the middle? That’s me. The rest of the guys are some of these men here as children. This was, of course, way long before the government ever knew who Jackie DiNorscio was, who was standing on a corner outside of an ice-cream parlor. And you know what we were doing that day? We were conspiring to buy ice cream. If they had a RICO law back then, they probably would have locked us up. Now, I know it’s tough to decide who to believe in this case. For 600 days, you guys have been sittin’ here. They came in with tape after tape, witness after witness. And they were trying to fill your mind with so much baloney that in the end you’d think, ‘Oh, God, there’s so much there. There has to be something to it.’ Ladies and gentlemen if you believe anything that any of those witnesses has said or if you feel that the prosecutor was right, then I beg you, please, don’t take it out on my friends here. If you have to blame someone, then find me guilty. You heard me right. Find me guilty, and let these men go home to their families. You see, I already lost mine. And I don’t want their kids to lose their fathers ’cause of Uncle Jackie. So, send me to jail. I’m not guilty, but I’m used to it.” (20th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “It’s funny, isn’t it? You would never suspect that everyone at this school is a professional dancer.” (25th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “I can’t be a princess! I’m still waiting for normal body parts to arrive!” (25th Anniversary)
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