And the Nominees Are… (2025)
We have our heading.
He said, having seen way to many intro videos from the DVDs of his youth.
It’s a shame physical media is a thing of the past.
Anyway, we’ve got nominees. What an interesting outcome. Just straight up nominated stuff across the board. That’s one way to do it.
I haven’t really looked at things on a macro level yet. Just sort of looked at each individual category. So I’m curious how this is going to look to me now from the perspective of, “So okay… what’s going to win now?” Also very fascinated to come back to this in a week once we have all the precursors we didn’t have to see what would have changed had we known them ahead of time. (more…)
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…)
Oscars 2025: My Nominations Ballot
Best Picture
Hamnet
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Nouvelle Vague
One Battle After Another
The Phoenician Scheme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams (more…)
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