Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri enjoyed a good deal of success early, taking home top honors from the Golden Globes, The BAFTAs, the SAG Awards and AFI.
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It’s nearly time for Hollywood’s biggest night. The Oscars: All Access, which can be viewed by Facebook Live via the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences page, will allow viewers to watch interviews with Tinsletown’s most notable stars.
“In general”, SUNY Oneonta film professor emeritus Paul Jensen said, “the Academy seems to think that fantasy films are not as serious or important as more “realistic” works, but they won’t resist the visual creativity and imagination that del Toro brought to ‘Water'”.
2003 – “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” pulls off the largest awards sweep in Oscar history, winning in every category for which it was nominated. This is one of the films that will be dissected for years and can easily be attached to situations that have affect many people’s lives. As a consistent victor during awards season, it seems like the safe bet.
Despite this, Get Out is far from a front-runner and is seen as an unusual Oscar film: it’s a genre film and directorial debut, it has a relatively low budget, and it was released in February (rather than later in the year to generate award season buzz).
88 – If Christopher Plummer wins best supporting actor he would be the oldest victor in an acting category, but he’s likely to be beaten by Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.
The chat show host also hasn’t ruled out a return to the stage for Warren Beatty, who was the best picture presenter – alongside Faye Dunaway – previous year.
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In addition to The Shape of Water, Dunkirk and Three Billboards, the others up for best picture are Call Me by Your Name, Darkest Hour, Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread and The Post. Handing in a breathtaking leading turn, he should take the gold.
Critics have suggested that Oldman will take home the win because of his innate acting abilities that provided such an accurate portrayal of Winston Churchill, coupled with his veteran status as an actor.
“My personal favourites are Timothée Chalamet and Daniel Day-Lewis because they both played complex characters and gave deeply emotional performances”. Last year, Washington also was the public’s Best Actor favorite for Fences, when Casey Affleck won for Manchester by the Sea. Sally Hawkins and Margot Robbie were great in their respective films but no one came close to McDormand for me.
He topped off a wonderful speech with a tribute to his father, saying: “Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, ‘Wonderful”. His role as a racist, alcoholic sheriff in Three Billboards was absorbing.
Kimmel, known for his genial but deadpan delivery, got high marks as last year’s Academy Awards host when then-newly elected Trump and his policies became a running gag. Willem Dafoe would also be a very worthy victor for The Florida Project.
D’Imperio said, “Allison Janney is terrifying in ‘I, Tonya.’ Playing the skater Tonya Harding’s abusive mother, the actress disappears into the role and really sculpts her into one of moivedom’s great, evil moms'”. Wings won best picture that year. Remember that in a typical year, I get around 17 of these right. However, it’s what the recipients say once they win the award that often makes front-page headlines.
Who should win: The Big Sick was a sensational film and its screenplay was sublime.
Douglas Fairbanks co-hosted the first Academy Awards with William C. deMille in 1929.
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When someone wins their first Oscar.
