Here is a recap of all of the winners I chose for this series of Academy of One. I'll be back again sometime next year with my own brand of mischief making to the lists of nominees for the film year 2018. Best Picture: Get Out Best Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project Best Actress in a Leading Role: Saiorse Ronan - Lady Bird Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Allison Janney - I, Tonya and Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird Best Director: Jordan Peele - Get Out
These are my opinions and feelings. I do not represent the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and I have no power to revoke or award Academy Awards. Consider this an alternate universe, where everything is the same except which movies get recognition and which should fade out. Also, SPOILER ALERT! I may be spilling major details about several films. I remember being worried that despite being a year with so many excellent directorial efforts by women and people of color, one of the most homogenized and exclusive branch of the Academy would fail to find the most accomplished directorial efforts of the year due to willful ignorance. Yet, two years in a row they have surprised me. It m
These are my opinions and feelings. I do not represent the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and I have no power to revoke or award Academy Awards. Consider this an alternate universe, where everything is the same except which movies get recognition and which should fade out. Also, SPOILER ALERT! I may be spilling major details about several films. The truth is, I'm going to end this post in only the second tie I've had in the several posts of this blog. This will be the first I've attempted to explain, though. The other tie came when I had no time or energy to write out my explanations in long hand and just published a list for the movies of 2010. A tie can seem like a half victor
These are my opinions and feelings. I do not represent the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and I have no power to revoke or award Academy Awards. Consider this an alternate universe, where everything is the same except which movies get recognition and which should fade out. Also, SPOILER ALERT! I may be spilling major details about several films. This may be one of the only categories this year where I loved all of the performances. Yes, even in the movies I have been quite tepid about in the posts so far, are anchored by some spectacular performances. We shouldn't separate art from artist at all times, but we can certainly separate performance from film. It's easy to get enthral
These are my opinions and feelings. I do not represent the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and I have no power to revoke or award Academy Awards. Consider this an alternate universe, where everything is the same except which movies get recognition and which should fade out. Also, SPOILER ALERT! I may be spilling major details about several films. I often find the supporting performance categories more riveting to watch than the leading performance categories. There's always a good mix of antagonists, protagonists and those somewhere in that lovely gray area. This year is far more gray than in the past with characters who learn to be better people or see the error of their ways or
These are my opinions and feelings. I do not represent the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and I have no power to revoke or award Academy Awards. Consider this an alternate universe, where everything is the same except which movies get recognition and which should fade out. Also, SPOILER ALERT! I may be spilling major details about several films. It isn't tough to find a film with a leading man. Most films produced have a leading man in one way or another. The problem is finding a film with a worthy leading man or a leading man that stands out above the rest of the dozens of leading men out there. All this to say that while the five men originally nominated are stand outs in thei
These are my opinions and feelings. I do not represent the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and I have no power to revoke or award Academy Awards. Consider this an alternate universe, where everything is the same except which movies get recognition and which should fade out. Also, SPOILER ALERT! I may be spilling major details about several films. If I can say anything of the year 2017, let it be that it gave a wealth of incredible films and for the first time in a while it can be said that the majority of the films nominated for Best Picture were original works not based on previous source material or historical fact. I love a vision that comes whole cloth to the screen from the