96th Annual Academy Award Nominations
The 96th annual Academy Award nominations were announced this morning.The complete list of nominees was published by The Hollywood Reporter.
As expected, Best Picture nominees included OPPENHEIMER (2023) and BARBIE (2023). Those are the only two of the 10 nominees I've seen to date.
Curiously, neither director Greta Gerwig or lead actress Margot Robbie were nominated for BARBIE.
Ryan Gosling received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for BARBIE. It's a strong category which also includes Robert Downey Jr. for OPPENHEIMER.
Among other films I saw last year, I was glad to see that SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023) received a nomination for Best Animated Film.
GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023) received a nomination for Best Visual Effects along with MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (2023).
Not having seen a majority of the nominees, that's about the extent of my personal interest this year.
For fans of Turner Classic Movies: The annual 31 Days of Oscar festival begins on February 9th and concludes on March 10th. To my knowledge this is the first time TCM has scheduled 31 Days of Oscar with the conclusion coinciding with the ceremony.
posted by Laura @ 9:15 AM
3 Comments:
Personally I am not impressed with this year's nominations. Maestro deserves to win the Oscar for best picture and the acting awards. I went to see the Barbie movie with my daughter. I don't feel it is an Oscar worthy film in my opinion.
I concur with David.
I lost interest in the Academy Awards a long time ago, after having had much interest in them from their beginning up until the mid-1980s.
Having said that, I do look through nominations, if I have watched any films during the past year, to see if it/they appeared.
Last year I watched MAESTRO. What a disappointment. Being a huge Lenny Bernstein fan, and familiar with his music - symphonic, ballet, shows, recordings explaining jazz, TV lectures etc. - I expected that a reasonably good amount of time would be apportioned to his music and perhaps one or two of his books. But most of the film was devoted to his marriage and his extra-marital activities. This did not, thank heaven, occur with biopics of other composers such as George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter. Fictionalized they were for better entertainment value, certainly.
Another thing, there was a lot of hoo-hah about the actor impersonating Lenny having to look something like him. What nonsense. Did any of the actors who impersonated Gershwin and the rest look anything like their corresponding composers? Of course not, that would have been unthinkable.
Nominated for Best Picture, indeed.
Oh, about the actors not looking like the composers. These were all unattractive men, and that is not what show business is all about. Handsome men and women were the thing.
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