#Academy Award Nomination

[blackinperiodfilms]

Congratulations to Danielle Brooks for her Academy Awards nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Color Purple!

[evie-carnahan]

HECK YEAH NIMONA !! 🤘

[starfall-xo]

2024 Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees as VHS tapes by @ShawnMansfield

[mediademon]

The Zone of Interest (2023) dir. Jonathan Glazer

[bisexualsfromouterspace]

ANATOMY OF A FALL (2023) dir. Justine Triet CONGRATULATIONS ON 5 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS!

Sandra Hüller, Actress in a Leading Role Justine Triet, Directing Laurent Sénéchal, Film Editing Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Original Screenplay Anatomy of a Fall, Best Picture

[mydearzero]

when i tell you nobody's gonna be watching the oscars

[sweetpaintedladie]

The complete shutout for Killers of The Flower Moon after the praise for its nominations is incredibly telling of how performative The Academy always has and will be.

The Osage murders were ignored for decades because the story wasn’t sensationalized enough to be “cared” about by people. It wasn’t a “big enough issue” to be treated with a fraction of respect or attention that it deserved.

Martin Scorsese did about everything he could to get Killers of the Flower Moon on the radar of those who would’ve otherwise completely ignored it [direct and fund it himself, two academy darling actors in main roles], and did so much outside of what they would want [made sure to give platform and voices to the Osage people where most would speak over them, even going as far to credit Robbie Robertson with so much of the films importance due to his indigenous heritage] and it still got ignored. Just a really shocking yet sadly expected decision made by an institution claiming they want to be more inclusive towards minority groups and stories. an institution who, after 96 years, had just nominated the first Native American actress and indigenous composer, yet still found a way to not reward them for their work.

It’s, once more, shocking yet not surprising. In my heart of hearts Lily Gladstone walked away an Oscar winner tonight, as deserved.

[nothingelsetobe]

Remember the Palestinian genocide is still ongoing, even during Ramadan and while everyone is distracted by the Oscars. Make noise.

They are going to worsen their strikes while people are looking away. It is already happening. Don't look away and use your voice for the people of Palestine.

[tapiocats]

He looked so good on the red carpet 🥹✨

[christinaroseandrews]

A lot of people are talking about how Disney didn't get nominated for their flagship 100th animated feature, Wish. Which is a big deal, I am not disputing that. This was a stellar year for animation and the academy had a glut of good options that did not include Wish. (I would have liked makoto shinkai's Suzume to be nominated but...)

But I want to talk about something else that is probably sticking in Disney's craw.

None of their Animated movies, in particular Wish, were nominated for "best original song."

Starting in 1940 with "when you Wish upon a Star", Disney's animated features could be counted upon to receive a nomination for best original song often winning the Honor. This includes movies such as Bambi; Saludos Amigos; Cinderella, and that racist mess that Disney would like you to forget, Song of the South. Even during the years after Walt's death a bunch of songs were nominated from things like Pete's Dragon and The Rescuers. But it wasn't until The Little Mermaid and the animation Renaissance that Disney's almost stranglehold and expectation that they're animated films would get nominated for an Oscar for best song really came into the forefront.

Take a walk through the best song nominations from 1989 to now and pretty much the majority of Disney and/or Pixar movies put out in those years has a best song nomination. There are a few exceptions, there always are, but generally when Disney includes original songs in its Animated properties it gets nominated.

That makes this year so odd. Disney technically has a nomination with Diane Warren's song for Flamin' Hot, which I suspect has more to do with the fact that the academy loves to nominate Diane Warren and then never give her the Oscar. ~_^ The big thing I noticed was that there were no nominations for Wish or even Elemental. And even more crucially, there was no one setting up a hue or cry that these movies (particularly Wish) didn't get nominated for best song.

Wish had all of the ingredients to be both an Oscar Bait for best animated feature and best original song. And the academy ignored it.

And frankly, I think this is 100% deserved. Wish was an okay movie. It wasn't good it wasn't bad it was just okay. And it's songs were forgettable.

Worse than that, in my opinion, they were unsingable. And what I mean by that is the songs were so complex so lyrically and musically difficult that a four-year-old in a princess dress would struggle to sing them. There were too many jumps and the lyrics were incredibly tongue twisty and they even sounded difficult for an accomplished singer like Ariana DeBose to sing. Seriously, the chorus of This Wish has so many jumps and drops that it is almost impossible to stay on key and also follow the melody. The music is just there.

When I walked out of the theater, I couldn't remember any of the songs. I still can't. And as most of my friends can tell you I have a bloody musical memory. I remember songs.

The first time I saw Barbie, I had three of the songs (What was I made for, I'm just Ken, and Pink) wrestling for dominance over who was going to be my earworm for the day. The same thing was true with Frozen, Moana, Encanto, beauty and the Beast, and even Tarzan. I still can't remember the music from Wish at all. To even write this, I had to go on YouTube and listen to the songs. And after listening to them, I still can't sing them. But just typing "I'm just Ken" has put that song in my head.

So rather than just celebrating Wish being excluded in a very good year for animation (it was so good, y'all) we should also be laughing and pointing that the Disney's attempts at getting a best song nomination for that movie also went unheeded.

Because I sure am.

[madeleineengland]

- Anatomy of a fall (2023)

[fainne-geal-an-lae]

FIRST EVER IRISH LANGUAGE FILM TO BE NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR CAME IN 2023!!!!!!!! I am absolutely beside myself with pure happiness and so many emotions - my first language, my mother tongue, getting the recognition it deserves all thanks to An Cailín Ciúin. Never been prouder to be a Gaeilgeoir!!!

ALSO The Banshees of Insheerin and Paul Mescal getting all those noms means it is Ireland’s strongest ever year at the Oscars!!!

Ealaín na hÉireann abú!!!!!

[billyrussoapologist]

Do the Oscars know they can nominate more than one woman as best director? Like, there can be multiple women nominated for best director every year.

[blues-valentine]

Ryan Gosling didn’t deserve that Oscar nom but neither did Margot Robbie. The level of performances this year were insane and the real snub was Greta Lee’s performance in Past Lives. Also, Lily Gladstone just became the first Native American (US) woman to be nominated at the Oscar for Best Leading Actress. The white feminism off people be having is insane.

[noonesgaylikegatson]

Colman Domingo is the first out gay man nominated for a best acting role at the Academy Awards in two decades. He was nominated for the role of Bayard Rustin in the movie, Rustin, currently available on Netflix.

[sunyot]

Cinematic Moments - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023