#watu wote (all of us)

[rwizakakiza]

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Tumaini Jipya Ndani ya YESU KRISTO.

6. NAFASI YA MWANA WA MUNGU

Tunaendelea kujifunza juu ya haki zilozomo kwenye nafasi ya kuwa Mwana wa MUNGU.

6.(b). HAKI YA KUJUA SIRI ZA MUNGU.

Haki hii unaipata unapokaa kwenye nafasi ya mwana kama mwana, MUNGU anakuamini na kukupa siri ya kila jambo analolitaka kulitenda.

..... BWANA akasema, Je! Nimfiche Abrahamu jambo ambalo ninataka kulifanya,

.......Mwanzo 18:17.....

Nafasi ya kuwa mwana wa MUNGU ni kiwango kabisa cha juu cha mahusiano yako na MUNGU, Ambacho kinamfanya MUNGU ajifunue kwako na akwambie siri juu yako na mazingira yako kwa sababu wewe ni mwanae, ingawa kwa wengine anaweza kujifunua kwa njia za kawaida yaani ndoto kupitia watumishi, lakini ni tofauti na mwana ambaye ataongea uso kwa uso.

.........Naye BWANA akasema na Musa uso kwa uso, kama vile mtu asemavyo na rafiki yake. Kisha akageuka akarejea hata kambini; bali mtumishi wake Yoshua, mwana wa Nuni, naye ni kijana, hakutoka mle hemani.

.......Kutoka 33:11......

6.(c). NGUVU YA KUFANYA MIUJIZA.

Hiii ni haki inayokupatia kupata uwezo wa ziada ambao wa kufanya ishara na maajabu kwa sababu kila kitu unachofanya unapata maelekezo kutoka kwa Baba.

......Basi YESU akawaambia, Mtakapokuwa mmekwisha kumwinua Mwana wa Adamu, ndipo mtakapofahamu ya kuwa mimi ndiye; na ya kuwa SIFANYI NENO kwa NAFSI YANGU, ila kama BABA alivyonifundisha ndivyo ninenavyo.

......Yohana 8:28......

Unamwona YESU alifanya miujiza mingi, lakini kilichomwezesha ni kufanya cha BABA yake anachomwagiza. MITUME nao waliofanya ishara na miujiza mingi kwa sababu ya nafasi ya wana na wakatambua wanachopaswa kukifanya.

.......Na kwa mikono ya mitume zikafanyika ishara na maajabu mengi katika watu; nao wote walikuwako kwa nia moja katika ukumbi wa Sulemani;

......Mdo 5:12.....

Kubali uwe mwana wa MUNGU, ishara na maajabu, MUNGU kukuambia siri zake, vitakufuata.

6.(d). KUPENDWA NA MUNGU.

💬......Tutaendelea kesho.

Rejea

And we know [with great confidence] that GOD [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love GOD, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose.

......Romans 8:28....

@2023 the greatest Glory for me.

[greensparty]

Green’s Party’s Oscar Guide to 2018 Short Films: The Biggest of the Shorts

All the Oscar predictions you read seem to be centered around the big categories and asking whether it will be Shape of Water or Three Billboards. Here at Green’s Party, I am proud to profile the three Short Film categories like I did last year! I was lucky enough to get press screeners to all of the short films nominated, so here is my breakdown of each category and my thoughts on should win / will win:

Best Animated Short Film

The one that has gotten a lot of attention is Dear Basketball, which is produced / narrated by NBA star Kobe Bryant based on his poem about his sport. The most popular (in terms of people who saw this beyond film festivals and whatnot) is Pixar’s LOU, which screened in front of Cars 3. It’s a fun playground tale of a bully learning a lesson from a lost + found box. Negative Space is about a father always away on business, who connects with his son about how to pack a suitcase. It is way better than I’m describing it!  Garden Party is about frogs having a party at a deserted mansion. It takes a few minutes, but there is a clever and grotesque twist in the end. Revolting Rhymes Part One is based on Roald Dahl’s book. It’s a bit long (29 min.) but is worth watching!

Will Win: LOU

It is Pixar, who have a long history of Oscar-winning short films (their lamp mascot was from their 1986 short Luxo Jr.). It’s also one that appeals to all.

Should Win: LOU

As much as I dug some of these, I got to say - Pixar does it again!

Best Live Action Short Film

As someone who has written/directed/produced live action short films, I know just how challenging it can be to make a short film, something that can develop the stories and characters in a short amount of time and still have all of the cinematic elements one loves about movies! This year’s Live Action Shorts are very strong. Full Disclosure: my good friend Alex DeMille is the editor on My Nephew Emmett, one of the nominees. In addition to being a good friend, Alex is also a talented filmmaker in his own right and he has been a close collaborator on several projects of mine. Of all the shorts, this is the one I was most excited to see. It is a biopic of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till from the perspective of his uncle. While I admit I might be biased that my friend worked on this, I have to say this was one of the best ones I saw. There is an undercurrent of tension that the viewer feels throughout. While the story has been told many times, it is fascinating the way it focuses on his uncle and not Emmett. Very strong performances here, including Jasmine Guy (yes - Whitley from A Different World!).

DeKalb Elementary is about a shooter entering an elementary school. I watched this prior to the events in Parkland, FL. It is a very powerful film about a troubled man and the school employee who tries to help calm him. The one comedy in the bunch The Eleven O'Clock about a psychiatrist meeting a patient who thinks he is a psychiatrist seeing a patient. The Silent Child is about a deaf girl who learns to communicate with the help of a social worker. Watu Wote: All of us is about a terrorist attack in Kenya and the bus passengers who show that solidarity can prevail.

Will Win: DeKalb Elementary

It is topical and of the moment just as everyone is talking about school violence, but its also a solid film that had a lot going on in one location with a limited cast.

Should Win: DeKalb Elementary / My Nephew Emmett

This was a strong category. Hard to choose just one, but these two were the best IMHO.

Best Documentary Short Film

I, myself, have also directed some documentary features AND documentary shorts, so I know all the challenges that go into documentary filmmaking. 

Edith+Eddie is about a 90-something interracial couple whose marriage is disrupted due to a family feud. In addition to being moving, it was also executive produced by both Cher and filmmaker Steve James (who is also nominated for Best Documentary Feature for Abacus!). Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 is about an artist who has overcome illnesses and trauma to become a successful artist. Heroin(e) (which is distributed on Netflix) is about three women in Huntington, WV who are trying to fight the opioid crisis in their town. For a film about a national epidemic and focusing on three women who are taking charge and trying to make their community a better place, this is among the most topical and of-the-moment nominees. Knife Skills is directed by Thomas Lennon, who is not to be confused with the comic actor from The State and Reno 911 (this Thomas Lennon is a previous Oscar winner in this category). This doc profiles a French restaurant in Cleveland, OH with a staff recently released from prison. It is both a human interest story and an example of second chances in life. Traffic Stop (which was distributed by HBO) is about an African-American women who was a victim of police brutality in Austin, TX after being pulled over for speeding. It looks at both her own story as well as some harrowing footage of the incident.

Will Win: Heroin(e)

This is a category where any of the nominees have a serious chance at winning. I could see a case being made for any of these being the Best Doc Short Film of the year. But if I had to predict one winner, I think this one, with its topicality and a sense of hope for the community following the town’s tragedy, could be the winner. 

Should Win: Traffic Stop

In a very strong category, this one was the most powerful IMHO. The story-telling and editing were excellent as it intercut between the victim’s story and her job as a teacher with the footage of the incident.

[tardisman14]

Live Action Short Film

“DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk “The Eleven O’Clock,” Derin Seale, Josh Lawson “My Nephew Emmett,” Kevin Wilson, Jr.

“The Silent Child,” Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton

“Watu Wote/All of Us,” Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen

[subvertingyourexpectations]

Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action

   Every year I always try to get out and see the Oscar-nominated short films. At the very least, the live action and animation ones. I think they’re always an underrated gem, particularly around Oscars season; everybody’s always in a mad scramble to see the best pictures, the best performances, and the shorts often get overlooked. The truth is that the shorts can house some of the most creative and inventive storytelling of the year. Think about it, you have to get in, set up your characters and your world, tell your story, and then wrap it up in a satisfying way, all within the span of five to thirty minutes. In full-length film, time is a luxury, a seemingly bottomless and expansive wallet when compared to short films, where craft is truly more central, and every second counts.

  So before I go into a brief review of each of this year’s nominated live action shorts, I wanna give some thoughts I have on shorts in general. Now, this is a grand generalization, but here is usually my opinion on them: I love them, or I hate them. When a film has to be so small and self-contained, everything can either mesh together beautifully or crumble to pieces, and usually, it has to do with how they’re constructed.

  So what makes a short film? More specifically, an Oscar-nominated live action short film? Well, I think most of these films have two central components: The Message and The Device. (To be clear, not all short films have a Message and a Device, sometimes they just have a fun idea and a simple plot. Good examples of this are this year’s The Eleven O’Clock, and last year’s Timecode and Sing.) Short films are oftentimes an easy way to distill an idea or an opinion, and share it with the world. That’s the Message. The Message is what you’re trying to get across, what you’re trying to make people think about. The Device is just the way in which that Message is conveyed; basically, it’s the plot. And that’s where I find most of these short films fall apart: the focus is so heavily on what they’re trying to say, that they don’t say it in a compelling way. There’s little substance, and little nuance or depth to the plot.

  But like I said, for as often as they fail, they too succeed. There are clear examples of stories that can be told satisfyingly and succinctly all in the timespan of twenty minutes, while also getting your Message across. I think for them to work, you need to strike a balance. 70% Device, and 30% Message, or somewhere around there. Of course, it always helps that you have a good script, unique direction, solid actors, and a sizeable budget (oftentimes the biggest restraint on short films). Why some films work and others do not becomes subjective the more you look at it. I liked this one because I liked the main character, or I disliked this one because I couldn’t stand the dialogue, and so on. Since we’re now talking less about structure and more about subjectivity, this seems like the perfect time to transition into my brief thoughts on each short film this year.  

  1. DeKalb Elementary

Boy… this is kinda the quintessential example of the Message completely dominating the Device. This film, about a school shooter and the receptionist that has to do everything she can to deescalate the situation, is filled with strong messaging, most directly “we should get better about treating mental health”. The rest of the film essentially feels like a blank slate; the characters feel nonexistent, the setting is deliberately plain, and the plot supplies sprinkles of tension but not much else. It’s not that I disagree with what this film is trying to say, I just think it needs to be a good film first.

   2. The Silent Child

I feel pretty much the same about this one. It follows the story of Libby, a deaf girl who begins learning sign language from her helper, Joanne. Problems arise when Libby’s parents don’t see the benefit in her learning sign language, they’d rather she just read lips and generally attempt to be “normal”. My problem with this film is that (slight spoilers) it essentially abandons its entire plot for the last five minutes and becomes so much about what they’re trying to say. And again, while I don’t disagree with what they’re trying to say (“we should be supporting deaf children in our school system”), I find the film as a whole to be totally bland.

  3. My Nephew Emmett

This one is easily my favorite short film this year. It tells the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old kid who was abducted (and later found dead) in Mississippi in 1955. The film is shocking and brutally honest, and I found myself amazed that this all happened less than 75 years ago. For as much as it feels like we still have to go on issues of civil rights, it seems important to remember that we have come a long way. On top of all that, it’s also the most well-acted and well-directed. I honestly didn’t think short films could present much in the way of directing, but the way the pre-dawn light filters in through the windows as Emmett gets abducted is truly spectacular, and the confrontations between Emmett’s uncle and the captors is some of the best acting I’ve seen all year. I loved this one.

  4. The Eleven O’Clock

The Eleven O’Clock is like some sort of long-lost Julian Smith sketch. It’s a hilarious and simple concept, that gets in, says what it has to, and gets out. The premise is this: a psychiatrist takes on a new patient that believes he’s a psychiatrist, meaning that they both attempt to treat each other over the course of their appointment. It’s original, it’s funny, and it’s quick. I don’t have much else to say about it, other than it seems like they always nominate a token comedy short film that never really stands a chance at winning (previous years include the endearing Boogaloo and Graham, the hilarious Ave Maria, and of course last year’s magnificent Timecode).

  5. Watu Wote (All of Us)

I wish I had more to say about this one other than that I found it incredibly powerful. It tells the true story of a bus in Kenya transporting both Muslims and Christians. When the bus gets hijacked by members of Al-Shabaab, they demand that the Muslims and Christians separate (so that they can be killed). The Muslims refuse, and in doing so they put their own lives in danger to protect the Christians. Sure, it’s simple and it’s a broad metaphor for world peace, but I found it incredibly touching and moving. The Message merely exists throughout the story, it never feels disingenuine, or like it’s being shoved down your throat. If I had to guess, I feel like this one will win at the Oscars.

[jerichopalms]

#25: Watu Wote: All of Us (2017, dir. by Katja Benrath)

[dweemeister]

2018 Movie Odyssey

That is time on the 2018 Movie Odyssey. Though the number of total films I saw increased this year, that was mostly because of a stratospheric rise in short films I saw - thanks to my time at the 2018 Viet Film Fest and Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) decision in March to begin airing one classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) short and a Popeye short every Saturday morning except in August and select Saturdays. I saw two hundred and sixty-two films in their entirety that were completely new to me this year - 156 feature-length films (includes one serial) and 107 short films. The number of features was expected to go down this year because of the Winter Olympics in February and the FIFA World Cup in June/July. With only the Women’s World Cup in June/July 2019, maybe there’ll be an increase next year (we’ll see how employment impacts the number too)?

If there is anything that disappoints me about this list is that, again, there is only one African film (a short) featured this year and one from Latin America (Roma). There used to be a handful of classic African films on Netflix, but Netflix’s recent moves to emphasize television and its Netflix originals has blocked off that possibility. So here’s hoping in 2019 there will be much more representation from Africa and Latin America - not only among short films, but in features especially.

For all those who participated and supported the Movie Odyssey in any way - by reading, liking, commenting on, or reblogging a write-up; talking with me about movies we’ve seen; or even sitting down with me to watch something... none of this possible without you. So all of you have my thanks. The Movie Odyssey continues, as always. Onward to 2019.

As many of you know, all ratings are based on my imdb rating and half-points are always rounded down. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found here. A 6/10 is considered the borderline between “passing” and “failing”. Feature-length narrative films, serials, documentaries, and short films are rated within their respective spectrums. Here is the list... beginning with Disney and ending with Disney.

JANUARY

Pete’s Dragon (1977) – 6.5/10

The Post (2017) – 8/10

Salt of the Earth (1954) – 7/10

Girl Crazy (1943) – 7/10

The Greatest Showman (2017) – 6/10

Charade (1963) – 9.5/10

The Boy with Green Hair (1948) – 6/10

Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954 short) – 7/10

Strangled Eggs (1961 short) – 6/10

Flirty Birdy (1945 short) – 6/10

Hollywood Hotel (1937) – 6/10

Darkest Hour (2017) – 7/10

Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017, Japan) – 7/10

Pyaasa (1957, India) – 9.5/10

Call Me by Your Name (2017) – 8/10

Phantom Thread (2017) – 9/10

A Warm December (1973) – 6/10

A Corny Concerto (1943 short) – 9/10

FEBRUARY (2018′s 31 DAYS OF OSCAR)

All This, and Heaven Too (1940) – 8.5/10

A River Runs Through It (1992) – 7/10

The Heiress (1949) – 10/10

Stop, Look and Listen (1967 short) – 9/10

The Black Stallion (1979) – 7.5/10

DeKalb Elementary (2017 short) – 9/10

The Silent Child (2017 short) – 7/10

My Nephew Emmett (2017 short) – 7.5/10

The Eleven O’Clock (2017 short) – 9/10

Watu Wote: All of Us (2017, Germany/Kenya) – 8/10

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) – 6/10

Dear Basketball (2017 short) – 7.5/10

Negative Space (2017 short, France) – 7.5/10

Lou (2017 short) – 8/10

Revolting Rhymes Part One (2016 short) – 8/10

Garden Party (2016 short, France) – 7/10

Lost Property Office (2017 short) – 7/10

Weeds (2017 short) – 6/10

Achoo (2017 short, France) – 6/10

Heroin(e) (2017 short) – 6.5/10

Knife Skills (2017 short) – 8/10

Traffic Stop (2017 short) – 7/10

Edith+Eddie (2017 short) – 8/10

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (2016 short) – 6.5/10

MARCH

A Man for All Seasons (1966) – 8/10

The Alamo (1960) – 6/10

A Wrinkle in Time (2018) – 5.5/10

Black Panther (2018) – 7/10

The Counterfeit Cat (1949 short) – 7/10

Popeye the Sailor (1933 short) – 8/10

Piccadilly (1929) – 6/10

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) – 7/10

Droopy Leprechaun (1958 short) – 6/10

I Yam What I Yam (1933 short) – 6.5/10

The Whole Town’s Talking (1935) – 7.5/10

National Velvet (1944) – 6.5/10

The Early Bird Dood It! (1942 short) – 7/10

Blow Me Down! (1933 short) – 7/10

Splendor in the Grass (1961) – 8.5/10

Dangal (2016, India) – 7/10

Ready Player One (2018) – 7/10

The Golden Touch (1935 short) – 7/10

Grease (1978) – 6.5/10

The Bear That Couldn’t Sleep (1939 short) – 6/10

I Eats My Spinach (1933 short) – 7/10

Overboard (1987) – 7.5/10

APRIL

Quo Vadis (1951) – 7.5/10

In Search of the Castaways (1962) – 6/10

Cimarron (1931) – 5/10

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) – 6/10

Mr. Duck Steps Out (1940 short) – 7.5/10

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) – 6/10

A Quiet Place (2018) – 8/10

Little ‘Tinker (1948 short) – 7/10

Seasin’s Greetniks! (1933 short) – 6.5/10

Drag-A-Long Droopy (1954 short) – 7/10

Wild Elephinks (1933 short) – 6/10

The Cat Returns (2002, Japan) – 6/10

Spring Dreams (1960, Japan) – 6/10

The Journey of Natty Gann (1985) – 7.5/10

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) – 7/10

PK (2014, India) – 7/10

The Bear and the Bean (1948 short) – 6/10

Sock-a-Bye, Baby (1934 short) – 6/10

Crossfire (1947) – 7.5/10

The Sword and the Rose (1953) – 6/10

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016) – 7/10

Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953) – 5/10

Animal House (1978) – 6.5/10

The Early Bird and the Worm (1936 short) – 5/10

Let’s You and Him Fight (1934 short) – 6/10

MAY

My Brother’s Wedding (1983) – 7.5/10

Avengers: Infinity War (2018) – 6.5/10

Chips Off the Old Block (1942 short) – 6/10

The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934 short) – 8/10

The Woman in White (1948) – 6.5/10

Can You Take It (1934 short) – 7/10

Farewell to Spring (1959, Japan) – 6.5/10

Floral Japan (1937 short) – 5/10

The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967) – 3/10

Dodge City (1939) – 7/10

Homesteader Droopy (1954 short) – 7/10

Shoein’ Hosses (1934 short) – 6/10

Wonder Man (1945) – 7/10

Hans Christian Andersen (1952) – 7.5/10

Solo (2018) – 6/10

JUNE

A Day at the Beach (1938 short) – 6/10

Strong to the Finich (1934 short) – 6.5/10

Blondie (1938) – 7/10

A Man Escaped (1956, France) – 10/10

Braveheart (1995) – 6.5/10

Hereditary (2018) – 9/10

Moose Hunters (1937 short) – 7/10

Bao (2018 short) – 6/10

Incredibles 2 (2018) – 8/10

Sleepy-Time Squirrel (1954 short) – 7/10

Shiver Me Timbers! (1934 short) – 8.5/10

Papa Gets the Bird (1940 short) – 6/10

Axe Me Another (1934 short) – 7/10

So You’re Going to Be a Father (1947 short) – 7/10

Gokurôsama (2017 short, France) – 6/10

Pom Poko (1994, Japan) – 8/10

Greyfriars Bobby (1961) – 7/10

Red Barry (1938 serial) – 5/10

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018) – 9/10

JULY

The Three Little Pups (1953 short) – 7.5/10

A Dream Walking (1934 short) – 7/10

Cellbound (1955 short) – 8/10

The Two-Alarm Fire (1934 short) – 6/10

The Blue Angel (1930, Germany) – 9.5/10

The Philadelphia Story (1940) – 10/10

Big Red (1962) – 6/10

Benji the Hunted (1987) – 6/10

The Dance Contest (1934 short) – 6/10

It (1927) – 7/10

The Legend of Lobo (1962) – 7/10

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) – 6/10

Dances with Wolves (1990) – 8.5/10

The NeverEnding Story (1984) – 6/10

Son of Lassie (1945) – 6/10

A Generation (1955, Poland) – 6.5/10

Overture: Tannhäuser (1926 short) – 6/10

Stowaway (1936) – 7/10

A View to a Kill (1985) – 4.5/10

Warlock (1959) – 7.5/10

The Steamroller and the Violin (1961, Soviet Union) – 8.5/10

Old Smokey (1938 short) – 6.5/10

Beware of Barnacle Bill (1935) – 8/10

Stalker (1979, Soviet Union) – 10/10

Moon Over Miami (1941) – 7/10

Eighth Grade (2018) – 8.5/10

The Living Daylights (1987) – 6/10

Sorry to Bother You (2018) – 8/10

The Little Wise Quacker (1952 short) – 6/10

Be Kind to ‘Aminals’ (1935 short) – 5/10

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) – 8.5/10

AUGUST

Gojira (1954, Japan) – 9/10

Christopher Robin (2018) – 7/10

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) – 8/10

Licence to Kill (1989) – 7.5/10

Mare Nostrum (1926) – 6.5/10

Berkeley Square (1933) – 7/10

Crazy Rich Asians (2018) – 7/10

GoldenEye (1995) – 8/10

Hanh, Solo (2017) – 7/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

The Girl from Yesterday (2017, Vietnam) – 6/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

Actress Wanted (2018) – 7/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) – 6/10

Cheyenne Autumn (1964) – 6/10

The Fountainhead (1949) – 6.5/10

South Pacific (1958) – 6/10

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1927) – 7/10

Naughty Marietta (1935) – 6/10

The World Is Not Enough (1999) – 5/10

The Way Station (2017, Vietnam) – 6/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963) – 5/10

49th Parallel (1941) – 8.5/10

SEPTEMBER

The Rains Came (1939) – 6/10

8½ (1963, Italy) – 10/10

Die Another Day (2002) – 4.5/10

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) – 5/10

Tron (1982) – 5/10

Perfect Blue (1997, Japan) – 8/10

RBG (2018) – 7.5/10

The Alley Cat (1941 short) – 7/10

The ‘Hyp-Nut-Tist’ (1935 short) – 6/10

My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999, Japan) – 8.5/10

Pick of the Litter (2018) – 7/10

The House of Tomorrow (1949 short) – 7.5/10

OCTOBER

Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) – 8/10

A Star Is Born (2018) - 8/10

The Story of Temple Drake (1933) – 8/10

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973, Spain) – 8/10

First Generation (2017 short) – 6/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

Nước (2016 short, Vietnam) – 7/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

Spring Leaves (2015 short, France) – 8/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

Every Grain of Rice (2017 short) – 6/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest; not on imdb)

Nguyening: The Lee Nguyen Story (2017 short) – 7/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest; not on imdb)

Summer in Closed Eyes (2018, Vietnam) – 7/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

Untold Secrets (2018 short) – student film, score withheld (2018 Viet Film Fest; not on imdb)

Altarlife (2018 short) – student film, score withheld (2018 Viet Film Fest; not on imdb)

The Broken Bond (2018 short) – student film, score withheld (2018 Viet Film Fest; not on imdb)

Crazy 8 (2018 short) – student film, score withheld (2018 Viet Film Fest; not on imdb)

100 Days of Sunshine (2018, Vietnam) – 6/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

The Purple Horizon (1971, Vietnam) – 7/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

The Walking Dead (1936) – 6.5/10

First Man (2018) – 8/10

The Seventh Victim (1943) – 7/10

The Tailor (2017, Vietnam) – 6.5/10

The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964) – 4/10

NOVEMBER

The Old Man & the Gun (2018) – 7/10

Fallen Angel (1945) – 6/10

Imitation of Life (1934) – 8/10

Free Solo (2018) – 8/10

Mabel’s Blunder (1914 short) – 6/10

Caught in a Cabaret (1914 short) – 6/10

Floating Weeds (1959, Japan) – 9/10

The Hate U Give (2018) – 7/10

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) – 7.5/10

The D.I. (1957) – 7/10

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) – 7.5/10

Alexander Nevsky (1938, Soviet Union) – 8/10

Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) – 6/10

Cooley High (1975) – 7/10

Burning (2018, South Korea) – 9/10

Mirai (2018, Japan) – 6/10

DECEMBER

West Point (1927) – 7/10

Shoplifters (2018, Japan) – 10/10

Roma (2018, Mexico) – 10/10

Kiss & Spell (2017, Vietnam) – 5/10 (2018 Viet Film Fest)

Henpecked Hoboes (1946 short) – 6/10

For Better or Worser (1935 short) – 7/10

Dizzy Divers (1935 short) – 7/10

The Little Whirlwind (1941 short) – 6/10

The Captain’s Pup (1938 short) – 6/10

You Gotta Be a Football Hero (1935 short) – 6.5/10

King of the Mardi Gras (1935 short) – 7/10

Barney Bear’s Victory Garden (1942 short) – 6.5/10

Screwball Squirrel (1944 short) – 7.5/10

Adventures of Popeye (1935 short) – 5/10

The Spinach Overture (1935 short) – 7/10

One Droopy Knight (1957 short) – 7.5/10

Who Killed Who? (1943 short) – 8/10

Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky (1936 short) – 6/10

A Clean Shaven Man (1936 short) – 7/10

Jerky Turkey (1945 short) – 6/10

Brotherly Love (1936 short) – 8/10

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski (1936 short) – 7/10

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) – 9/10

Grin and Share It (1957 short) – 7.5/10

Alias St. Nick (1935 short) – 6/10

The Captain’s Christmas (1938 short) – 6/10

Bridge Ahoy! (1936 short) – 7/10

What – No Spinach? (1936 short) – 7/10

I Wanna Be a Life Guard (1936 short) – 6/10

Flight of the Navigator (1986) – 7.5/10

The Black Hole (1979) – 5.5/10

Pluto’s Sweater (1949 short) – 6/10

Double Dribble (1946 short) – 6/10

Aquaman (2018) – 6.5/10

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) – 7/10

The Favourite (2018) – 8.5/10

The Cat from Outer Space (1978) – 5.5/10

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) – 6/10

Son of Flubber (1963) – 6/10

All scores are subject to change (upgrades and downgrades) upon a rewatch.

[awardseason]

90th Academy Awards Nominees

Best Picture “Call Me by Your Name” “Darkest Hour” “Dunkirk” “Get Out” “Lady Bird” “Phantom Thread” “The Post” “The Shape of Water” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Best Director Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk” Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom Thread” Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird” Jordan Peele, “Get Out”

Best Actor Timothée Chalamet “Call Me by Your Name” Daniel Day-Lewis “Phantom Thread” Daniel Kaluuya “Get Out” Gary Oldman “Darkest Hour” Denzel Washington “Roman J. Israel Esq.”

Best Actress Sally Hawkins “The Shape of Water” Frances McDormand “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Margot Robbie “I, Tonya” Saoirse Ronan “Lady Bird” Meryl Streep “The Post”

Supporting Actor Willem Dafoe “The Florida Project” Woody Harrelson “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Richard Jenkins “The Shape of Water” Christopher Plummer “All the Money in the World” Sam Rockwell “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Supporting Actress Mary J. Blige “Mudbound” Lesley Manville “Phantom Thread” Octavia Spencer “The Shape of Water” Allison Janney “I, Tonya” Laurie Metcalf “Lady Bird”

Adapted Screenplay “Call Me by Your Name” “The Disaster Artist” “Logan” “Molly’s Game” “Mudbound”

Best Original Screenplay “The Big Sick” “Get Out” “Lady Bird” “The Shape of Water” “Three Billboards”

Animated Feature “The Boss Baby” “The Breadwinner” “Coco” “Ferdinand” “Loving Vincent”

Foreign Language Film “A Fantastic Woman” “The Insult” “Loveless” “Of Body and Soul” “The Square”

Best Documentary “Abacus” “Faces Places” “Icarus” “Last Men in Aleppo” “Strong Island”

Best Cinematography “Blade Runner 2049” Roger Deakins “Darkest Hour” Bruno Delbonnel “Dunkirk” Hoyte van Hoytema “Mudbound” Rachel Morrison “The Shape of Water” Dan Laustsen

Best Costume Design “Beauty and the Beast” “Darkest Hour” “Phantom Thread” “The Shape of Water” “Victoria and Abdul”

Film Editing “Baby Driver” “Dunkirk” “I, Tonya” “The Shape of Water” “Three Billboards”

Makeup and Hairstyling “Darkest Hour” “Victoria and Abdul” “Wonder”

Original Score “Dunkirk” “Phantom Thread” “The Shape of Water” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” “Three Billboards”

Original Song “Mighty River” Mudbound “Mystery of Love” Call Me by Your Name “Remember Me” Coco “Stand Up for Something” Marshall “This Is Me” The Greatest Showman

Production Design “Beauty and the Beast” “Blade Runner 2049” “Darkest Hour” “Dunkirk” “The Shape of Water”

Sound Editing “Baby Driver” “Blade Runner 2049” “Dunkirk” “The Shape of Water” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Sound Mixing “Baby Driver” “Blade Runner 2049” “Dunkirk” “The Shape of Water” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

Visual Effects “Blade Runner 2049” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” “Kong Skull Island” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” “War for the Planet of the Apes”

Documentary (Short Subject) “Edith and Eddie” “Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405” “Herion(e)” “Knife Skills” “Traffic Stop”

Short Film (Animated) “Dear Basketball” “Garden Party” “Lou” “Negative Space” “Revolting Rhymes”

Short Film (Live Action) “DeKalb Elementary” “The Eleven O’Clock” “My Nephew Emmett” “The Silent Child” “Watu Wote/All of Us”

[loudsoulgentlemen]

Sunday Word

Jesus.

***

Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.

Its Happy NOw! :)

***

*Cry

YOu LEft Us.

Now I Am Back.

Come In. Let Me Run You A Hot Bath.

Aka MSaFiSha Miguu Pia.

***

NyuMba YaKo

NaMPENDa MToTo WAkO!

Irene Hebu TenGeNeZa CHAKULA!

VICTORIOUS! HE CAME!

***

What's The Next Mission.

Travelling The World With Joy.

Your People Are Working.

I'll Check Up On Them Too.

Should We Tell Them?

Not Where I Sleep.

***

Ngoma Nyingi KIBAO! ZILICHEZWA!

MWOKOZI KARUDI!

MWOKOZI KATUCHAGUA!

***

How Did You Handle Stubborness In Afrika?

I Showed Them A Better Way.

JESUS!

***

Who Troubled You The Most?

The Romans With Their Ever Changing Women.

Uh! YOu MuSt HAve HAd YOur Fun.

It WAsn't FUN! WHO WAS MAKING THEM!? SHALOM!

HAHAHA! THEIR FATHERS! OH JESUS!

FUNNY.

***

When You Fell In Love With The Afrikans. The Gentilles. .. ...

Not All Afrikans Are Gentilles.

ThAt's Just Code!

The Best Of Them!

They Put Their Best Foot ForWard!?

They Had To.

To Save The World.

Do You Think They're The Chosen People.

I Get Along Better With Them. Could Actually Have A Few Ancestors In My Time. My Blood Is Weary. Where Do I Belong. No Way Today To Check.

Magic Shows You In Every Colour. We Discovered It From England.

Teach Me.

... Oh Well. JESUS!

***

In Every Colour. You Are Still As Beautiful.

*Shy

***

After Watching His Boy Play With The Black Children.

How Did I Get Those?

***

After Watching His Daughter Play With The Afrikans.

Better Mates.

***

After Watching His Wife Play With Her People.

I Am Definately A King.

Even They Think She's Hot.

*Smilling

***

JESUS!

Dad.

How Big Is The World?

BIG!

Do You Think I'll Ever See WHOLE Of It? O.O!

***

You Do Not Know HOW Our KINGDOM LOVES YOU!

IT'S NOT JUST HERE!

ITS THE WHOLE THING!

I TELL YOU SO NO ONE KNOCKS YOU AROUND!

I've Never Been Knocked Around.

They Dont Even Have To Touch You. They're Quite Engineous!

FITINA!?

YES!

WHERE DID YOU LEARN THAT! WORD?

You Were Trying To Translate.

Child. I Am Good.

It's Just LANGUAGES!

*Turning Away HOT!

ONLY AFRIKA! *Smilling

***

Do You Feel Like Wine?

I've Been Alive For A While.

I Am Fasting.

YOUR NEVER THE SAME OFF WINE!

QUITE RESPECTABLE!

QUITE? o.O?

HAhaha!

***

Does Your Mother Know Your Alive?

YEs.

YOUR A MAN NOW!

YOU STAY WITH ME!

I AM GOOD!

ALL YOUR PLEASURES!

.. ... GREAT FAMILY.

I HAVE MONEY TOO!

ONLY IN AFRIKA!

BINTI MZURI!

NA TABIA NJEMA! *Smilling

SIO ZOTE WINKING! ;)

ILO NI TENDO, WE ARE TOGETHER? WE ARE ONE! I AM A WOMAN, YOU ARE A MAN!

HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO ACCEPT THAT!?

LONG!

HAhaha!

***

LINI TUNA RUDI NYUMBANI!?

NI NYUMBANI KWANGU. SIO KWENU.

BADO!

LINI TUNA RUDI NYUMBANI?

I AM MADE OF THE SHADOWS. UNTILL YOU LEARN TO FOLLOW A SHADOW YOU CAN COME HOME WITH ME.

TO MEET GRAND PAPI?

TO EVEN BREATH IT'S AIR.

ONE DAY IT WILL BE BETTER, AND YOU WILL VENTURE THEM YOURSELF.

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WHAT DO YOU EXPECT YOUR FATHER TO DO NOW THAT YOUR GROWN.

I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. *HE CRIED! STOP ASKING DADDY HARD QUESTIONS! IT DOESNT MAKE YOU SMART!

FIRST BORN?

AGAIN! *THE LITTLE LADY BEING SHARP WHILE HER BROTHERS WERE QUICK AND PLAYFUL

DIFFERENT BLOOD.

DAMU TOFAUTI! FARAJA! FARAJA KWANGU EITHER WAY! *Smilling . I Love Them So So Much!

Na Bado Ume ToMBA DUNIA NZIMA! OH JESUS YOU JESUS! *Feels Like Home. .. ...

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MwaNaMke Aki KuKaTaa!?

Mungu Mkubwa!

BADO BIKRA WAKO!

KIBURI! KIBURI JESUS! SASA JEH!? O.o HAhaha!

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Heshima Zako HAzi Ishi

Sio HaPa! Sio PALe!

***

When You Built That Thing In Brazil?

Kweli WaTu Wao WAZuRi HIvYo!?

It's Quite BIG!

HAhaha!

Akamshika Mkono Bega.

This Will Always Be Home.

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WEH AFRIKA UTA I WEZA!

HAHAHA!7ULI I SHINDAJE!?

GENTILLES WOTE WAH AMINI TUTA ONA NA NA TUNA O NA NA!

THAT SIMPLE.

ANCESTRY IN CHRISTIANITY! ANCESTRY IN CATHOLISCIM.

SIKU. WA PI NGA! IT MADE SENSE. JUST LIKE GOD PUT THEM IN MY WAY! MY FAVOURITE PEOPLE. HIS FAVOURITE PEOPLE. Perhaps.

***

When Your Mother Hears HOw MAny WOmen YOu Have!

OH JESUS! UME ZAA WENGI! SHE'LL BE SO SO HAPPY! :) SMILLING!

BABA NDIO ANAJUA KINA CHO FWATA! YEYE, NDIO FARAJA YANGU!

WEH MTU MZIMA!

TEAM EFFORT.

TUKO WENGI!

EACH WITH A VARIANT PIECE OF INFORMATION.

TUNA ITAJIANA!

***

UNA TAKA U I SHI GI!?

KAMA TAJIRU!

OHJESUS MY JESUS YES! UME MALIZA MISSION YAKO! OH JESUS MY JESUS! YES!

TUISHI KAMA MATAJIRI! TUISHI KAMA WA FALME! KWENE FAMILLIA YA KIFALME! UME WA PITA WOTE WASK TISHA!

SI TI SHI KI! *MwAH! *Twinkling Eyes Of Solemn And Joy. Oh How I Love This MAN! *Twinkling Eyes Of Joy And Fatigue

***

HEHE UNA FAGIA NYUMBA!

WELCOME TO AFRIKA! BETTER THAN ITALIANO!

DO NOTHING ALL DAY

AND MAKE YOUR MONEY!

NO ONE UNDERSTANDS

BUT A KING! *Shrugging His Hands!

Na PuMziKa

UNA WATOTO!

WAACHE WA FANYE HIYO KAZI

NJOO TUONGE!

WAKO SHULE

ILA KARIBU

THANK YOU JESUS

VITI VYENU VYAKO!?

I WAS JUST TRYING SOMETHING NEW A WHILE BACK.

THEIR BEAUTIFUL! CARPENTER?

ME. I DIDNT ASSIGN THEM.

HALLELUYA! KAMA MNA VYO SEMA!

GREAT WORK JESUS! THEIR BEAUTIFUL!

YOU YOURSELF!?

YES.

IN THESE WOODS!?

THESE TREES!?

MAKE THIS!?

YES!

OH JESUS!

BIASHARA AFRIKA! ITA KUPENDA SAAAAAANA!

Ahsante Kwa Baraka Zako

Weh Pia Nta Ku Salia

My Friend?

WHY OFCOURSE!

HAhaha!

***

JESUS Is YOur FAther A DraGon!?

The Way He Loved And Loves Me And My Mother?

YES!

HAHAHA!

WAHALA!

BEI BEI ;)

***

BAba!?

Yes?

Just Cause I Am Royalty Does It Mean I Have To Be Royalty?

You'll Always Be Royalty.

That's Just AnOthEr PrOblem!

HAhaha!

***

Quite Original

***

SAnila. In Moshi. When I Asked You Out On That Day. And You Were So Quiet. You Have NO IDEA HOW SCARED I WAS, THAT I AM LOSING THE LOVE OF MY LIFE! IT WAS SO WEIRD. YOU WERE SO SILENT. THEN YOU PUT ON THOSE GLASSES THAT MADE YOU LOOK LIKE A BIG SERIOUS GIRL AND I JUST LAUGHED! I WAS ALREADY THERE. BUT FOR YOU? I WOULD HAVE KEPT YOU YOUTHFUL AND HAPPY! I WAS SO SCARED! THAT MY WIFE WAS CRAZY!! HAHAHA! ALL THOSE PEOPLE TRYING TO BREAK US UP HAD NO IDEA. THAT I HAD KNOWN YOU MY 'WHOLE' LIFE! TINY AS YOU ARE. NO ONE BETTER FOR ME. TILL TODAY. I STILL BELIEVE THAT 'TILL' TODAY! MWAh! Blowing Kisses ;) KING! MWAH!

[outofficial]

It's finally here—the day we've all been waiting for ever since the “Moonlight”/ “La La Land” Best Picture fiasco: the Oscar noms have been announced. It's been a tight race, in which “Three Billboards” appears to have established itself as the frontrunner for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and maybe even Best Picture, while “The Shape of Water” has proven a nomination favorite this awards season but not necessarily the most likely to win. It leads this year's Oscars with 13 nominations.

In more exciting news, “Get Out” scored noms for Jordan Peele for Best Directing, Picture, and Writing, making him only the third director ever to receive all three noms on a debut feature. Daniel Kaluuya also scored a Best Actor nomination for the film.

Greta Gerwig, too, did well for herself, earning noms for Best Directing and Writing, and “Lady Bird” also has been nominated for Best Picture, though since Gerwig isn't a producer on the film she can't technically claim the same record as Peele.

“Call Me By Your Name” was nominated for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet. Also notable is that “A Fantastic Woman,” the Chilean film starring trans actress Daniela Vega, was nominated for Best Foreign Film.

The Oscars are hosted this year by Jimmy Kimmel and take place March 4 on ABC. Take a look at the full list below:

BEST PICTURE

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito, Producers

DARKEST HOUR Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski, Producers

DUNKIRK Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers

GET OUT Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele, Producers

LADY BIRD Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O’Neill, Producers

PHANTOM THREAD JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi, Producers

THE POST Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers

THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET Call Me by Your Name

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Phantom Thread

DANIEL KALUUYA Get Out

GARY OLDMAN Darkest Hour

DENZEL WASHINGTON Roman J. Israel, Esq.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

WILLEM DAFOE The Florida Project

WOODY HARRELSON Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

RICHARD JENKINS The Shape of Water

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER All the Money in the World

SAM ROCKWELL Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

SALLY HAWKINS The Shape of Water

FRANCES MCDORMAND Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

MARGOT ROBBIE I, Tonya

SAOIRSE RONAN Lady Bird

MERYL STREEP The Post

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

MARY J. BLIGE Mudbound

ALLISON JANNEY I, Tonya

LESLEY MANVILLE Phantom Thread

LAURIE METCALF Lady Bird

OCTAVIA SPENCER The Shape of Water

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

THE BOSS BABY Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito

THE BREADWINNER Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo

COCO Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson

FERDINAND Carlos Saldanha

LOVING VINCENT Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart

CINEMATOGRAPHY

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Roger A. Deakins

DARKEST HOUR Bruno Delbonnel

DUNKIRK Hoyte van Hoytema

MUDBOUND Rachel Morrison

THE SHAPE OF WATER Dan Laustsen

COSTUME DESIGN

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Jacqueline Durran

DARKEST HOUR Jacqueline Durran

PHANTOM THREAD Mark Bridges

THE SHAPE OF WATER Luis Sequeira

VICTORIA & ABDUL Consolata Boyle

DIRECTING

DUNKIRK Christopher Nolan

GET OUT Jordan Peele

LADY BIRD Greta Gerwig

PHANTOM THREAD Paul Thomas Anderson

THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman

FACES PLACES Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda

ICARUS Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan

LAST MEN IN ALEPPO Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen

STRONG ISLAND Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

EDITH+EDDIE Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright

HEAVEN IS A TRAFFIC JAM ON THE 405 Frank Stiefel

HEROIN(E) Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon

KNIFE SKILLS Thomas Lennon

TRAFFIC STOP Kate Davis and David Heilbroner

FILM EDITING

BABY DRIVER Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos

DUNKIRK Lee Smith

I, TONYA Tatiana S. Riegel

THE SHAPE OF WATER Sidney Wolinsky

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Jon Gregory

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A FANTASTIC WOMAN Chile

THE INSULT Lebanon

LOVELESS Russia

ON BODY AND SOUL Hungary

THE SQUARE Sweden

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

DARKEST HOUR Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick

VICTORIA & ABDUL Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard

WONDER Arjen Tuiten

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

DUNKIRK Hans Zimmer

PHANTOM THREAD Jonny Greenwood

THE SHAPE OF WATER Alexandre Desplat

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI John Williams

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Carter Burwell

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

MIGHTY RIVER from Mudbound; Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson

MYSTERY OF LOVE from Call Me by Your Name; Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens

REMEMBER ME from Coco; Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

STAND UP FOR SOMETHING from Marshall; Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren

THIS IS ME from The Greatest Showman; Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

PRODUCTION DESIGN

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola

DARKEST HOUR Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

DUNKIRK Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis

THE SHAPE OF WATER Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

DEAR BASKETBALL Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant

GARDEN PARTY Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon

LOU Dave Mullins and Dana Murray

NEGATIVE SPACE Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata

REVOLTING RHYMES Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

DEKALB ELEMENTARY Reed Van Dyk

THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK Derin Seale and Josh Lawson

MY NEPHEW EMMETT Kevin Wilson, Jr.

THE SILENT CHILD Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton

WATU WOTE/ALL OF US Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen

SOUND EDITING

BABY DRIVER Julian Slater

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Mark Mangini and Theo Green

DUNKIRK Richard King and Alex Gibson

THE SHAPE OF WATER Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce

SOUND MIXING

BABY DRIVER Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth

DUNKIRK Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo

THE SHAPE OF WATER Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson

VISUAL EFFECTS

BLADE RUNNER 2049 John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick

KONG: SKULL ISLAND Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Screenplay by James Ivory

THE DISASTER ARTIST Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

LOGAN Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold

MOLLY’S GAME Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin

MUDBOUND Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

THE BIG SICK Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani

GET OUT Written by Jordan Peele

LADY BIRD Written by Greta Gerwig

THE SHAPE OF WATER Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Written by Martin McDonagh

[theplaylistfilm]

2018 Oscar Nominations: ‘The Shape Of Water’ Leads With 13 Nominations

BEST PICTURE “Call Me By Your Name” “Darkest Hour” “Dunkirk” “Phantom Thread” “Get Out” “Lady Bird” “The Post” “The Shape of Water” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

DIRECTING Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water” Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird” Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom Thread” Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk” Jordan Peele, “Get Out”

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name” Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread” Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel,  Esq” Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out” Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water” Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya” Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird” Meryl Streep, “The Post”

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project” Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water” Christopher Plummer, “All The Money In The World” Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound” Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread” Allison Janney, “I, Tonya” Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird” Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”

EDITING Paul Machliss, Jonathan Amos, “Baby Driver” Lee Smith, “Dunkirk” Tatiana S. Riegel, “I, Tonya” John Gregory, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Sidney Wolinsky, “The Shape of Water”

CINEMATOGRAPHY Roger Deakins, “Blade Runner 2049” Bruno Delbonnel, “Darkest Hour” Dan Laustsen, “The Shape of Water” Rachel Morrison, “Mudbound” Hoyte van Hoytema, “Dunkirk”

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY “Abacus: Small Enough To Jail” “Faces Places” “Icarus” “Strong Island“ “Last Man in Aleppo”

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM “A Fantastic Woman” “On Body And Soul” “Loveless” “The Insult” “The Square”

ORIGINAL SCORE Alexandre Desplat, “The Shape of Water” Jonny Greenwood, “Phantom Thread” Carter Burwell, “Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri” John Williams, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Hans Zimmer, “Dunkirk”

ORIGINAL SONG “Mighty River” from “Mudbound,” Mary J. Blige “Mystery of Love” from “Call Me by Your Name,” Sufjan Stevens “Remember Me” from “Coco,” Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez “Stand Up for Something” from “Marshall,” Diane Warren, Common “This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman,” Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

PRODUCTION DESIGN “Blade Runner 2049” “Darkest Hour” “Dunkirk” “The Shape of Water” “Beauty And The Beast”

COSTUME “Beauty and the Beast” “Darkest Hour” “Phantom Thread” “The Shape of Water” “Victoria and Abdul”

VISUAL EFFECTS “Blade Runner 2049” “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2“ “Kong: Skull Island” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” “War for the Planet of the Apes”

SOUND MIXING “Baby Driver” “Blade Runner 2049” “Dunkirk” “The Shape of Water” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

SOUND EDITING “Baby Driver” “Blade Runner 2049” “Dunkirk” “The Shape of Water” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”

MAKEUP AND HAIR “Darkest Hour” “Victoria And Abdul” “Wonder”

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor, “The Shape of Water” Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird” Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjani, “The Big Sick” Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Jordan Peele, “Get Out”

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY “Call Me by Your Name,” James Ivory “The Disaster Artist,” Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber “Logan,” Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green “Molly’s Game,” Aaron Sorkin “Mudbound,” Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM “The Breadwinner” “Coco” “The Boss Baby“ “Loving Vincent” “Ferdinand”

Animated Short: “DeKalb Elementary” “The Eleven O’Clock” “My Nephew Emmett” “The Silent Child” “Watu Wote/All of Us”

Best Documentary Short Subject: “Edith+Eddie” “Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405” “Heroin(e)” “Knife Skills” “Traffic Stop”

Best Live Action Short Film: “Dear Basketball” “Garden Party” “Lou” “Negative Space” “Revolting Rhymes”

[cinema-shots]

2018 Oscar Predictions

Best Picture Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Actor Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Best Actress Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Margot Robbie, I, Tonya Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird Meryl Streep, The Post

Best Supporting Actor Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actress Mary J. Blige, Mudbound Allison Janney, I, Tonya Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best Director Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk Jordan Peele, Get Out Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Best Original Screenplay The Big Sick Get Out Lady Bird The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Adapted Screenplay Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory The Disaster Artist, Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber Logan, Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green Molly’s Game, Aaron Sorkin Mudbound, Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

Best Animated Feature

The Boss Baby The Breadwinner Coco Ferdinand Loving Vincent

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Darkest Hour Victoria & Abdul Wonder

Best Film Editing Baby Driver Dunkirk I, Tonya The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Visual Effects Blade Runner 2049 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Kong: Skull Island Star Wars: The Last Jedi War for the Planet of the Apes

Best Original Score Dunkirk Phantom Thread The Shape of Water Star Wars: The Last Jedi Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Live Action Short Film DeKalb Elementary The Eleven O’Clock My Nephew Emmett The Silent Child Watu Wote/All of Us

Best Animated Short Film Dear Basketball Garden Party Lou Negative Space Revolting Rhymes

Best Sound Mixing Baby Driver Blade Runner 2049 Dunkirk The Shape of Water Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Sound Editing Baby Driver Blade Runner 2049 Dunkirk The Shape of Water Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Costume Design Beauty and the Beast Darkest Hour Phantom Thread The Shape of Water Victoria & Abdul

Best Cinematography Blade Runner 2049 Darkest Hour Dunkirk Mudbound The Shape of Water

Best Production Design Beauty and the Beast Blade Runner 2049 Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Shape of Water

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Oscars 2018 Winners

Here’s the full list of Oscar nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, which will air on March 4th!

Best Picture

WINNER: “The Shape of Water”

“Call Me by Your Name”

“Darkest Hour”

“Dunkirk”

“Get Out”

“Lady Bird”

“Phantom Thread”

“The Post”

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Lead Actor

Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”

Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”

Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”

WINNER: Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”

Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

Lead Actress

Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”

WINNER: Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”

Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”

Meryl Streep, “The Post”

Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”

Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”

Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”

WINNER: Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Supporting Actress

Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”

WINNER: Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”

Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread”

Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”

Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”

Director

“Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan

“Get Out,” Jordan Peele

“Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig

“Phantom Thread,” Paul Thomas Anderson

WINNER: “The Shape of Water,” Guillermo del Toro

Animated Feature

“The Boss Baby,” Tom McGrath, Ramsey Ann Naito

“The Breadwinner,” Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo

WINNER: “Coco,” Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson

“Ferdinand,” Carlos Saldanha

“Loving Vincent,” Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Sean Bobbitt, Ivan Mactaggart, Hugh Welchman

Animated Short

WINNER: “Dear Basketball,” Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant

“Garden Party,” Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon

“Lou,” Dave Mullins, Dana Murray

“Negative Space,” Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata

“Revolting Rhymes,” Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer

Adapted Screenplay

WINNER: “Call Me by Your Name,” James Ivory

“The Disaster Artist,” Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

“Logan,” Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green

“Molly’s Game,” Aaron Sorkin

“Mudbound,” Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

Original Screenplay

“The Big Sick,” Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani

WINNER: “Get Out,” Jordan Peele

“Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig

“The Shape of Water,” Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Martin McDonagh

Cinematography

WINNER: “Blade Runner 2049,” Roger Deakins

“Darkest Hour,” Bruno Delbonnel

“Dunkirk,” Hoyte van Hoytema

“Mudbound,” Rachel Morrison

“The Shape of Water,” Dan Laustsen

Original Score

“Dunkirk,” Hans Zimmer

“Phantom Thread,” Jonny Greenwood

WINNER: “The Shape of Water,” Alexandre Desplat

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” John Williams

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Carter Burwell

Original Song

“Mighty River” from “Mudbound,” Mary J. Blige

“Mystery of Love” from “Call Me by Your Name,” Sufjan Stevens

WINNER: “Remember Me” from “Coco,” Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez

“Stand Up for Something” from “Marshall,” Diane Warren, Common

“This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman,” Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

Best Documentary Feature

“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman

“Faces Places,” JR, Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda

WINNER: “Icarus,” Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan

“Last Men in Aleppo,” Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Soren Steen Jepersen

“Strong Island,” Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes

Best Documentary Short Subject

“Edith+Eddie,” Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright

WINNER: “Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405,” Frank Stiefel

“Heroin(e),” Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon

“Knife Skills,” Thomas Lennon

“Traffic Stop,” Kate Davis, David Heilbroner

Best Live Action Short Film

“DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk

“The Eleven O’Clock,” Derin Seale, Josh Lawson

“My Nephew Emmett,” Kevin Wilson, Jr.

WINNER: “The Silent Child,” Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton

“Watu Wote/All of Us,” Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen

Best Foreign Language Film

“A Fantastic Woman” (Chile)

WINNER: “The Insult” (Lebanon)

“Loveless” (Russia)

“On Body and Soul (Hungary)

“The Square” (Sweden)

Film Editing

“Baby Driver,” Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss

WINNER: “Dunkirk,” Lee Smith

“I, Tonya,” Tatiana S. Riegel

“The Shape of Water,” Sidney Wolinsky

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Jon Gregory

Sound Editing

“Baby Driver,” Julian Slater

“Blade Runner 2049,” Mark Mangini, Theo Green

WINNER: “Dunkirk,” Alex Gibson, Richard King

“The Shape of Water,” Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Ren Klyce, Matthew Wood

Sound Mixing

“Baby Driver,” Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin

“Blade Runner 2049,” Mac Ruth, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hephill

WINNER: “Dunkirk,” Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo

“The Shape of Water,” Glen Gauthier, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Stuart Wilson, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick

Production Design

“Beauty and the Beast,” Sarah Greenwood; Katie Spencer

“Blade Runner 2049,” Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola

“Darkest Hour,” Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

“Dunkirk,” Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis

WINNER: “The Shape of Water,” Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau

Makeup and Hair

WINNER: “Darkest Hour,” Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick

“Victoria and Abdul,” Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard

“Wonder,” Arjen Tuiten

Costume Design

“Beauty and the Beast,” Jacqueline Durran

“Darkest Hour,” Jacqueline Durran

WINNER: “Phantom Thread,” Mark Bridges

“The Shape of Water,” Luis Sequeira

“Victoria and Abdul,” Consolata Boyle

Visual Effects

WINNER:“Blade Runner 2049,” John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, Dan Sudick

“Kong: Skull Island,” Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Mike Meinardus

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,”  Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Chris Corbould, Neal Scanlan

“War for the Planet of the Apes,” Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Joel Whist

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2018 Oscar Predictions

Best Picture Nominees: Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri Movies I’ve actually seen this year (4): Dunkirk, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri My Prediction: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri My Wish: no preference  Movie(s) that should’ve taken the remaining (1) spot(s): Logan

Actor in a Leading Role Nominees: Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name), Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread), Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour), Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.) My Prediction: Gary Oldman My Wish: no preference

Actress in a Leading Role Nominees: Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water), Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Margot Robbie (I, Tonya), Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), Meryl Streep (The Post) My Prediction: Frances McDormand My Wish: Frances McDormand

Actor in a Supporting Role Nominees: Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project), Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri), Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water), Christopher Plummer (All the Money in the World), Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) My Prediction: Sam Rockwell My Wish: no preference

Actress in a Supporting Role Nominees: Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird), Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) My Prediction: Allison Janney My Wish: Laurie Metcalf

Best Director Nominees: Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), Jordan Peele (Get Out), Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird), Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) My Prediction: Guillermo del Toro My Wish: I love him, but Nolan or Gerwig or Peele

Best Adapted Screenplay Nominees: Call Me By Your Name, Molly’s Game, Mudbound, The Disaster Artist, Logan My Prediction: Call Me By Your Name My Wish: Logan

Best Original Screenplay Nominees: Get Out, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, The Big Sick, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri My Prediction: Lady Bird My Wish: Get Out 

Best Foreign Language Film Nominees: A Fantastic Woman, The Insult, The Square, On Body and Soul, Loveless My Prediction: idk My Wish: idk

Best Production Design Nominees: Beauty and the Beast, Darkest Hour, The Shape of Water, Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049 My Prediction: The Shape of Water My Wish: Beauty and the Beast

Best Visual Effects Nominees: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Blade Runner 2049, War for the Planet of the Apes, Kong: Skull Island My Prediction: War for the Planet of the Apes My Wish: Blade Runner 2049

Best Film Editing Nominees: Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, Baby Driver, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, I Tonya My Prediction: Dunkirk My Wish: There’s one shot in Dunkirk that occurs twice in the film, which I cannot figure out if it is intentional or not. Nevertheless, I think Dunkirk still deserves it. I actually think every nominee is strong in this category this year.

Best Cinematography Nominees: Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Mudbound, Darkest Hour, The Shape of Water My Prediction: The Shape of Water My Wish: Dunkirk

Best Animated Feature Nominees: Coco, The Breadwinner, Ferdinand, The Boss Baby, Loving Vincent My Prediction: Coco My Wish: Coco (Coco was actually amazing, but we need to start making more animated movies that are actually decent)

Best Documentary Feature Nominees: Faces Places, Icarus, Strong Island, Last Men in Aleppo, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail My Prediction: idk My Wish: idk

Best Live Action Short Nominees: Dekalb Elementary, The Silent Child, Watu Wote: All of Us, The Eleven O’Clock, My Nephew Emmett My Prediction: Dekalb Elementary My Wish: I thought they were all not great this year. 

Best Documentary Short Nominees: Edith + Eddie, Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405, Heroin(e), Knife Skills, Traffic Stop My Prediction: idk My Wish: idk

Best Animated Short Nominees: Lou, Revolting Rhymes, Negative Space, Dear Basketball, Garden Party My Prediction: Lou My Wish: Negative Space 

Best Costume Design Nominees: Phantom Thread, The Shape of Water, Darkest Hour, Beauty and the Beast, Victoria & Abdul My Prediction: Phantom Thread My Wish: Beauty and the Beast

Best Makeup and Hairstyling Nominees: Darkest Hour, Wonder, Victoria & Abdul My Prediction: Darkest Hour My Wish: no preference

Best Original Score Nominees: Phantom Thread, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri My Prediction: The Shape of Water My Wish: Dunkirk 

Best Original Song Nominees: “Remember Me” (Coco), “Stand Up for Something” (Marshall), “Mighty River” (Mudbound), “This is Me” (The Greatest Showman), “Mystery of Love” (Call Me By Your Name) My Prediction: “Remember Me” My Wish: I WISH “Evermore” was nominated from BatB, why wasn’t it nominated???

Best Sound Editing Nominees: Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, Star Wars: The Last Jedi My Prediction: Dunkirk My Wish: Baby Driver

Best Sound Mixing Nominees: Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, Star Wars: The Last Jedi My Prediction: Dunkirk My Wish: Baby Driver

[cookinguptales]

SO. Some thoughts on the shorts presentations.

(Note: I only go to the live-action and animated ones; the documentary shorts are harder to see in my city and frankly, they’re often too intense for my current mental health.)

I went to see the shorts yesterday and like I said earlier, I thought the live-action shorts were generally very good and the animated shorts were generally a waste of time and In A Heartbeat was fucking robbed. The live-action shorts were mostly based on true stories, oddly enough, but they were still beautiful.

(This is two years of underwhelming animated nominees and I’m like ughhhh bc some years everything is amazing but recently I’ve not been agreeing with their picks at all.)

I’m about to discuss like 13 shorts, so it’s all under a cut.

Live-Action Shorts

DeKalb Elementary

I have to be honest with you, considering our current political climate, I started crying from the moment this short started until it ended. Like I saw the title come up on the screen and I was like OH NO. The short is based on the real-life school shooting at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, and I teared up just typing that sentence. However, this school had one of the few “happy” endings of a shooting; a receptionist at the school started talking to the shooter and calmed him down until he could admit that he really needed medical help and didn’t want to hurt anyone. She probably saved a lot of lives, and this dramatic interpretation of her 911 call is really deeply touching. The acting was really incredible, and the connection between the two of them was palpable without lessening the terrifying suspense of the moment. A really beautiful and deeply affecting short.

(Though, all that said, I wonder at the decision to create a mostly apolitical short about school shootings in today’s climate…)

(cw: guns, threatened violence, mental health issues)

A Silent Child

Surprise, I cried through this one, too! A Silent Child is a short about a young deaf girl in the UK whose parents refuse to learn sign language or teach it to her. This is a depressingly common experience in real life, and watching this girl’s nanny teach this girl sign language and seeing her really come alive now that she could truly communicate, neither the mother’s jealousy and self-consciousness nor her eventual decision to fire the nanny and forbid her child from ever using sign language again surprised me.

To keep a somewhat objective approach, I do think the end of the short was a bit maudlin; it seemed kind of odd that the girl, in that situation, would choose to sign “I love you” — this seemed more heartstring-yanking than something that felt realistic. That said, the rest of the short was really heartbreakingly realistic. It’s a personal subject for me; deafness runs in my family and my little sister is profoundly deaf. My parents started learning sign language the day she was born and made sure I did, too. I grew up in a truly bilingual household and didn’t understand until I was much older that many hearing parents don’t do this for their children. At first I was sitting in the theater like “well, my parents knew it might be a possibility; they were prepared before she was born” but then it is revealed that the mother in this short knew of a family history as well; her utter self-involvement and ego become more and more clear throughout the course of the story.

The short presents a very complicated familial relationship that felt very foreign and very familiar to me at the same time, and I’ll admit I cried a lot. Despite some shortcomings in the character writing, it really is a very important topic to talk about. I think I would have preferred that the emphasis be a little less on the nanny’s feelings and a little more on the girl, but it was overall a very good short — and notable for using an actual deaf actress and real BSL.

(cw: Ableism, child abuse)

My Nephew Emmett

This is a dramatic retelling of the experiences of Mose Wright as he tried to save his 14-year-old nephew, Emmett Till. If that name is familiar to you (and if it’s not, google this important case — but guard yourself for some deeply upsetting events and imagery) then you can probably figure out about how this short went. The story is a familiar, if horrifying one, but this film is interesting in that it doesn’t show much of the part we’re all familiar with. There isn’t that much graphic violence (IIRC, punching a boy in the stomach, manhandling him, and threatening folks with guns is the extent of it), and the very famous pictures of Emmett Till post-attack are not shown. (Though they are evoked in animation during the credits.)

Instead, this film really focuses on the emotional build-up of the event, and very palpably expresses the horrors and tensions of living during this time period in this place while black. There is some absolutely gorgeous imagery in this short, and some of the images of Mose sitting up all night with a gun, waiting for his nephew to come home, will stay with me forever. The acting and cinematography are top-notch, and there is a sort of dignity to these people that is not always afforded in shorts that can easily become misery porn for fascinated gawkers. Really just beautifully, meaningfully done. Media based on true stories like this can sometimes be wooden or insensitive. This was neither. A familiar story, but a breathtaking short.

(Cw: extreme racism, including racial slurs, violence, child death)

The 11 o’clock

In a year full of strong contenders, this Australian short was a glaring weak point. It’s a film about a psychiatrist who gets a patient who believes he’s a psychiatrist, and the rest of the fairly predictable short is pretty much just who’s on first shenanigans that get annoying very quickly. Also, after the powerful DeKalb Elementary, it felt uncomfortable poking fun at people with mental illness and using personal delusions for comedy.

But hey, at least it was short.

Watu Wote (All of Us)

Though it was a great year, this was probably my favorite of the shorts. As the film introduced itself as being about racial tensions between Christians and Muslims in Kenya, I was kind of bracing myself for some of the frankly racist/xenophobic content I’ve seen in some past years. However, this short was actually about an event in 2015 during which the militant group Al-Shabaab stopped a bus with an eye towards killing the Christians onboard, but were thwarted by the Muslim passengers who protected their Christian co-riders with, quite literally, their lives.

The short follows a Christian woman who is traveling home to visit with her sick mother, and the trip clearly terrifies her. It is later revealed that her husband and child had been killed by anti-Christian radicals years before and she still views Muslims with a large amount of wary mistrust. She clashes with other passengers on the bus, but she is shocked when the bus is pulled over and the Muslim passengers immediately move to protect and hide her. There are some truly tense scenes during which she is hiding from the militants and Muslim passengers are arguing with them about how un-Muslim their actions truly are. The short is not without bloodshed.

The short could have veered into being preachy at any time, but was instead a very raw depiction of these religious and ethnic tensions in this part of the world. While you could not fault the protagonist for being wary after her experiences, a lot of catharsis is felt when she realizes that there is a large difference between the men who killed her family and the terrified yet heroic passengers on her bus. It’s a true story and one respectfully told. I’d heard about the event when it happened, but didn’t know all the details; it was nice to have these heroes (particularly the fallen ones) commemorated in a moving short like this. The acting and directing was incredible, and again, I cried. A lot. I cried through basically this entire shorts presentation with a short break during the psychiatrist one, during which I ???ed a lot.

In a time where there is so much anti-Muslim sentiment in the world, I think this film made a very powerful statement, and I was glad to see it. I cannot believe this was a student film.

(Cw: ethnic/religious discrimination, blood, violence, death, child endangerment, mentions of dead children)

Honestly, this was a very strong year for the live-action shorts, and I would happy if any of the non-Australian shorts won.

Who I think will win: My Nephew Emmett or Watu Wote

Who should win: Very, very narrowly, Watu Wote

Animated Shorts

Negative Space

This is a French stop-motion film, and probably my favorite of the animated shorts this year — not that that’s saying much. It was kind of slight, frankly speaking, but the animation was really inventive and it was a joy to watch, at least, even if it was mostly just a guy relating a brief anecdote about his deceased father. Besides praising the really visually interesting animation, I’ll admit there’s not much to say about this one.

(Cw: death, you see an open-coffin funeral)

Garden Party

Beautiful animation, for the most part, but like. The entire plot is that a bunch of frogs take over this rich guy’s house after he’s murdered, which is…again, not that much of a plot. I guess the main point of it was “nature doesn’t care about riches or human life” and “corpses are funny”, which I’d tend to agree with and disagree with, respectively. While I appreciated the rising tension as you notice all the creepy details of this broken-into house in the background of cute frogs cavorting, the “punchline” of this short, which was a detailed close-up of the prior resident’s mutilated, bloated corpse that’d been sitting in the pool is just like. Pointlessly disgusting, and after watching a short about Emmett Till, it felt almost unconscionably callous. Honestly I was like. Mildly interested for most of it, and completely repelled by the end. People talk about this short’s “dark sense of humor” and I’m mostly just reminded of all those edgy assholes I met in college and was happy to never meet again.

(Cw: violence, very, very grotesquely graphic depictions of a corpse)

Lou

This one is Pixar’s inevitable nomination, and it’s very… Pixar. Idk, this one was kind of fun to watch, had a typical slightly-maudlin moment of sentimentality at the end, but it really wasn’t Pixar’s finest. It’s a pretty slight film about a bully befriending a sentient lost and found and learning to Be A Good Dude along with some stuff about the cycle of bullying that was dealt with too briefly to really be hard-hitting. What was odd to me while watching it is that I found myself thinking “wow, this animation does not seem up to Pixar’s usual standard”, which really surprised me. Like, it’s by no means bad! It just reminds me of the work that Pixar was doing several years ago, y’know? All in all, kind of cute but ultimately forgettable.

Revolting Rhymes, Part 1

(Longer review because this one was a half hour long as opposed to the rest, which were all 5-7 minutes.)

Ugh, okay. So the Academy, in their infinite wisdom, keeps nominating children’s specials for this award. They’re typically long-winded, rhyming adaptations of children’s picture books with subpar animation, and while Revolting Rhymes was better than The Gruffalo or Room on the Broom, I still felt my eyes glazing over. Plus, frankly, I take issue with this “short” even being eligible. It’s not a short. Shorts (in the Oscars) are 40 minutes or less. Revolting Rhymes is a two-episode miniseries that makes up one hour-long children’s program. In other words, if you see this at the short’s presentation, you will only see the first half of the story. (I googled the second half when I got home so I could properly review it.) They just split it into two; that doesn’t make it two discrete shorts. But I digress.

So this is your typical fairy tale retelling, and while I liked some aspects of it, others were trite and overdone. It was fun seeing Red Riding Hood go full vigilante, I suppose. It was actually frustrating as hell, especially because of In A Heartbeat’s snub; Revolting Rhymes really seemed like it was about to go to the f/f place with Red and Snow White. I was starting to get interested. These women were fighting for each other, giving each other flowers, embracing, leaning against each other, they eventually move in together… Like it was pretty fucking gay. AND THEN THEY NO HOMO’D IT AT THE END. I even looked up the second half to be completely sure. So that was really going to turn me against this film anyway because there’s nothing more tiring of getting one of those “in the future, they are gal pals and Red grew up and had kids!!” epilogues, especially when an actual queer love story was utterly ignored in favor of subpar shorts.

That aside, though, it’s just overly long, predictable, and kind of dull after a while. Frankly speaking, it’s for children and it doesn’t really have great crossover appeal for adults.

(Cw: pretty intense non-graphic violence, some sexist overtones, no homo-ing)

Dear Basketball

This short is just incomprehensible to me. It’s a short poem by Kobe Bryant that’s animated by the legendary Glen Keane with music by John Williams. Which should tell you how bewilderingly weird this whole scenario is. The whole time I was like “Is this a vanity project? How did he get such talent to sign on for such a self-indulgent little film? Did he just start throwing money around? Are both of these men closet Kobe fans?” Like I really don’t understand what even happened for this film to get made. It was inexplicable.

I guess it’s exactly what you’d expect. Kobe Bryant has written a saccharine poem about how much he has always loved basketball, and how he is now sad he has to give it up. It’s beautifully animated with a sweeping score. I am deeply confused, and cannot understand why this was even nominated in the wake of the #MeToo movement, considering the allegations against Bryant.

*shrugs???*

(And the highly commended shorts. IN A HEARTBEAT DIDN’T EVEN FUCKING MAKE HIGHLY COMMENDED, FUCK THE OSCARS COMMITTEE TBH.)

Lost Property Office

Another short about a lost and found…? I mean, okay, why the fuck not, this year is clearly a debacle anyway. This one was basically about a guy who works for the MTA lost and found, and he’s being let go because no one ever claims anything. The film, to be fair, does have a really interesting visual aesthetic… But the direction it goes in, again, is just kind of like. Okay. Not exactly emotionally gripping.

(Cw: no one actually commits suicide in this, but the short very clearly utilizes imagery that conjures up suicide)

Achoo

Trite little film about a dragon I’m supposed to think is cute but I really thought was kind of gross and annoying. It’s this thing about how this annoying dragon wants to make a fireworks display better than the mean bully dragons and he sneezes goop everywhere and uses chemicals (which feels like cheating..?) and accidentally invents fireworks. It’s always, uh, awkward when there’s a piece of animation that does some cutesy depiction of another culture’s faux “mythology”, and this one really didn’t particularly do it well.

Weeds

Short about a dandelion (I guess? They didn’t really look like dandelions, but oh well.) trying to move from a dead yard to the yard next door full of sprinklers. It dies before it makes it and its seeds float over to the lawn. Then you get some inspirational quote about NEVER GIVING UP and I’m like okay but it died???? It didn’t make it????? Is this some really depressing point about the struggles of immigrant parents or something or did you actually think this was inspirational?

Forgettable.

Who I think will win: Negative Space or Revolting Rhymes Who I think should win: In A Heartbeat

IN A HEARTBEAT WAS ROBBED NEVER FORGIVE NEVER FORGET.

[pipocacompequi]

[OSCAR 2018] Apostas & Palpites

Hoje é a grande noite do cinema mundial, e não só isso, a grande premiação começa a comemorar seus longos 90 anos né? As coisas vem mudado desde a primeira noite até aqui, mas ainda tem muita água pra rolar, protestos pra acontecer e olhares para se mudar. Mas o assunto não é este desta postagem e sim nossas apostas para a grande noite! Quem é seu favorito as categorias da premiação? Já escolheu? Assistiram todos os filmes? Então vem conferir nossas apostas e palpites (quem sabe acertaremos né?)

Melhor Trilha Sonora Original

Dunkirk - Hans Zimmer Trama Fantasma - Jonny Greenwood A Forma da Água - Alexandre Desplat Star Wars - Os Últimos Jedi - John Williams (SAMUEL) Três Anúncios Para um Crime - Carter Burwell

Melhor Montagem

Em Ritmo de Fuga Dunkirk (SAMUEL) Eu, Tonya (PAULLO) A Forma da Água Três Anúncios Para um Crime

Melhor Design de Produção

A Bela e a Fera Blade Runner 2049 O Destino de Uma Nação Dunkirk (PAULLO) A Forma da Água

Melhores Efeitos Visuais

Blade Runner 2049 (SAMUEL) Guardiões da Galáxia Vol.2 Kong - A Ilha da Caveira Star Wars - Os Últimos Jedi Planeta dos Macacos - A Guerra (PAULLO)

Melhor Edição de Som

Em Ritmo de Fuga Blade Runner 2049 Dunkirk A Forma da Água Star Wars - Os Últimos Jedi (PAULLO)

Melhor Mixagem de Som

Em Ritmo de Fuga (SAMUEL) Blade Runner 2049 Dunkirk A Forma da Água Star Wars - Os Últimos Jedi (PAULLO)

Melhor Maquiagem e Cabelo

O Destino de Uma Nação Extraordinário (PAULLO) Victoria e Abdul - o Confidente da Rainha

Melhor Figurino

A Bela e a Fera (PAULLO) O Destino de Uma Nação Trama Fantasma A Forma da Água Victoria e Abdul - o Confidente da Rainha

Melhor Fotografia

Blade Runner 2049 - Roger Deakins (PAULLO) O Destino de Uma Nação - Bruno Delbonnel Mudbound – Lágrimas sobre o Mississipi - Rachel Morrison Dunkirk - Hoyte van Hoytema (SAMUEL) A Forma da Água - Dan Laustsen

Melhor Canção Original

"Remember Me" - Viva - A Vida é uma Festa - Kristen Anderson-Lopez e Robert Lopez "This is Me" - O Rei do Show - Benj Pasek e Justin Paul "Mighty River" - Mudbound – Lágrimas sobre o Mississipi - Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq e Taura Stinson (PAULLO) "Mystery of Love" - Me Chame Pelo Seu Nome - Sufjan Stevens "Stand Up for Something" - Marshall - Diane Warren e Lonnie R. Lynn

Melhor Curta em Animação

Dear Basketball - Glen Keane e Kobe Bryant Garden Party - Victor Caire e Gabriel Grapperon Lou - Dave Mullins e Dana Murray (PAULLO) Negative Space - Max Porter e Ru Kuwahata Revolting Rhymes - Jakob Schuh e Jan Lachauer

Melhor Curta-Metragem

DeKalb Elementary The Eleven O’Clock My Nephew Emmett The Silent Child Watu Wote/All of Us (PAULLO)

Melhor Filme Estrangeiro

Uma Mulher Fantástica (Chile) O Insulto (Líbano) (SAMUEL) Sem Amor (Rússia) The Square - A Arte da Discórdia (Suécia) Corpo e Alma (Hungria)

Melhor Documentário em Longa-Metragem

Abacus: Pequeno o Bastante Para Condenar Visages villages Ícaro Últimos Homens em Aleppo (PAULLO) Strong Island

Melhor Documentário em Curta-Metragem

Edith+Eddie Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 Heroin(e) Kayayo: The Living Shopping Baskets (PAULLO) Knife Skills Traffic Stop

Melhor Animação

O Poderoso Chefinho Viva - A Vida é uma Festa O Touro Ferdinando Com Amor, Van Gogh (SAMUEL E PAULLO) The Breadwinner

Melhor Roteiro Adaptado

Artista do Desastre Me Chame Pelo Seu Nome Logan (SAMUEL E PAULLO) A Grande Jogada Mudbound – Lágrimas sobre o Mississipi

Melhor Roteiro Original

Doentes de Amor Corra! (SAMUEL) Lady Bird - A Hora de Voar (PAULLO) A Forma da Água Três Anúncios Para um Crime 

Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante

Mary J. Blige - Mudbound – Lágrimas sobre o Mississipi Allison Janney - Eu, Tonya (SAMUEL E PAULLO) Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird - A Hora de Voar Octavia Spencer - A Forma da Água Lesley Manville - Trama Fantasma

Melhor Ator Coadjuvante

Willem Dafoe - Projeto Flórida (SAMUEL)  Woody Harrelson - Três Anúncios Para um Crime Richard Jenkins - A Forma da Água Christopher Plummer - Todo o Dinheiro do Mundo Sam Rockwell - Três Anúncios Para um Crime (PAULLO)

Melhor Ator

Timotheé Chalamet - Me Chame Pelo Seu Nome (PAULLO) Daniel Day Lewis - Trama Fantasma Daniel Kaluuya - Corra! Gary Oldman - O Destino de Uma Nação Denzel Washington - Roman J. Israel, Esq. (SAMUEL)

Melhor Atriz

Sally Hawkins - A Forma da Água Frances McDormand - Três Anúncios Para um Crime (SAMUEL E PAULLO) Margot Robbie - Eu, Tonya Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird - A Hora de Voar Meryl Streep - The Post - A Guerra Secreta

Melhor Direção

Dunkirk - Christopher Nolan (SAMUEL) Corra! - Jordan Peele Lady Bird - A Hora de Voar - Greta Gerwig (PAULLO) Trama Fantasma - Paul Thomas Anderson A Forma da Água - Guillermo del Toro

Melhor Filme

Me Chame Pelo Seu Nome O Destino de Uma Nação Dunkirk (SAMUEL) Corra! Lady Bird - A Hora de Voar Trama Fantasma The Post - A Guerra Secreta A Forma da Água Três Anúncios Para um Crime (PAULLO)

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Que os jogos comecem gente! E vocês? Concordam com algum desses palpites? Tem outro diferente do nosso? comentem aqui no blog ou nas redes sociais, vamos ver quem faz mais pontos com a gente aqui do PIPOCA COM PEQUI <3

Até a Próxima !

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Para o Oscar:

Me Chame Pelo Seu Nome

O destino de uma nação

Dunkirk

Corra!

Lady Bird – A hora de voar

Trama fantasma

The Post 

A forma da água

Três anúncios para um crime

I, Tonya

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Projeto Flórida

Todo o dinheiro do mundo

Doentes de amor

Artista do desastre

Logan

A grande jogada

Mudbound – Lágrimas sobre o Mississipi

Uma mulher fantástica (Chile)

The insult (Líbano)

Sem amor (Rússia)

The square – A arte da discórdia (Suécia)

On body and soul (Hungria)

DeKalb Elementary

The eleven o’clock

My nephew Emmett

The silent child

Watu wote/All of us

Extraordinário

Victoria e Abdul – o confidente da rainha

Planeta dos Macacos – A Guerra