But snarky remarks are welcome for their entertainment value :)
Many academy voters have long insisted that art should be separated from the artist — that the Oscars should be about assessing the caliber of work and that concerns about offscreen behavior should be cleaved away. Just last year, voters overlooked Casey Affleck’s past settlements with women who accused him of sexual harassment to name him best actor.
But that stance has been harder to maintain as women have come forward in recent months to accuse men like Harvey Weinstein, Brett Ratner and James Toback of sexual misconduct. Many of these men — Mr. Weinstein, most notably — used the Oscars as a shield. The academy kicked him out in October.
The Oscar statue should be transgender.
My snark is to say, that I haven’t heard of most of these movies. Were they in theaters in wide release? Are they mostly arthouse type movies?
Never heard of half these movies—they didn’t come here.
The Shape of Water sounds interesting, I’ll probably watch it at some point in time. Del Torro is an interesting director.
Dunkirk was a fine movie but not Oscar material.
Never even heard of the others which means they must be about confused teens deciding if they want to cut off their junk.
I saw it. It could have been really good if it didn’t hate its characters so much. Michael Shannon was handcuffed by the one-dimensional bad-guy writing. Pretty typical of Guillermo del Toro’s stuff. Technically interesting, but shallow character development and a totally predictable linear plot.
Just like most Oscar seasons - I’ve only heard of one of the movies. Dunkirk.
Hollywood sucks. They should spend more time thinking about making good movies and less time kissing the butts of phony liberal elites.
I’m totally nonplussed with Hollywood now. I’ve hit the demographic were you hate everything. It started with Will Smith and Jade Pinkett Smith complaining about Will Smith not winning an oscar for a role designed and written for him to win an Oscar. They made it all to be about race and now they’re making all to be about sexual harassment. Not to mention political leanings — the further away from Conservatives the better.
Political leanings is now the new casting couch.
What? No Best Performance by a Pansexual in a Non Binary Role catagory?
I am outraged
These are my predictions an I'm sticking to them!
Drat, the Bruce Lee biopic didn’t get recognized. :-) That was the last DVD I bought - Birth of the Dragon. The Chinese film industry continues to put out enjoyable entertainment.
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IDRGAFF!!!