Posted on 02/08/2022 7:20:02 AM PST by dynachrome
And the nominees are …
The 2022 Academy Awards are almost upon us — the night when A-list actors, singers and other members of the Hollywood elite will descend upon the steps of the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles next month.
While the telecast is set to air on March 27 on ABC, the nominations were announced by Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross on Feb. 8.
The pair revealed the nominees across 23 categories in the announcement, which streamed on the Oscars website and the Film Academy’s social media accounts.
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I have not watched the Academy Retards in probably 30 years.I just do not care.
Why would I watch the annual gathering of an elitist mutual admiration clique comprised of people who want me dead?
There better be lots of minorities nominated or else!!! And most of them BETTER BE BLACK!
And any trans characters in those movies nominated may NOT be portrayed by hetero actors.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A bunch of millionaires and multimillionaires slapping each other on the back, handing each other trophies while spouting their warped woke out of touch views on how the world should be???
Pass
Not enough Blacks.
10 nominees for Best Picture? Is that normal? I haven’t seen any of them, but will watch The Power of the Dog sooner or later.
I stopped watching TV over 30 years ago, and quit going to the movies when they got rid of drive ins, why go to a movie if you can’t bring your own booze and maybe get a little action in the backseat with your date or wife??
Haven't been to a theater to see a current release or rented one for home viewing in over 3 years. Haven't watched the Academy Awards in over 25.
Spoilers
The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
Synopsis
In 1925 Montana, wealthy ranch owner brothers Phil and George Burbank meet widow and inn owner Rose Gordon during a cattle drive. The gentle-mannered George is quickly taken with Rose, while the volatile Phil, much influenced by his late mentor “Bronco” Henry, mocks Rose’s son Peter for his lisp and effeminate manner. George and Rose soon marry. Rose uses George’s money to send her son to college to study medicine and surgery, while she moves into the Burbank ranch house. Phil immediately takes a dislike to her, believing she took advantage of George for his wealth. His rough ways and taunting manner unnerve her. George organizes a dinner party with his parents and the governor so they can meet Rose and hear her play their new piano. Phil, after being asked by George to wash up before dinner, is nowhere to be found. Rose is very reluctant to play the piano, citing her lack of ability, but is pressured to do so by George and their guests. She is unable to play more than a few notes and is further humiliated when Phil, still dirty, enters and belittles her. As they leave, she takes a drink of alcohol, something she was previously opposed to. By the time Peter comes to stay at the ranch for the summer break, Rose has become an alcoholic, which she hides from George. Phil and his men taunt Peter, and he sequesters himself in his room, dissecting animals and studying diseases. In a secluded glade, Phil masturbates with Bronco Henry’s handkerchief. Peter enters the glade and finds a stash of magazines with Bronco Henry’s name on them depicting nude men. He observes Phil bathing in a pond with the kerchief around his neck; Phil notices him and chases him off. Phil suddenly begins to show decency to Peter, offering to plait him a lasso from rawhide and teach him how to ride a horse. Phil is impressed when Peter immediately picks out a shadow in the shape of a dog on a nearby mountain. Peter, out on a solo ride, comes across a diseased cattle carcass and cuts into its hide with a scalpel. Out on a fencing job, Peter and Phil corner and kill a rabbit, and Phil gets an open wound on his hand. Afterwards, Peter tells Phil about finding the body of his father, who had hanged himself. Seeing how much time her son is spending with Phil, Rose’s alcoholism worsens. Upon learning about Phil’s policy of burning the hides he does not need for himself, Rose defiantly gives them to local Indigenous traders who thank her with a pair of gloves. She then collapses from her rapid alcohol consumption and George tends to her. With no hides to finish Peter’s lasso, Phil is despondent until Peter offers him the hide he cut from the dead cattle. They spend the night in the barn finishing it, and Phil tells Peter a story of how Bronco Henry saved his life by combining their body heat in freezing weather and does not answer when Peter asks if they were naked and they then seductively share a cigarette. When Phil does not show up for breakfast the next morning, George finds him sickened in bed and his wound heavily infected. A delirious Phil looks for Peter to give him the finished lasso but George takes him away to the hospital before he can hand it over. In the next scene, George is seen picking out a coffin while Phil’s body is prepared for burial. At his funeral, a doctor tells George that Phil most likely died from anthrax, puzzling him, as Phil was always careful to avoid diseased cattle. Having not gone to the funeral, Peter opens a Book of Common Prayer to the burial rite and then flips to the Psalter and reads Psalm 22:20: “Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.” He puts his finished lasso under his bed with gloved hands and watches George and a now sober Rose embrace, smiling, implying he intentionally gave Phil the diseased hide to save her life.
I only see two - “Oscars So White” Part II
Sickening. Thanks for “ruining” that bad movie for me, I would not have enjoyed it.
I just thought it was important for people to understand that this was a bit of a Brokeback Mountain.
ZZZZZZ. Another Oscar ceremony, another gathering of substance abusing self absorbed bow tied pretty boys and brainless bimbos in $100k+ getups that barely cover their silicone enhanced ta tas talking 🐂💩 about equity or whatever the leftist cause du jure happens to be.
Just a heads up for any who hasn’t seen it, the original Nightmare Alley 1947 version is a fantastic movie.
As the years go by I find that I have not even heard of many movies that are nominated for the Oscars. There seems to be a tendency to nominate films which were not very popular at the box office.
I’m sure I’m not the only one with that impression. The ratings for the Oscar telecast have been dropping downward year by year.
Could it be that big numbers of people out there, just don’t care to sit through an award show,, to see which movie they’ve never seen beats out which other movie they’ve never heard of to win some award?
Sounds truly awful.
Cumberbatch has had several sexually ambiguous roles or homosexuals’ roles in the past ten years. So I always check when he is in something.
Will Smith is the only one in the title that I can recall ever hearing of before. Mainly because I couldn’t stand him as some Fresh Prince or something or another. Movie stars, and especially their events, just aren’t my thing.
“Will Smith, Kristen Stewart, Andrew Garfield...”
Two of them could be out-acted by cardboard cut-outs. How low the Academy has fallen.
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