Posted on 01/23/2025 8:09:39 AM PST by Red Badger
The Oscar nominations are here.
Despite the debate over whether the big show should go on amid the devastation in Los Angeles from the wildfires, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences pressed ahead and the Academy Award nominees for 2025 were announced on Jan. 23.
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Rachel Sennott (Saturday Night, Shiva Baby) and Bowen Yang (Wicked, Saturday Night Live) helmed the early morning nominations ceremony at the academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater and announced the 23 categories. The presentation was livestreamed on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the academy’s social media accounts, and aired on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Emilia Pérez led with the most nominations, 13, including Best Picture, Best Director (Jacques Audiard) Best Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón) and Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña). That was followed by The Brutalist and Wicked, which both had 10 nominations.
At the top of the show, Bill Kramer and Janet Yang, the academy’s CEO and president, respectively, acknowledged that it had been a difficult time amid the wildfires.
“During this year’s ceremony, we will honor the talented filmmakers nominated today, pay tribute to our brave first responders and celebrate the enduring spirit of Los Angeles and the film industry,” Kramer said.
The show is set to take place on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Conan O'Brien will host.
And the nominees are…
Best Picture Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
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All these movies when introduced at golden globes. The young people around here averted their eyes. They said they were horrific movies. I know wicked is horrific
Didn’t see any of them, and don’t intend to see any of them.
Already posted. And my thread has a better headline
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4292122/posts
Wicked is further proof that Hollywood has officially run out of ideas. They have to resort to plagiarizing dead authors of original material............
Never heard of them. Typical liberal Oscar nominations.
Hollywood has decided that the only thing left for them to do is stick a negro in their crappy remakes as the lead character.
Who gives a good rat’s ass about anything spewed by hollyweird?
“ Wicked is further proof that Hollywood has officially run out of ideas. They have to resort to plagiarizing dead authors of original material............”
It’s not exactly plagiarizing
It’s exploring the villain.
It will never work in the long run
Does anyone even care about these stupid awards anymore? I have no interest in watching a bunch of elitists pat each other on the back and preach to us how we should be living.
Remember when they used to make films we would actually watch?
I agree Wicked was too long and boring.
This will be the first year I haven’t seen a single one of the “Best Picture” nominees - and I have no plans to see any of them.
All appear to be uninteresting, except for “A Complete Unknown” - I’m waiting for that one to come on streaming.
I put it in the same category as ‘Fan Fiction’................
Not only (I’ve heard) long and boring - it’s Part I - meaning there will be an equally long and boring Part II.
I have no interest in seeing it although I did see a Broadway production years ago when it came through town - and loved it.
Wonder why Hollywood drew it out so much and didn’t stick to the Broadway production which ran about two hours and covered the entirety of the story.
That’s just it. Everyone who is seeing the movie, already saw the play, and knows how it turns out. So what’s the point.
There’s a reason that Broadway plays adapted for movies usually don’t do well at the box office.
“Reagan” totally shut out. Of course it is.
I just read the other day that the order has come down that nominees must be trans, other aberrant types, or poc. Sorry, can’t remember where I read it.
Oscar’s first name is 2025?
WGAF ...
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