Posted on 03/02/2025 4:52:57 PM PST by DoodleBob
LOS ANGELES -- The 2025 Oscars are officially here.
Conan O'Brien is hosting the 97th Academy Awards, which honor the best in cinema from the past year.
"Emilia Pérez" leads the field of nominees this year with 13 total Oscar nominations, just one shy of tying the record for most nominations by a single film held by "All About Eve," "Titanic" and "La La Land."
"The Brutalist" and "Wicked" follow closely behind with 10 nominations each, while "A Complete Unknown" and "Conclave" round out the top-nominated films with eight nods apiece.
This year's show will honor the city of Los Angeles, showcasing its resilience in the wake of the wildfires that left at least 29 dead and destroyed thousands of homes.
The Oscars ceremony is live on ABC now and is streaming live on Hulu for the first time.
Follow along below with updates throughout the night, and check out all coverage of the 2025 Oscars here.
Has anyone gone to a theater and seen any of these low wattage movies?
My husband and I like Adrien Brody. THE PIANIST was a very good movie, and we’ve liked him in other things he’s been in. Good actor.
I’ve had enough of watching the Sodom and Gomorrahites congratulate themselves for being Oh, so superior to America.
An “award-winning” waste of a Sunday evening….
Amazing what those libs will say on live tv anymore, isn’t it?
Wicked was a great production, if you like musicals.
I honestly didn’t know that the Ocsars were happening last night and I’m some who likes movies and has a fairly large collection of DVD’s and Blu Rays. But most of the films I like were made before the year 2000.
No. I’m in Louisville. They were aired in our local Cineplex last week. But it was a one day showing. You just have to watch for it. Here, they show them on the Friday before the Oscars.
In past years, there were available on streaming services. I think, on Netflix ? I know the live action winner, “I’m not a robot” is on Netflix now.
Thankfully, I heard what it was about before going to see it. I didn’t have to bother wasting money.
The Unbreakable Boy I have hopes for. It looks like it might be a drama that makes you think about it afterwards.
Thanks for movie description. Not my kind of movie at all.
I have seen some of them in the theater...
I have seen others at home...Pay per view...
DUNE:PART 2 and WICKED were nominated for Best Picture...WICKED was number 3 on the 2024 US box office...DUNE was number 7 on the 2024 US box office...
Thanks. I do keep track of Freeper recommendations and watch some from time to time.
The one probable 2025 release on my radar screen — listed as post-production, no release date announced yet — is Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. Gore Verbinski is the director. Fingers crossed.
Gore Verbinski has been quiet for several years; I’ve never liked the term “directors jail,” but it likely fits. He caught lightning with the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, the first of which is a classic. The second is solid; I found the third tedious, and I’ve not bothered to watch any of the later installments, which Verbinski did not direct. The studio has run that franchise totally into the ground. But the first one is brilliant: stunningly original and hilarious.
Verbinski then followed up his Pirates run with two expensive flops and then dropped off the map. Directors jail probably fits. He needs to nail this one. I’ve not seen anything about the budget so I don’t know if whoever is backing the film is taking a big swing, but the cast is interesting. The one thing of which I’m reasonably confident is that Verbinski won’t do a stale cash grab; it will at least strive to be original.
The published premise is: “A ‘Man From the Future’ arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.”
It’s supposed to be a sci-fi action comedy. And it deals with AI, which I have a soft spot when it comes to movies. There has been an almost total blackout on it. I did come across one person who said he had read the script when it was being shopped around and that it was hilarious and fast paced. He couldn’t say more because he’s in the bidness and would be crucified if he leaked anything. Not a peep from anyone else, but it could be good.
It is not something that would have been hard to include. A couple of lines of dialog. But it changed Jack Sparrow from a clown into tragic figure. Suddenly everything about him made sense.
Why did they leave it out? I don't know. It was in the script or it would not have been in the book. But somewhere between the script and the release it got dropped.
I can think of a half dozen movies where they have done that. If you read the book the plot makes sense, if you just watch the movie you leave going, "where did THAT come from?"
Mario Nawfal
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As a female, I have no interest in strip clubs, nor f*cking like rabbits.
Do I have to go through all that to get to the hilarity? I like hilarity a lot.
lol. Why are women always so negative?
You could fast forward for probably an hour…. Till you no longer see bare butts and rabbits. Stop when you see Vegas stuff.
I’m not sure the “hilarity” is worth it though. Every other word starts with “F”
Oh, and be ready to stop the movie before the last 5 min. More rabbits
If I wanted to watch a movie with a bunch of F-Words, I’ll stick with “Glengarry, Glen Ross”
And, even to a larger extent than Ronald Reagan, we can attribute the massive rise and continued success of President Trump to his entertainment background, media-bred creative acumen, and Hollywood sensibilities.
Unlike the election of the President however, it’s become increasingly clear in recent decades that the American people - and even the American media - do not act as the primary purveyors of cultural taste, or shapers of Hollywood’s award season. Au contraire, it’s a select, increasingly elite collective of French and foreign (primarily European) minds banding together to arrange programs for occasions like the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals — even before the juries are selected to review the final batch.
And whether THEIR tastes, THEIR predilections should set the standards by which we measure artistic merit remains a worthwhile debate. The controversy surrounding the decadence, absurdity, and fanfare of the opening ceremony at the ‘24 Paris Olympics attests to this inevitable clash of values.
I hold fast to the idea that some of this year’s most accoladed work deserves not only sharp critique, but rejection. Also: outright condemnation, ire, and caution for the precedents being set in the cultural realm. A layman’s google review I found by someone of the name Jeanne Carroll noted the following re: Anora. Will end with a few quotes to ponder:
”Hollywood will put out--plying these young girls with awards for their 'performance.' This film will no doubt be pushed for an Oscar nomination. Hence keeping the pipeline of young naked actresses lining up for the 50+ year old producers like Sean Baker who relish creating their 'art' with the ambitious....hmmm sounds like Yorgos and Poor Things all over again.... a middle age man writing a script to get a 25 year old to objectify herself, pole dance and hump her way to an Oscar. “
”Hopefully Madison or anyone who cares for her might protect this young actress from the 50+ year old creeps who come calling looking for her to play a stripper--call 911 next time! Women will get roles in Hollywood that do not require them to work a pole when they start saying NO THANK YOU to the old men enjoying the view.”
Here’s to🥂a shift in the path by which culture moves forward from here on out… - CP
⚜️Here’s to the return of ANORA in the streams of culture. 🏆
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