So AMPAS will you invite Singer to the ceremony? Do. Own what you have done.
Oscar nominationsare out and as always they are shocking. Two actresses from Roma are nominated. I still haven't managed to go beyond first five minutes of that film but I've gotta ask - WHAT production design?!
Editing category is straight up horrific too. It's like they give nominations in this category to the films they liked "here, have another one". I enjoyed Green Book but this film feels clunky as hell thanks to inept editing and amateur script.
And where the hell is First Man in the score category?!
The biggest snub by far is Ethan Hawke. His movie got nominated for best Screenplay and still no nomination for Hawke.
I think no one actually saw Dafoe's movie but they felt bad that he didn't win for that shitty motel movie last year, saw a poster for At Eternity's Gate. went "huh he plays van Gogh now?" and voted for him.
Bohemian Rhapsody got FIVE nominations. On the day of getting what he wanted - a nomination - Rami Malekhad the audacity to finally say something about Singer and what he said was that he was unaware of accusations.
He actually said he thinks Freddie Mercury prevented them from knowing about Singer's past. I mean....WHAT?!
Malek's lie was made all the more transparent when FINALLY an expose on Singer dropped the following day. The Atlantic published the article which other than containing horrific stories of assaults committed by that monster also contains information about the students - 4.000 of them - protesting the idea that their university will have his name because they knew about allegations. And yet Malek expects people to believe he didn't know?
Singer had this to say. Here's why Esquire article was stopped. And here is why it's even more troubling. And yet Singer gets to keep his next job (go through that twitter thread!)
And why are the celebrities silent on this? Where is their reaction? Only handful, including Amber Heard and Olivia Munn, talked about it on social media.
Meanwhile, BCoop didn't get that best director nomination he wanted so badly. I'd wonder if maybe he can "owww poor me" his way to best actor win same like Affleck did to Best Picture but Cooper doesn't seem like he has the will to live anymore, let alone the will to fight.
He should just pull Jackson Maine and pee himself mid Shallow performance as a sign of protest.
Spike Lee got his first director nomination and his reaction was adorable. I hope he wins.
I know Ali is winning and considering both his performance and his elegance and dignity during this shitstorm of a season he will be a worthy winner but come on
Razzie nominationswere announced. I really don't think Melissa MCcarthy should be there. Yes, her movies were either bad or horrific but she gave them her all.
After all of this we can use a good laugh and I have just the thing. THR actor roundtable dropped and you can watch it here. I haven't seen the whole thing yet but I did see this part and it made me laugh so hard I almost fell off my chair. My God:
I think Mahershala's incredulous blinking is the best part but if looks could kill Chadwick's would kill Viggo's ass dead.
Vanity Fair's annual mess of a photo is out. Chalamet looks straight up homicidal and the women posing with Malek look about as uncomfortable as any decent person would next to this guy.
Orly two of nominated songs - Shallow and Black Panther one - are going to be performed during the Oscars. It's like they are actively trying to discourage people from watching. No host? Pedo's movies nominated? 2 performances out of 5?
I continued my steamy marathon of Mad Men. My God, The Suitcase is such a flawless episode. The acting is incredible, the writing is amazing and that moment when Don finds Roger's tapes never fails to make me laugh. Also it contains the greatest 'what?' in the show (the last one in this hilarious montage):
Then I watched The Punisher 2 so basically I was moving from one Jon to another. Oh God. There was the sex scene in very first episode. And him seductively taking off that belt almost made me fall out of bed.
I'm still not finished because it was yet another crazy week of work for me so all I had the energy to do was watch 2 episodes of Mad Men each evening and then go to bed.
I was exhausted by all of that hotness on Sunday but I didn't feel like watching anything new so I checked what was on Netflix and watched Patriots Day. That was a very well done movie. There appears to be a lot of criticism that it was done too soon after the events (it's about the bombing during Boston marathon) but I thought it was very respectful. At the end there were even interviews with the real people who suffered/were affected by the attack.
Also it seemed to me Berg captured the sense of community in Boston far better than Affleck who keeps trying and he just shows white trash in his movies.
Also my God, I am getting really old and sentimental. At one point Mark Walhberg delivers this really corny monologue about love and I was in tears.
Netflix added Gone Girl which I do own but I am so lazy I am gonna sooner watch something on Netflix than actually walk to the shelf and look for the DVD. So of course I rewatched it.
Exciting news - my end of the year lists are coming. All four of them - best shots, best performances, best scenes and best and worst of 2018. I think they will all be up in February.
Brittani, Keith and Katy write their thoughts about Academy Award Nominations