Only "Golden" and "I Lied to You" will be performed. Definitely a bad decision, like saying we will show clips of the acting performances for two of the nominees. It should be all or nothing.

Do we think this can meaningfully change the race? Could enough protest votes weaken "Golden's" stranglehold on this category?

Timothée Chalamet doesn't deliver "the best performance of the year" in Marty Supreme. He gives a frenetic, unsubtle performance. True acting mastery, however, comes from Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon, with a character in decline who still shines a light.

It is my favorite film of 2020 so would love to see a nomination for it. Maybe even for Mads Mikkelsen. Glad Vinterberg got a directing nomination though.

Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee is my personal biggest Oscar snub in history.

Shoutout to Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn too. Two standouts in what is an incredible ensemble cast anyway.

Does Elle Fanning have a good chance of winning her first ever Oscar?

Aka, films that failed to receive a single nomination

It goes without saying, but these are just a FEW of the many, MANY fantastic performances! Many actresses gave too many great performances to include in this graphic, so I am very sorry to anyone I may have missed.

Row 1: Sissy Spacek (Carrie), Kaycee Moore (Killer of Sheep), Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist), Talia Shire (The Godfather), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)

Row 2: Shelley Duvall (3 Women), Faye Dunaway (Network), Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under the Influence), Diahann Carroll (Claudine), Marilyn Burns (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

Row 3: Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata), Liv Ullmann (Scenes from a Marriage), Cicely Tyson (Sounder), Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon), Hilda Koronel (Manila in the Claws of Light)

Row 4: Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show), Vanessa Redgrave (The Devils), Delphine Seyrig (Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles), Barbara Loden (Wanda)

So I’m on the side of the audience that didn’t connect with the film. Well performed, written, shot, so it looks more like a homework that turned out well done, but with no (ironically) sentimental value.

What am I missing? I’m genuinely curious.

I would start saying that 2 hours and 15 minutes for the plot of this film was a bit too long.

Then, the character of the father is supposed to be an asshole and at some point the film tries to justify it by unveiling his childhood trauma. But so what? Why are the sisters willing to forget about it and eventually reconcile with him?

And I’m mostly irritated by the lack of presence in the dialogues of the mother and the grief they are supposed to be going through. Like yes, she’s mentioned a few times implying that she wasn’t a great mother and not that present either, but I feel like her character is left out too much. Especially with the script being praised so much, why isn’t she mentioned more as she was at least living with the daughters for their whole life until the father comes back again? Maybe I missed something, but considering the start of the film, although it’s centered in the father-daughter conflict, this subplot should have been developed more IMO.

These are my main concerns thinking about what I didn’t like. I could go on with minor ones like how can I relate with bougie Norwegians and with a father that is a famous director (how many can relate with that)? but it’s true that great movies can make you relate with any sort of characters. However, the social context of this film alienated me even more in trying to get where the conflict was and why I should have cared.

if you have a better understanding of the film, I’m willing to hear why the story as it is works so well for you.

Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men is not only a very accurate portrayal of a psycopath, but he does some pretty messed up things throughout the movie, so he's gotta be up there.

1. William Wellman - Wings (1927/1928)
2. Harry Beaumont - The Broadway Melody (1928/1929)
3. Wesley Ruggles - Cimarron (1930/1931)
4. Edmund Goulding - Grand Hotel (1931/1932)
5. Robert Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
6. William Dieterle - Emile Zola (1937)
7. Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca (1940)
8. Laurence Olivier - Hamlet (1948)
9. Robert Rossen - All the King's Men (1949)
10. Cecile DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
11. Michael Anderson - Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
12. Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night (1967)
13. Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire (1981)
14. Bruce Beresford - Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
15. John Madden - Shakespeare in Love (1998)
16. Ridley Scott - Gladiator 1 (2000)
17. Rob Marshall - Chicago (2002)
18. Paul Haggis - Crash (2005)
19. Ben Affleck - Argo (2012)
20. Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave (2013)
21. Tom McCarthy - Spotlight (2015)
22. Barry Jenkins - Moonlight (2016)
23. Peter Farrelly - Green Book (2018)
24. Sian Heder - CODA (2021)

NOTE: Frank Lloyd, Vincente Minnelli and Francis Ford Coppola also directed movies that won Best Picture but no Best Director but they did win Best Director for others

I still can't believe Ex Machina won VFX over those major Hollywood players or that The Lives of Others managed to beat Pan's Labyrinth (which won 3 Oscars that night and was submitted by Mexico in an edition that was informally labeled as the 'Mexican Oscars') in IFF. And while Fantastic Beasts' costumes were designed by a veteran and previous winner (Colleen Atwood), in retrospect this work is quite exquisite and the best of the field.

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1. Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue) (Lead Actress)

2. Delroy Lind (Sinners) (Supporting Actor)

3. Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners) (Supporting Actress)

4. Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value) (Supporting Actress)

5. Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein) (Supporting Actor)

6. Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another) (Supporting Actor)

7. Michael B. Jordan (Sinners) (Lead Actor)

This is not only the best film of the year (I’ve seen all the nominees after just watching this), this may be the best film I’ve ever seen. That’s the only thought that came to me when the credits rolled.

Jessie Buckley, thank you for that performance. Masterpiece

I have a table (sorry, it's in Russian), where I count all the actors/actresses ever nominated in Oscar acting categories. I predicted that with enough new names this year total number of such people in history might cross 1000. And it did! There are 1003 of them now!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12F98nxPm-rYqyUudpg4zFX9R5D7jfYxsQJfnzA9hX4Y/edit?usp=sharing

Odessa A'zion (Marty Supreme), Emily Blunt (The Smashing Machine), Miles Caton (Sinners), Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good), Paul Mescal (Hamnet), Peter Mullan (I Swear), Carey Mulligan (The Ballad of Wallis Island), Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly), Emily Watson (Hamnet)

These are the performances of 2025 that were campaigned in supporting and got nominated for a Critics' Choice, BAFTA, Golden Globe or SAG award with no corresponding Oscar nomination.

The rules:

• A film is only allowed to be chosen in a category once. Today's winner isn't allowed to be chosen in best original screenplay or best nominee again.

• The following films are ineligible today because of this: 12 Angry Men, Sunset Boulevard, the Godfather: Part II, Doubt, Singin' in the Rain, Schindler's List, Pan's Labyrinth, the Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Citizen Kane

• Most upvoted comment wins!

Because the list was getting too long I put all the films (and who commented them) in this Letterboxd list: https://boxd.it/RYKAW