movie 96th Academy Awards | Top Winners: Oppenheimer 7x, Poor Things 4x

[Alyssa Edwards]

4 hours ago, EnigmaticAndroid said:

A derivative film being the result of plagiarism? Color me shocked!

 

I mean, it might or might not be.

The movie is so generic it could be any non-romance based xmas tv movie to be honest.

[Alyssa Edwards]

I'm shook that i have to swallow the fact that Oppenheimer is winning Best Picture.

Can't believe things like Roma or even The Power Of The Dog were too long, boring, auteur-y for the academy members but THIS was somehow entertaining to most of them.

 

Awful winner.

 

[EnigmaticAndroid]

23 minutes ago, Alyssa Edwards said:

I mean, it might or might not be.

The movie is so generic it could be any non-romance based xmas tv movie to be honest.

True! The fact that it's probably Top 2/3 in BP 

[Eóghan]

for the people who watched a few or most the BP nominees this year, what would be your personal ranking?

a ranking based purely on your personal taste, not who you think will/should win tomorrow.

 

my top 3 hasn't changed for a few months now but i decided to re-watch all 3 this week, "Poor Things" was #1 all season but after the re-watch i decided to switch it with "Anatomy of a Fall" which aged like fine wine. unfortunately the many sex scenes throughout the movie have taken a bit of a toll on "PT"s rewatchability, far from me being a prude but i'm neither a hetero or voyeuristic, so it's not exactly what draws me in this otherwise excellent movie. and tbh i genuinely think if Yorgos had scaled back on that aspect of the movie, it would've been the strongest contender to Oppenheimer this year.

 

so final ranking before we move to the new season

 

1. Anatomy of a Fall

2. Poor Things

3. Past Lives

4. The Holdovers

5. American Fiction

6. Barbie

7. Killers of the Flower Moon

8. The Zone of Interest

9. Oppenheimer

10. Maestro

 

i'm surprised that legacy directors like Nolan/Scorsese are ranking in the lower half but despite being perfectly good movies, i can't help but think that they're somewhat safe, oscar-baity and pretentiously long movies catering to the ego of their directors more than anything which is in great contrast to a rather refreshing and exciting BP line up this year. 

 

 

[Alyssa Edwards]

Don't feel like ranking them since i haven't seen American Fiction or Killers but Anatomy >>>>>>>>>>>>> The rest.

I'll give Maestro and Zone some props for serving art at some points though.

 

The two worst are Oppenheimer and The Holdovers, truly the pits.

[Alyssa Edwards]

I enjoyed Poor Things while i was watching it but i feel like it might be a film i'll never watch again.

It's kind of serving nice production design, beautiful production design in my mind.

Not much to feast on on a second watch.

[McNulty]

my final ranking:

 

1. Killers of the Flower Moon

2. Oppenheimer

3. Poor Things

4. Anatomy of a Fall

5. The Holdovers

6. Barbie

7. American Fiction

8. Past Lives

9. The Zone of Interest

10. Maestro

 

Maestro is the only film I didn't like, terrible screenplay/writing

[Life Savers]

I saw them all and I'd have Anatomy/Poor as my personal top 2. Followed by Killers, Oppenheimer, Barbie. I didn't like Maestro and I find Past Lives to be very overrated. 

Edited March 10 by Life Savers

[Donquizote]

Today

[Hector]

01 Poor Things

02 Anatomy Of A Fall

03 Past Lives

04 Barbie

05 Maestro

06 American Fiction

07 The Holdovers

08 Killers Of The Flower Moon

09 Oppenheimer (but I've conditioned myself to accepting the BP win)

10 The Zone Of Interest

[Donquizote]

01 Past Lives

02 Oppenheimer

03 The Holdovers

04 Anatomy of a Fall

05 Poor Things

06 American Fiction

07 Killers of the Flower Moon

08 Barbie

09 The Zone of Interest

10 Cheap Tar

[karlo_98]

1. Oppenheimer

2. Past Lives

3. Poor Things

4. Anatomy of A Fall

5. The Holdovers

6. Barbie

7. Killers of the Flower Moon

8. The Zone of Interest

9. American Fiction

10. Maestro

[Bey'Knight]

It’s D-day!

 

Rooting for everyone Black … and Emma Stone.  Lets f go

[Riot]

Happy Oscar day to anyone who celebrates!

 

[Konril]

Personal ranking of Best Picture:

1. Poor Things
2. Past Lives
3. Oppenheimer
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Anatomy of a Fall
6. American Fiction
7. The Zone of Interest
8. The Holdovers
9. Barbie
10. Maestro

 

Rooting for Poor Things

[Mordecai]

The way I planned to watch all these movies back in February and didn't end up watching any of them 

 

The Oscars are also only being streamed on Disney+ in my country and they're stingy and don't do free trials so... looks like I'll be watching the highlights on YT 

[Alex21kw]

1. Past Lives

2. Oppenheimer

3. Anatomy of a Fall

4. Killers of the Flower Moon

5. Poor Things

6. Zone of Interest

7. Barbie

8. American Fiction

 

Haven't seen the Holdovers or Maestro but something tells me Maestro would be number 10 and the top 5 would not change

[Donquizote]

Holdovers is a cute movie but I dont understand Giamatti's hype and why pundits really want him to win

[Arcadius]

Hoping Lily pulls the upset. 

[WildAmerican]

Today's the day!!

 

 

Anyone have any bold predictions? I'm thinking Zone of Interest in Sound!

[Donquizote]

My bold prediction:

 

Boy and Heron

Diane Warren

Red, White and Blue

Past Lives for BP

[NEX]

Everyone ranking The Zone of Interest so low!! Such a remarkable movie and a fresh new angle on the Holocaust, showing how mundane and heartless it was for the people involved in the killings of hundreds of thousands literally next door. How easily conditioned we become to death and violence if it doesn't affect us personally, and how we just brush it off to focus on our regular day to day despite what's going on around us. 

[Donquizote]

Tonight

[hausofdave]

lets go Boy 

[Liafen]

this season was BORING.  glad its over today!