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1917 is likely your Best Picture winner for 2019
Posted on 1/26/20 at 9:39 am
Posted on 1/26/20 at 9:39 am
Winning the PGA award for Best Picture, combined with it winning the DGA award last night for Best Director, 1917 seems to have the edge over its closest rivals Parasite and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
What I love about this is that, if it wins, it will have won the good old-fashioned way. It skipped the big film festivals and came out right at Christmas, relying on word of mouth to propel it to Oscar glory. It's a hit with both critics and audiences alike as the film is poised to hit $100 million in the United States if it hasn't already. There were no screeners sent out ahead of time, very little campaigning by the filmmakers and studio, and yet it looks like it's going to win Best Picture in two weeks.
What I love about this is that, if it wins, it will have won the good old-fashioned way. It skipped the big film festivals and came out right at Christmas, relying on word of mouth to propel it to Oscar glory. It's a hit with both critics and audiences alike as the film is poised to hit $100 million in the United States if it hasn't already. There were no screeners sent out ahead of time, very little campaigning by the filmmakers and studio, and yet it looks like it's going to win Best Picture in two weeks.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 10:08 am to RollTide1987
I really think Parasite is going to end up taking it.
Based on the standing ovations it keeps receiving at ceremony after ceremony, I think Hollywood is starting to get a real hard-on for their own support of a foreign language film. The voters seeing that support are going to want to “be a part” of making a Korean film the Oscar winner for best picture and are going to use that social component to marginally move the film forward. And since it is a genuinely good film, and any gap that exists is small, a marginal movement might be enough to put it over the top.
Based on the standing ovations it keeps receiving at ceremony after ceremony, I think Hollywood is starting to get a real hard-on for their own support of a foreign language film. The voters seeing that support are going to want to “be a part” of making a Korean film the Oscar winner for best picture and are going to use that social component to marginally move the film forward. And since it is a genuinely good film, and any gap that exists is small, a marginal movement might be enough to put it over the top.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 10:08 am to RollTide1987
No one cares about these awards since the liberal Hollywood left became so political and anti trump
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:07 pm to RollTide1987
Off topic but tangential: I've seen nubs on the online tardsphere attack the film as being American nationalism pro-war propaganda, which is hilarious because it is the most effective anti-war film I've ever seen and American representation in the film occurs in passing as a simple technique of narrative sequence progression
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:16 pm to RollTide1987
Good choice
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:30 pm to RollTide1987
Is mendes up for best director oscar?
If so, they will more than likely split the vote, give mendes the best director while best picture goes to another film.
If so, they will more than likely split the vote, give mendes the best director while best picture goes to another film.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 12:45 pm to RollTide1987
Joker, parasite, or 1917
Posted on 1/26/20 at 1:34 pm to RollTide1987
1917 would be my first choice. But I wouldn't have a problem with Parasite winning. Sounds like those those are the 2 favorites
Posted on 1/26/20 at 2:08 pm to RollTide1987
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is my favorite. Those shows hate Tarantino though
Posted on 1/26/20 at 5:55 pm to RollTide1987
1917 is the Best Picture of the year, IMO.
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