The Film Experience

With the final Oscar voting commencing today -- can we still say "ballots going out" when this season has been so dramatically electronic? -- I asked Team Experience to write very brief notes to Oscar voters.

I'll start us off...

❝Dear AMPAS, Two Words: Emmanuelle Riva. Respect your elders and wish her a happy 86th birthday on February 24th (your 85th!). In your 85 years you've had plenty of impossible dreamgirls like Lawrence, rapidly ascending versatile stars like Jessica, and resilient fierce mamas like Naomi. But you've never given the prize to anyone like Emmanuelle. Do your own Best Actress legacy proud by switching it up and proving you're still free thinkers in your 80s!
Yours always, for better & worse, Nathaniel❞

pleas for The Master, Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom and more after the jump...

❝Dear AMPAS members, actually sit down and watch The Master and tell me these three don't deserve to win the acting awards, especially Phoenix and Adams who've been ridiculously denied in the past. Since you already ignored Anderson, the cinematography, the art direction, the costumes and Johnny Greenwood's groundbreaking score, this is the least you can do. Also, don't think Amour is safe in Foreign Film because it's up for Best Picture. Watch it and vote for it! Your colleagues might pick something "nicer" for you and I guarantee after you watch it you'll be crazy not to vote for Haneke and Riva.
xoxo, Jose❞

❝For Your Consideration: Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. Enough can't be said for a performer who takes a character as densely written and enigmatic as Maya and provides her a vehicle that humanizes and weighs on the burden which consumes her. A shell that grows inward, a conceit that bleeds red blood. Lady Liberty has never been this literal; it's beautiful to watch her hard rain fall.

- Beau❞

❝To the Academy: There are a lot of worthwhile nominations this year that I'd love to see make the leap to statue-winning but the one I feel most impossibly attached to is for ParaNorman for Best Animated Feature - I hope everyone got the chance to see it in 3D because it's some of the best 3D I've ever seen. The tactility that Laika manages to convey is astonishing - visually it's most impressive, but I also found the film itself incredibly moving, too.
-Jason❞

❝For Your Consideration: Eiko Ishioka for Best Costume Design... Let's face it, Jacqueline Durran will keep making period movies with Joe Wright, Paco Delgado's Les Miz costumes were hardly it's greatest asset, Joanna Johnston is a first time nominee, and Colleen Atwood will continue to get nominated for seemingly anything and everything. With that in mind, tick the box for the late Ishioka, whose mind-bending and colourfully eccentric duds truly made Mirror Mirror. What better way to mark her legacy than with a second highly-deserved posthumous trophy on Oscar night?

- Cheers, Glenn Dunks❞

❝Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola's original screenplay for Moonrise Kingdom! Nothing else last year came close to its tightrope-walking tragicomedy, and it's endlessly quotable to boot. Yes, Boal and Haneke did fine work, but Moonrise Kingdom deserves the gold here, if only for "What kind of bird are you?"

-Thanks, Andreas❞

❝Dear Academy – An screenplay win for Moonrise Kingdom’s would go a long way towards evening up the score on all the snubs Wes Anderson’s body of work has accumulated over the years. Don’t blow it
- Love, Michael C❞

❝Dear Academy, that silver-haired British man sitting in the corner is the master of light. He's responsible for the snow-laden beauty of Fargo, the eerie emptiness of suburbia in A Serious Manand Revolutionary Road, the resplendent scenery of Kundun, the dark slices of Americana in No Country For Old Men and the moody evocations of Barton Fink. His name is Roger Deakins and he doesn't have an Oscar. Rectify that, please. - Sincerely, Amir❞

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