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Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 11:27PM 
Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett at the MOMA Benefit honoring Blanchett 11/17/15
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The reunion should have come earlier this year at the Oscar podium, if you know what I mean.
^ Agree completely. It's especially depressing considering the actor lineup that AMPAS ultimately chose. Wish he and Cate could have reunited on A Bigger Splash, they have wonderful chemistry. Pity that her play last summer conflicted with the filming dates.
OMG major Oscar blunder in 93. The typical academy mindset: reward crusty veteran for okay performance in supporting role while ignoring brilliance of screen breakthrough of younger more worthy newcomer. One of the worst trends that began in the first Supporting Actor race in 1936 and continues today.
Tommy Lee Jones deserved that Oscar, just saying.
Leonardo DiCaprio is the one that actually deserved that Oscar. #ktnxbai
Hi Nathaniel, I am curious to why you have shifted Cate Blanchett to Tier 2 for Best Actress predictions and consider Saoirse Ronan as a lock?
The typical academy mindset: reward crusty veteran for okay performance in supporting role while ignoring brilliance of screen breakthrough of younger more worthy newcomer. One of the worst trends that began in the first Supporting Actor race in 1936 and continues today.
Tradition. A trend goes in and out of fashion. But this never left.
The Haynes/Scorsese picture was also the TEA. Cate her power is just tew much.
Patryk: EVERY OTHER NOMINEE would have been a better choice than Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive, especially in hindsight. Who have we got? John Malkovich pulling his second of only two nominations, Pete Postlethwaite's ONLY nomination, Ralph Fiennes first of two nominations (should also have AT LEAST two more nominations past the two he got (In Bruges and The Grand Budapest Hotel)) and Leo DiCaprio's first major role. And why would all of those be better? Because then Jones would win in 2012 and we wouldn't see Christoph Waltz get a COMPLETELY undeserved second win. (And know when I mean it when I say these two things: 1. Waltz is basically the worst choice of a multiple winner in Oscar history and 2. The Academy should have an iron clad rule that PREVENTS a field entirely composed of former winners. The world is round! Man, there are so many situations that quote fits.) See? Win-win.
cal -- tommy's performance was good much better than it gets credit for actually -- but that's usually what follows when you win over superior work! Fiennes and DiCaprio should have been the frontrunners with Fiennes taking the gold. One of the most memorable psychologically astute villain performances of all time.
bluemoon -- because there are absolutely no drawbacks of being Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn (carries a film everyone loves by herself and is great in it). Cate has some obstacles (has won twice in the past 11 years, not everyone loves the film -- they're crazy but that's another story -- has internal competition which already worked against her at Cannes, and self competition... sure Truth is not that much of a threat but it still exists).
mostly i was just seeing how it feels to not predict her (given that the year is so competitive) i just don't think it's sewn up anyone beyond Brie & Saoirse and i think we have 5 or 6 other very strong candidates for the other 3 slots. 7 or 8 other very strong candidates for the other 3 slots if you account for Rooney Mara & Alicia Vikander which... well, we'll see if the Globe decision affects their fates at all.
With the Frank Rich article in NYMag and the movie being released this week I think we are entering a period of deep cultural appreciation of Carol that will hopefully make denying it proposterous.
Love love the pic, so cute playing with his bushy beard. He's probably her type as he has the coloring and look of her husband. Although much handsomer of course.
Ralph is aging well. More cute photos from last night: http://gtty.im/1QLQ4oK
Damn, what a great pic.
Any excuse for a little Ralph Fiennes is ok by me, Cate is looking pretty good there too.
Patryk-what newcomer in your opinion deserved it in 1936 over Brennan? Mischa Auer or Stuart Erwin?
I'm trying to get into a zone where I reserve my Oscar indignation for winners or nominees that are sub-par or actively bad. TLJ was quite good in The Fugitive. Was it the best performance in the category? Debatable. But it was a fine performance, so I am satisfied with his win.
I need to reserve my disdain for the real stinkers, which show up periodically throughout the years. I made a list yesterday of the worst performances in Best Picture winners, and half of them were Oscar-nominated. So they need my indignation, not the winners who are really only my third or fourth favorite performance of the years.
@NathanielR I see. This year is incredibly strong in terms of female performances but still lacking diversity(race..). It breaks my heart if Lily Tomlin or Charlotte Rampling gets shut out come Oscar night, because that is definitely going to happen if Joy turns out to be as well-received (or more) than American Hustle, and if Rooney gets nominated in lead alongside Cate (which they both should!). Maybe 5 slots isn't enough :(((
Do share that list, cash!
Bluemoon02: Here's my guess of the five African-American people who have ANY hopes of an acting nom this year: Teyonah Parris (Actress) and Samuel L. Jackson (supporting actor), Chi-Raq (streaming) (and, even then, Samuel L. Jackson as The Chorus sounds way less likely as an Oscar nominee than John Cusack as The Progressive Activist Priest (think Karl Malden in On the Waterfront)), Michael B. Jordan, Creed (I'd actually guess this will probably happen, due to a combination of the backlash to last year's Lead Actor field and Creed's likelihood to become a critically loved, late in the year, movie that's also a mega-hit, especially for it's budget, probably $120-140 million domestic), Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation (category fraud), Will Smith, Concussion.
Carlos -- Well, I'll list the ones that I know offhand are dead. I'd hate for a certain Titanic villain to Google himself and find out that some random girl thinks his performance was cartoonish and ridiculous. So, there's Anita Page in The Broadway Melody, Wendy Hiller in A Man for All Seasons, Diana Wynyard in Cavalcade, and Richard Dix in Cimarron.
Luv Cate short blonde' do!!! They shld do a pic together soon
Bessie Love, not Anita Page, is the one listed as "nominee" for «The Broadway Melody» in that year when there were no nominees.
Capita -- I know Anita Page wasn't Oscar-nominated. Only half of my full list was, and I only listed the part of the list that I knew was deceased.
cash: Or, to quote a cameo he had to cut through the obfuscation, "Put a cork in it, Zane!"