Personal Ballots Galore!
Monday, January 23, 2017 at 1:00PM The Oscar correlative part of the Film Bitch Awards are almost done. Racing to the finish line here. In the updates you'll see the nominees for Best Screenplays and Animated Feature as well as Visual categories like Visual Effects and Makeup.
You never know where a great movie will come from. Who knew that a circular short story by Ted Chiang, an possibly unfilmable novel like "Oh...," or a novella like "Lady Susan" could make great movies like Arrival, Elle, and Love & Friendship? (Okay okay, everyone knows that Jane Austen stories can make great movies. But isn't it insane that Love & Friendship isn't locked up for an Oscar nomination? What was everyone thinking this year?) They're all up for the Film Bitch Award for Adapted Screenplay. The nominees are...
As for the Makeup and Hair ballot, I'll state straightaway that I'll never understand what Oscar's makeup branch wants from their movies (besides old age prosthetics. They love those). Everything that makes my list, save Hail Caesar! and Star Trek Beyond did not make the Oscar finals in that category (or perhaps did not even submit reels to the branch for consideration?). It may seem to on-the-nose to include Neon Demon, but when that nose is a work of art...
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Reader Comments (5)
Neon Demon could go in the Cinematography category as well.
Great choices, Nathaniel!
But Little Men is co-written by Mauricio Zacharias, Ira Sachs is very vocal about their collaboration.
Mauricio Zacharias is brazilian
Elle looks like Michelle in profile there.
I can't unsee the young Lansbury resemblance after the photo that was posted yesterday. And this hairdo is reminding me of Harvey Girls.