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Live Nomination Announcement
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 8:23AM Complete list of nominations with commentary here. Our Oscar charts will be updated today... though obviously it will take the full day. Enjoy.
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Garrison - Jackie Cooper in Skippy is the youngest, a record that will probably stand forever.
Really hope the directing snub doesn't help Three Billboards like it did Argo.
They mostly didn’t fuck up this year y’all! I would’ve preferred Tiffany Haddish or Hong Chau to Octavia Spencer in Supporting Actress and The Florida Project to The Shape of Water in Screenplay, plus I hoped The Florida Project would sneak in a Picture nod, but these are still very, very good nominations. Better Denzel than Hanks, Gyllenhaal or Franco, even though I’d have loved to see Jamie Bell magically steal the fifth slot. Lesley Manville and Mary J. Blige, woo! My darling Saoirse Ronan, woo! No I, Tonya in picture or screenplay, woo! Jonny Greenwood for music, woo! All the nods for Baby Driver, woo! Mudbound in cinematography and screenplay, woo! I’m sad they snubbed Israel and Senegal in Foreign Film but even those noms are good. And the Director category features one loveable man whose creative vision I don’t care for (GDT) and four of the finest filmmakers of the age. They did GREAT this year y’all!
The academy hates asians :(. Poor Hong Chau.
Garrison - No, I'm pretty sure the youngest is still Jackie Cooper for Skippy in '31. But Chalamet would be the youngest winner should he get the Oscar.
Yea, I love Haddish but Kaluuya's name is pretty easy to pronounce.
Rami & Davide - completely agree! She wasn't mocking or disrespectful in her pronunciations - I thought it brought a lot of much-needed levity to the morning. I really do wonder what the reaction to mispronunciations would be if it had been a blonde, white actress.
They must have really hated Downsizing.
Overall, a solid set of nominations. Not super into the Octavia Spencer nod but seems like they really loved Shape of Water. Glad In the Fade didn't get in either.
Meryl deserved her nomination, sorry!
That Best Director category is GREAT. Ditto the Cinematography category. Rachel Morrison is officially the first woman nominated.
@ Garrison: No, Timotheé Chalamet is the third youngest actor nominated for Best Actor. Jackie Cooper, nominated in 1930/31 for The Champ, was nine y.o. And Mickey Rooney was 19 y.o. when nominated for Babes in Arms in 1939. Marlene Matlin was 21 y.o when she won Best Actress in 1986 for Children of a Lesser God. Nathaniel wrote a post on this very subject a couple of months ago.
Yance Ford is the first openly transgender filmmaker to direct a film to a nomination (STRONG ISLAND), which is brilliant to hear.
Very happy for ON BODY & SOUL and A FANTASTIC WOMAN in foreign language.
Four nominations for MUDBOUND seems like a great success. Two for Blige, the first ever woman DP nominated and Dee Rees is a nominee, too! Will she get the attention of Ava DuVernay, though?
I would have preferred Chau or Haddish, obviously.
Best DIrector is suddenly the best category!
Those two sound categories. Why are they even separated anymore if the voters aren't even going to? Sheesh.
No McDonagh is a relief, although I hope this doesn't give them the idea that Del Toro gets director and THREE BILLBOARDS gets Picture (even though I was already suspecting that).
Haddish surely could have rehearsed more, I guess? I dunno. I don't really care. They dragged her in at 5 in the morning and didn't even nominate her.
So, Get Out and Lady Bird both got zero tech nominations, am I right? Not even Editing for either. Eesh.
Shape of Water with 13, hot damn.
Sound Mixing and Sound Editing match 5-for-5!
It is the subtle racism of lowered expectations that allows some of you to say that Tiffany mispronouncing the names is “cute”. It’s disrespectful to the nominees and to Tiffany herself.
Tiffany Haddish is a charming and talented woman but she did a less-than-stellar job for the most part. I'm all for making the announcements fun, but mangling people's names left and right was downright grating. And I felt for her being on camera before the world, seeing herself left off of a category in which she was in the running. But I guess she knew going in that would be a possibility.
Sistas ain't too keen on the MJB"
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Haddish overcame illiteracy in her teens. I mispronounce unfamiliar names on paper all the time. I hate names because in actuality they aren't real words. Hence someone fucking up your name shouldn't be seen as overt disrespect.
It could be that Haddish was nervous or tongue tied or didn't have enough time to rehearse. Either way, I don't think she deserves a lynch mob for that. I went to school in Baltimore where teachers acted like creative Afro-centric names were like hieroglyphics. Mispronunciations of some unfamiliar European surnames is not the end of the world. She didn't seem to do any of it on purpose.
Sorry for James Franco- he deserved at least a nom and yes, it should be about the quality of the work, not if you're a nice guy or not. Plenty of assholes have deservedly won Oscars.
Happy with the overall results, though- Woody and Christopher both getting nom #3 for great work, Lesley Manville, who gave the kind of masterful subtle performance that usually gets overlooked for a "bigger" performance (she reminded me of what Louise Fletcher did in "Cuckoo's Nest"- less is a lot more sometimes), Octavia Spencer because she made it look easy and was better than some are giving her credit for, Meryl because she was great and the nomination's not just about her being Meryl, as in if she was unknown I think people would come out of The Post saying "who the hell is that?", Gerwig and Lady Bird, The Shape of Water and Get Out in general.
Hoping Shape of Water takes Picture and Director. I'd like Ronan to prevail but I think McDormand probably has it and she was spot on even if I didn't take as much to Three BBs (I think they cheat on a major plot point, but I'll have to wait five years to bring it up, after everyone has finally seen it). Haven't been able to shake Chalamet's performance, especially in the last half-hour of CMBYN and it's rare and remarkable what he pulled off, but at least Oldman was vivid even with the makeup and brought quite a bit of humor to his work, which is always great to see in an Oscar role, and it is a different type of performance style than the emotional purity Chalamet nails as memorably as he does Hammer, so it won't be the biggest injustice ever if Oldman wins, I guess.
I'm going to be really sorry for Dafoe if he can't cross the finish line after so much early Awards season love, but it looks like Rockwell has the momentum and a bigger character arch, the opposite of the situation with Metcalf, whose complex mother now appears to be at the mercy of Janney's highly entertaining if more one-dimensional witch. All four are memorable performances at least, so again Oscar has done worse if Rockwell and Janney take the gold.
Wow I love the love for The Shape of Water and Phantom Thread..
Also love the nominations of Dafoe, Jenkins and Rockwell, of Metcalf, Janney and especially Manville, and Chalamet and DDL. For the best actress, I was hoping it would turn out this way: Hawkins, Krieps, Ronan, Daniela Vega and Michelle Williams.
And nice to see Faces Places and Loving Vincent, The Breadwinner and Deakins.
Wish there were more spaces for Betty Gabriel, Kristen Stewart and Michael Stuhlbarg, more love for The Florida Project and Jamie Bell.
Overall, happy for this year's nominations.
Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig, Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Guillermo del Toro, Mary J Blige, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer, Jacqueline Durran, Julian Slater, and Martin McDonagh are all multi-nominated this morning.
That director lineup is pretty great, even if I'd swap out Nolan for Guadagnino or Assayas. I mean, it could've been a LOT worse.
With so many great supporting performances this year, I feel like both Supporting Actor and Actress could be better, but overall there are no major clunkers in the acting nominees.
Kinda boring that the tech noms all went to the same 5-6 films.
Now Spencer ties Davis for most-nominated African-American actress. Good on her.
Michael Stuhlbarg is in three best picture nominees. He is the supporting actor of the year!
PFEIFFER snubbed again 😩
Tiffany Haddish either needs glasses or reading lessons. Literacy is key. SMDH.
Davide - if it had been Anne Hathaway up there mispronouncing names left and right, the internet would've asked for the guillotine for her, or at the very least wondering if she was drunk or high.