3 Nominations
- Actor: Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq., Fences, Flight, Training Day, The Hurricane, Malcolm X, Glory, Cry Freedom)
- Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel (Darkest Hour, Inside Llewyn Davis, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, A Very Long Engagement, Amélie)
- Production Design: Nancy Haigh (Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Hail, Caesar!, True Grit, Dreamgirls, Road to Perdition, Forrest Gump, Bugsy, Barton Fink) & Stefan Dechant
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: Washington, Frances McDormand, Kathryn Hunter, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel, Corey Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Harry Melling, Moses Ingram, Miles Anderson, Matt Helm
I'm really glad this was recognized for its outstanding production design and gorgeous cinematography. This is Bruno Delbonnel's 6th nomination, and he won't win for this, so he is coming due. Hopefully he wins something soon! I recommend The Tragedy of Macbeth; I really liked it, and although it has a few problems, it's the best Shakespeare adaptation I've seen in a long time. Denzel Washington is so good that I think the production design and cinematography had to be that good just to compete with him for screentime. I don't think this movie will win anything, though.
Will Win: N/A
Could Win: N/A
My Rating: #14 out of 57
3 Nominations
- Score: Germaine Franco
- Animated Feature
- Song: Lin-Manuel Miranda (Moana)
Director: Jared Bush, Byron Howard
Cast: Stephanie Beatriz, Maria Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Wilmer Valderrama, Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Diane Guerrero, Mauro Castillo, Carolina Gaitán, Maluma, Rhenzy Feliz
This is a beautiful movie with really fun songs and some lovely animation. I thought it was really funny and it also works a lot like a stage musical instead of a movie musical, and I think I liked that... at least for an animated movie like this. Now, everyone knows that the real hit of Encanto in terms of the songs is "We Don't Talk about Bruno", but the song "Dos Oruguitas", the eleven o'clock number that had me in tears, is the song that is nominated. I can see this, but of course this means that the Academy missed the boat on the song from the movie that actually matters a great deal to people at this moment. This was a mistake. Shout out, too, to Germaine Franco. This is her first nomination for original score, and the music branch doesn't frequently let composers into this club and still frequently women composers. So good for her! It isn't my favorite animated film of the year, but I don't think Encanto can lose Animated Feature. It's the one of the five with the most nominations, and it's been racking up wins in other places.
3 Nominations
- Sound
- Visual Effects
- Song: Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast: Daniel Craig, Lashana Lynch, Léa Seydoux, Christoph Waltz, Rami Malek, Ana de Armas, Ralph Fiennes, Jeffrey Wright, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Billy Magnussen, Rory Kinnear
Sure, sure, sure. You have to nominated the Bond movie for these things, and the movie is loud and its visual effects are cool, and the song is... a Bond song. So, ok. Bond 25 was not that great, though, and I think everybody knows it. I mean, it has Rami Malek as a villain, and he spends the whole movie trying to get the audience's sympathy instead of being a terrible villain who wants to destroy the world. This movie is looooong and it has way too many feelings that I didn't understand.
Will Win: N/A
Sure, sure, sure. You have to nominated the Bond movie for these things, and the movie is loud and its visual effects are cool, and the song is... a Bond song. So, ok. Bond 25 was not that great, though, and I think everybody knows it. I mean, it has Rami Malek as a villain, and he spends the whole movie trying to get the audience's sympathy instead of being a terrible villain who wants to destroy the world. This movie is looooong and it has way too many feelings that I didn't understand.
Will Win: N/A
Could Win: Song
My Rating: #50 out of 57
Flee (Flugt)
3 Nominations
- Documentary Feature
- International Feature: Denmark (Another Round, Under Sandet, A War, The Hunt, A Royal Affair, In a Better World, After the Wedding, Waltzing Regitze, Pelle the Conqueror, Babette's Feast, Harry and the Butler, Paw, Qivitoq: the Mountain Wanderer)
- Animated Feature
Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Cast: Amin Nawabi, Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz, Elaha Faiz, Zahra Mehrwarz, Sadia Faiz
This is one of the best movies of the year. I absolutely loved it, and I'd recommend it to anyone. It's an animated documentary film about a man talking about fleeing Afghanistan and trying to live as a refugee in Europe – first in Russia and then in Denmark. This movie documents illegal border crossings and their difficulties and terrors, but it also gets to something else. This is the story of a man who is now safe, who is now living as a refugee in Denmark and doesn't have too much to worry about, but he can't help but feel, always, like he needs to flee. It is ingrained in him to run away, to mistrust others. And Flee tries to tell the story of how this man must try, then, to develop the loving relationships we all need to flourish in this world. It's a great movie.
5. Tick, Tick... Boom!, Parallel Mothers, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and The Worst Person in the World
6. Cruella, Spencer, The Hand of God, and Lunana: a Yak in the Classroom
7. Cyrano, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Luca, and Raya and the Last Dragon
8. Spider-man: No Way Home, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Free Guy
6. Cruella, Spencer, The Hand of God, and Lunana: a Yak in the Classroom
7. Cyrano, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Luca, and Raya and the Last Dragon
8. Spider-man: No Way Home, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Free Guy
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