It’s quite ridiculous, especially how it always falls down to a black/white issue when talking about nominations. Viola Davis could even be classed as a supporting role in The Woman King and it’s not like Deadwyler is much of a name with a wide body of work behind her. I was personally underwhelmed by her performance in Till and thought Thuso Mbedu should have been acknowledged for The Woman King instead since she was the bonafide lead.Sorry I’ve just seen there is yet another ‘race row’ over Andrea Riseborough (never nominated despite many incredible performances) being nominated ahead of people like Viola Davis (an EGOT with multiple previous nominations and a win)…
I accept the premise that there is an unconscious bias - but I do not think it’s always helpful to come back to this every time there is a lower proportion of black actors in nominations. (This year has the most Asian nominations ever right? There’s only a certain number of nominations available.)
Riseborough is then forced into a very difficult position where she has to almost apologise for her nomination at a time that should be a moment of joy and success after decades of hard work.
That’s not the way it’s read as reported on the BBC but I have only seen that one Article on it.I don’t think her nomination is primarily a race thing, but a question about whether the hardcore social marketing that happened with her friends to get her nominated breached Academy rules
That would be incredible!It’s still really hard to pick the actress categories though. It’s nice that they’re not a foregone conclusion like most years but I really want a Michelle/Jamie double dammit!
I thought it was pretty good. 7/10 film and a performance not undeserving at all (and sorry, but better than the ones she supposedly took the place of). I don’t know what the fuss is all about.Watched To Leslie, it’s decent but there’s nothing that special about. Andrea is good but it’s not a performance that is that out of this world that you would want her to get nominated for.
I managed to find Tell It Like a Woman on a torrent which took a whole day to download as it was a big file. It’s barely even a film. All the Letterboxd reviews are from Oscar completists chastising Dianne WarrenThat doesn’t count random one-off tech or song nominees like Bardo, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris or the film that godawful Dianne Warren song is from. Even I have my limits.
I liked it a lot as it was extremely interesting, but I didn’t really GET the correlation between Nan’s earlier years and her life in the NYC art scene, and what she’s doing today. It was like two different documentaries.All the beauty and the bloodshed is really very good if not a little TRAUMATIC!
I liked it a lot as it was extremely interesting, but I didn’t really GET the correlation between Nan’s earlier years and her life in the NYC art scene, and what she’s doing today. It was like two different documentaries.
But she was never really part of the mainstream art at the time? The way it kept chopping around, it was blatantly obvious that all of her friends from the 80s died of AIDS before they even mentioned it, and they didn’t even touch on big pharma’s involvement in that side. Then all of the stuff with her family and sister… I couldn’t see a connection other than it being a profile on her life.I didn’t get a disconnect at all, surely it was important to correlate her action against major art institutions with her background within the art scene. Also it fed into her experience in the eighties with the AIDS epidemic and Act Up movement, which has obvious parallels to what she was doing in the present day. And I may be taking it too literally, but it often felt like the depictions of her youth and alongside it the really breathtaking images of her work were the beauty to the bloodshed that characterises the later half of the film. The depiction of her early life, initially at least felt romantic and idealistic, and was a much needed counterpoint to the quite relentless darkness of the subject matter that was occurring in the near present.
I’ll check to see which ones I still have. Le Pupille is on Disney+ by the way.All of them! But the five live action ones would take my priority if you're able to SHARE
Thanks!
Well, Close wrecked me
That completes my International Feature scorecard.
1. Close
2. The Quiet Girl
3. All Quiet On The Western Front
4. Argentina, 1985
5. EO (Sorry to the arthouse fans but I am still reeling from the fact that I paid money to sit through this)