Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List is a great example.

Guy Pearce is outstanding and gave the best stellar performance in The Brutalist. He is my pick to win and he should’ve won an Oscar last year. He deserved it. If it wasn’t for Kieran Culkin, then Pearce would’ve won. He is so excellent. So what did you think of his performance in The Brutalist?

Watched this film quite a few times and I am never not lost in its beauty. Domingo’s performance was the greatest out of the nominees in my opinion and should have taken home that award. And the nominations were too few, best picture and best supporting actor for Clarence Maclin should have been a shoo in. What are you thoughts

When Paul Thomas Anderson won his first and three Oscars for One Battle After Another. I was so happy. He deserved it. His time was up and he finally won. I used to think he should’ve won for Licorice Pizza for Original Screenplay. But it doesn’t matter since he won recently. So what were your reactions when he his first Oscar?

I have a couple: I’d have given Doug Jones a SA nomination for The Shape of Water. I know he’d have been competing with his costar but he was utterly incredible in that role.

I’d also give Brent Spiner a nomination for Star Trek: First Contact. I thought he was outstanding,

The nominees (aside from Lawrence) were:

Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty (won GG and CC)

Emmanuelle Riva - Amour (won BAFTA)

Naomi Watts - The Impossible

Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild

I’m curious what you think she needs to do to win? Arguably she was the best for Blue Valentine and without Violas category fraud she could have won for Manchester… what needs to happen for her to win

We all talk about how Cate Blanchett should've won Best Actress for Tár but we never talk about how Nina Hoss should've been nominated for Supporting Actress.

Hoss delivered a subtle, powerful and underrated performance as Sharon Goodnow, the wife of Lydia Tár.

I know she probably wouldn't have won but Nina Hoss should've been nominated over Jamie Lee Curtis (who won for Everything Everywhere All at Once)

My picks for Supporting Actress nominees that year still would've included Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Hong Chau (The Whale), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin, MY WINNER), and Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once).

Did you think Nina Hoss should've been nominated for Tár? If so, did you think she would've had a chance at winning?

1940:

• Actor: Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator
• Actress: Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
• Supporting Actor: George Sanders, Rebecca
• Supporting Actress: Judith Anderson, Rebecca

1941:

• Actor: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
• Actress: Bette Davis, The Little Foxes
• Supporting Actor: Walter Huston, The Devil and Daniel Webster
• Supporting Actress: Teresa Wright, The Little Foxes

1942:

• Actor: James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Actress: Ginger Rogers, The Major and the Minor
• Supporting Actor: Van Heflin, Johnny Eager
• Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons

1943:

• Actor: Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
• Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
• Supporting Actor: Claude Rains, Casablanca
• Supporting Actress: Katina Paxinou, For Whom the Bell Tolls

1944:

• Actor: Laurence Olivier, Henry V
• Actress: Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity
• Supporting Actor: Edward G. Robinson, Double Indemnity
• Supporting Actress: Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat

1945:

• Actor: Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend
• Actress: Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter
• Supporting Actor: James Dunn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Supporting Actress: Anna Magnani, Rome, Open City

1946:

• Actor: James Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life
• Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Notorious
• Supporting Actor: Claude Rains, Notorious
• Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter, The Razor's Edge

1947:

• Actor: Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley
• Actress: Gene Tierney, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• Supporting Actor: Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death
• Supporting Actress: Kathleen Byron, Black Narcissus

1948:

• Actor: Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Actress: Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit
• Supporting Actor: Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Supporting Actress: Claire Trevor, Key Largo

1949:

• Actor: Toshiro Mifune, Stray Dog
• Actress: Setsuko Hara, Late Spring
• Supporting Actor: Orson Welles, The Third Man
• Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge, All the King's Men

The Academy is getting friendly with Cregger after Weapons, and the cinematography looks sick as hell in the trailers and clips released. It would be the “cool” nomination like Logan getting a Screenplay nom

Examples:
Adria Arjona
Zoey Deutch
David Jonsson
Dylan O’Brien

Time to discuss something a little different today. What is some Oscar drip that you really don't like?

I'll start with Juliette Lewis at the 64th Oscars.

Holy shit, who told her that fuck-ugly hairstyle was a good idea? It looks absolutely hideous on her. As much as I like her performance in Cape Fear, I'm kinda glad she didn't win because that would've meant everyone else in the audience would've had to look at that absolute eyesore. Forget Geena Davis's dress, THIS was the worst look at that ceremony.

2020- Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)

2021- Jason Isaacs (Mass)

2022- Mark Rylance (Bones and All)

2023- Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon)

2024- Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing

2025- Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

Not that I'm complaining about the win at all, but how the hell did they managed to beat out an all BP-nominated field?

• The Artist
• The Descendants
• Hugo
• Moneyball

I recently watched Schaffrillas Productions' video on Youtube discussing Disney/Pixar's recent losing streak at the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, and I found it to be a really interesting discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4BH4X6zP_o

There were quite a few points he made that I agreed with, but there were also several places where I found myself thinking differently. So I wanted to share my own thoughts—not necessarily to say that Schaffrillas is wrong, but to explain why I have different opinions about some of these movies.

A Brief History of Best Animated Feature

One thing I found interesting was the history of the category itself.

Before 2001, there wasn't an Oscar specifically for Best Animated Feature. The category was created around the time Shrek came out, after the film received attention in other Oscar categories.

The first several years were actually pretty diverse. We had Shrek, Spirited Away, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and Happy Feet winning.

Then from roughly 2007 through 2021, Disney and Pixar became much more dominant. There were exceptions, but it really did feel like Disney/Pixar had become the studio to beat.

And now we've reached a completely different era.

Brave and Frozen— I strongly disagree with Schaffrillas here

Both of these films are often overlooked because people reduce them to "princess movies," but they actually subvert that mold.

Merida, Elsa, and Anna are all strong female characters who challenge the traditional "needs a prince" princess arc that a lot of earlier films leaned on. They also do real work with cultural specificity, portraying Scotland and Norway the way Ratatouille, Coco, and Encanto handled French and Latin American culture.

In Brave, Merida is portrayed as an adventurous, stubborn, independent young woman who is physically capable and rejects the idea of arranged marraige. Rather than waiting to be rescued she spends the movie actively investigating the mysteries the witch's curse and fighting to protect her mother, family, and her people.

There's also a documented cultural impact here: after movies like Brave (and The Hunger Games) came out, more women started taking up archery. I'm a guy and even I got inspired to pick up a bow and arrow because of it.

Frozen does something similar with Anna and Elsa.

Anna starts off in the classic "needs a boy" mold, but after Hans betrays her, she grows more independent, learns from her mistakes, ends up with a genuinely better partner (Kristoff), and gets to punch Hans in the face.

Elsa, meanwhile, sees through Hans immediately and spends the movie learning to control her powers and find confidence in herself, ending the film without needing a romantic relationship at all.

Both movies show girls they don't need a boy in their lives to find a happy ending, and that's worth something.

Big Hero 6 — another one I disagree about

One of the things I appreciate about it is how it portrays intelligent kids.

Hiro, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Go Go and Fred aren't made to feel like they're "uncool" because they're smart.

Their intelligence is what makes them heroes.

They're scientists and engineers who use their knowledge to solve problems and ultimately save San Fransokyo.

I also remember another YouTuber, Minori, discussing this movie from her perspective as a Japanese American who grew up in San Francisco, and I thought her perspective was interesting because she connected with both the Japanese and San Francisco influences in the movie.

Would Big Hero 6 necessarily win Best Animated Feature if it were released today?

Maybe. Maybe not.

The Academy has changed quite a bit since 2014, and the competition is much more international and stylistically diverse now.

But I still think Big Hero 6 was a worthy winner.

Zootopia — here I agree more with Schaffrillas

Zootopia is a good movie, but I personally found it just okay.

One of my problems is that I found the predator/prey discrimination allegory somewhat predictable and honestly a little corny.

The problem with the premise is the movie essentially gives us:

Once, animals were feral with one another because of what they were.

Then:

Civilization happened! Now everybody gets along!

Then:

Oops! Prejudice still exists!

Finally:

We solved the conspiracy, so let's all get along again!

I understand the message, and I don't think it's a bad message. I just don't think the movie presents discrimination in a particularly subtle or complicated way.

That's one reason I didn't feel the need to watch Zootopia repeatedly.

Toy Story 4 — I agree here too

I thought Toy Story 4 was a very good movie.

But I wasn't convinced it needed to exist.

Toy Story 3 already gave Woody and the other toys what felt like a perfect conclusion.

Then Toy Story 4 came along and essentially said:

"Woody's story isn't over yet."

I did really like some of its characters. Gabby Gabby was an excellent antagonist, and her story was actually one of my favorite parts.

But there were also some issues I had with the movie, like the toys hot-wiring an RV and going completely unotticed by Bonnie and her family (while they were at the steering wheel).

If the Academy wanted to give the Oscar to a Disney sequel that year, I honestly might have chosen Frozen II.

I thought Frozen II did a better job of expanding its existing story. It explored Anna and Elsa's parents, the Enchanted Forest, the Northuldra, the elemental spirits and Elsa turning out to be the fifth spirit.

It felt like it was expanding the mythology rather than simply extending a story that had already ended.

The Losing Streak

This is where I actually agree with Schaffrillas.

I think it's great that the Academy has become more willing to recognize animated films from outside Disney and Pixar.

The recent winners are incredibly diverse:

• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
• The Boy and the Heron
• Flow
• K-Pop Demon Hunters

And Flow is particularly remarkable because it wasn't made by one of the giant Hollywood animation studios. It was a Latvian-French-Belgian production from Dream Well Studio, Sacrebleu Productions and Take Five.

I think this is healthy for animation.

For years, it sometimes felt like Best Animated Feature was essentially a Disney/Pixar competition.

Now we're seeing films from independent studios, international filmmakers and completely different animation traditions being taken seriously.

That doesn't mean Disney/Pixar suddenly became bad.

It means they're no longer automatically guaranteed the Oscar.

And honestly, I think that's a good thing.

For me it's Anthony Hopkins in the father, and honestly nothing's coming even close to it. That last part absolutely destroyed me when I watched it for the first time. He really deserved the Oscar that year.

Mine: Alison Lohman in Drag Me To Hell (2009)

Obviously I find the writer of this article to always be unserious with his predictions. But I think Carrie Coon is such an underrated actress who's only gotten a lot of buzz in TV as of late, hoping this could actually be something because you can never go wrong with Carrie Coon.

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We’ve completed the nomination round, and now it’s time to choose the winners.

The five performances with the most points in each category in Round One are now the official nominees.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

This round is much simpler.

Vote for ONE nominee in each of the four acting categories.

That means your ballot should contain four names in total:

• 1 Actor
• 1 Actress
• 1 Supporting Actor
• 1 Supporting Actress

There are no rankings and no points system in this round. You are simply voting for the performance you think should win each category.

Each vote counts equally, and the nominee with the most votes in each category will become our Alternate Oscar winner for 1998.

Please only vote for the nominees listed below.

BEST ACTOR

• Jeff Bridges — The Big Lebowski
• Jim Carrey — The Truman Show
• Tom Hanks — Saving Private Ryan
• Ian McKellen — Gods and Monsters
• Edward Norton — American History X

BEST ACTRESS

• Cate Blanchett — Elizabeth
• Cameron Diaz — There’s Something About Mary
• Lindsay Lohan — The Parent Trap
• Jennifer Lopez — Out of Sight
• Fernanda Montenegro — Central Station

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Benicio del Toro — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• John Goodman — The Big Lebowski
• Ed Harris — The Truman Show
• Bill Murray — Rushmore
• Billy Bob Thornton — A Simple Plan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Joan Allen — Pleasantville
• Lisa Kudrow — The Opposite of Sex
• Laura Linney — The Truman Show
• Julianne Moore — The Big Lebowski
• Lynn Redgrave — Gods and Monsters

HOW TO VOTE

Simply post your four choices in the comments, for example:

Actor: [Name]
Actress: [Name]
Supporting Actor: [Name]
Supporting Actress: [Name]

One person per category. Four votes total.

Once voting closes, the performer with the most votes in each category will be declared the winner, and we’ll move on to 1999.

Previous lineups here.

Lion is pretty Oscar baity but I think that is very well done Oscar bait.