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lilORANG posted...

And if those "serious" movies were enough to keep people happy, why'd the whole dang academy decide to expand the category to appeal to the lowest common denominator? Bringing in viewers is absolutely important to a televised program.

did you know the oscars had 10 best picture nominees back before television existed? were they doing that for ratings?

also did you know the academy is like 10,000 voting members and not a handful of people having clandestine meetings where they're conspiring to get more popular movies nominated for best picture? which doesn't really happen since the expansion happened anyway?

lilORANG posted...

The reason they expanded the best picture category like 10 years ago is so they could throw in a blockbuster or 2 and hopefully get more viewers. Much like the Grammys catering entirely to pop now, the big awards shows are about the spectacle over the art.

yeah. past lives, anatomy of a fall, american fiction, the holdovers, maestro, zone of interest - all spectacle.

are you serious btw?

lilORANG posted...

A quick Google shows that like every playoff football game and the SOTU rank higher by a significant margin.

to be fair i havent done a google search on this in awhile

i know ratings tanked in 2020 for the covid year (all fake and bad movies) but it climbed back

either way - still good company bro. gotta keep the oscars relevant so studios keep making movies ostensibly for grownups

lilORANG posted...

Oscars are so irrelevant now but I hope Nolan finally wins something.

the oscars are still the 2nd most watched event in america after the super bowl

and are about to give the award for best picture to a movie that made over 800m worldwide and is made by a household name director

not that irrelevant imo

my rankings of the nominees btw

killers of the flower moon (great)
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the holdovers, anatomy of a fall (good)
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poor things (fine)
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past lives, barbie (mid)
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oppenheimer (below avg)
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american fiction, zone of interest, maestro (bad)

SuperExcitebike posted...

Predicting a huge Oppenheimer night with a little Poor Things sprinkled in there

what are you thinking poor things wins for? emma stone could still win actress.

but i feel like costumes/sets/makeup might all go to barbie

growing up and liking new things instead of having your interests calcify as a child is good and cool

Makeveli_lives posted...

How did I get involved in this.

you made a thread about dune that got recommended in the 'more topics from this board'

@Makeveli_lives i feel u

this movie is so awful and boring

first half of the movie is just explaining stuff and/or setup

• oh you dont want to be duke, son? neither did i lol! anyway enough of that bullshit lets go
• btw youre a psychic messiah. put your hand in the box and dont scream or else
• they arent human they are BRRUUUTAALLLLLLLLL
• spoilers: i have dreams you're gonna die.

this is all just lore building or incredibly ham fisted telegraphing what is going to happen which kinda ruins the dramatic impact. instead of like i dont know getting to know the characters so that we can feel bad when they inevitably die? you don't have to slavishly adapt the book you know. not that big of a deal. just make it better. easy.

think the only good scene in the movie is the worm attack on the harvester. that was neat. there should have been more cool shit with giant sand worms.

started laughing a few times at unintentional comedy. like when he's mad at his mom in the tent about being a freak. or when he has visions of the future. we see a soldier doing cartwheels over guys and slicing them up super easy. face visor lowers and its a forlorn timmy. was howling. so ridiculous. scrawny ass dude trying to act like jackie chan or tom cruise or keanu reeves while looking like he could be 130 lbs soaking wet.

and what is with the ending? mom does her quick defense against bardem and all of a sudden there's some fight that has to happen. timmy fights this random dude super fast. bardem 'is he toying with him?'. terrible fight choreography btw. and then he kills him and that's it. that's the movie. oh except for the 'on the next episode of dune.... riding worms!' part after that. man. pretty much nothing of consequence happens in this movie. like am i supposed to be awestruck by this knife fight? kinda comes out of nowhere to be the 'climax' of the movie. i don't get it.

on top of this why is every shot just a medium closeup in a big giant brown/gray/yellow room? doesnt denis know how to direct conversations? why do people like this guy? movies are a visual medium, can't you do something interesting within the frame? no? just a bunch of cgi? ok....

really wish this movie was just pulpier and less serious. you have a guy with psychic powers that is the messiah to some witch cult and some sand people. weird creepy albinos with human/spider pets. a dude named duncan idaho. giant fucking sandworms. sword fights. drugs flying through the air that cause interstellar travel on top of the hallucinations. shouldn't the movie be... i dunno... kinda goofy and weird and fun? instead of nothing but funereal solemnity?

anyway can't wait to see dune 2 next week. there is no way it could possibly be worse than part one so i got something to look forward to.

bsp77 posted...

Believe it or not, I did appreciate the awards. But you guys seriously need more voters, as Asteroid City winning so much is likely due to just random sampling of a few guys that really liked it. BTW, I liked it too and gave it an 8, but Grand Budapest Hotel it is not.

10 of 14 voters had in their top ten movies so i think everyone just liked it basically. same with killers. there's some flaws in the process because consensus does tend to center on one or two movies. killers and asteroid won 6 and 5 awards. fabelmans and drive my car won 5. portrait of a lady on fire won 6, as did parasite. phantom thread won NINE.

so yeah that's why i presented the jury list version to really show of a variety of what we appreciated this year

nyone besides bsp wanna see this shit

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

What's that movie that had the title that sounded amazing but then it was actually just about trains but then there weren't actually any trains at all and they just had business meetings about nothing?

I watched like 45 minutes of that one and I just couldn't stand it anymore.

no clue

PeteyParker posted...

I did also like Transformers the Movie but Aliens has been my favorite movie since I saw it when I was like 8 or 9 years old. My brothers and I used to watch to watch so much stuff on VHS that my dad and his friend would rent and bring over to our house and then we had Prism and HBO and saw even more stuff on that. Just because you're a kid doesn't mean you only watch "kids" movies.

yeah i think like that tweet says tho, people younger than us having streaming services curating algorithms solely centered on kids stuff. meanwhile we'd just see shit we were 'too young for' pop up on cable and be like whoa this rules.

cant believe no one wants to talk about this super interesting stuff

alright gotta wrap this up. hope you enjoy bsp.

Best Achievement in Directing

Wes Anderson, Asteroid City

Todd Haynes, May December

Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster

Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Trn Anh Hng, The Taste of Things

And the award goes to...

Wes Anderson!!! his second win for directing after grand budapest!!!

moon and asteroid with 5 wins each.... who will win the final award of the night???

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Christian Petzold's Afire

Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall

Wes Anderson's Asteroid City

Alexander Payne's The Holdovers

Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon

Todd Haynes' May December

Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster

Wim Wenders' Perfect Days

Trn Anh Hng's The Taste of Things

And the award goes to...

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

Killers of the Flower Moon!! congrats to the maestro on finally getting his QCW!!!!!

time to post full totals, runners-up, and a jury style list!!!!

Winners -
Picture: Killers of the Flower Moon
Director: Wes Anderson, Asteroid City
Lead Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Lead Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Ensemble: Asteroid City
Original Screenplay: Asteroid City
Adapted Screenplay: Killers of the Flower Moon
Cinematography: Asteroid City
Editing: Killers of the Flower Moon
Production Design: Asteroid City
Score: Killers of the Flower Moon
Animation: The Boy and the Heron
Documentary: Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
Debut: Joyland
International: The Taste of Things

Points
Killers of the Flower Moon - 81 (3)
Asteroid City - 74 (3)
The Holdovers - 60
The Taste of Things - 57 (2)
Monster - 50 (1)
May December - 37 (1)
Afire - 34 (1)
Anatomy of a Fall - 26
Perfect Days - 26 (1)
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - 23
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Fallen Leaves - 21
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. - 21
Poor Things - 20

#1s that didn't make it - Beyond Utopia, Oppenheimer

Runners-up:
Picture: Asteroid City
Director: Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Lead Actor: Koji Yakusho, Perfect Days
Lead Actress: Sandra Hller, Anatomy of a Fall & Juliette Binoche, The Taste of Things
Supporting Actor: Donnie Yen, John Wick Chapter 4 & Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Supporting Actress: Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Ensemble: Killers of the Flower Moon
Original Screenplay: May December
Adapted Screenplay: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Cinematography: Killers of the Flower Moon
Editing: Asteroid City
Production Design: Barbie
Score: Eileen Animation: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
Documentary: Geographies of Solitude
Debut: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
International: Monster

and finally, the Jury List, where we pretend movies can only win one award (assigning them from most prestigious to least i guess)

Picture: Killers of the Flower Moon
Director: Wes Anderson, Asteroid City
Lead Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Lead Actress: Sandra Hller, Anatomy of a Fall
Supporting Actor: Donnie Yen, John Wick Chapter 4
Supporting Actress: Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Ensemble: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning
Original Screenplay: May December
Adapted Screenplay: Poor Things
Cinematography: Pacifiction
Editing: Oppenheimer
Production Design: Barbie
Score: Eileen
Animation: The Boy and the Heron
Documentary: Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
Debut: Joyland
International: The Taste of Things

thanks for reading CE

cya at the movies

Best Original Screenplay

Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, Asteroid City

Samy Burch, May December

David Hemingson, The Holdovers

Yuji Sakamoto, Monster

Justine Triet & Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall

And the award goes to...

Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola for Asteroid City!!! wes' second win after grand budapest

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Leonie Benesch as Carla Nowak in The Teachers' Lounge

Juliette Binoche as Eugnie in The Taste of Things

Lily Gladstone as Mollie Kyle in Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Hller as Sandra Voyter in Anatomy of a Fall

Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in Poor Things

And the award goes to...

Lily Gladstone!!! her second win after certain women, which was in the supporting category

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon

Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham in The Holdovers

Charles Melton as Joe Yoo in May December

Thomas Schubert as Leon in Afire

Jason Schwartzman as Augie Steenbeck & Jones Hall in Asteroid City

Kji Yakusho as Hirayama in Perfect Days

And the award goes to...

Paul Giamatti!!! oscars need to do the right thing and agree w us on this one

bsp77 posted...

Why do you want people with the same viewpoints?

My international nominations for 2023:

Anatomy of a Fall (winner)
Society of the Snow
Godzilla Minus One
Fallen Leaves
Zone of Interest

Perfect Days, Monster, and Teacher's Lounge barely missed the cut. Those three and Zone of Interest are very close together.

well at least half of those were gag questions. and it isn't really the same viewpoint but someone discerning or showing a varied interest in cinema of all budgets, time periods, styles, genres, nations, etc

throwing up two more

Best International Motion Picture

From Germany, Christian Petzold's Afire

From France, Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall

From Finland, Aki Kaurismki's Fallen Leaves

From Japan, Hirkozau Kore-eda's Monster

From Japan, Wim Wenders' Perfect Days

From France, Trn Anh Hng's The Taste of Things

And the award goes to...

The Taste of Things!!! this is france's fourth win in the modern era for qcw's :O

Best Adapted Screenplay

Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (Based on the novel of the same name by Judy Blume)

Tony McNamara, Poor Things (Based on the novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray)

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin)

Martin Scorsese & Eric Roth, Killers of the Flower Moon (Based on the book of the same name by David Grann)

Trn Anh Hng, The Taste of Things (Based on the novel, The Passionate Epicure, by Marcel Rouff)

And the award goes to...

Martin Scorsese and Eric Roth!!! scorsese's second win for writing after silence in 2016

bsp77 posted...

Any chance I could be included next year :)

I know we argue, but I do see a LOT of movies, and I think you guys could help push me further. You saw my supporting actor list, so you know it isn't all trash IYO

ok. a quick questionnaire has been thrown together to see if you are worthy of an invite to the discord.

question 1: have you seen buzzard?

question 2: Ask them for their top 3 of 2023

question 3: Name three movies youd want to have seen opening weekend

question 4: On a scale of 1 to 10, how important are sex scenes

question 5: Whats the ideal runtime for a movie?
A. 80-120 minutes
B. 120-180 minutes
C. There is no ideal runtime for a movie.
D. Yes there is.

question 6: Rank these elements of filmmaking in order of importance:
Plot
Character
Structure
Continuity
Style
Atmosphere

this is open to everyone btw if they want special access to a discord with the gods of movie watching

bsp77 posted...

Methinks ya guys like Wes too much

i do think our awards going go differently if we voted them. as is, its just a points based system and what is in the top 5 gets thrown into the nominees and the top vote getter wins. as opposed to collecting this and dispensing it to everyone to vote on it. we'd have way diff results i think.

also the jury list will be cooler i promise

alright folks got two more. here we go.

Best Performance by an Ensemble

Jason Schwartzman, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Scarlett Johansson, & others, Asteroid City

Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, & others, Killers of the Flower Moon

Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, & others, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Sya Kurokawa, Sakura And, Eita Nagayama, & others, Monster

And the award goes to...

Asteroid City!!!! and hey what do you know the french dispatch also won this category in 2021......

Best Cinematography

Eigil Bryld, The Holdovers

Dan Laustsen, John Wick: Chapter 4

Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon

Jonathan Ricquebourg, The Taste of Things

Artur Tort, Pacifiction

Robert Yeoman, Asteroid City

And the award goes to...

Robert Yeoman!!! Asteroid City!!! if you can believe it he also won for the french dispatch. and won for grand budapest hotel way back when

rockus posted...

I'll take your word for it I guess.

I'll have to check out his screenwriting book though. I'm always looking for interesting books on writing.

i believe its only on kindle

he goes over a lot of methods to writing like parker and stone doing but/then, dan harmon's circles, the hero's journey, etc and why they work or what their limitations are. and goes over how to do descriptive writing without sounding like you're trying to direct. why the 3 act structure isn't really a thing and what exactly an act is. idk how helpful you'd find it since i imagine you know a lot about this already but yea.

ummmm dude its film crit hulk, not film critic hulk

i wish i remembered this feud though. i actually liked that guy's screenwriting book. much better than syd field or whatever.

bsp77 posted...

I have never been on the movies board. Afraid to go there because I will start arguing way too much

it's a cesspool

the amount of racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc is insane. or was when we all decided to ditch it for discord. doubt it is much better rn.

Cassie posted...

no I got thatwhy is it here? Seems like it should be on the movies board lol

well, it is on the movies board. i said that in the OP but not sure you read it.

CE has a lot of movie topics so not sure what's wrong with another one popping up

Cassie posted...

The fuck even is this?

here i can repost the op in case you missed it

Hello, Current Events. It's that time of the year again. The stars are out for the biggest night in Tinseltown - the Quality Cinema Warrior Awards!

If you are unfamiliar with us, we began our awards in 2015 as a response to Board 227's (where these awards are also being posted) deluge of discussions centered on theatrical content, particularly that of superheroes and 80s/90s nostalgia bait, instead of cinema. I found all of this quite disheartening and organized a special team of Quality Cinema Warriors (named so because everyone was frothing at the mouth over the evils of "Social Justice Warriors" at the time - embarrassing!) and started a ranked choice vote of ten Best Picture nominees and five Best [everything else]. We've added some categories and streamlined some of the voting process with category frauds and whatnot over the years. If you would like to view some of our voting history, check the links below:

1932: 1970: (not linkable sadly - was announced solely on our Discord - but Trouble in Paradise won)
1948: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/78333521 (The Red Shoes)
1955: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/77379282 (Pather Panchali)
1960: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/76817599 (The Apartment)
1970: (not linkable sadly - was announced solely on our Discord - but Five Easy Pieces won)
1984: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/77843274 (TIE: Stop Making Sense / Paris, Texas)
1997: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/78836004 (Jackie Brown)
2014: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/228-movies-home-media/73754150 (Boyhood)
2015: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/73102774 (Mad Max: Fury Road)
2016: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/74905507 (Manchester by the Sea)
2017: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/76354023 (Phantom Thread)
2018: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/77507475 (First Reformed)
2019: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/78434340 (Parasite)
2020: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/79309039 (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
2021: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/79955689 (Drive My Car)
2022: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-new-and-upcoming-releases/80376503 (The Fabelmans)

Shoutout to the following users for voting:

BigLargeHuge
Brett8
capri
confusedteddybear
GrandTheftPikmin
Kastrada
madadude
rockus
Pus_N_Pecans
thesmark88
wetwillies
[guy not on GameFAQs]
[guy whose username I don't remember sorry]

Brett8 posted...

Pretty sure there were some Goth in Pearl stans among us, though.

i was much more sour on it than anyone else iirc

bsp77 posted...

IYO

well yeah i said it who elses opinion would it be?

bsp77 posted...

Yeah, lost a couple great composers this year.

Did you guys give Mia love last year for Pearl? She deserved that

according to the history spreadsheet, no

Cate Blanchett, TAR
Tang Wei, Decision to Leave
Vicky Krieps, Corsage
Lee Ji-eun, Broker
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once

pearl was a bad movie btw

anyway we got two more categories now

Best Score

Alexandre Desplat, Asteroid City

Joe Hisaishi, The Boy and the Heron

Richard Reed Parry, Eileen

Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Monster

And the award goes to...

Robbie Robertson!!! Killers of the Flower Moon!!! rip my bro and also my other bro sakamoto

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Mia Goth as Gabi Bauer in Infinity Pool

Anne Hathaway as Rebecca in Eileen

Scarlett Johannson as Midge Campbell & Mercedes Ford in Asteroid City

Rachel McAdams as Barbara Simon in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb in The Holdovers

And the award goes to...

Da'Vine Joy Randolph!!! lining up with the oscars on this one prob....

Brett8 posted...

I'll also say that the awards and noms--by their nature and appropriately--being consensus, it papers over a lot of disagreement and diversity of opinion within the group of people voting. I think at one point we were split 6-5 or 6-6 whether to count Melton as lead or supporting, so while we have to make a call to avoid a great performance getting no or less recognition from the arbitrariness of being split between categories, those calls can be close. And the same is true of voting--a widely selected choice can best something that only half of us loved, or something that a few people really loved can punch above its weight if everyone else is split.

yea

i am also writing up a "jury/festival" winner list when we are done which will only give one award per movie so you can see where exactly we fall on a lot of other stuff. it'll likely be much more illuminating to our tastes than the consensus picks

i didn't actually vote for yen fwiw

Smashingpmkns posted...

Its a weird distinction. A movie is an Oscar-y movie because they campaigned for it to be nominated for the Oscars. Uh, okay? still doesn't detract from Willem Dafoe's performance in comparison to Donnie Yen's lol

yeah donnie's was better.

anyway i apologize that we do not line up w oscar stuff 100%. hope the rest of this topic isn't too hard on you.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Was John Wick 4 not well reviewed or well marketed? Lol

marketed with fyc campaigns bro. that's why i mentioned the screenings and whatnot to get votes. lionsgate obv isn't throwing their weight behind pushing wick for oscars lmao.

bsp77 posted...

Not commenting on Yorgos. I am commenting on your general explanation

yeah i mean they're the well reviewed, well marketed movies with all of the big guild screenings and q&a's. then they hog up all the nominations for everything. figured you guys would enjoy something a little fresher.

guess that's on me for having expectations

bsp77 posted...

You basically just said that it is impossible for a non-oscar-y movie to be nominated, because as soon as it is nominated...

I feel like you are just trolling us sometimes

idk man. the favourite was nominated for and won some oscars last time he made a movie. seemed obvious to me that poor things would likely be a frontrunner before anyone even saw it. and then it got good reviews. and then it was nominated for a shitload of oscars. not sure how this is trolling.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Idk how Poor Things is an Oscar-y movie other than it being nominated for the Oscars. If anything I'm surprised it got nominated to begin with.

I do think the Emma Stone praise is way over stated. That was some Simple Jack levels of acting at times and if she beats out Lily Gladstone that will be really disappointing.

being nominated for oscars makes you an oscar-y movie i think. that's just yorgos' deal now with b2b best pic nominations.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Donnie Yen getting a nom but not Willem Dafoe is pretty wild. I love Donnie Yen but come on

i'm surprised/disappointed you and bsp are siding with the oscar-y movies and choices instead of our more iconoclastic picks

thought some common ground would be discovered

sad

got some real boring categories rn. let's do this

Best Debut Feature

Savanah Leaf's Earth Mama

Saim Sadiq's Joyland

Celine Song's Past Lives

David Easteal's The Plains

Joaquim dos Santos, Kemp Powers, & Justin K. Thompson's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse

And the award goes to...

Saim Sadiq and Joyland!!! lololololololol gfy again spider-man you pos

Best Documentary Feature

Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Vrna Paravel's De Humani Corporis Fabrica

David Easteal's The Plains

Jacquelyn Mills' Geographies of Solitude

Frederick Wiseman's Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros

And the award goes to...

Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros!!! think this is our first wiseman win gg old man

bsp77 posted...

Oh, well that does help

But where is Robert Downey Jr?

I really did love Fallen Leaves btw. It just feels way too constrained and empty for Production Design

i think 2 of 14 people had rdj on their ballot because he wasn't good in that movie. just doing regular smarmy rdj mugging except it happened to be in a nolan movie.

bsp77 posted...

Top 7 to show De Niro

Robert Downey Jr (Oppenheimer)
Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)
Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
Charles Melton (May December)
Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers)
Sterling K Brown (American Fiction)
Robert De Niro (Killers)

well, we had sessa, melton, and gosling categorized as leads... there are various scenes in those movies shown from their perspective (what we decided is a lead performence) whereas there isn't really any centering of the movie around de niro or whoever else we nominated.

bsp77 posted...

I love De Niro, but he was not even close to the best supporting actor this year. And 2 nominations from Anatomy of a Fall? They were serviceable (the kid is really good for a kid though). And Donnie Yen? Get the fuck out of here. I loved that movie and his character, but c'mon

Fallen Leaves - great movie. Production design? Lolol

The editing category is all kinds of fucked up.

Like, who the hell are these voters?

well production design is about sets. fallen leaves had some good sets dude. aki kaurismaki is like a scandinavian more chill wes anderson with the sets and 35mm photography and nice colors.

what's wrong with donnie yen? he has loads of charisma and has great physicality obviously, which is necessary for the role. you don't think de niro was good... ? who were some of you preferred supporting actors this year?

bsp77 posted...

Some pretty shitty nominations in there

you really think so? where?

Foppe posted...

Seems she got banned two years ago.

may she rirl (rest in real life). we have two more awards. @bsp77 @billycorgan you guys should see this and get upset btw

Best Production Design

Tamara Deverell, Priscilla

Jack Fisk, Killers of the Flower Moon

Sarah Greenwood, Barbie

Ville Grnroos, Fallen Leaves

Shona Heath & James Price, Poor Things

Adam Stockhausen, Asteroid City

And the award goes to...

Adam Stockhausen!!! Asteroid City!!! he previously won for the french dispatch

Best Animated Feature

Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron

Peter Sohn's Elemental

Nick Bruno and Troy Quane's Nimona

Joaquim dos Santos, Kemp Powers, & Justin K. Thompson's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse

Makoto Shinkai's Suzume

And the award goes to....

The Boy and the Heron!!! lololololololololololol gfy spider-man!!!!!!!!!!

reading stuff posted by people claiming to be gang stalked is legit bone chilling

ok everyone time for the first two awards !!!!!!!!!!!

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Swann Arlaud as Vincent Renzi in Anatomy of a Fall

Robert De Niro as William King Hale in Killers of the Flower Moon

Milo Machado-Graner as Daniel Maleski in Anatomy of a Fall

Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn in Poor Things

Donnie Yen as Caine in John Wick: Chapter 4

And the award goes to...

Robert De Niro!!! text text text text text text i think this is his first win... ? he might have won in 2019 for i heard you paint houses idk

Best Achievement in Editing

Mario Battistel, The Taste of Things

Eddie Hamilton, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Barney Pilling, Asteroid City

Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon

Laurent Snchal, Anatomy of a Fall

And the award goes to...

Thelma Schoonmaker!!! Killers of the Flower Moon!!! also might have been a winner in 2019... don't remember sorry i have a poor memory

Foppe posted...

I recognize one of those users.

i think only one might post on CE sometimes

Hello, Current Events. It's that time of the year again. The stars are out for the biggest night in Tinseltown - the Quality Cinema Warrior Awards!

If you are unfamiliar with us, we began our awards in 2015 as a response to Board 227's (where these awards are also being posted) deluge of discussions centered on theatrical content, particularly that of superheroes and 80s/90s nostalgia bait, instead of cinema. I found all of this quite disheartening and organized a special team of Quality Cinema Warriors (named so because everyone was frothing at the mouth over the evils of "Social Justice Warriors" at the time - embarrassing!) and started a ranked choice vote of ten Best Picture nominees and five Best [everything else]. We've added some categories and streamlined some of the voting process with category frauds and whatnot over the years. If you would like to view some of our voting history, check the links below:

1932: 1970: (not linkable sadly - was announced solely on our Discord - but Trouble in Paradise won)
1948: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/78333521 (The Red Shoes)
1955: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/77379282 (Pather Panchali)
1960: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/76817599 (The Apartment)
1970: (not linkable sadly - was announced solely on our Discord - but Five Easy Pieces won)
1984: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/77843274 (TIE: Stop Making Sense / Paris, Texas)
1997: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/78836004 (Jackie Brown)
2014: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/228-movies-home-media/73754150 (Boyhood)
2015: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/73102774 (Mad Max: Fury Road)
2016: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/74905507 (Manchester by the Sea)
2017: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/76354023 (Phantom Thread)
2018: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/77507475 (First Reformed)
2019: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/78434340 (Parasite)
2020: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/79309039 (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
2021: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/79955689 (Drive My Car)
2022: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-new-and-upcoming-releases/80376503 (The Fabelmans)

Shoutout to the following users for voting:

BigLargeHuge
Brett8
capri
confusedteddybear
GrandTheftPikmin
Kastrada
madadude
rockus
Pus_N_Pecans
thesmark88
wetwillies
[guy not on GameFAQs]
[guy whose username I don't remember sorry]

The awards will begin shortly! Do you have any predictions? :O

ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...

3 original star wars movies are more important culturally than all marvel films put together.
Marvel Films are braindead popcorn filicks.

honestly i would take the original trilogy, force awakens, and last jedi over every mcu movie i've seen (which is like ten of them). mcu movies are just bad.

the first two raimi spider-man movies were great tho. rip to those movies. also the new spider-man games rock.

TheDurinator posted...

Can I get rid of both?

yeah

getting rid of both > star wars >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> marvel