TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

Was Chris Hemsworth in that?

No, it was the blonde dude from Pacific Rim.

[The Larch]

Oscar nominations are in!

Best Picture

Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Director

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Full list here: http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2018

[The Larch]

The Academy seems to have really liked Phantom Thread, while not liking The Disaster Artist very much...

[Malthus]

My worthless predictions:

- The Post will win Best Picture, because the Academy will want to stick it to Trump.

- Oldman will win Best Actor, because he ought to.

- Hawkins will win Best Actress.

[Eddie Teach]

The Academy seems to have really liked Phantom Thread, while not liking The Disaster Artist very much...

Not enough cross-dressing.

[The Larch]

- Hawkins will win Best Actress.

According to all the predictions I've seen that one is McDormand's to loose.

[celedhring]

My worthless predictions:

- The Post will win Best Picture, because the Academy will want to stick it to Trump.

- Oldman will win Best Actor, because he ought to.

- Hawkins will win Best Actress.

The Post seems to lack nominations in heavyweight departments to really win BP. I think it wouldn't have been nominated if it was still just 5 nominees.

[The Larch]

My worthless predictions:

- The Post will win Best Picture, because the Academy will want to stick it to Trump.

- Oldman will win Best Actor, because he ought to.

- Hawkins will win Best Actress.

The Post seems to lack nominations in heavyweight departments to really win BP. I think it wouldn't have been nominated if it was still just 5 nominees.

I'd say it lacks nominations, full stop.  It has only been nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress, which for Meryl Streep I assume is almost customary.

[Josephus]

My guess is they're so sensitive to the #METOO, women will win everything. Even Best Male Actor

[celedhring]

Funny that Plummer has been nominated too, given how he landed the part. To be honest after seeing the movie (which is allright, but nothing to write home about) it's really difficult to picture anybody else in that role.

[KRonn]

I say that Gary Oldman will get it for playing Churchill in Darkest Hour.

[The Larch]

I say that Gary Oldman will get it for playing Churchill in Darkest Hour.

Yeah, that one is almost assuredly a lock.

[Maladict]

Just saw Darkest Hour. Oldman is superb as has been noted by everyone alive, but so is King George (actor's name eludes me). Up there with Colin Firth imo.

Sadly, just like Dunkirk one scene at the end partly ruins an otherwise very good movie.

[jimmy olsen]

The screenwriter for The Revenant has joined Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek movie.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-screenwriter

[Admiral Yi]

Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek movie.