#Nom: Adapted Screenplay

[theoscarsproject]

A Soldier's Story (1984). An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

While it'll never quite stack up when it comes to the In the Heat of the Night comparisons (the two films share a director and thematic throughline after all), this is still an excellent, intelligent thriller grounded in great performances and a sharp script. Denzel Washington's the clear standout (I can't believe this is only his second feature!), but he's bolstered by a great cast all around. Just a really great watch. 8/10.

#a soldier's story #1984 #Oscars 57 #Nom: Best Picture #Nom: Supporting Actor #Nom: Adapted Screenplay #Norman Jewison #charles fuller #howard e rollins jr #adolph caesar #denzel washington #art evans #David Alan Grier #1940s #america #american #race #crime #8/10

[solovelyanddry]

Imagine watching an adaptation of The Yellow Wallpaper where the husband was proven to be correct in his treatment of the narrator and you will begin to understand my problems with Poor Things (2023) as an adaptation (and, frankly, as a film).

#it's not even that i thought the book was that great! #but leaving out the part where “bella” has her say about how the previous 3/4 of the story was a silly sexist fairy tale #told by her loser husband is very weird! #the noms for best adapted screenplay and ruffalo are bad enough but the costumes literally hurt the storytelling in the film! #honesty the only nomination that it really deserved would have been dafoe (i would trade stone for robbie in best actress in a heartbeat) #this film is my whale in that i want to kill it with harpoons and also in the sense that the whale (2022) was also terrible #anti poor things #< if you're only following for saltburn or other content and you liked poor things go ahead and block that tag #i can't guarantee this will be the last rant i do about this film

[ojacksonscohen]

you know i think its bold of the barbie producers to push all post premiere marketing to gosling/ken and then be surprised that he gets the pity nomination instead of margot

like the movie was cute but it certainly did not deserve acting nominations. i can see an argument for greta getting a director nomination, bc frankly im shocked she got an adapted screenplay nomination for that script

#like in what world are we putting /that/ margot performance on the same level as lily or sandra…… #and frankly that adapted screenplay nom should be KOTFMs

[tirednotflirting]

just had a lot of fun trying to be vague while explaining the plot of the movie i went to see last night to the machine shop guy who is apparently more conservative than i thought. the movie i saw last night was bones and all.

#also official review: fucking gross but not as gross as i anticipated #the worst part of this movie was the shitty dialogue it was just BAD #like i went in being like ‘wild that this is a YA book actually’ and i left being like ‘oh yeah that was VERY YA’ #bc genuinely the dialogue sounded like how the characters talk in tfios and and lee was giving some kinda pudge/augustus waters type vibe #like i didn’t hate it. but it could have just leaned in a different direction and been a lot better #also i need to read the book now bc if it gets an adapted screenplay nom i want to be able to complain from both sides #also to be clear: i live for cheesy YA coming of age type stories. this just didn’t hit the way i was expecting it to

[whotaughtyougrammar]

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#people being Cringe about the fucking barbie movie 🥴 #this is not the snub you all think it is #greta gerwig has made four films. THREE of them have been nominated for oscars!! #(by 'made' i mean directed she codirected one with her husband and solo directed the other 3) #barbie has heen nominated for best picture. do you know who thst award goes to if it wins? the producer. #you know who was one of the producers for barbie? MARGOT ROBBIE #margot robbie has been producing for years and this is her first nom i would think people would be excited about that #also i just looked it up and gerwig was niminated for best adapted screenplay lmaooooo people are so transparent #its only a win for (white) women if its an acting or directing nom fuck everything else i guess

[lizardsfromspace]

The backlash to the snub of Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig (for directing) at the Oscars is bizarre for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that they're going with a "the Academy hates women directors!" narrative even though there is a female nominee for best director this year, Justine Triet.

But this one quote is just. Jokerfying

...Margot Robbie was kept out of Best Actress by Annette Benning's nod for Nyad. That's the one everyone hates and thinks is undeserving, too. But instead the stakes being Barbie Is Feminism And If It Loses Feminism Loses means you have to dismiss a film written & directed by a woman, and single out...Lily Gladstone? She's insulting a film about a real survivor of real Native American genocide to burnish Barbie. She's not only insulting actresses and female filmmakers in the name of feminism, and attacking sex workers, she's dismissing the stories of real women too

And, again: Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Anatomy of a Fall didn't keep Barbie out of Best Actress! That was Nyad! But that doesn't fit her narrative about how the Oscars only like it when women ~suffer~ so she has to bash *checks notes* the first ever Native American nominated for Best Actress instead

(To be fair I checked the article; she doesn't mention Nyad once; it doesn't mention Justine Triet once, either)

I mean the Academy did give it eight nominations. America Ferrera, Ryan Gosling, adapted screenplay and Best Picture. The Academy obviously considered it important. Ferrera's nom is likely entirely down to the monologue scene, too, so it's not like they're mad about that.

(actually a lot of people are going "hohoho, didn't it just prove the movie's point that they only nominated Gosling?" like. They very much did nominate America Ferrera, can they like. Read)

And her case doesn't make the slightest bit of sense bc, again, the surprise nom that deprived Robbie of a Best Actress nom wasn't a dark movie about feminine suffering, it was a Netflix sports biopic

#film #movies #oscars #long post

[dykehoratio]

listen i’m not even a diehard barbie fan i don’t need it to win best picture etc whatever but the fact that every single film greta gerwig has made has been nominated for best picture…… i would not blame her if she started killing actually. all those technical category noms….. the constant praise for the box office records. do they think this movie directed itself. everything barbie is is because of greta gerwig’s (and margot robbie’s as producer) creative vision. ALSO the fact that they put the screenplay in the adapted screenplay category so it can lose to oppenheimer. lmfao.

#being mar #greta gerwig #barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #oscars #oscars 2024 #margot robbie #oscar nominations #academy awards

[luckydiorxoxo]

JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!

Black Oscar Noms:

Sterling K. Brown (Supporting Actor)

Cord Jefferson (Adapted Screenplay)

Danielle Brooks & Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Supporting Actress)

American Fiction (Best Picture, Original Score)

American Symphony (Orignal Song)

Colman Domingo & Jeffrey Wright (Best Actor)

#sterling k. brown #cord jefferson #danielle brooks #da'vine joy randolph #american fiction #american symphony #colman domingo #jeffrey wright #black actresses #black actors #black hollywood #oscar nominations #melanin

[denimbex1986]

'Shortly after the Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday morning, “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan recalled watching Cillian Murphy transform into J. Robert Oppenheimer for the first time.

“It was really in the hair and makeup tests, which we shoot on Imax and in black-and-white,” Nolan told Variety. “You start to see the actor bringing an icon to life, putting the hat on, the cigarette in the corner of his mouth. You’re starting to see how he moves. It’s a thrilling moment. It is on every film. Seeing Cillian put this iconography together, it reminded me of my hair and makeup tests with Heath Ledger for the Joker.”

“Oppenheimer” earned 13 noms, the most of any films this year. Nolan goes into Oscar night with individual nominations for director and adapted screenplay. Murphy and Emily Blunt are first-time nominees for their work. Robert Downey Jr. also picked up a supporting actor nom.

Murphy learned of his best actor nod from his home country of Ireland. “Thankfully, I live in a time zone that I don’t have to get up at 5 a.m.,” he told Variety. “It was already organized for me. We’ve had a few days off and I’ve been at home, which has been very, very pleasant. I’m actually in my parents’ house in Cork city. I was with my parents and my wife today. So that was really nice.”

He was in his childhood kitchen when the nominations were revealed. “We had a cup of tea and a slice of cake. It was quite nice,” Murphy said. “My mom made a sponge cake. It was very tasty.”

Below, Murphy speaks with Variety about what the nomination means to him and what the real Oppenheimer would think of the film.

This is your first Oscar nomination. The film has been a huge success. How do you wrap your mind around all of this?

Words don’t really do it justice. I think the superlatives fail you at this point. I’m so truly honored and kind of overwhelmed. But most of all, proud of the movie, and proud that it has achieved so much. It exceeded all of our expectations, any of any of us who are involved in making this movie. I get people coming up to me on the street all the time and they say, “I’ve watched the movie five times.” And then these are older people, and they’re younger people and they’re boys and girls. It’s crazy. And then to be recognized by the Academy like we have been, it’s just kind of mind-blowing.

Who from the movie texted you first this morning?

It all came at one time. Everybody. We’re a very tight unit. We’re all very close so it’s lovely to share it with your friends.

Who are you bringing to the Oscars?

I’ll bring my wife and my boys, hopefully. That’s the plan so far.

Has anyone given you advice about going to the Oscars as a nominee?

I have friends that have gone to it in the past. They all say it’s a wonderful experience that you never forget. I gotta go in with an open heart and enjoy it because it may never happen again. So that’s my attitude.

You’ve been doing awards season and meeting a lot of people, but is there someone you still want to meet at the Oscars?

I believe the universe will decide who you meet or not. I’m less about making a beeline for someone’s table. If you bump into someone, you bump into someone and it’s meant to be.

Do you get starstruck?

I met some of the guys from “Succession.” That’s my favorite show on the telly. I’m so heartbroken that it’s finished.

What do you think J. Robert Oppenheimer would think of all this?

That’s a really good question. I think he’d be quite confused, in a pleased way. I think he’d be happy that if nothing else, maybe people will think about nuclear weapons in a more focused way than we tend to because, you know, half the population on the planet lives in a country that has nuclear weapons and we just don’t think about it because there are more pertinent and pressing things going on in our lives. But this is there. It’s like the sword of Damocles hanging over all of us all the time. Perhaps he might be pleased because that was kind of his life’s mission, was to be candid about the state that the world is in.

I have to ask about the “Peaky Blinders” movie – when do you start shooting?

[Laughs] If there’s more stories to tell, I am going to be there. I’m really, really proud of the TV show. I think we made something very special. We made 36 hours of what I consider to be high quality TV. For the film, it will have to be special. But I’m there, man. If there’s a good script, I’m there.

Your next film, “Small Things Like These,” is opening the Berlin Film Festival. [Based on Claire Keegan’s historical novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Ireland’s infamous Magdalen laundries.]

It’s a film that’s very important to me. I’ve produced it, and I’m acting in it. And it’s an adaptation of a book, which is one of my favorite books. We’re the first Irish film to open Berlin.

Why is it one of your favorite books?

It’s heartbreaking and beautiful and quiet and political. It has all the qualities that I enjoy. I hope we’ve been able to do it justice in the adaptation.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are also producers.

Their company paid for the movie and we produced it together. I pitched it to Matt when we were out in the desert and shooting “Oppenheimer.”

Do you pitch it to him in between takes or do you say, “Let’s go to dinner. I want to pitch you something?”

I wasn’t going for dinner. I wasn’t eating. It was in between set-ups. I think it was during one of the rain set-ups. There’s no time wasted on a Chris Nolan film. There is rarely sitting around. There are no seats. But on this occasion it was a night shoot. We were waiting for the rain towers to get fixed and I pitched him this idea and he went for it.

They don’t serve dinner at the Oscars, so will you bring a snack with you?

Maybe I’ll bring some of mom’s sponge cake in my wife’s handbag.'

#Christopher Nolan #Oppenheimer #Succession #Cillian Murphy #Robert Downey Jr. #Cork #Emily Blunt #Matt Damon #Ben Affleck #Small Things Like These #Claire Keegan #Berlinale #Peaky Blinders #Berlin International Film Festival

[iriswestallenn]

The conversations around Barbie are very weird to me. Retrospectives are happening too fast on film twitter to be honest. Looking back at Fight Club years later makes sense, American Psycho, etc... but how are we already looking back at Barbie, a movie that came out last year as being *checks notes* not that good actually lmao and not deserving of award recognition? Mind you it will walk away with two, at most, oscar wins so what are we really upset about?

Same people mad at the America Ferrera nom I bet had nothing to say about RDJ getting a nom for tropic thunder, or Johnny Depp getting a nom for playing a fucking pirate. All comedies. So do we want the academy to acknowledge comedies (and horror) or just the ones we personally like?

I want to end on this 'Ryan being nominated and not Margot is dumb' convo and I hope what I'm about to say makes sense lol. Ryan and Margot gave the same level of performance IN MY OPINION. They just did. Very good performances that are on par with each other so if you snub one, snub the other haha I don't care. BUT at the end of the day it wasn't margot vs ryan because they are not in the same category. Y'all are trying way too hard with the "this was exactly what the movie was trying to say" narrative when it comes to these nominations. It's never going to be that serious. Margot will be on that stage as a producer if Barbie wins picture. Greta got the adapted screenplay nomination. Again, what are we really upset about?

Barbie was a huge achievement that deserves most of the noms it got, the snubs are not a big deal, the movie is good, the monologue is corny to you lmao get over it.

#barbie #i get excited and disappointed over award season noms and wins absolutely i do #but at what point do we remember this is just not that serious lmao #i have seen think pieces about these noms. huh??? oh brother #ryan and america AINT WINNING so how about relax #oscars #oscars 2024 #yall hate fun bottom line lmao #i would replace ryan with two other people hell i'd replace rdj with two other people haha but gosh you know who cares #let the fun movies get their little noms oh my lord

[theoscarsproject]

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985). A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.

Oh, I really loved this one. Tenderly told with rich cinematography and transcendent performances from Raul Julia and William Hurt, this is a movie that chooses connection and intimacy in the face of violence and isolation again and again and again. It pulses with both the pain and the release of those choices in a way that had me more than a little misty. A really special watch. 8/10.

#kiss of the spider woman #1985 #Oscars 58 #Nom: Picture #Nom: Director #Nom: Actor #Won: Actor #Nom: Adapted Screenplay #Hector Babenco #Leonard Schrader #manuel puig #william hurt #raul julia #sonia braga #prison #lgbt #romance #politics #brazil #8/10

[modwyr]

now i know the oscars are dumb and stupid but barbie getting an adapted screenplay nom over killers of the flower moon. these people are stupid stupid.

#text

[dykehaus]

something like barbie getting an adapted screenplay nom and not killers of the flower moon is...

#which is not to say that killers is perfect. but. lmao.

[rue-bennett]

also i said it before and i’ll say it again. all of us strangers getting not one nomination is a crime, actually. if i had my way it’d have noms (not necessarily wins, but noms) for best picture, best actor (andrew scott), supporting actor & actress (paul mescal & claire foy), best cinematography, best editing, maybe sound, maybe adapted screenplay, maybe director (andrew haigh, who is great btw, check out weekend and 45 years). anyways feeling normal and good.

and noms aren’t the end of the world this is just my little dream world. anyway.

#personal #oscars 2024

[solovelyanddry]

#the noms for best adapted screenplay and ruffalo are bad enough but the costumes literally hurt the storytelling in the ffilm! --- hi, i haven't seen the film, but just from what I've read i think it sounds awful and i can't believe how highly rated it is, even by otherwise intelligent people of my acquaintance (i don't say friend, because if they knew me better they'd never recommend this movie to me). Could you elaborate on what you've mentioned about the costumes? I'd be very interested to know!

I just want to preface this by saying that I've only seen the film once (that was enough) and I may have missed some dialogue or a scene that completely refutes my entire argument below.

If you've seen any stills or clips from the film, you've probably seen some of Bella Baxter's (Emma Stone's character) wardrobe. Everyone else in the film is wearing (to my untrained eye) more or less period fashion, maybe a little heightened.

Bella, on the other hand, has a much more avant-garde style, usually keeping the leg-of-mutton sleeve shape but incorporating strange fabrics and patterns, unique structural flourishes, and shorts and slips which give her an underdressed feel compared to the rest of the cast. This is established from her first appearance and continues throughout the end of the film. If you haven't seen the film, you might assume that these clothes tell you about the character - she stands out from everyone else and she is an independent thinker.

EXCEPT! Nobody in the film comments on her clothing. Not when she wanders out half-dressed into the streets of Lisbon, not when she returns home to London wearing some dress-shorts. Not once. Nobody interacts with her differently because of what she wears. She can basically wear whatever she wants with no social reaction. What she says and does do have consequences (well, kinda - survival sex work in this film is treated as quirky profession one does for a few months so you can afford to go to medical school [as a woman in Victorian-era Paris]), but the visual signifiers of her "otherness" have no impact on the plot. She stands out in a crowd to the audience, but apparently not to anyone in the crowd.

ALSO! These clothes - these very unique pieces that allow Bella to express her unique soul? Did she make them? Did she order them or purchase a variety of garments that she mixes and matches to make new outfits? Nope! They were all bought for her by her father-figure! Until the very end of the film, everything you see her in was something that Willem Dafoe's character had provided her with.

For these reasons, the costuming is actively working against the script. Bella is given clothes that nobody else is wearing, which seems to be an expression of this precocious, supposedly feminist character - except nobody ever seems to notice how peculiarly she is dressed AND all of the clothes were bought for her by a man.

This all fits into the extremely shallow "feminism" or "socialism" of the film (Bella says that she's going to a socialist meeting once, and then ends the movie in her walled-off estate garden, living off her father and husband's money). It's even worse when you read the book and find out that there is a whole epilogue where the "real" person that Bella is based on gives her side of the story and de-fantasizes the whole tale, revealing it to be a misogynist narrative born out of her husband's insecurities about being married to a brilliant woman.

#anti poor things

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Barbie is an Oscar-bait too. Greta Gerwig is getting an Oscar no matter what else comes out this year. ;)

I think she and Noah have a very good shot at the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.

I think it's more than possible she'll get another directing nom (she also got one for Lady Bird), but don't think she'll win.

*Although... would Barbie being a previously existing property put the screenplay into "adapted" category?

#ask #barbie movie