A Star Is Born 2018
Nominated in four of the big five but shut out of Best Director. Amanda rewatched it the night before and cried again; both read its fade as a sign the adult drama no longer wins.
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Oscar Nominations: What We Know and What We Don’t | The Big Picture (Ep. 120)
January 22, 2019/ 46 min/ Amanda Dobbins · Chris Ryan
Amanda Dobbins and Chris Ryan react to the 91st Academy Award nominations the morning they dropped: Roma's ten-nomination haul, the Green Book backlash, and A Star Is Born's quiet fade.
21 films across 3 segments.
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The Big Picture’s Big Pictureold Hollywood vs. new, and who ran the board
Black Panther 2018
The first superhero film nominated for Best Picture, arriving on its own after the Academy floated and dropped a 'popular Oscar' category.
Bohemian Rhapsody 2018
A Best Picture nominee against, as Chris puts it, a lot of people's better judgment, and proof the field isn't all art-house.
BlacKkKlansman 2018
Spike Lee's first directing nomination, decades late. Adam Driver made Supporting Actor; John David Washington was left out.
Vice 2018
The movie no one's talking about. Bale looked like a lock until Rami Malek started creeping into the Best Actor odds.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
Neither host had seen it ('this is not the cartoon hive'), but it landed the animation nod.
Incredibles 2 2018
Filed, technically, under superhero movie.
Crazy Rich Asians 2018
One of the popular hits left out of Best Picture, cited as the case that the ceremony can't draw a crowd.
A Quiet Place 2018
Same group of shut-out crowd-pleasers.
Mary Poppins Returns 2018
The 'get Emily Blunt floating down from the ceiling' argument for a more-watched Best Picture slate.
Snubs and surprisesthe grievances, personal and otherwise
First Reformed 2017
Ethan Hawke's shut-out is the episode's running eulogy. They blame a screener that can't recreate the theater, and note Willem Dafoe took the slot they'd hoped was Hawke's.
If Beale Street Could Talk 2018
Regina King in for Supporting Actress and a likely winner, but the film missed Best Picture, Barry Jenkins missed a directing nod, and Brian Tyree Henry was left off the list entirely.
First Man 2018
The season's biggest 'what happened,' gone from the conversation since October. It came away without a cinematography nomination, a score nomination, or even a nod for Claire Foy.
Never Look Away 2018
Took the cinematography slot Chris wanted for Beale Street, Black Panther, or First Man.
Burning 2018
Left out of the foreign-language field, one of Chris's favorites of the year.
Widows 2018
Amanda's grievance: strong performances and craft, never in the conversation.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? 2018
Melissa McCarthy's Best Actress nod, in a category otherwise going to chalk.
Stock Up, Stock Downthe best-picture race by the betting markets
Roma 2018
Ten nominations, tied for the most. Surprise acting nods for Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira say the Academy is warmer on it than the guilds; its market odds moved from 44% to 52% on the day.
Green Book 2018
Won the PGA on Saturday but missed a directing nod for Peter Farrelly. The hosts weigh whether a divisive film sinks or survives on the preferential ballot as the backlash builds.
The Favourite 2018
Ten nominations tying Roma, three of its actresses among them. Olivia Colman leads Best Actress, but the category reads as a coin flip.
The Wife 2017
Glenn Close a near-lock for Best Actress on the strength of her Globes speech, in a film neither host has actually seen.
Also mentioned raised along the way
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