No Other Land winning best doc is deeply deserved and Yuval and Basel's speech will go down as one of the most important in Oscar history. I teared up. Absolutely incredible moment.
My predicts are Anora for BP, director, OG screenplay.
Conclave for adapted screenplay and editing.
Actor - Brody, Actress - Madison, but fr in a toss up w Moore, supp actor - Culkin, - supp actress - Saldana.
Nickel Boys is now available on Prime if you're not in the US, and on MGM+ through Prime if you are in the US (free trial available, just cancel immediately). It can also be rented for like $5. This is a must watch, one of the best movies of last year and criminally underseen right now.
They'd never admit it, but I do think it's Karla Sofia Gascon's fault. They were originally going to do the 5 previous winners buttering up the nominees like they did last year again, but switched. Which I'm fine with cus I wasn't a big fan of that.
The Oscars are as imperfect as any other awards body, but man do I enjoy following them. The small, weird and important stuff getting recognition makes up for the inevitable bad stuff, and since the academy expanded like 6 or 7 years ago they've been getting it right more than not. The 2020s are...
Are you familiar with Pynchon or other postmodern stuff? If not it's kinda hard to describe.
There's barely a plot, more like a general self aware vibe it has of itself. It runs the gamut from like ultra mathematical impenetrable descriptions of missle tech to hilariously grotesque, sexually...
Gravity's Rainbow is a wild ride, I have read it, but if I could go back, I'd read The Crying of Lot 49 first to familiarize myself with Pynchon's style and knkw what O was in for. They're very similar in a way, but one is 800+ pages.
Ishiguro, I really enjoyed Never Let Me Go and have heard...