Here's not who should win, anything from TheBanshees of Inisherin (my faved, see here my top films of 2022) to Elvis (both with 9 nods), not the puzzling
Everything Everywhere All At Once (EEAAO), a very OK film but not so overhyped- 11 nominations??? !!!
And
it will win at least 6 awards for sure...(in th end it won Seven!!!)
of course there can be surprises, as this is the Oscars, and there always are, I hope to be wrong ;)
Now this year I opened a VOYO account to watch live as they announced they will show them in original and dubbed separately. We'll see how this works...AND how did it work was it didn't. The show started at 2 am Ro time and half an hour later their broadcast didn't start. So I closed the account, shameful...luckily I got a link from a friend who faithfully watches them live, Thanks BM :)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy
Huan-Everything Everywhere All At Once
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jamie Lee Curtis
-EEAAO
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Martin
McDonagh-The Banshees of Inisherin should've won but Everything
Everywhere All At Once won WGA so it's EEAAO
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Women Talking -Sarah Polley (also won WGA)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mandy Walker -Elvis (will be the 1st woman DOP winning for a feature film!!!), also won ASC award. (N.A. they gave it to newcomer James Friend for All Quiet...like there was something new that escaped (sir) Roger Deakins when he did 1917 and won his 2nd Oscar there)
EDITING: Elvis, and well Elvis has left the building...EEAAO won this one too...
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Elvis (N.A. All Quiet on the Western Front won)
COSTUME DESIGN: Elvis (Babylon should've won) and it went to Wakanda Forever...
So Black Panther was worthy for the second time???? Same costumes, same designer, another blank they pulled...
SOUND: Elvis vs. Top Gun: Maverick, and Top Gun it is!!!
VISUAL EFFECTS: Top Gun: Maverick (c'mon, wasn't an Avatar enough? can't believe they went with it...)
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: The Whale
ORIGINAL SCORE: Carter Burwell
-Banshees-could win, Justin Hurwitz -Babylon should win'
and ze Germans won...Volker Bertelman for All Quiet on the Western Front (really? :(, and you had John Williams there at 90 years of age and 53 nominations...
ORIGINAL SONG: they all spoke of “Naatu Naatu” from RRR (which is on Netflix btw), seconded by Rihanna with “Lift Me Up”from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
RRR makes history as the first Bollywood song to win!!! Namaste!!!
DOCUMENTARY: Navalny
ANIMATION: Guillermo del Toro's
Pinocchio
FOREIGN (INTERNATIONAL) FILM: All Quiet on the Western Front
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HOST: Jimmy Kimmel (third time's a charm!)
nice entry on a par with Daniel Craig's London Olympics ;)
here's his entrance and opening monologue (see how long it stays on you tube...that Robert Blake joke was mean...:()
Tom Sizemore was 61...he has a stroke in February so he was in a coma and his brother decide to switch off the life support :(, a tough way to end a very tumultuous life...
my favorite part of his must be in Heat (1995)
he was in both Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down playing tough soldiers
and Natural Born Killers and True Romance...
but he did over 250 films, mostly B and Z fare after 2004, after his conviction and scandal with Heidi Fleiss, a downward spiral with drugs and more drugs. His small comeback was in the new Twin Peaks series...
Another One of the greatest jazz players & composers is gone, mr. Wayne Shorter...he was 89...
he played in the Miles David Quintet
and a lot with Herbie Hancock...
he co-founded Weather Report in 1970 with Joe Zawinul, Miroslav Vitous and Airto Moreira.
In the movies he collaborated with James Newton Howard on the soundtracks of Glengarry Glen Ross and The Fugitive. Also was one of musicians in the Philippe Sarde scored L'homme aux yeux d'argent (1985), together with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and others.
This may be his best song...Speak No Evil, from the album with the same name...
Wayne Shoter on sax, Elvin Jones on drums, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on Bass, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet.
