I used a site called Venn maker: https://vennmaker.io/4-circle-venn-diagram

Some that came to mind:

Michael Douglas as Liberace in Behind the Candelabra (2013);

James Franco as James Dean in James Dean (2001);

Al Pacino as Jack Kevorkian in You Don’t Know Jack (2010);

Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin in Game Change (2012);

Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979 - fun fact: this film was directed by John Carpenter!).

Are there others that could’ve gotten in?

The Banshees Of Inisherin is a well written movie and great comedy. I’m so disappointed that it didn’t win any Oscars which it should’ve. I think it deserves original screenplay tbh. It’s one of my favorite movies. Martin McDonagh should’ve won his first screenplay Oscar award for that category. But let’s hope he wins after Wild Horse 9 is released. Do you agree that it should’ve won Best Original Screenplay?

My picks:

Cinematography: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Film Editing: JFK (1991)

Production Design: Titanic (1997)

Costume Design: The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Makeup and Hairstyling: Planet of the Apes (1968)

Visual Effects: Eras vs. eras? Hm, I'll go with Star Wars (1977)

Sound: Zone of Interest (2023)

Original Score: The Sting (1973)

Original Song: As Time Goes By, Casablanca (1942)

Não sei se ela está elegível ao Oscar esse ano por "Criaturas Extraordinariamente Brilhantes" pelo filme estar apenas na Netflix, mas a performance dela, na minha opinião, é boa o suficiente para já garantir uma indicação caso ela seja elegível. O filme apesar de eu ter gostado bastante, eu entendo que possa não agradar a todos por ser um pouco lento, mas sua atuação foi muito boa mesmo, isso acho que é inegável. Não digo que a Sally Field deva ganhar, mas estar entre as cinco melhores para mim é um sim.

I’m not talking about BAD or underserved i just mean boring in the sense that the movie is a snoozefest that doesn’t generate any strong emotion good or bad?My choice is Nomadland😴

1st act was certainly confusing, but the 2nd and 3rd act were amazing. The overall storytelling and structure is one of the greatest I've ever seen.

Interesting comparison - it gave me Godfather Part 2 vibes with the time perspectives.

PLEASE GO SEE THIS IN THEATERS!!! Watching this on Netflix will be a very different (and quite frankly, underwhelming medium) for this film. This is also a movie where theres so much emotion in the audience's reaction which is my favorite part of the cinema experience

1. Tom Hooper - The King’s Speech

2. Adam McKay - Vice

3. Todd Phillips - Joker

4. David O. Russell - American Hustle

5. Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris

6. Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

7. Lenny Abrahamson - Room

8. Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

9. Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

10. Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge

11. David O. Russell - The Fighter

12. Ang Lee - Life of Pi

13. Alexander Payne - Nebraska

14. Alexander Payne - The Descendants

15. David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

16. Adam McKay - The Big Short

17. Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher 

18. Martin Scorsese - Hugo

19. Steven Spielberg - Lincoln

20. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman

21. Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird

At the very first Academy Awards, the category of Unique and Artistic Picture was given the same prestige value as the category of Best Picture and was considered equal to it. One of the nominees for that category was Chang: A Story of the Wilderness, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper of King Kong fame.

(i know he didn’t get nominated for The Grand Budapest but like isn’t that an insane snub)

This is England
The Irishman
Boiling Point
Gangs of New York
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Here are my current acting predictions, let me know your thoughts and your predictions

Is it even possible? Apologies if this has been posted before, but I wanted to ask if you can recall films that maybe had a decent/respectable theatrical run, but really hit their stride when awards season came around? I know it’s common for films to lose momentum, but are there examples of films gaining momentum?

1990- Kathy Bates (Misery)

1991- Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern)

1992- Tilda Swinton (Orlando)

1993- Juliette Binoche (Three Colors: Blue)

1994- Linda Fiorentino (The Last Seduction)

1995- Nicole Kidman (To Die For)

1996- Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves)

1997- Pam Grier (Jackie Brown)

1998- Christina Ricci (Buffalo 66)

1999- Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry)

There have been a lot of posts in this sub debating which performances and films are most likely to get nominations this year, but most of them involve the same dozen or so films that are actually realistically in the running for nominations.

So, I thought it would be fun to instead ask what performances and films people think are worthy of nominations, but which have absolutely no shot in hell at actually getting nominations. And I'm not talking films like Digger or Backrooms, or performances like Merritt Weaver in Primetime. I'm talking about films and performances that have absolutely no shot in hell of ever being nominated, like blockbuster films, kids' movies, and movies that are simply too small to ever attract that kind of attention.

In other words, what performances and films would you like to see nominated, but which you know are completely wishful thinking and it will absolutely never happen?

Mine would be a best actress nom for Saoirse Ronan for Bad Apples, and a visual effects nom and best score nom for The Magic Faraway Tree. I know of them will actually happen, but it's fun to think about anyway.

Edit: I don't think people understand what I mean by "wishful thinking." I don't mean "long shot, but they have some buzz." I mean "no shot at all and there's no buzz and never will be."

No Best Director only (3 movies):

1. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
2. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
3. Shakespeare in Love (1998)

No acting only (14 movies):

1. Gigi (1958)
2. The Apartment (1960)
3. Tom Jones (1963)
4. The Sting (1973)
5. Out of Africa (1985)
6. The Last Emperor (1987)
7. Dances with Wolves (1990)
8. Schindler's List (1993)
9. The Lord of the Rings 3 (2003)
10. The Departed (2006)
11. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
12. Hurt Locker (2009)
13. Birdman (2014)
14. Parasite (2019)

No screenplay only (9 movies):

1. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
2. Ben-Hur (1959)
3. West Side Story (1961)
4. My Fair Lady (1964)
5. Deer Hunter (1978)
6. Unforgiven (1992)
7. The English Patient (1996)
8. The Artist (2011)
9. Oppenheimer (2023)

No below the line only (13 movies):

1. It Happened One Night (1934)
2. The Lost Weekend (1945)
3. Marty (1955)
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
5. Annie Hall (1977)
6. Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
7. Ordinary People (1980)
8. Terms of Endearment (1983)
9. Rain Man (1988)
10. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
11. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
12. No Country for Old Men (2007)
13. The King's Speech (2010)

No Best Director and no acting only (6 movies):

1. Cimarron (1930/1931)
2. An American in Paris (1951)
3. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
4. Chariots of Fire (1981)
5. Crash (2005)
6. Argo (2012)

No Best Director and no screenplay only (4 movies):

1. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
2. Hamlet (1948)
3. Gladiator 1 (2000)
4. Chicago (2002)

No Best Director and no below the line only (6 movies):

1. Emile Zola (1937)
2. The Godfather 1 (1972)
3. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
4. Moonlight (2016)
5. Green Book (2018)
6. CODA (2021)

No acting and no screenplay only (9 movies):

1. Cavalcade (1932/1933)
2. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
3. The Sound of Music (1965)
4. Oliver (1968)
5. Rocky 1 (1976)
6. Platoon (1986)
7. Braveheart (1995)
8. Titanic (1997)
9. The Shape of Water (2017)

No acting and no below the line only (2 movies):

1. Casablanca (1943)
2. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

No screenplay and no below the line only (3 movies):

1. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
2. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
3. Nomadland (2020)

No Best Director, no acting and no screenplay only (2 movies):

1. Wings (1927/1928)
2. Rebecca (1940)

No Best Director, no acting and no below the line only (2 movies):

1. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
2. Spotlight (2015)

No Best Director, no screenplay and no below the line only (1 movie):

1. All the King's Men (1949)

No acting, no screenplay and no below the line only (2 movies):

1. All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/1930)
2. You Can't Take It with You (1938)

No Best Director, no acting, no screenplay and no below the line (3 movies):

1. The Broadway Melody (1928/1929)
2. Grand Hotel (1931/1932)
3. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

No group (19 movies):

1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
2. Mrs Miniver (1942)
3. Going My Way (1944)
4. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
5. All About Eve (1950)
6. From Here to Eternity (1953)
7. On the Waterfront (1954)
8. The Bridge on River Kwai (1957)
9. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
10. Patton (1970)
11. French Connection (1971)
12. The Godfather 2 (1974)
13. Gandhi (1982)
14. Amadeus (1984)
15. Forrest Gump (1994)
16. American Beauty (1999)
17. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
18. Anora (2024)
19. One Battle After Another (2025)

New here and as someone who enjoys thinking of “What if” scenarios, I thought this would be a fun topic to cover. I have a lot of thoughts about this:

•2025- One Battle After Another, Sinners, Hamnet, Sentimental Value, Frankenstein
This is easy imo. Marty Supreme didn’t win a single guild or industry award despite all those nominations and I’m not even certain Chalamet was second for Best Actor

•2024- Anora, Conclave, The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, A Complete Unknown
Being objective here. Obviously if this was after nominations it would be Substance instead of Emilia Pérez

•2023- Oppenheimer, Poor Things, The Holdovers, Anatomy of a Fall, Killers of the Flower Moon
Hardest one to pin down. I really wanted to have American Fiction or The Zone of Interest, but The Holdovers was second place for Actor and (probably) Original Screenplay, Anatomy got every nomination it could and Killers is just a gut feeling

•2022- Everything Everywhere All at Once, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans, TÁR
Is there any doubt? Maaaybe you could make the case for Top Gun: Maverick, but not over something like TÁR

•2021- The Power of the Dog, Belfast, West Side Story, King Richard, Dune
Bizarre not having the Best Picture winner in the 5 (and I even like the movie!), but would CODA have made it with 5? There is a world where Troy Kotsur gets nominated without the movie though

•2020- Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, The Father,
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Minari
Was very tempted to do Mank over Minari, but the screenplay snub for Mank is pretty brutal. And yes, I know Trial didn’t win anything, but it definitely could have won Screenplay and Editing in other years.

•2019- Parasite, 1917, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,
Joker, Marriage Story
Marriage Story on a coin toss over The Irishman because the leads gave winning performances in another year (and tbh it might have had more passion).

•2018- Green Book, Roma, Bohemian Rhapsody (yeah I know), The Favourite, BlacKkKlansman
Another tough one, but A Star is Born only won Song and missed Director, and Black Panther only won techs. And there’s no way The Favourite wasn’t top 5. For length, I’ll just list the last two without commentary…

•2017- The Shape of Water, Three Billboards, Get Out, Dunkirk, Lady Bird

•2016- Moonlight, La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, Hidden Figures, Arrival

Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

Columbia (or Sony) distributed 12 movies that won Best Picture: It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It with You (1938), All the King's Men (1949), From Here to Eternity (1953), On the Waterfront (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), A Man for All Season (1966), Oliver! (1968), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Gandhi (1982) and The Last Emperor (1987)

Paramount distributed 10 movies that won Best Picture: Wings (1927/1928), Going My Way (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), The Godfather 1 (1972), The Godfather 2 (1974), Ordinary People (1980), Terms of Endearment (1983), Forrest Gump (1994) and No Country for Old Men (2007)

Universal distributed 8 movies that won Best Picture (at least worldwide): All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/1930), The Sting (1973), Out of Africa (1985), Schindler's List (1993), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Gladiator (2000), Green Book (2018) and Oppenheimer (2023)

Warner distributed 8 movies that won Best Picture: Emile Zola (1937), Casablanca (1943), My Fair Lady (1964), Unforgiven (1992), The Departed (2006), Argo (2012) and One Battle After Another (2025)

Disney never had a Best Picture winner

Recently we saw Digger, a movie which seemed to be a strong contender for nominations, has reduced its presence in many predictions, but with still some months until the awards season starts, will any other movie fall from the race?

Now, this woman is getting Oscar buzz for her role in this film and I feel like it's something that might actually lead to an Oscar nomination. I'm being intentionally vague about this actress because it's supposed to be a shock and I don't wanna give it away for folks who haven't seen the movie yet. But yeah, if You Can See Everything becomes the awards contender and Oscar contender that we're thinking that it can be, I can definitely see this actress' performance being swept up in the love for the film. I guess the only issue is determining whether her performance is an actual performance at all, which should make things even more interesting when it comes to these awards bodies. Do you guys think it can happen?