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• Add Drive My Car as you can make room for it in Director, Screenplay, and Picture in that order
• Take out one of Branagh or Spielberg to make room for Ryusuke Hamaguchi
• Remove West Side Story from at least one technical category and probably Screenplay, I have no idea what's going on their but there is clear disinterest in the film from significant sectors in the industry

domino harvey wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 6:11 pm Also, like, is anyone really surprised that a Lucille Ball biopic didn’t land in Britain, where Ball does not have the extensive cultural cachet she has here?

domino harvey wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 6:40 pm I think Drive My Car is all but a lock for a screenplay Oscar nom, but I’m not yet convinced it will be one of the two open Best Director noms. Wouldn’t be shocked if it or Almodovar or Sorrentino made it into Director even though I didn’t predict any of them, but I’m skeptical that the quietest of that trio is the one that makes it

domino harvey wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:51 pm Allegedly Almodovar’s film played very well this year with a lot of Academy members, so it may overperform

therewillbeblus wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 8:13 pm

domino harvey wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:51 pm Allegedly Almodovar’s film played very well this year with a lot of Academy members, so it may overperform

Yeah, the only update I made based on today's noms was to bump Parallel Mothers into the International Film category

Korean film magazine FILO posted their best of 2021 coverage and the lists of Bong Joon-ho and Ryusuke Hamaguchi popped up.

Bong’s best films of 2021:

∙ Don't Look Up
∙ Drive My Car
∙ Flee
∙ Sundown
∙ Sorry We Missed You (2019)
∙ The Mitchells vs. the Machines
∙ Happening (L'événement)
∙ Sewing Sisters

He also listed Hamaguchi’s 5-hour opus “Happy Hour” (2015) as one of the best things he’s seen the last year.

Also, let us not forget that Bong was President of the Venice jury in September. The Golden Lion winner, Audrey Diwan’s “Happening,” appears on his list, but so does Michel Franco’s excellent “Sundown.”

Hamaguchi Ryūsuke's best films of 2021 veer much more towards the arthouse, and it seems as though, much like the rest of Europe, Kelly Reichardt’s cinema is being discovered by Hamaguchi.

∙ Benedetta
∙ Isabella
∙ Haruhara San's Recorder
∙ Third Time Lucky
∙ Meek's Cutoff (2010)
∙ Old Joy (2006)
∙ First Cow
∙ Undine
∙ Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
∙ Memoria