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Hoyte van Hoytema (Oppenheimer) wins the Award for Best Cinematography.

Oppenheimer... 3
Poor Things... 3
 

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Ludwig Göransson (Oppenheimer) wins Best Original Score.
Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell (Barbie) win Best original Song.

Oppenheimer... 4
Poor Things... 3
The Zone of Interest... 2

The biggest prizes are coming up.
 

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Cilian Murphy (Oppenheimer) wins Best Leading Actor.
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) wins Best Director.
Emma Stone (Poor Things) wins Best Leading Actress.
Oppenheimer wins Best Picture.

Final count for films with multiple wins:
  • Oppenheimer... 7
  • Poor Things... 4
  • The Zone of Interest... 2
 
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Oppenheimer cleaned up. Won all the big awards pretty much, except best actress. Poor things won a few in the minor categories, but it’s Nolan’s night.

Well deserved. Most of the other best picture nominees were pretty crap this year. Although Anatomy of a Fall was good and I haven’t seen zone of interest or past lives. Kotfm was terrible, Poor Things was just weird, unsettling and had some shite acting. The Holdovers was an extremely okay film. Good enough, but one of the best films of the year, really? And Barbie? Please….feck off :lol: That’s an extended SNL sketch. American Fiction is an amusing, lighthearted comedy, but nothing special. And Maestro just a Bradley Cooper wankfest.
 
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Oppenheimer cleaned up. Won all the big awards pretty much, except best actress. Poor things won a few in the minor categories, but it’s Nolan’s night.

Well deserved. Most of the other best picture nominees were pretty crap this year. Although Anatomy of a Fall was good and I haven’t seen zone of interest or past lives. Kotfm was terrible, Poor Things was just weird, unsettling and had some shite acting. The Holdovers was an extremely okay film. Good enough, but one of the best films of the year, really? And Barbie? Please….feck off :lol: That’s an extended SNL sketch. American Fiction is an amusing, lighthearted comedy, but nothing special. And Maestro just a Bradley Cooper wankfest.
I agree with your takes, hot as they may be. Your views on American Fiction, Maestro, KotFM, Holdovers is taking the words right out of my mouth.

You should see The Zone of Interest and Past Lives, though, because those are third and fourth best films of the year.
 

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Is this the first time an Oscar winning movie has been available to watch on a streaming service at the time of the ceremony?
I would imagine at least the last 4 have been, the first 2 because of the pandemic meant they would have gone to streaming quickly and the 2 most recent because they came out earlier in the year (rather than the usual Oscar-y movies coming out in the UK and Ireland around the turn of the year).
 

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Guess I need to finally get round to watching Oppenheimer then

Is this the first time an Oscar winning movie has been available to watch on a streaming service at the time of the ceremony?
Do you mean paid for? 'Cos I've been waiting for it to get onto Netflix/Amazon/Now etc.
 

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Ah, so in general a film thats one one of the big awards?

I think lots have - Everything Everywhere was on streaming last year when it one the big gong.
Thinking of Oscar winners, specifically. Maybe it’s happening a lot recently. Always used to feel like you’d have to wait for them to come out on DVD or streaming, so Oscar buzz could get bums on seats in the cinema. Another nail in the coffin for cinemas, I guess. Especially the smaller, art house cinemas that screen films like Poor Things.
 

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Thinking of Oscar winners, specifically. Maybe it’s happening a lot recently. Always used to feel like you’d have to wait for them to come out on DVD or streaming, so Oscar buzz could get bums on seats in the cinema. Another nail in the coffin for cinemas
In my local cinemas they’ve been showing all the Oscar nominated film again recently. It’s been marketing as Oscar week.

Poor Things played yesterday and had a decent number of people. Although I imagine the overall impact is small.
 

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Well deserved for both CIllian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. They were both excellent in their roles in Oppenheimer.
 

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Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron won the Award for Best Animated Feature. A very well deserved Oscar for the second time to the master after Spirited Away back 2 decades ago.
It should have been his 3rd, honestly. The Wind Rises is a much better film than Frozen.

But I'm surprised! I haven't seen that Spiderman film but I keep hearing that it's one of the greatest animated films of all time. I thought that The Boy and the Heron stood no chance.
 

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Tenet was utterly shite but I quite liked Dunkirk. Missed a bit of climax perhaps but I could see what he was going for.
Agree, and Interstellar was another awesome cinema experience, if that still counts as recent work.
 

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I didn't like Oppenheimer that much and I'm generally not a fan of Nolan, but I haven't seen enough of the other films to be annoyed by the decision. But Oppenheimer is still better than previous winners like Green Book so it doesn't really matter.

I think it's good that audience hits have started winning Oscars again. For a long time the Oscars managed to annoy both mainstream watchers and highbrow watchers. Films like EEAAO and Oppenheimer are good "compromises".
 

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Is this the first time an Oscar winning movie has been available to watch on a streaming service at the time of the ceremony?
dont think Oppenheimer is on any of our services yet (UK/Ireland) It is due on SKY cinema soon though
 

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I didn't like Oppenheimer that much and I'm generally not a fan of Nolan, but I haven't seen enough of the other films to be annoyed by the decision. But Oppenheimer is still better than previous winners like Green Book so it doesn't really matter.

I think it's good that audience hits have started winning Oscars again. For a long time the Oscars managed to annoy both mainstream watchers and highbrow watchers. Films like EEAAO and Oppenheimer are good "compromises".
It wasn't my favourite film of last year necessarily but I'd say it ranks in the top 3/top 5 of films having won the top nod since the turn of the century.
 

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It wasn't my favourite film of last year necessarily but I'd say it ranks in the top 3/top 5 of films having won the top nod since the turn of the century.
I've only seen 17 of the 25 best pictures winners from this century, but I'm not sure if Oppenheimer would make my top 5. But it's definitely in the top half.

For me, LOTR and Parasite are in a league of their own.