Speaker 1: This episode of Playback is brought to you by Warner Brothers.
Speaker 1: A Star is Born. As we talk about important films
Speaker 1: of this past year, this one is top of mind,
Speaker 1: resonating with critics and audiences for its emotional authenticity, and
Speaker 1: the film's director, Bradley Cooper, is being recognized for his
Speaker 1: brilliant work as a filmmaker and actor, along with his
Speaker 1: cast Lady Gaga and Sam Elliott for their stunning performances.
Speaker 1: Varieties Film critic Peter de Bruge has said Bradley Cooper's
Speaker 1: directorial debut as a dazzling reminder of why we love
Speaker 1: movies in the first place. In Los Angeles, Times critic
Speaker 1: Justin Chang said, from the first frame, it casts a spell,
Speaker 1: the kind that lets you know immediately that you are
Speaker 1: in good hands. A star is born for your consideration
Speaker 1: in all categories. You're listening to Playback a Variety I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio podcast. I'm your host, Variety Awards Editor Chris Tapley,
Speaker 1: and we're changing things up a little bit this week.
Speaker 1: We've got the lovely Janelle Riley office here today, the
Speaker 1: deputy Awards and Features editor or something like this. We're
Speaker 1: not really clear. It's very long and important title. Basically,
Speaker 1: we've got the band back together. Jennelle and I used
Speaker 1: to talk about the Oscar season every week, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the Oscar season today. Uh, you're the
Speaker 1: lucky ones listening, So thank you for coming on the
Speaker 1: show general. Absolutely. Um. Yeah, Like you know, late December
Speaker 1: probably a good time to start talking about awards, like
Speaker 1: we haven't been talking about it. Yeah. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought I would start by just kind of this
Speaker 1: is my assessment of the Best Picture category, and just
Speaker 1: to kind of layout where we're at right now. We've
Speaker 1: had a ton of critics give out awards, regional critics
Speaker 1: across the country, which I they're not like important in
Speaker 1: terms of oh that means oscars are gonna happen for
Speaker 1: these movies, But I do think it's instructive when you
Speaker 1: see how such a wide variety of people period are
Speaker 1: voting on these awards, and at this point, I think
Speaker 1: we've got like twenty groups of have chimed in and
Speaker 1: so it just gives you an interesting data point list
Speaker 1: to look at. Also, of course, we've had the Screen
Speaker 1: Actors Guild released the strange nominations I mean, not completely
Speaker 1: off the wall. But I sort of saw the Bohemian
Speaker 1: Rhapsody ensemble coming. It's a little weird, just I think
Speaker 1: we'll get into that. But part of that is definitely,
Speaker 1: I think the merger of AFTRA with absolutely I don't
Speaker 1: know who the voters are anymore. I used to be
Speaker 1: able to predict the agwards perfect jockeys, and that's no disrespected,
Speaker 1: but you know, you're basically I don't know what. And
Speaker 1: also we've had obviously the Golden Globe nominations, which is
Speaker 1: ninety four in journalists who have their own take, and
Speaker 1: a couple of other things. So let's just dive in
Speaker 1: with the Best Picture race. I'm still at the number
Speaker 1: one in two that I've been on since August. I
Speaker 1: think number one is Stars Born. I think number two
Speaker 1: is Roma too in you're saying just your terms of nominations, no,
Speaker 1: just in terms of what it's likely to get nominated. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think those are the two at the
Speaker 1: top of the heap right now. I'm so impressed with
Speaker 1: Roma because it has so much going against it, black
Speaker 1: and white, foreign film, and then the Netflix factor, which
Speaker 1: you know, I think is stupid, like any anybody's saying,
Speaker 1: like Netflix isn't really seeing real movies or you know,
Speaker 1: they don't count, or something like needs to Did he
Speaker 1: really say that, he said something like that. I mean
Speaker 1: he kind of said and I don't want to misquote him,
Speaker 1: but it was something like he did he didn't think
Speaker 1: that Netflix movie should be up for Oscars? Really And
Speaker 1: did he add get off my Lawn? You might have,
Speaker 1: but they didn't print it. But yeah, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's just indicative of where were things are changing. They're
Speaker 1: making great movies. They're making they're making movies no one
Speaker 1: else will make by the way they and you know,
Speaker 1: so I'm thrilled to see how people are embracing Roma
Speaker 1: because you know, there is that that bubble. We live
Speaker 1: in several bubbles actually where I was like, of course,
Speaker 1: we all of it. But you know, I've been to
Speaker 1: some screenings, I've done some screenings and really it's it's
Speaker 1: it's speaking to everyone absolutely. Yeah. I think it's the
Speaker 1: best movie of the year. Really, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: think it's a masterpiece. I mean also speaking to everyone's
Speaker 1: stars born it's like it's kind of hard to be
Speaker 1: that big of entertainment and that's successful at box office
Speaker 1: and also be so beloved by critics, and I don't
Speaker 1: thrilled for the success of it. That's why I love
Speaker 1: that movie so much. I mean that movie. People don't
Speaker 1: really realize how difficult it is to pull off populist filmmakers.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, right, and when when it's done, you know,
Speaker 1: I know there are people that are snarky about Argo,
Speaker 1: but that movie had a nice movie, had tomato. So
Speaker 1: there's some revisionist history that happens instantly after the only
Speaker 1: got snarky when Argo became an Oscar movie or Lalla
Speaker 1: Land for that matter. It's great filmmaking. And again, it's
Speaker 1: hard to pull off and and and dude did it
Speaker 1: on his first movie. I mean, Bradley Cooper has been
Speaker 1: on sets for a while, but like he clearly knows
Speaker 1: not just it's damning with fate, praise to say he
Speaker 1: knows how to put a movie together. He knows how
Speaker 1: to truly tell story with with imagery, and that that
Speaker 1: is the trick. He did a great job. And I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody objects to a star is born. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe there are some people that, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's too popular for its own good. Guess. I think
Speaker 1: it's winning Best picture probably. Um. I also think that
Speaker 1: like there's the cynicism of like, oh, Star is Born.
Speaker 1: You know, people always say like this movie was created
Speaker 1: to win Oscars. It is the fourth iteration of a
Speaker 1: story we all know starring an well an untested leading
Speaker 1: woman and the lead. Like this was not you know,
Speaker 1: a packaged, manufactured movie. It's like it really comes from
Speaker 1: the heart. It's also the best version of that story,
Speaker 1: which is far. Yeah, I think some people might disagree
Speaker 1: with that. There's a lot of Judy Garland fans out there,
Speaker 1: but that movie felt like it was forty hours long.
Speaker 1: I just think this is this is an expert piece
Speaker 1: of filmmaking, and I think and I think that I mean,
Speaker 1: and just in my conversations it hasn't lost really steam,
Speaker 1: like people know that this is a good movie. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I just it's the front runner to me right now,
Speaker 1: the one I would look out for is Black Landsman,
Speaker 1: And I was very curious, you're jumping ahead. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: you're jumping ahead. But that's interesting that you would go
Speaker 1: there next. I think number three would be Green Book.
Speaker 1: At the moment, I don't know, I feel like it
Speaker 1: really needed to they were selling it all along as
Speaker 1: even if critics don't like it, it'll do great at
Speaker 1: the box office. And it hasn't hasn't done badly, Like
Speaker 1: it's not a flop like people say, but it hasn't
Speaker 1: become the runaway hit. I feel like it needs to
Speaker 1: be to win it certainly. I don't think it would win.
Speaker 1: Just in terms of nominations nomination. All of this for
Speaker 1: me is like, this is the order I think it
Speaker 1: would be nominated, like like on the Finalist, Let's explain this.
Speaker 1: I find actually if I rank something, people are like,
Speaker 1: you think that's gonna win, And it's like, so I
Speaker 1: think of me think Internet, I guess I should captain
Speaker 1: Cape nice that the studios page you up have each
Speaker 1: other giving you. This is this list to me is
Speaker 1: just in order of likelihood to be nominated for Best Picture,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean, And you disagree with
Speaker 1: Book at three, I do you think it would be lower?
Speaker 1: I do? I think Black Clansman would be third? And
Speaker 1: I was waiting for the SAG nominations to really have
Speaker 1: Black Plansman at four to be good. People love Green Book,
Speaker 1: that like that the stuff. You know. I have my
Speaker 1: issues with the movie. The studio knows I have issues
Speaker 1: with the movie. Uh sorry, guys, Oh do we need
Speaker 1: to cut to the egg copy now? But I'll read.
Speaker 1: I think that people don't that that's not registering for
Speaker 1: everyone really, and uh, people are going to like what
Speaker 1: they like. I'm being vague. I mean, look, there's I
Speaker 1: guess there are critical points that have been made about
Speaker 1: the movie that it's kind of got a rose colored
Speaker 1: grasp of racism in the sixties, right, and and you
Speaker 1: know people have called it like driving this daisy of
Speaker 1: of this era, and blah blah blah, this isn't this
Speaker 1: isn't me. And whether it is or isn't, I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna touch this anymore because I'm upset people. But
Speaker 1: I will just say that the point being that hasn't
Speaker 1: really translated to the voting populace, right, So it's it's people.
Speaker 1: You know, an Oscar winning Best Actor Oscar winner. I
Speaker 1: just heard yesterday it's his favorite movie of the year.
Speaker 1: I'm hearing that a lot people, really. I mean, herschel
Speaker 1: Ali is you know, so beloved. People really like vegle
Speaker 1: mar is overdue as well, and he is. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: number four, I would say, as Black Clansman, you think
Speaker 1: that's up there too. Here's the thing, Um, I was
Speaker 1: hearing from so many people how much they love this movie,
Speaker 1: and a lot of chatter about Spike Lee being overdue,
Speaker 1: which you know, I guess he is um even though
Speaker 1: he's not like I think everyone really respects him, but
Speaker 1: he's not cuddly you know that show not that you
Speaker 1: have to be. Yeah, no, I I think he's great.
Speaker 1: I adore him, but you know he's not um. You
Speaker 1: know someone you want to throw your arms around. We
Speaker 1: can see him UM. Not that you should be doing
Speaker 1: that with anyone, by the way, yes, without permission. But
Speaker 1: I was really wait to see if that translated into
Speaker 1: SAG nominations. And when they got the ensemble nomination, I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, the love is there. And then as
Speaker 1: I haven't been predicting for weeks, if not months, and
Speaker 1: everyone was telling me I was crazy. John David Washington
Speaker 1: got in Yeah, and you know, we put them on
Speaker 1: the cover of Actors on Actors, and I said, like,
Speaker 1: I think this is like Daniel Coluga last year. It's
Speaker 1: a lead actor in a breakout role of a movie
Speaker 1: that is really beloved, and I think he gets an
Speaker 1: OSCAR nomination. H I have that spot going to Ethan
Speaker 1: Hawk at the moment, but we'll talk that is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this gets back to what we're talking about
Speaker 1: about SAG and how there is a caveat here, like
Speaker 1: it's a much different organization than it was a few
Speaker 1: years ago, and so how does that shift how you
Speaker 1: determine what their picks mean versus what the Oscar choices
Speaker 1: will mean. I mean, for the longest time, if you're
Speaker 1: not nominated for an ensemble, you're not going to win
Speaker 1: Best Picture. In Shape of Water just did it last year,
Speaker 1: So it's gonna happen, or maybe not this year because
Speaker 1: I've forgot Stars Born is nominated for ensemble. But like
Speaker 1: a lot of the top movie, we're not the favorite.
Speaker 1: But we were just talking about favorite, wasn't Romo wasn't
Speaker 1: So Mary Poppins wasn't, which actually surprised me. That's my
Speaker 1: number fives returns is wonderful, frightful. I I kind of
Speaker 1: felt like, I don't know if I still feel this way,
Speaker 1: but I certainly after I saw it in an industry crowd,
Speaker 1: I was like, that's the movie that feels like it
Speaker 1: could be the Star is Born. Um again, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I still feel that way. The critics kind of
Speaker 1: like they did not embrace it as much as I
Speaker 1: expected them. I've had a huge break with the critics
Speaker 1: this year. I'll just say that much. But yeah, and
Speaker 1: who knows how that kind of thing will affect perception.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's just I think Rob Marshall
Speaker 1: and company nailed it. I think it's a It's a
Speaker 1: hugely craft heavy, beautiful film. Like below the line, everything
Speaker 1: they did in that movie was like just it was sumptuous.
Speaker 1: It was great, like that the whole animal and sequence.
Speaker 1: You know, it's no one else but Emily Blunt could
Speaker 1: play that role. She is so fantastic. She's perfect for it.
Speaker 1: And I just feel like, more so than any other movie,
Speaker 1: it is something different. I mean not to say that
Speaker 1: these movies are all the same. They're so not, but
Speaker 1: it is the one that is the feel good solved
Speaker 1: for our soul. That's key. It's absolutely yourself because like
Speaker 1: all these movies make you feel like shit in various ways.
Speaker 1: If we're honest, at least at some point. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's like this, That movie sends you out on
Speaker 1: a cloud literally with a song singing. There's nowhere to
Speaker 1: go but up. So I don't know. I think that
Speaker 1: that connection fires in the synapsies for some brains. You know.
Speaker 1: I've got for number six, The Favorite, which is not
Speaker 1: a movie I liked, I adore, and you don't like.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I saw it and tell you right,
Speaker 1: it's would you watch it again? I would? I love
Speaker 1: the screenplay and I love the performances. I just like,
Speaker 1: why do you not like the movie because of the filmmaker?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you respect to Mr lathamos? I just
Speaker 1: think that is it the land in too much on
Speaker 1: this one? Like I know he's a guy who loves
Speaker 1: to just put his fingerprint all over the movie, but
Speaker 1: but it was it was too far for me to
Speaker 1: enjoy this film. And yeah, the camera work I thought
Speaker 1: was hugely questionable. It's so interesting because I think, like
Speaker 1: my biggest testament to filmmaking is when I don't notice
Speaker 1: it's And I definitely was pulled out a couple of
Speaker 1: times by you know, those those shots. But overall, I you,
Speaker 1: I would not have believed this was a yorgo slam
Speaker 1: from his film. Well that's all about the script a
Speaker 1: little bit, I think too. I mean it's he didn't
Speaker 1: write it. Um, are you sure about that? Why? I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's what information. I don't know, No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I just I would assume if you wrote it, there
Speaker 1: would have been arbitration and his name would be on it.
Speaker 1: He well, yeah, but we know how that works. We do.
Speaker 1: But this doesn't feel like it doesn't It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you know, the voice of it doesn't feel like him.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I don't know anything further. But
Speaker 1: I should have done more diligence on this movie this year.
Speaker 1: I should have talked to Robbie Ryan the DP and
Speaker 1: been like, look, your lighting was beautiful. Why are you
Speaker 1: doing these whippans that are totally unmitt it motivated? Why
Speaker 1: are you doing these fish eye lenses? That was you know,
Speaker 1: there's all these modern touches, like of course the dance number?
Speaker 1: Did you not laugh during the dance number? I don't
Speaker 1: remember the dance number? Are you serious? You're trying to
Speaker 1: awake I know the elevation and tell you right, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't, honestly, I don't remember it. What is that refreshman? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's actually sort of near the beginning where Joe
Speaker 1: Allen and Rachel Weiss are dancing together and it turns
Speaker 1: into this weird modern sort of elements dance where like
Speaker 1: he has a high kick in the air right at
Speaker 1: the camera and I do not remember that. What do
Speaker 1: you call this movie where you go behind yourself right now?
Speaker 1: And actually no, I don't. I don't remember that. And
Speaker 1: you know I saw it like five months ago, so
Speaker 1: you know I will see it again. Any like of
Speaker 1: the movie does not matter, obviously, thankfully, I think people
Speaker 1: would say, actually, interestingly enough, it's very rare. I like
Speaker 1: all the movies on the list. Yeah, which is the favorite?
Speaker 1: Is more than the key thing about a movie, like
Speaker 1: the favorite is below the line. I mean, it's like
Speaker 1: it's a craft heavy movie. It's going to pull people
Speaker 1: from the various branches into it. Uh. You know, it's
Speaker 1: doing really well with critics, one of the most critically
Speaker 1: claimed movies of the year. And the performances. Again, I
Speaker 1: love I love Olivia Coleman. I think she's fantastic glad
Speaker 1: lead I don't know, Yeah, yeah, I do, I think
Speaker 1: she could. I actually think support I have a problem
Speaker 1: with putting her in lead, but certainly that seems to
Speaker 1: be the overwriting take is that she was supporting, but
Speaker 1: I I think they're all three leads personally. I don't
Speaker 1: disagree with that honestly, but for some reason I find
Speaker 1: it more to be Emma Stone story. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: the overwriting logic. I think this is very strange. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to look up a gift of the gift of
Speaker 1: the favorite dance and Black Panther probably my top three
Speaker 1: of the year. I think some people think it's like,
Speaker 1: that's gonna win. Like, I think I don't have it
Speaker 1: on the tier that a lot of other people do
Speaker 1: in terms of nominations, but I could end up wrong there.
Speaker 1: I do think it's the Best Picture player, and I
Speaker 1: have for a long time. I mean, you don't make
Speaker 1: seven million dollars in the States, which is like, wow,
Speaker 1: you don't you have that, plus the critical acceptance that
Speaker 1: you had, and the embrace of course the cultural and
Speaker 1: pop cultural crater that it's left. If this movie wasn't
Speaker 1: nominated for Best Picture, it would be a blight. And
Speaker 1: there's people that are like, oh, it's just a Marvel movie.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Watch it again, bro, Like this movie
Speaker 1: has way more on its mind than other Marvel movies.
Speaker 1: It simply does. It's fantastic, it's a great story. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the cultural significance all, you know. I interviewed
Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan recently and we talked about all the
Speaker 1: black panthers and kill mongers we saw at Halloween and
Speaker 1: how exciting that was. And he was joking about he
Speaker 1: saw a kill monger with like a beard drawn on
Speaker 1: with a sharpie. Yeah. Yeah, I just feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: someone said on Twitter, ha ha, of course, something like
Speaker 1: superhero movies are made for for for teenagers and children,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what what about movies that are about,
Speaker 1: you know, centering a conversation about growing up with systemic
Speaker 1: oppression versus growing up with like, as Michael B. Jordan
Speaker 1: said to me in an interview, a tribe that encourages
Speaker 1: you with positivity. I mean, that's an important conversation that's
Speaker 1: being had in a major movie that made seven hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars. Who's that movie for? Yeah, obviously everyone, it's
Speaker 1: such a fantastic movie, just you know, superhero or not.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, like the only other movie that I
Speaker 1: would put up there with that in terms of it
Speaker 1: is another superhero movie is spider Man into the Spider Verse.
Speaker 1: Oh my, got so good, so good. I wish I
Speaker 1: would love to have that on this list. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think one of the critics groups speaking earlier,
Speaker 1: Utah Film Critics Association, they gave it best Picture, which
Speaker 1: that's the right awesome. Yeah, number eight, I have vice
Speaker 1: pretty low here talk about the critics takings that is
Speaker 1: the most divisive movie I think of the year. That's
Speaker 1: funny because we both really liked it. I loved it.
Speaker 1: I mean, but there are people that have said, with
Speaker 1: a straight face, it's the worst movie of the year. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, it's definitely understanding. Yeah, how can you say that?
Speaker 1: But I love that movie. I think it's like rich
Speaker 1: and just like I keep saying, I sort of stared
Speaker 1: into the void afterwards, because it just talk about leaving
Speaker 1: you feeling like shit. I mean like this is a
Speaker 1: portrait of a soulless individual and an incredibly efficient bureaucrat
Speaker 1: and uh, it's it's you know, Adam McKay saying, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe this is how we got to where we are
Speaker 1: well and also like what is it that they want
Speaker 1: from that movie? Do we want to find out that
Speaker 1: like Dick Cheney is like a secretly lovable guy, or
Speaker 1: some people think that it was being sympathetic toward him.
Speaker 1: And I know that the filmmakers have said that they
Speaker 1: found the story emotional, but to say that it's sympathetic,
Speaker 1: I think it was fair to him. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that means sympathetic. Yeah, if if that reads
Speaker 1: sympathetic to you, then then you know, just check yourself
Speaker 1: a bit maybe. But like, also, how can you argue
Speaker 1: against the artistry of a movie that you know, has
Speaker 1: characters start speaking in Shakespearean verse, or does credits role
Speaker 1: made film or just like just really creative original filmmaking.
Speaker 1: It's bold, Yeah, I mean, and I think it's in.
Speaker 1: But getting back to the critics, you never know how
Speaker 1: that kind of a profile will affect the movie. But
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've I've been in a handful of
Speaker 1: gatherings full of Academy voters at the premiere, at a
Speaker 1: private event for screening for the movie as well, and
Speaker 1: I was picking up Love and Passion, So we'll see. Then.
Speaker 1: I've got Anna parn his other film this year, If
Speaker 1: Beal Street Could Talk, which is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: movies of the year. Actually, these two are back to
Speaker 1: back on my top five. I love that movie. Um,
Speaker 1: I love Barry Jenkins. Everyone I think that listens to
Speaker 1: the show knows how much I love him. He's been
Speaker 1: on twice and I hope this movie makes it through.
Speaker 1: Uh you know it might not. I thought it would,
Speaker 1: but now you've got me worried. Yeah, you know. By
Speaker 1: the way, have you heard about this the story, um,
Speaker 1: about Barry Jenkins's worst day on set. Oh, well, the
Speaker 1: angriest he's ever been honest at and the biggest fit
Speaker 1: he ever had happened on Beale Street and he kicked
Speaker 1: the box and then immediately apologized, Like everybody was laughing
Speaker 1: about how like you know, you hear about directors having
Speaker 1: melt downs and apparently he kicked the box and was like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And that's Barry Jenkins at his worst.
Speaker 1: I love him. It's the photography is stunning. Let me
Speaker 1: talk about below the lineup peal. The score is outrageously good.
Speaker 1: And I also wanted to say if any Academy members, actors,
Speaker 1: branch members are are are listening, I don't know, man.
Speaker 1: I think Brian Tyree Henry deserves a supporting Actor nomination
Speaker 1: for this fantastic. I wanted him for Widows. When I
Speaker 1: first saw Widows, I thought he was so gripping in
Speaker 1: that movie, and the scene with Violet Davis dog terrified me.
Speaker 1: And then I saw him in this and I was like,
Speaker 1: nominate him for this. And he's in it for like
Speaker 1: five ten minutes. He covers a range in this scene.
Speaker 1: It's one scene where he's just gotten out of jail,
Speaker 1: and you know, the conversation between him and Stefan James
Speaker 1: goes from like jovial to yeah, man, I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: little damaged from this, and you hear more about that,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's it's a stunning scene. I find
Speaker 1: him so much more dessert. You know. I never like
Speaker 1: to say that people are snubbed if they're not nominated,
Speaker 1: because it's just people picking the five people they like.
Speaker 1: But I find him so much more deserving and some
Speaker 1: people who seem to be sure things in that category.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, you know, there's a couple of ways
Speaker 1: you go. Obviously we just mentioned earlier, Bohemian Rhapsody is
Speaker 1: is kicking around. People like the movie, regardless of what
Speaker 1: critics said. It's closing in on the foreign film Cold
Speaker 1: War is actually a favorite, pretty beautiful, and I'm actually
Speaker 1: picking Pablokowski the director as a as a nominee because
Speaker 1: directors really love I think a lot of people are not.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say a lot, but I felt a little
Speaker 1: bit on a limb with that. Well. I do think
Speaker 1: Joanna Coolig the Star any other year. This is the
Speaker 1: most competitive actress race and history. I think she would
Speaker 1: get in there too. She's fantastic. I've got eighth grade
Speaker 1: on here to people love that movie. Elsie Fisher any
Speaker 1: other year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's gotten some love from
Speaker 1: critics and globes. But Josh Hamilton as her father another
Speaker 1: person I would love to see a supporting an actor.
Speaker 1: I've got Leaving No Trace as a possibility because this movie. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's worth noting that there's not a single negative review
Speaker 1: on Rotten Tomatoes. I mean it is worth mentioning that
Speaker 1: when you've got two reviews, it's been hard for them
Speaker 1: to get people to watch the movie. I think the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Film Critics Association giving Deborah Granting their Best
Speaker 1: Director award is the kind of thing that hopefully bubbles
Speaker 1: up that screener in the pile, you know, and maybe
Speaker 1: they'll put it in because I do think that Thomas
Speaker 1: and Harcourt Mackenzie is one possibility for supporting actress. I
Speaker 1: really do. The problem is do you think that's a
Speaker 1: supporting role? Uh? Not really, But I'm not gonna I
Speaker 1: will not have those debates anymore. People go off about
Speaker 1: category for every year and it's like how but whatever?
Speaker 1: Like Thank Foster is wonderful too, I mean as shocking
Speaker 1: about that you have him on here for something Hell
Speaker 1: or high Water? Oh yeah yeah? And then Quiet Place
Speaker 1: is lingering because you know, a f I selected it
Speaker 1: as one of his ten movies huge Box Office in April,
Speaker 1: great reviews as well, and just absolutely well made. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like a very well crafted piece of work.
Speaker 1: So it's you know, it has fans feel like a
Speaker 1: Quiet Place sort of took the slot that people thought
Speaker 1: Hereditary would phil because and by the way, have you
Speaker 1: read the Quiet Place screenplay because they sent it out
Speaker 1: It is it's just action, right, It's so well written,
Speaker 1: like almost like a novel, like the Well it's all
Speaker 1: text because there's obviously very little dialogue. It's so gripping,
Speaker 1: like it's it's such a it's a great read. And
Speaker 1: Emily Blunt was a surprise for Up Me Anyway, a
Speaker 1: nominee for for that at the ZAG Awards. Do you
Speaker 1: think that translates to Oscar nomination? Thinks so, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. No. I think she's in for Mary Poppins,
Speaker 1: but probably not a quiet place. I think she could
Speaker 1: win for Mary Poppins. My number ten though its First
Speaker 1: Man and and this could be just like be done,
Speaker 1: but because of box office and it just felt like
Speaker 1: it went away. The Critics Choice Awards nominated for ten awards,
Speaker 1: which was a huge boost for them, including Best Picture.
Speaker 1: In fact, this ten is the ten that the that
Speaker 1: the broadcast Film Critics uh well, of which I am
Speaker 1: a member, but they always you know, that's like three
Speaker 1: people voting. And this is what I'm this is the
Speaker 1: point of making about critics is when you finally get
Speaker 1: like a big group of people voting, not some thirty
Speaker 1: member forty member regional critics group on its own, when
Speaker 1: you can kind of analyze how these things play out
Speaker 1: with a broad group of people. It's interesting. And First
Speaker 1: Man was in there, and I think it's one of
Speaker 1: the best movies of the year. I love it so much.
Speaker 1: I love Damien Chisell the director. I think he's infuriating
Speaker 1: Lee talented, talented, and yeah, I think Gosling is fantastic
Speaker 1: in it. It's a very quiet performance, a purposefully quiet performance.
Speaker 1: It is such a good movie across the board, aspires
Speaker 1: so much. Add too, Yeah, I don't. I can't explain
Speaker 1: why it didn't off at the box office. You might
Speaker 1: have better theories than I do. Um. I think it
Speaker 1: was a release date. I think they needed to move it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also think I also feel like I only ever
Speaker 1: saw the same trailer over and over again. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean Universal is going to think I'm like bagging on
Speaker 1: them after Green Book now, But you know, whatever, what
Speaker 1: happened is what happened. I still think the movie is
Speaker 1: a great piece of work, and I think the Academy
Speaker 1: is gonna recognize that. I hope. So if anything, like
Speaker 1: maybe they'll say, like, hey, screw you for not I
Speaker 1: don't know who they're talking to when I say, hey,
Speaker 1: screw you, screw you for not checking this out and
Speaker 1: we liked it anyway and we're putting it forward. Well,
Speaker 1: they do need I do think it would be a
Speaker 1: statement in terms of like the whole flag controversy quote
Speaker 1: unquote around the movie was such bullshit. Can we just
Speaker 1: like you see the flag? You see like countless times
Speaker 1: like when I saw the movie, and tell you right,
Speaker 1: the first thing I tweeted was the fucking flag is
Speaker 1: right there, like because the controversy was bubbling out of
Speaker 1: venice at that point. Anyway. Uh, and if you don't
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about, there's there is a lack
Speaker 1: of a scene depicting Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong planting
Speaker 1: planting the flag. You definitely see the flag on the moon,
Speaker 1: like this is a Michael Bay military commercial or something like. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I've just gotta pay some bills here really fast. Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking earlier of A Star Is Born, you know, this
Speaker 1: episode of Playback is brought to you by Warner Brothers.
Speaker 1: A Star Is Born. As we talk about important films
Speaker 1: of this past year, this one is top of mind,
Speaker 1: resonating with critics and audiences for its emotional authenticity, and
Speaker 1: the film's director, Bradley Cooper is being recognized for his
Speaker 1: brilliant work as a filmmaker and actor, along with his
Speaker 1: cast Lady Gaga and Sam Elliott for their stunning performances varieties.
Speaker 1: Film critic Peter de Bruge insert applause here, wait wait wait,
Speaker 1: has said Bradley Cooper's directorial debut as a dazzling reminder
Speaker 1: of why we love movies in the first place. In
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Times critic Justin Chang said, from the first frame,
Speaker 1: it cast a spell that kind of lets you know
Speaker 1: immediately that you're in good hands. Would just we love
Speaker 1: Justin Justin, I agree with that. That's a great way
Speaker 1: to put it. A star is born for your consideration
Speaker 1: in all categories. Oh, I just want to say I
Speaker 1: totally agree with your list. I think this is the ten. Um.
Speaker 1: Can I just tell you that we sort of touched
Speaker 1: on eighth grade in some other movies that we'd love
Speaker 1: to see on this list. Um, two of my favorite
Speaker 1: movies of the year. They Hate You give UM fantastic movie.
Speaker 1: I really thought it would make a hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: And Russell horns being amandalist. Stenberg would be in the
Speaker 1: conversation by the way. Russell is in the conversation in
Speaker 1: a way you might not realize. Yeah, the critical I
Speaker 1: think he's second to Richard E. Grant right now. From
Speaker 1: can you ever forgive me huge, But yeah, that's notable,
Speaker 1: So No, Box might want to wake up a little
Speaker 1: bit around that. If if they I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're doing. Have they done a lot? I feel like
Speaker 1: they have. I feel like they like they did a
Speaker 1: good campaign and good advertise seen and I really thought
Speaker 1: word of mouth, which is and the movie is not
Speaker 1: a disappointment. I mean, it's just I just I only
Speaker 1: recently saw it too. Well, that's part of the problem.
Speaker 1: I think every week I've been asking people like, why
Speaker 1: haven't you seen this movie? And I was really hoping
Speaker 1: Sag might come through because the whole it's just a star.
Speaker 1: She's a star. Um. The other one is as I
Speaker 1: previously mentioned, I think, um, Spider Man into the Spider
Speaker 1: Verse might be the best movie of the year. Should
Speaker 1: be on this list. When did you see It's it's
Speaker 1: been a little while, Yeah, but not I love that movie.
Speaker 1: It's so good in that movie. I hope the sound
Speaker 1: branch gets a listen if you will, everything about that movie.
Speaker 1: And I'm afraid it's going to be snubbed for animated
Speaker 1: film the way that Lord and Miller's Lego movie was
Speaker 1: and Cloudy with a Chance of meat Boss. You know,
Speaker 1: I've never seen that. I mean, they were they they
Speaker 1: just haven't made it in there yet. So we'll see. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's do a quick kind of blast through the acting categories.
Speaker 1: For best Actor, I think we all agree Bradley Cooper,
Speaker 1: Christian Bale, Viggo Mortenson, and probably Romney Malick for Bohemian Rhapsody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's a lock. And then your fifth is
Speaker 1: John David. I'm going with Ethan Hawk, probably the most
Speaker 1: awarded performer on the critics circuit so far. Naturally, I
Speaker 1: mean that is a critics performance in so many ways
Speaker 1: in movie First Reformed. So you think that translates to
Speaker 1: I think I think so. Well. He also has the
Speaker 1: benefit of the movies now on Amazon Prime, like anyone
Speaker 1: can see it. There's no excuse. Yeah, but I just I,
Speaker 1: you know, I think John David Washington. Um. By the way,
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised to see Ryan Gosling pop
Speaker 1: up here. We had all these people on the show
Speaker 1: this year except for Vigo. Oh, how convenient we go
Speaker 1: for Captain fantastic Um. You know again, Gosling is great.
Speaker 1: I'd love for him to get some traction, but it's
Speaker 1: such a passive performance. That's hard, which is like the
Speaker 1: hardest thing to do to like, he's he's so good
Speaker 1: in it. Lucas Hedges was nominated for Boy or Raised
Speaker 1: at the Golden Globes. Uh, you know, playing a young
Speaker 1: man who was forced into convert Visian therapy by his parents.
Speaker 1: He's he's going to have like twelve oscars in a
Speaker 1: few years. He's great. Shoutout to North Carolina school Yard. Uh.
Speaker 1: John c Riley stand and Ali got the Golden Globe nomination.
Speaker 1: Also picked up critics when um for playing Uh, which
Speaker 1: one is he He's a hearty party. Yes, it's a
Speaker 1: fun performance. It's a it's a nice movie. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a sony classics. Uh. It's a very sweet property
Speaker 1: this year. And you know, nothing makes us so good.
Speaker 1: Nothing takes me out of a movie faster than bad
Speaker 1: prosthetics and a bad wig. And I don't know how
Speaker 1: they made him. He looked, it looked. Really it's it's eerie.
Speaker 1: And I've got Willem Dafoe kind of at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the list here. He won the Venice Prize for
Speaker 1: Add Trinity's Gay He plays Vincent van go Um nominee
Speaker 1: last year for Florida Project nearly a winner. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: hard for that kind of movie to get some trash.
Speaker 1: It's such a you know, Julian schnab Oh. I respect
Speaker 1: Julian and Chinabo's work quite a bit. You know, no
Speaker 1: one makes movies the way he does, certainly so, but yeah,
Speaker 1: best actress. I think it's going to be the SAG five. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: We've got Lady Gaga, Olivia Coleman from the Favorite, Emily Blunt,
Speaker 1: Mary Poppins, Molista McCarthy from Kenny Every Forgive Me, and
Speaker 1: Thank God she kind of turned on the afterburners because
Speaker 1: there was a moment where it felt like she was fading.
Speaker 1: I was getting nervous, it was taken over, and I
Speaker 1: was just like, dude, she's amazing, come on. And then
Speaker 1: she started picking up some more critics awards, and she's in.
Speaker 1: I think by the way, I would I would love.
Speaker 1: I think that that movie might actually get into Best Picture.
Speaker 1: It could. When I saw both that and Favorite, obviously
Speaker 1: I had my feelings on the Favorite, I tell you right,
Speaker 1: I kind of thought, can You ever Forgive Me? Was
Speaker 1: just made more sense, It plays more broadly. I really
Speaker 1: liked that movie. I love that movie. It's one of
Speaker 1: my favorites. And Merial Heller is that the light head
Speaker 1: her on the show. Wonderful, It's awesome, wonderful. I cannot
Speaker 1: wait for her Mr. Rogers movie. Yeah, Tom, thanks uh
Speaker 1: and then Glenn Close I have for number five and
Speaker 1: in the Wife, but it could go to Elsie Fisher
Speaker 1: eighth grade. You know if that hasn't do you think
Speaker 1: in the fifth position? Wow, So you don't think she's winning?
Speaker 1: I never have. Well that's I know you haven't, but
Speaker 1: like I thought, maybe you came to your senses recently.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I think we're the fire
Speaker 1: for something like that. I don't sense that this is
Speaker 1: like Julianne Moore with that movie she won for or
Speaker 1: anything like that. You know, I understand she's overdue. I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is the performance to do it though.
Speaker 1: That's all. Think she's a treasure and all of that.
Speaker 1: But you know, coming down to Emily Blunt, Olivia Coleman,
Speaker 1: and Lady Gaga, if I had to guess, I would
Speaker 1: say Lady Gaga. Really, I mean I would not be
Speaker 1: unhappy with that. I' don't be unhappy with any of those.
Speaker 1: I'm happy unhappy with any of these five amazing women,
Speaker 1: let me put it that way. But back to the wife,
Speaker 1: I kind of thought, maybe this is like sacrilege. I
Speaker 1: thought Jonathan Price was better. He's fantastic and we had
Speaker 1: more work with In my mind, I mean, she doesn't
Speaker 1: really she she's kind of like she doesn't get a
Speaker 1: ton to chew on until towards the end of the movie.
Speaker 1: But he's really just kind of so much going on.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get the performance, I just I just
Speaker 1: don't think it's the one that would bring her the win.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, she's doing a play. I mean
Speaker 1: certainly not in a year like this. Also one for
Speaker 1: for performance. Maybe she wouldn't have won for in a
Speaker 1: much more competitive year. That's absolutely true. Well that's also
Speaker 1: like when Leonardo DiCaprio one, I mean like he was
Speaker 1: gonna win, he was overdue, but it's biggest competition that
Speaker 1: he was Brian Kranston and Trumbo. Right. Uh. Then, Also,
Speaker 1: you know Rosamond Pike got a surprise nomination from the
Speaker 1: Golden Globes for a Private War. I thought she might
Speaker 1: break into sag really respond to that performance. It's it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's a moving movie. Again any other year. Yeah, Tony
Speaker 1: Collette is my personal favorite performance of the year period. Uh, hereditary.
Speaker 1: I wish she could get in here. I'm just like
Speaker 1: fingers crossed. If the critics can push anybody in, maybe
Speaker 1: it's her. But it's it's hard man that that that
Speaker 1: horror is always hard kind of gory harror is certainly
Speaker 1: hard too, So I don't know if which is crazy
Speaker 1: because it gives people a chance to show so much
Speaker 1: range and vulnerability. And yeah, she's fantastic. I actually thought
Speaker 1: by Old Davis would get in as well, but people
Speaker 1: just aren't saying the reason. It's a bummer. Yeah, Liza
Speaker 1: Pericio from Roma, you know, the non actress of the
Speaker 1: bunch um. You know, she's they're working her hard, like
Speaker 1: she's everywhere, and she's delight and she's really good in
Speaker 1: the movie, and you know, she could squeeze in. I
Speaker 1: absolutely think that she is fifth or six. I think
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised to see her show up again.
Speaker 1: I have to you know, gauge how much uh the
Speaker 1: love for Roma is true, But if she shows up,
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised at all. In fact, I'd
Speaker 1: be delighted. Nicole Kidman and Destroyer. Oh gosh, I totally forgot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard to believe the nomination for that, and she's
Speaker 1: so good and that end boy erased, and I think
Speaker 1: I thought her best chances were with boy or raised.
Speaker 1: I think you might be right, but this is just
Speaker 1: a hard movie for people. Destroyer it is, and she's
Speaker 1: wonderful in it. Sporting actor Richard Grant is like leaving
Speaker 1: everybody in his dust. Can forgive me maybe at this point? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because of just I wouldn't have expected this like amount
Speaker 1: of uniformity around the category. Otherwise I would have said
Speaker 1: Sam Elliott, yeah, because it would sweep. Yeah, here we are.
Speaker 1: And then he didn't. He didn't get a Globe nomination,
Speaker 1: did he, which I mean, I'm sorry, don't even get
Speaker 1: me started. Yeah, yeah, Merchel Ali we mentioned earlier Green Book,
Speaker 1: Timothy Shallowman and Beautiful Boy, and Adam Driver for Black Plans,
Speaker 1: but I think that's the SAG lineup right. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of what I'm thinking. Possible to jump
Speaker 1: in there. Sam rockwell as George W. Bush and Vice.
Speaker 1: He was nominated by the Golden Globes. Michael B. Jordan
Speaker 1: we were talking about from Black Panthers would love to
Speaker 1: see him in there. I mean it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where like it's not like Heath Ledger in the
Speaker 1: Dark Night, but it is a complex villain character where
Speaker 1: the actor really chewing is chewing on it and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it elevated the material. And again
Speaker 1: getting back to what I was saying about the conversation
Speaker 1: that movie centers, I mean, his character is is front
Speaker 1: and center there. If he makes so many good arguments
Speaker 1: that you're like, you're actually kind of Rudy Monger was right.
Speaker 1: I mean, like it's it's it's interesting. You know, if
Speaker 1: he hadn't like killed his girlfriend, I might be more
Speaker 1: on his side. But was she his girlfriend or was
Speaker 1: she just a means to an end? Both Russell Lawrence
Speaker 1: you give you know, possible, I would love possible. I
Speaker 1: would I think if if I don't know what they're
Speaker 1: kind of planning in the last push with when ballots
Speaker 1: go out in January, but I would zero in on
Speaker 1: him if he can, because there's something sparking there for
Speaker 1: people and Daniel Kaluya and Widows Great like he was
Speaker 1: such a totally different role too that I think we're
Speaker 1: used to seeing him, and I feel like, because I
Speaker 1: know him best from obviously Get Out but also Black Mirror,
Speaker 1: where I feel like he's being victimized so much, it's
Speaker 1: kind of nice to see him kind of just like
Speaker 1: this quiet, like you know, Oh, he comes back for
Speaker 1: Cicario to No No as well Cicios Ccario Day of
Speaker 1: the Soldado, which actually I love that movie. Noone like
Speaker 1: that movie, but I thought it was really well made.
Speaker 1: And then you know, we're kind of like at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the list and who it's like whatever, But
Speaker 1: I just threw Nicholas Holt in here for the favorite
Speaker 1: people do. A lot of people love him like that's
Speaker 1: s performance, and so you know, you always get these
Speaker 1: like out of the blue, like oh, they nominated Maggie
Speaker 1: Jillen Hall for Crazy Heart, which I predicted, but you know,
Speaker 1: people don't see it coming, and you know, something like
Speaker 1: that could happen. You know, who else is wonderful? We
Speaker 1: already talked about Brian Tyree Henry and a Field Street Talk,
Speaker 1: but Coleman Tobingo has a couple of really great scenes too.
Speaker 1: Oh Man. I talked to him at the Apollo premier
Speaker 1: in New York at the after party for a while.
Speaker 1: Guys awesome supporting actress. I would say Regina King is
Speaker 1: number one because she's bawling everybody away with critic wars.
Speaker 1: But it was where was screen Actors Guild on? Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's what I heard from. For some reason, I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people on nominating committee. They did
Speaker 1: not get the screeners for Beal Street or a Vice.
Speaker 1: They until two days after voting closed. Um now, but
Speaker 1: they got them during voting. The people I talked to,
Speaker 1: I mean some of them, people got it after, but
Speaker 1: I'm talking. There was about six people I talked to
Speaker 1: who were like, no, I got it two days, Like
Speaker 1: to the screening. Well, that is the thing. They went
Speaker 1: to the Vice screenings they did because it's big and
Speaker 1: flashy and it's Christian Bale and Amy Adams. So it
Speaker 1: did not affect although it might have affected it because
Speaker 1: I thought a Vice would get in flour ensemble. They
Speaker 1: did not make the effort to go out for Real Street,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, frankly on them. But we also
Speaker 1: understand how hard it is. So it's so hard to
Speaker 1: watch him, so hard you're gonna if you're gonna agree
Speaker 1: to join the nominating committee. I'm just saying, like, putt
Speaker 1: in the diligence, that's embarrassing that well. I also don't
Speaker 1: understand why screeners didn't go out in time because Bealstree
Speaker 1: premiered to Toronto. Yeah, so I don't know if something
Speaker 1: went wrong or they're waiting for Vice or maybe maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just it's really unfortunate because I
Speaker 1: and I do think that it's that that's what cost
Speaker 1: her the nomination. Yep, I agree, So I can't imagine
Speaker 1: any other logical reason for seeing that movie and not
Speaker 1: nominating Regina King. Yeah, well she should be in. I
Speaker 1: still think she wins Amy Adams and Vice playing uh
Speaker 1: Lynn Cheney. Yeah, for some reason, I always get Marry
Speaker 1: and Lynn swapped in my head. Mary's the daughter, right,
Speaker 1: so yeah, she's, you know, a perennial at this point,
Speaker 1: she'll win one day, could be, could be. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think she's gonna win Sack Yeah, yeah, well without competition now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Emma Stone and Rachel Weiss for the favorite out of
Speaker 1: the two of them. Rachel's my favorite, really really, she
Speaker 1: just yeah it was great, but like Rachel really gets
Speaker 1: to play with some fun stuff like yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: she's there where she gets carried out. My fear is
Speaker 1: that voters are going to say, like, you know, she's
Speaker 1: you know, we're seeing Emma do something totally different, you know.
Speaker 1: But Rachel is so good at these kind of roles
Speaker 1: that maybe, you know, I actually think one of them
Speaker 1: might not get into the final five. At Oscars, Marina
Speaker 1: did Tavera for Roma. Plays the mother so wonderful, and
Speaker 1: she's been a delight on the circuit. She is I
Speaker 1: remember the year is showing up for though, like no, no,
Speaker 1: I know, it's so strange to me, um, but she's
Speaker 1: someone I could see again. If this Roma love is real.
Speaker 1: With the Academy, I think she might have a better
Speaker 1: shot than Galicia, just because the category is also competitive.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so cute. And she also she's been slaying
Speaker 1: the red carpets. She's been like the Lapida New Yonko, know,
Speaker 1: like she's the one actress that's actually this is what
Speaker 1: she does for a living. You know. I think she's
Speaker 1: going to explode in the next few years at to
Speaker 1: this movie, if if she wants to, if she wants
Speaker 1: to make American movies. I kind of think that she
Speaker 1: and my prediction for the fifth spot. Are chasing are
Speaker 1: kind of chasing the same eyeballs in a way. I
Speaker 1: mean everyone's seeing Roma, but in terms of like getting
Speaker 1: that vote for her, I think I feel like the
Speaker 1: actress votes are shift, which shift to the elitza more.
Speaker 1: But the one I'm predicting for number five really on
Speaker 1: a whim because I wonder if like these this critical
Speaker 1: attention has made people put the movie in the in
Speaker 1: the player is Thomason really? I'm just like, you could
Speaker 1: see this happen, and she's wonderful and she's a discovery. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they're chasing the kind of the same vote there,
Speaker 1: if you will, in a way. And then we have
Speaker 1: Emily Blunt and quiet Place. Did you know Thomason's mother,
Speaker 1: I believe is Nicole Kidman's acting coach. I knew that
Speaker 1: her family. Like there's like some acting royalty there, something
Speaker 1: like the Hardcourt of it All or something. I could
Speaker 1: be wrong, but something like that. That's interesting though. But
Speaker 1: this is why I think someone from the Favorite isn't
Speaker 1: getting nominated, and it's not Olivia Coleman. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Rachel or Emma, And I see a spot
Speaker 1: from Marina or Nicole Kidman or thomasin Uh Emily Blunt
Speaker 1: Possible with Quiet Place. For this she got the SAG nomination.
Speaker 1: Margot Robbie got the SAG nomination from Mary Queen of
Speaker 1: scott which I sort of predicted, did you I did.
Speaker 1: I knew that seg was responding in a big way
Speaker 1: to that movie, and it is like, have you seen
Speaker 1: it right? And it is like a very um look
Speaker 1: she gets. She gets to be ugly. There's like actually
Speaker 1: a moment where like you see like a blister like
Speaker 1: fall off her face, like you know, and she's great.
Speaker 1: So then she getmin for Best blister falling off a face.
Speaker 1: She's good. The performances are fine in that movie. I
Speaker 1: just was not big on the structure of the story.
Speaker 1: Was just kind of was It's weird to me that
Speaker 1: we have a year with two focus movies that are
Speaker 1: like biography. This is something that they do so well,
Speaker 1: biographies with a wonderful lead performance on the basis of
Speaker 1: sex and Mary Queen of Scott's and they're not in
Speaker 1: the Best Picture discussion. I think they were just late. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on the basis of sex took some slings and arrows.
Speaker 1: That is such a bummer to me because I love
Speaker 1: that movie. Well, I kept saying, I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear anybody talking smack about this movie that turned around
Speaker 1: and rave Green Book. I really thought there was a
Speaker 1: period of time where Felicity Jones would win. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: you told me yeah, And I was like, wow, she's good.
Speaker 1: I think that accent kind of comes and goes. But
Speaker 1: Michael Caine won an Academy Award Accents every Captured on Film,
Speaker 1: and Army Hammer gets to play the role reversal there
Speaker 1: the how great is Army Hammer this year? By the way,
Speaker 1: between this and Sorry to Bother You? Like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: always I forget I'm sorry to bother you. So that
Speaker 1: I said that Ja Door, that was very very clearly
Speaker 1: what is it? Not Green? But let's get Boots in here,
Speaker 1: Boots here, we had Boots on the show. Claire Foy
Speaker 1: for First Man. She was nominated by the Golden Globes, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: she got in for First Man. She's playing Armstrong's wife, Janet,
Speaker 1: and she's awesome in the movie. She's fierce, she's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of a role we've seen before, like
Speaker 1: from Kathleen Quinlan and Apollo thirteen or like Barbara Hershey
Speaker 1: and the right stuff a little bit, but she makes
Speaker 1: it her own and she has not been able to
Speaker 1: campaign as much as I think she would have been to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's she doing? I don't actually know, but I know
Speaker 1: that like she wasn't able to come out for Governor's
Speaker 1: Awards weekend, which yeah, and then as you mentioned, Nicole
Speaker 1: Kiman and boy are raised as well as a possibility.
Speaker 1: So those are the acting categories. Um, we're we should
Speaker 1: wrap it up. I don't know what I have to
Speaker 1: say here. Critics Awards, I mentioned all of that. You know,
Speaker 1: we can talk about her favorite what's your favorite movie
Speaker 1: of the year? Probably Spiderman Into the Spiders Spiderman. It's
Speaker 1: just it's a perfect movie. Or it's either that or
Speaker 1: they hate you. Give what movie have you not mentioned
Speaker 1: that you'd like to mention people should check out? You
Speaker 1: know what? Oh? Of course Blockers. Blocker was one of
Speaker 1: my favorite movies. And just it's so well done and
Speaker 1: Leslie Man is amazing. This young cast, particularly Katherine Newton,
Speaker 1: are so fantastic and I just rewatched it again for
Speaker 1: like the seventh time the other night, and I love
Speaker 1: that you can make a raunchy comedy that is also
Speaker 1: very respectful. Like, you know, I'm assuming everyone has seen
Speaker 1: it by now, but like the very last scene, like
Speaker 1: the guys keep asking for consent with the women, um,
Speaker 1: and then when like when a couple of them are like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this, They're like, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: that's cool. That's cool, you know, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: it's it was such a pleasant surprise. I did not
Speaker 1: expect to like it, let alone love it. For me,
Speaker 1: I would say Minding the Gap documentary. If you haven't
Speaker 1: seen that movie, it's on Hulu. It's amazing. It would
Speaker 1: be my number two after Roma this year. It's uh,
Speaker 1: just the story of these skateboard kids growing up in
Speaker 1: a suburb of Chicago, and it feels like it's going
Speaker 1: to be just that, but it becomes this fascinating sort
Speaker 1: of document of spousal abuse and how it's how you know,
Speaker 1: how it affects across the spectrum, and it's really good.
Speaker 1: It's really one of Barry jenkins favorite movies too. You
Speaker 1: can kind of turn me onto it, yes, so check
Speaker 1: that out. Is that Crystal Mozzel's film, No, It's being
Speaker 1: lou Is his name, and he's a cinematographer and and
Speaker 1: so naturally it's well shot, but it's it's a great film.
Speaker 1: To check that out. To clarify, Army Hammer chastises Lakeith
Speaker 1: Stanfield for going through the olive door, not the jade.
Speaker 1: There you go, we've had to clear that up. I
Speaker 1: could remember the one. What's that color green? That door
Speaker 1: is clearly all of them. Well, that's it. That's our
Speaker 1: look at the Oscar Race and our favorite movies of
Speaker 1: the year. You guys should go out and see some
Speaker 1: of these movies if you haven't already. Um, I think
Speaker 1: it's a good year from movies. So I think it's
Speaker 1: a fent plastic year. Like I was saying, there isn't
Speaker 1: a movie on this list that I hate, you know,
Speaker 1: and usually there's one movie that I'm just like, why
Speaker 1: does everyone that's always nice? When that doesn't happen? So
Speaker 1: go see the movies. Everyone, Happy holidays, Merry Christmas to you,
Speaker 1: Malik Leaky mak Are you going to Hawaii? All right?
Speaker 1: That was very good? Actually I am not because it's
Speaker 1: only eighty degrees Like co it's gotta be nine year
Speaker 1: above to get me on the Beach Well, thanks again
Speaker 1: for coming on the show once again. This episode of
Speaker 1: Playback has been brought to you by Warner Brothers. A
Speaker 1: Star Is Born. As we talk about important films of
Speaker 1: this past year, this one is top of mind, resonating
Speaker 1: with critics and audiences for its emotional authenticity, and the
Speaker 1: film's director, Bradley Cooper, is being recognized for his brilliant
Speaker 1: work as a filmmaker and actor, along with his cast
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga and Sam Elliott for their stunning performances varieties.
Speaker 1: Film critic Peter de Bruge has said Bradley Cooper's directorial
Speaker 1: debut is a dazzling reminder of why we love movies
Speaker 1: in the first place. In Los Angeles, Times critic Justin
Speaker 1: Chang said, from the first frame, it cast a spell,
Speaker 1: the kind that lets you know immediately that you're in
Speaker 1: good hands. A Star is born for your consideration in
Speaker 1: all categories,