Oscars 2025

[TaranofPrydain]

Looks like ANORA filled the void that EMILIA PEREZ vacated.

I was really hoping Demi Moore would win Best Actress.

Me too, I don't care about this movie she's in, but for her career and all the performances from years back (c'mon ONE CRAZY SUMMER) I was hoping she'd win.

It's funny how the Academy manages to "coalesce" around a movie. In this instance, with EMILIA PEREZ sent to the sidelines (I think it would've absolutely won just for its messaging had it not had the issues with the lead), they pegged ANORA and it manages to win 5 Oscars with nobody thinking it had a shot. Disappointed it carried this girl (who?) to an unlikely win.

I did see Demi's film, and while very gory, I was very impressed by her performance, and it would have also been a nice way to acknowledge her good work in past films (About Last Night, Ghost, Mortal Thoughts, Indecent Proposal, GI Jane). I was hoping she would win, but I had already tempered my hopes after this chicklet won the BAFTA award, and after the blind ballots in the trades had a lot of the "Demi will undoubtedly win, so I am voting for...." stuff that mirrored Glenn Close's shameful loss in 2019. Still a bit broken-hearted though, not going to lie.

The one thing Emilia Perez would have had against it even without the issues with its lead was that it was a Netflix production, and while the industry doles out a lot of nods to Netflix, they hate that company with a vengeance and only give them one above the line win a year, and never in Picture.

But yes, it is all forced and predictable, and frankly, its depressing. I don't even have a desire to see Anora, at least very little desire to, because I despised its director's earlier film, the insufferable The Florida Project.

As for this Mikey Madison who won, it is just galling that a girl who, prior to this, played two killers who got incinerated (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Scream V) and in a cable TV series that few watched, can end up getting a leading Oscar on basically her first try at a leading role.

[AndyDursin]

Yeah, I seriously doubt anyone watching that was going "a star is born!" with Mikey Madison. Oh well, at least she was able to hold the torch and praise "the amazing women in the sex workers industry" a few times.

This is an instantly forgettable result for a movie that has, like many recent Oscar winners, made next to no impact with viewers. It now holds the distinction of being the lowest grossing (and since it's 2025, also means LEAST SEEN) Oscar winner ever -- which is saying something.

Another sad dagger towards where cinema has gone really... and I remember THE FLORIDA PROJECT. I didn't care for that either. Well acted but plotless.

[Eric Paddon]

So let me see if I get this straight. Conan O'Brien makes a crack about "standing up to Russia" before a group of people who last year gave the Best Picture award to a film that romanticized a guy who was one of the biggest apologists for the Russia of Joseph Stalin if not an outright collaborator (much like all those blacklisted actors we're supposed to see as 'victims').

Oh the irony.

[AndyDursin]

Adrien Brody seems like a d-bag. Longest speech in the show's history and said nothing of note either in a near SIX MINUTE, self-indulgent "this isn't my first rodeo" sermon.

Hopefully this will preclude him from a 3rd win!

[TaranofPrydain]

Adrien Brody seems like a d-bag. Longest speech in the show's history and said nothing of note either in a near SIX MINUTE, self-indulgent "this isn't my first rodeo" sermon.

Hopefully this will preclude him from a 3rd win!

Given that the previous lengthy speech record holder, Greer Garson in 1943, never won again despite being nominated 7 times in all, you are probably right in that Brody won't win again.

[Paul MacLean]

Adrien Brody seems like a d-bag. Longest speech in the show's history and said nothing of note either in a near SIX MINUTE, self-indulgent "this isn't my first rodeo" sermon.

Has anyone gone to see anything he was in between this and The Pianist (23 years ago)?

[TaranofPrydain]

Adrien Brody seems like a d-bag. Longest speech in the show's history and said nothing of note either in a near SIX MINUTE, self-indulgent "this isn't my first rodeo" sermon.

Has anyone gone to see anything he was in between this and The Pianist (23 years ago)?

I saw Hollywoodland (2006), where he had a sizable role, and I did see some films where he had small roles. (A handful of Wes Anderson titles, the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris, and 2022's See How They Run, where he got killed off in the first 10 minutes)

[Eric Paddon]

THe caption under Brody should be the old long-winded Ted Baxter speech from the MTM Show. "It all started at a little 5000 watt station in Fresno, CA........"

[Monterey Jack]

[AndyDursin]

I had already forgotten she won!

[Monterey Jack]

I had already forgotten she won!

Forty/fifty years from now, when Saldana passes, she'll be referred to as "Oscar winner..." in obits, and people will look back at what she won for, and be like --

[TaranofPrydain]

I had already forgotten she won!

Forty/fifty years from now, when Saldana passes, she'll be referred to as "Oscar winner..." in obits, and people will look back at what she won for, and be like --

It's already embarrassing now! Emilia Perez was such a bad film, so completely appalling (poor photography, bad songs, hammy writing, miserable dancing, wooden performances) that I bailed on it before the end. Frankly, the film should never been up for Oscars, but rather Razzies.

[AndyDursin]

Oscar season has begun already!

[Monterey Jack]

^ Tomatometer: 94%

Popcornmeter: 35%