Hang tight, everyone. Today’s script review is coming soon. In the meantime, feel free to make over-the-top opinionated statements about the Oscars since that’s what we do. I still haven’t seen all the best picture nominees myself. The problem with these movies is all of them fall under the “I guess I have to see that” category, lol. None of them are movies you actually want to see, save for Black Panther. Are those really the movies we want representing Hollywood? Movies that people begrudgingly agree to see?
The Oscars are experiencing a major identity crisis at the moment. The Oscar board feels that they need to celebrate smaller more diverse films while the industry in general is worried that ratings will keep plummeting unless they start celebrating mainstream films (which is why the Oscars announced and then cancelled the addition of a “Mainstream” category early last year – the Oscars have been doing that a lot lately, announcing and then cancelling something immediately afterwards). The only film in these three categories that I have strong feelings about is Buster Scruggs. I want that to win Adapted Screenplay. And then, going the other way (I don’t want it to win), maybe Roma. The fact that that movie is nominated for a screenwriting award goes to show that nobody in the Academy understands screenwriting. Interested to hear if anyone’s seen these films and what they thought. Is there a sleeper I’ve written off here I should give a chance to?
Best Picture
Black Panther
Kevin Feige, Producer
BlacKkKlansman
Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, Producers
Bohemian Rhapsody
Graham King, Producer
The Favourite
Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, Producers
Green Book
Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, Producers
Roma
Gabriela Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón, Producers
A Star Is Born
Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, Producers
Vice
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
BlacKkKlansman
Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
If Beale Street Could Talk
Written for the screen by Barry Jenkins
A Star Is Born
Screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters
Original Screenplay
The Favourite
Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
First Reformed
Written by Paul Schrader
Green Book
Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
Roma
Written by Alfonso Cuarón
Vice
Written by Adam McKay
