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Oscar nominations and other things...
Jan. 23rd, 2024 05:45 pm1. The full Oscar list for 2024 courtesy of the NY Times - I keep forgetting they moved it up, for years it was in February.
I honestly don't understand the appeal of Killer's of the Flower Moon or Barbie. I'd not have nominated either. I didn't like either film for different reasons.
But I also don't really care that much? Or set much store by this? I can't remember the winners of them anyhow. And there's a lot of amazing films that never won or were nominated, while there's a lot of unmemorable clunkers that have. Demonstrating that this is all subjective and kind of pointless in the scheme of things, isn't it? It does, however, provide one with a list of movies to check out - in the hundreds of thousands that were released this year.
Still fun to speculate about. Also, Lily Gladstone made history as the first Native American nominated for an Oscar, and Margot Robbie was snubbed, and I honestly think she was the best thing in Barbie.
Anyhow...
Here's the list in case you can't get into the NY Times..(I've not seen all of them, just a handful here and there - I've put in bold the ones that I've seen.)
( list of nominees )
See, a handful. But it does give me a list of films to check out. I'll give it that. No one I know but the critics appeared to like Maestro. So, it's odd that it was nominated.
2. Crazy Workplace is still trying to drive me nuts. ( Read more... )
3. The weather is grim and gloomy. With sparks of sunshine. But it's not as cold - rained today. So progress? I don't know, maybe snow would have been better or at least prettier? On the commute home - I was running a touch behind on everything. Had to run to catch the train, and each stop light I hit just as it turned red, I walked (sometimes dashed across) anyhow - half-daring the cars to hit me. They didn't. Obviously. Or I wouldn't be here.
4. Niece got out of her lease (I'm guessing the pipes freezing helped?) - and went to LA for a bit, then she's going to Utah to visit her boyfriend's parents who live in ski country, then flying to see her parents in NY. Ah to be young and fancy free. (I'm not sure I was ever fancy free - I didn't have the resources or funds niece has.)
Apparently they got over the COVID.
5. Mother went to Charleston today and it turned out better than we expected. She got excellent news. ( Read more... )
***
Off to make dinner, and lunch for tomorrow. Watch soap. Exercise. Wind down. Work on novel.
I honestly don't understand the appeal of Killer's of the Flower Moon or Barbie. I'd not have nominated either. I didn't like either film for different reasons.
But I also don't really care that much? Or set much store by this? I can't remember the winners of them anyhow. And there's a lot of amazing films that never won or were nominated, while there's a lot of unmemorable clunkers that have. Demonstrating that this is all subjective and kind of pointless in the scheme of things, isn't it? It does, however, provide one with a list of movies to check out - in the hundreds of thousands that were released this year.
Still fun to speculate about. Also, Lily Gladstone made history as the first Native American nominated for an Oscar, and Margot Robbie was snubbed, and I honestly think she was the best thing in Barbie.
Anyhow...
Here's the list in case you can't get into the NY Times..(I've not seen all of them, just a handful here and there - I've put in bold the ones that I've seen.)
( list of nominees )
See, a handful. But it does give me a list of films to check out. I'll give it that. No one I know but the critics appeared to like Maestro. So, it's odd that it was nominated.
2. Crazy Workplace is still trying to drive me nuts. ( Read more... )
3. The weather is grim and gloomy. With sparks of sunshine. But it's not as cold - rained today. So progress? I don't know, maybe snow would have been better or at least prettier? On the commute home - I was running a touch behind on everything. Had to run to catch the train, and each stop light I hit just as it turned red, I walked (sometimes dashed across) anyhow - half-daring the cars to hit me. They didn't. Obviously. Or I wouldn't be here.
4. Niece got out of her lease (I'm guessing the pipes freezing helped?) - and went to LA for a bit, then she's going to Utah to visit her boyfriend's parents who live in ski country, then flying to see her parents in NY. Ah to be young and fancy free. (I'm not sure I was ever fancy free - I didn't have the resources or funds niece has.)
Apparently they got over the COVID.
5. Mother went to Charleston today and it turned out better than we expected. She got excellent news. ( Read more... )
***
Off to make dinner, and lunch for tomorrow. Watch soap. Exercise. Wind down. Work on novel.