Oppenheimer wins 7 Oscars (Best Picture) (film & awards)

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I turned off Poor Things after the first 30 minutes because it was stupid and embarrassing, so I can't judge Emma Stone's performance fairly, but from what I saw I thought she was kind of bad. Maybe that was just the writing. I'm assuming (or at least hoping) that it got better as it went along.

Good call! It's effectively just a never ending montage of sex scenes and once in a while they'll take a break for Emma Stone to talk about "philosophy" "socialism" or "reading". Put them in quotes since saying the words is pretty much all she has to say about them. I guess if they'd expanded on any of those subjects at all she wouldn't have been able to have sex every ten minutes.

It's pretty much a soft core porn movie with better direction and production values. Which contrary to the "puritan" accusation fans of the movie make whenever anyone points this out, I don't have any moral problem with. I just don't think porn is "great art" or needs to get awards nominations.

Anyway, to rank the nominees-

1. The Holdovers
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. American Fiction
4. Oppenheimer
5. Past Lives
6. Zone of Interest
7. Maestro
8. Poor Things

NS Barbie or Anatomy of a Fall

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EMMA STONE WINS!!!

One of the few actresses ever to have been able to clinch a second acting Oscar by the age of 35.

You all really should see Poor Things. It's true that there are quite a few sex scenes, but it's a very beautiful film, nonetheless.

Poor Things was a gross and deeply misogynistic film.  And it was a lousy one at that.  The costume design was solid, but otherwise very little good that can be said about it.

Didn't even get into it in my post, but the fact that she was supposed to have a small child's mind and the movie treats it like it's funny and cute that all these men are having sex with her is so messed up. Then it just reduces her entire personhood to her sexuality in a way that no one does for men. Amazing with how wokescolds love to go after anything "pROBleMaTic" in movies that they have this a complete pass just because it ticks some woke boxes.