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

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I've only seen the new Pokemon movie and Parasite from this year. Hope Parasite wins, and it's luckily almost guaranteed to win the best foreign language picture which i almost always check anyway. Will watch some other movies like Joker and so on, later.

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Quite a good year. Hopefully Tarantino wins some awards (did he ever win best director?), and Parasite does well, but they're guaranteed one award, that of best foreign film. I have to watch all movies except Parasite, but i'll do certainly in time.

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I am also surprised that 'Turning Red' didn't win for Best Animated Feature. Maybe the Academy didn't want to make the ceremony too China-centric.

Pixar already has won that award way too often lol, sometimes not really deserving the win like in 2009, 2012, 2020 and arguably 2015 and 2019 too. I like Pixar a lot but there are tons of good animation studios and animation films out there that didn't get the credit they deserve because Pixar often was a lock for the award.

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7 out of the 8 "above the line" categories - the "biggest" and "most important" awards - were won by A24 Studios films. It won Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and all 4 acting awards. Only Adapted Screenplay was won by a different studio, MGM.

As a massive fan of A24 Studios, this makes me happy.

i'm an A24 sucker as well, and even for years now before they were cool like in 2015 i was already a fan.

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I am also surprised that 'Turning Red' didn't win for Best Animated Feature. Maybe the Academy didn't want to make the ceremony too China-centric.

Pixar already has won that award way too often lol, sometimes not really deserving the win like in 2009, 2012, 2020 and arguably 2015 and 2019 too. I like Pixar a lot but there are tons of good animation studios and animation films out there that didn't get the credit they deserve because Pixar often was a lock for the award.

Up was more than deserving. As was Inside Out in 2015.

My winners

2001: Monsters Inc. (Shrek won, tho thats a good one too)
2002: Lilo & Stitch (Spirited Away won, tho thats very good too)
2003: Finding Nemo
2004: The Incredibles
2005: Howl's Moving Castle (haven't seen the winner which was Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit)
2006: / (Only have seen Cars, Happy Feet won)
2007: Ratatouille (I have to watch Persepolis yet, which I expect to be good)
2008: WALL-E (I haven't seen Bolt yet)
2009: The Secret of Kells (I haven't seen Coraline and the Princess and the Frog yet, Up won)
2010: Toy Story 3
2011: - have seen none (Rango won)
2012: Wreck-It-Ralph (Brave won)
2013: Frozen
2014: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Big Hero 6 won, also liked Song of the Sea a lot)
2015: Inside Out
2016: Moana (Zootopia won, i liked La tortue rouge too, haven't seen Kubo and the Two Strings)
2017: Coco (haven't seen The Breadwinner and Loving Vincent)
2018: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (haven't seen Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs and Mirai)
2019: J'ai perdu mon corps (Toy Story 4 won but haven't seen that)
2020: WolfWalkers (Soul won which I also liked)
2021: Luca (Encanto won, haven't seen The Mitchells vs. The Machines)
2022: Have seen none (Del Toro's Pinocchio won)

a Pixar film will almost always be deserving technically, but that's the issue, so many films are deserving and only Pixar gets credit.

Admittely Pixar seems to run into less competition in some years than other studios, so 2015 is out of ones i've seen still Inside Out. Or 2021 where Luca and Encanto are almost tied for me, and i'd expect the latter to grow on a rewatch.

Some years seem to be awful for the category (like 2006), others great (like 2009, 2014).

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I've once wrote something about the last winners so given it seems like were talking that

2010: The King's Speech
Many people consider this a steal, i can see why because it won over the much more popular Inception and Black Swan but these two are indeed not ones you would also have expected an Academy win. I'm sort of okay with this win but it should have been Black Swan.

2011: The Artist
Not a great year for the Academys, so a kind of niche film that won. I haven't seen this one, but it's not really a must to see i believe. A lot of films nominated are underwhelming.

2012: Argo
Yeah this one shouldn't have won either. I think the crowdpleaser Life of Pi or Django Unchained would have been better picks, but almost everything else nominated was a better pick.

2013: 12 Years a Slave
Also sort of overrated i feel. Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Her, Gravity, Nebraska and the Wolf of Wall Street all would have been better picks, think the latter shouldve won but usually they don't give the win to that kind of films anymore. If the Academy wanted to award a more laidback intimate film than Nebraska shouldve won.

2014: Birdman
Not the film i would've given the award too i'm kind of okay with this. Style-over-substance though since broadway kind of theme isn't really going to have wide appeal. The best film was Whiplash imo but i also can see why the academy didn't went for that one. Boyhood was also nominated and I consider the same tier as Birdman. Think this one was close if we were flies behind the voting process.

2015: Spotlight
Yea LOL. Literally every other film nominated here would have been a better pick, and i would have been fine with The Revenant. (and no i'm not a DiCaprio stan)

2016: Moonlight
Lots of good contendors, wouldn't have given it to this one but to Manchester by the Sea but still glad it won over La La Land. Has more depth than one would think.

2017: The Shape of Water
Some people consider this a lackluster winner or a steal, i hard diagree here. It was the best film nominated imo.

2018: Green Book
Not a great year for oscars when i check nominated. Most people consider this oscar bait (which is yes to some extent true). It's a bit sentimental. But i still also agree with the pick here, though i would've been fine with The Favourite as well. Everything else is a bit underwhelming and some films didn't deserve the nomination (Vice kuch). Didn't vibe with Roma too much but it would've been allright for me, would have been a more cinematic and daring winner than the easier Green Book.

2019: Parasite
Great year, great winner, right pick as well, not much to say. Haven't seen Little Women and The Irishman but i liked every nominated here that i watched (1917, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Ford v Ferrari, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Marriage Story), no exceptions, sometimes with the expectation i wouldve not liked a certain film but every film is solid at the very least in its own ways. One of the years that has the reputation for having been great for cinema in general, and it shows at the academy awards.

2020 Nomadland
Yeah no. Seems like a bad year too because of the pandemic but haven't seen much. The Father would for sure have been a better pick.

2021 CODA
Haven't seen much and neither the winner, can't really judge. But this was a surprising winner and a relative safe pick. I think the more cinephile film in contention was The Power of the Dog but i haven't seen that one.

2022 EEAAO
Good pick but Banshees of Inisherin wouldve also been okay to win. Both were the 2 best nominees. But Aftersun was overlooked strongly in almost every category.
seen quite a bit of nominees from the 2010s but a bit behind schedule for 2020s, esp. 2020 and 2021.
but 2020 is a weird year for film
for some understandable reasons
though i've actually seen 3 of the 8 nominees by now