Oscars 2024

[malcolm1980]

I did it last year. I might as well do it again this year. Some random predictions for this year's Oscars:

1. Oppenheimer, Barbie and Dune Part II will split the technical awards.

2. Barbie will be an across-the-board contender: Picture, Director, etc. Ryan Gosling will be a Best Supporting Actor front-runner for his role.

3. At least two women will be nominated for Best Director next year.

4. Timothee Chalamet will be once again in the Best Actor conversation but NOT for Dune Part II....but rather for Wonka. He will get nominated for that or at least come close.

5. The Color Purple musical film will meet the same fate as the first film version: Be an early front-runner, get a whole bunch of nominations but find its director snubbed and then win nothing on Oscar night.

6. The Best Actress winner will be another POC.

7. Half of the 20 acting nominees will be POC...and people will still find reasons to complain.

8. The ratings will increase still...yet people will still not be satisfied.

9. An animated film and a documentary film will strongly contend for Best Picture nominations.

10. TWO non-English films will be nominated for Best Picture.

[eurocheese]

I'd guess you'll get 1, 5 and 9

[malcolm1980]

I do believe they announce around June so it's not too early to speculate. Who do we think they're going to honor at the Governors Awards this year?

Actors:
Alan Alda
Amitabh Bachchan
Ann Blyth
Albert Brooks
Leslie Caron
Billy Crystal
Chow Yun-Fat
Glenn Close
Alain Delon
Catherine Denueve
Gerard Depardieu
Bruce Dern
Harrison Ford
Judd Hirsch
James Hong
Isabelle Huppert
Diane Ladd
Piper Laurie
Jet Li
Ian McKellen
Fernanda Montenegro
Tatsuya Nakadai
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sylvester Stallone
Lily Tomlin

Filmmakers and Screenwriters:
Kenneth Anger
David Cronenberg
Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Julie Dash
Terence Davies
Claire Denis
Brian de Palma
Werner Herzog
Ann Hui
Jim Jarmusch
Ken Loach
Márta Mészáros
Jafar Panahi
Ridley Scott
Paul Verhoeven
Wayne Wang
John Waters
Wong Kar-wai
John Woo
Zhang Yimou

Artisans:
Caleb Deschanel
Christopher Doyle
Tak Fujimoto
Wynn Thomas
Bo Welch

Thalberg:
Jason Blum
Mel Brooks
Kevin Feige

Hersholt:
Jane Fonda
Elton John
Sean Penn

Am I missing anyone?

[malcolm1980]

The Academy announces key dates for the 96th Oscars.

March 10th.

[malcolm1980]

Governors Awards recipients:

Angela Bassett
Mel Brooks
Carol Littleton
Michelle Satter (Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)

[Culturegeek]

Interesting selection.

I sorta wish the Bassett choice felt a little less desperate. Littleton is an interesting choice; Brooks sollidly deserving. Don't know anything about Satter, to be honest.

[eurocheese]

Desperate for what? I feel like Bassett's inclusion makes perfect sense.

[malcolm1980]

The 2023 Academy new members invitees are:

ACTORS
Zar Amir-Ebrahimi
Sakura Ando
Selma Blair
Marsha Stephanie Blake
Austin Butler
Raúl Castillo
Chang Chen
Ram Charan
Kerry Condon
Robert John Davi
Dolly De Leon
Martina Gedeck
Bill Hader
Nicholas Hoult
Stephanie Hsu
Tin Lok Koo
Vicky Krieps
Joanna Kulig
Lashana Lynch
A Martinez
Noémie Merlant
Paul Mescal
Richard Mofe-Damijo
Keke Palmer
Park Hae-il
Ke Huy Quan
NT Rama Rao Jr.
Paul Reiser
Rosa Salazar

CASTING DIRECTORS
John Buchan
Pauline Hansson
Nina Haun
Lissy Holm
Jeanette Klintberg
Jason Knight
Alexandra Montag
Pat Moran
Mathilde Snodgrass
Rachel G. Tenner

CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Jolanta Dylewska
James Friend
Martin Gschlacht
Florian Hoffmeister
Benjamin Kracun
K.K. Senthil Kumar
Tommy Maddox-Upshaw
Kate McCullough
Andrij Parekh
Christopher Ross
María Secco
Virginie Surdej

COSTUME DESIGNERS
Trisha Biggar
Alex Bovaird
Bob Buck
Monika Buttinger
Pam Downe
Deirdra Elizabeth Govan
Shirley Kurata
Linda Muir
Annie Symons

DIRECTORS
Colm Bairéad*
Abner Benaim
Edward Berger*
Antonio Campos*
Anthony Chen
Lukas Dhont*
Andreas Dresen
Nils Gaup
Rashaad Ernesto Green
Ana Katz*
Joseph Kosinski
Daniel Kwan*
Francisco Lombardi
Carlos López Estrada
Mounia Meddour
Santiago Mitre*
C.J. "Fiery" Obasi
Mani Ratnam
Anita Rocha da Silveira
Hiner Saleem
Daniel Scheinert*
Maria Schrader
Michael Showalter
Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Chaitanya Tamhane

DOCUMENTARY
Maxim Arbugaev
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Paul Barnes
Mark Becker
Alan Berliner
Tze Woon Chan
Sonya Childress
Lauren Cioffi
Erika Cohn
Patrick Creadon
Daniel Cross
Ally Derks
Andrés Di Tella
Lauren Domino
Lindsey Dryden
Katja Esson
Violet Du Feng
Jennifer Fox
Sonia Kennebeck
Teddy Leifer
Simon Lereng Wilmont
Petr Lom
Melanie Miller
Julia Nottingham
Ilja Roomans
Nancy Schwartzman
Joshua Seftel
Shaunak Sen
Daniel Sivan
Chris Smith
Corinne van Egeraat
Tyler H. Walk
Eden Wurmfeld
Debra Zimmerman

EXECUTIVES
Craig Alexander
Bela Bajaria
Stephen Basil-Jones
Racheline Benveniste
Sean Berney
Efe Egemen Cakarel
Peter Dodd
Tara Duncan
Zev Foreman
Jeffrey Goore
Amelia Louise Granger
Daniel Guando
Jessie Henderson
Ynon Kreiz
Ollie Madden
Shivani Pandya Malhotra
Janet Pierson
Shivani Rawat
Kent Sanderson
Guy Shani
Sarah Elizabeth Shepard
Jesse Sisgold
Jonathan Turell
Joana Vicente
Brian Stuart Weinstein
Paul Wiegard
Rob Williams
Tamara Y. Woolfork
Miri Yoon
David Zaslav

FILM EDITORS
Michael Aaglund
Joyce Arrastia
Melissa Bretherton
Sarah Broshar
Sven Budelmann
Alain Dessauvage
Christopher Donaldson
Agnieszka Glińska
Craig Hayes
Charlotte Munch Bengtsen
Langdon Page
Paul Rogers
Ken Schretzmann
Matt Villa

MAKEUP ARTISTS AND HAIRSTYLISTS
Jason Baird
Annemarie Bradley
Anne Carroll
Linda Eisenhamerová
Kimberly Felix
Thomas Foldberg
Erzsébet Forgács
Jules Holdren
Jaime Leigh McIntosh
Alfredo Mora
Nathalie Tissier
Luca Vannella
Angie Wells

MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
David Burke
Sungmi Choi
Kelly Dalton
Marian Lee Dicus
Sarah Eaton
Emily Feingold
Kimberly Flaster
Stephanie Frederic
Antonio Gimenez-Palazon
Patricia Gonzalez
Mindy Hamilton
Claire A. Heath Nobel
Danielle Kupchak
Julie Roberta La’Bassiere
Christopher Miller
Scott Mitsui
Keri Lynn Moore
Stefanie Marie Napoli
Jeremy Radisich
Jim R. Rodriguez
Tammie Rosen
Julie Siegel
Melissa Stone
Renee Tsao
Kelly Turner

MUSIC
Jean Michel Bernard
Rafiq Bhatia
Alain Boublil
David Buckley
David Byrne
Dominick George Certo
Chandrabose
Ian Chang
Anne-Kathrin Elisabeth Dern
Anna Drubich
M.M. Keeravaani
Penka Kouneva
Ryan Lott
Zeltia Montes
Starr Parodi
Taylor Swift
Dara Taylor
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye "The Weeknd"

PRODUCERS
Desray Armstrong
Daniel Birman Ripstein
Philippe Bober
Keith Calder
Allison Rose Carter
Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
Jonas Dornbach
Andrew Goldman
Malte Grunert
Karan Johar
Axel Vladimir Kuschevatzky
Daniel Kwan*
Karen Lunder
Kyle Martin
Patrick McCormick
Jordana Mollick
Giancarlo Nasi
Jadesola Osiberu
Mark A. Radcliffe
Thomas Robsahm
Siddharth Roy Kapur
Daniel Scheinert*
Jonathan Wang
Lila Yacoub

PRODUCTION DESIGN
David Allday
Samantha Avila
Tom Brown
Richard Buoen
Diana Burton
Barry Michael Chusid
Dylan Cole
Sabu Cyril
Bill Darby
Klaus Darrelmann
Darrin Denlinger
Raffaella Giovannetti
Christian M. Goldbeck
Ernestine Hipper
Andrew H. Leung
Karen Murphy
Ben Procter
Kave Quinn
Dean Sherriff
Laura Sode-Matteson
Amy Gail Wells

PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY
Girish Balakrishnan
David Barrett
Allegra Anne Clegg
Celia D. Costas
Fernando de Goes
Daphne Dentz
Peter Doyle
Sara Duran-Singer
Gian Luca Farinelli
Dominic Glynn
Fritz Heinzle
Lin Oeding
Fatima Robinson
Kranti Sarma
Cynthia Slavens
Joachim Zell

SHORT FILMS AND FEATURE ANIMATION
Mahyar Abousaeedi
Tom Berkeley
Toni Bestard
Kimberley Browning
Alex Bulkley
Bruno Caetano
Dean Fleischer Camp
Kenneth A. Carlson
Trent Correy
Joel Bryan Crawford
Claire Dodgson
Fabian Driehorst
David DuLac
Maureen Fan
Tiffany Frances
João Gonzalez
Sara Gunnarsdóttir
Mark Gustafson
Travis Hathaway
David Jesteadt
Daniel Mark Jeup
Thomas Jordan
Charlie Mackesy
Ian Megibben
Cyrus Neshvad
Jaime Ray Newman
Richard O’Connor
Lachlan Pendragon
Jesús Pimentel Melo
Emmanuel-Alain Raynal
David Ryu
Nidia Santiago
Mónica Santos
Nelson Shin
Eirik Tveiten
Nathan Warner
Ross White

SOUND
Orin Junior Beaton
Guido Berenblum
Andrew Bock
Stéphane Bucher
Paul Timothy Carden
Lena Esquenazi
Arthur Fenn
Tracie Gallo
Lars Ginzel
Galen Goodpaster
Julian Howarth
Randall Lee Johnson
Leah Katz
Stefan Korte
Martin Wallis Kwok
Ensieh Maleki
Sean McCormack
Douglas Murray
Anthony Ortiz
Wayne Pashley
Mélissa Petitjean
Viktor Prášil
Lynn Sable
David Stanke
Markus Stemler
Duu-chih Tu
Javier Angel Umpierrez
Eliza Pollack Zebert

VISUAL EFFECTS
Gino Acevedo
James Lee Baker
A.J. Briones
Nick Crew
Jubin Dave
Pete Dionne
Arslan Elver
Markus Frank
Brian Gazdik
Seth Hill
Haresh Hingorani
Kamil Jafar
Arek Komorowski
Lana Lan
Woei Lee
Bryan Litson
Scott Macintyre
Alexandre Julien Millet
Marla Inez Newall
Jenni O’Byrne
Frank Petzold
Adriano Rinaldi
P.C. Sanath
Robert Winter
Florian Witzel

WRITERS
Kunle Afolayan
Colm Bairéad*
Nikole Beckwith
Edward Berger*
Antonio Campos*
Chung Seo-kyung
Marie Clements
Peter Craig
Shola Dada
Lukas Dhont*
Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Josh Friedman
Kazuo Ishiguro
Shunji Iwai
Ana Katz*
Todd Komarnicki
Ehren Kruger
Daniel Kwan*
Mariano Llinás
Justin Marks
Santiago Mitre*
Craig Pearce
Ewa Piaskowska
Daniel Scheinert*
Jack Thorne
Angelo Tijssens
Charlotte Wells

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Tracy Brennan
Rob Carlson
Sarah Clossey
Eric Garfinkel
John Garvey
Steven Gersh
Franklin Latt
Christian Muirhead
Richard Weitz
Ida Giovanna Ziniti

A few notes:

1. Yay, Dolly de Leon! Perfectly fine consolation prize.

2. This year's "They Weren't Members Already?!?" is David Byrne. He has won the Score Oscar in the '80s and has worked in film from time to time. Surprised he isn't already a member.

3. Taylor Swift, I believe, is the first pop star to get an invite without being nominated first.

4. A whole bunch of RRR people get invited but not S.S. Rajamouli. Does anyone know if he's already a member?

[emmygrammyoscartony]

I see where Culturegeek is coming from. Though I think Bassett is super deserving, if she had not been nodded and been a frontrunner and not won last year...I do not think she would be even in contention for getting one this next year.

[eurocheese]

I don't understand how that's desperate. She should have been in conversation anyway, and it makes sense to follow up this year as she was in the mix last year. The idea that they believe they made a mistake and are desperate to correct it seems like internet fiction.