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It's going to be a fixed 10 nominees for Best Picture starting with the 94th Oscars. It'll be interesting to see these representation and inclusion standards are, and if this turns out the way they hope.

Lol, would love to know what restrictions were put on the PR flack who was stuck writing this...

Like, two years ago, Entertainment Weekly did an All-Time Best Actress Bracket and let the public vote, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind won the whole thing over Streep in Sophie's Choice. That movie and the book(s, the estate authorized sequels starting in the 1990s, there was also an unauthorized parody from a slave character's POV) have a huge fandom for something so old and divisive. There's a Best Picture winner with literal blackface but you would not see The Broadway Melody trending like this if it got pulled from a streaming service, lol.

I thought Cuarón was just being polite, since the series was a huge break for his career. Still, he's gone on to win Best Director twice, he has options besides returning to the Wizarding World, even if he wanted to do something more mainstream. Finding someone whose career is in a similar place to Cuarón's circa 2002 wouldn't be the worst idea, and by now it might be a person grew up as a Potter fan.

I really did not care for the "LBJ circa 1965 entertains George Wallace's ideas about segregation" angle Selma decided to depict, but those AMPAS voters are a joke. I mean, it's not like this was some Kevin Hart comedy and oops, activism broke out-it was at the premiere of a freaking MLK biopic! But it's clear there's a certain kind of race relations movie that makes awards voters more comfortable.

The Asylum getting bold : "I live my life a quarter of a mile at a time." LMAO, because the prepositions make it a totally different sentiment!

A nice success story for The Wretched!

The incident happened when Jude was supposedly going to leave I Heart Huckabees for a Nolan movie, well after Memento was released. It's widely reported that Nolan was going to make The Prestige before Batman Begins at first, and the timeline fits with IHH being a 2004 release. Huckabees is also the movie set where David O had that tirade on Lily Tomlin. From the Daily Beast: Maybe he was "joking", but Russell has such a bad track record that you can't rule out that he might have seriously tried to beat up Chris Nolan over a casting decision. Tenet, I am intrigued but will only be seeing this in theaters if my area gets some pop up drive-ins for the summer.

I mean, Inception had Leo in the suits, Nolan cast Jude Law for The Prestige at first (but David O. Russell intimidated Nolan into dropping the idea so Jude would do I Heart Huckabees), Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight, even Dunkirk had Mark Rylance's young Nolan-looking blond son... It's kind of funny at this point, a bit vain yet also more modest than going the Shyamalan or Hitchcock route.

Seems like a logical prospect considering how so many things are on hold. Not understanding the freakouts and denial of the mere possibility I'm seeing from so many Oscar pundits on Twitter...

Unless a Tenet screening becomes a confirmed super-spreader event, then Nolan gets blamed/sued, theaters have to be shut down again and AMPAS holds that against him. I mean, I hope that's not what happens but if it does...yikes. But overall, I could see your scenario happening... Even a couple of months ago, I posted on the awards section that this year's winner could be very different from Parasite, the way it was different from Green Book (and GB from The Shape of Water, etc.). It would be wild if Nolan won Best Picture/Director for an Inception-type movie rather than the World War II joint that preceded it, but it's nice when people win for the sort of thing they're best known for.

Poor LaBradford Smith!

This is fine...

Once upon a time, yes. Looks like the free option was discontinued in 2016.

Enjoying The Last Dance and the new Jordan meme:

Would be weird to expand the acting categories now when a lot of the awards bait has been pushed to next year. Maybe having an equal number of Directing and Picture nominees will solve the category's issue with "snubs" in recent years. They have been talking about combining the Sound categories for a while. Wouldn't it be nice if Stunt and Casting categories got added? You have some people pushing for genderless acting categories, but it would surprise me if AMPAS is ready for that degree of change just yet. I have been listening to a lot of Oscar podcasts about the earliest years recently, and it just reminds you that the categories/number of nominees aren't at all static.

Yeah, if Chris Nolan was still stuck directing corporate videos, he'd have an email address/social media accounts, otherwise he wouldn't get work. It helps that Memento happened before workplaces went so digital, by the time it was he probably had an assistant, and a lot of the things a director would get emailed about could just as easily go to his producing partner/wife. Poor Emma Thomas, though, besides all the work emails Nolan avoids, she must get all the parent/teacher school crap sent to her, too, and they have four kids!

Can't open a Twitter account without an email address...

Some of these stars would show up to the opening of an envelope. A lot of the cringiest celebrity quarantine content has been from celebrities not having any sort of spotlight for a few weeks and going stir crazy as a result. The Oscars would always have montages celebrating moviegoing and film history, even before all this. Post pandemic, you will get a push of the sentiment that (in terms of the arts) film festivals/award shows are more important than ever. Once this is all over, some stars will be absolutely thrilled to be on a red carpet again...

And even if they have the Globes/Oscars in Jan/Feb outside of LA, would stars want to attend? Would it be bad PR if they did? And if it's just a press conference...It's one thing to have a talk show via Zoom but the Oscars? And the year the Golden Globes didn't do a ceremony, everyone forgets who won that year (even more than usual). I really think Oscars could put off the ceremony, it was routinely in late March, even in the 2000s. They even had it in April a few times Sure, the date's been announced for next February, but there's a pandemic and the TV schedule will still be in flux and not back to "normal" early next year. A network would be able to deal with an awards show airing a month or two later than originally scheduled.

I've been listening to a few podcasts about Best Picture races of the past and those have reminded me that the earliest Oscars weren't strictly based on a calendar year. It was basically an August to July span, with the ceremony many months later. The 6th Academy Awards had a 17-month eligibility period (August 1, 1932 to December 31, 1933). If the Academy is really reluctant about changing the streaming rules or having a socially distanced ceremony, they might consider a temporary adjustment to the eligibility period. Who knows if ABC's contract with AMPAS would even allow them to postpone the Oscars for months, though...