Jake Gittes

As a fan of both of his previous films that would be great to see. Not sure he has a Spirited Away-level undeniable movie in him though, and especially not sure if whoever's distributing it will be able to push it the way Disney and Lasseter pushed SA. We'll see.

Feel like if Wes Anderson's dogs movie got released this year instead of 2018 it could have stood a healthy chance to win. For now Coco is an obvious choice, but I'm hoping for surprises.

10CL and Shutter Island both jumped exactly 147% on second Friday so if Split were to follow suit it'd get a 6-6.5m Friday and a 20-22m weekend.

I think La La Land will do about 12. Might battle it out with Hidden Figures for the #4 spot behind Split, Dog and RE6.

Everyone just vote for the cat lady plz. You're not monsters who don't like cats right? Just trust me on this one

Only just got here. I can live with this. Baron Zemo in Best Villain easily wins for the funniest nomination though. Shaking my head at American Honey's complete shutout and The Witch getting just two noms. Silence would have received a lot of love from me if the deadline had been today btw but I'm glad you got it in there anyway.

All questions are related to the top 12, are for the 3 day weekend and are worth 1000 points unless otherwise stated. 1. Will Resident Evil open to more than $14M? Yes 2. Will Resident Evil open to more than $18M? 3000 No 3. Will Resident Evil open to more than $22M? No 4. Will A Dog's Purpose open to more than $14M? Yes 5. Will A Dog's Purpose open to more than $18M? 2000 Yes 6. Will A Dog's Purpose open to more than $22M? No 7. Will Resident Evil open higher than A Dog's Purpose? No 8. Will Gold open to more than $4M? Yes 9. Will Gold open to more than $6M? 2000 Yes 10. Will Spilt stay at number 1? Yes 11. Will Kung Fu Yoga have a PTA above $1,000? Yes 12. Will Hidden Figures' Domestic Total overtake La La Land's? 3000 No 13. Will Rogue One Stay above Monster Trucks? Yes 14. Will Sing drop more than 35%? No 15. Will XXX stay in the top 4? No 16. Will any film drop more than 67.5%? 2000 No 17. Will Underworld stay above Live By Night? Yes 18. Will Fences cross $50M domestic by the end of the weekend? Yes 19. Will at least 2 films from all those in release receive an Oscar nomination and increase in gross this weekend? Yes 20. Will Resident Evil be given an unprecedented 15 Oscar nominations despite being a 2017 film because of its unarguable genius? 2000 Yes Bonus: 14/20 2000 15/20 4000 16/20 6000 17/20 9000 18/20 12000 19/20 16000 20/20 20000 Part 2: Closest predictor wins 5000 points (Added bonus: If prediction is within 10% win 6000; 5% 7000; 2.5% 9000; 1% 12000) 1. Predict A Dog's Purpose's 3 day gross. 18.554 2. Predict Resident Evil's internal multiplier after its Friday gross. 2.517 3. What will Moana's percentage drop be? +13.260% Part 3: Predict the films that place in the following positions: 1. Split 4. La La Land 6. xXx 9. Rogue One 12. Moana 15. Manchester By The Sea

I mean I'd say Nocturnal Animals put to rest any doubts that ATJ is talented and call me naive but talent of any kind is appreciated enough for him to stay around. Especially if he himself learned the right lesson from Godzilla and NA: stay away from bland blockbuster roles, go with character actor roles that have weirdness and personality to them. Legitimately hopeless types like Taylor Lautner are one thing, but seemingly bland handsome white dudes who get to actually prove themselves in the right role or two (Tatum, Pattinson, Hammer, Hedlund, Hoult, etc. and now ATJ who actually impressed people enough to get awards) are likely to keep getting those opportunities.

Don't stop until it's in your top 3 Baumer.

Because if LLL has any weakness even its fans would acknowledge it's in the writing, and there's a much more obvious writing showcase sitting right next to it in Manchester. Not that it means we should entirely rule out the win. I was sure Inglourious Basterds would win screenplay over The Hurt Locker too, because that felt like even more of a no-brainer, but when the Academy goes crazy for a movie they can go really crazy.

Uh...

I'd be surprised if any of them were better than Creed.

I don't think it's gonna be Audition for Stone simply because it's such a complete number and it'd look awkward as hell if they just cut out a random 20 seconds from it. Any of the arguments she has with Gosling would work better.

Stone - "Maybe I'm not good enough" Bridges - they'll probably spoil it and go with some bit from the final scene Williams - I haven't seen the movie but clearly it's gotta be that one scene everyone is raving about

The number of noms means little outside of the fact that the movie is very technical category-friendly. The fucking King's Speech got 12 noms, I don't remember it getting any backlash for that specifically.

Futurist accusing other people of snobbery and then hypocrisy is priceless on so many levels.

4 more. But we know MMFR also deserved nominations for Actress, Supporting Actor, Screenplay and Score. Clearly it just needed a killer original tune or two and it could have set the record

It would be amazing but Cotillard won for a middlebrow biopic where she uglied herself up and her only competition was Julie Christie who was in a tiny indie movie and a previous winner. When the entire Academy is gonna vote I can't see them supporting Huppert more than Stone or Portman. I hope I'm wrong though.

Should have been nominated for A History of Violence. Would have been a worthy win too.

I think Negga took her place.

HUPPERT! Basically the only thing I cared about

Sorry Your Name fans.

The Lobster!

Just as it should be