Jake Gittes

I'm also gonna question your inclusion of Before Midnight, which wasn't distributed by WB anywhere in the world and whose only tie to it seems to be that it was produced "in association with" Castle Rock (whose logo isn't even in the movie). Seems like a stretch.

People thinking and writing about cinema for a living have different perspectives and priorities from 8-year-olds and their tired parents who go see six movies a year. That's a normal thing.

FYC

You've seen Space Jam 2 but not Heat.

I'm gonna ask about Welles' Mr. Arkadin, which WB distributed in at least the U.K. and France. Don't know if that's enough.

If Dustin Hoffman has one more $100m grosser (Megalopolis? another Kung Fu Panda?) he'll have had them every decade going back to the '60s and The Graduate.

The main reason Under the Skin wasn't on the 2013 list is because it wasn't released until 2014.

With luck, The Irishman maybe makes Hugo/Gangs of New York money. The Power of the Dog makes The Favourite/There Will Be Blood money. 20m would have been a win for Roma (and Mank, if covid never happened).

But he hasn't.

I feel like this might've done solid if took over mid-to-late August à la Inglourious Basterds, but it seems studios are too set in their "prestige pictures = fall" ways to take greater advantage of that part of the year.

All I know is if a cuddly comedy-drama about a struggling family turns up in release at any point this year we need to shoot it on sight.

The Killer seems to be more of a solo Fassbender show than an ensemble thing (as practically all winners going back decades have been) and like Clay said on the last page, unsentimental violent thrillers without a sociopolitical angle have even less of a shot today than they used to. The Departed itself would 100% lose to Little Miss Sunshine if that Oscar race happened a decade-plus later. And on that note, perhaps Flower Moon being a story and a production that involves Native Americans to the extent it does will give it better odds of winning than The Irishman had.

You do gotta have both park and field.

Thank you Tang Wei hive

All y'all slept on Confess Fletch

Shrek and Shrek 2. More along the lines of Flower Moon, while not big-budget, major studio films like L.A. Confidential, Zodiac, Changeling and Moulin Rouge played in competition. It happened more often in the '70s. Apocalypse Now must be the last truly mammoth Hollywood thing to have done it.

True Lies

FYC in multiple categories

Don’t miss ‘To Leslie’ a small film with a giant heart. Andrea Riseborough gives the performance of the year, and Allison Janney, Marc Maron, Owen Teague, Andre Royo and Stephen Root are all incredible. Please go find this gem!

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@MrPink let's go

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