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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 24, 2024 2:03:10 GMT
Also Mexico is actually IN North America! I’m work in this local Congress/Parlamentary historical archive and a frequent consultation every new period when a female is named for an important role is if they are the first one (sometimes they don’t even ask, they just declare themselves the “first woman ever”!). They are most of the time not! lol In a lot of occasions, their more recent antecesor is just from the most recent period! It’s so hypocritical. They just doesn’t care for the cause or for real pioneers. They just want to pontificate! (Lily Gladstone probably was “informed” by someone so I’m not criticizing her and very probably she will become the first Indigenous woman to win so there’s not necessity of erasing anyone) EDITED I saw this tweet because Yalitza Aparicio is trending here! EDITED Also at the time I questioned that they were saying Aparicio was the first indigenous Best Actress nominee when I clearly remembered her, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keisha_Castle-HughesI think there is someone else but I don’t remember her name. About Aparicio is a linguistic thing because they want to say that Glandstone is the first indigenous woman from the USA to be nominated but Americans call themselves like, you know, the whole continent and apparently believe Mexico is in South America! lol This is something that the “non-American” Americans doesn’t like too much. EDITED, ok this is funny, context: www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/fox-news-apologizes-graphic-about-3-mexican-countries-n989526
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 24, 2024 2:26:24 GMT
I think this man is one of the best actors right now out there. It’s a huge surprise that this is his first nomination,
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Post by queenzod on Jan 24, 2024 3:12:07 GMT
He’s been one of the best for decades. I first noticed his tremendous performance in Basquiat in the 80s. Such talent!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 24, 2024 11:11:39 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Jan 24, 2024 16:43:55 GMT
The Native-American thing it is just how they call the indigenous people in the US, which for them is America. I once reply to a tweet to a journalist that posted a photo of them at the southest point of America commenting that America's southest point was near the Antartic (joking) and they blocked me. Haha
The Greta/Margot thing it's getting ridiculous.
Didn't Gerwig benefited from the Meetoo movement in 2017 and the backlash against the DGA for only nominating men and they nominated her?
Perhaps I'm wrong and biased because I just don't like GG much, Lady Bird included.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 24, 2024 17:19:33 GMT
That tweet is extremely cringe! I saw it a few minutes ago and just ignored it because the second hand embarrassment! lol
Yes, Americans call themselves Americans and what else could you call them? Here we call them “estadunidenses” but the funny part is that if you are strict we also are “estadunidenses” because our country is called Estados Unidos Mexicanos. That’s the official name! But of course, we aren’t estadunidenses!
It’s also common that some Americans consider Mexico as part of Center America instead of North but the issue with that is well.. that’s the map shows otherwise! Also it’s also common that Center America is also considered North America.
The difference is the ethnicity. They consider that the North part of the continent is (mostly) Anglo-Saxon and Center/South is Latino or Hispanic, the problem is what about the indigenous people? Are they North Native Americans because they live around (mostly) Anglo-Saxons? But yeah, they wanted to say she was the first local Native American nominee but the accidental erasure of others with the way their verbalized it kinda messed up with the idea of inclusiveness and diversity of the achievement.
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Post by mllemass on Jan 24, 2024 17:21:55 GMT
I haven’t watched any Greta Gerwig movies because they sound awful! If they can’t even make the ads appealing enough for me to want to watch, there’s no way I’m going to expect to like the movie.
I realize that most viewers disagree with me, since Barbie made more than a billion dollars, but money doesn’t prove a movie is good. All those loud action movies (including the Marvel movies) make tons of money, but no one is insisting that they must be good!
What bothers me the most about the GG movies is that people keep slapping a “feminist” label on them. From the criticisms I’ve read, GG dumbs down her movies and has characters give speeches about women’s rights, or about our patriarchal society being unfair. It’s lazy storytelling. Shouldn’t the story or plot give that message? Why have a character say it in words? I have to think that she is dumbing it down so that our tiny girl brains will “get” it and not have to think very hard. Ugh! It’s infuriating!
Give me an ending like The Power of the Dog - maybe it left some people confused, but at least it made us think because it wasn’t all explained.
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Post by queenzod on Jan 24, 2024 19:25:22 GMT
The speech in Barbie is exactly like what you’re referring to, Mllemass. It was broad and unsubtle, but the delivery of it was so excellent it made up for hammer it was hitting you over the head with.
Twitter is having (another) meltdown because only Ryan Gosling got a nom - not Gerwig or Robbie. They have a point. A woman centered film and the two women at the helm got blown off and a MAN got the nom. I’m not worked up about it, it’s only the Oscars and we already know how lame they’ve become, but it is a slap in the face to women and their stories.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jan 24, 2024 21:21:17 GMT
TBF they also nominated to America Ferrera (a woman) in something that was considered a surprise. Why her and not Margot Robbin? Maybe because “Supporting” categories are less competitive.
Considering Ferrera was nominated (and that Barbie, the film is also in the ten Best Film nominees), I would guess that a good number of voters also considered Robbin and GG but the competition in their categories was much stronger.
It’s like when BC used to lost the Best Actor category for Sherlock while his supporting actors won. He was kinda the series but his category was just more competitive.
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Post by MagdaFR on Feb 19, 2024 11:44:39 GMT
BAFTA - Winners
BEST FILM - OPPENHEIMER Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM - THE ZONE OF INTEREST Jonathan Glazer, PGA
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER - EARTH MAMA Savanah Leaf (Writer, Director, Producer), Shirley O'Connor (Producer), Medb Riordan (Producer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE - THE ZONE OF INTEREST Jonathan Glazer, PGA
DOCUMENTARY - 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson Rath
ANIMATED FILM - THE BOY AND THE HERON Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki
BAFTA - DIRECTING - WRITING DIRECTOR - OPPENHEIMER Christopher Nolan
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY - ANATOMY OF A FALL Justine Triet, Arthur Harari
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY - AMERICAN FICTION Cord Jefferson
LEADING ACTRESS - EMMA STONE Poor Things
LEADING ACTOR - CILLIAN MURPHY Oppenheimer
SUPPORTING ACTRESS - DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH The Holdovers
SUPPORTING ACTOR - ROBERT DOWNEY JR. Oppenheimer
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