Oscar Season Official Thread 2025-2026

I was going to say, Leo has indeed let himself go.

Main Competition (Venezia 82)

Golden Lion: Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch

Grand Jury Prize: The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania

Special Jury Prize: Below the Clouds by Gianfranco Rosi

Silver Lion: Benny Safdie for The Smashing Machine

Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Xin Zhilei for The Sun Rises on Us All

Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Toni Servillo for La grazia

Best Screenplay: Valérie Donzelli and Gilles Marchand for At Work

Marcello Mastroianni Award: Luna Wedler for Silent Friend

On Christy, Sydney Sweeney’s attempt at going butch for Oscar glory:

[quote] Meanwhile, Nick Schager wrote for The Daily Beast that Sweeney “gives a believable performance that almost transcends her role’s derivativeness. This manipulative hybrid of Rocky, Million Dollar Baby, and Monster, however, is so rote that even an A.I. wouldn’t dare try to pass it off as original.

Ouch.

That One Battle After Another movie had the most tepid trailer I've sat through in a while.

Jarmusch’a film gives me pause. Imagine if we had Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett competing in the same category.

It would be 90s heaven. Like an holy implosion of JLo’s Movieline interview and Gwyneth’s Oscar speech .

PTA’s new film One Battle After Another gets high praise from Spielberg.

I was considering the oddness of Chloe Zhao having two Directing Oscars before him.

The Oscars can go whichever way they like, but surely there is no doubt that unless John Chu screws the second half really bad, the constantly revisited classic from this year is going to be the [complete] Wicked?

Is Hollywood so determined on its own irrelevance that, in the full knowledge of that, it really wants the Oscars to ignore it? Or does DL just not want it considered because it is about women?

DL thinksme. Wicked movies Wicked are just meh.

Damn autocorrect. DL thinks Wicked movies are just meh.

Kiss Of The Spiderwoman, Bill Condon

Oh. So if you don't like Wicked, you're misogynistic.

I'm confused by One Battle After Another.

One: It has a terrible title.

Two: If it's so good, then where's the buzz? Ads? It opens this month.

Three: Why is it avoiding the festivals?

I think PT Anderson is a terrific director so I can't see it not being at least pretty good.

"One Battle..." is supposed to be "inspired" but Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland," which was one of my favorite novels ever. It was a comedy, though and this movie looks pretty serious.

[quote] Why is it avoiding the festivals?

I wonder if that is a strategy?

The social media embargo for One Battle After Another expired this morning and the praise is very very high so far

With Starletta DuPois as Grandma Jennie.

As long as we don't see J-Ho, Goop, Timothee Chatroulette and specially Pedro Pascal get Oscar nominations next year, then I don't mind another pretentious/overhyped Oscar campaign for DiCaprio.

I'm really hoping we DON'T get nominations for Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Jeremy Allan White, Timotay and Goop. They're already pushing very hard for them.

Julia and Geeorge's movies both got meh reviews so I think those dreams are dying. Goop and TimTam's movie hasn't even been SEEN by anyone...it's all hyperbole and bullshit at this point.

Just because he should have an Oscar, I hope One Battle After Another actually is great and PT Anderson finally gets an Oscar. It's ridiulous he doesn't have one. I thing they're doing the stealth thing for this movie. Careful and subtle and not obvious.

Fincher, too.

It’s always Oscar season on DL.

Why is Timothy leading the best actor nom list? Have the Gold Derby folk actually seen his movie?

I hope OBAA is really a great film. The past decade has been very devoid of great films.

R21 Because Timotay and the studios behind his movies, are willing to pay the money to promote his Oscar chances...for movies that aren't even finished. And, he has lunatic fanbots.

Gold Derby is full of loons pushing agendas. Which sometimes work.

I think Tessa Thompson is an ideal choice to play Hedda Gabler. She had that sense of superiority and personal myth making going back to Veronica Mars.

But in the current climate, having this play on film as opposed to on stage will have people screaming “woke” and “unrealistic”.

I don’t care if he is directed by a Safdie, Dwayne cannot act.

He would be a popular flyover choice.

The Rock is a big Israel guy.