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From everything I'm reading, Robbie got robbed.

( Full list, highlighted if I've seen it, which I think is 1 right now; 23 categories, 120 nominations, 53 movies )

Yup, I need to do some watching before March.

Breakdown by numbers
Oppenheimer 13 (fee)
Poor Things 11 (in theaters)
Killers of the Flower Moon 10 (Apple)
Barbie 8 (including two for song) (Max)
Maestro 7 (Netflix)
American Fiction 5 (in theaters)
Anatomy of a Fall 5 (fee)
The Holdovers 5 (Peacock)
The Zone of Interest 5 (in theaters)
Napoleon 3 (fee)
The Creator 2 (fee)
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One 2 (fee)
Nyad 2 (Netflix)
Past Lives 2 (fee)
Society of the Snow 2 (Netflix)
20 Days in Mariupol 1
The ABCs of Book Banning 1
The After 1
American Symphony 1 (song)
The Barber of Little Rock 1
Bobi Wine: The People's President 1
The Boy and the Heron 1
The Color Purple 1
El Conde 1
Elemental 1
The Eternal Memory 1
Flamin' Hot 1 (song)
Four Daughters 1
Godzilla Minus One 1
Golda 1
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 1
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 1
Invincible 1
Io Capitano, Italy 1
Island in Between 1
Knight of Fortune 1
The Last Repair Shop 1
Letter to a Pig 1
May December 1
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó 1
Nimona 1
Ninety-Five Senses 1
Our Uniform 1
Pachyderme 1
Perfect Days, Japan 1
Red, White and Blue 1
Robot Dreams 1
Rustin 1
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 1
The Teachers' Lounge, Germany 1
To Kill a Tiger 1
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko 1
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 1

I never know whether to say the current year of the year they came out. Anyway, here they are, in the rather weird order from the Oscar website. I think I've seen... one? Also, I was pulling for Weird Al, darn it.

( And the nominees are... )

If I've got this right, there are 54 films nominated.
( The number in front is how many times it's nominated )

As usual, bold means I've see it. Thanks, Batman!

*Note: 24 of these are currently not streaming anywhere. Another 8 require rental or purchase to view. That leaves only 22 films, 1 of which I've already seen.

ETA: Some of the short films are available for free on Youtube: The Flying Sailor, Ice Merchants, Night Ride, Haulout, and Stranger at the Gate.

I wound up recording the second half of the Oscars last night because I was sleepy. I was not expecting to wake up to what happened. That was deeply disturbing.

I've actually seen enough of these this year to have an opinion!

( And the Oscar goes to... )

Overall: Great films did come out this year, but the problem is the Academy has gotten a little too esoteric with some of these movies, and it's almost become a badge of pride that they snub anything that was popular. This has led to multiple years of people no longer caring about the Oscars anymore because a lot of the films aren't available for everyone to see. Streaming has changed that somewhat, but some of these were still nigh impossible to find, like all the live action shorts except The Long Goodbye. And a few of the nominees were, honestly, terrible. Affair of the Art and The Hand of God, I'm looking at you.

Well, here we go

ETA: Going through and underlining the winners. I wound up seeing 19 of the 23 winners (missing 3 with CODA and 1 with Belfast)

( Considering I saw nothing last year, I can't very well do worse )

I saw 1 with 3 nominations. Okay.
Now 3 for a total of 16 nominations. 2-20
Up to 4 with 18 nominations 2-21
And 5 with 22 nomination 2-23
I've hit 7 with 29 nominations 2-25
I'm at 9 with 33 nominations 2-26
So, 10 with 34 nominations 2-27
Now 11 with 40 nomination 3-4
Got 12 with 41 nominations 3-6
Up to 13 with 43 nominations 3-10
Whew, 14 with 53 nominations 3-11, and I've now seen at least 1 in every category.
16 with 55 nominations, plus all songs, 3-13
17 with 56 nomination, plus songs 3-18
18 with 60 nominations, plus songs 3-19
19 with 61 nominations, plus songs 3-20
20 with 62 nominations, plus songs 3-21
21 with 64 nominations, plus songs 3-22
22 with 67 nominations, plus songs 3-23
23 with 73 nominations, plus songs 3-24
25 with 75 nominations, plus songs 3-25
26 with 76 nominations, plus songs 3-26
27 with 79 nominations (watched about 30 minutes of The Hand of God and couldn't stand it) 3-27

Unsurprisingly, I have seen none of these. More surprisingly, there was a Shaun the Sheep movie about which I knew nothing. Huh.

( A lot of movies under here... )

That's 56 films total with multiple nominations going to 20 films:
10 "Mank" - Netflix
6 "The Trial of the Chicago 7" - Netflix
6 "The Father" - not available anywhere for less than $20
6 "Sound of Metal" - Amazon Prime
6 "Nomadland" - Hulu
6 "Minari" - not available anywhere for less than $20
6 "Judas and the Black Messiah" - no availability
5 "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" - Netflix
4 "News of the World" - rental through Amazon $5.99
4 "Promising Young Woman" - rental through Amazon $5.99
3 "Soul" - Disney Plus
3 "One Night in Miami" - Amazon Prime
2 "Tenet" - rental through Amazon $5.99
2 "Pinocchio" - rental through Amazon $5.99 (I think? 2019?)
2 "Mulan" - Disney Plus
2 "Hillbilly Elegy" - Netflix
2 "Emma" - HBO Max
2 "Collective" - rental through Amazon $3.99
2 "Borat Subsequent MovieFilm" - Amazon Prime
2 "Another Round" - rental through Amazon $3.99

And a single nomination going to 37 films:
"A Concerto Is a Conversation" - no availability
"A Love Song For Latasha" - Netflix
"A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon" - Netflix
"Better Days" - rental through Amazon $0.99
"Burrow" - Letterboxd doesn't have a box on this one
"Colette" - Letterboxd doesn't have a box on this one
"Crip Camp" - Netflix
"Da 5 Bloods" - Netflix
"Do Not Split" - Letterboxd doesn't have a box on this one
"Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga" -
"Feeling Through" - no availability
"Genius Loci" - not listed on Letterboxd
"Greyhound" - no availability for me (Apple Plus)
"Hunger Ward" - Letterboxd doesn't have a box on this one
"If Anything Happens I Love You" - Netflix
"Love and Monsters" - no availability
"My Octopus Teacher" - Netflix
"Onward" - Disney Plus, Amazon
"Opera" - no availability
"Over the Moon" - Netflix
"Pieces of a Woman" - Netflix
"Quo Vadis, Aida?" - rental through Amazon $4.99
"The Letter Room" - not available
"The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)" - Netflix
"The Man Who Sold His Skin" - no availability
"The Midnight Sky" - Netflix
"The Mole Agent" - Amazon
"The One and Only Ivan" - Disney Plus
"The Present" - no availability
"The United States vs. Billie Holiday" - no availability
"The White Tiger" - Netflix
"Time" - Amazon
"Two Distant Strangers" - no availability
"White Eye" - no availability
"Wolfwalkers" - no availability
"Yes-People" - no availability

Ones I've seen (HAHAHAHAHA) in bold:

( and the nominees are... )

Okay, so that's 124 nominations from 53 films. I have currently seen, uh, ~~one~~. 2

Number of nominations for each film
11 JOKER
10 1917
10 ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
10 THE IRISHMAN
6 JOJO RABBIT
6 LITTLE WOMEN
6 MARRIAGE STORY
6 PARASITE
4 FORD V FERRARI
3 BOMBSHELL
3 STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
3 THE TWO POPES
2 HARRIET
2 HONEYLAND
2 JUDY
2 PAIN AND GLORY
2 TOY STORY 4
1 A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
1 A SISTER
1 AD ASTRA
1 AMERICAN FACTORY
1 AVENGERS: ENDGAME
1 BREAKTHROUGH
1 BROTHERHOOD
1 CORPUS CHRISTI
1 DCERA (DAUGHTER)
1 FOR SAMA
1 FROZEN II
1 HAIR LOVE
1 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD
1 I LOST MY BODY
1 IN THE ABSENCE
1 KITBULL
1 KLAUS
1 KNIVES OUT
1 LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL)
1 LES MISÉRABLES
1 LIFE OVERTAKES ME
1 MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL
1 MEMORABLE
1 MISSING LINK
1 NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB
1 RICHARD JEWELL
1 ROCKETMAN
1 SARIA
1 SISTER
1 ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN
1 THE CAVE
1 THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY
1 THE LIGHTHOUSE
1 THE LION KING
1 THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW
1 WALK RUN CHA-CHA

I didn't wind up watching the vast majority of the nominated movies this year, there's no host, and my interest is pretty darn low after all the weird stuff the Academy has been doing to the show.

I do hope Glenn Close finally gets her Oscar though.

I miss Billy Crystal's montages. Anyway, for the heck of it, I'm listing all the best pic winners (courtesy of

petzipellepingo and bolding the ones I've seen. There are some significant holes in here. (ETA most recent)

( And the Oscar goes to... )

So, 42 43 of them. I'm actually more surprised at the break up in the 1950s than anything else, really.

Also, as far as my guesses on who will win: Argo, Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Chastain, Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Hathaway, Brave, and costume design to Les Mis.

I attempted going to the library yesterday to get Midnight in Paris. Possibly Tree of Life. Maybe Beginners.

All were out. Not only out, Beginners had 7 person wait list, Tree of Life had 25, but the real winner was Midnigh in Paris with a grand total of 70 people on the wait list. At a week each, that's way over a year.

Only today did I remember that iTunes rents movies. D'oh!

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