Pretend Movie Critic: Academy Awards Edition
Oscar hopes and predictions with guest pretend movie critic, Andrew Robb-Scott
The academy awards are this evening so we thought we would do a hopes and predictions post together.
Actor in a leading role: Andrew hopes and predicts that Cillian Murphy will win for Oppenheimer. Sara hopes for a Coleman Domingo win for Rustin and predicts that Cillian Murphy will win for Oppenheimer.
Actress in a lead role: Sara hopes and predicts that Lily Gladstone will win for Killers of the Flower Moon, but it will be a close call given Emma Stone’s outstanding performance in Poor Things. Andrew agrees, and thinks that Emma Stone’s performance is a powerhouse, career-defining performance. But, Lily Gladstone carried the embodied trauma of an entire people throughout her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon and she did so beautifully, hauntingly, and with dignity.
Actor in a supporting role: Andrew hopes and predicts that Robert Downey, Jr. will win for Oppenheimer as well as Pretend Movie Critic’s inaugural weirdest speech award) but Robert DeNiro and Sterling K. Brown should stand more of a chance than they’ve been given for their moving performances in Killers of the Flower Moon (DeNiro) and American Fiction (Brown). Sara also predicts that RDJ will win for Oppenheimer, but would like to see Mark Ruffalo receive more praise for his role in Poor Things.
Actress in a supporting role: Sara hopes and predicts that Da’Vine Joy Randolph will win for The Holdovers. Andrew agrees. It was a very embodied performance.
Director: Andrew hopes and predicts that Christopher Nolan will win for Oppenheimer. Sara hopes Yorgos Lanthimous will win for Poor Things and predicts that Christopher Nolan will win for Oppenheimer
Motion Picture: Sara hopes that Poor Things will win and predicts that Oppenheimer will win. Andrew hopes and predicts that Oppenheimer will win.
These are our main hopes and predictions. It’s been a good year for film and we’re excited to see how the evening unfolds, and of course, Ryan Gosling’s live performance of I’m Just Ken.