The 2024-25 Awards Season Thread

[genevieve]

I was hoping if Demi didn't win that Fernanda Torres would, but congratulations to Mikey Madison!

 

[Allskate]

Hulu cut me off where are you watching this?

I'm still watching on Hulu.

 

[Desperado]

Is there a When Harry Met Sally revival coming outside of the mayo commercial?

 

[ilovepaydays]

Best Picture: ANORA!!!

 

[Mozart]

Demi being snubbed for a younger hot actress is totally the plot of the substance

 

[PRlady]

Nope, nope, nope.

 

[my little pony]

I know the winners will all be people I wouldnt vote for but each time I'm surprised anyway

 

[peibeck]

Demi being snubbed for a younger hot actress is totally the plot of the substance

And probably also the plot of the mainly still many male Academy voters.

 

[Mozart]

They have a hate on for horror movies so can't reward them. Surprised that the substance won anything even though the one they won was highly deserved

 

[PRlady]

I couldn’t even watch the clips from Substance. Nominating a movie most people wouldn’t watch for a thousand dollars is weird. Other movies might bore me or be not my thing but something that horrific, no.

One critic said the last half hour should be watched through a tarp.

 

[Mozart]

There are tons of people who really liked the substance. Horror is a legit genre and this movie made it's point very clearly. There have been many good horror movies come out lately but the academy refuses to acknowledge it. Demi won lots of other awards for this role so it's not like many people didn't see how well she did.

 

[Cachoo]

I wonder what Mikey Madison's reaction would be if someone told her on March 2, 2024 than one year later she would win an Oscar. If I was her I'm not sure I could get my mind around it.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

What!?!

I don’t understand did Anora just start coming on strong in the last four days? Where did all of this come from?

 

[Allskate]

Nominating a movie most people wouldn’t watch for a thousand dollars is weird.

There are plenty of movies that get nominated even though most people wouldn't watch them. But, yeah, I have no interest in watching a horror movie, no matter how good the acting is.

 

[beepbeep]

Having Fernanda snubbed snubbed by the youngest, weaker actress of the bunch, is just
True in 99, true in 2025.
And wearing a pink dress too.

Jokes aside, so much for celebrating mature actresses. Just hand it over to the hot, young one playing a hipersexualized role, because, in the end, that’s still what really matters in Hollywood.

Meh.
If not Fernanda Torres (pardon my bias), it should have been Demi Moore.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Nope, nope, nope.

And this is why I wasn’t interested in this year’s movies and this year’s Oscar ceremony. Plus, it seems like almost all the categories come from a handful of movies. There’s no Maria, no babygirl, no last showgirl, a lot of the nominations are all pulling from the same five or six movies and that’s it.

Its like they picked six or seven movies, and they say let’s fill all categories from these 6/7 movies.

 

[Allskate]

And this is why I wasn’t interested in this year’s movies and this year’s Oscar ceremony. Plus, it seems like almost all the categories come from a handful of movies. There’s no Maria, no babygirl, no last showgirl, a lot of the nominations are all pulling from the same five or six movies and that’s it.

Its like they picked six or seven movies, and they say let’s fill all categories from these 6/7 movies.

Yeah, that happens a lot, though, not just this year.

 

[Mozart]

On the same note you couldn't pay me enough to watch dune 2 but I still acknowledge that it deserves awards.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

To be included in the in memoriam, it doesn’t go by calendar year, it goes up until the day before the ceremony broadcasts

Michelle Trachtenberg, Shannen Doherty, Tony Todd Among Those Omitted From Oscars In Memoriam Segment — Variety

The 2025 Oscars got reflective with the traditional In Memoriam segment celebrating the entertainment figures who died over the past year as the names scrolled onscreen.

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Michelle Trachtenberg, Shannen Doherty, Tony Todd Among Those Omitted From Oscars In Memoriam Segment

 

[Allskate]

On the same not you couldn't pay me enough to watch dune 2 but I still acknowledge that it deserves awards.

Yeah, I still haven't watched Dune. And I turned off Emilia Perez about 25 minutes in. Not my thing. Ditto for Shogun.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Yeah, that happens a lot, though, not just this year.

I mean, Saroise Ronan had two stellar, fantastic movies to be included for best actress, there was June Squibb. There was so many things to pull from …. It doesn’t need every single actor from Emilia Perez. Lol.

They could’ve picked Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore. Not 10 nominations from wicked, 15 from Emilia Perez, four from brutalist four from a complete unknown. For me it was just disappointing. OK my rant is done. Lol

 

[Trillian]

I couldn’t even watch the clips from Substance. Nominating a movie most people wouldn’t watch for a thousand dollars is weird. Other movies might bore me or be not my thing but something that horrific, no.

One critic said the last half hour should be watched through a tarp.

I saw The Substance in a theater, and after it ended, I thought there might be some rude comments from the guys in the theater who were expecting a more traditional, less arthouse horror movie. Instead there was absolute silence until one guy near me just whispered, “Jesus.” So for me, it was a great example of a movie that made exactly the point it was trying to make. Definitely not for everyone, but so good for what it was.

I’m not mad about Mikey Madison winning because she was great in Anora, but I’m in the “if anyone got robbed, it was Fernanda Torres” camp, personally.

 

[PRlady]

Having Fernanda snubbed snubbed by the youngest, weaker actress of the bunch, is just
True in 99, true in 2025.
And wearing a pink dress too.

Jokes aside, so much for celebrating mature actresses. Just hand it over to the hot, young one playing a hipersexualized role, because, in the end, that’s still what really matters in Hollywood.

Meh.
If not Fernanda Torres (pardon my bias), it should have been Demi Moore.

I agree with the hyper sexual male gaze thing with Anora. I found it distasteful and sm so done with glorifying sex work when so many women in it are victims. It was a movie about trashy people. Who happened to be Russian which (I admit I’m prejudiced) made it worse. The ending was pure male fantasy.

That said, it was an unusual movie, with interesting cinematic choices and good performances. Worth seeing, just not a best picture. But then I’ve thought that about most BPs in the last ten years.

The best part of the night was the speeches from the Israeli and Palestinian directors of No Other Land.

 

[Allskate]

I mean, Saroise Ronan had two stellar, fantastic movies to be included for best actress, there was June Squibb. There was so many things to pull from …. It doesn’t need every single actor from Emilia Perez. Lol.

Yeah, though some of the other awards shows were even worse. Selena Gomez didn't get nominated this time.

 

[ilovepaydays]

I don’t understand did Anora just start coming on strong in the last four days? Where did all of this come from?

The momentum for Anora started in early February when this happened:

OOH! More from last night!

The Directors Guild of America Awards winners

The Producers Guild of America Awards winners

This awards season is bonkers.

Then Mikey won BAFTA Best Actress and it kept going from there.

 

[peibeck]

Although I expected Demi to win after 4 decades of work, it's not like I think she's the most remarkable actress. So maybe her loss is less about the Academy shunning horror (although they did nominate "The Substance" for Picture too) it is more that voters preferred the lead in the movie they also voted Best Picture?

 

[Allskate]

Okay, so what movies are streaming that should have been nominated in some category, but didn't. I'd like to add some of them to my list.

I did see June Squibb in Thelma and she was very good.

And I do want to see The Last Showgirl.

 

[Jay42]

I mean, Saroise Ronan had two stellar, fantastic movies to be included for best actress, there was June Squibb. There was so many things to pull from …. It doesn’t need every single actor from Emilia Perez. Lol.

They could’ve picked Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore. Not 10 nominations from wicked, 15 from Emilia Perez, four from brutalist four from a complete unknown. For me it was just disappointing. OK my rant is done. Lol

Honestly I agree, I'm guessing this is a side effect of the strikes slowing things down, this was kind of an off year Oscar wise for me. I haven't been super interested in any of the major nominees outside of the animation and that is very rare.

 

[Tinycities]

I’m clearly an anomaly but I loved Anora. I thought it meshed genres incredibly well, as well as languages and different styles of humor.

Conclave was my probably my favorite this year, but I’m not mad Anora won.

 

[Cachoo]

Women comprise 35% of Academy membership. It would be interesting to find out how the votes differ from men to women.