It's definitely my favorite season...OSCAR season!
There are nine Best Picture nominees this year:
- Call Me By Your Name
- Darkest Hour
- Dunkirk
- Get Out
- Lady Bird
- Phantom Thread
- The Post
- The Shape of Water
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
I am officially ahead of the game in my nominee-watching, having seen SIX of the above films...just saw "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" earlier today.
This is an excellent film. Frances MacDormand is a powerhouse as the main character, and the other main characters (specifically Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell) are stellar as well. It's also a film that establishes early on that there won't be a happy ending. It's a real life piece, and there are moments of happy, but the foundation of the film is based on a very awful incident, and the story doesn't deviate from that. There are no good guys or bad guys. Just people.
So that leaves three films: "Call Me By Your Name", "Darkest Hour", and "Phantom Thread". I will most likely see them individually, though I'll be curious to see what the lineup for AMC's Best Picture Marathon is...they'll have five of the films on the Saturday a week before Oscar night, and the other four the day before the Oscars. If those three just happen to end up on the same day, it might be easier for me to just watch 'em all in a row.
Slowly but surely putting together the Master List of films for the FMT. Coming soon.
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