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28 votes
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‘The Flash’ disappoints with $55 million debut, Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ flops with $29.5 million in battle of box office lightweights
50 votes -
US President Joe Biden's Federal Transit Administration announces $1.7 billion in grants for electric bus fleets and infrastructure
34 votes -
Big Giant Circles - HappiNESs (feat. Disasterpeace) (2011)
6 votes -
Aly & AJ - Don’t Need Nothing (2021)
6 votes -
You may soon have to pay more to drive that SUV in New York
37 votes -
Warner Bros. needs to stop copying Disney and let its superheroes fly solo
25 votes -
Relatively early 2024 Oscar predictions
I just realized I haven't made a full post with Oscar predictions since January (did one for the Globes and one for the Guild). Well now that we're half-way through the year, here's where I think...
I just realized I haven't made a full post with Oscar predictions since January (did one for the Globes and one for the Guild). Well now that we're half-way through the year, here's where I think the current Oscar race stands:
Picture:
- The Holdovers
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Dune: Part Two
- Barbie
- Past Lives
- The Zone of Interest
- The Killer
- Saltburn
- Anatomy of a Fall
Director:
- Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
- Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Alexander Payne - The Holdovers
- Denis Villenueve - Dune: Part Two
- Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest
Original Screenplay:
- The Holdovers
- Past Lives
- Saltburn
- Anatomy of a Fall
- May-December
Adapted Screenplay:
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- The Zone of Interest
Lead Actor:
- Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
- Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Barry Keoghan - Saltburn
- Colman Domingo - Rustin
Lead Actress:
- Margot Robbie - Barbie
- Greta Lee - Past Lives
- Natalie Portman - May-December
- Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
- Annette Bening - Nyad
Supporting Actor:
- Robert Downey Jr. - Oppenheimer
- Robert DeNiro - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Ryan Gosling - Barbie
- Jesse Plemmons - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Teo Yoo - Past Lives
Supporting Actress:
- D'avine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
- Lilly Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
- Julianne Moore - May-December
- Rosamund Pike - Saltburn
Cinematography:
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Killer
- The Zone of Interest
Film Editing:
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Dune: Part Two
- The Holdovers
- The Killer
Sound:
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Killer
- Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One
Original Score:
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- The Zone of Interest
- The Killer
- Past Lives
Original Song:
- "Dance the Night" from Barbie
- "Quiet Eyes" from Past Lives
- "More of Us" from Wish
- "Gonna be You" from 80 For Brady
- Original Song from Wonka
Production Design:
- Barbie
- Dune: Part Two
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Wonka
Costume Design:
- Barbie
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- Wonka
- Killers of the Flower Moon
Hair and Make-up:
- Oppenheimer
- Dune: Part Two
- Guaridans of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Renfield
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
VFX:
- Dune: Part Two
- Oppenheimer
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One
- Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Animated Feature:
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- How Do You Live?
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- Wish
- Nimona
7 votes -
The history of how US school buses became yellow
13 votes -
Wes Anderson’s secret weapon: The camera moves of Sanjay Sami
8 votes -
Jerry Uelsmann, the artist who turned photography upside down
5 votes -
How and why the work of John Hart Ely a liberal scholar, profoundly influenced the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v Wade re abortion rights in the US
5 votes -
The surprisingly popular world of online trainspotting
16 votes -
The invisible victims of American anti-semitism
40 votes -
Hidden pain, controlled bodies: Does ballet have to be like this? A recent explosion of revelations from ballet dancers confronts an art form afraid to look itself in the mirror
27 votes -
A sickness and its cure: The crash of Trans-Colorado Airlines flight 2286
12 votes -
The $21,000,000,000 hole in Texas - The Superconducting Super Collider
28 votes -
Culture eats policy
17 votes -
How Christopher Nolan learned to stop worrying and love AI
10 votes -
Senate Intelligence bill gives holders of "non-earth origin or exotic UAP material" six months to make it available to AARO
31 votes -
NASA opposes lithium mining at tabletop flat Nevada site used to calibrate satellites
21 votes -
Fake signals and American insurance: How a dark fleet moves Russian oil
13 votes -
US Senate proposes that radioactive contamination of NATO territory caused by Russia be considered as attack on Alliance
29 votes -
New report from US National Transportation Safety Board says engineer at Norfolk Southern objected to the train weight distribution before catastrophic derailment
22 votes -
Hunter Biden will plead guilty in a deal that likely avoids time behind bars in a tax and gun case
43 votes -
Andrew Bird - Sisyphus (2019)
19 votes -
US rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why.
47 votes -
Spider-Verse artists say working on the sequel was ‘death by a thousand paper cuts’
41 votes -
Aid is the next battleground between China and the West
8 votes -
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge (1992)
30 votes -
US Supreme Court rules 5-4 against Navajo Nation, stating that United States has no "duty" to "supply tribes with adequate water"
73 votes -
When Texas punk band Butthole Surfers finally scored a hit, their fans never forgave them
20 votes -
A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections
28 votes -
A $48 billion debt is crushing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Paying it off could disrupt the future of New York City transit.
28 votes -
FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal
52 votes -
Teresa Taylor/Nervosa dies: Butthole Surfers drummer and memorable ‘Slacker’ actor was 60
19 votes -
US Navy 'knew about Titanic sub implosion days ago'
64 votes -
Taylor Swift is an unlikely public transit icon
9 votes -
The troubling history of tipping in American restaurants
15 votes -
'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the US
104 votes -
This is why it’s so hard to find mental health counseling in the USA right now
56 votes -
US Coast Guard to have a press conference to discuss the apparent debris field of uncertain origin found near the Titanic at 3pm EST
42 votes -
Secret of Boris - Room 101 (2023)
7 votes -
Seattle plans to extend and upgrade Third Avenue transit mall in 2024
16 votes -
Cannon fodder: The US judge in the Donald Trump documents case sets an early trial date, but that's not happening
18 votes -
Origami Angel - Picture Frame (2023)
6 votes -
The fake poor bride: Confessions of a luxury-wedding planner
21 votes -
What the hell happened to the California of the ’50s and ’60s?
12 votes -
Dear David Zaslav: Gutting TCM will not help you win filmmakers back to Warner Bros
15 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 19
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
28 votes