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Spirited Away: The nightmarish fantasy that brought Studio Ghibli to the west
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My final Oscar predictions for the 94th Academy Awards
Okay, I’ve been bombarding all of you with article after article of what other award shows have been nominating and awarding. Here are the nominations for what I had in November. It’s interesting...
Okay, I’ve been bombarding all of you with article after article of what other award shows have been nominating and awarding.
Here are the nominations for what I had in November. It’s interesting to see how much has changed, sadly it seems like The Last Duel is going to end up with zero awards.
Anyways, if you have an Oscar pool going what I’m about to give you would probably put you at the top if your friends don’t follow awards. I did place 30 out of 2200 on Goldderby for my BAFTA nomination predictions so there’s that.
Here’s what I have, in order of what is most likely to win as of right now:
Best Picture
- The Power of the Dog
- Belfast
- Licorice Pizza
- Dune
- Don’t Look Up
- West Side Story
- King Richard
- CODA
- tick, tick... BOOM!
- Being the Ricardos
Alternative choice: House of Gucci
Best Director
- Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
- Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
- Denis Villeneuve - Dune
- Kenneth Branagh - Belfast
- Steven Spielberg - West Side Story
Alternative choice: Adam McKay - Don’t Look Up
Best Lead Actor
- Will Smith - King Richard
- Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
- Andrew Garfield - tick, tick... BOOM!
- Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Don’t Look Up
Alternative choice: Javier Bardem - Being the Ricardos
Best Lead Actress
- Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
- Alana Haim - Licorice Pizza
- Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos
- Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye
- Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter
Alternative choice: Rachel Zegler - West Side Story
Best Supporting Actor
- Kodi Smit-Mcphee - The Power of the Dog
- Ciaran Hinds - Belfast
- Troy Kotsure - CODA
- Bradley Cooper - Licorice Pizza
- Jared Leto - House of Gucci
Alternative choice: Jamie Dornan - Belfast
Best Supporting Actress
- Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
- Aunjuane Ellis - King Richard
- Caitriona Balfe - Belfast
- Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog
- Cate Blanchett - Don’t Look Up
Note: I’m actually taking a big risk in predicting Blanchett, Ruth Negga - Passing seems to be the most obvious fifth choice.
Best Original Screenplay
- Licorice Pizza
- Belfast
- Don’t Look Up
- King Richard
- Being the Ricardos
Best Adapted Screenplay
- The Power of the Dog
- CODA
- Dune
- The Lost Daughter
- West Side Story
Alternative choice: tick, tick... BOOM!
Best Cinematography
- Dune
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- The Power of the Dog
- West Side Story
- Belfast
Alternative choice: Nightmare Alley
Best Film Editing
- Dune
- Belfast
- Licorice Pizza
- The Power of the Dog
- West Side Story
Alternative choice: Don’t Look Up
Best Costume Design
- Cruella
- Dune
- West Side Story
- House of Gucci
- Nightmare Alley
Alt: Cyrano
Best Hair and Makeup
- House of Gucci
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye
- Dune
- Cruella
- Coming 2 America
Alt: Cyrano
Best Production Design
- Dune
- West Side Story
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Nightmare Alley
- The French Dispatch
Alt: Licorice Pizza
Best Original Score
- Dune
- The Power of the Dog
- Don’t Look Up
- The French Dispatch
- Encanto
Alt: Being the Ricardos
Best Original Song
- No Time To Die from No Time To Die
- Dos Oruguitas from Encanto
- Just Look Up from Don’t Look Up
- Be Alive from King Richard
- Down to Joy from Belfast
Alt: Guns Go Bang from The Harder They Fall
Best Sound
- Dune
- West Side Story
- No Time To Die
- The Power of the Dog
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
Alt: A Quiet Place Part II
Best Visual Effects
- Dune
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- No Time To Die
- Godzilla vs Kong
- The Matrix: Resurrections
Alt: Shang-Chi and the legend of the Ten Rings.
Best Animated Feature
- Encanto
- Flee
- Luca
- The Mitchell’s vs the Machines
- Raya and the Last Dragon
Alt: Belle
Best Documentary Feature
- Summer of Soul
- Flee
- The Rescue
- Procession
- Ascension
Best International Feature
- Drive My Car
- The Hand of God
- Flee
- A Hero
- The Worst Person in the World
And those are all the categories. Oscar nominations will be announced on the 8th and of course I will be posting them.
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Arthur S25E04 - Blabbermouth/All Grown Up (Series Finale)
5 votes -
Mark Osborne's MORE
1 vote -
The future of sea level rise is being written underneath Antarctica and Greenland
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
5 votes -
What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Star Wars: Project 4K80 (Empire) Beta is out!
The last part of the original trilogy has been completed! For those unaware, the 4K## project from Team Negative 1 is a full remastering of the original trilogy from 35mm negatives. Around...
The last part of the original trilogy has been completed! For those unaware, the 4K## project from Team Negative 1 is a full remastering of the original trilogy from 35mm negatives. Around September of 2018 4K77 (A New Hope) was released. Under a year later, 4K83 (Return of the Jedi) was released.
A few years later and the first release of 4K80 (The Empire Strikes Back) is out! Its pretty grainy and does need some work, but this is definitely a project worth keeping an eye on if you're into the OT.
If you want a copy, you can join the forum and use Resilio Sync to get them. 77 and 83 are available on most file sharing platforms, too.
Once 4K80 is a few versions deep, it'll completely unseat the Despecialized version as the purest OT experience, at least in my opinion :)
18 votes -
What really happened during the 2003 blackout?
7 votes -
Who is behind QAnon? Linguistic detectives find fingerprints.
10 votes -
Jack Wilshere has signed for Danish side Aarhus Gymnastikforening on a deal until the end of the season
5 votes -
You should listen to CDs
10 votes -
Covid testing company "selling customers' DNA"
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Soap or Scum? Inside the fight over history's most controversial sitcom
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Where can I buy a kit internal combustion engine?
Title. I am interested in buying a kit model engine to assemble and run. I am fine with anything from a single cylinder to a V8. It has to be a kit. It needs to run on a fuel (I want an actual,...
Title. I am interested in buying a kit model engine to assemble and run.
- I am fine with anything from a single cylinder to a V8.
- It has to be a kit.
- It needs to run on a fuel (I want an actual, running engine)
- It should not be made in China (would strongly prefer US/Europe/Japan).
Are there any particular companies or stores I should look at?
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
6 votes -
The metaverse is so stupid
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Shades of DevOps: Related job titles
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (February 2022)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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What’s something people commonly misunderstand about you?
What’s something people often get wrong about you? Why do you think that happens, and how do you feel about it? Anything is fair game: big or small; significant or insignificant.
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The fastest GIF does not exist
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The plot to destroy Ukraine
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of February 14
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
10 votes -
Valve has now properly started verifying games ahead of the Steam Deck launch
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
6 votes -
Tom Scott plus Access Parkour try parkour
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Google search is dying: Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface.
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
4 votes -
Glass Armonica - playing and caring for an unusual instrument
9 votes -
Sacklers raise their offer to settle opioid lawsuits by more than $1 billion
7 votes -
Disney to build a branded community promising “magic” in the California desert
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Looking for recommendations for self-hostable static blog software
I used to use a random FOSS Python program to manage my blog. The software honestly wasn't the best (partially my own fault for not setting it up super well) and I stopped using it, lost my blog's...
I used to use a random FOSS Python program to manage my blog. The software honestly wasn't the best (partially my own fault for not setting it up super well) and I stopped using it, lost my blog's source code, and haven't updated the blog in a long time because of that. So I'm looking for a static site generator that is simple, well maintained, and no-frills.
14 votes -
Tears - Clean Bandit (Remix) (2022)
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Elvis | Official trailer
7 votes -
The JFK QAnon Cult in Dallas is somehow getting weirder
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Norway has won a 15th gold medal at the 2022 Games – that's more than any other nation has ever won at a single Winter Olympics
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Storm Eunice blows off rooftops with highest wind speeds on record in England
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Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported
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Gizmodo on the Comixology platform retool
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Scriptless
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San Francisco district attorney claims California crime labs are using DNA from sexual assault survivors to investigate unrelated crimes
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Is Firefox okay?
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Secrets of an Excel spreadsheet esports player
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I gave psilocybin a try
Can you answer "yes" to that statement? Tell me about it.
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Can someone explain the systemd controversy to a nontechnical user?
A project I'm working on requires me to cover a bit of comedy targeting Lennart Poettering as it's tangentially related, and I'd like to have more context even though it's not strictly necessary....
A project I'm working on requires me to cover a bit of comedy targeting Lennart Poettering as it's tangentially related, and I'd like to have more context even though it's not strictly necessary. I'm a nontechnical Linux user who used the OS before systemd came around, but really the only impact on my life it's had is that I occasionally use systemctl to control services.
Though I wasn't paying as much attention to the community around the time major distributions switched, I've been casually exposed to criticism of it ever since I came back, and I'd like to make sense of it all and form an opinion beyond "I like Fedora and GNOME and it seems to go hand-in-hand with those". I've read The Biggest Myths, the Wikipedia article, some stuff on freedesktop.org, and of course absorbed the venom slung back and forth over systemd in every FOSS community, but it's hard to get a full picture. And a picture from 2022, for that matter, as a lot of this information comes from its early days. Help me out?
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/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
5 votes