He should also win an Oscar for recaping every award show including the Oscars. Every time i'm bored, i often look back to Dan's comment on the Oscar slap lol
Im not as ambitious as Dan and only watched the 10 best picture noms but American Fiction was a pleasant surprise for me as well. Loved it! As for the Barbie of it all, while I definitely think no one should be criticized for not feeling the same about a movie as others, as Dan rightly points out, sometimes this is because a movie is categorically not made for you. And I think the flip side of that is, people need to stop calling movies 'trash' or 'not good' just because it doesn't speak to them personally. And I'm not saying this is a men vs women thing, but it would be silly not to acknowledge that for the better part of our history, male centric stories have been the dominant voice in entertainment. So when a movie comes along that speaks to women's stories, and there's a huge rush to tell us that it's a garbage movie and my personal favourite 'Ken was the only good part of it anyway', yeah, I can see why people get a little annoyed. The movie isn't for you, be like Dan, acknowledge that and move on. But don't discredit something just because it wasn't made to cater to your specific viewpoint.
I once shared a quote from my Oppenheimer review where I mentioned that I got bored and walked out. Someone commented to say "I disagree!" How?! Were they saying I didn't walk out?
The commenter was likely disagreeing with the absurdity of a so-called reviewer who walked out on a film and then chose to persist with sharing his opinion on that very same film.
People with short attention spans have tiktok, the rest of us deserve long and detailed films like Oppenheimer. Its a shame you were bored but at least you have tiktok
@handsworth101 what's funny is that, even though you're insulting me, you at least seem to understand that a film can boring for one person and not boring for another. Rather than Objectively Not Boring. So well done, you get it.
Society of the Snow and Nimona were a really lovely surprise for me and they've become some of my favorite films of all time. I must have seen each one around 20 times so far. I wasn't expecting Nimona to get the nom, not because it's undeserving (If I'm objective, I'd put it third in this year's animated category) but because it's had such an underdog story and achieved a sort of cult popularity without most of the general public even being aware of its existence. The animation style was obviously influenced by the first Spiderverse film although it has its own artistic style, similar to Puss in Boots The Last Wish. I'm really enjoying this sort of renaissance of animation that came after Spiderverse although I'm sort of apprehensive about the big studios having their way with it and ruining it like they did with other styles. One correction is that it wasn't cancelled because of corporate mergers. Disney actually tried to get the creators to drop a lot of the gay stuff (I'm convinced that if they got their hands on it earlier they would have turned Goldenloin into a woman to make it a het relationship) but they were still unsatisfied and then they took the pandemic as an excuse to scrap the whole thing after it was 70% finished. The creators eventually managed to get it acquired by Netflix and Anapurna and were able to salvage it. Society of the Snow should have been nominated in a dozen other categories, in my opinion. Most importantly cinematography, sound design, and score. The upsetting thing is that these categories were filled with undeserving films that got there solely on their filmmaker's prior popularity.
Calm down..Dune 2 wouldn't even compete anything above the line..below the line, but no acting nods at all..and Oppenheimer and Nolan would still take home the Oscars easy
I think Bradley’s nom should have gone to Zach Efron, so surprised Iron Claw was snubbed. I personally would love to see The Creator or Godzilla Minus One win the best visual effects Oscar.. I feel like Disney and Warner Bro could take a few lessons from those pictures n they totally deserve the dub
Best Picture: Oppenheimer Best Director: Christopher Nolan Best Actor: Cillian Murphy Best Actress: Lily Gladstone Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr.
Still can't believe that suicide squad can officially call itself "Oscar winning", must've had no competition in makeup that year...or the academy has a sense of humor 😆
Amazing video! I was looking for someone reviewing all Oscar nominees so I'm very glad you made this. It would be even more interesting if you gave a star-rating to each film in my opinion. Hopefully next year :)
I’ve also watched every nominated film, so I’m really looking forward to this one. Btw, my condolences for watching all those depressing documentaries.
Thank you for the reviews Dan!! I always try to watch the oscar nominees and have been super late to do so this year so this is super helpful to figure out where to start. Btw, you mentioned revisiting your top 10 movies from previous years -- that would be awesome. Super interested in how much your opinion changes with time.
Thank you so much for this breakdown. I've kept up with the 10 movies nominated for Best Picture and the subsequent nominations those movies have, but the movies outside of those 10 I haven't been paying much attention to. I'm going to try and watch a couple before this Sunday
I don’t know how you do it. Seems almost impossible to get to every of these. Anyways here’s my ranking of the best picture noms 8. Barbie 7. Killers of the Flower Moon 6. Past Lives 5. Anatomy of a Fall 4. The Holdovers 3. Maestro 2. Poor Things 1. Oppenheimer
Dan, thank you for this. I tend to watch only a few review sites, and many of these movies had not been covered. This gives me a list of movies to chase down and see.
Pride myself on seeing every BP nominee before the Oscars and my theater finally got Zone of Interest this weekend. Seeing it today. Anyways, Maestro is dead last.
I just saw robot dreams last night and it was amazing. I always love and support indie animation and to see a film get the ultimate honor of being nominated for best animated film is amazing.
I’ve got this feeling another film, perhaps The Holdovers, will win Best Picture. Oppenheimer got a lukewarm reception to its wins at SAG, as opposed to films like Everything Everywhere and Coda that received enthusiastic applause at SAG. Makes me think it might be vulnerable. With the preferential ballot system, it opens the door to the #2 movie on peoples’ ballots. And I suspect that will be The Holdovers for a lot of voters. It won’t have a lot of #1s, but it may get a lot of #2s.
I might be more on board with this had Oppenheimer not won multiple awards at SAG, including Best Actor for Cillian Murphy over Paul Giamatti. I've seen no indications that its popularity is waning amongst any group. Having been to a few awards shows myself, I can tell you that these people are exhausted from running the awards circuit for months. I don't know if I'd take in-the-room reactions as a huge indicator.
@@DanMurrellMovies Well, they weren’t too tired to give Lily Gladstone a rapturous ovation. Awards can be a cerebral thing, but they’re most often an emotional thing. So I often look to what the crowd are reacting to emotionally, and where is the emotion lacking, not in who has won what. That’s often, for me, a more consistent indicator. To give an idea what I’m thinking about: 1917. It won the Directors Guild. It won the PGA. It won the Bafta. But the response was always muted. But when Parasite won at SAG the response was enormous. (1917 wasn’t nominated, which isn’t surprising for such a small cast.) That’s what I’m looking at.
I also watched all 5 nominees for the best animated feature and robot dreams is the one that stuck with me. In my perfect world past lives would win best picture, perfect days would win best international.
Happy to hear someone being honest about Barbie. It was a fine movie for me and absolutely nothing more. Also the whole "kenough"/"ken" wordplay is such a forced joke.
The people who loved it were also being honest. I talked about this in this very video. We have to get away from the idea that people who disagree with us are lying or being dishonest.
@@DanMurrellMovies I think this person means "honest" as in *not* pretending to like it more than you actually do because its popular. I think we also have to get away from being too "knee-jerky" when people express an opinion.
If there was more slots for Best Actress, Leonie Benesch should've gotten in. Her performance was terrific in The Teachers' Lounge as it's one of my favorite performances of last year
Love or hate the film, but locking out Guardians Vol.3 from the make-up category was an absolute baffling exclusion. I'm also amongst the fans of Elemental and I'm really glad its getting some love, but I would have loved to have seen Suzume recognised within that catergory too.
I also go out and try to see all the nominated films every year.. and have succeeded the last couple of years... This year I didn't get the last one till right before the Oscars cause Robot Dreams did not get released widely.. they had one screening on wednesday night at 7 right before the oscars and i was able to catch that show fortunately. Other than absolutely hating Wes Anderson buying an Oscar, I agree with much of your comments on the films.
How did Wes Anderson buy an Oscar? I thought his work on the short was to the same level as his usual work - is it just because he made a short film and not a feature?
@@DanMurrellMovies Because he entered the short film category with a big budget project featuring a bunch of Hollywood stars and was competing against low budget independent filmmakers without the industry connections that he has. It's like he said "I can't win an Oscar with my features, let me just go and win with a short." It's kinda cheating.
International nominees just make you realize why American cinema is so dominant in the world. The nominees, and Past Lives who could be easily coopted into that category, are so painfully sloooooooow. It is tiring honestly, especially as a european, to pretend I am enjoying all of them. The older I get the more I feel disrespected by the runtime of these slow movies. That is why The Zone of Interest is as good as it is - it is painfully slow, but intentionally and only for 100 minutes. It knows how much is needed to get the point across.
I disagree - I think this is a very strong crop of nominees. Io Capitano is 120 minutes, and not at all what I'd describe as slow, with several very intense sequences. Society of the Snow is longer at 144 minutes but again, not at all what I would describe as slow, often a very harrowing survival drama. The Teachers' Lounge is the shortest, at 99 minutes, and talky, but not what I'd describe as slow. The only film apart from The Zone of Interest is Perfect Days which is slow and also 124 minutes. But I wouldn't say all of the nominees feel the same.
@@DanMurrellMovies but they are all "heavy" watches. They do not flow as easily. I admit I did not see Society of the Snow as I've seen Alive and I felt no need to see the same story twice, though knowing the director it surely is not slow. But the rest did feel slow to me. And watching european cinema in general it just feels like it does not have any rhythm. And the same director, like Yorgos Lanthimos, would make a crawl speed movie in Europe (Dogtooth, The Lobster), and then a high pace fluid movies in America (The Favourite, Poor Things). I do think it is a culture difference.
Dan do you think Dune 2 will/ could pull off an Everything Everywhere All at Once and be remembered at next years oscars and come out with best picture or another big award?
I know Zone of Interest won't win Best Picture, but it should. Past Lives would be my second pick. I love a good quiet movie. Perfect Day would be my pick for best International Feature.
I enjoyed Perfect Days but I cannot understand why Japan submitted that film instead of Hirokazu Koreeda's Monster. It seems very unusual that they would submit a German director rather than one of the most decorated directors they've ever produced. I'd like to learn what was behind that decision.
Past Lives deserved more recognition. Oppenheimer I thought was just okay. Flower Moon justified its runtime MUCH more.I hope Oppie doesn’t sweep but it likely will besides for any female roles. Personally, The Leftovers if my fave of the year and really hoping Giamatti can pull off an upset. I def think he’s the rightful best actor out of the nominees. Poor Things on Hulu this Thursday and I’ll have almost seen all the Best Pictures. Zone of Interest still hard to come by
Might get hate for this but Past Lives for me is a movie with around 3 good scenes and a lot of nothing between those moments. It is a very American lense on the migrant experience for me and so maybe that's why certain aspects just fell flat for me.
Hi Dan; leaving you a message because this movie can be in next year's Academy Awards Review video.. I know how much you loved and I mean loved the first movie... March 26 is going to be a special day for you.. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 comes out... I know this news will be very exciting for you and let us know what you think of what is probably an academy award film... LOL!!!! but all joking aside will you be watching??
it was nice to see another perspective on Nimona. I hated the film, but I'm glad I got to hear another point of view that was thoughtful and not just gushing affection
Curious as to why you hated the movie? I loved it (though I may be biased as the original graphic novel is one of my favourites). I can see why it might not connect with people but I'm surprised anyone could hate it.
@@booksvsmovies Mostly it was the way the movie wanted to talk down to the audience. Felt like i was watching something for 10 year old kids that thought it was appealing to everyone. I didn't get through more than half the runtime because i lost patience.
My favorite movie of the year is going to lose to my 2nd favorite movie of the year in the animated feature category. I loved Spiderverse a lot, and it fully deserves the win its about to get, but Nimona... Nimona spoke to me in ways few movies do. I love that movie more than I ever expected to.
Invincible was by far my favorite and most impressive of the short films outside of Wes Anderson of course. I still prefer Invincible with its excellent direction and acting. I think the young actor in that film was the best of all of them.
100% votings lists awards Oppenheimer Godzilla minus one Spider-Man across the spiderverse The boy of heron Guardians of the galaxy 3 Mission Impossible
Dan should win an Oscar for movies/box office coverage. he does an amazing job
He should also win an Oscar for recaping every award show including the Oscars. Every time i'm bored, i often look back to Dan's comment on the Oscar slap lol
I started watching Dan for the industry breakdowns, but I’m starting to realize that he’s low key an incredible film critic.
Major props to Dan for watching every single nominated film. I still haven’t even gotten through all the above-the-line nominees yet!
Very nice to see other UA-camrs doing big Oscar videos/reviews! Excited to watch this one... 🙂
Im not as ambitious as Dan and only watched the 10 best picture noms but American Fiction was a pleasant surprise for me as well. Loved it!
As for the Barbie of it all, while I definitely think no one should be criticized for not feeling the same about a movie as others, as Dan rightly points out, sometimes this is because a movie is categorically not made for you. And I think the flip side of that is, people need to stop calling movies 'trash' or 'not good' just because it doesn't speak to them personally. And I'm not saying this is a men vs women thing, but it would be silly not to acknowledge that for the better part of our history, male centric stories have been the dominant voice in entertainment. So when a movie comes along that speaks to women's stories, and there's a huge rush to tell us that it's a garbage movie and my personal favourite 'Ken was the only good part of it anyway', yeah, I can see why people get a little annoyed. The movie isn't for you, be like Dan, acknowledge that and move on. But don't discredit something just because it wasn't made to cater to your specific viewpoint.
Thank you. Well said. I loved Barbie and did not like Oppenheimer but I respect others' positive reactions to Oppenheimer.
That’s true, but I also think people are too sensitive about other people’s opinions and should relax.
Thank you Dan for putting in so much time and energy to show us each and every one of these ❤
robot dreams is giving past lives animation vibes, one of the best movie this year.
Sucks for us that it's only getting a theatrical release after the Oscars, but all the same...
I once shared a quote from my Oppenheimer review where I mentioned that I got bored and walked out. Someone commented to say "I disagree!" How?! Were they saying I didn't walk out?
The commenter was likely disagreeing with the absurdity of a so-called reviewer who walked out on a film and then chose to persist with sharing his opinion on that very same film.
I'm not a reviewer, I'm a driving instructor
People with short attention spans have tiktok, the rest of us deserve long and detailed films like Oppenheimer. Its a shame you were bored but at least you have tiktok
@handsworth101 I'm 40, don't have tiktok and love all of Nolan's movies. It was boring.
@handsworth101 what's funny is that, even though you're insulting me, you at least seem to understand that a film can boring for one person and not boring for another. Rather than Objectively Not Boring. So well done, you get it.
Society of the Snow and Nimona were a really lovely surprise for me and they've become some of my favorite films of all time. I must have seen each one around 20 times so far.
I wasn't expecting Nimona to get the nom, not because it's undeserving (If I'm objective, I'd put it third in this year's animated category) but because it's had such an underdog story and achieved a sort of cult popularity without most of the general public even being aware of its existence. The animation style was obviously influenced by the first Spiderverse film although it has its own artistic style, similar to Puss in Boots The Last Wish. I'm really enjoying this sort of renaissance of animation that came after Spiderverse although I'm sort of apprehensive about the big studios having their way with it and ruining it like they did with other styles. One correction is that it wasn't cancelled because of corporate mergers. Disney actually tried to get the creators to drop a lot of the gay stuff (I'm convinced that if they got their hands on it earlier they would have turned Goldenloin into a woman to make it a het relationship) but they were still unsatisfied and then they took the pandemic as an excuse to scrap the whole thing after it was 70% finished. The creators eventually managed to get it acquired by Netflix and Anapurna and were able to salvage it.
Society of the Snow should have been nominated in a dozen other categories, in my opinion. Most importantly cinematography, sound design, and score. The upsetting thing is that these categories were filled with undeserving films that got there solely on their filmmaker's prior popularity.
Has anyone mentioned the Oscar themed background in dans office? Impressive and lots of time and effort I’m sure. Well done.
Thank you for the kind and insightful review. ❤
Last night, I started watching old Oscar host monologues on UA-cam. I can’t wait for next Sunday! 🤩🎥🍿
Dude this was amazing! Even as an Oscar fanatic, I don't get to watch EVERYTHING. So this was a perfect supplement. I hope you do this every year.
This year's Oscars would've been so interesting had Dune 2 come out in November as originally intended :)
Completely agree.
Nolan would be sweating a bit more.
At the very least, it certainly would've made the VFX category much more predictable
Calm down..Dune 2 wouldn't even compete anything above the line..below the line, but no acting nods at all..and Oppenheimer and Nolan would still take home the Oscars easy
@@rainmaker1169 Oscars do love biopics and WW2.
I think Bradley’s nom should have gone to Zach Efron, so surprised Iron Claw was snubbed. I personally would love to see The Creator or Godzilla Minus One win the best visual effects Oscar.. I feel like Disney and Warner Bro could take a few lessons from those pictures n they totally deserve the dub
Maestro and The Zone of Interest are the only 2 films from BP I didn't like in the slightest.
Best Picture: Oppenheimer
Best Director: Christopher Nolan
Best Actor: Cillian Murphy
Best Actress: Lily Gladstone
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr.
Still can't believe that suicide squad can officially call itself "Oscar winning", must've had no competition in makeup that year...or the academy has a sense of humor 😆
It was going up against Star Trek: Beyond (which should have won, in my opinion).
There were three films nominated that year, which is weird
I remember the joke being "Suicide Squad has more Oscars than Shawshank Redemption" lol
Yes, Suicide Squad is terrible. But the Killer Croc prosthetic is super impressive. I'm glad that those artists got some recognition!
Bad movies can have amazing make-up effects too. Killer Croc alone warrants the Oscar.
I'm going to get flamed but thank you Dan for the compassion. I didn't love Oppenheimer, I tried but it wasn't me.!
Amazing video! I was looking for someone reviewing all Oscar nominees so I'm very glad you made this. It would be even more interesting if you gave a star-rating to each film in my opinion. Hopefully next year :)
Can't wait to tuck into this! x
I’ve also watched every nominated film, so I’m really looking forward to this one.
Btw, my condolences for watching all those depressing documentaries.
Thank you for the reviews Dan!! I always try to watch the oscar nominees and have been super late to do so this year so this is super helpful to figure out where to start.
Btw, you mentioned revisiting your top 10 movies from previous years -- that would be awesome. Super interested in how much your opinion changes with time.
Thank you so much for this breakdown. I've kept up with the 10 movies nominated for Best Picture and the subsequent nominations those movies have, but the movies outside of those 10 I haven't been paying much attention to. I'm going to try and watch a couple before this Sunday
I’ve never understood why people get offended when you don’t like a movie they loved.
As much as I loved Spidey, I hope The Boy & The Heron wins. Seems like it is the closest race of the night??
I’d say closest race is actress
25:32 robot dreams is amazing. If it were me, I would give them the oscar because it was such a emotional movie. It's so good.
Dan, you are spoiling us. WOW!
I don’t know how you do it. Seems almost impossible to get to every of these. Anyways here’s my ranking of the best picture noms
8. Barbie
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Past Lives
5. Anatomy of a Fall
4. The Holdovers
3. Maestro
2. Poor Things
1. Oppenheimer
This video alone deserves an Oscar. Well done Dan! 🏆
Are you from the future?
Same
Thanks for all the work you put into this Dan, it's a really helpful roundup.
Dan, thank you for this. I tend to watch only a few review sites, and many of these movies had not been covered. This gives me a list of movies to chase down and see.
Pride myself on seeing every BP nominee before the Oscars and my theater finally got Zone of Interest this weekend. Seeing it today.
Anyways, Maestro is dead last.
Wouldn't it be cool if theu open the best picture envelope and it says "Barbenheimer"?
I was really shocked seeing Poor Things in the top 200 on IMDB. Apparently its becoming a cult classic.
Love, love, love this! Thank for this video, Dan!
I just saw robot dreams last night and it was amazing. I always love and support indie animation and to see a film get the ultimate honor of being nominated for best animated film is amazing.
I’ve got this feeling another film, perhaps The Holdovers, will win Best Picture. Oppenheimer got a lukewarm reception to its wins at SAG, as opposed to films like Everything Everywhere and Coda that received enthusiastic applause at SAG. Makes me think it might be vulnerable. With the preferential ballot system, it opens the door to the #2 movie on peoples’ ballots. And I suspect that will be The Holdovers for a lot of voters. It won’t have a lot of #1s, but it may get a lot of #2s.
I might be more on board with this had Oppenheimer not won multiple awards at SAG, including Best Actor for Cillian Murphy over Paul Giamatti. I've seen no indications that its popularity is waning amongst any group. Having been to a few awards shows myself, I can tell you that these people are exhausted from running the awards circuit for months. I don't know if I'd take in-the-room reactions as a huge indicator.
@@DanMurrellMovies Well, they weren’t too tired to give Lily Gladstone a rapturous ovation.
Awards can be a cerebral thing, but they’re most often an emotional thing. So I often look to what the crowd are reacting to emotionally, and where is the emotion lacking, not in who has won what. That’s often, for me, a more consistent indicator.
To give an idea what I’m thinking about: 1917. It won the Directors Guild. It won the PGA. It won the Bafta. But the response was always muted. But when Parasite won at SAG the response was enormous. (1917 wasn’t nominated, which isn’t surprising for such a small cast.) That’s what I’m looking at.
Did anyoune notice that this year there are two movies nominaded for best picture, where one of the first lines from Issa Rea is "No comment."?
Can’t believe he did this with a week to spare. I’m not even seeing zone of interest until Sunday morning😭
I love Dan going full Corey Flood here: “I watched 82 movies and I’m going to review them all tonight.”
This is easily one of my favorite Best Picture lineup at the Oscars. I'm glad that Dan loved Maestro as much as i do
I love the war is over thing, so sick of fighting
08.40...i didnt know Steve Martin was in Maestro
Also in a perfect world, Robot Dreams would win it's category.
I also watched all 5 nominees for the best animated feature and robot dreams is the one that stuck with me. In my perfect world past lives would win best picture, perfect days would win best international.
I really liked Oppenheimer, Barbie and Killers but I don't think it comes close to the other nominees
You are amazing Dan, love your reviews and this views.
Oh my god, Dan, you need to see Red Right Hand. 8t has the violence of Becky with the feel of season 2 of Justified!!
Happy to hear someone being honest about Barbie. It was a fine movie for me and absolutely nothing more. Also the whole "kenough"/"ken" wordplay is such a forced joke.
The people who loved it were also being honest. I talked about this in this very video. We have to get away from the idea that people who disagree with us are lying or being dishonest.
@@DanMurrellMovies I think this person means "honest" as in *not* pretending to like it more than you actually do because its popular. I think we also have to get away from being too "knee-jerky" when people express an opinion.
@@DanMurrellMovies Of course you are right. :)
Its not just me on Gladiator. Thanks Dan!
“Live that way” from The Iron Claw should have been nominated. Not Flaming Hot 😒 (for best original song)
If there was more slots for Best Actress, Leonie Benesch should've gotten in. Her performance was terrific in The Teachers' Lounge as it's one of my favorite performances of last year
Past Lives would very easily be my pick for best picture out of this year's offerings. Extremely easily.
Commenting before watching: I am proud of you for doing this. I know it took some serious commitment and time.
I recently watched every single nominee
Love or hate the film, but locking out Guardians Vol.3 from the make-up category was an absolute baffling exclusion.
I'm also amongst the fans of Elemental and I'm really glad its getting some love, but I would have loved to have seen Suzume recognised within that catergory too.
Thanks Dan. Insane effort.
I also go out and try to see all the nominated films every year.. and have succeeded the last couple of years... This year I didn't get the last one till right before the Oscars cause Robot Dreams did not get released widely.. they had one screening on wednesday night at 7 right before the oscars and i was able to catch that show fortunately. Other than absolutely hating Wes Anderson buying an Oscar, I agree with much of your comments on the films.
How did Wes Anderson buy an Oscar? I thought his work on the short was to the same level as his usual work - is it just because he made a short film and not a feature?
@@DanMurrellMovies Because he entered the short film category with a big budget project featuring a bunch of Hollywood stars and was competing against low budget independent filmmakers without the industry connections that he has. It's like he said "I can't win an Oscar with my features, let me just go and win with a short." It's kinda cheating.
International nominees just make you realize why American cinema is so dominant in the world. The nominees, and Past Lives who could be easily coopted into that category, are so painfully sloooooooow. It is tiring honestly, especially as a european, to pretend I am enjoying all of them. The older I get the more I feel disrespected by the runtime of these slow movies. That is why The Zone of Interest is as good as it is - it is painfully slow, but intentionally and only for 100 minutes. It knows how much is needed to get the point across.
I disagree - I think this is a very strong crop of nominees. Io Capitano is 120 minutes, and not at all what I'd describe as slow, with several very intense sequences. Society of the Snow is longer at 144 minutes but again, not at all what I would describe as slow, often a very harrowing survival drama. The Teachers' Lounge is the shortest, at 99 minutes, and talky, but not what I'd describe as slow. The only film apart from The Zone of Interest is Perfect Days which is slow and also 124 minutes. But I wouldn't say all of the nominees feel the same.
@@DanMurrellMovies but they are all "heavy" watches. They do not flow as easily. I admit I did not see Society of the Snow as I've seen Alive and I felt no need to see the same story twice, though knowing the director it surely is not slow.
But the rest did feel slow to me. And watching european cinema in general it just feels like it does not have any rhythm. And the same director, like Yorgos Lanthimos, would make a crawl speed movie in Europe (Dogtooth, The Lobster), and then a high pace fluid movies in America (The Favourite, Poor Things). I do think it is a culture difference.
Dan do you think Dune 2 will/ could pull off an Everything Everywhere All at Once and be remembered at next years oscars and come out with best picture or another big award?
I know Zone of Interest won't win Best Picture, but it should. Past Lives would be my second pick. I love a good quiet movie. Perfect Day would be my pick for best International Feature.
it's happening again right now. Dont ignore.
Dan, I love the hard work you put into this channel. Keep it up. One of the greats
best part of Oscar season is the privilege of hearing Dan talk about all the cinema things so passionately 🎉
My favorite movies of 2023 are Poor Things & May December….
But most everything that was nominated are great….
I enjoyed Perfect Days but I cannot understand why Japan submitted that film instead of Hirokazu Koreeda's Monster. It seems very unusual that they would submit a German director rather than one of the most decorated directors they've ever produced. I'd like to learn what was behind that decision.
Past Lives deserved more recognition. Oppenheimer I thought was just okay. Flower Moon justified its runtime MUCH more.I hope Oppie doesn’t sweep but it likely will besides for any female roles. Personally, The Leftovers if my fave of the year and really hoping Giamatti can pull off an upset. I def think he’s the rightful best actor out of the nominees. Poor Things on Hulu this Thursday and I’ll have almost seen all the Best Pictures. Zone of Interest still hard to come by
Really really great year for movies imo
I agree with you on Past Lives. I think it’s a great film that is going to age beautifully
Amazing job Dan, thank you :)
I am all in for Oppenheimer sweep! What a freaking masterpiece!
Well done, sir.
Like others I was going "why would I want to watch white people at a boarding school?" But I really enjoyed Holdovers and even cried a bit.
Did you feel that way about The Breakfast Club? Bunch of white people who have Saturday school.
Dan, I know you're not gonna read this, but your impact on the movie industry should be recognized. Great work.
Thank you for making a difference in our community 🦉
Might get hate for this but Past Lives for me is a movie with around 3 good scenes and a lot of nothing between those moments. It is a very American lense on the migrant experience for me and so maybe that's why certain aspects just fell flat for me.
Great video!
Robot dreams is wonderful
Hi Dan; leaving you a message because this movie can be in next year's Academy Awards Review video.. I know how much you loved and I mean loved the first movie... March 26 is going to be a special day for you.. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 comes out... I know this news will be very exciting for you and let us know what you think of what is probably an academy award film... LOL!!!! but all joking aside will you be watching??
Heron is PG-13, a major red flag for academy voters that want something for their kids.
But what about the weird Salmon lady animated short??
Two years from now, I hope you are watching my short film in your recap video!
4:24 Wait, why do you hate Gladiator?
what a shame that Mario wasnt nominated for an oscar despite being the highest grossing animated movie of last year.
it was nice to see another perspective on Nimona. I hated the film, but I'm glad I got to hear another point of view that was thoughtful and not just gushing affection
Curious as to why you hated the movie? I loved it (though I may be biased as the original graphic novel is one of my favourites). I can see why it might not connect with people but I'm surprised anyone could hate it.
I’m also curious, why “hate”?
@@booksvsmovies Mostly it was the way the movie wanted to talk down to the audience. Felt like i was watching something for 10 year old kids that thought it was appealing to everyone. I didn't get through more than half the runtime because i lost patience.
My favorite movie of the year is going to lose to my 2nd favorite movie of the year in the animated feature category. I loved Spiderverse a lot, and it fully deserves the win its about to get, but Nimona... Nimona spoke to me in ways few movies do. I love that movie more than I ever expected to.
It’s happening again right now.
Invincible was by far my favorite and most impressive of the short films outside of Wes Anderson of course. I still prefer Invincible with its excellent direction and acting. I think the young actor in that film was the best of all of them.
Where did you see To Kill A Tiger?
Godzilla Minus One should win best picture
100% votings lists awards
Oppenheimer
Godzilla minus one
Spider-Man across the spiderverse
The boy of heron
Guardians of the galaxy 3
Mission Impossible
Poor Things >>>>>>>>. Shame it is a done deal 😢
Some people think May December is a comedy?!?!
I wont discuss what I think will or should win just yet… Oppenheimer is my favorite & the best film of the entire year! Lol
I love how much Dan is a nerd. ALL nominees is insane
I was impressed by the Ukrainian documentary movie “20 days in Mariupol"!
Most of these movies were dreadful. They weren’t the best of the year, just the best of December. Oppenheimer is an outlier and deserving of the win.
Infinity Pool was the best film of 2023
I completely disagree about the animated shorts. 95 senses and War Is Over were great, and I’d argue pachyderm was the weakest of the bunch
I enjoyed American Fiction.