GQ: Let’s predict how many Oscars Dunkirk will win
Christopher Nolan’s brilliant and brutal blockbuster Dunkirk is already one of the films of the year. So let’s decide, six months out, what Oscars it’ll win come February
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dormouse7 wrote:GQ: Let’s predict how many Oscars Dunkirk will win
Christopher Nolan’s brilliant and brutal blockbuster Dunkirk is already one of the films of the year. So let’s decide, six months out, what Oscars it’ll win come February
I trust Kyle Buchanan of Vulture a lot, and this is his take on the number of *nominations*: http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/how-many ... k-get.html I think he's overreaching for Best Screenplay, score, visual effects, and makeup/costume, though. The screenplay isn't great on its own, but because it's beautifully tailored to the director who wrote it. Makeup and costume here aren't extravagant enough for Oscar tastes, the score isn't Zimmer's best, and the visual effects may get overshadowed by more CGI-obvious movies. I think 7 nominations for BP, directing, editing, cinematography, both sound noms, and production design sound bang on, though. Editing feels like a shoo-in in terms of wins, but you just never know until the other nominees come along, since the weird award politics will come as well.
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Kiwinights wrote:I trust Kyle Buchanan of Vulture a lot, and this is his take on the number of *nominations*: http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/how-many ... k-get.html I think he's overreaching for Best Screenplay, score, visual effects, and makeup/costume, though. The screenplay isn't great on its own, but because it's beautifully tailored to the director who wrote it. Makeup and costume here aren't extravagant enough for Oscar tastes, the score isn't Zimmer's best, and the visual effects may get overshadowed by more CGI-obvious movies. I think 7 nominations for BP, directing, editing, cinematography, both sound noms, and production design sound bang on, though. Editing feels like a shoo-in in terms of wins, but you just never know until the other nominees come along, since the weird award politics will come as well.
Kiwinights wrote:I trust Kyle Buchanan of Vulture a lot, and this is his take on the number of *nominations*: http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/how-many ... k-get.html I think he's overreaching for Best Screenplay, score, visual effects, and makeup/costume, though. The screenplay isn't great on its own, but because it's beautifully tailored to the director who wrote it. Makeup and costume here aren't extravagant enough for Oscar tastes, the score isn't Zimmer's best, and the visual effects may get overshadowed by more CGI-obvious movies. I think 7 nominations for BP, directing, editing, cinematography, both sound noms, and production design sound bang on, though. Editing feels like a shoo-in in terms of wins, but you just never know until the other nominees come along, since the weird award politics will come as well.
I loooooved that. I had no problem but a few of my friends did, especially the ones who didn't really know who Harry Styles was. "Courtroom sketch of Tye Sheridan" cracked me up. And the jabs at Nolan fans and 70mm IMAX, lol
Considering "Detroit" seems like one of those kinds of movies "Dunkirk" will have to compete with, especially due to the political pandering that the latter will likely achieve, it's important to track it on RT imho to see how Dunkirk's chances are.
As of now its 98% after 40 reviews... though its average rating is only 8.2 (and yes that's still a very good avg. rating -- just trying to compare it to Dunkirk's avg. rating around the same time), so we'll see if it goes down or up.
Either way I'm still leaning towards Nolan having a good chance of winning Best Director even if "Dunkirk" loses Best Picture.
