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Wikipedia has so many Oscar lists. Here's the one for movies with multiple nominations in the same category: Best Actress: Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, Thelma & Louise (1991) Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment (1983) Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine, The Turning Point (1977) Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, Suddenly Last Summer (1959) Anne Baxter and Bette Davis, All About Eve (1950) Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce, Amadeus (1984) Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney, The Dresser (1983) Peter Finch and William Holden, Network (1976) Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, Sleuth (1972) Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy (1969) Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole, Beckett (1964) Maximillian Schell and Spencer Tracy, Judgement at Nuremberg (1962) Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, The Defiant Ones (1958) James Dean and Rock Hudson, Giant (1956) Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster, From Here to Eternity (1953) Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald*, Going My Way (1944) Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone, Mutiny on the Bounty** (1935) *Barry Fitzgerald managed to be nominated and in win in Best Supporting Actor for the same performance, which isn't allowed anymore. **The last year before the Best Supporting Actor award existed. Now, a great deal of elaborate logic is trotted out to explain why a movie romance or rivalry doesn't have two leads, but a leading and supporting player. Sure, the supporting star is the first and last person on screen and narrates the whole thing, but he's the more passive character who serves as a conduit to the more magnetic lead, or the supporting actress dies ten minutes before the end and therefore has less screen time. Not because the lead star is more famous, that other guy is too new, or it's our best chance for two nominations, no sirree, definitely not that.

They rolled the Wrong Love Interest and The Boss From Hell into one person. Titanic was on earlier in the day and the fiance here in Merry Kissmas reminded me of the Billy Zane character, crossed with Miranda Priestly. The movie seemed to drag, so I flipped back and forth, but I'm not sure I care how it ends.

Moving spec to another thread... Shallow, but I didn't like Dorothy's outfit. The gingham dress is probably copyrighted or something, but I would've liked a more direct of an homage.

The review embargo for Joy has been lifted...even the mixed/negative reviews praise Lawrence, but I wouldn't be shocked to see her miss the Oscar nod. It opens up the Best Actress field; Weinstein should just go for it and push Rooney Mara in lead.

Bringing over a comment from the media thread: How old was Edith in the last episode, 33? Even in 1925, would it really have been such a dealbreaker to Bertie that his unmarried 30+ fiancée had previously been "touched" by another man? As long as it wasn't some guy he had to run into in their social circle (not a problem with Gregson, obviously)... I realize we're dealing with a time well before the sexual revolution, but I honestly feel like mere non-virginity would've been a bigger deal to him if she'd been 23. At 23, she still gets in under the wire as the young maiden expected to go into the bridal chamber utterly clueless about the secrets of the marital bed (even though this was not the complete reality of young British women by the 1920s). But if Bertie had just been told that 33-year-old Edith had a dead former paramour with whom she'd slept, broke up with her because of it and disclosed to his BFFs the true reasons... I can picture them telling him he's being a big girl's blouse while reminding him that, well, she is one of those "liberated" women working a man's job in the big city, hasn't he seen the pictures to know how women of that sort are, and that he really shouldn't have picked such an old girl* if he was so desperate for a virginal bride. Now, a child with another man, yes, in the 1920s, Bertie's initial reaction is totally expected. *just to make clear that I don't think 33 is old, for life, just by the standards for a never-married woman in the Roaring Twenties.

December 4–6, 2015 Estimates: 1 (1) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 $18,600,000 | 4,086 Theaters | $4,552 Avg. | $227,112,000 2 (N) Krampus $16,020,000 | 2,902 Theaters | $5,520 Avg. | $16,020,000 3 (2) The Good Dinosaur $15,323,958 | 3,749 Theaters | $4,087 Avg. | $75,763,488 4 (3) Creed $14,989,303 | 3,424 Theaters | $4,378 Avg. | $64,586,859 5 (4) Spectre $5,425,000 | 2,840 Theaters | $1,910 Avg. | $184,520,343 6 (6) The Night Before $4,920,000 | 2,794 Theaters | $1,761 Avg. | $31,988,311 7 (5) The Peanuts Movie $3,525,000 | 2,917 Theaters | $1,208 Avg. | $121,437,699 8 (8) Spotlight $2,926,844 | 980 Theaters | $2,987 Avg. | $16,632,541 9 (9) Brooklyn $2,430,000 | 906 Theaters | $2,682 Avg. | $11,210,023 10 (7) Secret in their Eyes (2015) $1,950,000 | 2,147 Theaters | $908 Avg. | $17,241,088 11 (10) The Martian $1,615,000 | 1,140 Theaters | $1,417 Avg. | $220,813,188 12 (11) Love the Coopers $1,500,000 | 1,639 Theaters | $915 Avg. | $22,683,626 13 (N) Chi-Raq $1,250,224 | 305 Theaters | $4,099 Avg. | $1,250,224 14 (13) Trumbo $951,068 | 660 Theaters | $1,441 Avg. | $4,164,500 15 (12) Victor Frankenstein $746,834 | 2,797 - $267 Avg. | $5,108,738 16 (N) The Letters $700,683 | 886 Theaters | $791 Avg. | $700,683 17 (14) Bridge of Spies $684,509 | 536 Theaters | $1,277 Avg. | $68,589,003 18 (15) Tamasha $347,580 | 165 Theaters | $2,107 Avg. | $1,980,235 19 (20) Legend $279,791 | 61 Theaters | $4,587 Avg. | $922,692 20 (16) Goosebumps $268,691 | 433 Theaters | $621 Avg. | $78,058,808 Room $228,639 | 175 Theaters | $1,307 Avg. | $3,792,963 Carol $147,241 | 4 Theaters | $36,810 Avg. | $817,119 Fall in Love Like a Star $130,000 | 6 Theaters | $21,667 Avg. | $130,000 The Danish Girl $106,000 | 4 Theaters | $26,500 Avg. | $351,732 Youth $80,000 | 4 Theaters | $20,000 Avg. | $80,000 Macbeth (2015) $67,868 | 5 Theaters | $13,574 Avg. | $67,868 Global Totals: SPECTRE: $607.5M Overseas Total | $792.0M Global Total THE MARTIAN: $350.7M Overseas Total | $571.5M Global Total THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2: $296.8M Overseas Total | $523.9M Global Total HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2: $274.1M Overseas Total | $441.3M Global Total THE PEANUTS MOVIE: $13.2M Overseas Total | $134.6M Global Total THE GOOD DINOSAUR: $55.4M Overseas Total | $131.35M Global Total GOOSEBUMPS: $36.7M Overseas Total | $114.5M Global Total BRIDGE OF SPIES: $41.8M Overseas Total | $110.4M Global Total THE VISIT: $31.9M Overseas Total | $97.0M Global Total CREED: $4.9M Overseas Total | $70.0M Global Total STEVE JOBS: $6.6M Overseas Total | $24.4M Global Total VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN: $19.2M Overseas Total | $24.3M Global Total KRAMPUS: $3.3M Overseas Total | $19.32M Global Total IN THE HEART OF THE SEA: $17.1M Overseas Total

My impression was that Peta and James had had some sort of one-night stand/fling, and afterwards, he never called. Because it's DWTS and not a Bravo show, everyone had to be discreet and vague about the crux of why it was so awkward for the two of them to see each other again. But maybe merely that's the message board/fanfic version of events... I wouldn't mind seeing the show take a rest and come back for a summer season.

Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor at 33, while Jennifer Lawrence was 22 at the time of her win. Only two actors younger than that have been nominated for Best Actor, ever, the youngest before the Academy had invented the Best Supporting Actor category. Wikipedia has a whole page of oldest and youngest Oscar nominees/winners. Here are the youngest ten Best Actor nods (age at the time of nomination*): 1. 9 years, 20 days | Jackie Cooper | Skippy 1930/31 2. 19 years, 142 days | Mickey Rooney | Babes in Arms 1939 3. 23 years, 137 days | Mickey Rooney | The Human Comedy 1943 4. 24 years, 3 days | John Travolta | Saturday Night Fever 1977 5. 25 years, 10 days | James Dean | East of Eden 1955 6. 26 years, 10 days | James Dean | Giant 1956 7. 26 years, 72 days | Ryan Gosling | Half Nelson 2006 8. 26 years, 279 days | Orson Welles | Citizen Kane 1941 9. 26 years, 302 days | Heath Ledger | Brokeback Mountain 2005 10. 27 years, 112 days | Jesse Eisenberg | The Social Network 2010 *except for James Dean, technically, since his nominations were posthumous, as he died at 24 Meanwhile, the ten youngest Best Actress winners range from 21 to 26, at the time of the win. The youngest Best Actress nominee ever was nine, and the tenth youngest, 22. The supporting categories are more generous to younger stars, but even in the "lesser" category, younger actors still have a harder time than their female counterparts: the ten youngest Best Supporting Actor nominees were from age 8-22, some for performances that many consider leading but were downgraded to avoid the likelihood of a Best Actor snub (Timothy Hutton, Haley Joel Osment). The ten youngest Best Supporting Actress nominees? All from 10 to 14. AMPAS is primarily made up of older men who probably "relate" more to older actors who've "paid their dues", while the young, handsome guy might have to wait his turn, until middle age or beyond. Another thing is that Hollywood now seems more eager than ever to make up-and-coming male stars play teenagers or college students until 30, often in a franchise, which doesn't lend itself to winning Oscars. This year, Best Actress will probably go to someone in her twenties, but the past ten years have seen several winners over 40: Helen Mirren, Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore. The year Cate won for Blue Jasmine, the other nominees were Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench and Amy Adams being the youngest at 39.

Every year, the NBR, NYFCC, the LA critics and other groups pick one or two winners who won't factor in the larger race. Clouds of Sils Maria played the 2014 film festivals, was shown in French theaters last year and Kristen won the Cesar. Yet in America, it got thrown out in April, quickly coming and going well. KStew is an interesting case, where critics seem to rave about her outside of the Twilight franchise, praising her naturalistic style, while the general public might be slightly more skeptical, seeing her performances more as slouchy minimalism, not so much acting at all, and the same thing as she always does. I don't know if her acting style will "age" well, so if she's going to get an Academy Award nomination, it's probably going to happen within the next 4-5 years. Last year, if Still Alice had been handled by Weinstein, maybe, Kristen could have gotten a coattail Supporting Actress nod.

IDK, it's not 1999 anymore, the whole "tee hee, that's a man, baby!" sort of joking isn't going to go without loud objection like it did in the heydey of Austin Powers movies. So, there's a story going around about 'The Revenant' that isn't quite accurate (somewhat spoilery, I guess)... That seems to be taking the memes of Leo being Oscar hungry a bit far, wouldn't you say?

I didn't know it was new last week, and just caught up. There are so many other stories you could tell with Anika, and this show picks the Fatal Attraction route? Over Hakeem? I would kind of buy Camilla going BSC over Hakeem rather than Anika. She could also attract a much more mature guy, but with Camilla, they were much more seriously involved. Also, maybe because it's Naomi Campbell and we know she can have something of a temper. Alicia Keys looked gorgeous but sounded like Alicia Keys, hardly someone who plays to the "sorority girl" crowd (though I guess it depends on which sororities, lol) and is boxed in as the perfect little pop star. During last week's previews, I thought I was getting a romantic vibe between her character and Jamal but disregarded it because he's gay. This is a guy whose father has been trying to push him back in the closet practically all his life, he was married to a woman and only had sex with her once, he's not bad looking and has probably had unknowing (and knowing) girls throw themselves at him through the years, but now he's feeling it with a woman? Sure, he was quite the gushing fanboy, and I guess anyone can have their "exception", but it feels more like a twist done for shock value and maybe responding to the complaints about the show being too gay. Or, else they just don't know how to write a good story for a male love interest of his: the chef guy just loafed around complaining and I guess that other hot documentary guy got another show between seasons, so they figure, why not a woman? Even last season, I just didn't think Lee Daniels' writing sensibilities would lend themselves to long-form storytelling, and this storyline is just one more sign. Lucious is stupid to sell everything to go all in on a streaming service, as they're having trouble with growth for paying customers and the biggest names threaten to pull their songs. The speculation that he's going to be diagnosed as bipolar at some point makes a lot of sense.

Right, I clicked through one of those "18 Actresses Who Tried Out For Katniss" slideshows last week and several ended up in other YA movies, some from the same studio. Even if someone wasn't right for Katniss, purely on an acting level, they get on the studio's radar for other projects. Jennifer Lawrence auditioned for Bella in Twilight, which was made by Summit/Lionsgate, like The Hunger Games. Given the reaction from some corners to Rue being black, even though the book all but spelled it out, if the movie had cast an actress who wasn't strictly white as Katniss, but a blonde and fair Prim, even more brains would have broken and heads exploded. The studio probably would've urged the director to "explain" onscreen how two biological siblings ended up looking so different from each other, ethnically. Kids grow up watching Disney and Nickelodeon shows that completely handwave/ignore this issue and still manage to be very popular, but movie studios often pander to the absolute idiots of the world, because they want their ticket money, too. But sometimes I think Hollywood is very insular and uses "Middle America" as an excuse not to change.

November 27–29, 2015 Estimates: 1 (1) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 $51,600,000 | 4,175 Theaters | $12,359 Avg. | $198,312,341 2 (N) The Good Dinosaur $39,192,000 | 3,749 Theaters | $10,454 Avg. | $55,565,000 3 (N) Creed $30,120,000 | 3,404 Theaters | $8,848 Avg. | $42,600,000 4 (2) Spectre $12,800,000 | 2,940 Theaters | $4,354 Avg. | $176,056,967 5 (3) The Peanuts Movie $9,700,000 | 3,089 Theaters | $3,140 Avg. | $116,757,472 6 (4) The Night Before $8,200,000 | 2,960 Theaters | $2,770 Avg. | $24,102,536 7 (5) The Secret in their Eyes (2015) $4,502,000 | 2,392 Theaters | $1,882 Avg. | $14,031,039 8 (8) Spotlight $4,495,290 | 897 Theaters | $5,011 Avg. | $12,347,179 9 (12) Brooklyn $3,832,000 | 845 Theaters | $4,535 Avg. | $7,289,949 10 (7) The Martian $3,300,000 | 1,420 Theaters | $2,324 Avg. | $218,640,849 11 (6) Love the Coopers $3,050,000 | 1,867 Theaters | $1,634 Avg. | $20,486,372 12 (N) Victor Frankenstein $2,350,000 | 2,797 Theaters | $840 Avg. | $3,435,000 (budget = $40M) 13 (22) Trumbo $1,534,005 | 617 Theaters | $2,486 Avg. | $2,576,259 14 (10) Bridge of Spies $1,376,000 | 635 Theaters | $2,167 Avg. | $67,561,276 15 (N) Tamasha $1,006,059 | 179 Theaters | $5,620 Avg. | $1,413,443 16 (11) Goosebumps $741,366 | 614 Theaters | $1,207 Avg. | $77,700,144 17 (9) The 33 $560,135 | 702 Theaters | $798 Avg. | $11,319,870 18 (13) Hotel Transylvania 2 $343,080 | 303 Theaters | $1,132 Avg. | $167,157,414 19 (17) Room $319,888 | 175 Theaters | $1,828 Avg. | $3,406,551 20 (33) Legend $297,751 | 40 Theaters | $7,444 Avg. | $525,735 Suffragette $261,676 | 217 Theaters | $1,206 Avg. | $4,069,970 Carol $203,076 | 4 Theaters | $50,769 Avg. | $588,325 The Danish Girl $185,000 | 4 Theaters | $46,250 Avg. | $185,000 Steve Jobs $49,500 | 66 Theaters | $750 Avg. | $17,704,843 Truth $35,053 | 28 Theaters | $1,252 Avg. | $2,441,665 Global Totals: SPECTRE: $573.5M Overseas Total | $749.6M Global Total THE MARTIAN: $326.5M Overseas Total | $545.1M Global Total THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2: $242.4M Overseas | $440.7M Global HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2: $252.6M Overseas Total | $419.7M Global Total GOOSEBUMPS: $29.7M Overseas Total | $107.4M Global Total THE VISIT: $30.1M Overseas Total | $95.2M Global Total BRIDGE OF SPIES: $27.5M Overseas Total | $95M Global Total BLACK MASS: $27.5M Overseas Total | $90M Global Total THE GOOD DINOSAUR: $28.7M Overseas Total | $84.2M Global Total CRIMSON PEAK: $42.9M Overseas Total | $74M Global Total CREED: $2.26M Overseas Total (7 Territories) | $44.8M Global Total STEVE JOBS: $6.1M Overseas Total | $23.8M Global Total

Here's an Awards Calendar that includes ballot deadlines and when nominations are announced, in addition to the ceremonies themselves.

Julia Roberts was also lobbying for Denzel to win Best Actor, saying it wasn't right that she had an Oscar in a leading category while someone as talented as Denzel didn't (he'd "only" won Best Supporting Actor at that point). Remember how she made presenting the Oscar to him that year all about her:

I'm binge watching the early seasons for the first time. I started regularly viewing midway through S4, though I'd heard of the show and some things about it seeped into the broader pop culture, like "What is a weekend?" and that SNL sketch where Downton was advertised as "Fancy Entourage". And, of course, I knew that Matthew's death had "ruined Christmas" according to the British papers. I hadn't really seen Dan Stevens in anything before and just remember seeing pictures of him after he'd lost weight and was showing up on red carpets in black leather jackets, trying to convince everyone that he could play gritty roles. too. Now, after really seeing Matthew in action, I understand the attitude from Fellowes about the character and actor, years later. He probably had it planned out for Matthew and Mary to rule over Downton as Lord and Lady Grantham before it was all over. Since he's not most imaginative writer (seriously, how many times can some distant relation inherit after all the other heirs die first, and everything with the Bateses), he probably didn't take it well, being forced to change course so radically. O'Brien and Thomas, what nasty pieces of work! Carson being the biggest snob of all makes me laugh. It'll be okay if Sybil learns to make a cake, really! Having first seen Tom as the estate manager, Branson the revolutionary (excuse me, socialist) makes me roll my eyes very hard. Wouldn't Strallan have been too old to serve on the front in World War I? Robert was and they're said to be about the same age. All that fuss about Mary's bob in S5, when Sybil seems to have had one years earlier. Of course, Sybil was the true rebel and everyone was probably still too scandalized by her running off with Tom to notice her hair.

Look up the Manziel family: very generously, it's a long line of colorful characters, and less charitably... Maybe it's hard to truly grasp how bad your behavior seems to your bosses or the outside world when you're not even among the Top 5 biggest hot mess trainwrecks in your own family.

I've been binge watching the early seasons for the first time recently and just yesterday, I got to the episode where Edith was jilted at the altar (I didn't realize that people meant it literally!). Edith seemed more starry-eyed, naive and desperate in many ways, but I never thought her feelings for Strallan were merely paternal or anything less than sincere. It wasn't portrayed as the most carnal of relationships, but considering how Matthew proposed to Mary for the first time after what seemed like one kiss, while Tom and Sybil spent years exchanging moony looks, and these were endgame couples, so Edith and Strallan didn't stand out for a glaring lack of physical attraction. I think if Fellowes meant to leave the impression that Edith was dreading the idea of being a "proper wife" to Sir Anthony, there would have been scenes to that effect: some motherly/sisterly ribbing about the honeymoon, to which Edith cringes or says she hopes he won't bother her too much about "that", or something along those lines.

I see it playing out the same way for Fury Road: some critics' groups wins and technical nods at the Oscars (cinematography, sound), possibly George Miller as a lone director. If there are enough AMPAS voters who feel strongly about Charlize, she could get the #1 votes needed to be a passion pick in Best Actress. I don't think it's highly likely, but if her name is called on nomination day it wouldn't be a total surprise.

Does anybody set out to make Razzie-bait or a camp classic? Aside from, IDK, Adam Sander and John Waters, respectively. Campy elements, sure, but "It's supposed to be campy!" just seems like an angle people work when there really isn't much else that will, especially considering how much this thing has been moved around the schedule. I'm sure VF will be a Tumblr fave for years to come, but I don't think movie studios make tons of money from .gifs and fics.

Yesterday, I saw an ad proclaiming The Secret In Their Eyes as "the #1 thriller in America", which, even if you're not counting a James Bond movie as a thriller, it's a little ridiculous when this "#1 movie" is a good $96 million off from actual top spot. Thanksgiving brings three new movies in wide release. The Tuesday preview numbers are in: Creed and The Good Dinosaur made good showings, while Victor Frankenstein...is pretty likely to be subject to a lot of "turkey" headlines in this weekend's box office reports. It switched release dates with The Martian at some point. Good move for the latter, though an October release might have helped a Frankenstein movie a little bit, though VF was probably doomed to fail regardless of the timing.

Creed is from Warner Bros, who've been pushing Black Mass as their big awards pony for the year, but the reviews for Creed are much stronger, it's very likely to make more money, and be fresher in the minds of voters. Sure, it's a sequel/spin-off, but Rocky did win Best Picture, and it's a boxing movie, not some YA fantasy adventure that the Academy doesn't take seriously. In addition to Michael B. Jordan, I think Sylvester Stallone has a shot in Supporting Actor and Ryan Coogler for Best Director.

Heh, poor girl! Her name is Karen.

Yes. The idea that any of them (save Susan) are "white hats" or have any sort of moral high ground to stand on is completely absurd. Maybe it's supposed to be true to life, in that people really do judge others for behavior they excuse in themselves.

It's a Tom Hooper movie...The King's Speech and Les Miserables also suffered from bad/uninspired camera work.