First the boring ones …
If anything other than Phantom Thread wins this thing, I will shave my head. Daniel Day-Lewis’ swan song about a dress-maker and maybe some incestuous jealousy?? It’s made for this award.
Nothing beats a Star Wars score, but one of these things is not like the other, so how do you NOT vote for Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood?? Yes, Twilight‘s Carter Burwell doesn’t have an Oscar, but I’m not rooting for anything that slow.
Have you seen the cuts in the ice skating routines in I, Tonya? ALL THE AWARDS! (Seriously, eff this Three Billboards mess – deserves nothing).
There are at least four people nominated for each of these movies – that’s >20 people. They are all dudes. I don’t care who wins this category. But … Star Wars.
And the good ones…
This is always my favorite category because I think the competition is usually the toughest here. However tough it may be this year, I am 100% for Mary J Blige.
Remember in 1965 when Julie Andrews won the Golden Globe for Mary Poppins in the same year that Audrey Hepburn was nominated for My Fair Lady, the movie Julie SHOULD have been cast in because Audrey was terrible and Julie’s Eliza Doolittle on stage was THE reason the movie was made in the first place? Warner Brothers’ snub to Julie Andrews in casting My Fair Lady made Mary Poppins possible in the first place, so when she won over Hepburn (who sucked in My Fair Lady bc she COULD NOT SING), Julie clapped back with “Thanks to the man who made all this possible, Mr. Jack Warner.” NEVER has an acceptance speech been saltier or more scathing.
All that to say, this award belongs to Julie Andrews’ erstwhile co-star from Sound of Music, Christopher Plummer. “Thanks to the man who made all this possible, Kevin Spacey.”
Don’t do that, Chris.
I love Call My By Your Name AND Mudbound, but I think it’s time for a comic book movie to win in this category, and I love Michael Green. I’m conflicted, but LOGAN!
Throw Three Billboards out of this category; it’s trash. GET OUT.
Get Out is so beautifully done, and so much of it is looking directly into Daniel Kaluuya‘s fear. I will rage if he doesn’t win. If they give this to the OTHER Daniel just as a precious send-off to Oscar’s golden boy (even if it’s deserved, I don’t know, I haven’t seen Phantom Thread), we should ALL RAGE.
I don’t care about this category this year. AT ALL. Sally Hawkins.
I care about this category a lot. I’m conflicted. Jordan Peele because I think Get Out was a masterpiece. Great Gerwig because Ladybird meant a lot to us moms of girls. But I also really want to see Guillermo del Toro be really, sweetly grateful. UGH how do I choose?
And the BIG ENCHILADA …
It SHOULD BE Get Out.
It SHOULD NEVER BE Three Billboards.
It WILL BE The Shape of Water.
