#award talk

[blvejackets]

baby rookie merzly on the vezina list 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😍😍

[flameintheshadows]

Awards Daily posted this compilation of the 84 previous Best Picture winners, noting that

"what you notice about them is that they are, surprise surprise, actor driven. They are about people audiences care about and can relate to.  How visionary they are, how memorable, how pivotal, how brilliant is the least important thing about them."

Stone, of AD, then includes a list of all 84 previous winners, and identifies which she thinks are really and truly great movies.  Now I don't personally care which movies Stone things are great, but if you think about it, her point about the kinds of movies that win the coveted Best Picture Oscar is pretty valid.  Each movie seems to speak to some greater truth about the human condition, what it means to think and speak and act like a human, what demands our humanity places upon us, and what demands we place upon our humanity.

To create a Best Picture film, the history of the award seems to tell us, is to create a window into the deepest questions we are capable of asking.  Not, necessarily, to answer them, but to play out the drama of encountering and asking them.

[flameintheshadows]

Paperman is a short but beautiful romance from the folks at Disney. It is one of the shorts that has been nominated for an Academy Award this year in the category of Best Animated Short. Directed by John Kahrs and with a delightful score from Christophe Beck, it has already won the coveted Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject. I certainly think it's a front-runner for the Oscar this year.