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re: Comfortable Temperatures
I was really worried that I'd be tempted to make some poor monetary decisions today, like Wendy's breakfast (those french toast sticks, man, so good), but then my stomach saved my wallet when I woke up feeling like utter garbage. Maybe pounding back clam chowder and Jalapeno Crispers while I finished watching the Oscars after work was a bad choice. Guess we'll never know!
5. What Temperature Do You Set the A/C or Heat To Be Comfortable?
If I lived on my own, it'd be like... 21 degrees in winter and 25 degrees in summer, probably. But I don't, I live with babies who can't abide even the hint of warmth, so after about a year of a battle of wills in which I was very willing to make concessions, but the other side was not and kept making it fucking frigid in summer or turning the heat off overnight in those awkward mid-season periods so I woke up seeing my breath, I had to put the hammer down and lock it down to 23.5 degrees, year-round. I WAS WILLING TO COMPROMISE, THIS IS ON Y'ALL.
Best Visual Effects: Godzilla: Minus One beats The Creator, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, and Napoleon. Saw all nominees. MY FAVOURITE MOVIE OF THE YEAR! Really happy to have been wrong about this one, I truly thought that Marvel simply went too hard on the High Evolutionary's face not to get it! I love how hyped this crew has been to be recognized throughout this entire awards season (the shoes! the toys!) and it's so scummy that they got played off while trying to shout out their dead colleague, especially since the show wound up ending early anyway.
Best Film Editing: Oppenheimer beats Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Poor Things. Saw all nominees. The Oppenheimer sweep wound up being as boring as anticipated, but this was one of only two wins that I genuinely think it did not deserve, Anatomy of a Fall was robbed here tbqh.
Best Costume Design: Poor Things beats Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon, and Oppenheimer. Saw all nominees. YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I really figured Barbenheimer would clean up in these below-the-line production categories, which wouldn't be UNdeserved, but the whole world Poor Things created was just so wild, I was prepared to be at least a li'l bit salty about it. But then justice won out and good things happened instead, no salt necessary!
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Poor Things beats Golda, Maestro, Oppenheimer, and Society of the Snow. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Love to see things winning for something other than making people look old, fat, and/or giving them big noses, yes we do.
Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer beats El Conde, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, and Poor Things. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Sure, fine, whatever.
Best Production Design: Poor Things beats Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon, and Oppenheimer. Saw all nominees. Yes, Barbieland was very cool, but THE BROTHEL HAD DICK WINDOWS, SORRY NOT SORRY.
Best Sound: The Zone of Interest beats The Creator, Maestro, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, and Oppenheimer. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Haven't seen Zone of Interest yet, but I've heard good things about what they did with sound here, and I'm glad it wasn't Oppenheimer (The Last Jedi did their one cool trick already, anyway). Sidebar: The Creator snagging two nominations is so baffling to me, that was such a nothingburger of a movie. Like, it WAS technically well-done, it would have made a great visual album imo, so it's not that they're undeserved, just... who even cared enough to remember that about it?
Best Original Song: "What Was I Made For?" from Barbie beats "The Fire Inside" from Flamin' Hot, "I'm Just Ken" from Barbie, "It Never Went Away" from American Symphony, and "Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)" from Killers of the Flower Moon. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Barbie took home the one award it actually deserved, you keep on racking up those statues, Billie! Still infuriated that Dear Alien was snubbed over that total nothing of a Jon Batiste tune and a fucking Cheetos song. More fun, wacky, completely over-the-top stuff (WHY IS SLASH HERE????) like the I'm Just Ken performance in future telecasts, please and thank you! We used to live in a society that did that sort of shit every year!
Best Original Score: Oppenheimer beats American Fiction, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Poor Things. Saw 4 out of 5 nominees. I really love Ludwig's stuff, but this was the second of the two wins I genuinely didn't think Oppenheimer should have gotten, the Killers score was stunning and then the dude fucking DIED. Robbed. Also lol at John Williams getting those Streep default nominations in his old age, that Indy score was so phoned in.
Best Animated Short Film: War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko beats Letter to a Pig, Ninety-Five Senses, Our Uniform, and Pachyderme. Saw 0 out of 5 nominees. I should really make an amendment about short films to my 'if it hasn't played in the theatre here, I refuse to bother' rule regarding checking out Oscar nominations, there's no excuse for this, lol. Nor is there an excuse for not bothering to mention Palestine in your acceptance speech for a film called WAR IS OVER. But hey, happy mother's day to Yoko, right?
Best Live Action Short Film: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar beats The After, Invincible, Knight of Fortune, and Red, White and Blue. Saw 0 out of 5 nominees. The jokes about Wes Anderson directing long movies too kinda fall flat when you FAILED TO NOMINATE THAT ONE FOR FUCKING ANYTHING. JUSTICE FOR ASTEROID CITY.
Best Documentary Short Film: The Last Repair Shop beats The ABCs of Book Banning, The Barber of Little Rock, Island in Between, and Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó. Saw 0 out of 5 nominees. Obviously I had no dog in this fight, but it's about a cause I care about, so... neat!
Best Documentary Feature Film: 20 Days in Mariupol beats Bobi Wine: The People's President, The Eternal Memory, Four Daughters, and To Kill a Tiger. Saw 0 out of 5 nominees. They're always just so depressing, man, some years you just can't. The acceptance speech alone for this one killed me a bit!
Best International Feature Film: The Zone of Interest beats Io capitano, Perfect Days, Society of the Snow, and The Teachers' Lounge. Saw 0 out of 5 nominees. The France committee picking the Juliette Binoche food romance over Anatomy of a Fall has got to go down as one of the biggest bonehead moves in the history of the foreign language category. We could have had a proper race, here! Instead, we ended up with the only category more predictable than supporting actress this year. Eat it, Macron. Great speech from Glazer, at least, his hands were shaking SO MUCH.
Best Animated Feature: The Boy and the Heron beats Elemental, Nimona, Robot Dreams, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. A little torn on this one, but only a little. The Boy and the Heron was great, but left a bit of a weird taste in my mouth with how much of it was about how much his son sucks. Would have preferred to see Spider-Verse take it, but they'll get another whack at it with the second half of the movie, and Miyazaki winning twice over twenty years apart is cool as hell.
Best Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction beats Barbie, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, and The Zone of Interest. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Huh, okay! Seems like a bit of a random pick to me, but I haven't seen it, and it's been getting love in the lead-up to the Oscars, so I shan't judge! At least it wasn't Barbie or Oppenheimer.
Best Original Screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall beats The Holdovers, Maestro, May December, and Past Lives. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Huh, okay! Loved this movie, but the script wasn't really one of the standout parts to me, I'm actually pretty bummed The Holdovers didn't take this one. At least we got to hear that steel drum P.I.M.P. cover nice and early in the show because of it.
Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers beats Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer, Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple, America Ferrera in Barbie, and Jodie Foster in Nyad. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. HOLDOVERS GANG, WE'RE NOT GOING HOME EMPTY-HANDED. So unsurprising, so deserved, she fuckin' killed it, totally earned all of the hardware she got this season and nobody else in the category stood a chance (honestly, America getting in is a total joke, and Nyad is not even a real movie; the only competition would have come if Gladstone hadn't competed for lead). Merry Christmas, everyone!
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer beats Sterling K. Brown in American Fiction, Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon, Ryan Gosling in Barbie, and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things. Saw 4 out of 5 nominees. Fiiiiiiine. Happy for him, it was definitely his time, and even if it wasn't, that was a terrifying late-career best from De Niro, but gOD RUFFALO WAS SO GOOD, plus you just know he would have given an insanely political speech that would melt the fucking face off of every coward in that room like they looked into the ark of the covenant, we could have had it all, duncan wedderburn u will always be famous
Best Actress: Emma Stone in Poor Things beats Annette Bening in Nyad, Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flowers Moon, Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall, and Carey Mulligan in Maestro. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. The discourse is gonna tell you this one was undeserved, and the discourse is gonna be WRONG. The stones, glad and otherwise, put in two absolute powerhouse performances that were so different from each that I have a really hard time even comparing them, and they both would have deserved it had they won (Sandra too, for that matter, complicated queen). Obviously Lily had the better story (first-time nominee vs. former winner, first Native winner vs. another popular white lady, that wonderful viral yearbook photo, etc.), which is usually what I value more when I'm torn like that, but when Emma won, it just felt right. It's not just about the flashier performance, either, but someone who is in less than a third of a film's 3+ hour runtime is gonna have a tough go of it against someone in nearly every single scene of their movie, building a whole-ass person from scratch! That's just how it goes! Cheers to one of the most gripping awards season races in an age.
Best Actor: Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer beats Bradley Cooper in Maestro, Colman Domingo in Rustin, Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers, and Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction. Saw 2 out of 5 nominees. Paul wore In-N-Out cufflinks to the show, my robbed king. Rustin is also not a real movie, double feature it with Nyad. Time to go sleep.
Best Director: Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer beats Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall, Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon, Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Things, and Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest. Saw 4 out of 5 nominees. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Best Picture: Oppenheimer beats American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things, and The Zone of Interest. Saw 7 out of 10 nominees. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz- I'm up! I'm up!
Overall, a pretty good Oscar night, despite the snoozer inevitability of the top awards. I really liked Oppenheimer, it's a great movie that does a lot of things very well, but I'm not going to feel a pressing urge to watch it again any time soon, and if there could only be one 3+ hour historical downer of a film that succeeds in a year, it really should have been KotFM and the quirk of the Barbenheimer release dates turning into a meme is the only reason it wasn't. A far more undeserved shutout than The Irishman got, and for all the thinkpieces about how the Academy hates Scorsese, I really just think it's been bad luck with the timing of his last few movies more than anything else. As a best picture winner, Oppenheimer will certainly age better than something like CODA, at least; a solid entry for the canon! Three best picture nominees directed by women is also a very cool milestone. And the first SNL cast member to win, after all these years! Can we get a host who at least acts like they enjoy movies next year, please? Mulaney's audition happened right there on the stage.
5. What Temperature Do You Set the A/C or Heat To Be Comfortable?
If I lived on my own, it'd be like... 21 degrees in winter and 25 degrees in summer, probably. But I don't, I live with babies who can't abide even the hint of warmth, so after about a year of a battle of wills in which I was very willing to make concessions, but the other side was not and kept making it fucking frigid in summer or turning the heat off overnight in those awkward mid-season periods so I woke up seeing my breath, I had to put the hammer down and lock it down to 23.5 degrees, year-round. I WAS WILLING TO COMPROMISE, THIS IS ON Y'ALL.
Watched 03/10/24: The 96th Academy Awards (2024)Hey, speaking of. Oscar breakdown time, from the bottom of the card on up!
Best Visual Effects: Godzilla: Minus One beats The Creator, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, and Napoleon. Saw all nominees. MY FAVOURITE MOVIE OF THE YEAR! Really happy to have been wrong about this one, I truly thought that Marvel simply went too hard on the High Evolutionary's face not to get it! I love how hyped this crew has been to be recognized throughout this entire awards season (the shoes! the toys!) and it's so scummy that they got played off while trying to shout out their dead colleague, especially since the show wound up ending early anyway.
Best Film Editing: Oppenheimer beats Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Poor Things. Saw all nominees. The Oppenheimer sweep wound up being as boring as anticipated, but this was one of only two wins that I genuinely think it did not deserve, Anatomy of a Fall was robbed here tbqh.
Best Costume Design: Poor Things beats Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon, and Oppenheimer. Saw all nominees. YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I really figured Barbenheimer would clean up in these below-the-line production categories, which wouldn't be UNdeserved, but the whole world Poor Things created was just so wild, I was prepared to be at least a li'l bit salty about it. But then justice won out and good things happened instead, no salt necessary!
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Poor Things beats Golda, Maestro, Oppenheimer, and Society of the Snow. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Love to see things winning for something other than making people look old, fat, and/or giving them big noses, yes we do.
Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer beats El Conde, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, and Poor Things. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Sure, fine, whatever.
Best Production Design: Poor Things beats Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon, and Oppenheimer. Saw all nominees. Yes, Barbieland was very cool, but THE BROTHEL HAD DICK WINDOWS, SORRY NOT SORRY.
Best Sound: The Zone of Interest beats The Creator, Maestro, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, and Oppenheimer. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Haven't seen Zone of Interest yet, but I've heard good things about what they did with sound here, and I'm glad it wasn't Oppenheimer (The Last Jedi did their one cool trick already, anyway). Sidebar: The Creator snagging two nominations is so baffling to me, that was such a nothingburger of a movie. Like, it WAS technically well-done, it would have made a great visual album imo, so it's not that they're undeserved, just... who even cared enough to remember that about it?
Best Original Song: "What Was I Made For?" from Barbie beats "The Fire Inside" from Flamin' Hot, "I'm Just Ken" from Barbie, "It Never Went Away" from American Symphony, and "Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)" from Killers of the Flower Moon. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Barbie took home the one award it actually deserved, you keep on racking up those statues, Billie! Still infuriated that Dear Alien was snubbed over that total nothing of a Jon Batiste tune and a fucking Cheetos song. More fun, wacky, completely over-the-top stuff (WHY IS SLASH HERE????) like the I'm Just Ken performance in future telecasts, please and thank you! We used to live in a society that did that sort of shit every year!
Best Original Score: Oppenheimer beats American Fiction, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Poor Things. Saw 4 out of 5 nominees. I really love Ludwig's stuff, but this was the second of the two wins I genuinely didn't think Oppenheimer should have gotten, the Killers score was stunning and then the dude fucking DIED. Robbed. Also lol at John Williams getting those Streep default nominations in his old age, that Indy score was so phoned in.
Best Animated Short Film: War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko beats Letter to a Pig, Ninety-Five Senses, Our Uniform, and Pachyderme. Saw 0 out of 5 nominees. I should really make an amendment about short films to my 'if it hasn't played in the theatre here, I refuse to bother' rule regarding checking out Oscar nominations, there's no excuse for this, lol. Nor is there an excuse for not bothering to mention Palestine in your acceptance speech for a film called WAR IS OVER. But hey, happy mother's day to Yoko, right?
Best Live Action Short Film: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar beats The After, Invincible, Knight of Fortune, and Red, White and Blue. Saw 0 out of 5 nominees. The jokes about Wes Anderson directing long movies too kinda fall flat when you FAILED TO NOMINATE THAT ONE FOR FUCKING ANYTHING. JUSTICE FOR ASTEROID CITY.
Best Documentary Short Film: The Last Repair Shop beats The ABCs of Book Banning, The Barber of Little Rock, Island in Between, and Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó. Saw 0 out of 5 nominees. Obviously I had no dog in this fight, but it's about a cause I care about, so... neat!
Best Documentary Feature Film: 20 Days in Mariupol beats Bobi Wine: The People's President, The Eternal Memory, Four Daughters, and To Kill a Tiger. Saw 0 out of 5 nominees. They're always just so depressing, man, some years you just can't. The acceptance speech alone for this one killed me a bit!
Best International Feature Film: The Zone of Interest beats Io capitano, Perfect Days, Society of the Snow, and The Teachers' Lounge. Saw 0 out of 5 nominees. The France committee picking the Juliette Binoche food romance over Anatomy of a Fall has got to go down as one of the biggest bonehead moves in the history of the foreign language category. We could have had a proper race, here! Instead, we ended up with the only category more predictable than supporting actress this year. Eat it, Macron. Great speech from Glazer, at least, his hands were shaking SO MUCH.
Best Animated Feature: The Boy and the Heron beats Elemental, Nimona, Robot Dreams, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. A little torn on this one, but only a little. The Boy and the Heron was great, but left a bit of a weird taste in my mouth with how much of it was about how much his son sucks. Would have preferred to see Spider-Verse take it, but they'll get another whack at it with the second half of the movie, and Miyazaki winning twice over twenty years apart is cool as hell.
Best Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction beats Barbie, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, and The Zone of Interest. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Huh, okay! Seems like a bit of a random pick to me, but I haven't seen it, and it's been getting love in the lead-up to the Oscars, so I shan't judge! At least it wasn't Barbie or Oppenheimer.
Best Original Screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall beats The Holdovers, Maestro, May December, and Past Lives. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. Huh, okay! Loved this movie, but the script wasn't really one of the standout parts to me, I'm actually pretty bummed The Holdovers didn't take this one. At least we got to hear that steel drum P.I.M.P. cover nice and early in the show because of it.
Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers beats Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer, Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple, America Ferrera in Barbie, and Jodie Foster in Nyad. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. HOLDOVERS GANG, WE'RE NOT GOING HOME EMPTY-HANDED. So unsurprising, so deserved, she fuckin' killed it, totally earned all of the hardware she got this season and nobody else in the category stood a chance (honestly, America getting in is a total joke, and Nyad is not even a real movie; the only competition would have come if Gladstone hadn't competed for lead). Merry Christmas, everyone!
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer beats Sterling K. Brown in American Fiction, Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon, Ryan Gosling in Barbie, and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things. Saw 4 out of 5 nominees. Fiiiiiiine. Happy for him, it was definitely his time, and even if it wasn't, that was a terrifying late-career best from De Niro, but gOD RUFFALO WAS SO GOOD, plus you just know he would have given an insanely political speech that would melt the fucking face off of every coward in that room like they looked into the ark of the covenant, we could have had it all, duncan wedderburn u will always be famous
Best Actress: Emma Stone in Poor Things beats Annette Bening in Nyad, Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flowers Moon, Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall, and Carey Mulligan in Maestro. Saw 3 out of 5 nominees. The discourse is gonna tell you this one was undeserved, and the discourse is gonna be WRONG. The stones, glad and otherwise, put in two absolute powerhouse performances that were so different from each that I have a really hard time even comparing them, and they both would have deserved it had they won (Sandra too, for that matter, complicated queen). Obviously Lily had the better story (first-time nominee vs. former winner, first Native winner vs. another popular white lady, that wonderful viral yearbook photo, etc.), which is usually what I value more when I'm torn like that, but when Emma won, it just felt right. It's not just about the flashier performance, either, but someone who is in less than a third of a film's 3+ hour runtime is gonna have a tough go of it against someone in nearly every single scene of their movie, building a whole-ass person from scratch! That's just how it goes! Cheers to one of the most gripping awards season races in an age.
Best Actor: Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer beats Bradley Cooper in Maestro, Colman Domingo in Rustin, Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers, and Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction. Saw 2 out of 5 nominees. Paul wore In-N-Out cufflinks to the show, my robbed king. Rustin is also not a real movie, double feature it with Nyad. Time to go sleep.
Best Director: Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer beats Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall, Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon, Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Things, and Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest. Saw 4 out of 5 nominees. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Best Picture: Oppenheimer beats American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things, and The Zone of Interest. Saw 7 out of 10 nominees. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz- I'm up! I'm up!
Overall, a pretty good Oscar night, despite the snoozer inevitability of the top awards. I really liked Oppenheimer, it's a great movie that does a lot of things very well, but I'm not going to feel a pressing urge to watch it again any time soon, and if there could only be one 3+ hour historical downer of a film that succeeds in a year, it really should have been KotFM and the quirk of the Barbenheimer release dates turning into a meme is the only reason it wasn't. A far more undeserved shutout than The Irishman got, and for all the thinkpieces about how the Academy hates Scorsese, I really just think it's been bad luck with the timing of his last few movies more than anything else. As a best picture winner, Oppenheimer will certainly age better than something like CODA, at least; a solid entry for the canon! Three best picture nominees directed by women is also a very cool milestone. And the first SNL cast member to win, after all these years! Can we get a host who at least acts like they enjoy movies next year, please? Mulaney's audition happened right there on the stage.
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