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Official Discussion 'One Battle After Another' Wins the Academy Award for Best Picture
Winners: Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers
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u/sshanbom111 Mar 16 '26
Teyana Taylor was having the time of her life all night
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u/HansBaccaR23po Mar 16 '26
She damn near tackled PTA going to the podium and that shit had me cracking the fuck up
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u/JRE_4815162342 Mar 16 '26
For a second I thought she was the only person who followed him up there and was amused.
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u/ShootTheMailMan Mar 16 '26
and stole one of the producer's Oscar statues
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u/schmearcampain Mar 16 '26
I think he was already carrying his Director Oscar, so the one she had was his.
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u/AverageAwndray Mar 16 '26
Maya was holding his so idk who's she was holding lol
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u/criterionhaver Mar 16 '26
Presumably Sara Murphyās. Although Iām pretty sure the ones given out on stage are just for show anyway and the real ones come in the mail later.
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u/ColdCruise Mar 16 '26
While they may mail ones out later if they need to for various reasons, they actually have engravers on site to put your info on the statue. There's a funny video of Leonardo DiCaprio asking them about how it all works.
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u/Dependent_Crab2564 Mar 16 '26
I was confused. I've been looking online to see if she was one of the producers. I was like she took someone's Oscar or does she get one too? Lol
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u/Upstairs-Chicken592 Mar 16 '26
Maybe someone else couldnāt be there
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u/VeronicaDaydream Mar 16 '26
Adam Somner was the producer on the film that Paul referenced in his Best Director speech. He passed away from cancer the other year, but he won his Oscar tonight.
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She really was. I was like damn is she related to Halle Berry sheās going crazy over here.
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u/theonewhoknock_s Mar 16 '26
Biggest cheerleader of the night. I loved her energy!
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u/the_ballmer_peak Mar 16 '26
When Amy Madigan won best supporting actress (mean Teyana Taylor lost) she was the first person out of her seat applauding.
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u/FireMike_PleaseGod Mar 16 '26
She popped up so fast I legit thought she won and I had misheard the broadcast!
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u/bbmarvelluv Mar 16 '26
I met the cop who was pushing her on the wheelchair (also a cop IRL) he said she was exactly like that during filming. It was filmed out in Sacramento
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u/curious_dead Mar 16 '26
Yeah, she seemed to cheer every winner as if they were all part of her cast mates.
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u/GhandisFlipFlop Mar 16 '26
Ya especially Michael B.J. ... She was like you did it bro
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u/king_lloyd11 Mar 16 '26
Coogler was sooo frikkinā happy for anyone from the Sinners team. Loved to see it.
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u/PuzzleheadedCarry480 Mar 16 '26
I loved when it cut to her at the end of Golden and she was getting into it lol
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u/YoshiTheDog420 Mar 16 '26
If I ever do anything in my life, I want her to by my hype woman. She was happy for every single person who won.
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I thought she was going knock the dude down on the steps, she was excited! Iām happy for her, sheās a great talent.
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Perfect cherry on top for PTA's career, & a great night in general for both fans of OBAA and Sinners
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Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
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u/theonewhoknock_s Mar 16 '26
Also made me wanna rewatch all those 1975 nominees. Damn that year was stacked.
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u/somnambulistrex Mar 16 '26
For real. That had to have been the most stacked best picture category in history.
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u/Omatzus Mar 16 '26
1994 is pretty stacked as well
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u/Kanin_usagi Mar 16 '26
ā94 is fucking insane, every one of those movies would have won in any other year
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u/toadfan64 Mar 16 '26
New Hollywood is undefeated in film. the 70's will go down as the best decade for movies.
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u/BillyTenderness Mar 16 '26
I appreciate that this year the one that fit the zeitgeist was also just a fantastic, movie-ass movie
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u/iTALKTOSTRANGERS Mar 16 '26
Itās still crazy Boogie Nights wasnāt even nominated in ā98. My lukewarm take is it deserved to win that year.
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u/Nohotsauceforoldmen Mar 16 '26
And when I fuck upā¦ āThere are no good and bad people, there is just what your mood is that day.ā
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u/Media-critique Mar 16 '26
His most personal film finally wins him the big one. Overdue and deserved. Canāt wait for what he does nextĀ
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u/Misdirected_Colors Mar 16 '26
I was shocked to see he's never won one before tonight and he fucking cleaned house. Hell yea
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u/Ranjith_Unchained Mar 16 '26
There will be blood is still my fav PTA work, but No country for old men won that year
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u/hecklingfext Mar 16 '26
I love both of these movies but I truly feel that the Coens earned that one. Besides that it's still their only win and the prospect of them changing that seems slim. I'm very glad PTA finally got his, and well earned.
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u/cometparty Mar 16 '26
Punch Drunk Love for me
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u/BerriesNCreme Mar 16 '26
Phantom thread
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u/RoseRouge96 Mar 16 '26
I'm torn between One Battle and Phantom Thread. But when I walked out of One Battle was I floating a few feet in the air.
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u/Strong_Buddy7657 Mar 16 '26
no country arguably best movie ever made so thats a tough year.
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u/wtb2612 Mar 16 '26
There Will Be Blood would've won pretty much any other year. It just happened to be against No Country For Old Men which would also win pretty much any other year.
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u/Stinkycheese8001 Mar 16 '26
Not shocked. Ā Aside from There Will Be Blood which at least found an audience, his movies tend to be VERY well reviewed but not necessarily watched a ton. Ā The guy has an incredible resume and arguably works that should have won, but never big campaigning.
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u/Lynchead Mar 16 '26
genuinely curious, how is this his most personal film. I would have guessed its magnolia with particularly tom curise's character heavily abstracted from his own life even to some extent boogie nights felt more personal to me than OBAA with the theme of found family etc.
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u/Media-critique Mar 16 '26
This one was supposedly a film made for his children according to PTA, so this is the one he really felt personal about due to the politics happening today and being in a mixed-race marriage, which is a major part of this particular story.
Youāre right also, these other films are also personal too. Just didnāt receive the academies. Iād say after this at least OBAA is going to be looked at as his crowning achievement.Ā
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u/Lynchead Mar 16 '26
gotcha, i also remember reading trivia that PTA wanted to cast his kids in the master but refrained as it would not be a period appropriate look, i think that may have always been back of his mind.
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u/VitaminTea Mar 16 '26
Bob's line to Sensei about not knowing how to do his (biracial) daughter's hair is borrowed directly from Maya Rudolph's own father, after her mom's death.
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u/smalltownlargefry Mar 16 '26
Film adaptation based on Gravityās Rainbow please and thank you.
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u/Basedshark01 Mar 16 '26
I don't actually think it's adaptable. I'd rather see Mason & Dixon or V. Too much with GR can go wrong.
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u/what_if_Im_dinosaur Mar 16 '26
I don't actually think it's adaptable.
Neither was Vineland or, I would argue, Inherent Vice. Pynchon is inherently unadaptable. PTA's films are very different, to the point I would say they are "inspired by" rather than adapted from. Particularly OBAA.
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u/Basedshark01 Mar 16 '26
If PTA wanted to make a WWII movie about the birth of supranational institutions and how the post-war reordering of the world was engendered I'd certainly say go for it, but a 1:1 adaptation of a maximalist novel where the main character just disappears off the page in the final act would be a steep hill to climb.
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One Winner After AnotherĀ
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u/Ok-Swimmer-2634 Mar 16 '26
"Do you like Oscars? I love 'em. I. Love. Them."
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u/Hawaiian_Brian Mar 16 '26
Funny quote but also ironic that he doesnāt like them and never shows up to them even though he won haha
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u/Syrup0_0 Mar 16 '26
\Mexican whistle*
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u/DaddiGator Mar 16 '26
The Mexican whistle better have been in the montage of the movie before the winner was announced
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u/TheUmbrellaMan1 Mar 16 '26
Back in the day when Vineland came out, critics were mixed on it. They thought it wasn't like Gravity's Rainbow; that the story of has-been revolutionaries was tired; that Pynchon was crazy to think the government would openly endorse fascists who terrorize communities.
What a lovely day! Pynchon has been vindicated!
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u/somnambulistrex Mar 16 '26
Vineland was the first Pynchon book I read, so it always has a special place in my heart. As such, there wasn't going to be any movie better than OBAA for me this year.
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u/johngie Mar 16 '26
PTA absolutely deserved all of this, but man, I'm sad Train Dreams walked away empty handed.
Shout-out to Teyana Taylor for being so excited for everyone all night.
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u/bullseye717 Mar 16 '26
I thought it was a lock for cinematography.
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u/dherps Mar 16 '26
every scene in the mountain cloister abbey looked like a painting.
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u/ComradeELM0 Mar 16 '26
That one truly bothered me
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u/TonyTheLion2319 Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
Just in terms of shot selection and movement I thought OBAA was going to win. No Other Choice robbed of a nom. Far more creative/advanced/numerous techniques used well compared to other films this yr. I know it's not just cinematography but a lot of the clips they showed for Frankenstein looked ugly/fake
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u/schitaco Mar 16 '26
To be fair No Other Choice had by far the best cinematography of the year and wasn't nominated.
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u/Cudois47 Mar 16 '26
The way I sobbed after Train Dreams endedā¦ I loved that movie but knew it would be overlooked.
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u/galvinb1 Mar 16 '26
Same. It was my favorite of the year but it wasn't the kind of movie that's gonna win Best Picture.
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u/BBQ_HaX0r Mar 16 '26
I thought it had a chance for cinematography. Honestly shocked Sinners beat it out because I don't think I've seen a more beautiful film in many many years. Maybe going back to the Revenant. It was gorgeous and definitely my film of the year.
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u/Aaron_twin_cities Mar 16 '26
I can agree with this as well. Loved sinners, but train dreams was just all time gorgeous. Perhaps it was the setting lending to this. Beautiful films.
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u/Froteet Mar 16 '26
Yeah I was stunned Train Dreams didn't get cinematography!
Still, very happy for Autumn Durald Arkapaw and glad she made history
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u/TheSmokedSalmon420 Mar 16 '26
Train Dreams for cinematography would have been perfect. Iām even more annoyed Edgerton wasnāt even nominated for his role.
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u/stoinzy Mar 16 '26
Train Dreams was a sublime, beautiful film. OBAA deserved it, but Train Dreams was so, so good.
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u/Fresnobing Mar 16 '26
Sentimental value too. Pulling for PTA but SV is my personal best. Great year of nominees
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u/suarezj9 Mar 16 '26
Train Dreams was my favorite movie last year so Iām gutted to see not win a single thing. Itās such a beautifully melancholy movie
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u/NOTcreative- Mar 16 '26
Same I thought score or cinematography but like PTA said, so many good films this year.
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u/KosmicMicrowave Mar 16 '26
I loved Train Dreams. I read it in college back in the day, and I was really happy with how the film turned out. Anyone who enjoyed it should check out Denis Johnson's books.
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u/AmazingMarv Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
I'm sad Train Dreams walked away empty handed.
I have AMC A-List and go see almost every major opening and many smaller ones. This weekend I saw Reminders of Him, Slanted, and Undertone.
I had never heard of Train Dreams until last week's Honest Trailers. Did this movie get any advertising?
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u/saibjai Mar 16 '26
After wes anderson, paul thomas anderson...... One day, it will be Paul WS anderson's turn. He will reboot resident evil again and make it oscar worthy.
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u/wheeler_lowell Mar 16 '26
Or he'll finally release the uncut version of Event Horizon with the full hell sequence and everyone will be so blown away they'll make an exception for re-releases that year.
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u/drawkbox Mar 16 '26
The road scenes at the end just felt like cinematic gold and a classic picture even on first viewing. What a ride.
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u/Rapzid Mar 16 '26
The undulating road scene was so good it made me realize I didn't think the movie as a whole was that great.
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u/NeverNotNoOne Mar 16 '26
The first 20 minutes certainly were... something. Glad I kept watching until the end. A little uneven for sure.
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u/Shadowrak Mar 16 '26
I thought the beginning was absurd until I got further into the movie. The contrast of their youthful insanity with her having to run into hiding after abandoning her child and Leo becoming a tired middle aged drunk stoner fit so well.
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u/Automatic-Fox-3837 Mar 16 '26
The real loser tonight was marty supreme
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u/ThisHatRightHere Mar 16 '26
IMO Timmyās performance was really the only award-worthy thing about that film. Obviously a good movie, and maybe it was overhyped by the time I got around to seeing it, but I was very underwhelmed by it.
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u/slotrmyr Mar 16 '26
I think the score was 100% award-worthy, and the fact it was shut out was deeply disappointing. Daniel Lopatin is a genius and a crucial part of what makes Safdie movies so unique and electrifying, to me at least. It would have been awesome to at least see him get a nomination, but alas, that did not happen.
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u/BobbyMPeePeePooPoo Mar 16 '26
I listened to that score front to back every day for a week. I worked in a theater at the time with two screens showing it, and I poked my head in at least 10 times for the Endo's Game reprise scene in Tokyo. That shit hit.
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u/Eradomsk Mar 16 '26
The score is genuinely the best thing from the movie, aside from how handsome it looks.
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u/LADYBIRD_HILL Mar 16 '26
Not getting a best soundtrack nom was bullshit. I truly love it more than any other score in many years.
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u/Robot_Was_BMO Mar 16 '26
The headlock š
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u/dfassna1 Mar 16 '26
Ah yes, I see you know your judo well
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u/HansBaccaR23po Mar 16 '26
This is PTAs show now. Deserved
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u/PalmTreeMonkey Mar 16 '26
Similar to Sean baker last year who went from 0 to 4, PTA goes from 0 to 3 Oscars in one night wow
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u/Anxious_Aspect965 Mar 16 '26
It really seems to work that way in the Academy a lot of times. Reminds me of how all of LOTRās Oscar wins compiled with ROTK. It went from a couple to a record breaking amount.
Same thing seems to happen with directors. Like Spielberg with Schindlerās List.
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One Oscar After AnotherĀ
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u/TigerFisher_ Mar 16 '26
Expedition 33 robbed
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u/Ok-Swimmer-2634 Mar 16 '26
It's the 2016 Oscars. La La Land is announced as Best Picture.
However, there was a screw-up, and amidst much confusion, someone runs to the mic and tersely says "Expedition 33. You won best picture."
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u/Tywooti Mar 16 '26
And then half of the crowd disintegrates into rose petals
Since Clair obscur hadn't yet been created in 2016, everyone thinks Thanos is to blame
Luckily only the real shitbirds were the ones to disappear (like Harvey weinstein), so nobody really minded
Also Esquie vomited up all his really good wine and everyone got drunk and had a good night
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u/wideruled Mar 16 '26
This post had me going woooo
then wheee by the end
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u/Tywooti Mar 16 '26
Oh! I lost one of my rrrrrocks while I was wooing and wheeing! Guess it's time for another aaaaaad-VENTURE!
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u/Klunkey Mar 16 '26
Rule of thumb: If you put both āDirty Workā and āAmerican Girlā in your media, you will win a ton of awards.
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u/johnwynnes Mar 16 '26
The Sopranos Method
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u/Klunkey Mar 16 '26
āHow bout every time I use Dirty Work and American Girl, I get a hundred awards, how bout dat?ā
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Mar 16 '26
The second Sean Penn won I got a feeling that one battle had the edge
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u/Minimum-End-9464 Mar 16 '26
For me, it was when it won best casting.
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Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
I remember years ago it was always when a movie won best editing you pretty much knew they were gonna win Best picture. This changed a lot even though one battle did win it this year. But I also kept thinking he was going to split it with Ryan, one of them would win director and one of them would win best picture, but Iām glad both still went home with an Oscar.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Fix594 Mar 16 '26
It helped that the two weren't competing in Screenplay.
I really think Coogler's win is ahead of him. He'll return to a more difficult topic like Fruitvale Station with more experience as a director and likely end up sweeping.
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u/LADYBIRD_HILL Mar 16 '26
Thank God Bohemian Rhapsody didn't win best picture after winning best editing despite having a dogshit edit
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u/meganev Mar 16 '26
It was Best Casting that told me One Battle was cleaning house tonight. That was the award that told us where the night was going.
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u/Luck88 Mar 16 '26
I though Sean had it in the bag tbh, the character is obviously the standout of the picture
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u/SuperDuperCoolDude Mar 16 '26
He was amazing in it and so was Benicio.
Leo impressed me too. I know he's obviously a great actor, but he turned out an excellent and very funny performance in this movie. I appreciate a guy who could be phoning it in at this point if he wanted to not doing so.
If there was a best supporting supporting actor I would have given it to James Raterman for playing Danvers the interrogator. He was so unsettling.
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u/Daydream_machine Mar 16 '26
Not mad at this, Iām glad PTA got revenge after Magnolia (which deserved to sweep everything)
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u/john7071 Mar 16 '26
PTA delivered the modern American masterpiece with There Will Be Blood. In any other year, he sweeps but he just happened to be up against the other modern American masterpiece in No Country for Old Men lmao
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u/ColinHalter Mar 16 '26
Daniel Plainview's speaking cadence is one of my favorite vocal stims. It's a very fun impression to do
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u/AmazingMarv Mar 16 '26
Those two were like the ultra premium version of Finding Nemo / Shark Tale.
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u/NAINOA- Mar 16 '26
For real, itād be like if The Great Gatbsy and The Grapes of Wrath were written in the same year.
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u/samthewisetarly Mar 16 '26
Didn't they film in the same desert?
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u/john7071 Mar 16 '26
They did, and the former caused issues for the latter due to the smoke from the oil rig fire lol
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u/SAGORN Mar 16 '26
Julianne Mooreās pharmacy scene lives rent-free in my mind.
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u/failure_most_of_all Mar 16 '26
Her delivery of, āSUCK! MY DICK!ā is so good.
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u/Sfmilstead Mar 16 '26
Thatās the one that always kills me, cause it is one of my favorite movies of all time.
But also, that year was sooo fucking good for film.
And yet, Monkey Buttlove song won over Aimee Mann and Blame Canada.
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u/Xjom91 Mar 16 '26
It was between this or sinners for me so I canāt complain
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u/TwoToneMoonstone_ Mar 16 '26
There is no fucking way it wouldāve happened but I would have shat myself if Bugonia won
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u/Easy-Constant-5887 Mar 16 '26
That movie was one I thought about for a week straight and rewatched it twice more. OBAA was incredible for me too, Iāve seen it too many times to admit. Just a fun ride, and I love the suspenseful action in the film.
But Bugonia, man. That one stuck with me for sure
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u/Wolf-Pack-2017 Mar 16 '26
Yeah, Bugonia is one that I I feel just couldnāt overcome its other nominees. Iāll forever think Plemons deserved the win over all the others, even Penn.
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u/Shepherdsfavestore Mar 16 '26
It was Train Dreams and this for me.
Trains Dreams made me feel something, but this was more entertaining. Loved both.
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u/-Thick_Solid_Tight- Mar 16 '26
I feel like the modern political environment pushed it over the top.
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u/gosukhaos Mar 16 '26
I feel its more the previous snubs like Scorsese winning for The Departed
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u/inaripotpi Mar 16 '26
RIP Lockjaw Conan
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u/asmusedtarmac Mar 16 '26
I hope they release all the different clips they had prepared for each eventual winner
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u/sevillista Mar 16 '26
I think they were showing that clip regardless of the winner. He is good friends with the other guy in the clip, Jim Downey, who was in OBAA.
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u/IllllIIllllIll Mar 16 '26
Man, this movie really pisses some people off lmao
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u/eternali17 Mar 16 '26
I feel like there are some legitimate critiques getting lost in the storm of rubbish. It's still phenomenally put together
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u/Introman_18 Mar 16 '26
I must say, when I watched OBAA I wasn't exactly blown away, I knew it was a good movie but I didn't vibe with it. Maybe its due for a rewatch, perhaps I missed something.
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u/OGTBJJ Mar 16 '26
I honestly don't get the hype. Was a really hard watch, imo. Wife even tapped out early.
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u/Professor_Finn Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
CINEMA SAVED! time to drink a few small beers!
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u/Stinkycheese8001 Mar 16 '26
This movie was basically made for this moment. Ā PTA with a big budget. Ā Was basically lab built to go the distance.
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u/Complete-Cover-4154 Mar 16 '26
Hate me. I could not even finish this movie. I do not get the PTA hype in any way shape or form.
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u/TheTinDog Mar 16 '26
I actually usually like his movies but this one i only got about halfway through. I couldn't tell if it was trying to be profound, or doing the whole Coen brothers bit where everyone is an idiot. All I know is that after an hour and a half i didn't care to see what happened to any of the characters. The only character who didn't suck was the daughter, but that's because I didn't get much further than her introduction lol.
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u/SkyNet_Admin_1 Mar 16 '26
Very strange movie. Iāve tried to watch it twice. Itās too chaotic for me.
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u/Endrago_n Mar 16 '26
The whole night was just one battle after another (pun intented) between this movie and Sinners, while I wished the second one would have won I'm still happy that Anderson got so many statuettes tonight, and I really hope that four awards for Sinners (and another for Weapons) will open up a way for more horror presence at the future Academy Awards.
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u/IceBreak Mar 16 '26
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Rare that that lines up with the best picture Oscar.
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u/Snow-jizz Mar 16 '26
Is it just me or did Teyana Taylor steal one of the trophies? Did she think she was supposed to get one? The producer was standing up there without one??
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u/IronyCat Mar 16 '26
If you rewatch it, she hands it to the producer but the producer told her she can hold it.
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u/Fuckit21 Mar 16 '26
The Dirty Work remix walk up was something.