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Lily Gladstone, «Certain Women» (IFC Films) Academy voters who tend to fall for huge, flashy performances should study Gladstone's work in «Certain Women.»

Such genre cross-pollination might make both films more appealing to Academy voters who otherwise wouldn't look twice as superhero fare.

Though I guess if there's a bloc of Academy voters who love snow - flecked frozen beards (and considering nearly everyone in

The AMPAS's sound categories — Achievement Sound Mixing and Achievement in Sound Editing — are often trivialized afterthoughts to viewers at home, and even to some Academy voters who may not be primed in the specific mechanics of cinematic...

Unfortunately, the delivery feels very heavy - handed and could turn off some Academy voters who like their animation to be uplifting and bright instead of melancholic and tragic.

Some veterans remain in the mix as well; Alexander Payne's Downsizing and George Clooney's Suburbicon both debuted to mixed reviews, but seem likely to play better with Academy voters who are already fans.

But it's possible that some Academy voters who missed the summer hit will make sure to catch Girls Trip on - demand (or on a screener) after seeing Haddish's comedic stylings on S.N.L. Haddish already seems like a lock for a Golden Globe nomination — given the show's separate categories for comedy performances — but this S.N.L. appearance could be the beginning of a very smart Oscar campaign as well.

Many big hits drew terrible or middling reviews (paging Suicide Squad and Jason Bourne), proving again that we out - of - touch, eat - your - greens critics are irrelevant, and that Academy voters who listen to us are idiots.

The Oscars are still the ultimate quality benchmark and a useful global marketing tool for Netflix, whose chief content officer Ted Sarandos is an enthusiastic Academy voter who has twice run for the Board of Governors.

Not exact matches

The theme of a reluctant gentile trying to save Jews from Hitler's minions should be appealing to Academy voters, who named Schindler's List the Best Picture of 1993, but may induce Holocaust fatigue in some viewers.

Star Denzel Washington and writer - director Dan Gilroy joined me onstage at the DGA Theater in front of a packed crowd of Academy and key guild voters for a conversation about where Washington's unique character came from — a socially backward activist who really has never left the spirit... Read

With Academy balloting closing today it's last ditch stand time for nominees, who've suddenly popped up on every flat surface to remind Academy voters of their existence.

That way, he can try to break through without having to be introduced as Jennifer Lawrence's boyfriend, and Harvey doesn't have to complain about his star actress being weighed down by a young English dude that nobody knows; he'd rather present her to those old ass Academy voters as the plucky, unspoiled American girl not unlike their college - aged granddaughters who sass them when they come home for family holidays.

That's perhaps an indication that the Academy voters, who once went mostly for big names, are doing their homework and seeing the pictures.

One of the hardest parts of Oscar watching is the inevitable truths that come out every year about the behavior of Academy voters, who are more like your average movie - goer than they are like film critics.

For that matter, if academy voters took international cinema seriously, they might have spared a thought for Beya, a Congolese woman who had never acted on - screen before giving her mesmerizing performance in «Félicité» (shortlisted as Senegal's entry for the foreign - language film Oscar).

Those who called this a weak year must have been slaves to the multiplex or Academy voters.

With Jessica Chastain on hand, fresh off her back - to - back Oscar nominations, I could see this drawing massive appeal to Academy voters, fans of the fiery - haired thespian, and film critics from a wide variety of publications (who've been her biggest supporters, let's face it).

Though Southpaw may not be the kind of movie that Academy voters will deliver accolades to, it's a masterful performance for Gyllenhaal, in a role originally intended for left - handed rapper Eminem (no joke), who breathes a great deal of life to a role that could easily have been deemed underwritten if left to someone who didn't add more to what had been on the written pages of the old - fashioned script.

History was on the side of those who thought Academy voters would prove too fuddy - duddy to appreciate Immortan Joe and his War Boys.

In other words, they are catnip for Academy voters, who probably will reward them with nominations in January.

I think that voting has been split, and there are about 800 new Academy voters this year, who are young.

A great deal of this happens through the distribution of screener discs for major films, which are sent to people who belong to major voting bodies (guilds and critics» circles, plus Academy voters) to aid them in being able to watch everything and fill out their ballots.

To show how this works, I asked SurveyMonkey Audience to run a survey of moviegoers — people who have seen at least one movie in the past six months — to rank the best picture nominees the same way the Academy voters do.

Black Panther doesn't quite have an actor who fits that profile (Forest Whitaker comes closest, but his role within the film is probably too minor, while Lupita Nyong» o's role might be too quiet to attract Academy voters), but it does have an up - and - coming movie star, in a major supporting role, who gives the kind of flashy - but - deep performance that actors love.

Academy voters will back the movie that allows them to send a message about who they are and what they value, one that either forthrightly pushes back against the president, or one that defends the industry itself as an important artistic community and not just a cesspool of male privilege run amok.

The second of our two Quietly Canadian Oscar Voters is a female Academy member who apologizes for being «too emotional» about her choices.

Desplat is much admired among Academy voters — though not as admired as Zimmer, who is on his 11th nomination, or Williams, on his 46th -LRB-!!).

Guillermo del Toro's creation certainly has its hooks into Academy voters, who have given his story of a mute cleaning woman a leading 13 Oscar nominations.

Only 15 % of participants who identified as Republican voters said they felt the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had made the right choice for the annual awards ceremony's top prize.

This is an unusually strong category this year, and would be stronger still if Academy voters hadn't briefly lost their minds and forgotten to nominate Amy Adams, who gave one of the year's truly indelible performances in Arrival.

Blumhouse founder Jason Blum, who produced the film, joined The Bill Simmons Podcast this week to explain how the makers kept spoilers out of the trailer and how the company is marketing the film to Academy voters.

There should also be room in Academy voters» hearts for Seamus McGarvey, who previously picked up a Cinematography bid for lensing Wright's Atonement, and brings an equally elegant eye to the collaborators» third outing (McGarvey also served as DP on The Soloist).

But it's possible that the same bloc of voters that elevated Rylance — the academy's small, serious East Coast contingent — could go all in on Metcalf, a four - time Tony nominee who won that honor last year for her lead turn in the Broadway production of «A Doll's House, Part 2.»

The omission of Christopher Nolan for directing Inception sparked a Twitter cacophony; it could be that the mindbending sci - fi thriller is perceived as too much of a special - effects entry for the Academy voters, who prefer humanist storytelling.

Even though, in replacing Jack Nicholson and Brad Pitt (who both were sort of iffy on the lead - supporting continuum) with Mark Wahlberg's middle finger and Jackie Earle Haley's little appendage, the Academy implicitly agreed with us, the no - small - parts - only - small - actors initiative will probably fail to move through committee if Oscar voters vote with where history has informed us their hearts lead them: lefty, global market agitprop.

Best Supporting Actress - 1973 Who Won: Tatum O'Neal for Paper Moon Who Should've Won: Linda Blair for The Exorcist A 10 - year - old O'Neal charmed Academy voters with her portrayal of a preternaturally mature lil» grifter.

When Voltage Pictures President Nicolas Chartier got a wrist - slap for openly appealing to Academy voters on behalf of his project The Hurt Locker (2010), he may have been «uninvited» to the Oscars, but he certainly proved himself to be the rare creative executive who really speaks his mind.

I doubt this will bother Academy voters, who have been kind to Leigh in the past, and whom I think may respond well to the film's humanism and warmth.

It remains to be seen if Netflix can successfully turn its would - be Oscar contenders into must - sees for Academy voters by hiring top Oscar campaigners, sending out screeners to members who already are subscribers, mounting events and Q&A s, and playing the awards game.

I think it could sway those Hollywood sports fans who are also Academy voters.