Michelle Yeoh defends Andrea Riseborough nomination

I have a feeling she will win. It will look good to give it to an Asian actor and Cate has won before.

I really like her and hope she wins.

She lives. She takes up space. She is present.

She also wants Andrea to syphon votes off of Cate. Agree she will win after all of this.

EEAOO was the worst movie of 2022 and doesn't deserve a fucking thing. None of those performances were award worthy.

R5 crazy how people different opinions, right?

R5 crazy how people have different opinions, right?

Did I say anyone was wrong who thought differently? No. I just offered up my own opinion.

Well, your opinion is shit and not valid. Go die in a Greece Fire.

This was a smart move (even though I doubt it was pre-meditated). It reflects well on her.

Well she just loses all the black votes

How is that a defense of Andrea Riseborough?

[quote] Well, your opinion is shit and not valid. Go die in a Greece Fire.

Go learn how to post correctly.

I am so sick of this bitch’s pity party tour.

The problem with too many of this year’s projected winners is that it’s all about their comebacks after years of neglect, or to redress a decades-long wrong or treat the Oscar as a gold watch to someone (like Yeoh or Fraser) who were never recognized before.

Fuck. That. Shit. Yeoh was okay in a broad, chaotic, boring mess of a movie. If she, Kuan and or Fraser win it will be because of human interest back stories, not their performances, and this would be bad for the Oscars.

They’re not meant to be awarded by the Department of Social Services. They’re not a mental health award. They’re not a commendation for perfect attendance. They’re the fucking Oscars.

r11: You racial obsessives are tiresome.

r9: Oh, dear!

r14: Hi, Cate!

[quote] Well she just loses all the black votes

Honey, you seriously think they're going to vote for Cate Blanchett now? Be serious.

Who is this dreary drip? I never heard of her before this. Some kind of Kung Fu star? She can't act. She's an athlete, and gave the same performance Martina Navratilova or Serena Williams would have given: wooden.

R 15: You really are intent in getting the last word, aren’t you?

Are you just a shill for “Everything Everywhere” and Ms. Yeoh or is this out of love, or a real belief that representation is more important than any other consideration? Or what?

I'd love it if the 5 actresses joined together and did like the actresses at the 2011 Emmys did when Melissa McCarthy turned out to be the winner. It'd be a great tv moment while making a mockery of the awards' campaign process.

R4 “off of”? Really?

Cate was honored tonight for Outstanding Performer of the Year at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and shared this nugget about the competition.

"...it's been such a remarkable year for female performance, so many different, eclectic, idiosyncratic performances so for me to be honored in this way is deeply meaningful to me, yeah."

Cate is a cunt.

Michelle is a class act, a consummate professional with a career spanning decades, and deserves the Oscar this year. She better win.

R21, lesbian conductor, Marilyn Monroe portrayal, Asian mom, down and out alcoholic & an artistic mom balancing her family & artistic desires.

Sounds like a bunch of eclectic performances to me.

R24 Too white!

Deadwyler was very good. She really was robbed of a nomination.

R26 Agreed. She should be in the top five instead of Yeoh in that nothing of a film.

DL is overflowing with old, unfunny fags who are removed from reality. No amount of hate will obfuscate how good this film is. These out of touch gays are incapable of understanding what makes EEAAO deserving of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Lead Actress, and Best Supporting Actor at minimum. I'd even give them Best Editing. It's a maximalist masterpiece that manages to balance action, horror, absurd comedy, fashion, and family drama. The Daniels (one of whom is gay) managed to incorporate a buttplug fight, hot dog fingers in a lesbian love story, and makes you care about rocks. The actors absolutely killed it in their roles and they each deserve their Oscar nominations. The story examines what it means to be an immigrant pursuing the American Dream, what it's like to be gay when your parent doesn't fully accept you, and what happens to a marriage over time especially when it's under constant financial strain. The Best film of 2022.

R28, I loved Everything, Everywhere All At Once. But let's get real -- its cacophony doesn't suit everybody's taste. It's an acid trip of a film.

R 28: Are you 12? Because that’s about the right age to love that film and you write as if you were a precocious sixth grader.

Pick on R28 all you want, but EEAAO is a critical and commercial success and no amount of DL hatred towards the film, Michelle Yeoh, and Jamie Lee Curtis, will change that. It will win Bet Picture, deservedly so.

I've been a fan of Michelle's ever since her train moment in 'Supercop.' I don't remember anything else about the movie, but she was fabulous.

*Best Picture

Short Round better win, too!

R14 The thing is, narrative has often played a role in who wins. Not always; sometimes they do vote for the actual best actor, such as Hopkins over the dead Black Panther actor.

But just as often, people vote with their hearts. Sandra Bullock won less for her film and more for her body of work and being well liked in Hollywood. Liza Manilli, while fantastic in Cabaret, also won due to voters wanting to make it up for never awarding Judy as oscar. Liz Taylor won thr same year she almost died.

What's ironic about Sandra Bullock's win is she might have been better had it not happened. It was one week after that win that her life completely derailed. She found out her pierced-tattooed shit of a hubby was cheating all over the place. She was attempting to adopt a young child in secret and the tabloids wouldn't leave her alone. Had it not been for the high visibility of her Oscar win, she might have had an easier time.

[quote]I loved Everything, Everywhere All At Once. But let's get real -- its cacophony doesn't suit everybody's taste. It's an acid trip of a film.

Of course, nothing is (to everyone's taste). Every film on the list of ten Best Picture nominees will have people who either hated it or would hate it if they saw it.

I've seen eight of the ten so far. I loved EEAAO, Banshees of Inisherin, and TÁR. I loathed Triangle of Sadness and Elvis. I thought Top Gun: Maverick, Women Talking and All Quiet on the Western Front were fine. Above average, time well spent, but nothing I'd urgently recommend to someone.

[quote]If she, Kuan and or Fraser win it will be because of human interest back stories, not their performances, and this would be bad for the Oscars.

That ship sailed 60 years ago when they gave the Oscar to Elizabeth Taylor after she almost died. Honestly, it probably happened before that, too, but I'm not as familiar with earlier Oscar races.

Anyone in 2023 crying about the integrity of the Oscars has simply not been paying attention.

[quote]DL is overflowing with old, unfunny fags

[quote]out of touch gays

Not getting why anyone is defending r28, who seemed a lot more interested in insulting gays and saying "there's a gay involved in the filmmaking and also buttplugs, you old faggots are supposed to love it" than they were in praising the film.

R35 I really need to get more up to date on movie acting - I’ve never heard of this Liza Manilli!

R40 Very funny. Sorry I am not a boomer gay stuck in the past, cutting out starlets from movie magazines and placing them in a shoebox.

R38 It happened as early as the 2nd Oscars when Mary Pickford won for Coquette. Shit film, shit performance. Of course I am still glad she won; she really is the first woman of film and she helped found the Academy. But it was an award for all she had done, not for what she did that year.

This is like Trump encouraging Nikki Haley to siphon off Desantis votes.

R38, It was perhaps 20 mins too long, but I loved Triangle of Sadness. So glad to see it nominated at the Oscars. Harris Dickinson is hot, doesn't mind showing off his body, and has played gay in multiple indie films. Woody Harrelson is always fun to watch. Dolly DeLeon is the real standout. Without her layered performance in the third act on the island, the film wouldn't resonate as much. The final shot of her is haunting. She should've been nominated at the Oscars. Lucky bitch got to fuck Harris. What a way to be stranded on an island. I too, would've leveraged my power to sleep with the hottest guy regardless of his orientation. The extended vomiting/shitting sequence during the storm, may not be everyone's taste, but it left me howling with laughter and got people talking about the film. Wish TOS had a gay element. All films need to be gayer and feature male nudity.

R39, If a gay guy can't call another gay man "faggot" then batshit liberals and conservatives win. If a gay guy is being annoying then he is a fag or queen.

[quote]Pick on [R28] all you want,

You *are* r28, r31, why the third person?

[quote][R39], If a gay guy can't call another gay man "faggot" then batshit liberals and conservatives win

Really, r44? What exactly do they win?

I love Michelle, especially her old Chinese movies where she proved to be a class A stuntwoman.

Michelle is an "Uncle Tom" type, not surprised she quickly turned against her fellow minority sisters to side with the others .

Still won't win her an Oscar over Cate though

Tell that bitch keep my name out of her mouth

Of course MY would defend Andrea Riseborough in this particular situation I expect nothing less from an Asian actress because Asians never side with the plight of black folks

EEAAO is a terible film that cannot begin to compete with Tar and The Banshees...

😏 [bold] ObfusCate

[r38] See loretta Yoing in The Farmers Daughter.

[quote] the plight of black folks

To win an Oscar.

R45 is so petty, lol. R46 They win the War on Words. No one can say anything these days. R51 The only thing terrible is your taste level and spelling. R52 Good catch! So much for 6th grade writing.

Disliking EEAAO is not a matter of taste; it's a poorly constructed film with some awful performances (you, Jamie) and wants to be way more important than it is.

[quote]Still won't win her an Oscar over Cate though

Yes, have to keep the award white.... and British.

R50 I wonder why that is?

R50 needs to keep her nasty racist bullshit to herself.

While Cate Blanchett is certainly white, she isn’t British, R57.

Gonna be a lot of upset dizzy queens here post Oscars when EEAAO walks away with an armful.

I wish Viola and the other black actresses wouldn't give the Oscars so much importance. I find it cringe of them to cry over not being nominated for an acting trophy. I'm embarassed for them, almost. There are far bigger issues to cry over. Please stop.