
my picks for tonight’s 90th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2017’s films) (winners indicated)
I correctly guessed 15 out of the 24 categories, which is one of my better showings ever, I think.
I correctly guessed 15 out of the 24 categories, which is one of my better showings ever, I think.
The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.
Get Out wins Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, and Three Billboards also take two awards each.
Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.
There is a single thread running through these shorts, and it is deeply existential and irreducibly personal: How do we save ourselves?
This is history firsthand, in progress, and unfinished.