Vote for "Movie of the Week" in November - Academy Award Winners
Edit: Voting closed
My initial post didn't get a lot of answers, but I am taking a gamble that maybe it will gain some traction if I just start it.
Every Monday I will post a topic for the movie of the week based on the voting results. We need 5 titles for each Monday - including October 30 this time around.
Going for a voting system in the hope that people will have a little more motivation to participate than if it was just pure random. To keep it manageable I propose we vote for the next month in advance - also to keep the number of voting posts to a minimum.
It will not be free for all, but will allow votes within a very broad category.
For November it will be Academy Award Winners (in any category). Can be sound, costumes, best supporting actress, foreign language, best picture or any of them - excluding shorts and documentaries for now (we could do that as a theme later).
Rules
- Must be a winner of at least one Academy Award (Oscar) in any category
- Feature film only (no shorts or documentaries)
- Only one nomination per user
- Please only nominate if you intent to participate
Use this list as inspiration.
Five most voted nominations will be done in random order on a Monday starting from the 30th of October.
If this goes well, I will post a new voting post in the end of November.
I'm gonna go with Drive My Car (2021) because I have heard about it a few times but I haven't watched it and I was surprised to see it on the Academy Award-winning films page.
If this gets chosen I will definitely watch it, and participate in the discussion about it.
It is on the schedule for next Monday.
Time to call it. We had three films (Birdman, West Side Story and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) with equal amount of votes, but only two spots left. Using random.org sadly Birdman lost out.
The next five Mondays we will discuss:
30th of October: Day for Night
6th of November: Drive My Car
13th of November: L.A. Confidential
20th of November: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
27th of November: West Side Story
That's a shame about Birdman. The one thing I was gonna say was how the reputation for that movie changed. It was insanely loved on the internet when it came out. But nearly a decade later and it's pretty poorly regarded now. AGI has been polarizing since with mixed reception on The Revenant and negative reception on Bardo.
I still like him (and still think The Revenant is incredible and was more than deserving to win Best Picture). But a lot of people see him as pretentious.
I am sure Birdman can find a spot here in the future. I have only seen it once at release and wouldn't mind a revisit. Didn't know it is less regarded now, since it was seen as quite an innovative breakthrough at the time. But yeah, that is an interesting topic all in itself with opinions on films changing drastically over time.
Haha, starting with 2 non-English films is just what I would have expected of this sort of thing. It's like you're trying to make it as difficult to take part in as possible. I tip my fedora to you all. .
80% of people on the planet who consume films/television use subtitles. Not everyone on Tildes lives somewhere English speaking. None of these are obtuse art-house films - if there was a high barrier to entry this ain't it.
The order is random and only L. A. Confidential had more votes, but I think we have a fairly variable selection of new, old and popular movies. My intent is to keep the voting categories pretty broad, so nothing against having blockbusters in the selection as well.
Lets go with L.A. Confidential (1997)
I love this idea. I really want to expand my horizons so I’m nominating a winner of Best International Feature. There are lots of great ones to choose (obv) so I thought which one is having a big anniversary. So without looking into it much further - other than to note it was directed by the great Francois Truffaut
I nominate Day for Night
Looking forward to this!
It is even free to watch on Youtube
I nominate All About Eve (1950).
This is one of my favorites that I haven't watched in a while. I'd love to read and participate in a discussion about this one.
It won the following awards at the 1951 Academy Awards:
It was additionally nominated for Best Leading Actress twice (Anne Baxter and Bette Davis); Best Supporting Actress twice (Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter); Best Cinematography, Black and White; Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Black and White; Best Film Editing; and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
West Side Story (2021). Please guys.
This is a really fun idea!! We're right in the middle of festival season which I've been way enjoying with my local fests, it's always so fun to see movies before Oscar conversations even start, get to pick out which ones I think are gonna go all the way to the awards circuit from the get-go (even though I don't really watch awards ceremonies, too many movies I've gotta watch!)
It's so hard to vote for just one! But, after a whole couple of minutes of thinking about it on my lunchbreak I think I'm gonna have to go with...
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
It just beat out Whiplash for me by a hair. Side note: can y'all believe Children of Men didn't win a single category?
I'm still a fan of this idea ... but weirdly--just at a first glance--not a single movie on the entire first page of that list of Oscar winners caught my interest. I'm sure once I dig into the titles a bit, I'll find some interesting movies that I want to see and discuss, but at this moment ... nothing.
I'll be back.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2005 best original screenplay winner)
My pick is Amour (2012) directed by Michael Haneke. Won for Best Foreign Language Film.
Great film. I cried.
This is for discussion or something else? I'm confused
This is just for nomination and voting on which movies we will discuss the upcoming five Mondays.