98th Reax

Picture: 10/10 (!)

Directing: 5/5

Actress: 4/5 (+alt)

Actor: 5/5

S. Actress: 4/5 

S. Actor: 4/5

O. Screenplay: 4/5

A. Screenplay: 5/5

Animated: 5/5

International: 5/5

Documentary: 2/5 (+alt)

Casting: 4/5

Cinematography: 5/5

Costume Design: 3/5 (+alt)

Film Editing: 4/5

Production Design: 4/5

Makeup: 3/5 (+alt)

Music - Score: 4/5

Music - Song: 4/5

Sound: 4/5 (+alt)

Visual Effects: 4/5

Top 8 = 41 / 45 = 91.1%

Overall = 92  / 110 = 83.6%

I really need to do an update of my score lists. Both those numbers are better than last year, but no idea where they fall overall. 

Sinners breaks the record with 16 Nominations! I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing for it. Good because it proves what a legit contender it's always been, but bad because we know certain people are going to be like "Oh, a vampire musical got the most noms ever?" (Read that in an asshole Bill Maher voice to get it.) Happy for Delroy but that's another McAdams/JLC situation. Loving that a horror movie broke the record.

Sentimental also maxed out. I totally called in like 2010 that Elle would be the first Fanning sister to get an Oscar nom.

Paul Mescal is probably the acting snub of the morning. Wicked: For Good completely blanked. That makes me so happy. 

Sad for Jesse Plemons who gave one of my fave performances of the year. Stone got her 6th & 7th Oscar nom this morning. Bugonia's score nom is so deserved.

Ecstatic that Rose Byrne is finally an Academy Award nominee! She should have been nominated for both Paul Feig movies she did. 

I KNEW Hudson was happening. I think people really need to listen to what the industry is saying and they've been pushing her hard for the past month or so.

AMY FUCKING MADIGAN!!!! She now holds the record for longest gap between nominations for an actress - 40 years! And funnily enough, her first nom was for a film called Twice In a Lifetime.

Lewis Pullman looked so good this morning. 

The acting categories feature a vampire, alien, monster, and a witch.  HORROR RULES!