53 films are nominated tonight at the Oscars. We ranked them all
Here we go. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, United Artists Releasing, Paramount Pictures, A24 and Focus Features This year’s Oscar nominations featured an unprecedented amount of overlap in the top categories, with four films — Joker, 1917, The Irishman, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — hogging a whopping 41 total nominations. And yet still, 53 films in total were nominated for at least one Academy Award, including documentaries, animated features, foreign-language films, and 15 short films.
China’s one-child policy was expected to be a featured topic for Oscar in the guise of the documentary feature One Child Nation. When that got snubbed, all pressure fell to Sister, a strikingly animated story about a boy and his beloved sister — only there’s a twist, and it involves an abortion. It’s not that tricky a needle to thread, criticizing China’s one-child policy without demonizing abortion, but Sister manages to find the wrong angle.
The consistency of the Star Wars franchise to gather up Oscar nominations no matter the fan response, box-office fluctuations, or being eclipsed by other franchises is really something to appreciate. Honestly. But how many times is John Williams going to get applauded for writing the exact same score? I ask you! Nominations: Best Documentary Feature
Anthony McCarten’s script balances ecumenical debate with light comedy as outgoing pope Anthony Hopkins gradually thaws to the more modern-minded Jonathan Pryce. As unexpected as it sounds in describing a movie called The Two Popes, their interaction is incredibly fun. Popes! Two of ‘em!Nominations: Best Animated Short
My worry with Jojo was that Taika Waititi would spend so much of the running time being impressed with his own audacity that he’d leave no oxygen in the room for comedy or a story. Those fears were blessedly unfounded. The idea of a comedy unfolding in the world of Nazi soldiers and their grade-school recruits during the waning days of the war may not be your thing, but the characters, the humor, and the performances are all pretty pure.
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