That scene where she's crying outside the restaurant, feeling so guilty, it just breaks my heart. It's so emotionally powerful and she has such range. She's really going there in ways we can't even see. It has so much breadth, the palette of emotions and complexity of emotions, and taking us into a very American character who's not at all within the comfort zone of an Australian actress. I'm voting for Margot Robbie, in part because I think it's the most complete performance in the category. They have a stronger division of high and low culture, so they didn't appreciate those performances the way Americans did I wasn't surprised that J.Lo wasn't on the list, but I would've put her on. I think some of the new members of the Academy don't have the same affection we have for comedic actors or more mainstream actors stepping outside of that. The snubs of Jennifer Lopez for Hustlers and of Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems are in part high versus low culture. The Writer: We're buying internationalism in the Academy, but international taste will come with that. Without a host or a clear front-runner, the Oscars are sure to be unpredictable - but you can still try to predict the winners with our downloadable ballot By Alex Apatoff Febru11:20. If you're a white dude, you weren't on my ballot. It was Lulu Wang, Alma Har'el for Honey Boy. I'm always supporting female directors, so my ballot was all women. If you look at the staging of it's so well thought out and the shots are beautiful, they all say something.
It's an exercise in privilege, like, he's meandering around the things that fascinate him and shows it to you for two hours and it gets all the awards. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, even though I love watching Brad Pitt meander as much as anyone, I had a feeling that if I'd directed that movie, people would be like, "This chick had Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt and she turned in this?" It would've been over for me. One of my friends said it was like The Polar Express…. The Irishman, I was freaked out by the blue eyes. This is really hard because I want Martin Scorsese to have Oscar with all of my heart.