game of thrones didn't deserve the one nom it received. kit is wonderful, but i can't say his acting is what i love about him.
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What's with "snub"? A couple of other headlines in this section use the word as well. It means "spurn disdainfully." Most likely the "eyebrow-raising snubs" just didn't get picked, that's all- and if there's disdain, you need to establish it.
That's what great about art- everyone has an opinion (and only mine is right).
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No surprise that DeNiro didn’t get nominated for a Golden Globe, and it had nothing to do with his remarks. It was the same old role he’s played before, except now he’s an old wise guy. The effects to make him look younger and older were very distracting to this viewer. Some critics want to label this film Scorcese’s masterwork. I look at it as evidence that we older folks are in the habit of repeating ourselves. And three and a half hours of this stuff was almost insufferable.
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I saw "Us" recently and I am also surprised that Lupita Nyongo's performance in the film was passed over. If I hadn't seen her name in the opening credits I would not have known it was her in the lead role. She was brilliant.
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Why would Todd Phillips be a surprise pick. The film Joker was an excellent portrayal of a man suffering with psychotic problems. Joacim Phoenix was marvelous night the role. It takes a very talented director to bring out not only that performance, but the overall aesthetics of the film. Phillips not only deserves that nomination but should of gotten a nomination for best original screenplay.
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If I recall, Streisand won a Golden Globe for Direction back in the 1980s for Yentl.
So it’s not like a female director hasn’t won. I personally enjoyed Lady Bird very much, haven’t seen the redundant Little Women yet. The 1994 version really hit the mark, in my opinion.
I know it’s heresy, but I always thought Scorsese was overrated. I recall the late great William Wyler saying that a director needs to keep himself out of the picture; Scorsese, although ostensibly behind the camera, always seems to be in fron it.
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@David G
I chuckle when an artist with over 60 film credits is judged with these criticisms of his/her work being overrated? Which ones? The first? The tenth? The fiftieth film? I am no fan of The Irishman but my goodness the catalogue this director has is the envy of many! Perhaps you should explore or re-explore it more closely: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, Hugo, After Hours, The King of Comedy, Raging Bull - WOW!!! Could not agree with you less David G. Not to mention Scorsese's deep love of film and dedication to the preservation of film.
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The Irishman and Once upon a time in America recall Hollywood's golden age with great scripts, directors and real stars. What a pity they come at a time when the (American) public's attention span is so limited.
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No one needs a souped-up version of a classic like Little Women. Gerwig’s previous movies were a bore. As for DeNiro, he paled in comparison to Pesce and Pacino, both of whom gave some of the best performances of their careers.
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@SchnauzerMom
Hey I'm biased: I need a new Pride & Prejudice and Jane Eyre every 10 or 15 years but Little Women? No thank you. I don't like it when the "insiders" feel or their handlers think awards or at least nominations are a requirement which each new endeavor. DeNiro's role was not a showy performance - that wasn't the nature of his character; he was a quiet psychopath but this awards season is just filled with beige. I am sure Adam Driver is a nice man but he is not an actor. I think the love affair with him comes from these old, white guys sitting at their computers writing scripts and reviews all day and they have some kind of infinity with him, a sort of everyman but what a bland fellow.
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Haven't seen Little Women. But, isn't this like the 4th movie version of it? Enough already.
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The Irishman is one of the most boring films I've seen in years. I truly don't understand all the love its gotten.
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@zach1 I agree - we didn't finish watching it, feeling that we'd already seen it several times.
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Big deal, no women.
People shouldn't be nominated because they're women, black, gay or white. They should be nominated because of the quality of their work.
No room for quotas here.
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I agree both as a woman and an African-American.
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@Ben M Yes Ben that is true but the biggest issue is woman and people of color are ignored - their good work isn't noticed. They aren't part of the club. They aren't on the radar.
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Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy in "Succession."
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Irishman is simply a cash cow for the Scorsese "brand" which, unfortunately, has relied on the same tired old mob stereotypes. It worked for Goodfellas but mashing together a questionable Hoffa narrative with hefty doses of Casino/ Bronx Tale and a hint of JFK doth not a great movie make. Unfortunately, the Emperor's New Clothes rules the day among much of the Hollywood establishment so this film has self-propelled itself into the Oscar stratosphere. I would say -- however -- that I found the Pacino performance totally wooden. De Niro, well, ok (IMO). Pesci though was superb. Just sayin'
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The Irishman, the most expected movie AND the most over rated. Why?
1) Too long. The last 20 minutes could be cut
2) Scorcese tried to suggest that The Irishman was both involved in and knew about a lot of Mafia and government doings that typically a low level mobster, and not even an Italian made member would know about.
Example:
HE was the truck driver who drove the truck delivering guns to the Cubans for the failed Bay Of Pigs. Probably not
He knew all about Chicago Boss Momo Giancana's lover also being JFK's. Probably not.
He knew all about Hoffa's SUPPOSED involvement in JFK's assassination just by watching him eat ice cream after the news announced JFK's death. Again, probably not.
He killed Hoffa. Maybe.
It all fits together way way too neatly.
3) Deniro had the one weird expression where he scrunches up his face in contemplation. That's acting?
Probably not
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Maybe the Golden Globe voters couldn't stay awake to
watch the 3-hour+ movie or maybe they didn't know De Niro played the Irishman. But the entire movie centers on and around De Niro. He no doubt will get nominated for and most likely will win the Academy Award for best actor.
His acting fit in with the great cinematography. Flipping back to a flattened yet richer color, Irishman, with De Niro at the helm takes us inside out his character, seamlessly. The naturalism, even with the color, draws the viewer in. You ask, where is the movie...That hand-held opening sequence stops at De Niro, and in the end the camera walks out of the room De Niro is left in. The greatest living actor in America, a quiet but hypnotic performance, speaks loud with gestures and few words.
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DeNiro is a legend, and icon. He can phone it in once in a while. But Adam Driver? He is only getting started..watch him pedal to the metal for decades to come. Am I the only one who was not blown away by Annette Bening in The Report? Maybe it was me but I could not get past the cheap wig they made her wear.
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So. . . a person should be nominated, or not, simply because of her gender? And was DuVernay "snubbed" because she was female, or black, or both, or some other identity marker.
Not that it matters, I guess. Who doesn't view these awards shows as political. And the politics is getting worse and more self-congratulatory every year. Only people who care that much are those in the industry, who have financial and careerist skin in the game. The rest of us are trying to manage our less glamorous but more important lives.
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My favourite performance this year was by Antonio Banderas, who does such beautiful and understated work in Almodovar's Pain and Glory as an ailing artist trying to feel excited again about his work. He had me in tears in a scene with a former lover, saying so much with his eyes and without the histrionics that usually get praised as "great acting." Pedro Almodovar has made another masterpiece with this one, and to me he belonged in the best director category. That said, the Hollywood Foreign Press isn't exactly known for its high standards or taste. As De Niro rightly pointed out, serious journalists don't usually ask for selfies with the celebrities they interview.
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@Balcony Bill Taron as Rocketman was absolutely incredible. The direction and Art Direction was the very best. Big, bold and full of energy and pathos.
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Except for Ricky Gervais, the Golden Globes drunken bun toss is of little interest to anyone except the Entertainment Tonight crowd who comment on the dresses.
It is all about celebrities and. not about film making.
Women except in actress categories need not apply
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Just tell me the facts - who was nominated. 'Snubs' are completely subjective.
If a reviewer writes an opinion piece reviewing the quality of other work, fine. But this article amounts to saying "some people think these other people should have been nominated."
Give me the news. Clearly label opinion pieces. Please.
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I find the word "snub" - when it comes to awards - cheap slang. When the Pulitzers are given, do we say X, Y, Z writers were "snubbed" ? Of course not! ~ This is now the 6th or 7th reboot of "Little Women," a sweet story. Why do we need yet another? I believe the nominations were based on "the best," not gender of the filmmaker. Enough with "identity politics" and "identity art." I look forward to Gerwig doing something fresh and inventive. Not a remake of a remake of a remake.
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Let me just weigh in...
Despite the “bandwagon”
for Little Women, I found
it lacking in good storytelling.
Why would the director
want to disassemble
a wonderful novel with a
frenetic film? The characters
were not built, they did not grow.
I was terribly disappointed.
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Little Women was THE BEST and more memorable television show I saw last year.
As a devotee of the novels, bravo to Ms Gerwig. Improbably she is the one interpreter of LW that actually got it right.
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@GWE The article is referring to Greta Gerwig's soon-to-be-released movie adaptation of Little Women. Last year PBS ran a BBC miniseries adaptation directed by Vanessa Caswill and starring Maya Hawke and Emily Watson.
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There are so many movies so little time to spend your day watching film . However except a few names who are all of these other actors? Now we have a great deal of quantity are they all of quality?
Wish everyone nominated good luck and more opportunities to be nominated.
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Meh. The Golden Globes always seem lost in another decade and never prompt much interest in our household.
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@Maggie
Isn't time to retire 'meh'?
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I love Robert DeNiro. I really disliked The Irishman. 80 year old men moving like 80 year old men but with doctored 45 year old faces. In our house we could not wait for the movie to end.
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@John
THANK YOU so much for saying that. I actually paid to see it in the cinema and found it one of Scorcese's weakest films. It was an hour too long and the male characters were loathsome and not compelling and the female characters loathsome and one-note.
Marriage Story, Pain and Glory, Two Popes, JoJo Rabbit, Parasite, The Report and so many more far outshine that film.
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Nothing on free television got a single nomination. Is that the first time that has happened?
Apparently, the HFPA members just stream or watch DVDs of their shows - no antennas.
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"Snubs"? The presumption being, material which already enjoys an embarrassment of excess praise (thanks your identity politics) are owed nominations and awards?
Ava DuVernay's heavy plodding hand and Greta Gerwig's literary adaptations are really the vanguard of filmmaking today?
Of course, if we admit that none of this stuff, including the nominees is worth celebrating, there would be no awards at all.
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Little Women hasn't even been released yet, so how can you be so certain that it lacks merit? Is it because of the female director or is it due to the fact that it is an adaptation of a novel written by and for women? Comments like this merely reaffirm the need for more directors like Gerwig.
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@n/a
Little Women has already screened to the industry. If you don't believe me, check out the excessively generous reviews it's received on the aggregator sites.
"Comments like this" come from that industry.
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DeNiro couldn't even be bothered to get a dialect coach, so instead of a Philly accent, he just went with his own. I.e. it was DeNiro playing DeNiro.
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De Niro playing De Niro, sounds all too familiar...
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The 76 year old DiNiro was a poor choice to play Sheehan, who would have been in his 40s during much of the narrative. Sheehan was at least 10 years younger than Hoffa - which the actors could not pull off. No surprise at all that nominations were not forth coming. At 3 and a half hours the movie was too long by an hour. The Irishman is a master class in how to take interesting material and make it tedious.
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@Jean Sims
He was also cast as an Irishman in Goodfellas. An Irishman who was actually over 6 feet tall
I’d have liked to see Brendan Gleeson.
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What the heck is going on? Little Women isn't even playing in theaters yet. How is it possible to include a movie that has not been released at the time of the nominations?
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@bstar Pre-release screenings and/or DVD screeners are arranged for members of the HFPA, critics, and guilds for award consideration.
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@Chris Late
I know. But, why is that film included in this year's Golden Globes? I guess if that's the way it works then it is Gerwig's own fault for releasing it on Christmas day. She should have released it at a different time so if audiences loved it, the critics would be swayed. That is often a factor, obviously. Terrible timing...caught between two different years' eligibility for awards.
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@bstar I may have it wrong, but it seems as if the critics screening the films first then releasing their criticism to the press is meant to sway the audiences, not the other way around. Competition for declining ticket sales is fierce. Lots of money involved.
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When a reporter talks about snubs, how about being bold enough to suggest which actor or film should be omitted to make room for the "snubbed" performer or movie?
DeNiro's bland performance, an embarrassing attempt to play younger ages when he's clearly plodding along in his 70s, was rightly omitted. But the writer here has called it a snub. Okay. Now which actor should have been omitted to allow DeNiro in?
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@DD De Niro's been giving bland performances for years.
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Most prominent television snubs: “Gentleman Jack”, Suranne Jones, Sophie Rundle, and Sally Wainwright. A masterfully written series, a magnificent production, and unmatched performances. But no one seemed to notice — or care.
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Never mind the Foreign Press' "arcane rules" with respect to their Foreign Language Film category: isn't it a wee bit absurd that an organization whose members represent the so-called foreign press even has such a category in the first place? Then again, who are we kidding here? How many of these foreign scribes are legitimate film scholars or authentic movie critics? Most of them are simply glorified paparazzi, reporting on the misadventures of movie stars and specializing in taking selfies with the rich and beautiful. Why do people like Mr. Buchanan even regard their choices with any degree of credibility whatsoever? He might just as well talk to any random individual on the street to ascertain which movies and performances deserve to be cited as the year's best.
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I love DeNiro and have seen The Irishman three times (twice in the theaters), but I have to agree with the judges - his performance was subdued to the point of being catatonic.
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