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The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards have been announced, so it's time for us to talk about some of the surprises, snubs and our predictions of which movies will take home an Oscar in 2018.

A FEW NOTES BEFORE WE START:

Before we even get into anything, let me preface things by saying that this is one of those years like the 84th Academy Awards where I just don't find damn near anything to be interesting, and I not only haven't seen almost any of these movies, but I really can't see myself sitting through them because I know I won't like them.

This is because there seems to be two motivating factors behind the nominations this year: it's either a boring historical drama (like always), or it's some kind of political statement where the movie probably is being revered for its subject material rather than the film's execution itself.

Example, I hear outcries that Wonder Woman should have been nominated for Best Picture. If you replace the lead protagonist with a male, you'd all come to the realization that the movie isn't really all that good. I agree 100% that the film is important because it helps break barriers as far as having a female director and being a female-led superhero film, but that doesn't mean it matches up to The Shawshank Redemption. Please.

If a movie looks good enough to me, with or without an agenda, I'll see it. I really enjoyed Hidden Figures and Fences last year. I didn't, in retrospect, enjoy Moonlight as much and didn't want it to win Best Picture. A combination of these from this year is Battle of the Sexes, which I thought looked kind of interesting and it's not only a historical piece, but it's also about female empowerment. I didn't see it yet, but then again, I haven't seen Blade Runner 2049 or Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle either, and I wanted to see those, so...

I look at the list of nominees from this year and outside of a few examples, they all look to me like they were nominated because someone read the synopsis and said "I like the message that's going for" or "that seems like it would be an Oscar thing" rather than "I like this movie as a whole better than every other movie this year in comparison."

Get Out was fun as hell, and I enjoyed The Shape of Water and I liked I, Tonya more than I thought I would (but I'm glad it wasn't nominated for Best Picture). I'll probably try to watch some of these movies, even if I have to shut them off midway through.

Lastly, I just want to point out that when it comes to any "artsy fartsy" movie, as some would describe them—particularly those that fall under the Oscar-bait categories I'm talking about here—they don't stand the test of time. Nobody is talking about Brooklyn. Nobody ever brings up The King's Speech as the best movie ever. Have you heard anyone say a damn thing about The Artist or Moonrise Kingdom?

No. You didn't. Unless you're part of the film community that turns its nose to anything "mainstream" and revels in the idea that you're so much more sophisticated and classy.

Spotlight is a movie I didn't enjoy and I never need to watch again and wish I had that time back. Les Misérables was surprisingly delightful. Shit happens.

CHECKLIST OF MOVIES BELOW:

* = I've seen the film
(#) = number of total nominations

* The Shape of Water (13)
* Dunkirk (8)
* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (7)
Darkest Hour (6)
Phantom Thread (6)
Blade Runner 2049 (5)
Lady Bird (5)
Call Me by Your Name (4)
* Get Out (4)
Mudbound (4)
* Star Wars: The Last Jedi (4)
Baby Driver (3)
* I, Tonya (3)
Beauty and the Beast (2)
Coco (2)
The Post (2)
Victoria & Abdul (2)
All the Money in the World (1)
Coco (1)
Ferdinand (1)
* Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (1)
* Kong: Skull Island (1)
* Logan (1)
Loving Vincent (1)
Marshall (1)
Molly's Game (1)
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (1)
The Big Sick (1)
The Boss Baby (1)
The Breadwinner (1)
* The Disaster Artist (1)
The Florida Project (1)
The Greatest Showman (1)
War for the Planet of the Apes (1)
Wonder (1)

THOUGHTS AND PREDICTIONS:

Now, onto my predictions, which I'll be updating as time goes on and I potentially watch any of these movies.

BEST PICTURE

THOUGHTS: I think Get Out can be ruled out. I enjoyed it, but it's not Best Picture. The Shape of Water stands a chance, but I can see a couple other things taking it out of the competition. I don't think Dunkirk deserves it, or is really even in the discussion, as the same movie without the context of it being a war film which also happens to be directed by Christopher Nolan would probably get zero attention in comparison to what it got. Having not seen Darkest Hour or The Post or Call Me by Your Name or Phantom Thread or Lady Bird, but not seeing much of a point to really watch them as they probably stand not chance, I definitely put Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as the favorite, for sure.

PREDICTION: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST ACTOR

THOUGHTS: We can probably rule out Denzel Washington, who I think gets a nomination for basically being just always rock solid. Daniel Day-Lewis might be more of an honorary thing. Daniel Kaluuya was a total shock for me, and he won't win. This is really between Chalamet and Oldman, and I think it's a matter of whether the voters want to go with the story of the young kid with the positive message or if they want to go with pure acknowledgment. No nomination for James Franco for The Disaster Artist, though, which is surprising considering his Golden Globe win. Nothing for Tom Hanks for The Post, either.

PREDICTION: Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour

BEST ACTRESS

THOUGHTS: This is going to Frances McDormand. C'mon. Sally Hawkins is a nomination for recognition. Margot Robbie is a motivator of "we know you're killing it, keep up the good work" and the same applies to Saoirse Ronan. Meryl Streep is just Meryl Streep so she always has her name on this list. This is a one woman race, though.

PREDICTION: Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

THOUGHTS: The fact that two men are nominated for the same movie makes me think one of them will win, if not just by pure statistics, and between the two, Sam Rockwell is in the film longer and has a more dynamic character, overall. I don't think Richard Jenkins has it, even though I liked his character a lot in The Shape of Water. I'm also not sure if the Christopher Plummer nomination was because he's going to win it or because they just want to acknowledge how he stepped into a production so late and rushed a performance and somehow pulled it off. Personally, I think someone who was skipped over was Paul Walter Hauser for I, Tonya. He stole that movie to me and nailed his character to a ridiculous level.

PREDICTION: Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

THOUGHTS: Frankly, I don't see why Octavia Spencer was nominated. I don't think Lesley Manville has this for the same reason as Mary J. Blige—I haven't heard anything about their performances, so either I'm totally out of the loop on those two, or they must not be that great. To me, this is probably between Allison Janney and Laurie Metcalf, and honestly, I don't know which one stands out more (mostly because I didn't see Metcalf's performance)...but because of her Golden Globe win, I'll go with Allison Janney.

PREDICTION: Allison Janney for I, Tonya

BEST DIRECTOR

THOUGHTS: This is an extremely hard one to call. Don't count out Jordan Peele. I don't think it will be Christopher Nolan or Paul Thomas Anderson, but they aren't out of the running by any means. If I had to pick, I'd go with Guillermo del Toro, but with the whole political climate going on right now, Greta Gerwig might win just because she's a woman and that could give her some extra votes from people who could have seen the exact same movie and if it were directed by a man, wouldn't vote for it. Then again, there still might be people who vote AGAINST her purely because she's a woman, so maybe that will balance itself out in the most ridiculous way because neither political vote judges the film itself.

PREDICTION: Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

THOUGHTS: These are some of the hardest to predict, as they can go one way or the other. Either they go to the exact same movies that win everything else like Best Picture, or they go to the runner-up as a consolation prize. Did The Big Sick get the nomination and that's good enough? I can see the same thing happening with Get Out, but in the past, when I've been hesitant to trust the oddball choice, I've been proven wrong, so maybe I need to give some credit where it is due that it might happen, especially since it won for the Writers Guild of America Awards.

PREDICTION: Get Out

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

THOUGHTS: Copy and paste what I said about Original Screenplay and the whole consolation prize idea, but since only one of these films is nominated for Best Picture, I think that narrows it down quite a bit. If that happens and it's a statement, they could go with something other than Call Me By Your Name, but that's the one I think stands out. It's nice to see Logan get some love as the first comic book movie to get a serious nomination in a long time. I still don't get how Captain America: The Winter Soldier didn't earn this category nomination a few years ago and I'm bummed about that.

PREDICTION: Call Me By Your Name

BEST FILM EDITING

THOUGHTS: Good lord, I have no idea. I'm going to assume that if something was nominated for this and not much else, it must stand out, which means Baby Driver could get the win, even though that might just mean they liked it enough to nominate it. I don't think it will be I, Tonya or Three Billboards and I think I can even rule out The Shape of Water. I think this goes to Dunkirk even though I wasn't a fan of it having a split narrative and confusing timeline.

PREDICTION: Dunkirk

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

THOUGHTS: Not only am I surprised Kong: Skull Island got on this list, I'm also shocked Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets didn't get nominated as I've heard that that is gorgeous. Maybe I'm bitter about the story told in Star Wars: The Last Jedi but I don't even want it to win this award and I'll argue that Leia floating through space was enough of a reason to ignore it even if the rest of the movie looked pretty great and just fell flat in other ways. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 should be skipped, I think, since it all feels a bit too fake. I haven't seen War for the Planet of the Apes, and I can imagine a world where they give this award to that in honor of all the CGI work they've done with the apes over the course of the three films, but I'm definitely leaning toward Blade Runner 2049 being the most obvious pick here.

PREDICTION: Blade Runner 2049

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

THOUGHTS: Cinematography isn't the same animal as Visual Effects, but they do have some parallels and it isn't crazy to think Blade Runner 2049 could win both. It's interesting, though, that that's the only one to get nominated for both awards, which helps its chances. Dunkirk wouldn't be too too shocking, nor would The Shape of Water.

PREDICTION: Blade Runner 2049

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

THOUGHTS: Blade Runner 2049 and The Shape of Water seem like bigger feats to me than Dunkirk as we've seen a million war films already. Beauty and the Beast...well, they had the animated film for reference. Darkest Hour isn't something that has as much work to need done on it than the first two I mentioned, so I think it's between them.

PREDICTION: The Shape of Water

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

THOUGHTS: I never seem to get this one right, so don't bet any money on me being correct. My gut instinct is to say Beauty and the Beast because they love their dresses, but they also love their period pieces and that's just going to screw with my mind and make me second guess myself. Victoria & Abdul seems like it would strike a lot of chords. Phantom Thread is literally about clothes, though...

PREDICTION: Phantom Thread

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

THOUGHTS: Um....I have no idea what Victoria & Abdul is. Wonder doesn't strike me as the thing that would beat out Darkest Hour considering the buzz Gary Oldman has. If the makeup didn't work, he wouldn't be in such high contention for Best Actor.

PREDICTION: Darkest Hour

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

THOUGHTS: Hans Zimmer tends to always do great work, but nothing stood out to me from Dunkirk, John Williams used to be amazing but is kind of phoning it in lately in my opinion, and I don't remember any of the score for Three Billboards even though I just got done watching it a few minutes before writing this. The Shape of Water didn't have anything astounding to me, but I do remember it resonating more than the rest.

PREDICTION: Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

THOUGHTS: The only two that I've heard any buzz about are "Remember Me" from Coco and "This is Me" from The Greatest Showman. In the past, that's been a good indicator of which has the advantage going into the voting, but I've been surprised before. Given the choices, I think "This is Me" might win since that film isn't nominated for anything else, so that must stand out a bit. Plus, it is a musical after all, so it better do its job right. But, hell, I'm really tossing a coin here and I don't feel confident at all that it isn't just going to Coco.

PREDICTION: "This is Me" from The Greatest Showman

BEST SOUND EDITING

THOUGHTS: There's no difference whatsoever in the nominees. It's the same playing field of five films, and so often, whatever wins ends up taking both. At this point, I don't know why they don't just combine these categories into a Best Sound Design category, but someone who is more knowledgeable can explain that to me. Keep in mind that while I know there is a distinction to the job, I don't understand how Best Visual Effects can be combined instead of differentiating Best Practical Effects and Best CGI since those blend together, while Editing/Mixing is a blend. Anyway, Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049 and Dunkirk to me have better chances than The Shape of Water and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Since it's a war film and from what I've heard, the emphasis is on the battles and not on any story, I'm going to lean towards Dunkirk.

PREDICTION: Dunkirk

BEST SOUND MIXING

THOUGHTS: Look up.

PREDICTION: Dunkirk

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

THOUGHTS: Really? The Lego Batman Movie doesn't get a nomination??? Come on! The Boss Baby and Ferdinand look so stupid to me, I've literally never heard of The Breadwinner or Loving Vincent and that means Coco wins by default.

PREDICTION: Coco

THE REST OF THE CATEGORIES

Including:
Best Animated Short Film
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short Subject
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Live Action Short Film

THOUGHTS: These are the categories that I never know anything about. Everything listed is a completely foreign entity to me, so I typically go into the ceremony not having seen a single still image of the films. It's always a total shot in the dark as I basically either decide not to try to predict them at all, or I pick one at random. I have no idea which movies should have been nominated but weren't, which films should not have been nominated but were, or anything else like that. Essentially, I could put all of them up on a dart board and whatever I hit, those are my picks, and I'd probably do just as well as if I tried to guess blindly on my own merits. If you know anything about any of those films, feel free to enlighten me in the comments section so I can try to check them out if I can get access to any of them before the ceremony takes place.


Last year, we saw a distinct response to the #OscarsSoWhite situation and with this year's primary focus seemingly shifting to the LGBT community and women empowerment, I don't know how that's going to factor in on a grander scope. I assume that will be the focal point of the speeches, but as far as the awards themselves, I don't know if it will translate to wins and losses. If we see Lady Bird killing it, then we know it did, because holy shit, I shut that movie off at the 3:12 mark and didn't want to see a single second more as I felt like it would be wasting my time with pointless angst that I've already seen before. If we see Get Out sweeping, we know #OscarsSoWhite is still prevalent. Then again, maybe this is going to be one of those years where everything is so random because there aren't standout obvious choices for anything, so the people like myself who are trying to guess what other people are thinking have no ability to jump into their brains and guess correctly. I'm just glad Star Wars: The Last Jedi wasn't nominated for Best Picture as I clearly had my problems with it.

The 90th Academy Awards will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and take place on March 4, 2018 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, broadcast by ABC.

Here are the following nominees announced. Tell us your predictions for the winners in the comments below!

BEST PICTURE

Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST ACTOR

Timothee Chalamet for Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis for Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out
Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington for Roman J. Israel, Esq.

BEST ACTRESS

Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie for I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird
Meryl Streep for The Post

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Willem Dafoe for The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins for The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer for All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mary J. Blige for Mudbound
Allison Janney for I, Tonya
Lesley Manville for Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer for The Shape of Water

BEST DIRECTOR

Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Jordan Peele for Get Out
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly's Game
Mudbound

BEST FILM EDITING

Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul 
Wonder

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Hans Zimmer for Dunkirk
Jonny Greenwood for Phantom Thread
Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water
John Williams for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Carter Burwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"Mighty River" from Mudbound
"Mystery of Love" from Call Me By Your Name
"Remember Me" from Coco
"Stand Up for Something" from Marshall
"This is Me" from The Greatest Showman

BEST SOUND EDITING

Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST SOUND MIXING

Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Edith+Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O'Clock
My Nephew Emmet
The Silent Child
Watu Wote / All of Us

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight is the latest in the line of animated DC direct-to-video films. Is it worth the watch or it is something that should be skipped?

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
Directed by Sam Liu
Written by James Krieg

STARRING:
Bruce Greenwood (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Jennifer Carpenter (Selina Kyle), Tara Strong (Marelene Mahoney), Kari Wuhrer (Barbara Gordon), Scott Patterson (James Gordon), Grey DeLisle (Sister Leslie), John DiMaggio (Chief Bullock), Anthony Head (Alfred Pennyworth), Yuri Lowenthal (Harvey Dent), Lincoln Melcher (Dickie), Bruce Timm (Arkham Radio Man), William Salyers (Hugo Strange), Chris Cox (Father Callahan), Bob Joles (Mayor Tolliver) and David Forseth (Cyrus Gold)

Here are some specific thoughts that ran through my mind during the course of the film as a stream of consciousness:

• Poison Ivy as a stripper gimmick? Nice touch. Writer-wise, not actual touch. I'll shut up now.
• The Robins as street hoods? Another nice touch, especially with Jason being the more violent of the three.
• That Ferris wheel is going to be the final act, right?
• Well if this isn't the most low-rent Batmobile ever....
• Mrs. Cooper? Harriet Cooper? Deep cut!
• This better not be a super long musical scene like in the last film.
• Get it, Bruce. Selina's a babe.
• I really hope this doesn't turn into a story where Bruce is a suspect.
• Sherlock Holmes, eh?
• I was going to guess Blockbuster, not Cyrus Gold, but that works. I'm also hoping one of the Blackgate guards is Lock-Up.
• Really? Gordon? I didn't see that coming.
• Oh...that was an abrupt ending. Why not tie things up and explain how Bruce can clear his name, or at least show that they build an orphanage? Nah, just end credits. Strange.

This was better overall than the Batman and Harley Quinn movie, but it wasn't anything super amazing. I liked the change of style if not just for something different, and I naturally dig all the references. The animation style wasn't bad, but far from my favorite of these films. I doubt this is going to be one of them that I watch again, but if you're looking for an hour to kill, go ahead.

Awards season is in full swing, but while the Golden Globes and Academy Awards celebrate the best of the year, the Golden Raspberry Awards poke fun at the worst movies to have come out over the past 12 months. The 38th annual ceremony will take place March 3, 2018 Here is the list of the nominees for the 2018 Razzies Awards.

WORST PICTURE

Baywatch
The Emoji Movie
Fifty Shades Darker
The Mummy
Transformers: The Last Knight

WORST ACTOR

Tom Cruise in The Mummy as Nick Morton
Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Captain Jack Sparrow
Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades Darker as Christian Grey
Zac Efron in Baywatch as Matt Brody
Mark Wahlberg in Daddy's Home 2 and Transformers: The Last Knight as Dusty Mayron and Cade Yeager

WORST ACTRESS

Katherine Heigl in Unforgettable as Tessa Connover
Dakota Johnson in Fifty Shades Darker as Anastasia 'Ana' Steele
Jennifer Lawrence in Mother! as Mother
Tyler Perry in Boo 2! A Madea Halloween as Madea
Emma Watson in The Circle as Mae Holland

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Javier Bardem for Mother! and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales as Him and Captain Armando Salazar
Russell Crowe for The Mummy as Dr. Henry Jekyll
Josh Duhamel for Transformers: The Last Knight as Col. William Lennox
Mel Gibson for Daddy's Home 2 as Kurt Mayron
Anthony Hopkins for Collide and Transformers: The Last Knight as Hagen Kahl and Sir Edmund Burton

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kim Basinger for Fifty Shades Darker as Elena Lincoln
Sofia Boutella for The Mummy as Ahmanet
Laura Haddock for Transformers: The Last Knight as Viviane Wembly
Goldie Hawn for Snatched as Linda Middleton
Susan Sarandon for A Bad Moms Christmas as Isis Dunkler

WORST DIRECTOR

Darren Aronofsky for Mother!
Michael Bay for Transformers: The Last Knight
James Foley for Fifty Shades Darker
Alex Kurtzman for The Mummy
Tony Leondis for The Emoji Movie

WORST SCREENPLAY

Baywatch - Damian Shannon, Mark Swift, Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant; based on Baywatch by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz and Gregory J. Bonann
The Emoji Movie - Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel and Mike White
Fifty Shades Darker - Niall Leonard; based from the novel by E. L. James
The Mummy - David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie, Dylan Kussman, Jon Spaihts, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet; based on The Mummy franchise
Transformers: The Last Knight - Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, Ken Nolan and Akiva Goldsman; based on Hasbro's Transformers action figures

WORST REMAKE OR SEQUEL

Baywatch
Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
Fifty Shades Darker
The Mummy
Transformers: The Last Knight

WORST SCREEN COMBO

Any combination of two characters, two sex toys or two sexual positions in Fifty Shades Darker
Any combination of two humans, two robots or two explosions in Transformers: The Last Knight
Any two obnoxious emojis in The Emoji Movie
Johnny Depp & his worn-out drunk routine in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Tyler Perry & either the ratty old dress or worn-out wig in Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

RAZZIES REDEEMER AWARD

TBD

The 75th annual Golden Globe Awards are scheduled for this evening, Sunday, January 7, 2018 at the Beverly Hilton on NBC, hosted by Seth Meyers. This post will be updated with the full list of winners from all the categories. Tell us your thoughts on the results in the comments below!

Best Supporting Performance by an Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film
Laura Dern, Big Little Lies
Ann Dowd, The Handmaid's Tale
Chrissy Metz, This is Us
Michelle Pfeiffer, The Wizard of Lies
Shailene Woodley, Big Little Lies

WINNER = Laura Dern as Renata Klein in Big Little Lies

Best Supporting Performance by an Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film
David Harbour, Stranger Things
Alfred Molina, Feud: Bette and Joan
Christian Slater, Mr. Robot
Alexander Skarsgard, Big Little Lies
David Thewlis, Fargo

WINNER = Alexander Skarsgard as Perry Wright in Big Little Lies

Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film
Jessica Biel, The Sinner
Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
Jessica Lange, Feud: Bette and Joan
Susan Sarandon, Feud: Bette and Joan
Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies

WINNER = Nicole Kidman as Celeste Wright in Big Little Lies

Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film
Robert De Niro, The Wizard of Lies
Jude Law, The Young Pope
Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks
Ewan McGregor, Fargo
Geoffrey Rush, Genius

WINNER = Ewan McGregor as Emmit and Raymond "Ray" Stussy in Fargo

Best Miniseries or Television Film
Big Little Lies
Fargo
Feud: Bette and Joan
The Sinner
Top of the Lake: China Girl

WINNER = Big Little Lies

Best Performance By an Actress in a Television Series (Comedy or Musical)
Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Alison Brie, Glow
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Issa Rae, Insecure
Frankie Shaw, SMILF

WINNER = Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam "Midge" Maisel in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Best Performance By an Actor in a Television Series (Comedy or Musical)
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Kevin Bacon, I Love Dick
William H. Macy, Shameless
Eric McCormack, Will and Grace

WINNER = Aziz Ansari as Dev Shah in Master of None

Best Performance By an Actress in a Television Series (Drama)
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Claire Foy, The Crown
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Deuce
Katherine Langford, 13 Reasons Why
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale

WINNER = Elisabeth Moss as June Osborne/Offred in The Handmaid's Tale

Best Performance By an Actor in a Television Series (Drama)
Jason Bateman, Ozark
Sterling K. Brown, This is Us
Freddie Highmore, The Good Doctor
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan

WINNER = Sterling K. Brown as Randall Pearson in This is Us

Best Television Series (Comedy)
Black-ish
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Master of None
SMILF
Will & Grace

WINNER = The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Best Television Series (Drama)
The Crown
Game of Thrones
The Handmaid's Tale
Stranger Things
This is Us

WINNER = The Handmaid's Tale


Best Original Score
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Shape of Water
Phantom Thread
The Post
Dunkirk

WINNER = Alexandre Desplate for The Shape of Water

Best Original Song
"Home", Ferdinand
"Mighty River", Mudbound
"Remember Me", Coco
"The Star", The Star
"This Is Me", The Greatest Showman

WINNER = "This is Me" by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul from The Greatest Showman

Best Supporting Performance by Actress in a Motion Picture
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Hong Chau, Downsizing
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

WINNER = Allison Janney as LaVona Golden in I, Tonya

Best Supporting Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All The Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

WINNER = Sam Rockwell as Officer Jason Dixon in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul
Helen Mirren, The Leisure Seeker
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes

WINNER = Saoirse Ronan as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson in Lady Bird

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes
Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver
James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

WINNER = James Franco as Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama)
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Tom Hanks, The Post
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

WINNER = Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour

Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama)
Jessica Chastain, Molly's Game
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Meryl Streep, The Post
Michelle Williams, All The Money in the World

WINNER = Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Motion Picture (Foreign Language)
A Fantastic Woman
First They Killed My Father
In the Fade
Loveless
The Square

WINNER = In the Fade

Best Motion Picture (Animated)
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

WINNER = Coco

Best Director - Motion Picture
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Ridley Scott, All The Money in the World
Steven Spielberg, The Post

WINNER = Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Guillermo Del Toro, Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Liz Hannah, Josh Singer, The Post
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Aaron Sorkin, Molly's Game

WINNER = Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
The Disaster Artist
Get Out
The Greatest Showman
I, Tonya
Lady Bird

WINNER = Lady Bird

Best Motion Picture (Drama)
Call Me by Your Name
Dunkirk
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

WINNER = Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Welcome to another edition of 6 Flicks Picks, wherein I list all of the upcoming films that are scheduled to be released in the United States for the month which is about to begin and break down which ones I'll be watching in theaters, which ones I'll wait to rent at home, and which ones I'll be skipping out on entirely. After going through the list, I'll choose which six films stand out to me as the ones I want to see the most, even if there are more or less than six that interest me.

Note: The list below is based primarily off the expanded nationwide USA release dates on IMDB as well as some other random outlets if possible, so some information may be different. If I am missing some of the limited releases or the dates conflict in some fashion, please let me know in the comments below and any adjustments and corrections will be made!

Without further ado, another new month means another new set of films, so what's coming soon to theaters in January 2018?

Insidious: The Last Key

Synopsis: Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet - in her own family home.

Will I watch? = No


The Commuter

Synopsis: A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.

Will I watch? = No

Paddington 2

Synopsis: Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

Will I watch? = No

Proud Mary

Synopsis: Taraji P. Henson is Mary, a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Mary's life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.

Will I watch? = No

Condorito: The Movie

Synopsis: Condorito embarks in a hilarious adventure to save the planet and his loved ones from an evil alien.

Will I watch? = No


12 Strong

Synopsis: 12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.

Will I watch? = No

Den of Thieves

Synopsis: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Will I watch? = No

The Leisure Seeker

Synopsis: A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call The Leisure Seeker.

Will I watch? = No

The Final Year

Synopsis: THE FINAL YEAR is a unique insiders' account of President Barack Obama's foreign policy team during their last year in office. Featuring unprecedented access inside the White House and State Department, THE FINAL YEAR offers an uncompromising view of the inner workings of the Obama Administration as they prepare to leave power after eight years.

Will I watch? = No



Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Synopsis: Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as the "Flare".

Will I watch? = Yes

White Boy Rick

Synopsis: The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

Will I watch? = No

Forever My Girl

Synopsis: After being gone for a decade a country star returns home to the love he left behind.

Will I watch? = No


Which films make the cut? Well, this is a horrible month, so I'm really stretching, more than ever before with this segment. I really have nothing positive to say, so keep that in mind, because I'm not actually going to see any of these even at home, except for one of them...

6. 12 Strong — Maybe there's a good shootout action scene?

5. Den of Thieves — Maybe there's a good shootout action scene?

4. White Boy Rick — This seems like an attempt at Oscar bait, but McConaughey is normally good and maybe it'll at least be as interesting as Black Mass was.

3. Proud Mary — I have no idea. I'm grasping at straws. Taraji P. Henson as a hitwoman edges out the others because meh, why not?

2. The Commuter — Maybe there's a good shootout action scene?

1. Maze Runner: The Death Cure — This is the only one I actually have any interest in seeing, having watched its two predecessors.

Welcome to a special edition of 6 Flicks Picks to jump-start the year 2018!

Naturally, this breakdown won't be listing the releases of every single movie that will be coming out in the year—partially because that's too daunting of a task and partially because even the studios don't know all of those yet—but it will still follow the same format as far as the picks go. This will be much harder, as there are hundreds of films that will be coming out, but it still boils down to the same concept: if I had to pick only six movies that I could watch, which ones would they be?

Without further ado, let's take a look at what makes my cut for 2018!

What is so difficult about this type of thing is that I have to go by the general breakdown of the big releases, as there can definitely be movies that pop up that I'm completely unaware of that are smaller in scale. A major summer blockbuster is already in promotion now, but what about the little indie flick?

Those end up being ignored in this generic year scope, but on the monthly basis, they'll get much more attention, so keep that in mind.

This year, I had a list of about 20 movies that I was already writing down that I wanted to see to varying degrees, with about 12 of them being definites to see in theaters. Of course, that's twice as many as what I'm allowed to pick, which makes it hard, and when I got down to the final 8 or so, it became nearly impossible to pick which film got that final spot.

What Didn't Make the List: One of the easy ones for me to eliminate from the top was Ready Player One, which looks interesting, but I know virtually nothing about. The same goes for God Particle being an idea I'm into, yet have seen nothing. I've enjoyed the previous two films enough to want to see Maze Runner: The Death Cure, but it's not a priority. Right now, with such little information to go by, I have to cast off the animated Spider-Man film, too. Shout out to The Purge: The Island because the first film was meh, but I quite enjoyed the second and third, so I'm in for this fourth one.

Sadly, after being disappointed with Justice League, I can't give a final spot to Aquaman. After all, he's Aquaman, and while I currently like the character more than ever, that doesn't mean I love it.

It's also strange for me to not put two out of the three X-Men films on my list, but at this point, the franchise has proven itself to be very hit/miss and I don't like this horror angle The New Mutants is taking, nor do I think X-Men: Dark Phoenix will pan out to be very well.

Creed 2? Cool. Not a top 6. Incredibles 2? Well, this might seem like blasphemy, but I didn't enjoy the first one anywhere near as much as most people, so I might even skip that.

Here's where it got difficult. I had 8 films left on my list and 2 of them needed to go.

In the end, those two became Venom and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom...by a narrow, and I mean NARROW margin...until Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom made a big stink about its trailer coming out and the trailer, well, stunk. The more separated from Jurassic World I am, the more I think of it as just a retread and a copy of Jurassic Park, so I'm a bit worried this might end up being a retread of The Lost World.

My philosophy with Venom was that Sony has screwed up plenty of Spider-Man properties before and I have no faith in them delivering with Venom, even if the character is one of my favorites.

I'm still very much looking forward to those listed above, but only six movies could make the cut, so let's see which ones got the honors...

6. Mission: Impossible 6 — What saved this from being cut with the final two above is how every film in the franchise has pretty much gotten better than its predecessor, so by that rationale, this might end up being the very best. I've always been a James Bond guy and nothing will ever change that, but Ethan Hunt's series has kicked so much ass as far as overall generic quality and I have no reason to believe that this won't follow suit. Plus, it's different from everything else on the list.

5. Ant-Man and the Wasp — I bitched and moaned for a long time about how Ant-Man was going to be Marvel's first flop after I was wrong when saying the same thing about Guardians of the Galaxy, and I ended up thinking it was very charming. Now, I'm in. Give me the romantic comedy vibe that we're hearing about. You don't need to sell me. I'll buy my ticket for opening night without a single trailer.

4. Deadpool 2 — I do think the first film gets a little more praise than it should as far as overall film quality, but I can't deny that Deadpool was a huge achievement in a lot of different realms of the movie making process and entertaining as all hell. The character is hilarious and a follow-up can either capitalize on that and make things even funnier, or it can potentially fall short of expectations, but I know I'll be there opening night to see for myself.

3. Solo: A Star Wars Story — You'd think this would be #1 or at least #2, right? Well, so did I. Then, The Last Jedi came out and really, and I mean REALLY soured me on the Star Wars franchise. I don't find it as fun anymore. It sapped a ton of my energy for it and I'm not excited about anything they put forward anymore, like the last half of Star Wars Rebels and this movie and Episode 9. Plus, the problems plaguing this movie have me nervous it'll be a clusterfuck, as Rogue One didn't even have this many problems and it still struggled. However, it's a movie about Han Solo and it has Donald Glover as Lando, so I haven't fully given up.

2. Black Panther — As a Caucasian guy, I can't even pretend to understand the significance of this movie as far as diversity goes, but I'm also not going to pretend that I necessarily even care about that. It's a great thing and I'm all for it, but that's not why I'm interested in this movie. I'm interested in it because it just flat out looks awesome. Black Panther was one of my favorite parts of Captain America: Civil War and the fact that this is the last movie before Infinity War means I'll be so pumped for anything they bring my way. The cast is phenomenal and it's a Marvel film, so you've already got my money.

1. Avengers: Infinity War — It took 20 films and 10 years to get to this point. I would pay $100 to see this in theaters if I had to. It's goddamn Thanos with the fucking Infinity Gauntlet!!!! What the hell, man?!! Remember when we were excited that Ra's al Ghul could be in a Batman film because we thought that was too strange for modern audiences?!! Now we've got this going on!!!!!!