2 Academy Award Related Questions

[cj3]

OK for those who know a good chunk of the movies nominated thus year, I've came up with a list of 10 movies from this year I want to watch, ranked from least looking forward to to most hyped. I just need help if one needs more hype or if I need to kill hype on one. I'm sincerely having trouble where to start watching while I have upcoming free time if I'm being honest

Disclaimer: All hype is simply off trailers. Please no spoilers. I haven't even read synopsis because I'm scared of stumbling on full summaries

10. Drive My Car
I love foreign films, but I'm not entirely on board with what looks like a road trip film.

9. The Worst Person in The World
This looks major cute, and I have never felt a line quite like "I love you buy at the same time I don't". It doesn't look like I'm gonna gain much from watching this, but doesn't look like much harm if I do watch it

8. Being the Ricardos
Points for JK Simmons, Aaron Sorkin and whoever is playing Ricky....points deducted because for the life of me I do not see Nicole Kidman as Lucille. It just feels like it's trying to be Renee in Judy

7. Belfast
I live for a good coming of age story, love the use of Everlasting Love, and you can't go wrong with Dame Judi

6. Tick Tick Boom
Biopic based on someone I admire? Check. Witty commentary and feels like I'm watching a deleted character from Pose? Check. The best Spiderman being in a Musical? CHECK. Only not higher because it does have a smidgen of Oscar Bait I feel

5. Nightmare Alley
Love the concept, live for the cast...but I've been exposed to Del Toro twice and both disappointed me to no end. I can give him a pass for the utter borefest of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark because he didn't direct it, but I strictly remember also being bored by Crimson Peak. Yes folks thar means his higher films like Pan's Labyrinth and Shape of Water I have not seen

4. The Lost Daughter
This looks like an absolute banger of a Thriller. So much intrigue and mystery in one trailer, and did not give much away.

3. Spencer
I've always been a KS fan. I enjoyed the Twilight films unironically and I even remember to this day the impact the film version of Speak had on me. This absolutely feels like a moment I want in on

2. West Side Story
Never seen the original so already a plus (Don't want to unfairly compare). Spielberg has disappointed me lately (Looking at you Ready Player One), but this feels like a down to earth musical. It feels like something I can absolutely get lost in and just lose track of time

1. The Tragedy of Macbeth
If there was ever something off a trailer to send goosebumps on my arm, it's Denzel mother f***ing Washington reciting Shakespeare that had a vibe I haven't seen since Training Day

ALSO as a side question, was thinking about going through different award seasons, anyone have good year recommendations?

[Milkman Norm]

I loved Nightmare Alley. For a year I'd say 1975.

[King Boo]

Spencer was fine. It was definitely going for a certain vibe, with some things having this fantastical weird bent to it. There were a number of interesting camera shots, which I liked. Kristen Stewart was good, but after what people had been saying about her performance, I felt their reactions were a little overblown. I don't mean for that to sound like I was down on how she did, just that maybe people let themselves get a little carried away by hyperbole.

Since you say you're a fan of Stewart's, I'd say give it a watch. It was two hours and it felt like it moved by pretty fast.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Nightmare Alley is very unlike anything else in Del Toro's canon. It's got the same visual flair of his other films, but no supernatural elements.  

Except for the Hellboy films it might be my favorite thing he's ever done, and I've loved pretty much all his films (although I thought The Shape Of Water sucked).