when he has made masterpieces like there will be blood, The master
>>218588037hard eight and licorice are way weaker, cmon
>>218588037Eddington was better than all the movies in this garbage event wtf
>>218588049Licorice Pizza was awesome tf you talking about??
>>218588037He’s learned that he needs to put the right kind of message in his films.And also to release them in particularly weak years for cinema.What was TWBB even up against that it lost to?
>>218588037Wow he's so old now
>>218588082No, it wasn't.
same thing happened to sean baker
>>218588122Well he was born in the 1940s. He's an ancient boomer by any measure.
>>218588037We take what we can get.
The obvious best.
>>218588037>anon learns that most oscars are lifetime achievement awards
Mortal Kombat before he started making serious films
>>218588037>worst filmlol nice cope
>>218588519Unironically his best
>>218588037>David Lynch never won the Best Director Oscar>Quentin Tarantino never won the Best Director Oscar>George Lucas never won the Best Director OscarShameful.
His best movie is Magnolia
>>218588037marty's only oscar was for the departed
>>218588615>George Lucas never won the Best Director OscarDude only directed like 2 movies outside of star wars.
>>218588152This medium is so fucked when these boomers retire.
>>218588615Kubrick and Hitchcock didnt either
>>218588037boogie nights is his best work and he'll never top it.
>>218588037the jew cretins owe tom Cruise at least 4 more honorary oscars.... also a grammy and emmy for no reason
>>218588615They ignore these guys but they give eight million Oscars to the retard who makes dogshit like Mickey 17.The Oscars are a meme.
>>218588681Kubrick never won Best Director? Jesus christ
Is the master worth watching?
>>218588813I might be call a brainlet by the the kinosseurs here but for me "serious" pta like phantom thread or master isn't as good as fun pta like boogie nights or obaa
>>218588681how the fuck
>>218588681oscars are a meme
>>218588745nope, he has lost to George Cukor ("My Fair Lady"), Carol Reed ("Oliver"), Friedkin ("French Connection") and Forman ("One Flew Over..")
>>218588037>oscars>kino
>>218588037OBAA is one of his better films, at least it's fun to watch.
>>218588037they're always seemingly doing payback for the other award they snubbed them on to pay back some other guy for snubbing him
>>218590544doesn't apply to black directors apparently.
>>218588745one huge factor is literally "do they live in Hollywood". Kubrick lived and shot most of his films in England. you need to go to parties and flatter the correct people, primarily actors.
>>218590574yeah blacks get shoved to the front of the line ever since OSCARS SO WHITE and maybe even before, it's all a blur
>>218588102no country for old men
>>218589236kek one of the best ways to shit on modern hollywood is to list Best Pic and Director nomination lineups from the 70s and earlier.
>>218590599black directors don't. what is your point?
>>218588102the problem with PTA's movie is that other than Boogie Nights they're just not very entertaining. he doesn't really understand plot structure or suspense, so outside of the rise and fall structure he is lost.
>>218588037a story as old as scorsese
>>218588049I prefer Licorice over this but Hard Eight is so bad. One of the least memorable movies ever
>>218588037It is indeed ironic/cringe and goes to show that awards are bullshit
>>218588037it was basically a career Oscar.not even a hard choice considering that all the other contenders this year were dogshit
>>218588037Imagine listening to /pol/zoomers and memeing yourself into thinking this film of the decade was "bad"?
>>218588615He only directed one good Star Wars movie, then didn't do anything for almost 20 years.
>>218588037It's a discount year anyway.
>>218590767Hard Eight is pretty good, especially when you consider that it was the directorial debut of a 25 year old kid
>>218588037I find it bizarre this movie was by the same guy that did twbb, I just watched it a few days ago and it really wasn't that great, I would have given it to sinners or Marty
>>218588152>PTA is in his 80sHe was born in 1970 dummy
>>218588037>Wins Best Director for his Worst film
>>218588745He fucked off American and Hollywood, slagged them off and went to live in England to make most of his film. So no surprise.
>>218588049licorice was better than this. I barely remember hard eight. One Battle is def in the bottom half of his movies
>>218592343Outside of maybe Sean Penn and Emma Stone you're not just gonna always be right to win the award
>>218588037I like The Master a lot but I'll never understand the people that think it's a 10/10.
>>218588813It’s pretty good, but not my favorite of his.
>>218588813Saw it once, which was enough. Performances were good but overall a forgettable movie unlike Boogie Nights or There Will etc
>>218588037>when he has made masterpieces like there will be blood, The mastermagnolia, inherent vice
>>218588615None of those directors are deserving. Directors should be able to bring out the best ability in an actor. The movie should have several nominees in the best actor categories. Those directors you listed are creative but none of those directors have been able to bring out the best in actors. Tarantino is so overrated and an un-serious director. He's a favorite among the low-IQ, college-age pot heads. George Lucas directed Star Wars and American Graffiti, neither of which are oscar-worthy, neither of which produced oscar-worthy performances from their actors.
>>218593968
>>218593968You really gonna act like Lynch doesn’t pull incredible performances from Literal Whos? The man was a career maker for a lot of actors and got an Oscar worthy performance out of a girl who was hired to be a corpse in a plastic bag.
>>218588037everyone knows why he won it for this. if you don't know, you are probably part of the problem.
>>218591702kek
The last, great American director was Lynch and he's dead now. Who do we have left now, Malick? He's good but very inconsistent filmography with a lot of duds. All the millennial directors(like a few at best) are decent but haven't made anything worthwhile. Film's dead as a medium.
>>218594148robert eggers
>>218591432Lynch directed Star Wars?
>>218594057>You really gonna act likeI don't have to act. His record speaks for itself.
>>218594180He's decent, but you just know he'll never make a masterpiece.
>>218588037The oscars are meaningless; now that they've changed the rules to say that the highest quality picture doesn't necessarily win
>>218594001I neither said nor implied that I "hate" Lynch and Tarantino. You're making my point. Low-IQ film plebs such as yourself think that if you don't think Tarantino and Lynch are the greatest, then it obviously means you hate them. Grow up, son. I think it is great that you are dabbling in film, and Tarantino is typically babby's first favorite director, but, watch more film. Your understanding will improve tremendously and you will move on from the commercial pop directors.
>>218588037There weren't negroes on his others films. Now in this one, half cast are negroes and won. He'll just make a full negroes one now and swap again the oscars.
>>218594365maybe not, i think the lighthouse is excellent but probably doesn't get to the level you're looking for. i don't really think it's necessary for him to have a "masterpiece", his films are extremely well made and have a lasting impression in my mind.
>>218594385kek what a butthurt little bitch
>>218588037One Battle After Another is a masterpiece. Seethe harder chuddy
>>218594213He's thinking of Dune
>>218588615>Quentin Tarantino never won the Best Director Oscargood
>>218594403I wonder why.https://www.oscars.org/awards/representation-and-inclusion-standards
>>218594385Stop crying.
>>218588037That will never be his worst film as long as Licorice "2 hours of simping for a dumpy Jewish chick" Pizza exists.
>>218594385>all this cope from one little image macroYou have a very fragile ego
>>218588037Wow, the negro worship movie won? No way.
>>218594213I was referring to how George Lucas was mentioned in that meme, ESL.
Many such cases.
>>218594518Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown are unironically two of the greatest films in contemporary American cinema, not even memeing.
>>218588615>George Lucas never won the Best Director Oscarhe's a shitty director so that tracks
>>218594752You didn't watch it, we get it.
I have no idea why this board puts any stock in the Oscars, it's literally just a club for rich Hollywood pricks patting each other on the back. Half the major awards are given out because of industry politics and womanish in-group dynamics. >Oh he's been waiting for his Oscar for a while let's give it to him shall we?
>>218588615Lynch was just weird on purpose in the hopes it would be mistaken for art and wasn’t fooling anyone.Tarantino should have won for something, if nothing else to make up for getting snubbed on Pulp Fiction (albeit that was a highly competitive year).Lucas’ nomination for Star Wars was generous enough but everyone knew his directing isn’t what made the movie what it was. And he hasn’t done anything deserving a nomination since.
>>218588082basedI don't get the hate for that movie, I really really enjoyed it.
>>218595577Because this entire website is terminally online zoomers who grew up on media slop from iPads to movies to Letterboxd and literally believe it matters even while their economy crumbles and they get drafted to fight for Israel
>>218588037Similar to Miyazaki: The Boy and the Heron isn't even close to the level of his best.
>>218588615>George Lucas never won the Best Director OscarOh fuck right off.
I still don't know what One Battle is even about. I keep seeing people say it's good or bad but no one has ever actually talked about what the fuck the film is even supposed to be about.
>>218595999Let's see how shit your taste is, what's his best animated film? I'm going to write in a unposted reply what I think your normie answer is going to be before I post it
>Leo running on a roof at night>Random drums bonging on off key and no rhythm>Somehow this is cinema and it wins awards
his best is phantom thread
>>218588037So “YAY ANTIFA” won out over “YAY NIGGERS”, huh? Well, as long as the propaganda wing of the globohomo machine got a chance to blow itself, that’s all that matters.
>>218588037so how much of this was a political decision and how much of it was a "make it up to you" award for not giving him an Oscar for The Master? Like how Scorsese got one for The Departed to make up for not getting one for Goodfellas
>>218596073Lockjaw, a US military border agent, is trying to become part of an aristocratic white supremacist organization. Before he does that, he has to track down his half black daughter and cover up her existence.
>>218596212I often wonder what goes through the head of a crossposting schizo like this. Who is it signalling for? Nobody is upset by it.
There Will Be Blood tries too hard to be "cinematic"
>>218596073because the movie doesn't really know either, its a straight contradiction. its conclusion is that the US is controlled by ultra-powerful, murderous white nationalist secret societies, but that you shouldn't use violent means fight them or even bother trying to expose them.
It's not really a political movie. It uses political characters to tell a zany+wacky story. Whereas eddington is overtly attempting to be a political movie.
>>218588813It's his best film
>>218588037Hard Eight is obviously his weakest film
>>218596007kek, such a brave post
>>218596073and also, (cont from >>218596317) it shows us that there are **purely altruistic** secret leftwing organizations trying to bypass the immigration system to mass-import people over the border. i.e. it literally makes a rightwing argument at the same time as a leftwing one. its an actual fucking mess, an incoherant grabbag of themes.
>>218596078Princess Mononoke is his best. The action scenes are amazing. The animation is as good as it gets for that era. The multiple opposing forces creates a great scenario because as the viewer, I can sympathize with some, but not all, more gray area, because conflicts aren't just good vs bad. The voice acting is great too. The beginning scene sets an amazing tone with the threat of infection and the heartbreaking exile all in the first 10 minutes. My original point is that the Boy and Heron is not that good and especially not Oscar worthy.Monoke, Spirited Away, Porco, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, and Howl's are all better. There was no way Mononoke was going to win anything the same year Titanic was release, much less even be nominated, because animated movies rarely got recognized, much less one from another country.
The industry is so dead.
>>218594752Yeah, you definitely didn’t see it
>>218596414>reports variedwhy is Hollywood the only industry where you can fudge numbers and play dumb and never get audited?
>>218596278>I’m so not ass-flustered that I’m going to insult you and then tell you about how totally not ass-flustered that I am.
>>218588049Based. LP is unironically one of his best films
>>218590659This
>>218596111How can drums be off key?
>>218596227>>218596317>>218596403Thanks, anons. I'll just watch Boogie Nights instead again.
>>218596480Mockery is not in fact anyone being "le mad", yes. Go back please. (you).
>>218588205It really can't be beat
>>218588049licorice was so much better are you high?
>>218588082Agreed
>>218596474Entertainment is also one of the few industries where you can discriminate against job applicants based on shit like their race or how attractive they are.
>>218596474it's a form of indirect nationalization. keep the industry propped up and enable some amount of art-per-year by not enforcing standards on it. the US govt knows the film industry is worth more than its direct profitability because of its cultural influence, especially given how many globally watch movies via piracy.
>>218596614>some "le cultural influence maymay">biggest movie of the year was a South Korean animated movie for girls lol ok retard.
>>218588813it's my favorite of his movies yes watch it
>>218596507It somehow manages to beLike hitting an empty bottle, then a drum, then a piece of steel all in random order
>>218594180he's aggressively mid
>>218596073It's literally just an action adventure film about a former revolutionary trying to save his daughter when a corrupt military official targets him and his family. Great film. Plus it makes Chuds seethe so that's always a bonus
>>218596694watch as that leads to only much less successful followups. K-pop has an audience but demon hunters mostly had novelty on its side.
>>218595577i stopped watching years ago
>>218596694>$24m gross worldwide>otherwise only successful on netflix >biggest movie of the year
>>218596897Why would a military official go after his family? Does he not have better things to do?
>>218596073it's a weird sloppy adaptation of a thomas pynchon book which is barely coherent but with black people instead of hippies, military guy and leader of a leftist group hook up stoner hippie raises their kid and you see the dynamics of the military guy wanting power and what a bitch the leftist chick is while the daughter is hunted down
>>218596215it's a make it up to you. however given that pta is a nepo baby that gets to make whatever he wants despite enver making his investors money back let alone profit i normally don't care but my point is his entire career is an award he doesn't deserve where as scorsese has deserved it since raging bull
>>218596166His most sleep-inducing film.
>>218597011>>218596932Lol what a cope, this is Barbie level cope.
>>218596932I'll screencap this when the sequel is the biggest thing on Netflix and just remind myself how this board is always wrong
>>218597247How is he a nepo baby? Nobody has ever heard of his dad.
>>218597855his dad's drinking buddies are all famous. the list of extremely famous people he knew as a kid is long, trust me on this one
>>218597962His father was a literal who shock jockey who found moderate success. I don't think you understand what a "nepo" baby is
>>218598150yeah i guess i don't. i guess robert downey sr didn't hang out with ernie, didn't let him use the firecracker scene he originally made for boogie nights. i guess carrol burnett didn't know him since he was a kid and calls him 'lil paulie' yeah you're right i'm an idiot
>>218598268What do you unironically think constitutes the "nepo" part of nepo baby? I'm seriously asking? You know it isn't just "some celebrities knew me as a baby" right?
>>218598360you are being dishonest just because his father wasn't a film maker doesn't mean his family friends being film makers and actors didn't help him immensely. we define nepo different i guess
>>218588037Now people will watch the propaganda flick.
Phantom Thread is his best film
>>218588615it's like people are realizing the oscars are absolute bullshit. fucking Shakespeare In Love won best film one year.
>>218598592He didn't rely on nepotism to get shit like Boogie Nights made you fucking retard, that's my point. Did Carol Burnett think he'd be a great filmmaker when he was in diapers?
>>218598627He literally made a film about a Jew dating an underage teenager
>>218588615None of them have ever made anything deserving of it.
>>218598932how did he get hard 8 made? i'm kind of tired of arguing we have different ideas about this
>>218588075This
>>218588075it was too white for their taste
>>218588615Name one year they should have won>>218590544Yep, that's how Leo won an Oscar for being acting-mogged by Tom Hardy.>>218594079Politics? If that were the case, they would give it to Siggers.
>>218588615They're all hacks so of course they didn't
>>218596317>but that you shouldn't use violent means fight them or even bother trying to expose themThe movie literally doesn't take a stance on whether resistance should be with violence or nonviolence. As in, it doesn't comment on it whatsoever. So where's the contradiction?>i.e. it literally makes a rightwing argument at the same time as a leftwing oneYou have a severe case of direction brain. Legit not even sure where to begin with this one
>>218595577Nobody here thinks winning an Oscar actually carries any merit, we only care so that we can use it as a metric to shit post.
>>218588037It takes the academy decades to realise what the rest of us already know.Remember when Bong Joon Ho won an award for parasite, but got absolutely no recognition for Memories of Murder?
>>218593702I liked Inherent Vice but it wasn't oscar worthy
>>218598592Yeah, in the sense that you’re inventing your own definition of a word, which is fucking idiotic
>>218596007The only film he could have gotten it for was the original Star Wars.
