tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153559172024-03-06T22:10:58.132-08:00film-otakuOscar predictions, Pinoy Films, and thoughts on movies. Also with stuff on TV, music, literature, gaming, anime and other things that catch my fancy.<br>Thus the name Otaku.evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.comBlogger441125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-1169083411805305682021-03-13T19:42:00.000-08:002021-03-13T19:43:10.617-08:00PREDICTIONS IN ALL CATEGORIES (93rd)<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>BEST PICTURE</b></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Nomadland</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Mank</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Minari</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Promising Young Woman</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>One Night in Miami...</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Father</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>News of the World<br /></i></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">DIRECTING</span></b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Chloé Zhao (</span><i style="font-family: arial;">Nomadland</i><span style="font-family: arial;">)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Lee Isaac Chung (<i>Minari</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";">David Fincher (<i>Mank</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Aaron Sorkin (<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Regina King (<i>One Night in Miami...</i>)<br /></span><br /><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Chadwick Boseman (<i>Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";">Anthony Hopkins (<i>The Father</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Riz Ahmed (<i>Sound of Metal</i>)<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Gary Oldman (<i>Mank</i>)</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Steven Yeun (<i>Minari</i>)</span></div><div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE</b></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";">Frances McDormand (<i>Nomadland</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Viola Davis (<i>Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Carey Mulligan (<i>Promising Young Woman</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Andra Day (<i>The United States vs. Billie Holiday</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Sophia Loren (<i>The Life Ahead</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Daniel Kaluuya (<i>Judas and the Black Messiah</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Sacha Baron Cohen (<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Leslie Odom Jr. (<i>One Night in Miami...</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Chadwick Boseman (<i>Da 5 Bloods</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Alan S. Kim (<i>Minari</i>)</span></div><div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Olivia Colman (<i>The Father</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Glenn Close (<i>Hillbilly Elegy</i>)<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Amanda Seyfried (<i>Mank</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Yuh-jung Youn (<i>Minari</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Maria Bakalova (<i>Borat Subsequent Moviefilm</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY</b></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Lee Isaac Chung (<i>Minari</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Jack Fincher (<i>Mank</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Aaron Sorkin (<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Emerald Fennell (<i>Promising Young Woman</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers (<i>Soul</i>)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>ADAPTED SCREENPLAY</b></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Chloé Zhao (<i>Nomadland</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Paul Greengrass, Luke Davies (<i>News of the World</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Christopher Hampton (<i>The Father</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Kemp Powers (<i>One Night in Miami…</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Ruben Santiago-Hudson (<i>Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</i>)</span></div></div><div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>ANIMATED FEATURE</b></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Pete Docter, Kemp Powers (<i>Soul</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart (<i>Wolfwalkers</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Glen Keane, John Kahrs (<i>Over the Moon</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Dan Scanlon (<i>Onward</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Gorô Miyazaki (<i>Earwig and the Witch</i>)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>INTERNATIONAL FEATURE</b></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Denmark (<i>Another Round</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Bosnia and Herzogovina (<i>Quo Vadis, Aida?</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Guatemala (<i>La Llorona</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Norway (<i>Hope</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Romania (<i>Collective</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">DOCUMENTARY FEATURE</b></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><div>Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht (<i>Crip Camp</i>)</div><div>David France (<i>Welcome to Chechnya</i>)</div><div>Alexander Nanau (<i>Collective</i>)</div><div>Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw (<i>The Truffle Hunters</i>)</div><div>Weixi Chen, Hao Wu (<i>76 Days</i>)</div><div><br /></div></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>CINEMATOGRAPHY</b></span><br /><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Joshua James Richards (<i>Nomadland</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Erik Messerschmidt (<i>Mank</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Dariusz Wolski (<i>News of the World</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Lachlan Milne (<i>Minari</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Hoyte van Hoytema (<i>Tenet</i>)</span></div></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>COSTUME DESIGN</b></span><br /><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Ann Roth (<i>Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Alexandra Byrne (<i>Emma.</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Bina Daigeler (<i>Mulan</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Trish Summerville (<i>Mank</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Nancy Steiner (<i>Promising Young Woman</i>)</span></div></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>FILM EDITING</b></span><br /><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Chloé Zhao (<i>Nomadland</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Kirk Baxter (<i>Mank</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Alan Baumgarten (<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Frédéric Thoraval (<i>Promising Young Woman</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Harry Yoon (<i>Minari</i>)</span></div></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING</b></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Hillbilly Elegy</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Emma.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Pinocchio</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)</b></span><br /><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste (<i>Soul</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (<i>Mank</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">James Newton Howard (<i>News of the World</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Alexandre Desplat (<i>The Midnight Sky</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Emile Mosseri (<i>Minari</i>)</span></div></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)</b></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial;">“Speak Now” (<i>One Night in Miami…</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">“Turntables” (<i>All In: The Fight for Democracy</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">“Fight For You” (<i>Judas and the Black Messiah</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">“Io Sì (Seen)” (<i>The Life Ahead</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">“Husavik” (<i>Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga</i>)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>PRODUCTION DESIGN</b></span><br /><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Donald Graham Burt, Chris Craine (<i>Mank</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Grant Major, Anne Kuljian (<i>Mulan</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan (<i>News of the World</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Jim Bissell, Maudie Andrews (<i>The Midnight Sky</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Kave Quinn, Stella Fox (<i>Emma.</i>)</span></div></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>SOUND</b></span><br /><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Tenet</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Sound of Metal</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Soul</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Midnight Sky</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Mank</i></span></div></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><b>VISUAL EFFECTS</b></span><br /><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Tenet</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Midnight Sky</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Mulan</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Mank</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Welcome to Chechnya</i></span></div></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>NOMINATIONS TALLY:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>12 Nominations:</b></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Mank</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>9 Nominations:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Minari</i><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>6 Nominations:</b></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>Nomadland</i></span></div><div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>5 Nominations:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>News of the World</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>One Night in Miami...</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Promising Young Woman</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Trial of the Chicago 7<br /></i></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>4 Nominations:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>The Father</i></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>The Midnight Sky</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>Soul</i></span></div><div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>3 Nominations:</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Emma.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Mulan</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Tenet</i></span></div><div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>2 Nominations:</b></span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>Collective</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>Hillbilly Elegy</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>Judas and the Black Messiah</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>The Life Ahead</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>Sound of Metal</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>Welcome to Chechnya</i></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-1162443342480224862021-03-13T19:24:00.000-08:002021-03-13T19:24:10.441-08:00BEST PICTURE (93rd)<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>ESSENTIAL LOCK</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>1)<i> Nomadland</i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIraYs0b6SIJ1fZr1kTPolDN_66M20MxpNfJdFNVIBQiAis1Fw6RS2QSTb6OUWVORNHhaJcPErCUuaWs9CDy7C-F64u2S825lLRRqlMJQ9SFmBoG13trPoZ6dH1GzKlx-D8SplXg/s1066/Nomadland.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="1066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIraYs0b6SIJ1fZr1kTPolDN_66M20MxpNfJdFNVIBQiAis1Fw6RS2QSTb6OUWVORNHhaJcPErCUuaWs9CDy7C-F64u2S825lLRRqlMJQ9SFmBoG13trPoZ6dH1GzKlx-D8SplXg/s320/Nomadland.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MOST LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>2)<i> Mank</i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJagT5LbDKxGj4QjR2DVxQds0TfnbqSm7VRrWKreLoikmNHn0R6esmAt-Ky6bTlQ977wXmjppRYl1f2qCsEl6CRAU3fMApz8GGpI6DBkC6lq7PWmwgAThA2c5glX01oqO3XGb5zA/s1062/Mank.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="1062" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJagT5LbDKxGj4QjR2DVxQds0TfnbqSm7VRrWKreLoikmNHn0R6esmAt-Ky6bTlQ977wXmjppRYl1f2qCsEl6CRAU3fMApz8GGpI6DBkC6lq7PWmwgAThA2c5glX01oqO3XGb5zA/s320/Mank.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>3)<i> Minari</i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg5ckwBJyy7XOAO6SAgy5xWDcPRMwBUjk5yqQgG9kS6dGeQaQEcFwjIScRCKMad55sIeYtSMdai414wItXxiOgIumiJDVUByJ0WAANXGAq3e8kQvQHTWOaxFipuepTLS8M0laP0g/s1059/Minari.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="1059" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg5ckwBJyy7XOAO6SAgy5xWDcPRMwBUjk5yqQgG9kS6dGeQaQEcFwjIScRCKMad55sIeYtSMdai414wItXxiOgIumiJDVUByJ0WAANXGAq3e8kQvQHTWOaxFipuepTLS8M0laP0g/s320/Minari.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>4)<i> The Trial of the Chicago 7</i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcmYFwGcqAjDBeOLIs3oWyhG88RIZKkm7LSv4Vg62cLsLwXe6_omV7NmOXRcGnINUm2M69TQ7-wiaFxtBajZkbF80T6n3hzm5k7CIhTeeNO8IHnyYnCdT-ZkrY-KX_CceqzAse_A/s1062/The+Trial+of+the+Chicago+7.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="1062" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcmYFwGcqAjDBeOLIs3oWyhG88RIZKkm7LSv4Vg62cLsLwXe6_omV7NmOXRcGnINUm2M69TQ7-wiaFxtBajZkbF80T6n3hzm5k7CIhTeeNO8IHnyYnCdT-ZkrY-KX_CceqzAse_A/s320/The+Trial+of+the+Chicago+7.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>5)<i> Promising Young Woman</i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEXXvv5dbGVDrdonVDAc4KLAsnLVvbZFB_Mi2e08GE-CCdxt2u0ta6tOfrDzvb0jLYgm3qYVxQdxsZ6kjJKgmrBUGFsZN2VZW8Hkdwy_xolW3AG3c9ZYBs7JubRkLYzC9ytZKWRw/s1063/Promising+Young+Woman.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="1063" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEXXvv5dbGVDrdonVDAc4KLAsnLVvbZFB_Mi2e08GE-CCdxt2u0ta6tOfrDzvb0jLYgm3qYVxQdxsZ6kjJKgmrBUGFsZN2VZW8Hkdwy_xolW3AG3c9ZYBs7JubRkLYzC9ytZKWRw/s320/Promising+Young+Woman.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>6)<i> Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIo2S0J6WqLij1SFcQhYCMv4aG3I_3bg5Fy2Y-PdXOu6Sw4HJgTPqrbsby6_KWLVHaK-HolS7vLKbINB2Gx27p7OOXzA1eTmubLyCc20lO7WAgS7qMHRZpNDIDHJpXFl-d7eRPyA/s1062/Ma+Raineys+Black+Bottom.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="1062" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIo2S0J6WqLij1SFcQhYCMv4aG3I_3bg5Fy2Y-PdXOu6Sw4HJgTPqrbsby6_KWLVHaK-HolS7vLKbINB2Gx27p7OOXzA1eTmubLyCc20lO7WAgS7qMHRZpNDIDHJpXFl-d7eRPyA/s320/Ma+Raineys+Black+Bottom.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>7)<i> One Night in Miami...</i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3by0r450-mrRu71DppXsH_RG_Cs5VF1ghVyEZNowXEqIT4Ts4HkfoDlTi6jkorzSYz8o32ydG23SRYnBNiqBHD9v-UghgccIa9Y3CNyFQ2SXR47LLDJrIxcIS9q-CuK8kz9FWpA/s1063/One+Night+in+Miami.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="1063" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3by0r450-mrRu71DppXsH_RG_Cs5VF1ghVyEZNowXEqIT4Ts4HkfoDlTi6jkorzSYz8o32ydG23SRYnBNiqBHD9v-UghgccIa9Y3CNyFQ2SXR47LLDJrIxcIS9q-CuK8kz9FWpA/s320/One+Night+in+Miami.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MAYBE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>8)<i> The Father</i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH99Cvyp8ZLTqC8LVC2yUkwGWvbz2pPe8uUKMGDGRbl9m4DFaHNI00bZNl7ESdBtTeGNQTYqfQ8pqB1ydJWiU2HXLDSl8M4-tAQwhtvG4Z3rGXuUoj0ems0V-DL2847P5SSOx7sw/s1313/The+Father.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="1313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH99Cvyp8ZLTqC8LVC2yUkwGWvbz2pPe8uUKMGDGRbl9m4DFaHNI00bZNl7ESdBtTeGNQTYqfQ8pqB1ydJWiU2HXLDSl8M4-tAQwhtvG4Z3rGXuUoj0ems0V-DL2847P5SSOx7sw/s320/The+Father.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>POSSIBLE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>9)<i> News of the World</i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0N6Z-_RFZSpcLuo3iXVUU9dSUMcQrrKCqFSx_yRb5RwlD8LjeCW5C-FVLBvG3-HRumFrcuaJHd9w2fy4VBFg0XrotBk8r9Jz1n_79QRKmbLbsepXEwm-LuvCjEoh-IkLDUqN4zw/s1063/News+of+the+World.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="1063" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0N6Z-_RFZSpcLuo3iXVUU9dSUMcQrrKCqFSx_yRb5RwlD8LjeCW5C-FVLBvG3-HRumFrcuaJHd9w2fy4VBFg0XrotBk8r9Jz1n_79QRKmbLbsepXEwm-LuvCjEoh-IkLDUqN4zw/s320/News+of+the+World.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">10)<i> Judas and the Black Messiah</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">11)<i> Soul</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">12)<i> Sound of Metal</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">13)<i> Da 5 Bloods</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">14)<i> The Mauritanian</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">15)<i> Another Round</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div>See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o<br /></a></div></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-1162530621526939972021-03-13T19:19:00.000-08:002021-03-13T19:19:59.867-08:00BEST DIRECTOR (93rd)<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>ESSENTIAL LOCK</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>1) Chloé Zhao (<i>Nomadland</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiyGMAyjTe_50gFlQ0WDMRtJeSpUorsLNFqv8PYTDIr7ZtgFHgCbMdRSfMcQkVLWCiIT8gQ_HaETbTp5BG0qTNDIQFHusrVf0U27EaJ22hG20vXh3txDxRtd0HHveoI_s_vTX7Q/s1066/Nomadland.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="1066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiyGMAyjTe_50gFlQ0WDMRtJeSpUorsLNFqv8PYTDIr7ZtgFHgCbMdRSfMcQkVLWCiIT8gQ_HaETbTp5BG0qTNDIQFHusrVf0U27EaJ22hG20vXh3txDxRtd0HHveoI_s_vTX7Q/s320/Nomadland.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MOST LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>2) Lee Isaac Chung (<i>Minari</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9Y2mm4AXE8T9FkB6nudwQpDCMt_cWXST4hJgrCNEOSIgPoDBajiK217lXAwcBIWpmrFmpUbH6-BLWtinoFHHeESwVbgphuaWXpQMtRyTrAiSdDg0kxgJtpH8Pdw05z8Ad7n87Q/s1059/Minari.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="1059" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9Y2mm4AXE8T9FkB6nudwQpDCMt_cWXST4hJgrCNEOSIgPoDBajiK217lXAwcBIWpmrFmpUbH6-BLWtinoFHHeESwVbgphuaWXpQMtRyTrAiSdDg0kxgJtpH8Pdw05z8Ad7n87Q/s320/Minari.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>3) David Fincher (<i>Mank</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ixKJP5YBTRBlQMOPBks17pLh5Bh009EajQOXoqC_tq3QH2xJAeni1T-TVD2JdTj198O2gxWYhC1ikAnHlu837rb6qdN_o3ONx89wagYoqCfTVOJaIcva_lcaoxu4062f36lPHQ/s1062/Mank.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="1062" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ixKJP5YBTRBlQMOPBks17pLh5Bh009EajQOXoqC_tq3QH2xJAeni1T-TVD2JdTj198O2gxWYhC1ikAnHlu837rb6qdN_o3ONx89wagYoqCfTVOJaIcva_lcaoxu4062f36lPHQ/s320/Mank.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>4) Aaron Sorkin (<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tuajaLYNNJvi9tQu3nAc9ZWRrb_HgyRDJUoa9B41qIrDNNvyAJbO_Hmi3yCUMwgyNWZVTpUyj5joCuTz7qoH1iPc4YcqAjF8yKOveetK61v30cjWWyD7spvEiojoQt1ZKrbdIA/s1062/The+Trial+of+the+Chicago+7.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="1062" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tuajaLYNNJvi9tQu3nAc9ZWRrb_HgyRDJUoa9B41qIrDNNvyAJbO_Hmi3yCUMwgyNWZVTpUyj5joCuTz7qoH1iPc4YcqAjF8yKOveetK61v30cjWWyD7spvEiojoQt1ZKrbdIA/s320/The+Trial+of+the+Chicago+7.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>POSSIBLE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>5) Regina King (<i>One Night in Miami...</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xIZkU06nunC30bAoH01_tE5LwgZDi4d_znhVavwukve4WWJfLTL25k60VKtzWWfAknDpYh4a6ha2A8prD2YXc3xOXru06IEhfM8iQUbIK-6tOJUD4TDQLoa4lHZFx2gCEb64Bw/s1063/One+Night+in+Miami.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="1063" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xIZkU06nunC30bAoH01_tE5LwgZDi4d_znhVavwukve4WWJfLTL25k60VKtzWWfAknDpYh4a6ha2A8prD2YXc3xOXru06IEhfM8iQUbIK-6tOJUD4TDQLoa4lHZFx2gCEb64Bw/s320/One+Night+in+Miami.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">6) Emerald Fennell (<i>Promising Young Woman</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">7) Paul Greengrass (<i>News of the World</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">8) Thomas Vinterberg (<i>Another Round</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">9) Florian Zeller (<i>The Father</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">10) Kelly Reichardt (<i>First Cow</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o<br /></a></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-1162426132485851532021-03-13T19:16:00.000-08:002021-03-13T19:16:51.673-08:00BEST ACTOR (93rd)<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>ESSENTIAL LOCKS</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>1) Chadwick Boseman (<i>Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEkR8gxOwrLZ7pBdtMibf12x6uQrd1CGTCeiM_lrPVv-nc7xI-lAZEVVbvJgGUtvn-cHO85DQh0jE9doYQJO5CkbWkZAGtkg3XbjEvH_diNzkC5xwRCOOx53IkG4p-vGEjkNGRkA/s1200/Boseman_Ma+Raineys+Black+Bottom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEkR8gxOwrLZ7pBdtMibf12x6uQrd1CGTCeiM_lrPVv-nc7xI-lAZEVVbvJgGUtvn-cHO85DQh0jE9doYQJO5CkbWkZAGtkg3XbjEvH_diNzkC5xwRCOOx53IkG4p-vGEjkNGRkA/s320/Boseman_Ma+Raineys+Black+Bottom.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>2) Anthony Hopkins (<i>The Father</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKQcs-GIVDPpSgtuiABvcDHXSa2YWqm4Q3Cdeq0sNNrUYRP54tLhLFEGFlKp-IoNLc0m-LYftcz0_sZbPK8myAl2eSgVQgCmBzcN8h4kzjWYWTG_jRgQy7jzMPwMsxE5IfUBfpw/s1284/Hopkins_The+Father.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKQcs-GIVDPpSgtuiABvcDHXSa2YWqm4Q3Cdeq0sNNrUYRP54tLhLFEGFlKp-IoNLc0m-LYftcz0_sZbPK8myAl2eSgVQgCmBzcN8h4kzjWYWTG_jRgQy7jzMPwMsxE5IfUBfpw/s320/Hopkins_The+Father.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>3) Riz Ahmed (<i>Sound of Metal</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30QVuSFnxo2eFCbDmPnVlI5v5FNjyogDGN1bIhzxv_czT4qgNB-KczonpulLAvNXQ1cZI2If_KLmlpPP9qHcuCMQ_Ugo7SsC0uNqMgrgztVY0b6UxkZuugzU5ZrO6J4JriYgH2g/s1200/Ahmed_Sound+of+Metal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30QVuSFnxo2eFCbDmPnVlI5v5FNjyogDGN1bIhzxv_czT4qgNB-KczonpulLAvNXQ1cZI2If_KLmlpPP9qHcuCMQ_Ugo7SsC0uNqMgrgztVY0b6UxkZuugzU5ZrO6J4JriYgH2g/s320/Ahmed_Sound+of+Metal.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MAYBE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>4) Gary Oldman (<i>Mank</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxYVdoEgAeJ6WViqDYkukF6wo4HvLE_FdNSrKNZ4nAjGJdMmTBXhY_kEjbJNX0nIQeDLDmPfHc1hxdYYSFdSzv351-1ahTgVO1LIQMnq-vleCwjI6W4fACQ_ediDXungd_ifBhRA/s1200/Oldman_Mank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxYVdoEgAeJ6WViqDYkukF6wo4HvLE_FdNSrKNZ4nAjGJdMmTBXhY_kEjbJNX0nIQeDLDmPfHc1hxdYYSFdSzv351-1ahTgVO1LIQMnq-vleCwjI6W4fACQ_ediDXungd_ifBhRA/s320/Oldman_Mank.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>POSSIBLE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>5) Steven Yeun (<i>Minari</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkIoR0gt3fS8lFhi132lXyPMdorEdQ6BljO8qEWEHQTTMwLkao5URkrE5qKSgbXbtCis6MmnKGowVH7oPltGACE3Een_ImbsXFMx1CfyAh802tokkQog4yqTBAQ2oJ125EslJrYw/s853/Yeun_Minari.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="853" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkIoR0gt3fS8lFhi132lXyPMdorEdQ6BljO8qEWEHQTTMwLkao5URkrE5qKSgbXbtCis6MmnKGowVH7oPltGACE3Een_ImbsXFMx1CfyAh802tokkQog4yqTBAQ2oJ125EslJrYw/s320/Yeun_Minari.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">6) Delroy Lindo (<i>Da 5 Bloods</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">7) Mads Mikkelsen (<i>Another Round</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">8) Tom Hanks (<i>News of the World</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">9) Tahar Rahim (<i>The Mauritanian</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">10) Daniel Kaluuya (<i>Judas and the Black Messiah</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o<br /></a></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-1162260124604955592021-03-13T19:13:00.000-08:002021-03-13T19:13:50.525-08:00BEST ACTRESS (93rd)<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>ESSENTIAL LOCK</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>1) Frances McDormand (<i>Nomadland</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbHusjvcOnkF6dknCpIeXVE7V7Wf0WwMelEozUgqU-hBO-Llh3a-7QQ9Ex1Zdg4ulP5Dw7_Mdzn1dDIMWAntHsSlNxwnXN4cP-kUlCMx5VBYYqfe8fH-hkNd9Pee0fZnf-HU4PSw/s970/McDormand_Nomadland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbHusjvcOnkF6dknCpIeXVE7V7Wf0WwMelEozUgqU-hBO-Llh3a-7QQ9Ex1Zdg4ulP5Dw7_Mdzn1dDIMWAntHsSlNxwnXN4cP-kUlCMx5VBYYqfe8fH-hkNd9Pee0fZnf-HU4PSw/s320/McDormand_Nomadland.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MOST LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>2) Viola Davis (<i>Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiubuEISCpzPV5fF4EQ8qrlzC4_dc3hFjKEkwierZU-EleIv4puxeDA0ycUDWT7szCrFQdYCQMCFNTdmkd-Ynx4HVJ3fl3qiKtWuIC1w9GldMnkByb4kvxkBkhMopAuxOHzawTCzQ/s1154/Davis_Ma+Raineys+Black+Bottom.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiubuEISCpzPV5fF4EQ8qrlzC4_dc3hFjKEkwierZU-EleIv4puxeDA0ycUDWT7szCrFQdYCQMCFNTdmkd-Ynx4HVJ3fl3qiKtWuIC1w9GldMnkByb4kvxkBkhMopAuxOHzawTCzQ/s320/Davis_Ma+Raineys+Black+Bottom.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>3) Carey Mulligan (<i>Promising Young Woman</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWLaGZ1dj050-KZ-Th9p-kOu13XKaCJ3zz3IoNYJPtApE3hW1KFF01Cj2yQRnvN95-blUIsVxdRegCW2ajy_LSixlR674ukp-ipNxCqMk9iFBNjbWVdE-_jfocCzfkNDEIEo0Iog/s1024/Mulligan_Promising+Young+Woman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWLaGZ1dj050-KZ-Th9p-kOu13XKaCJ3zz3IoNYJPtApE3hW1KFF01Cj2yQRnvN95-blUIsVxdRegCW2ajy_LSixlR674ukp-ipNxCqMk9iFBNjbWVdE-_jfocCzfkNDEIEo0Iog/s320/Mulligan_Promising+Young+Woman.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MAYBE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>4) Andra Day (<i>The United States vs. Billie Holiday</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUTENcp_htIV6QzZPdYaB-IFNcfpDN92bAaEe28wxYxZhg2Auj1jZhkAzLysTMGWmKf3Olg7dq_8JVTvuAWNulxvWVWZsCTToSo5Fy5k30DSudReqrggcsaGNnM6epT7iVvPcVQw/s700/Day_United+States+vs+Billie+Holiday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUTENcp_htIV6QzZPdYaB-IFNcfpDN92bAaEe28wxYxZhg2Auj1jZhkAzLysTMGWmKf3Olg7dq_8JVTvuAWNulxvWVWZsCTToSo5Fy5k30DSudReqrggcsaGNnM6epT7iVvPcVQw/s320/Day_United+States+vs+Billie+Holiday.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>POSSIBLE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>5) Sophia Loren (<i>The Life Ahead</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTZW724PJ3AWqAy-sgSFKMPaiCHhmQM6cnvYsSvuHX8KYTYbIdmROWOhLhMsj9cB8EYo5bMw4MdqXr5S67lA3jNVeaILAEOzOs411HEdlW49XuhLjirCp-OiZDBbySLSMvfY88w/s681/Loren_The+Life+Ahead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTZW724PJ3AWqAy-sgSFKMPaiCHhmQM6cnvYsSvuHX8KYTYbIdmROWOhLhMsj9cB8EYo5bMw4MdqXr5S67lA3jNVeaILAEOzOs411HEdlW49XuhLjirCp-OiZDBbySLSMvfY88w/s320/Loren_The+Life+Ahead.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">6) Vanessa Kirby (<i>Pieces of a Woman</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">7) Amy Adams (<i>Hillbilly Elegy</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">8) Rosamund Pike (<i>I Care a Lot</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">9) Michelle Pfeiffer (<i>French Exit</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">10) Yeri Han (<i>Minari</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o</a></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-1162432183742216282021-03-13T19:10:00.000-08:002021-03-13T19:10:41.129-08:00BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (93rd)<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MOST LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>1) Daniel Kaluuya (<i>Judas and the Black Messia</i>h)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdQHjU8Jy8oQoTKs7akaSDy5YsuW4Mo7kglTZIjJeiokdRUZagvt4fFytJOZzxnso-xM2PDQBqWRcq_psQttWbboKPINCuFs7KGTnleULRsqVh3EiPoJbZLH5No-2uurCEtX8TEg/s681/Kaluuya_Judas+and+the+Black+Messiah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdQHjU8Jy8oQoTKs7akaSDy5YsuW4Mo7kglTZIjJeiokdRUZagvt4fFytJOZzxnso-xM2PDQBqWRcq_psQttWbboKPINCuFs7KGTnleULRsqVh3EiPoJbZLH5No-2uurCEtX8TEg/s320/Kaluuya_Judas+and+the+Black+Messiah.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>2) Sacha Baron Cohen (<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ3SYk-WqUWzwqc3TLDd_Uske_wZfhVfon66Mt42VZeYHzH3et9oFboHo_j7xzTdqAhLt-18cQYRu3KaRzbWrXgGTGLdZCKOPlyvWyWeDFI7boixR7NjACAhik5_LAfoKVM7eA2Q/s1778/Cohen_Trial+of+the+Chicago+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ3SYk-WqUWzwqc3TLDd_Uske_wZfhVfon66Mt42VZeYHzH3et9oFboHo_j7xzTdqAhLt-18cQYRu3KaRzbWrXgGTGLdZCKOPlyvWyWeDFI7boixR7NjACAhik5_LAfoKVM7eA2Q/s320/Cohen_Trial+of+the+Chicago+7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>3) Leslie Odom Jr. (<i>One Night in Miami...</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCbTUNLWKU1zcsZjT5pSmkFL8ll9Lr3M2KMa4cRv3VPMjlvt82LJs5G37zuT9mFiSubmIL73jD-wKX9tx_FhDi5mS7dulq-vRhN2PXRRWRpevvw7kROhMC8DLvT5nCpXJxclvl2g/s2048/Odom_One+Night+in+Miami.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1189" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCbTUNLWKU1zcsZjT5pSmkFL8ll9Lr3M2KMa4cRv3VPMjlvt82LJs5G37zuT9mFiSubmIL73jD-wKX9tx_FhDi5mS7dulq-vRhN2PXRRWRpevvw7kROhMC8DLvT5nCpXJxclvl2g/s320/Odom_One+Night+in+Miami.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MAYBE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>4) Chadwick Boseman (<i>Da 5 Bloods</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yLmB59vOe9vfaWMDZ9LT5X5_egBtSzRmvqdsToQlNCsNStKT_jwX9qa5V-l-N6ut8Vm0AXOJL8ZDCJIQuxBtp__-vSNtHQtzBRHw8vechg0VS-eGhjYrB6muWtMBs6u1rwtsUg/s1200/Boseman_Da+5+Bloods.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yLmB59vOe9vfaWMDZ9LT5X5_egBtSzRmvqdsToQlNCsNStKT_jwX9qa5V-l-N6ut8Vm0AXOJL8ZDCJIQuxBtp__-vSNtHQtzBRHw8vechg0VS-eGhjYrB6muWtMBs6u1rwtsUg/s320/Boseman_Da+5+Bloods.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>POSSIBLE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>5) Alan S. Kim (<i>Minari</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIidiKA63RsHzIAf8FWorDcIVzdi7RI4w2GrlTe6eZxrOk9IIaKFl9vmlaylkArHBghbLbWxNnpvBHVTnVA_KBYoYOu24znnAXV18v6NJ2k5M4OLLf56kTVP0nhk_gq5nhuutreA/s2000/Kim_Minari.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIidiKA63RsHzIAf8FWorDcIVzdi7RI4w2GrlTe6eZxrOk9IIaKFl9vmlaylkArHBghbLbWxNnpvBHVTnVA_KBYoYOu24znnAXV18v6NJ2k5M4OLLf56kTVP0nhk_gq5nhuutreA/s320/Kim_Minari.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">6) Paul Raci (<i>Sound of Metal</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">7) Jared Leto (<i>The Little Things</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">8) Mark Rylance (<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">9) David Strathairn (<i>Nomadland</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">10) Clarke Peters (<i>Da 5 Bloods</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o</a></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-1162427838370975102021-03-13T19:06:00.000-08:002021-03-13T19:06:52.401-08:00BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (93rd)<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>ESSENTIAL LOCK</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>1) Olivia Colman (<i>The Father</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-aLrFzvD40rRlIO6XJ4teGr5EW5cAePcLKI682xb56vyv7AIngnwPINpOer1LQ6ZC8X2sKH30GfX2IhR-FGSasRDUjACE7comxCAS91yx1TFrzg34loPvYymqAXTuOEQykBdpQ/s800/Colman_The+Father.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-aLrFzvD40rRlIO6XJ4teGr5EW5cAePcLKI682xb56vyv7AIngnwPINpOer1LQ6ZC8X2sKH30GfX2IhR-FGSasRDUjACE7comxCAS91yx1TFrzg34loPvYymqAXTuOEQykBdpQ/s320/Colman_The+Father.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MOST LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>2) Glenn Close (<i>Hillbilly Elegy</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpZatsTTWauujkF3UMMmYgbUPoOvBrMLVFQYetb9gMjOwnxZoOYADm7ACO7Pt2lxBgPMmU_6R47H9hYRChmvOKgtQ5dhzB3oBUIHVxz0ajbNdmKcqs8HkczL4ccK0469W1pHd6Q/s1800/Close_Hillbilly+Elegt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1013" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpZatsTTWauujkF3UMMmYgbUPoOvBrMLVFQYetb9gMjOwnxZoOYADm7ACO7Pt2lxBgPMmU_6R47H9hYRChmvOKgtQ5dhzB3oBUIHVxz0ajbNdmKcqs8HkczL4ccK0469W1pHd6Q/s320/Close_Hillbilly+Elegt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>LIKELY</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>3) Amanda Seyfried (<i>Mank</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNRpmqj3eFJvKmIZf9LFdre9stTOM2fr3s6ZZYBC-5wh-v8r9fgp95LtaxZNBAUQKGBd6Xz93XgIqSk1_SXlpmCofNoQ6jrmi2v5kYhpTMpKEAHm3IDgN4nXSzIga0jrG2R1Efw/s768/Seyfried_Mank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSNRpmqj3eFJvKmIZf9LFdre9stTOM2fr3s6ZZYBC-5wh-v8r9fgp95LtaxZNBAUQKGBd6Xz93XgIqSk1_SXlpmCofNoQ6jrmi2v5kYhpTMpKEAHm3IDgN4nXSzIga0jrG2R1Efw/s320/Seyfried_Mank.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MAYBE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>4) Yuh-Jung Youn (<i>Minari</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_JHaSsN2GTnvBYh_ArMLNcKsNNttxLDa2LotRrn9YsT9OIkTaZOxGyLh5KMrDCOjhrqmo02Ef-gtapdUStoBkPW2qAuYqoHJLrwFeIOoes1NzOSIvfIWl-G8s4dtS2WrVImxog/s960/Youn_Minari.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk_JHaSsN2GTnvBYh_ArMLNcKsNNttxLDa2LotRrn9YsT9OIkTaZOxGyLh5KMrDCOjhrqmo02Ef-gtapdUStoBkPW2qAuYqoHJLrwFeIOoes1NzOSIvfIWl-G8s4dtS2WrVImxog/s320/Youn_Minari.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>POSSIBLE</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>5) Maria Bakalova (<i>Borat Subsequent Moviefilm</i>)</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQLUUJzMgHWvlk6UCiQw10Fh2vb6zY3w6-jBhtZRGoI8LkJ5L1Z1t3nxH4k_UHxQK-IwWMShoAG9JBBqUb3Y5Mj_aP0PTxdwXMNLN0iKl8qMCBLCzVF3ujKxgqa57dq2gs-ldzA/s1400/Bakalova_Borat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQLUUJzMgHWvlk6UCiQw10Fh2vb6zY3w6-jBhtZRGoI8LkJ5L1Z1t3nxH4k_UHxQK-IwWMShoAG9JBBqUb3Y5Mj_aP0PTxdwXMNLN0iKl8qMCBLCzVF3ujKxgqa57dq2gs-ldzA/s320/Bakalova_Borat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">6) Helena Zengel (<i>News of the World</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">7) Jodie Foster (<i>The Mauritanian</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">8) Dominique Fishback (<i>Judas and the Black Messiah</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">9) Saoirse Ronan (<i>Ammonite</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">10) Ellen Burstyn (<i>Pieces of a Woman</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o<br /><br /></a></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-61308660945193737092021-03-13T19:02:00.000-08:002021-03-13T19:02:45.444-08:00BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (93rd)<div><span style="font-family: arial;">1) Lee Isaac Chung (<i>Minari</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">2) Jack Fincher (<i>Mank</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">3) Aaron Sorkin (<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">4) Emerald Fennell (<i>Promising Young Woman</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">5) Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers (<i>Soul</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div>See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o</a></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-74487302657728930772021-03-13T19:00:00.000-08:002021-03-13T19:01:04.136-08:00BEST ADAPTED SCREEPLAY (93rd)<div><span style="font-family: arial;">1) Chloé Zhao (<i>Nomadland</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">2) Paul Greengrass, Luke Davies (<i>News of the World</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">3) Christopher Hampton (<i>The Father</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">4) Kemp Powers (<i>One Night in Miami…</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">5) Ruben Santiago-Hudson (<i>Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div>See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o</a></div><div><br /></div></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-1164357025907380562021-03-13T18:58:00.001-08:002021-03-13T18:58:36.849-08:00TECHNICAL CATEGORIES (93rd)<span style="color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>CINEMATOGRAPHY</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><b>1) Joshua James Richards (<i>Nomadland</i>)</b></div><div><b>2) Erik Messerschmidt (<i>Mank</i>)</b></div><div><b>3) Dariusz Wolski (<i>News of the World</i>)</b></div><div><b>4) Lachlan Milne (<i>Minari</i>)</b></div><div><b>5) Hoyte van Hoytema (<i>Tenet</i>)</b></div></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>COSTUME DESIGN</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><b><div><br /></div><div>1) Ann Roth (<i>Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</i>)</div><div>2) Alexandra Byrne (<i>Emma.</i>)</div><div>3) Bina Daigeler (<i>Mulan</i>)</div><div>4) Trish Summerville (<i>Mank</i>)</div><div>5) Nancy Steiner (<i>Promising Young Woman</i>)</div></b></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>FILM EDITING</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><b><div><br /></div><div>1) Chloé Zhao (<i>Nomadland</i>)</div><div>2) Kirk Baxter (<i>Mank</i>)</div><div>3) Alan Baumgarten (<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i>)</div><div>4) Frédéric Thoraval (<i>Promising Young Woman</i>)</div><div>5) Harry Yoon (<i>Minari</i>)</div></b></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>1) <i>Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>2) <i>Hillbilly Elegy</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>3) <i>Emma.</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>4) <i>Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>5) <i>Pinocchio</i></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>1) Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste (<i>Soul</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>2) Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (<i>Mank</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>3) James Newton Howard (<i>News of the World</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>4) Alexandre Desplat (<i>The Midnight Sky</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>5) Emile Mosseri (<i>Minari</i>)</b></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>1) “Speak Now” (<i>One Night in Miami…</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>2) “Turntables” (<i>All In: The Fight for Democracy</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>3) “Fight For You” (<i>Judas and the Black Messiah</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>4) “Io Sì (Seen)” (<i>The Life Ahead</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>5) “Husavik” (<i>Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga</i>)</b></span></div></div></div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>PRODUCTION DESIGN</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>1) Donald Graham Burt, Chris Craine (<i>Mank</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>2) Grant Major, Anne Kuljian (<i>Mulan</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>3) David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan (<i>News of the World</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>4) Jim Bissell, Maudie Andrews (<i>The Midnight Sky</i>)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>5) Kave Quinn, Stella Fox (<i>Emma.</i>)</b></span></div></div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>SOUND</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><b><div><br /></div><div>1) <i>Tenet</i></div><div>2) <i>Sound of Metal</i></div><div>3) <i>Soul</i></div><div>4) <i>The Midnight Sky</i></div><div>5) <i>Mank</i></div></b></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>VISUAL EFFECTS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>1) <i>Tenet</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>2) <i>The Midnight Sky</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>3) <i>Mulan</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>4) <i>Mank</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>5) <i>Welcome to Chechnya</i></b></span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div>See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o</a></div><div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-32156124650601542212021-03-13T18:46:00.001-08:002021-03-13T18:47:07.373-08:00BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM (93rd)<div><span style="font-family: arial;">1) Denmark (<i>Another Round</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">2) Bosnia and Herzogovina (<i>Quo Vadis, Aida?</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">3) Guatemala (<i>La Llorona</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">4) Norway (<i>Hope</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">5) Romania (<i>Collective</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o</a></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-16506614194215345722021-03-13T18:44:00.001-08:002021-03-13T18:46:58.113-08:00BEST ANIMATED FEATURE (93rd)<div><span style="font-family: arial;">1) Pete Docter, Kemp Powers (<i>Soul</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">2) Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart (<i>Wolfwalkers</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">3) Glen Keane, John Kahrs (<i>Over the Moon</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">4) Dan Scanlon (<i>Onward</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">5) Gorô Miyazaki (<i>Earwig and the Witch</i>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">See predictions in all categories here: <a href="https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o">https://youtu.be/uNZgibrL0_o</a></span></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-11204252732628146352020-05-29T08:54:00.001-07:002020-05-29T18:31:24.880-07:00The Unsung Heroes of BL: The Enabling Best Friends<font face="arial">To say that fans of BL (Boys' Love) series watch them for the couples is to state the obvious. After all, BL fans are notorious for being ultra-passionate shippers of their favorite pairs, an activity that spills over to real life. Nowadays, such composite names as MewGulf, TayNew, MaxTul, and BrightWin trend whenever a new episode or a new fan-made video of them comes out. It doesn't take much effort to find articles online on these and many other BL couples.</font><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">But one aspect of BL series that has not gotten as much appreciation as it should have is the role of supporting characters. Not secondary couples, who can sometimes even outshine the lead couples (WinTeam, anyone?), but the friends who rotate around the main couple and range from being mere observers to being true enablers. In many ways, they're the viewers' surrogates, that's why we cheer them on when they go out of their way to help the couple get together or strengthen their relationship, or if they're just fierce, protective friends who've got our main characters' backs. Aside from the sadly rarer "supporting parents," these "enabling best friends" are the true unsung heroes of BL series. (Note: we use enabling in the positive sense of the word here). Here, I'd like to highlight five of them, ranked by their overall impact on the main couple's relationship and general well-being.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>Honorable Mentions:</b></font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Team ("Until We Meet Again") - I love that scene in the library where he tells off Alex for bugging Pharm. That's a true friend right there.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Fai ("Together With Me: The Next Chapter") - There are many times in the series when she seems like the only sensible member of the group, and she doesn't hold back in making that clear and helping rein her friends in.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Knot ("Sotus") - That heart-to-heart conversation that he has with Arthit is short but it's a critical turnaround point for the latter.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Kae ("Why R U?") - He'd probably be in my top five if he qualified as a best friend. That scene with Fighter's father is priceless.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">He Cheng En ("HIStory2: Boundary Crossing") - What can I say: making Qiu Zi Xuan choose between the two drinks was a smooth move.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><b style="font-family: arial;">THE TOP FIVE ENABLING BEST FRIENDS IN BL</b></div><div><font face="arial"><b><br /></b></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>5. THE FAIRY ANGEL GANG - Montri, Hippo, No. 1, No. 2 ("2 MOONS 2")</b></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b><br /></b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNltcixTvVCBwO0U4QTD3Hx0mPNdCiFi-32C1SbEWirmlDowt2t9L_dTq5p1-ZM0P8C7BbLuvtIYu2lxEVnOS5CothIWWhaygGX4TxQ4M_vut4vXQWIZxLqLyp_92zTCtTVn0JQg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="653" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNltcixTvVCBwO0U4QTD3Hx0mPNdCiFi-32C1SbEWirmlDowt2t9L_dTq5p1-ZM0P8C7BbLuvtIYu2lxEVnOS5CothIWWhaygGX4TxQ4M_vut4vXQWIZxLqLyp_92zTCtTVn0JQg/s320/Fairy+Angel+Gang.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><font face="arial"><b><br /></b></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>Actors: </b>Phee Pikulngern, Sathitpong Taiworachot, Jirayu Sutthisat, Jirawat Sutthisat</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Usually, the best friends are straight or masculine gay/bi males. It's refreshing to see more effeminate characters, who usually play less flattering roles (example: Green in "2gether the Series"), being so proactive in helping the main couple.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>Most Significant Act of Friendship: </b></font><span style="font-family: arial;">They didn't do too much to help the relationship between their friend Wayo and Phana progress, but who didn't fall in love with them when they fought for Wayo against his defamers? That scene where they confront the other group in the dance studio, showing their solidarity with Wayo, is powerful stuff. We can easily argue that if they hadn't done that, Wayo wouldn't have been in the right state of mind to be in a relationship with Phana.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>4. POND ("LOVE BY CHANCE")</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVHwxO61AlnerEsoTFBXf3xhILDogeXaZIvTVuTzETJF1RYV09cHNG2ZkP7r2JVskg6JmODhx4Cz0j9ZQ38vesD2hk3fINJtvhZvomZfma-jj6VUxGXssXX-Uh8B_8Ip6L2NHG2g/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="639" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVHwxO61AlnerEsoTFBXf3xhILDogeXaZIvTVuTzETJF1RYV09cHNG2ZkP7r2JVskg6JmODhx4Cz0j9ZQ38vesD2hk3fINJtvhZvomZfma-jj6VUxGXssXX-Uh8B_8Ip6L2NHG2g/s320/Pond.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Actor: Yacht Surat Permpoonsavat</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The first scene that we seen Pond in sets him up quickly as a perverted clown and doesn't give us much confidence in him at the onset. He's still the perverted clown until the end of the series but no one can say that he isn't a fiercely loyal friend. He also shows a sweeter and more mature side in a nice scene with his girlfriend ChaAim. I'm glad he found a girl who sees him for who he really is, unlike Ae, who really should start treating him more nicely.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Most Significant Act of Friendship: </b>It's really the small things with Pond. There's putting the condoms in Ae's bag and being in Pete's corner almost immediately. Whatever advice he gave Pete to get him ready to fully consummate his relationship with Ae for the first time, it definitely worked.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: arial;">3. TWO ("THEORY OF LOVE")</b></div><div><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72qFOtzFqVQJHHPtntFWligW7fteEQalsutLyn9tqB8agx_I3-cWHYVUF2NFd9HaVEw-_8NTUrcN2IJRIKospqaqLgew6jBiXG8JdIgSXB9vVuabfeevwjoDC7x-2XG9pXqiD7Q/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="601" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72qFOtzFqVQJHHPtntFWligW7fteEQalsutLyn9tqB8agx_I3-cWHYVUF2NFd9HaVEw-_8NTUrcN2IJRIKospqaqLgew6jBiXG8JdIgSXB9vVuabfeevwjoDC7x-2XG9pXqiD7Q/s320/Two.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: arial;">Actor: White Nawat Phumphothingam</b></div><div><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Even as we're cheering him on through his own struggles with love, we're also loving him for so selflessly, unconditionally accepting Third's love for Khai and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">helping Third through his problems.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Most Significant Act of Friendship: </b>He's quick to act as soon as he discovers Third's feelings for Khai. He helps Third concoct the plan that gets Third to stay in Khai's apartment. But really, it's his unwavering support of Third through it all that makes him the best friend that everyone would like to have.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>2. TECHNO ("THARNTYPE THE SERIES")</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikllVeHLluLlncpZgYehCaZl7uStAuI7AiL3mPVxyddXzWe5G-9NNKw1vGw9fRakY3xT_Qc6chZD3Jdwi66tMCwObRiARU414NDpoWNbuEnlx96xQboGFRL12HgI-K9Hn9dImA-A/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikllVeHLluLlncpZgYehCaZl7uStAuI7AiL3mPVxyddXzWe5G-9NNKw1vGw9fRakY3xT_Qc6chZD3Jdwi66tMCwObRiARU414NDpoWNbuEnlx96xQboGFRL12HgI-K9Hn9dImA-A/s320/Techno.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Actor: Mild Suttinut Uengtrakul</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Like Pond, he's the none-too-serious best friend who's often affectionately bullied by the lead character, but it's clear from the very start that he's more consistently reliable and level-headed. Without being as obvious about it as Pond is, he's really the greatest TharnType shipper...even if he does occasionally feel awkward around their cloying sweetness (something that amusingly extends to real life when Mild is around MewGulf).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Most Significant Act of Friendship: </b>There's a lot to choose from, from telling Type all the things that Tharn has been doing for him to being there as solid back-up during the final confrontation with Lhong. But I'll argue, maybe quite controversially, that Techno's single most important act that moves the TharnType relationship forward is him telling Type that his roommate Tharn is gay. He obviously does not do that out of spite for Tharn or for gays, just out of concern for Type and how much worse it would be if Type found out another way. We wouldn't have had the riveting love story that we had had it not been for Techno's well-intentioned intervention.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>1. YIHWA ("TOGETHER WITH ME")</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvnUYFf1pmnUttTX7hvkN05cXtkQromuqmDn1ghoHwBvDQLcDOt3mpbUpaIPnc0U8cGwP39WgqCtJ6o7jnzvAjFWbriYATw1SO-zsfG5oFJqG7T1Tdx-z_uSrhCfbThSDizn3ehg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvnUYFf1pmnUttTX7hvkN05cXtkQromuqmDn1ghoHwBvDQLcDOt3mpbUpaIPnc0U8cGwP39WgqCtJ6o7jnzvAjFWbriYATw1SO-zsfG5oFJqG7T1Tdx-z_uSrhCfbThSDizn3ehg/s320/Yihwa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsIDgBVhl_hPkEkLB2G2jr4fT_jxfOSz1FppJ4JFMTxJQM9WLImHtxmhmyPWV2IfaM5F9vbAgp-P_ZZFzkFkBV5adsGPrbay1FRHmER4McLDpS6xY-tLwvQyfNqbzIyKkFDg6yQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsIDgBVhl_hPkEkLB2G2jr4fT_jxfOSz1FppJ4JFMTxJQM9WLImHtxmhmyPWV2IfaM5F9vbAgp-P_ZZFzkFkBV5adsGPrbay1FRHmER4McLDpS6xY-tLwvQyfNqbzIyKkFDg6yQ/s320/Yihwa2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Actress: Maengmum Tanshi Bumrungkit</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I've said before that most best friends are males. How great is it then to have a strong female as the ultimate BL series best friend? From start to finish (all the way into "Together With Me: The Next Chapter," though she has her own problems to deal with there), she's KornKnock's biggest shipper. Think about it: she's there both the first and last times that the couple is in their hometown. When she's in her <i>kilig</i> state, so are we. And, more importantly, she's their fiercest protector.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Most Significant Act of Friendship: </b>She's the foil to the unbelievably diabolical Plern Pleng, making it her mission to investigate her and reveal her true face to Knock, even risking her own safety in at least one instance. She rallies their other friends to help defeat Plern Pleng, while being sickeningly fashionable the whole time. Plern Pleng didn't really stand a chance against her.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><font size="1">Image Sources:</font></span></div><div><div><font face="arial" size="1">Pond: https://66.media.tumblr.com/25ee11f1a4d0c7b7a0c21cc032533f29/3e41f148260b6292-06/s640x960/0297ee28546eb201b8a5da2b6d503b3654cc6db3.jpg</font></div><div><font face="arial" size="1">Techno: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K81fYcwNgsk/maxresdefault.jpg</font></div><div><font face="arial" size="1">Yihwa: https://thesakuracontinuestofall.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/images-651992572808.jpg</font></div><div><font face="arial" size="1">Yihwa2: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EP4b6FXVAAcW-VO?format=jpg&name=large</font></div></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-72292856797246891352020-05-09T22:32:00.003-07:002020-05-09T23:30:01.858-07:00My List of the 100 Best Albums by Women (TOP 20)<font face="arial"><b>20. <i>SURFACING </i>(SARAH MCLACHLAN)</b></font><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiE6yuT15D5inEyy2HxagtrCybluaxsQzuz8dpJ9lMlK2x0KyCfKTWyFz4O5-BJlV-PTqzb57pXtfhujWjVOyYgMYpQKMH0RmbOXYhpjGfU2ss2hWPsIrNXiEPlxGq5KbxGSc9g/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiE6yuT15D5inEyy2HxagtrCybluaxsQzuz8dpJ9lMlK2x0KyCfKTWyFz4O5-BJlV-PTqzb57pXtfhujWjVOyYgMYpQKMH0RmbOXYhpjGfU2ss2hWPsIrNXiEPlxGq5KbxGSc9g/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1997</font></div><div><font face="arial">Labels: Nettwerk, Arista</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Building A Mystery," "Angel," "Adia," "Sweet Surrender," "Full of Grace"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">This has been one of my go-to albums when I just want to be bathed in beautiful, sweet melodies, a sort of, yes, "sweet surrender." "Building A Mystery" was the song that got me to purchase the album on the strength of Sarah McLachlan's luscious vocals and that killer starting line: <i>"You come out at night / That's when the energy comes / And the dark side's light / And the vampires roam."</i> Afterward, I fell in love with "Adia" and especially "Angel," which I and my girl friends in college sang to incessantly for months. The album is full of soul.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>19. <i>TALK ON CORNERS </i>(THE CORRS)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzPtyqo7LSwUySfiBP5z3CYKwpQyriiiVRPw3Ov1PtOeayTnelgHmLGsf0CfrvFLy3In3I-kTA8UhZoeBEK6mm9g0ainUgf4A1qEeP0sRQ8gC1GF-RovMipFGA1sLoOMZgz5AZg/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzPtyqo7LSwUySfiBP5z3CYKwpQyriiiVRPw3Ov1PtOeayTnelgHmLGsf0CfrvFLy3In3I-kTA8UhZoeBEK6mm9g0ainUgf4A1qEeP0sRQ8gC1GF-RovMipFGA1sLoOMZgz5AZg/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1997</font></div><div><font face="arial">Labels: 143, Lava, Atlantic Records</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Only When I Sleep," "So Young," "What Can I Do," "I Never Loved You Anyway," "Paddy McCarthy"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">With a string of hit singles, starting with the ballad "Only When I Sleep," <i>Talk On Corners</i> is certainly one of the late 90s best pop albums. Aside from ultra-catchy melodies, each song showcases lead vocalist Andrea Corr's sweet vocals, most evident in "So Young" and "What Can I Do" but so effective even when she sings kitschy lyrics like those of the bitter anthem "I Never Loved You Anyway." And if you're looking for the traditional Irish flavor and Sharon Corr's beautiful violin that are sadly mostly missing from later albums, it's in full force here, particularly in the instrumental "Paddy McCarthy." This album will always have a special place in my heart for another reason: I watched The Corrs live in concert during their promotional tour for this album in the Philippines, and I got the siblings' signatures on the cover. It's one of my most prized possessions.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>18. <i>WHEN THE PAWN... </i>(FIONA APPLE)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoI4AyMtSTxHd2cwUm9j1JgTS8EmBACBePSrEd2tH7oFKnWsZK0DRo6WKzWxIhu0QUSm1ByPNLOowlsKhnJ_fEG5ye4AXBBiM4Tx2d_IQhIAvL1Mw-DwAuA1l2EtQmxCedQSMAWw/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoI4AyMtSTxHd2cwUm9j1JgTS8EmBACBePSrEd2tH7oFKnWsZK0DRo6WKzWxIhu0QUSm1ByPNLOowlsKhnJ_fEG5ye4AXBBiM4Tx2d_IQhIAvL1Mw-DwAuA1l2EtQmxCedQSMAWw/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1999</font></div><div><font face="arial">Label: Clean Slate/Epic</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Paper Bag," "Limp," "Fast As You Can," "A Mistake," "To Your Love"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">As you likely know, the actual title is 90 words long. For the uninitiated, or even for those whose only exposure to Fiona Apple before this has been her "This world is bullshit!" speech at the VMAs, she might come across as immature and pretentious. Apple is anything but. She wrote the songs of her astonishing debut album <i>Tidal</i> when she was a teenager, and <i>When the Pawn...</i> just takes her further into introspection. There's a lot of frenetic, angsty energy to the songs here, especially "Limp" and "Fast As You Can," which makes the relatively serene "Paper Bag" even more of a standout. </font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>17. <i>HORSES </i>(PATTI SMITH)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6o0DFeBk3PW9DQynasUPMYiaYmYhoidiN0-LRkHFF22_ruKe9Tf8Dzw-QLFacwWAdmpD_uhGjALU7E4okRCrl51XQAncWDDNLMTxnerUUvFnKXt_imDAvnARtkkyLij_HtOkDdA/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6o0DFeBk3PW9DQynasUPMYiaYmYhoidiN0-LRkHFF22_ruKe9Tf8Dzw-QLFacwWAdmpD_uhGjALU7E4okRCrl51XQAncWDDNLMTxnerUUvFnKXt_imDAvnARtkkyLij_HtOkDdA/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1975</font></div><div><font face="arial">Label: Arista</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Gloria," "Break It Up," "Birdland," "Redondo Beach," "Free Money"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">The first time I listened to this album, I was blown away by its utterly powerful rawness. It's a genius punk rock album, the type that you can flail around to in your room in a semblance of a trip-induced dance. Patti Smith's voice is hardcore and unsentimental but takes you through a wonderful journey into the brilliant mind of a poet celebrating freedom. To listen to this album at full volume is to unfetter yourself, so do yourself that favor as quickly and as often as possible.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>16. <i>HOMOGENIC </i>(BJÖRK)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxeGox9L1s88yUHJt42fxn7kwWmO6AuiI79Z7K3z1UKZwAzId_lmN3kVYXt2HTUUJDdbEpxfACVXBNNpBzqVGGykIsAYyYoGc02V6VvgGccl3BOZkVB2knR0I0_-o4AWBHwkFRQw/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxeGox9L1s88yUHJt42fxn7kwWmO6AuiI79Z7K3z1UKZwAzId_lmN3kVYXt2HTUUJDdbEpxfACVXBNNpBzqVGGykIsAYyYoGc02V6VvgGccl3BOZkVB2knR0I0_-o4AWBHwkFRQw/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1997</font></div><div><font face="arial">Labels: One Little Indian, Elektra</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Jóga," "Hunter," "Alarm Call," "Bachelorette," "All Is Full of Love"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Between her more dance-pop <i>Post </i>and her more experimental later albums, Björk's <i>Homogenic</i> is a safe transition. And by safe, I mean utterly beautiful to anyone with an ear for good music. </font><span style="font-family: arial;">"Jóga" and "Hunter" are probably two of </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Björk's most gorgeous songs ever, and "Alarm Call" is an upbeat track that wouldn't have been out of place in <i>Post</i>. I believe that her vocals are at the peak of their prowess here.</span></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>15. <i>THE MEMORY OF TREES </i>(ENYA)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9ma1dnmtPt35g_cykArTQQNvfhYK03xYl30OzXN6z4K8yQBK4P2rymjCbuIbiTGUnSoBUDL5acqBUdJJDOr1tlIEIfDA6RtlGjllQ6b3j1eVstpoPyeNfflsmFZ2y6eTOTJODw/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9ma1dnmtPt35g_cykArTQQNvfhYK03xYl30OzXN6z4K8yQBK4P2rymjCbuIbiTGUnSoBUDL5acqBUdJJDOr1tlIEIfDA6RtlGjllQ6b3j1eVstpoPyeNfflsmFZ2y6eTOTJODw/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1995</font></div><div><font face="arial">Label: WEA</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Anywhere Is," "On My Way Home," "The Memory of Trees," "Pax Deorum," "Hope Has a Place"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">This is probably one of my most listened-to albums of all time. There was a time when I would play it everyday, especially when I'd feel stressed. That's the magic of Enya's music, whether or not you'd like to call it "New Age" (which she doesn't). All the songs are transcendent, with "Anywhere Is" and "On My Way Home" being true standouts. But the album is opened by the wonderful "The Memory of Trees," which you can totally imagine hearing in a dimly sunlit forest in a fantasy realm. Heart-achingly beautiful.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>14. <i>THE KICK INSIDE </i>(KATE BUSH)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJmU7mYQHLE7fXKh_ZkMEFfXfWBwKOBNmMOzva7C0uRwL9vESEDIeGeDNghl7h8D_UEzetUDaZBWP4WmA71FAmgQFPT_fTIl_Gbw1YMYYlLI_9b7aMQttAdTrYflrC_EvGLEnwg/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJmU7mYQHLE7fXKh_ZkMEFfXfWBwKOBNmMOzva7C0uRwL9vESEDIeGeDNghl7h8D_UEzetUDaZBWP4WmA71FAmgQFPT_fTIl_Gbw1YMYYlLI_9b7aMQttAdTrYflrC_EvGLEnwg/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1978</font></div><div><font face="arial">Labels: EMI, Harvest</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Wuthering Heights," "The Man with the Child in His Eyes," "Strange Phenomena," "Them Heavy People," "Oh to Be in Love"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><i>Hounds of Love</i> is easily Kate Bush's most celebrated album and is probably her biggest technical achievement, but come on, this is the album with "Wuthering Heights" and what other song can showcase her kooky, shrill brilliance just as well? And then when you get past how deliciously weird that song is, you get to a stunningly lovely and deep track like "The Man with the Child in His Eyes." Then you're back to crazy Kate with "Them Heavy People" and "Oh to Be in Love." The music videos of these songs are a must-watch for the full, immersive Kate Bush experience, but if you just want to be impressed by some of the most unique melodies and the most singular voice in pop-rock, the album's enough.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>13. <i>TAPESTRY </i>(CAROLE KING)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkk-IekCLe5S5yb6h2FBRlFvwTvy7uzWCDxCqat8Hm9vJIoaIFXVnG7hXC41ktIfE4vk1_pb47sfIMPUOWonbkm0jky-ysHiafZttoW-Ic8u8pieem7rJ9Pghg55093oQJXi52Uw/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkk-IekCLe5S5yb6h2FBRlFvwTvy7uzWCDxCqat8Hm9vJIoaIFXVnG7hXC41ktIfE4vk1_pb47sfIMPUOWonbkm0jky-ysHiafZttoW-Ic8u8pieem7rJ9Pghg55093oQJXi52Uw/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1971</font></div><div><font face="arial">Labels: Ode, A&M</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "I Feel the Earth Move," "It's Too Late," "So Far Away," "Where You Lead," "You've Got a Friend," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Oh, <i>Tapestry</i>! Among the albums in my list, this is probably the most universally loved, and deservedly so. Carole King has written many fantastic songs for other artists, but in <i>Tapestry</i> it's all hers. On any day, you can just start this playing and your day will be so much better. It's hard not to sing to and smile to each and every one of these aural gems. All of them are so warm and familiar, like an old dear friend that you love talking to.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>12. <i>THIS FIRE </i>(PAULA COLE)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNvmEAkbJqdIQNHGljkxSQt42fg4Vd7UIOe-3iyG_F40zjNcdiEavDul22A95j0v5TkN9DCpCuA-dc2935YZHB0s9a_B6Fb9ilYztsJ0mfCNPCepOwXSLBgp5kXW1ryt6FLNIfkA/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNvmEAkbJqdIQNHGljkxSQt42fg4Vd7UIOe-3iyG_F40zjNcdiEavDul22A95j0v5TkN9DCpCuA-dc2935YZHB0s9a_B6Fb9ilYztsJ0mfCNPCepOwXSLBgp5kXW1ryt6FLNIfkA/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1996</font></div><div><font face="arial">Labels: Imago, Warner Bros.</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?," "I Don't Want to Wait," "Me," "Feelin' Love," "Mississippi"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">I remember buying this album and reading on the album sleeve that Paula Cole recommends it be listened to at full volume. I couldn't quite crank it up to full in my house, but the loudness does help convey the richness of emotion that's in full display in this fiery uncompromising album. Whatever spirits possessed Cole when she wrote and recorded these songs should be worshipped, because it's raw and wild. The quieter, gentler moments, like with the lovely "Me" and the sultry "Feelin' Love" are just as powerful. Each song here can be an anthem. It's sad that Cole never manages to match the brilliance of this album with any of her later works, but at least we have this gem to treasure for life.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>11. <i>FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL </i>(TORI AMOS)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxAwORwP0bE73ClGel6PjLDa5eLBpOgN2prq62INzefpXlIZY6v30d-ulkCRRxUc0H-9aFuzMprg8uggf6vtmL7tlOTsWm2FNbP6t_AafitRYLl5p6cBUvXQX8QgYN86qj9pYGQ/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxAwORwP0bE73ClGel6PjLDa5eLBpOgN2prq62INzefpXlIZY6v30d-ulkCRRxUc0H-9aFuzMprg8uggf6vtmL7tlOTsWm2FNbP6t_AafitRYLl5p6cBUvXQX8QgYN86qj9pYGQ/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1998</font></div><div><font face="arial">Label: Atlantic</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Spark," "Jackie's Strength," "Raspberry Swirl," "i i e e e," "Playboy Mommy"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">This is the Tori Amos album that immediately follows <i>Boys For Pele</i>, which appears later in this list, so my expectations were very high. It's not quite as demented or unnerving as <i>Pele</i>, but it makes a very worthy follow-up in terms of the dark, deep emotions that Amos continues to explore with such abandon. Though I miss the prominence of the harpsichord in <i>Pele</i>, Amos's piano is still the star here, unlike in some of her newer albums. I think the best word to describe this album and many of its tracks is <i>haunting</i>, from the sad nostalgia of "Jackie's Strength" to the repentant defiance of "Playboy Mommy," and lines like <i>"She's convinced she could hold back a glacier / But she couldn't keep baby alive"</i> ("Spark"). But lest you forget that Amos can have fun like the rest of them, there's the wildly danceable raunchy, feminist "Raspberry Swirl," for which she rightly got a Grammy nomination in the Female Rock Vocal Performance category.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>10. <i>SPIRIT </i>(JEWEL)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6iF8YsYxK5tXawqFs_sZz0BQ6nO3L_bDp1317gvluVRlWzOCbUn8bGjJwlOcMcoFG9EQqzkPuGclTT7-dUvlrq6wyf9afNqQ4gvVGkd4uqVX2xYT-g_KlueBA4eYActhDQ6qng/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6iF8YsYxK5tXawqFs_sZz0BQ6nO3L_bDp1317gvluVRlWzOCbUn8bGjJwlOcMcoFG9EQqzkPuGclTT7-dUvlrq6wyf9afNqQ4gvVGkd4uqVX2xYT-g_KlueBA4eYActhDQ6qng/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1998</font></div><div><font face="arial">Label: Atlantic</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Hands," "Down So Long," "Kiss the Flame," "Jupiter," "Life Uncommon"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">After our "Angel" and Sarah McLachlan phase, my girl friends and I had a long-lasting relationship with the criminally underrated <i>Spirit</i> that lasts until now; in bouts of nostalgia, we still talk about the elegant, fragile beauty of the songs and the earnest vocals of someone who had never sounded better or written more poetic, artistic songs. I bought this album and Jewel's book of poems at around the same time, and both of them show the soul that she has an artist. This album is simply phenomenal. There is not a single mediocre or forgettable song in the bunch. And "Hands" is one of the most hopeful songs ever, one that everyone should be listening to more often nowadays. <i>"Cause where there's a man who has no voice / There ours shall go singing."</i></font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>9. <i>SPICE </i>(SPICE GIRLS)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioIw6nzdynpCHFlC99hyenF2UueC4mbkDjROgNKdEgn88zDD7HWMyamkWmOWxtm6el4DKzAeYIWOaUcyOlEUf0ScPQjnqxptuIprSs-8H1807vmIaZpDYM2_N0gRw24UZ4H-WdEA/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioIw6nzdynpCHFlC99hyenF2UueC4mbkDjROgNKdEgn88zDD7HWMyamkWmOWxtm6el4DKzAeYIWOaUcyOlEUf0ScPQjnqxptuIprSs-8H1807vmIaZpDYM2_N0gRw24UZ4H-WdEA/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1996</font></div><div><font face="arial">Label: Virgin</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Wannabe," "2 Become 1," "Who Do You Think You Are," "Say You'll Be There," "Mama"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">This is the one that started it all. Girl Power. The Spice Girls phenomenon. It was so easy to scoff at them and their first single, "Wannabe," as I did the first time I saw the music video. But then getting over that kneejerk reaction and just allowing yourself to surrender to the exuberant joy of it all is the most rewarding experience. This album can take you out of the dumps. And what a lot of people don't appreciate as much is how good the Spice Girls are at harmonizing. Sure, individually, each girl might not have the best vocals, but together, they're unstoppable. Five hit singles in one album, and the rest aren't slouches either. One of the most fantastic debut albums by any musical act ever.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>8. <i>JAGGED LITTLE PILL </i>(ALANIS MORISSETTE)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA7RdWTXYfxEAXqvUv8yVuTSXA0bzMZPobuImDShpTti92djZygDZf9yii2QSSxlfiQakMXmARLv-U_LGKajCv0BDodoNFjhh7EJ-RyxRmzl-9p_Ez2BInUPJYg3Dk5vUEQoffRw/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA7RdWTXYfxEAXqvUv8yVuTSXA0bzMZPobuImDShpTti92djZygDZf9yii2QSSxlfiQakMXmARLv-U_LGKajCv0BDodoNFjhh7EJ-RyxRmzl-9p_Ez2BInUPJYg3Dk5vUEQoffRw/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1995</font></div><div><font face="arial">Labels: Maverick, Reprise</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Ironic," "Hand in My Pocket," "You Oughta Know," "All I Really Want," "Head Over Feet"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Speaking of fantastic debut albums, <i>Jagged Little Pill</i> shook the world. Really, Alanis Morissette shook the world and started a new female revolution in pop-rock. Sure, her first single was the very angry "You Oughta Know," which could have thrown some people off, but then it was followed by "Ironic," "Head Over Feet," and "Hand in My Pocket," which were much less edgy but no less empowering. <i>Jagged Little Pill</i> is an album of pure feminine wonder and power. Two other reasons why this album will always be absolutely special to me: 1) along with another album that will appear later in this list, it's the first one I ever bought; and 2) the first live concert that I ever watched was Alanis's Philippine stop for her tour.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>7. <i>TIDAL </i>(FIONA APPLE)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTL3F_-ILBDOR6YWc8RZr2GIorl4aHinhhr71-o1lkMlTSB8Oy2ED3SJ_tKfCGIot6BV0DS5nco4Itzfo42TRIXALYvLeMNvXLndoCFG3gHclMu3OtImuBnW58NR-djVkRdabJbA/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTL3F_-ILBDOR6YWc8RZr2GIorl4aHinhhr71-o1lkMlTSB8Oy2ED3SJ_tKfCGIot6BV0DS5nco4Itzfo42TRIXALYvLeMNvXLndoCFG3gHclMu3OtImuBnW58NR-djVkRdabJbA/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1996</font></div><div><font face="arial">Labels: Clean Slate, Work </font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Criminal," "Sleep To Dream," "Shadowboxer," "Never Is a Promise," "Sullen Girl"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">Stop to think about this for a moment: Fiona Apple wrote most of the songs in this astonishing album when she was 16. Lines like <i>"You say love is a hell you cannot bear / And I say give me mine back and then go there for all I care"</i> ("Sleep to Dream") or that whole stanza in "Sullen Girl" about her rape...all at 16. Apple would become more and more creative and intelligent in both her lyrics and melodies with every long-gestating album, culminating in the 2020 masterpiece <i>Fetch the Bolt Cutters</i> (which will DEFINITELY be somewhere in an updated version of this list in the future), but in many ways, there's still no topping the sheer unapologetic, raw, gutsy brilliance of <i>Tidal</i>.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>6. <i>LITTLE EARTHQUAKES </i>(TORI AMOS)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjbjsEDApELyJKUEdsVIbCO_x1JiHnSxqwUBYTOONJxoF6Qw6bqN6SXaE91jqndV1n4l0ZAfConrJsteBs8hbWGMgCYrdLY2tmvYjMsK11hc2ZIa8kbgpEueeWdiILdOBJMKFWKQ/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjbjsEDApELyJKUEdsVIbCO_x1JiHnSxqwUBYTOONJxoF6Qw6bqN6SXaE91jqndV1n4l0ZAfConrJsteBs8hbWGMgCYrdLY2tmvYjMsK11hc2ZIa8kbgpEueeWdiILdOBJMKFWKQ/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1992</font></div><div><font face="arial">Label: Atlantic</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Silent All These Years," "Crucify," "Winter," "Me and a Gun," "Precious Things"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">I love the kitschy pop of <i>Y Kant Tori Read</i>, Tori Amos's first failed attempt at a musical career, but boy am I (and millions of others) glad that she found her true voice and started anew with <i>Little Earthquakes</i>. This is easily one of the most personal, precious, and intelligent albums in this list or in any other that's wise enough to include it. A personal favorite of mine is the solemn "Winter" (<i>"When you gonna make up your mind / When you gonna love you as much as I do"</i>), but who hasn't fallen in love with "Silent All These Years" (which I'd die happy after learning how to play on the piano) and "Crucify?" Of course, the other defining song of this album is "Me and a Gun," which is a painfully beautiful account of Tori's rape, played to no instrument except her own forlorn voice, which has never been and probably never will be used to such a level of power.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>5. <i>DAYDREAM </i>(MARIAH CAREY)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4BEn_UTKqtbnycbLQYfMUwZ1NfVWG6lTQFwFZduR2aBAGMM-D_ED6uBe12XJwHirNPJuNNawqmlGkCkPgtTs6HfbAgW5ZSWFZXMdGQKHCiMGHkD_tXvnFqf-oZ9UZKIvxHZvIw/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4BEn_UTKqtbnycbLQYfMUwZ1NfVWG6lTQFwFZduR2aBAGMM-D_ED6uBe12XJwHirNPJuNNawqmlGkCkPgtTs6HfbAgW5ZSWFZXMdGQKHCiMGHkD_tXvnFqf-oZ9UZKIvxHZvIw/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1995</font></div><div><font face="arial">Label: Columbia</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Always Be My Baby," "Fantasy," "Underneath the Stars," "One Sweet Day," "Looking In"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">When I started realizing my taste in music, I made my first ever album purchases: <i>Jagged Little Pill</i> and Mariah Carey's <i>Daydream</i>, on the strength of the regular radio airing of "Fantasy" and "Always Be My Baby," which are absolute earworms and much beloved to this day. I don't think Mariah has ever been as awesome as she is in this album. The level of vocal control that she has in songs like "Looking In" and "When I Saw You" is astounding. Ultimately, it's a damn near perfect pop album, certainly one of the best of all time.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>4. <i>RAY OF LIGHT </i>(MADONNA)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTSPVTi4UBCDZCrquyS-VsFys332_IiG5kARuvkluxy24Y-XdYEmHmvDA0tKjgv3vxPwsHtDDSlTwmOmwQF7x_-H719UIjDpKoUm7AtMg3f-9RhyssRLKa4Ss8uQomIgyuxz6sA/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTSPVTi4UBCDZCrquyS-VsFys332_IiG5kARuvkluxy24Y-XdYEmHmvDA0tKjgv3vxPwsHtDDSlTwmOmwQF7x_-H719UIjDpKoUm7AtMg3f-9RhyssRLKa4Ss8uQomIgyuxz6sA/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1998</font></div><div><font face="arial">Labels: Maverick, Warner Bros.</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Frozen," "Ray of Light," "Nothing Really Matters," "The Power of Good-Bye," "Mer Girl"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">We all know how good Madonna is at transformation. <i>Ray of Light</i> is probably Madonna at her most transformational, most otherworldly, most introspective, and most intelligent. There's no one way to describe the sound of the album because it's aurally so diverse, with Middle Eastern influences enriching the dance, electronica, and trip hop. And permeating through it all is the spiritualism that comes from Madonna's immersion into Kabbalah, Hinduism, and Buddhism. All of these make for what I would say is one of the most excitingly creative and mesmerizing artworks in pop music. Aside from the amazing singles, watch for "Mer Girl," an absolutely haunting gem about mortality where Madonna sings: <i>""And I smelled her burning flesh / Her rotting bones, her decay / I ran and I ran / I'm still running away."</i></font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>3. <i>COMET'S TAIL </i>(CYNTHIA ALEXANDER)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6V9X1GTh_qVKMLFzgmdfd4PV175dgGTI4YdwavOeszD2N-eIcK5AEYf_2Y1GiafRnJGDHtchyoj4aA5YzmiTOAVFI4zFPSS9qnRryaKb28TmWzHK9B7I5Gc3IkGgKvzQgUHf7Rw/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6V9X1GTh_qVKMLFzgmdfd4PV175dgGTI4YdwavOeszD2N-eIcK5AEYf_2Y1GiafRnJGDHtchyoj4aA5YzmiTOAVFI4zFPSS9qnRryaKb28TmWzHK9B7I5Gc3IkGgKvzQgUHf7Rw/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 2005</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "108 Eyes," "Turquoise Blue," "Alone," "Thioviolight," "Heya!"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">All of her other albums already having appeared in this list, I've already said a lot about the artistry of Cynthia Alexander. I'll just rely on superlatives for this one, then. Richly textured and layered, sonically colorful and lush, this is a master at the top of her game. Each and every song is a captivating work of art. For me, it's the best album by the country's best songwriter. I've been so fortunate to have seen her and her band perform several of these songs live, and it always fills me with life. I wish the rest of the world knew how amazing she is.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>2. <i>BLUE </i>(JONI MITCHELL)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB92FJqysbi3MUSCn47HKx7mYBfLDV5MNacQJio_VYn3WEymrU0hOH4GFb4tMnFWJfCDftLfF98a3blSjquXilpGZoBdR4_V79y0gACGEZTxOd0WmvF4UeiDfNgebWbG7cKck-5g/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB92FJqysbi3MUSCn47HKx7mYBfLDV5MNacQJio_VYn3WEymrU0hOH4GFb4tMnFWJfCDftLfF98a3blSjquXilpGZoBdR4_V79y0gACGEZTxOd0WmvF4UeiDfNgebWbG7cKck-5g/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1971</font></div><div><font face="arial">Label: Reprise</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "A Case of You," "Blue," "California," "River," "My Old Man"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">In many lists of best albums by women, this is at #1. Even in lists of best albums by <i>anyone</i>, you can count on this to be somewhere in the top 10 usually. For many good reasons, first and foremost among them being the woman herself, Joni Mitchell, who is peerless as a songwriter and has one of the most recognizable voices in the industry. "A Case of You" and "Blue" could easily be among the most beautiful songs ever written, which would be enough to make this album a prized possession, but then you also have "California," "River," and less celebrated gems like "My Old Man" and "Carey." If you haven't given Joni Mitchell a chance and would like to know why so many artists have been influenced and inspired by her, <i>Blue</i> is a perfect gateway into her craft.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><b>1. <i>BOYS FOR PELE </i>(TORI AMOS)</b></font></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJG6g7bWR-pCARNIa3Tt_ug-mCcC0GtXn5O-nyVZQySahqWhOZH3mzabdeJGdWpd-GyMtqxajUvuGiFu1OmgE6rInZ1Fz1HHsco6R_621sl1Vu4_RmVI4MRPQtDS9WqEnPc1bPPQ/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJG6g7bWR-pCARNIa3Tt_ug-mCcC0GtXn5O-nyVZQySahqWhOZH3mzabdeJGdWpd-GyMtqxajUvuGiFu1OmgE6rInZ1Fz1HHsco6R_621sl1Vu4_RmVI4MRPQtDS9WqEnPc1bPPQ/" /></a></div><div><font face="arial">Year of Release: 1996</font></div><div><font face="arial">Label: Atlantic</font></div><div><font face="arial">Key Tracks: "Caught a Light Sneeze," "Hey Jupiter," "Talula," "Blood Roses," "Mr. Zebra," "Professional Widow"</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial">My first two album purchases, <i>Jagged Little Pill</i> and <i>Daydream</i>, started me off on my love for female pop-rock music, and I probably wouldn't have detoured to less conventional, less mainstream material had my brother not given me a cassette of <i>Boys For Pele</i> for my birthday. It was absolute love at first listen. My other interests, particularly in literature, anime, and cinema, have always leaned toward the more weird, so it shouldn't have been surprising. Tori's sound (her piano, her harpsichord (!), her wailing) and her thought-provoking lyrics assaulted and shook me, and I knew then that my concept of good music was forever changed. "Caught a Light Sneeze" and "Hey Jupiter" are probably the most accessible tracks--though the lyrics are just as mind-boggling as the rest of them--but the harpsichord-heavy "Blood Roses" and the cute (as cute as a Tori song can be) "Mr. Zebra" are other songs worth highlighting to show Tori's eccentric artistry. Then of course there's the bombastic "Professional Widow," remixes of which gave her a rare hit in the dance charts. I think it's a somewhat divisive album even among fans, especially those who prefer the gentler Tori that has emerged from a happy family life post-<i>Choirgirl</i>, but for me, after all these years, it's still the best album not only by Tori Amos but by any woman.</font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial"><i><a href="http://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/04/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-21.html">Numbers 21-40</a></i></font></div><div><font face="arial"><i><a href="http://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-41.html">Numbers 41-60</a></i></font></div><div><font face="arial"><i><a href="https://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-61.html">Numbers 61-80</a></i></font></div><div><font face="arial"><i><a href="https://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-81.html">Numbers 81-100</a></i></font></div><div><font face="arial"><br /></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="1">Image Sources:</font></div><div><font face="arial" size="1"><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4947496</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=656189</div><div>Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2434772</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=315316</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60293618</div><div>Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6513875</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44600512</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1213179</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5483016</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13079304</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1161805</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54775952</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=196980</div><div>By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44600797</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1962453</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63869648</div><div>By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43344417</div><div>https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71FLdtiwKWL._SS500_.jpg</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1267345</div><div>By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1962505</div></font></div>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-62071145477308424022020-04-08T18:57:00.003-07:002020-05-09T23:21:11.726-07:00My List of the 100 Best Albums by Women (21-40)<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>40. <i>BELLA DONNA </i>(STEVIE NICKS)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3_QRH7aI0bliIGs3BriJEf9GTKzfL78jFQWPwMisEHQKPcvyGpeU3AtVVbWBefyuLDkuVw9yGgO8d6K9ReAxTsF12QSOtZ-Rta4YiBR9Oq4pn3uAhSXhzR6F9jRHO0GOl2a7FBg/s1600/Bella+Donna.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3_QRH7aI0bliIGs3BriJEf9GTKzfL78jFQWPwMisEHQKPcvyGpeU3AtVVbWBefyuLDkuVw9yGgO8d6K9ReAxTsF12QSOtZ-Rta4YiBR9Oq4pn3uAhSXhzR6F9jRHO0GOl2a7FBg/s1600/Bella+Donna.png" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1981</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Modern, ATCO</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Edge of Seventeen," "Bella Donna," "Leather and Lace," "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Even as vocalist of the iconic Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks was a true rock diva. She cements her status as one of the all-time greats with her debut album as a solo artist, <i>Bella Donna</i>, which is worth the purchase even just for the fabulous "Edge of Seventeen." The rest of the album shows her to be as fierce a songwriter as she is a vocalist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>39. <i>FUAIM </i>(CLANNAD)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1982</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Tara Music</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "An Túll," "Na Buachaillí Álainn," "Bruach Na Carriage Báine"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Irish band Clannad has 16 albums, all of which showcase their beautiful Celtic music, but <i>Fuaim</i> is extra special for fans of this genre because it has Enya joining her sister Moya Brennan and the band as vocalist and keyboardist before embarking on her phenomenally successful solo career. A true highlight in the album is the track </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"An Túll," which of course has Enya on vocals. Moya has a deeper voice and lends her own ethereal beauty to the other songs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>38. <i>IN BLUE </i>(THE CORRS)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Atlantic, 143</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Breathless," "Give Me a Reason," "Irresistible," "Somebody for Someone," "All the Love in the World," "Rebel Heart"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Fans of The Corrs in Europe and Asia already knew how great they were with their earlier albums. The rest of the world caught up with the crazily infectious and uplifting "Breathless," which deservedly snagged the band a Grammy nomination. Blending traditional Irish music with modern pop has always been the greatest strength of The Corrs, and here they stray further into the pop realm with truly unforgettable modern pop gems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>37. <i>INSOMNIA AND OTHER LULLABYES </i>(CYNTHIA ALEXANDER)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1996</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Comfort in Your Strangeness," "Insomnia," "Malaya," "Hiroshima," "Hello Baby"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Comparisons were immediately drawn between Cynthia Alexander and Joni Mitchell when this, her heavenly debut album, came out in 1996, around the time when women took over music all over the world. I remember hearing "Insomnia" and "Comfort in Your Strangeness" on the radio and wondering who this new foreign artist was. With this powerful debut, which won loads of awards from the local music industry, it was clear that Alexander was a musical icon in the making: a brilliant songwriter and musician that deserves global recognition. "Comfort in Your Strangeness" might be one of the best Filipino songs ever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>36. <i>VESPERTINE</i> (BJÖRK)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2001</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: One Little Indian, Elektra</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Hidden Place," "It's Not Up To You," "Unison," </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Pagan Poetry"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Like her or not, I think it's difficult for anyone to deny that Björk is a singular talent. No one else sounds like her, or writes songs like she does. Her later albums, including <i>Vespertine</i>, are masterfully crafted innovations of sound and concept. This album is sonically beautiful, a tapestry of various styles with a common underlying crystalline sound. It's fragile and haunting. "Hidden Place" is a strong opening track that anticipates the flavor of the rest of the album.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>35. <i>21 </i>(ADELE)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUvMrk6FcoYw-D3s5lNskRqKwMSYAndwe86cEG4gv6K-JBLX5fnrXJpxP_UmTtsG5oyjQWElaUDG7PY1bSxxjrNnE0dVQH7mdF40uuN7sujMl1Drm-7arJmNl-cQWZgnrQFm6zDA/s1600/21.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUvMrk6FcoYw-D3s5lNskRqKwMSYAndwe86cEG4gv6K-JBLX5fnrXJpxP_UmTtsG5oyjQWElaUDG7PY1bSxxjrNnE0dVQH7mdF40uuN7sujMl1Drm-7arJmNl-cQWZgnrQFm6zDA/s1600/21.png" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: XL, Columbia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Rolling in the Deep," "Turning Tables," "Rumour Has It," "Set Fire to the Rain"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This multi-award-winning album, Adele's second, is easily the best in a great discography. Her powerful voice is best showcased in "Rolling in the Deep" and "Turning Tables," with "Rumour Has It" lending the album a playful break among the songs about heartbreak. It's a vocal masterclass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>34. <i>YS </i>(JOANNA NEWSOM)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipkKwjjTcbJb9L-UmZqZjPbfFRtCkn4L8_YKGav4amof7zFNk1wHhz5gXaroIQR5q9StsFZDL8rRqT9E-qqXVN6CZ4Db5TFMnVzjlWNt7BpfmsBptKgxWYpgvfEwcsokU9k6p4Ag/s1600/Ys.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipkKwjjTcbJb9L-UmZqZjPbfFRtCkn4L8_YKGav4amof7zFNk1wHhz5gXaroIQR5q9StsFZDL8rRqT9E-qqXVN6CZ4Db5TFMnVzjlWNt7BpfmsBptKgxWYpgvfEwcsokU9k6p4Ag/s1600/Ys.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2006</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Drag City</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Track: "Monkey and Bear"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first heard this album a few months ago, I went: "Where have you been all my life?!" Joanna Newsom's <i>Ys</i> is just the kind of odd, folksy, somewhat mystical album that I usually love, and her fragile voice and harp-playing take you on a journey through her stories. The album consists of only five tracks, ranging from 7 minutes to a whopping 16:53 minutes. All are precious gems, but "Monkey and Bear" is phenomenal in its imagery and musicality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>33. <i>RIPPINGYARNS </i>(CYNTHIA ALEXANDER)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHB3j1nr-1brfQYVC79MVyy_ndvbSWB8pQPxt6tfrK-HjHKMN5An-91rVO-FiKGDfaWc3lTzVXF3vaJJ0APcANFnqSww2Dc4NlpZRzpm17FWcpJq-KbleM0OBZZoACvCeUlkE35g/s1600/Rippingyarns.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHB3j1nr-1brfQYVC79MVyy_ndvbSWB8pQPxt6tfrK-HjHKMN5An-91rVO-FiKGDfaWc3lTzVXF3vaJJ0APcANFnqSww2Dc4NlpZRzpm17FWcpJq-KbleM0OBZZoACvCeUlkE35g/s1600/Rippingyarns.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Frost and Glass," "Walk Down the Road," "Knowing There is Only Now," "I Don't Mind," "The Weather Report"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As with any Cynthia Alexander album, every song is a precious work of art. Casual fans would know this one most for "The Weather Report," "Motorbykle," and "U and I," but those who've watched her live performances have a special place in their heart for "Frost and Glass" and "Walk Down the Road." Truly mesmerizing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>32. <i>POST </i>(</b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">BJÖRK)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1995</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: One Little Indian, Elektra</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Hyperballad," "Army of Me," "It's Oh So Quiet," "Isobel," "I Miss You"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">My first ever </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Björk album, which I bought because of "It's Oh So Quiet" and it's kooky video! I had no idea what kind of a musical treat I was in for until I listened to the whole album. Of course, it's her elfin voice that gets you first. There's a certain rawness and roughness to this project that's virtually absent from her future works, but the righteous anger of "Army of Me," the lonely solitude of "Hyperballad," and the crazy obsession of "I Miss You" are major reasons why many consider this one of her all-time bests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>31. <i>LADIES OF THE CANYON </i>(JONI MITCHELL)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiTdt6pp59m08rrimNGeQaQCPtEtzrmXVfTlGe-gdNwRzgWiqOaGx1uRQUuDH_IBIAxP_hOwYvA7oeTuPz4hwGDfn3emt_pIVpln8zngGpDz08lucG7Wa8N0QC3XlV8JZhznMEQ/s1600/Ladies+of+the+Canyon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiTdt6pp59m08rrimNGeQaQCPtEtzrmXVfTlGe-gdNwRzgWiqOaGx1uRQUuDH_IBIAxP_hOwYvA7oeTuPz4hwGDfn3emt_pIVpln8zngGpDz08lucG7Wa8N0QC3XlV8JZhznMEQ/s1600/Ladies+of+the+Canyon.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1970</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Reprise, Warner Bros.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Woodstock," "Big Yellow Taxi," "The Circle Game"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Woodstock" is one of my all-time favorite songs, so its inclusion here is a good enough reason to include <i>Ladies of the Canyon</i> in my list. But then you also have the ubiquitous and oft-covered environmentally-conscious "Big Yellow Taxi" and the inspiring "The Circle Game" to make one of the legendary Joni Mitchell's most underrated albums.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>30. <i>LITTLE PLASTIC CASTLE </i>(ANI DIFRANCO)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEh2Ka82yPCn62iQ4h05-SxeHRSkII-Yon31pv1OTaP-A_Nxt8W-qTHazTCQ8HZvisXzjoGQpikYRtUaONR2H2zqwJGe6XYKOJXqcecUBjhQs3ELAfPaOPZoGhfyHZMRhXjPBj3w/s1600/Little+Plastic+Castle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEh2Ka82yPCn62iQ4h05-SxeHRSkII-Yon31pv1OTaP-A_Nxt8W-qTHazTCQ8HZvisXzjoGQpikYRtUaONR2H2zqwJGe6XYKOJXqcecUBjhQs3ELAfPaOPZoGhfyHZMRhXjPBj3w/s1600/Little+Plastic+Castle.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1998</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Righteous Babe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Little Plastic Castle," "Fuel," "Gravel," "As Is"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">My introduction to Ani DiFranco was "As Is" being played on local radio. Good as it is, it didn't really prepare me for the genius of this album, the best tracks of which are the first three. "Fuel" is a spoken word gem! DiFranco is one of the most respected independent artists in the US, and <i>Little Plastic Castle</i> is probably the best intro to her music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>29. <i>TAILS </i>(LISA LOEB AND NINE STORIES)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFO7H0Ot4id__tOGOzsrubKq0gpPmgsODtSWAigv3iInEze1VWTXswteNGWCbObYFCgbzgIF57GOgloIHywN1mYhgr3BlUMLZePxIWtoRigwPk7WaF3QzAiVd42_zkAbxlHLwKgw/s1600/Tails.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFO7H0Ot4id__tOGOzsrubKq0gpPmgsODtSWAigv3iInEze1VWTXswteNGWCbObYFCgbzgIF57GOgloIHywN1mYhgr3BlUMLZePxIWtoRigwPk7WaF3QzAiVd42_zkAbxlHLwKgw/s1600/Tails.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1995</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Geffen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Stay (I Missed You)," "Do You Sleep?," "When All the Stars Were Falling," "Taffy"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Who doesn't remember the phenomenally successful song "Stay?" Or its simple but effective music video? Lisa Loeb's is another of those instantly recognizable voices, and she uses hers to great effect here, whether it's in straight up love songs like "When All the Stars Are Falling" and "Waiting for Wednesday" or in a barbed ode to truth manipulation in "Taffy." Come for "Stay," and stay for everything else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>28. <i>THIS IS ACTING </i>(SIA)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4-_8d8I9yUS__fUdo1dPo50Av4rcFGTHsjpE-O-3cEruh-tJvGgCSl7KGPA34Su1CzeDStnQpBZftDOC_U3nvLMzf8qOv36CjmJqTtTMD-22XfIS8y0MtrYTWLHyigOwKuOkQIw/s1600/This+is+Acting.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4-_8d8I9yUS__fUdo1dPo50Av4rcFGTHsjpE-O-3cEruh-tJvGgCSl7KGPA34Su1CzeDStnQpBZftDOC_U3nvLMzf8qOv36CjmJqTtTMD-22XfIS8y0MtrYTWLHyigOwKuOkQIw/s1600/This+is+Acting.png" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Monkey Puzzle, RCA</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Cheap Thrills," </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Alive,"</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Bird Set Free," "Move Your Body," "Unstoppable," "Sweet Design" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So inspiring and liberating! "Bird Set Free," "Unstoppable," and especially "Alive" are anthems of empowerment, and the conviction behind Sia's powerful vocals sends chills down my spine. Sia is recognized in the music industry for her songwriting capabilities, which other big artists have benefited from. Her first album as a solo artist is good stuff, too, but this one, fueled by the thrilling single "Cheap Thrills," is downright excellent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>27. <i>TRACY CHAPMAN </i>(TRACY CHAPMAN)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLT3VA7wfJB65qrnhNAKYcTXDSDei4vRQoINZTGLV_CW2SXr1skuBE50PyLEmJVmciTy3tY546jzREa-Xs2uQRd-ZRuQXAqMblrNTXIIo74dqKWhyhvWWaOssPZ8jj4d5327XYSQ/s1600/Tracy+Chapman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLT3VA7wfJB65qrnhNAKYcTXDSDei4vRQoINZTGLV_CW2SXr1skuBE50PyLEmJVmciTy3tY546jzREa-Xs2uQRd-ZRuQXAqMblrNTXIIo74dqKWhyhvWWaOssPZ8jj4d5327XYSQ/s1600/Tracy+Chapman.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1988</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Elektra</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Fast Car," "Baby Can I Hold You," "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Unlike most others, who fell for Tracy Chapman with "Fast Car," my first experience of her music was with the 1995 record "Give Me One Reason." It's by backtracking through her discography, to her self-titled debut album, that I realized how she's more than just those two songs. The whole album is magnificent, certainly one of the best in the contemporary folk genre. Deservedly, it was nominated for seven Grammys and won three, and also appears in many all-time best lists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>26. <i>AERIAL </i>(KATE BUSH)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2005</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: EMI, Columbia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "King of the Mountain," </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"A Coral Room," </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Sunset," "Nocturn," "Bertie," "Mrs. Bartolozzi," "π" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Two for the price of one, from one of music's most interesting artists! This double album consists of 16 tracks, all thematically strung together by their dream-like quality and bird sounds made by Bush herself. </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It's mellower and maybe less exciting than many of her kookier past works, but tonally it's one of her best and it's quite personal.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Listen to "A Coral Room" for six minutes of just Bush and her piano singing about her mother, or "Bertie" for a song about her son. But there's also </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"π" if you want to hear her singing the number pi up to the 137th decimal place. Amidst the masterful artistry that has made her a true icon, she has not lost that other thing that she is known for: her sense of humor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Brief Note: </b>I had the hardest time ranking the next three albums, all of which are in the Japanese pop genre. Ultimately, I had to go for how much they personally resonated with me.</i></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">25. <i>DEEP RIVER </i>(UTADA HIKARU)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2002</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Toshiba-EMI</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Final Distance," </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Sakura Drops,"</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Traveling," "Deep River," "Letters" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Deep River</i> is easily the most polished in an exciting discography. It contains some of her best ballads, like the sober "Final Distance" and "Sakura Drops," and "Traveling" one of her most infectiously upbeat. Truly, this is Utada at the height of her songwriting and vocal prowess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>24. <i>A SONG FOR xx </i>(HAMASAKI AYUMI)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQWpjxmMdvKcX21ISWNURg9LR6Cd7lENFkQAPPyuwaypxix5L6j5GmjLumLCzX7GQ4FUx0e0fWnZn3Q3rbf2UPm-pLBAGNTUrBF29ZesGNO-vsgitZgdl81Qed-kBggZwj-Z4QQ/s1600/A+Song+for+xx.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQWpjxmMdvKcX21ISWNURg9LR6Cd7lENFkQAPPyuwaypxix5L6j5GmjLumLCzX7GQ4FUx0e0fWnZn3Q3rbf2UPm-pLBAGNTUrBF29ZesGNO-vsgitZgdl81Qed-kBggZwj-Z4QQ/s1600/A+Song+for+xx.png" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1999</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Avex Trax</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "You," "Poker Face," "A Song for xx," "Trust," "Depend on You," "For My Dear..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For quite a while, there were no bigger artists in Japanese pop than Utada Hikaru and Hamasaki Ayumi. Production-wise, </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Deep River</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> may be the greater achievement, and Utada's voice may be more universally palatable, but there's something absolutely charming about Hamasaki's shrill, elfin voice with this heavenly dance-pop confection. It was difficult identifying just a few key tracks because practically all the songs can stand on their own as a single. This is also personally an important album for me because it's the first J-pop CD that I ever purchased.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">23. <i>HOME </i>(ANGELA AKI)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2006</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Sony Music Japan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Home," "This Love," "MUSIC," "Love is Over Now," "Hareruya," "Uchū"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I fell in love with Angela Aki with her song "Home" and its utter, beautiful simplicity. I think it's pretty obvious from the appearance of Tori Amos, Kate Bush, and Alicia Keys in this list that I like a woman and her piano. No one's a match for Aki in that department in Japanese pop. "Home" is actually 12th in the 13-track lineup, but don't skip to that! All of the songs that come before it, as well as the 13th, are absolutely beautiful, especially "Love is Over Now" and "MUSIC." </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Uchū" is a real treat for those who want to hear Aki possessed by the spirit of Tori Amos.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">22. <i>UNDER THE PINK </i>(TORI AMOS)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1994</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Atlantic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Cornflake Girl," "God," "Pretty Good Year," "Past the Mission," "The Waitress"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Tori Amos's follow-up to <i>Little Earthquakes</i> is the excellent <i>Under the Pink</i>, which solidifies her status as an uncompromising artist of true intelligence and fertile femininity. One of Amos's most popular and well-loved songs, "Cornflake Girl," is here alongside the naughty "God," the beautifully subdued "Pretty Good Year," and the angsty "The Waitress," among other jewels. Compared to her other albums, this is one of her most bare and stripped down, just Amos and her piano. Which are really all you'll need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>21. <i>I NEVER LOVED MAN THE WAY I LOVE YOU </i>(ARETHA FRANKLIN)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1967</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Atlantic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Respect," "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)," "Dr. Feelgood," "Good Times," "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Aretha Franklin ain't the Queen of Soul for nothing! Listening to this album will quickly dispel all doubt as to whether or not she deserves the title. "Respect" alone does that, actually, but the other tracks are just as convincing, including her own compositions like "Dr. Feelgood." Franklin is a vocal powerhouse here. Quite simple, she shows us that she's the best at what she does.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-top.html">TOP 20</a><br /></i></span><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-41.html">Numbers 41-60</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-61.html">Numbers 61-80</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-81.html">Numbers 81-100</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2004</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Warner, 12Stone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Same Ground," "Bulong," "Huwag na Huwag Mong Sasabihin"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In the early 2000s, when rock was taking a backseat to other genres, from gigs at the local bar Gweilos emerged the super talented Kitchie Nadal, who has a beautiful voice and commanding, intelligent lyrics, whether in Filipino or in English. She played a role in the return of rock to the local music scene, even as her songs were straying beautifully into pop-rock sensibilities that allowed them to take a foothold on popular radio. She hasn't come up with material anywhere near as strong as this, but this debut should always be a reminder of what she'll always be capable of. Let's hope she makes a strong comeback soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>59. <i>THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL </i>(LAURYN HILL)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1998</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Ruffhouse, Columbia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Doo Wop (That Thing)," "To Zion," "Everything Is Everything," "Forgive Them Father"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Her stint with The Fugees hardly prepared us for the gem that was spitfire Lauryn Hill's debut solo album. The funky tune of "Doo Wop (That Thing)" proved to catchy to resist. When I purchased the album, I quickly realized that what I had in my possession was the work of a musical prodigy, and in a genre that I didn't usually listen to all too much. Sick beats propel the more upbeat songs. Always, the lyrics provoke thought and emotion, especially the very personal "To Zion," a song about the son the people around her discouraged her from having. We should be grateful that despite Lauryn Hill always putting her family first, she was able to give us this musical gem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>58. <i>WHALER </i>(SOPHIE B. HAWKINS)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1994</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Columbia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "As I Lay Me Down," "Don't Don't Tell Me No," "Only Love (The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty)," "Mr. Tugboat Hello"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sophie B. Hawkins exploded into the music scene in 1992 with the explicit "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" off her debut album <i>Tongues and Tails</i>. That her second most famous single is the romantic, almost saccharine "As I Lay Me Down" was somewhat surprising but nevertheless welcome. Propelled into fame by its use in the film <i>Now and Then</i> and the TV series "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," it became a regular on mainstream radio, where I first heard it and fell in love with it. It remains one of my top 10 favorite pop songs to this date. The rest of the album is diverse in style and almost messy, but Hawkins is always earnest and all of the songs are quite enjoyable.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">57. <i>DUMMY </i>(PORTISHEAD)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1994</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Go! Beat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Glory Box," "Sour Times," "Wandering Stars," "Roads"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Glory Box" and "Sour Times" are those songs that are ultra-popular but you won't necessarily recognize them from the titles alone. What you likely won't forget when you hear them is that they're songs by the trip-hop pioneers Portishead. Aside from their music not sounding like most popular music out there, vocalist Beth Gibbons has a ghostly quality to it that's unlike most others'. And in tracks like "Roads" and "Glory Box," she sounds so anguished that you can't help but feel your heart twinge. Trippy would be a good word, but happy certainly wouldn't be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>56. <i>THE ARCHANDROID </i></b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(JANELLE MONÁE)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2010</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Wondaland Arts Society, Atlantic, Bad Boy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Faster," "Come Alive (The War of the Roses)," "Cold War," "BaBopByeYa"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Few debuts are as sure and confident as Janelle Mon</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">áe's <i>The ArchAndroid</i>. She immediately knew what she wanted and how to say it. She'd carry the "cyborg" theme through her three albums not only with the titles and album covers but also with how much of a hybrid her sound is. There's rap, soul, R&B, rocks, dance, techno, jazz, etc. And she doesn't go wrong with any of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>55. <i>SCARLET'S WALK </i>(TORI AMOS)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2002</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Epic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "A Sorta Fairytale," "Amber Waves," "Don't Make Me Come to Vegas," "Gold Dust"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Be warned: this is the first of many Tori Amos albums in this list. It's a very beautiful album, with "A Sorta Fairytale" and "Amber Waves" probably being among the most sublime songs in her discography, but I've always been partial to her more bizarre, unhinged sounds, pre-Tash (her daughter). Having a daughter did not reduce her musicality or her insane talent with the piano and deeply insightful lyrics, just her anger. My preferences aside, this might be the best album to introduce a Tori Amos virgin to, if you think album covers where she suckles a pig would shock him or her. True to the theme of the album, it's a great one to hit the road with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>54. </b><b><i>ISANG BUHAY (ONE LIFE) </i>(GRACE NONO)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1997</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Tao Music</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Anungan," "Ader," "Ay, Leng"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">While <i>Diwa</i> (number 88 on this list) is technically more polished, Grace Nono's ethereal <i>Isang Buhay</i> is on another realm of beauty altogether. Like with Loreena McKennit, Nono's voice and the authentically indigenous lyrics and music take you on a journey, this time to the mountains, hills, grasslands, rivers of rural Philippines, where the mystical still takes hold and the culture is rich and pure. For championing this culture, Nono deserves the label of national artist. For her beautiful music, she deserves to be discovered by music fans all over the world, especially fans of McKennit, Enya, and Kitaro.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>53. <i>JOANNE </i>(LADY GAGA)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Streamline, Interscope</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Perfect Illusion," "Hey Girl," "Million Reasons," "A-Yo"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the energy and beats of Lady Gaga's earlier dance hits, but I truly learned to appreciate her voice and musicality in this album, especially in her sweet pairing with Florence Welch in "Hey Girl"--an ode to sisterly solidarity--and the pounding "A-Yo." Of course, her singles "Perfect Illusion" and "Million Reasons" also stand out. Only haters wouldn't be able to appreciate the astounding talent of Gaga, especially in this very "complete" album.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>52. <i>PEARL </i>(JANIS JOPLIN)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1971</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Columbia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Me and Bobby McGee," "Cry Baby," "Mercedes Benz"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It is with an unavoidable sadness that one listens to Janis Joplin's second and last album. While most would know her for her powerful cover of "Piece of my Heart," <i>Pearl</i> includes sublime interpretations of "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Cry Baby" as well as the enjoyable ditty "Mercedes Benz," which she wrote herself. In these and all the tracks, Joplin's raw, rugged vocals take centerstage. A phenomenal talent gone too soon.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">51. <i>LOVE. ANGEL. MUSIC. BABY. </i>(GWEN STEFANI)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2004</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Interscope</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Hollaback Girl," "What You Waiting For?," "Harajuku Girls," "Rich Girl"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Gwen Stefani's Harajuku-inspired persona was just my gateway to her first album as a solo artist. Ultimately, it was the music that made me a big fan. What's not to love? Stefani breaks out of the confining corners of No Doubt and fully realizes herself as a music and style icon that easily crosses the boundaries of bubble gum pop, pop-rock, hip hop. Just the four tracks I've listed along are reason enough to put the album on repeat for pure fun.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">50. <i>TAMING THE TIGER </i>(JONI MITCHELL)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1998</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Reprise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Lead Balloon," "Love Puts On a New Face," "Man From Mars," "No Apologies"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">With this album, the one and only Joni Mitchell goes full-tilt jazz. And the result is a strong, assured project that is every bit as colorful as the painting on the album cover. It's not career-defining or monumental, but it's always nice to see that a true legend like Mitchell can still turn out tonally and lyrically rich narratives like the ones that fill this album, top of which for me is the angsty, somewhat feminist "Lead Balloon." It's like you're being visited by a tough-as-nails but secretly sweet aunt who has seen much of the world and shares her stories over bourbon. With providence, Mitchell will have many more stories to tell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>49. <i>SOMETHING TO REMEMBER </i>(MADONNA)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1995</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Maverick, Warner Bros.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Love Don't Live Here Anymore," "You'll See," "One More Chance," "I'll Remember"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What a way for Madonna to remind the world of her brilliance as a musician! This "compilation" album (that nevertheless has three completely new songs, two previously unreleased tracks, and a completely reworked one) is, simply put, a gorgeous reminder that Madonna puts out some of the all-time best pop songs. Were haters capable of changing their minds and hearts, they'd be hard-pressed to deny the Queen of Pop's capabilities here. Just look at that list of key tracks, and add "Take A Bow," "Rain," "Crazy For You," "This Used To Be My Playground!" One of the best pop albums of the 90s, hands down.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">48. <i>DIVA </i>(ANNIE LENNOX)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1992</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: RCA, Arista</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Little Bird," "Why," "Walking on Broken Glass," "Money Can't Buy It"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When I want to listen to a song to perk myself up, or get myself into the groove, I usually listen to "Little Bird." It's just that type of song. The music video, with multiple personas of the chameleon Annie Lennox, always makes me crack a smile, too. And then you listen to the whole album and you're treated with modern classics like "Why" and "Walking On Broken Glass." Even when she was still in Eurythmics, her voice was always phenomenal. She unleashes it in this debut album with gusto, giving us multiple shades of a true diva, and they're all awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>47. <i>LEMONADE </i>(BEYONCÉ)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Parkwood, Columbia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Sandcastles," "Pray You Catch Me," " Don't Hurt Yourself," "Hold Up"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What to say about Beyoncé, the Queen B? Without a doubt, hers is one of the most beautiful voices in pop today. She's a fantastic live performer. I've had every reason to love her, but I never really did because I was never much into the R&B that she was primarily doing with Destiny's Child and her early years as a solo artist. But then I listened to <i>Lemonade</i> and OH GOD THIS IS WHY SHE'S THE QUEEN B. This concept album was a sucker punch. It's trippy, it's fun, it's sacred, it's tormenting. All of a sudden, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Beyonc</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">é is a high priestess of urban pop. And her "Sandcastles"--goosebumps. Has she ever been more raw and vulnerable?</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>46. <i>ELLA IN HOLLYWOOD </i>(ELLA FITZGERALD)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1961</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Verve</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Take the 'A' Train," "You're Driving Me Crazy," "Blue Moon," "Mr. Paganini," "Air Mail Special"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Come for the "A" Train and stay for everything else! That eight-minute track is insane because virtually the whole song is Ella Fitzgerald showcasing what she is best at: scat singing. Absolutely spectacular. There's more scat in "Air Mail Special" (five minutes of it!) and "Mr. Paganini," then pure vocal bliss in the other tracks especially the divine "You're Driving Me Crazy" and the playful "Blue Moon." Truly, this is Lady Ella at her glorious best.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">45. </b><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">DIRTY COMPUTER </i><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(JANELLE MONÁE)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2018</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Wondaland Arts Society, Bad Boy, Atlantic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Crazy, Classic, Life," "Screwed," </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Dirty Computer,"</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Make Me Feel"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, she's three of three in this list. And the middle child is the best one. All the great things that I said about her two other albums are multiplied here. As always, she does so well with collaborations. Here, "Screwed" with </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Zoë Kravitz and "Dirty Computer" with the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson are definite highlights. But hey, she does extremely well even on her own, thank you very much. Which is not to knock her band, of course, because one of the other fantastic things about </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mon</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">áe is that she and her crew put together such a whole sound. I feel like the more I listen to this album, the more steadily it will rise up this list in future years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>44. <i>NINE OBJECTS OF DESIRE</i> (SUZANNE VEGA)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1996</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: A&M</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "No Cheap Thrill," "Caramel," "Headshots," "Thin Man," "World Before Columbus"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Who hasn't sung or hummed along to the catchy "Tom's Cabin?" The painfully real "Luka" is one of Suzanne Vega's other hits. That breathy voice! And the beats! <i>Nine Objects of Desire</i>, her fifth album, retains the magic of her past hits and gives us a perfect album to chill to (especially with the super smooth "Caramel") but still pay enough attention to the lyrics, which have always been a strength of her songs. Every Suzanne Vega song is a confessional. That she sings them so clearly and crisply certainly helps! Every song here is precious!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>43. <i>HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS </i>(COCTEAU TWINS)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1990</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: 4AD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Iceblink Luck," "Cherry-Coloured Funk," "Heaven or Las Vegas," "Pitch the Baby"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't even try to make sense of the lyrics! It's an exercise in futility. Just soak yourself in the haunting tones of Elizabeth Fraser's vocals and the dream-like quality of the instrumentation. It's like a trip down Lewis Carroll's rabbit hole in music form. The subgenre is called dream pop for a good reason. I immediately fell head over heels for this album at the first listen and regretted not having tried their music earlier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>42. <i>SPICEWORLD </i>(SPICE GIRLS)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1997</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Virgin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Stop," "Spice Up Your Life," "Too Much," "Move Over"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is probably where the list really goes into personal taste and where some people will start questioning that taste. <i>Spiceworld</i> over <i>Lemonade</i>? The Spice Girls over Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell? And yet to be so dismissive of the Spice Girls is to dismiss not only their iconic place in popular culture but also their exuberant excellence at giving us what we really really want (oops, that's a different album) in pop. Pop is supposed to be fun, infectious, impossible not to dance to. And that's what the Spice Girls gives us for a second time here. A second helping of "Girl Power" wrapped in glorious dance-pop was most welcome, and it's still a go-to album for me when I want to feel energized or bathe myself in the nostalgia of the 90s, the best decade for music, especially pop. And come on, can anyone really resist "Stop?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>41. <i>EVEN SUCH IS TIME </i>(CYNTHIA ALEXANDER)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2018</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "St. Cecilia," "What I Left Behind," "Dressed For Nowhere," "Even Such Is Time"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Cynthia Alexander is widely recognized in the Philippines as one of its greatest musicians. Her lyrics are pure poetry, she's a highly skilled and acclaimed bassist, and she has some of the best instrumentalists in her crew. Fans like me mourned her departure from the country to take up permanent residence in the US. So it was with pure happiness that we welcomed her newest album <i>Even Such Is Time</i>. It's not like the albums that came before it, which hook you from the very start, but the songs here are those that linger and demand that you return to them with a more open heart and mind. And when I did, I realized that Alexander had given us another precious gift. Like the dragonfly wings on the cover, the songs are almost fragile in their beauty, particularly "St. Cecilia," the best of the seven. Breathtaking.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-top.html">TOP 20</a><br /></i></span><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/04/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-21.html">Numbers 21-40</a><br /></i></span><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-61.html">Numbers 61-80</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-81.html">Numbers 81-100</a></i></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8ZZr_CURKCg-Z6mcjDwce8SjWbd8W_GnIa32f-7hBHncPi7aUlFHHo8DKiBwASJjyiPM5hve33YDcLehNoB-elLmd6EFzo2_qI_uquA6XIqpbBAcKRQmvpwO3jEF5o3oeehWzg/s1600/Tragic+Kingdom.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8ZZr_CURKCg-Z6mcjDwce8SjWbd8W_GnIa32f-7hBHncPi7aUlFHHo8DKiBwASJjyiPM5hve33YDcLehNoB-elLmd6EFzo2_qI_uquA6XIqpbBAcKRQmvpwO3jEF5o3oeehWzg/s1600/Tragic+Kingdom.png" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1995</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Trauma, Interscope</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Spiderwebs," "Don't Speak," "Just a Girl," "Sunday Morning"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">When <i>Tragic Kingdom </i>came out in 1995, its sound was completely new to many people, especially here in the Philippines. But the album is so much more than an experiment in ska punk sounds, though that's the beating heart that energizes many of the singles and most exciting tracks. "Don't Speak" is a straight out pop-rock ballad that could have found a home on a regular mainstream pop album, but only Gwen Stefani's unique tone could have it given it as much emotional power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>79. <i>ALRIGHT, STILL </i>(LILY ALLEN)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2006</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Regal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Smile," "Knock 'Em Out," "LDN," "Alfie"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Such a naughty, foul-mouthed Brit, this Lily Allen! Well, her sophomore album <i>It's Not Me, It's You</i> one-ups <i>Alright, Still</i> with the wonderfully sweet "Fuck You," but there's still a lot here to offend easily offended sensibilities and please fans of just really good, catchy, mature pop-rock. The first three songs in the album are the perfect gateway to what Lily Allen is capable of. The ending song, "Alfie," is the perfect bookend, especially if you've seen with "Game of Thrones" and <i>Jojo Rabbit</i> how far her little brother has gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>78. <i>1989</i> (TAYLOR SWIFT)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2014</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Big Machine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Blank Space," "Style," "Shake It Off," "Clean"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As is (and will be) evidenced by its general absence in my lists, I'm not a big fan of country music. So it's probably not surprising that it's Taylor Swift's most pop release up to that date that made it in. It's a veritable list of hits and tracks that are just simply fun to sing to and dance to, the standout among those of course being "Shake It Off," which is so hard to shake off. A personal favorite of mine though is "Clean," her collaboration with Imogen Heap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>77. <i>THE IDLER WHEEL... </i>(FIONA APPLE)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Clean Slate, Epic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Every Single Night," "Werewolf," "Hot Knife"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Full title: <i>The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do</i>. Not the longest title of a Fiona Apple album, believe it or not. If you think it's a bit pretentious, the music contained therein is anything but. Apple has always been a fiercely, unapologetically honest musician. While her angst is gentler and more refined here, her artistry is sharper than ever. Really, getting the album is worth it even just for "Hot Knife," probably her most creative and playfully sensual song ever and a new favorite for chorale groups to try out their harmonies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>76. <i>ALISHA RULES THE WORLD </i>(ALISHA'S ATTIC)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1996</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Mercury</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "I Am, I Feel," "Indestructible," "Alisha Rules the World," "Just the Way U Like It"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As I was looking at the tracks of this album to pick the Key Tracks, I realized that I fiercely like virtually all of the songs here. The album is so coherent in theme and flavor that the songs transition to each other very neatly, but you won't confuse one with the other. Each one is its own wonderful little monster. There's a sweetly sinister undertone to most of the songs, and the Poole sisters' sweet voices make that stand out even more. Sweet voice or no, "I Am, I Feel," "Indestructible," and "Alisha Rules the World" are girl-power anthems that long predate the #MeToo movement. The music videos are great, too! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>75. <i>THE BOOK OF SECRETS </i>(LOREENA MCKENNIT)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1997</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Quinlan Road, Warner Bros.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "The Mummers' Dance," "Prologue," "The Highwayman"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It's interesting that I had to turn to a Canadian when I was looking for a more Celtic flavor than what Enya's newer albums were giving me. Add to that the fact that I had no idea who Loreena McKennit was when I saw the cassette tape of <i>The Book of Secrets</i> in a record store (remember those?); I just liked the cover and thought it gave a mystical aura. Lo and behold, it contained "The Mummers' Dance," which was a sort of crossover hit at the time. The dance version was cool and all, but the real thing was in this album and I was ecstatic. McKennit's albums take you on a journey to exotic markets, forgotten roads, lush vineyards, ancient forests, temples and groves of power. "The Mummers' Dance" gave this an edge over her other albums, but all of those will take you to realms that you may have thought only books can bring you to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>74. <i>STEREO </i></b></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>★</b></i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i> TYPE A </i>(CIBO MATTO)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1999</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Warner Bros.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Moonchild," "Lint of Love," "Sci-Fi Wasabi"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">My love of Japanese culture probably plays a big role in why I love this album so much, but it's not as if you'd even know the singers are Japanese when you hear the outstanding, solemn "Moonchild," as I did on a local rock radio station (how I miss NU 107!). It becomes more obvious when they get cute and playful in their other tracks, such as "Lint of Love" and "Sci-Fi Wasabi." It's hard to classify it into particular genres, but at the end of the day, it doesn't and shouldn't matter. It's just pure joy, period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>73. <i>LUNGS </i>(FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2009</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Island</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Dog Days Are Over," "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether you like their songs or not, it's hard to deny the hypnotic power of Florence Welch's immaculate voice. In a wonderful album that transcends genre boundaries, the animal-named singles are truly the standouts and the best showcase of Florence's vocal prowess and the band's musicality. But the rest of the album isn't a slouch, either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>72. <i>TIGERLILY</i> (NATALIE MERCHANT)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1995</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Elektra</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Wonder," "Jealousy," "Carnival," "San Andreas Fault"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Natalie Merchant's is one of the most easily recognizable voices in music. She served 10,000 Maniacs well as its lead vocalist for 12 years, but thank the heavens that she went solo! Otherwise, we wouldn't have had the gem that is <i>Tigerlily</i>! "Wonder" is an enthusiastic anthem on self-worth that more people should be listening to nowadays. "Jealousy" has angst but never feels bitter (it's interesting that this album came out at around the same time as Alanis Morissette's <i>Jagged Little Pill</i>). Most of the rest are slow tunes that won't excite a lot of people, but with Merchant's voice and lyrics, there's always so much to unpack. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">71. <i>MEDUSA </i>(ANNIE LENNOX)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1995</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: RCA, Arista</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "No More I Love You's," "A Whiter Shade of Pale," "Take Me to the River," "Thin Line Between Love and Hate"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">An album of purely covers isn't always exciting unless it's experimental, but when you have a voice like Annie Lennox's that's capable of expressing so much emotion and is all her own, you can get away with just about anything. Each and every song here almost becomes an Annie Lennox original, the way she takes ownership of them with her characteristically powerful vocals. But really, it's mostly about "No More I Love You's," an odd song with an even odder music video. I can't understand how it became a hit; it likely wouldn't be one now. But it's absolutely fantastic and quintessential Lennox: melodic, strange, a tad dark, but undeniable beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>70. <i>RHYTHM NATION 1814 </i>(JANET JACKSON)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1989</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: A&M</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Rhythm Nation," "Miss You Much," "Black Cat"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not really a fan of Janet Jackson. But considering her icon status, I felt that it wouldn't have been right for me to create this list before trying to listen to at least one of her albums. Most similar lists include <i>Control</i>, her third studio album. But I was drawn to <i>Rhythm Nation 1814</i>, her more personal and more political album. There's righteous anger here, and calls to arms, but there are also pop standards like "Miss You Much." It's a really solid collection.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">69. <i>WHISPER NOT </i>(ELLA FITZGERALD)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1966</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Verve</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Thanks for the Memory," "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," "Matchmaker"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a late jazz phase. I started really listening to the greats only less than five years ago. I started with Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald. It didn't take me long to realize who was my favorite. Lady Ella. The Queen of Jazz. First Lady of Song. She deserves each and every moniker that gives her a place of honor in the halls of jazz music. The way she interprets a song, playing around with it, especially when she does scat singing (no one better!)--it's pure joy to listen to. Her vocal control is astounding in tracks like "Thanks for the Memory," and the classic "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" is a perfect showcase of the playfulness that has endeared her to audiences during her live performances.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>68. <i>EMOTION </i>(CARLY RAE JEPSEN)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2015</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: 604, School Boy, Interscope</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "I Really Like You, "LA Hallucinations," "When I Needed You"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a very pleasant surprise. I must admit that I had been quick to dismiss Carly Rae Jepsen as just one of many disposable pop acts because of her catchy but otherwise uninteresting (for me) hit "Call Me Maybe." I wanted to understand why so many people, including friends that I know to be sensible, worship her. So I listened to this album (and yeah, I had to get over the stylized way by which the title is written on the album). I got hooked. I'm not a devotee yet, but I can understand why now. This is probably the closest that an album has gotten to pure, unadulterated pop in a long while. And that purity shows me that Jepsen really knows herself, and her fans. Why change a winning formula when it's this sweet and blissful?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>67. <i>BODY TALK </i>(ROBYN)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2010</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Konichiwa</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Time Machine," "Indestructible," "Dancing On My Own"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I have loved Robyn for a long time for her 1997 pop hit "Show Me Love," which for me is one of the all-time best pop songs. But that was the extent of my knowledge of her music...until I listened to <i>Body Talk</i>. Turns out I had known but a very, very small percentage of her genius. <i>Body Talk</i> is a brilliant dance/electro-pop project that really gets you going from the first track all the way to the end. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about "U Should Know Better," her collaboration with Snoop Dogg, but the rest makes you feel that you've gone to the trippiest club during a spontaneous trip to Europe. So enjoyable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>66. <i>THE ELECTRIC LADY </i>(JANELLE MONÁ</b></span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">E)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2013</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Wondaland Arts Society, Bad Boy, Atlantic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Electric Lady," "Q.U.E.E.N.," "Dance Apocalyptic," "Dorothy Dandridge Eyes," "Givin' Em What They Love"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There are few artists today as exciting and as deserving of the label "artist" as Janelle Monáe. Her acting career aside, every </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Monáe album is a mosaic that would have been a dirty mess in the hands of a lesser artist. With <i>The Electric Lady</i> and her other albums, she weaves through jazz, rock, hip hop, soul, and punk like it has always made perfect sense for one person to be so good at all of them. Though there's no throw-away track in the entire album, the title single and her collaborations with fellow musical prodigies Erykah Badu, Solange, and Esperanza Spalding are particular highlights. Such an electric album!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>65. <i>LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE </i>(CELINE DION)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1997</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Columbia, Epic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "My Heart Will Go On," "To Love You More," "Tell Him," "Treat Her Like a Lady," "Immortality"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Celine Dion's albums are all showcases of her incomparable vocals; the inclusion of the <i>Titanic</i> theme song "My Heart Will Go On" and "To Love You More" here make it true for this album. <i>Let's Talk About Love</i> also showcases Dion's ability to gather some of the best artists in the industry to jam with her. Here we have Carole King, Barbra Streisand, the Bee Gees, Luciano Pavarotti, to name a few. All stellar, of course, but I have a special affection for her collab with Diana King on the reggae track "Treat Her Like a Lady." Essentially, Dion proved with that track that she can do just about everything and still be the ultimate pop diva that she is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>64. <i>THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS </i>(ALICIA KEYS)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2003</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: J</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "If I Ain't Got You," "Karma," "Heartburn," "Dragon Days"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For me, this sophomore album is much stronger than her critically acclaimed debut. At this point, Alicia Keys has become a much more confident musician, her sound more complete and her voice more powerful. While "If I Ain't Got You" is the signature song of the album, and rightly so, "Karma" and "Heartburn" are strong anthems that drive the narrative force of this more personal release. As the title suggests, this is the album that gives audiences a better look at the soul of one Alicia Keys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>63. <i>FIRST LOVE </i>(UTADA HIKARU)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1999</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Toshiba EMI</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Automatic," "First Love," "Movin' On Without You," "Time Will Tell"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Twenty one years after its release, <i>First Love</i> is still the bestselling Japanese album of all time. With four fantastic, ultra-memorable singles, that shouldn't be surprising. Utada Hikaru defined J-Pop for a whole generation of fans. That fellow superstar Hamasaki Ayumi made an official cover of "Movin' On Without You" as part of a tribute album to her is a testament to how much of an impact she has had on Japanese music. And all those <i>Kingdom Hearts</i> and <i>Evangelion Rebuild</i> songs! That she would come up with even more tonally and lyrically accomplished albums than this one is almost a marvel, but this album will forever be treasured for introducing Utada to the world.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">62. <i>HAUNTED </i>(POE)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Atlantic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Walk the Walk," "Haunted," "Control"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The criminally underrated artist Poe is probably still more famous for her debut album <i>Hello</i>, which is definitely a fierce and amazing album with a load of earworms, but true to its title, it's her second album that, well, haunted me with its dark lyrics, sick beats, and Poe's forlorn voice. It's a much more mature and thematic offering from Poe, whose brother Mark Z. Danielewski wrote the cult classic <i>House of Leaves</i>; the siblings, who have collaborated on several projects, consider their respective creations to be companion pieces of sorts. How I wish the label "cult classic" were also attached to this underappreciated gem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>61. <i>COURT AND SPARK </i>(JONI MITCHELL)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1974</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Asylum</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Help Me," "Free Man in Paris," "Raised on Robbery," "Twisted"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the first of several Joni Mitchell albums that are in my list of the 100 best albums by women. If you've been following her discography, you'd probably know what the other ones are. While <i>Court and Spark </i>doesn't quite reach the status of those more iconic works, it has it own jewels displaying Mitchell's gravelly voice and intelligently poetic lyrics. Here, she's beginning to lean toward the jazzier parts of her musical resume, which would come to characterize most of her later career. "Help Me," "Free Man in Paris," and "Raised in Robbery" are just as good as her more famous singles in capturing the essence of Mitchell's music. "Twisted," which is a cover, is decidedly different in tone from the rest of the album and could give an idea as to why artists like Tori Amos were drawn to her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-top.html">TOP 20</a><br /></i></span><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/04/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-21.html">Numbers 21-40</a><br /></i></span><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-41.html">Numbers 41-60</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-81.html">Numbers 81-100</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">NPR has an awesome list of "The 150 Greatest Albums By Women" (here's the link: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538387823/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women">https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/538387823/turning-the-tables-150-greatest-albums-made-by-women</a>), but given how much I absolutely love women's music, I decided to come up with my own list. I've been working on this for maybe two months, and there's no better time to start sharing it than today, on International Women's Day. Most of these have been albums that I've listened to and sang to countless times, while some are things that I felt I had to listen to first before I could justifiably come up with a list that was anywhere close to just and properly representative. Still, at the end of the day, it's my personal taste, so I'm bound to have missed many of your own personal faves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, here goes. As with my lists of movies, my goal is to encourage people to try some of these out if they haven't yet. So enjoy reading and, more importantly, listening!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>100. <i>BEAUTIFUL GARBAGE </i>(GARBAGE)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2001</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Almo, Interscope</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Androgyny," "Cherry Lips"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The third album of Garbage was probably its most polished up to that date and gave the band's fans a different, more pop-dance feel. The beats of "Androgyny"--as well as its message--were infectious, and vocalist Shirley Manson's voice is sweetly versatile on "Cherry Lips." But it's hard to top their first album, coming later in this list, for its pure burst of intelligence and rawness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>99. <i>THINK TANK </i>(TANK AND THE BANGAS)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2013</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Boxes and Squares," "Human"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year, Tank and the Bangas was thrust into the limelight by that shocking Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. I had not heard of Tarriona "Tank" Ball prior to that, so I had to look them up. Such a discovery! Their performance in the NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (which you can see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKzobTCIRDw">here</a>), especially of their signature song "Boxes and Squares," is pure joy. A lot of the spontaneity of their live performances is lost in the transition to a recorded album, but their debut is still so enjoyable. The biologically informed ode to the uniqueness of the human body, "Human," is beautiful in its reminder of how special each individual is, as music should remind us more often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>98. <i>RETRO </i>(REGINE VELASQUEZ)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1996</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Mercury</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Shake Your Groove Thing," "Zoom," "Dance With Me"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Philippine media has a risible (at best) tendency to label some of the country's artists as Asia's this or that, even if their career hasn't quite earned them the moniker. However, Regine Velasquez, "Asia's songbird," has somehow earned it. <i>Retro</i> is the third and last of the great trio of records that made her a popular artist in the region. <i>Retro</i> might not be the most pop of the three and mostly consists of covers of classics, but it's certainly the best technical production. Regine's singing was also probably at its best, but a lot of that had to do with the great arrangements on each song, especially the Peaches & Herb classic "Shake Your Groove Thing." "Dance With Me" is a sweet gem where she duets with her mother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>97. <i>SASSY SWINGS AGAIN </i>(SARAH VAUGHAN)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1967</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Mercury</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Sweet Georgia Brown," "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," "Every Day I Have the Blues"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Such a voice! Ella Fitzgerald's vocal power and scatting calisthenics are incomparable, but the pureness of Sarah Vaughan's voice, and her level of control of it, have rightly made many critics--and fellow artists like Frank Sinatra--consider hers to have been the most beautiful voice in jazz. It is perfection here, especially in her rendition of the Tony Bennett signature "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>96. <i>GARBAGE </i>(GARBAGE)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1995</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Almo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Only Happy When It Rains," "Stupid Girl," "Milk"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Beautiful Garbage</i> and <i>Version 2.0</i> were worthy follow-ups with their own earworms, but the raw energy of the band's self-titled debut album is unbeaten. With five singles, it gave listeners a lot of reasons to recognize the band's genius and the bright future that they would have in the music industry.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">95. <i>BADUIZM </i>(ERYKAH BADU)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1997</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Kedar, Universal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "On and On," "Rimshot," "Next Lifetime"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of earworms, probably no one had an easy time shaking off the beats (from opening to end!) of "On and On," the song that launched the wonderful Erykah Badu into public consciousness. But "On and On" is far from being the only song in <i>Baduizm</i> that showcases her unique vocals and musicality. True to its name, the album defies its listeners not to declare themselves disciples of this new philosophy or religion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>94. <i>TO BRING YOU MY LOVE </i>(PJ HARVEY)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1995</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Island</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Down by the Water," "To Bring You My Love"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The alt-rock queen rawness of PJ Harvey has catapulted her to the top of many people's lists of icons in those genres, and "Down by the Water," with its eerie image of a child drowning, was the perfect introduction to her unique flavor. Many of her later albums are more critically acclaimed and have shown her considerable growth as an artist, but she got me hooked with her whispered incantation of <i>"Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Come back here, man, gimme my daughter." </i>Shivers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>93. </b><b><i>HEART IN MOTION </i>(AMY GRANT)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1991</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: A&M</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Every Heartbeat," "Baby Baby," "That's What Love Is For," "I Will Remember You"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Released in 1991, the saccharine <i>Heart in Motion </i>took the best of pop flavors from both the 80s and the 90s, producing some of the cutest love songs ever ("Every Heartbeat," "Baby Baby") but also heartfelt pieces like "That's What Love Is For" and "I Will Remember You," which deserve to be remembered more as the love song gems that they are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>92. <i>SONGS IN A MINOR </i>(ALICIA KEYS)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2001</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: J</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Girlfriend," "Fallin'," "A Woman's Worth"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now one of America's most loved and respected artists of her generation, Alicia Keys debuted her soulful singing and piano-playing with hit after hit from this album. If just based on the singles off it, I'd be ranking this much higher, but I didn't quite fall in love with the rest of the 16 tracks. But even then, one thing was crystal clear: Alicia Keys is an intelligent and masterful artist...and she would prove it again with her next album. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>91. <i>SUPERSTITION </i>(SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1991</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Polydor, Geffen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Kiss Them For Me," "Fear (of the Unknown)"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Siouxsie Sioux and her band are stalwarts of the post-punk, goth rock movement that would influence many artists after them, and their debut album <i>The Scream </i>started them off loudly on that trajectory. It's a strong album, but for me, Sioux's voice and the band's performance as a whole are much more colorful--an odd word to use for a goth band, I know!--and dynamic in <i>Superstition</i>, their 10th studio album. They earned a new following from their wonderful song "Kiss Them For Me," made mesmerizing by the instrumentation of Tabla player Talvin Singh. The rest of the album is similarly wickedly melodic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>90. <i>MY LOVE EMOTION </i>(REGINE VELASQUEZ)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1995</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Polycosmic, Mercury</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "You've Made Me Stronger," "My Love Emotion," "Fast," "Perfect"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Regine Velasquez was at the peak of her popularity in the Asian region when she released <i>My Love Emotion</i>, which rode on the strength of "You've Made Me Stronger," written by the great composer Trina Belamide. The album is pure, quintessential 90s Asian pop, the type you'd hear from the Cantonese and Japanese pop idols of the time. Belamide's second contribution to the album, "Fast," is more mellow but no less beautiful, and Regine's collaboration with local a cappella group The TUX on "Perfect" is another highlight. While Velasquez is still active in the local music industry, I can't help but lament the end of her blossoming career in the region and the zenith of her artistry with her decision to change management and labels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>89. <i>25</i> (ADELE)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2015</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: XL, Columbia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Hello," "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Spoiler alert: another Adele album ranks MUCH higher on this list. <i>25</i> is a strong follow-up to the phenomenon that is <i>21</i>, with the amazing <i>Hello</i> (which has an equally amazing music video directed by Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan) and the super-catchy "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)," but I wish I loved more of the album. Still, there's no denying the serious talent of this Brit music royalty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>88. <i>DIWA </i>(GRACE NONO)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2002</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Tao Music</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Dosayan," "Maghimaya Ka, Maria," "Golpiadu Makimallo"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It would be unfair to simply label Grace Nono, the almost mystical legend of Philippine ethnic music, as the "Filipino Enya" or "Filipino Loreena McKennit," but that might be a good introduction for the uninitiated. Nono is high priestess of indigenous-meets-pop/soul; her voice is deep, powerful, and unmistakably her own. Her music, often a collaboration with partner Bob Aves, is made more accessible with gorgeous packaging in the physical copy of the album, but it's always about the music. It's almost hypnotic. This magnificent album should have made waves in world music. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>87. <i>IN DEEP </i>(TINA ARENA)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1997</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Columbia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Burn," "If I Didn't Love You," "Now I Can Dance"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Australian pop superstar Tina Arena had been long popular in her home country, but her international career really took off with the hit singles "Burn" and "If I Didn't Love You," both of which showcased her astounding vocal cords and capacity to express ache and longing in her tone. The rest of the album is really good stuff, too, and "Now I Can Dance" is the uplifting piece that gives it a good balance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>86. <i>A FEW SMALL REPAIRS </i>(SHAWN COLVIN)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1996</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Columbia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Sunny Came Home," "Get Out of This House," "Wichita Skyline"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shawn Colvin won loads of acclaim and awards for this album, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year Grammys for the haunting "Sunny Came Home," a misleadingly light-sounding song about a woman who burns her family house down to escape from her past. "Get Out of This House" is similarly empowering, lent strength by Colvin's poetry and her warm tones. The album as a whole is pure artistry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>85. <i>FALLING INTO YOU </i>(CELINE DION)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4nNiH1Gl2f6HD8MoBUfBWZRZilzjt2ncYxoi4Dn9se84ibC7LDaJHNDZC7xyx-L4otfkEUOFOyT8xoPy0Ap-DOTjh98EBs0n2TaPhIca1vSchfduAg0AkcK2SlofM18kNg326Rg/s1600/Falling+Into+You.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4nNiH1Gl2f6HD8MoBUfBWZRZilzjt2ncYxoi4Dn9se84ibC7LDaJHNDZC7xyx-L4otfkEUOFOyT8xoPy0Ap-DOTjh98EBs0n2TaPhIca1vSchfduAg0AkcK2SlofM18kNg326Rg/s1600/Falling+Into+You.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1996</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Columbia, Epic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "It's All Coming Back To Me Now," "Because You Loved Me," "All By Myself"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It shouldn't be surprising that <i>Falling Into You</i> is one of Celine Dion's most successful projects to date, one of the best-selling albums in history and a Grammy winner for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album. I mean, with singles like "Because You Loved Me," "Falling Into You," and that most awesomely legendary camp epic ballad "It's All Coming Back To Me Now," should it be? Add to the mix the vocal powerhouse that is "All By Myself," plus a few other pop gems, and it's simply speaking one of the best that this Canadian icon has ever released.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>84. <i>NIGHTCLUBBING </i>(GRACE JONES)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg79aJL8C9DJpkA4NbKbc710Cq_QgIUh-Xjq_-o-T-nBeCu5cXP4W7xH9XijVfu4gy17m1LgQG6SmkM8mANulqgOb97s04vwwv6aP2OARk3IJL_TMSiQqrI-zL98SuSlRAk018t3A/s1600/Nightclubbing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg79aJL8C9DJpkA4NbKbc710Cq_QgIUh-Xjq_-o-T-nBeCu5cXP4W7xH9XijVfu4gy17m1LgQG6SmkM8mANulqgOb97s04vwwv6aP2OARk3IJL_TMSiQqrI-zL98SuSlRAk018t3A/s1600/Nightclubbing.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1981</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Island</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Nightclubbing," "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)," "Demolition Man"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I've long known the intimidatingly statuesque Grace Jones as an actress and singer, but always more as the former. Listening to <i>Nightclubbing</i> for the first time, however, made me forget that she was ever anything but a formidable musical icon. Straddling several genres, including reggae and punk, this album will not allow itself to be pigeonholed. Don't force too many labels on it! Just listen and prepare to be astonished. Truly, Grace Jones is a force of nature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>83. <i>SHEPHERD MOONS </i>(ENYA)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxK8wAWvF9MmYf_xRBORbN8wOOv9m3PdTNWYBECfwF6L0ZpuJZ7bjNLhjQ7XYT9PL3FSGwe4GfvCtxU-skldgnzdXOJoXi2ptSgQXxdurCzMklz1eShqIpGQ21SfBADoX5F-r4w/s1600/Shepherd+Moons.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxK8wAWvF9MmYf_xRBORbN8wOOv9m3PdTNWYBECfwF6L0ZpuJZ7bjNLhjQ7XYT9PL3FSGwe4GfvCtxU-skldgnzdXOJoXi2ptSgQXxdurCzMklz1eShqIpGQ21SfBADoX5F-r4w/s1600/Shepherd+Moons.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1991</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: WEA</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Caribbean Blue," "No Holly for Miss Quinn," "Book of Days," "Marble Halls"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Full disclosure: I am a BIG Enya fan. I have all her albums. So no, this won't be the last Enya album on this list. Aside from having strikingly beautiful jacket art, the music itself is among the best and most characteristically Enya that the artist--who is almost a brand unto herself--has ever produced. Enya has always been wonderful at combining Celtic mysticism and pop sensibilities, and she would take herself further into the latter with some of her later work, but <i>Shepherd Moons </i>is one of her purest, especially with the title track and the often used "Book of Days." Tolkien fans would be pleased to discover that one of the tracks is entitled "Lothlórien" and is an ode to that Elven kingdom--surely a foreshadowing of her eventual involvement in the soundtrack to <i>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>82. <i>PINK FRIDAY: ROMAN RELOADED </i>(NICKI MINAJ)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWXfljRUkCujrtHD_UZ7gvB0oyAIW9ONSsBmv-57BmHzrJLynQJPgGjkwKqmfiS9o15Hpp8e9MMBrLff74luZqstyPTPV0OgN1DmIAk9-DkLTEZvEftKlWR-JWt0XIiSO1qY8Rw/s1600/Pink+Friday+Roman+Reloaded.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWXfljRUkCujrtHD_UZ7gvB0oyAIW9ONSsBmv-57BmHzrJLynQJPgGjkwKqmfiS9o15Hpp8e9MMBrLff74luZqstyPTPV0OgN1DmIAk9-DkLTEZvEftKlWR-JWt0XIiSO1qY8Rw/s1600/Pink+Friday+Roman+Reloaded.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Labels: Young Money, Cash Money, Universal Republic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "Starships," "Pound the Alarm," "Right By My Side"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Really, just for the unforgettable and unshakable "Starships" and "Pound the Alarm"--which, incidentally, have produced two of the most memorable lip sync battles in the herstory of "RuPaul's Drag Race"--it's worth getting the album. But the rest is great, too, whether you're more into Nicki Minaj's rap stylings or you prefer her pop princess schtick. What I love most about the album--and Minaj herself--is that it's crazy fun but, if you listen closely enough, she has a lot of important things to say. A true artist who, I must admit, I have long underestimated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>81. <i>COME ON OVER </i>(SHANIA TWAIN)</b></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzoFgem6KTXr8tLtzYzDmUwXGgICzj5xoh4a8rrDrA76P-XHp6RRK0RoJYrACuaxlo2hZFPoo1501-cSOk7oKwInUEHapFnviSAaKmfpQpNWvQLlp3gzAVpgJSr8tVsyaoTurHA/s1600/Come+On+Over.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzoFgem6KTXr8tLtzYzDmUwXGgICzj5xoh4a8rrDrA76P-XHp6RRK0RoJYrACuaxlo2hZFPoo1501-cSOk7oKwInUEHapFnviSAaKmfpQpNWvQLlp3gzAVpgJSr8tVsyaoTurHA/s1600/Come+On+Over.png" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Year of Release: 1997</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Label: Mercury</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Tracks: "From This Moment On," "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!," "You're Still the One," "That Don't Impress Me Much"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I could have listed a few other key tracks for this album; such is the strength of the package! With this phenomenal success of an album (the best-selling of any solo female), Shania Twain blurred the boundaries between country and pop, making a crossover with some of the most honest lyrics and catchy tunes airing on the radio at the time. She never quite duplicated the success of the album, but at least we'll always have it with us. I am not a big fan of country music (as you will realize as you go through this list), but this made me come very, very close to changing my mind about the genre.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-top.html">TOP 20</a><br /></i></span><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/04/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-21.html">Numbers 21-40</a><br /></i></span><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-41.html">Numbers 41-60</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://film-otaku.blogspot.com/2020/03/my-list-of-100-best-albums-by-women-61.html">Numbers 61-80</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BEST PICTURE</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Ammonite</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Annette</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Bad Education</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Benedetta</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Bergman Island</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Blonde</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Boys in the Band</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Burden</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Da 5 Bloods</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Devil All the Time</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Dream Horse</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Dune</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Eyes of Tammy Faye</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Falling</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Father</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The 40-Year-Old Version</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Four Good Days</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The French Dispatch</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>French Exit</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Glorias</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Good Morning, Midnight</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Hillbilly Elegy</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>In the Heights</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Kajillionaire</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>King Richard</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Last Duel</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Last Planet</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Last Thing He Wanted</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Let Them All Talk</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Lost Girls</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Macbeth</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Mank</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Mulan</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Nest</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>News of the World</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Next Goal Wins</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Nightmare Alley</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Nine Days</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Nomadland</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>On the Rocks</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Passing</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Personal History of David Copperfield</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Prisoner 760</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Prom</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Radioactive</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Red, White and Water</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Respect</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Rhythm Section</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Shirley</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Stillwater</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Tenet</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Tesla</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>True History of the Kelly Gang</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Wendy</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>West Side Story</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Woman in the Window</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Worth</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BEST DIRECTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Francis Lee (<i>Ammonite</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leos Carax (<i>Annette</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cory Finely (<i>Bad Education</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paul Verhoeven (<i>Benedetta</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mia Hansen-Løve (<i>Bergman Island</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andrew Dominik (<i>Blonde</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joe Mantello (<i>The Boys in the Band</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andrew Heckler (<i>Burden</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spike Lee (<i>Da 5 Bloods</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Antonio Campos (<i>The Devil All the Time</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Euros Lyn (<i>Dream Horse</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Denis Villeneuve (<i>Dune</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Showalter (<i>The Eyes of Tammy Faye</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Viggo Mortensen (<i>Falling</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Florian Zeller (<i>The Father</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Radha Blank (<i>The 40-Year-Old Version</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rodrigo García (<i>Four Good Days</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wes Anderson (<i>The French Dispatch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Azazel Jacobs (<i>French Exit</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Julie Taymor (<i>The Glorias</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Clooney (<i>Good Morning, Midnight</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ron Howard (<i>Hillbilly Elegy</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jon M. Chu (<i>In the Heights</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Miranda July (<i>Kajillionaire</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reinaldo Marcus Green (<i>King Richard</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ridley Scott (<i>The Last Duel</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Terrence Malick (<i>The Last Planet</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dee Rees (<i>The Last Thing He Wanted</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Steven Soderbergh (<i>Let Them All Talk</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Liz Garbus (<i>Lost Girls</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George C. Wolfe (<i>Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joel Coen (<i>Macbeth</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David Fincher (<i>Mank</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Niki Caro (<i>Mulan</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sean Durkin (<i>The Nest</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paul Greengrass (<i>News of the World</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Taika Waititi (<i>Next Goal Wins</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edson Oda (<i>Nine Days</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Guillermo del Toro (<i>Nightmare Alley</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chloe Zhao (<i>Nomadland</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sofia Coppola (<i>On the Rocks</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rebecca Hall (<i>Passing</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Armando Iannucci (<i>The Personal History of David Copperfield</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kevin Macdonald (<i>Prisoner 760</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ryan Murphy (<i>The Prom</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marjane Satrapi (<i>Radioactive</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lila Neugebauer (<i>Red, White and Water</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Liesl Tommy (<i>Respect</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reed Morano (<i>The Rhythm Section</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Josephine Decker (<i>Shirley</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tom McCarthy (<i>Stillwater</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christopher Nolan (<i>Tenet</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Almereyda (<i>Tesla</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aaron Sorkin (<i>The Trial of the Chicago 7</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Justin Kurzel (<i>True History of the Kelly Gang</i>) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Behn Zeitlin (<i>Wendy</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Steven Spielberg (<i>West Side Story</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joe Wright (<i>The Woman in the Window</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sara Colangelo (<i>Worth</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BEST ACTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Riz Ahmed (<i>Sound of Metal</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chadwick Boseman </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Da 5 Bloods</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Timothée Chalamet (<i>Dune</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Timothée Chalamet (<i>The French Dispatch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Clooney (<i>Good Morning, Midnight</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sacha Baron Cohen </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Trial of the Chicago 7</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bradley Cooper </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nightmare Alley</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Benedict Cumberbatch </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Prisoner 760</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt Damon </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last Duel</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt Damon </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Stillwater</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adam Driver </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Annette</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adam Driver </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last Duel</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ansel Elgort (<i>West Side Story</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Fassbender </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Next Goal Wins</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Colin Firth (<i>Supernova</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andrew Garfield </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Eyes of Tammy Faye</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tom Hanks </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">News of the World</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ethan Hawke (<i>Tesla</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Garrett Hedlund (<i>Burden</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lance Henriksen (<i>Falling</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tom Holland </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Devil All the Time</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anthony Hopkins (<i>The Father</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hugh Jackman (<i>Bad Education</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Keaton (<i>Worth</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jude Law </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Nest</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George MacKay </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">True History of the Kelly Gang</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mads Mikkelsen (<i>Druk</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Viggo Mortensen </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Falling</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eddie Murphy (<i>Coming 2 America</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bill Murray </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On the Rocks</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gary Oldman (<i>Mank</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jim Parsons </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Boys in the Band</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dev Patel </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Personal History of David Copperfield</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anthony Ramos (<i>In the Heights</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Geza Rohrig </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last Planet</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alexander Skarsgård (<i>Passing</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stanley Tucci </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Supernova</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Denzel Washington </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Macbeth</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Steven Yeun (<i>Minari</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BEST ACTRESS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amy Adams </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hillbilly Elegy</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amy Adams (<i>The Woman in the Window</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cate Blanchett </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nightmare Alley</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Emily Blunt (<i>A Quiet Place: Part II</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Abigail Breslin </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Stillwater</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alison Brie (<i>Horse Girl</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jessica Chastain </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Eyes of Tammy Faye</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Toni Collette </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dream Horse</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carrie Coon </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Nest</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marion Cotillard </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Annette</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Viola Davis </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ana De Armas </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Blonde</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Virginie Efira </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Benedetta</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beanie Feldstein (<i>How To Build a Girl</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jodie Foster </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Prisoner 760</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anne Hathaway (<i>The Last Thing He Wanted</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jennifer Hudson (<i>Respect</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rashida Jones </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On the Rocks</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vanessa Kirby (<i>Pieces of a Woman</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mila Kunis </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Four Good Days</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jennifer Lawrence </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Red, White and Water</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frances McDormand </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Macbeth</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frances McDormand </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nomadland</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Janelle Monáe (<i>Antebellum</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Julianne Moore (<i>The Glorias</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elisabeth Moss (<i>The Invisible Man</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elisabeth Moss </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shirley</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carey Mulligan (<i>Promising Young Woman</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ruth Negga </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Passing</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michelle Pfeiffer </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">French Exit</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rosamund Pike (<i>Radioactive</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andrea Riseborough (<i>Luxor</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Margot Robbie (<i>Birds of Prey</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saoirse Ronan (<i>The French Dispatch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amy Ryan (<i>Lost Girls</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Léa Seydoux (<i>On a Half Clear Morning</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meryl Streep </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Let Them All Talk</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tilda Swinton (<i>Memoria</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alicia Vikander (<i>The Glorias</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mia Wasikowska </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Bergman Island</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kate Winslet </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ammonite</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Evan Rachel Wood </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Kajillionaire</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ben Affleck </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last Duel</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matt Bomer </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Boys in the Band</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adrien Brody </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Blonde</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tom Burke (<i>Mank</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bobby Canavale </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Blonde</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Willem Dafoe </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last Thing He Wanted</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Willem Dafoe </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nightmare Alley</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brendan Gleeson </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Macbeth</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lucas Hedges </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">French Exit</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lucas Hedges </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Let Them All Talk</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Richard Jenkins </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Kajillionaire</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frank Langella </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Trial of the Chicago 7</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Logan Lerman </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shirley</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gary Oldman (<i>The Woman in the Window</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robert Pattinson </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Devil All the Time</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Zachary Quinto </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Boys in the Band</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tahar Rahim </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Prisoner 760</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim Roth </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Bergman Island</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mark Rylance </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last Planet</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mark Rylance </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Trial of the Chicago 7</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matthias Schoenaerts </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last Planet</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stellan Skarsgård (<i>Dune</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sebastian Stan </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Devil All the Time</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David Strathairn </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nightmare Alley</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Stuhlbarg </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shirley</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stanley Tucci </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Worth</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Forest Whitaker (<i>Respect</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Candice Bergen </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Let Them All Talk</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gemma Chan </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Let Them All Talk</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Glenn Close </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Four Good Days</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Glenn Close </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hillbilly Elegy</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Toni Collette (<i>I'm Thinking of Ending Things</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Toni Collette </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nightmare Alley</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lily Collins </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mank</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Olivia Colman (<i>The Father</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jodie Comer </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Last Duel</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Essie Davis </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">True History of the Kelly Gang</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rebecca Ferguson (<i>Dune</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anne Hathaway (<i>The Witches</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gong Li (<i>Mulan</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kaimana </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Next Goal Wins</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nicole Kidman (<i>The Prom</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vicky Krieps </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Bergman Island</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jennifer Jason Leigh (<i>The Woman in the Window</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Laura Linney </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Falling</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rooney Mara </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Nightmare Alley</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Audra McDonald (<i>Respect</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thomasin McKenzie (<i>Lost Girls</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuppence Middleton (<i>Mank</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bette Midler (<i>The Glorias</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Julianne Moore (<i>The Woman in the Window</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rita Moreno (<i>West Side Story</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elisabeth Moss </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Next Goal Wins</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charlotte Rampling </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Benedetta</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gina Rodriguez </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Kajillionaire</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saoirse Ronan </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ammonite</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amy Ryan </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Worth</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amanda Seyfried </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mank</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meryl Streep (<i>The Prom</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tessa Thompson </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Passing</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dianne Wiest </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Let Them All Talk</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debra Winger </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Kajillionaire</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mare Winningham </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">News of the World</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-71456776740141288362020-01-13T06:09:00.005-08:002020-01-13T06:09:55.311-08:00The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Oscar Nominations 2020)<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Six nominations for <i>Parasite</i>, including of course Picture and Directing but also two categories that many hoped it would get but weren't confident that it would: Editing and Production Design.<br />-Antonio Banderas gets a Best Actor nomination for his sublime work in <i>Pain and Glory</i>!<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />-Jonathan Pryce gets nominated for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pope Francis in <i>The Two Popes</i>. Much more expected was the nomination of Anthony Hopkins in Best Supporting Actor for his role as Pope Benedict XVI.<br />-<i>I Lost My Body</i> is the most inventive among the shortlisted Best Animated Feature films and it gets nominated.<br />-<i>The Lighthouse</i> gets a very, very well deserved nomination for Best Cinematography.</span></span></div>
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<b>BAD</b><br />-Jennifer Lopez doesn't get the Best Supporting Actress nomination that she so deserved and that she got from the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, and SAG.<br />-It's not surprising at all, but I would have loved to see <i>Weathering with You</i> among the Best Animated Feature nominees, especially because the slot that everyone thought <i>Frozen II</i> had sewn up was free.<br />-Complete shut-out of <i>Dolemite Is My Name</i>. Many, including myself, were hoping for it to get in at least the Costume Design category.<br />-Not really very upset about it but, come on: does John Williams have to automatically get a nomination for Best Original Score? The scores of <i>Avengers: Endgame</i> and <i>Us</i> were much more deserving.<br />-Speaking of <i>Avengers: Endgame</i>, just one nomination (Best Visual Effects). Couldn't even get a nod in Best Sound Mixing and Sound Editing. Such disrespect for the biggest film of the year.</div>
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<b>UGLY</b><br />-It's official: the Academy is blind to the capabilities of Asian actors. Awkwafina, Zhao Shuzhen, Song Kang-ho, or any of the other actors of <i>Parasite</i>: all snubbed. I actually expected it (didn't predict any of them to get into their respective categories), but it's still bad. I wanted to be wrong.<br />-Also official: unless you're starring in a socio-politically important film like <i>Get Out</i>, you won't get an acting nomination no matter how absurdly excellent you are. Last year, it was Toni Collette. This year, it's Lupita Nyong'o. Both criminal snubs.</div>
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evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-63235630335736251022019-08-27T01:15:00.004-07:002019-08-27T01:16:24.460-07:00Film-Otaku Awards 2018<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>(RETROACTIVE POST!)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST PICTURE</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>ISLE OF DOGS</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Roma</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Hereditary</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Favourite</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>If Beale Street Could Talk</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Eighth Grade</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>First Man</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Paddington 2</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Suspiria</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>BlacKkKlansman</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST DIRECTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>ALFONSO CUARÓN (<i>ROMA</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Damien Chazelle (<i>First Man</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yorgos Lanthimos (<i>The Favourite</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Barry Jenkins (<i>If Beale Street Could Talk</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lynne Ramsay (<i>You Were Never Really Here</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Luca Guadagnino (<i>Suspiria</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ari Aster (<i>Hereditary</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bradley Cooper (<i>A Star is Born</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wes Anderson (<i>Isle of Dogs</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spike Lee (<i>BlacKkKlansman</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST ACTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>CHRISTIAN BALE (<i>VICE</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bradley Cooper (<i>A Star is Born</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ethan Hawke (<i>First Reformed</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alex Wolff (<i>Hereditary</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joaquin Phoenix (<i>You Were Never Really Here</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rami Malek (<i>Bohemian Rhapsody</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Viggo Mortensen (<i>Green Book</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lucas Hedges (<i>Ben is Back</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ryan Gosling (<i>First Man</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Willem Dafoe (<i>At Eternity's Gate</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST ACTRESS</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>TONI COLLETTE (<i>HEREDITARY</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Olivia Colman (<i>The Favourite</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nicole Kidman (<i>Destroyer</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Glenn Close (<i>The Wife</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Natalie Portman (<i>Vox Lux</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rosamund Pike (<i>A Private War</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Melissa McCarthy (<i>Can You Ever Forgive Me?</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rachel Weisz (<i>The Favourite</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Emma Stone (<i>The Favourite</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amandla Stenberg (<i>The Hate U Give</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>RICHARD E. GRANT (<i>CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Timothée Chalamet (<i>Beautiful Boy</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adam Driver (<i>BlacKkKlansman</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Steven Yeun (<i>Burning</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nicholas Hoult (<i>The Favourite</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Russell Hornsby (<i>The Hate U Give</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mahershala Ali (<i>Green Book</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hugh Grant (<i>Paddington 2</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jonathan Pryce (<i>The Wife</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sam Elliott (<i>A Star is Born</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>REGINA KING (<i>IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andrea Riseborough (<i>The Death of Stalin</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elizabeth Debicki (<i>Widows</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tilda Swinton (<i>Suspiria</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ando Sakura (<i>Shoplifters</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amy Adams (<i>Vice</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michelle Yeoh (<i>Crazy Rich Asians</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nicole Kidman (<i>Boy Erased</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blake Lively (<i>A Simple Favour</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marina de Tavira (<i>Roma</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>WES ANDERSON (</b></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>ISLE OF DOGS</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara (<i>The Favourite</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alfonso Cuarón (<i>Roma</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Orson Welles, Oja Kodar (<i>The Other Side of the Wind</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ari Aster (<i>Hereditary</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bo Burnham (<i>Eighth Grade</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paul Schrader (<i>First Reformed</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boots Riley (<i>Sorry to Bother You</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chloé Zhao (<i>The Rider</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki (<i>Cold War</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>CHARLIE WACHTEL, DAVID RABINOWITZ, KEVIN WILLMOTT, SPIKE LEE (<i>BLACKKKLANSMAN</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Barry Jenkins (<i>If Beale Street Could Talk</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Audrey Wells (<i>The Hate U Give</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty (<i>Can You Ever Forgive Me?</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alex Garland (<i>Annihilation</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Josh Singer (<i>First Man</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh Jung-mi, Lee Chang-dong (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Burning</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows, Fabien Nury (<i>The Death of Stalin</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters (<i>A Star is Born</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter Chiarelli, Adele Lim (<i>Crazy Rich Asians</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>LUKASZ ZAL (<i>COLD WAR</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robbie Ryan (<i>The Favourite</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alfonso Cuarón (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roma</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Linus Sandgren (<i>First Man</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (<i>Suspiria</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bruno Delbonnel (<i>The Ballad of Buster Scruggs</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rob Hardy (<i>Annihilation</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pawel Pogorzelski (<i>Hereditary</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rachel Morrison (<i>Black Panther</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matthew Libatique (<i>A Star is Born</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST COSTUME DESIGN</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>RUTH CARTER (<i>BLACK PANTHER</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sandy Powell (<i>The Favourite</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary Zophres (<i>The Ballad of Buster Scruggs</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary E. Vogt (<i>Crazy Rich Asians</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sarah Edwards (<i>Ocean's Eight</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sandy Powell (<i>How to Talk to Girls at Parties</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Colleen Atwood (<i>Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andrea Flesch (<i>Colette</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sandy Powell (<i>Mary Poppins Returns</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Giulia Piersanti (<i>Suspiria</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST EDITING</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>TOM CROSS (<i>FIRST MAN</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roma</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andrew Weisblum (<i>Isle of Dogs</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yorgos Mavropsaridis (<i>The Favourite</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jaroslaw Kaminski (<i>Cold War</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Barney Pilling (<i>Annihilation</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christopher Tellefsen (<i>A Quiet Place</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lucian Johnston, Jennifer Lame (<i>Hereditary</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kim Da-won, Kim Hyun (<i>Burning</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Barry Alexander Brown (<i>BlacKkKlansman</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST MAKEUP</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SUSPIRIA</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Vice</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Black Panther</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Favourite</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>A Wrinkle in Time</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Ballad of Buster Scruggs</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>FIONA CROMBIE, ALICE FELTON (<i>THE FAVOURITE</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hannah Beachler, Jay Hart (<i>Black Panther</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paul Harrod, Adam Stockhausen (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Isle of Dogs</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inbal Weinberg, Christin Busse, Merissa Lombardo (<i>Suspiria</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nelson Coates, Andrew Baseman (<i>Crazy Rich Asians</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grace Yun, Brian Lives (<i>Hereditary</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gary Williamson, Cathy Cosgrove (<i>Paddington 2</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas (<i>First Man</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SCORE</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (<i>ISLE OF DOGS</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nicholas Britell (<i>If Beale Street Could Talk</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Justin Hurwitz (<i>First Man</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ludwig Göransson (<i>Black Panther</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thom Yorke (<i>Suspiria</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alan Silvestri (<i>Avengers: Infinity War</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Theodore Shapiro (<i>Destroyer</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carter Burwell (<i>The Ballad of Buster Scruggs</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Geoff Barrow, Ben Salisbury (<i>Annihilation</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Colin Stetson (<i>Hereditary</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SONG</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"SHALLOW" (<i>A STAR IS BORN</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"We Won't Move" (<i>The Hate U Give</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Ashes" (<i>Deadpool 2</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Trip a Light Fantastic" (<i>Mary Poppins Returns</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Requiem for a Private War" (<i>A Private War</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Suspirium" (<i>Suspiria</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Maybe It's Time" (<i>A Star is Born</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST VISUAL EFFECTS</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Bumblebee</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>First Man</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Ready Player One</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Aquaman</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Black Panther</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Pacific Rim: Uprising</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Annihilation</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>A Wrinkle in Time</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST ENSEMBLE</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>THE FAVOURITE</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>If Beale Street Could Talk</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Crazy Rich Asians</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Avengers: Infinity War</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Death of Stalin</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Hate U Give</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Ocean's Eight</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Black Panther</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Widows</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Vice</i></span>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-30135865068818168502019-08-27T00:21:00.000-07:002019-08-27T00:21:00.592-07:00Film-Otaku Awards 2017<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(RETROACTIVE POST!)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST PICTURE</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>CALL ME BY YOUR NAME</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Dunkirk</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Shape of Water</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Darkest Hour</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>War for the Planet of the Apes</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Battle of the Sexes</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Get Out</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Coco</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Smaller and Smaller Circles</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST DIRECTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>CHRISTOPHER NOLAN (<i>DUNKIRK</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luca Guadagnino (<i>Call Me By Your Name</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joe Wright (<i>Darkest Hour</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guillermo del Toro (<i>The Shape of Water</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Thomas Anderson (<i>Phantom Thread</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matt Reeves (<i>War for the Planet of the Apes</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (<i>Battle of the Sexes</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steven Spielberg (<i>The Post</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martin McDonagh (<i>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Raya Martin (<i>Smaller and Smaller Circles</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST ACTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (<i>CALL ME BY YOUR NAME</i>)</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gary Oldman (<i>Darkest Hour</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daniel Day-Lewis (<i>Phantom Thread</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andy Serkis (<i>War for the Planet of the Apes</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jake Gyllenhaal (<i>Stronger</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Denzel Washington (<i>Roman J. Israel, Esq.</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James McAvoy (<i>Split</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James Franco (<i>The Disaster Artist</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hugh Jackman (<i>Logan</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daniel Kaluuya (<i>Get Out</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;"><b>BEST ACTRESS</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>SALLY HAWKINS (<i>THE SHAPE OF WATER</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frances McDormand (<i>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emma Stone (<i>Battle of the Sexes</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meryl Streep (<i>The Post</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kate Winslet (<i>Wonder Wheel</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saoirse Ronan (<i>Lady Bird</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Margot Robbie (<i>I, Tonya</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kristen Stewart (<i>Personal Shopper</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joanna Ampil (<i>Ang Larawan</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jessica Chastain (<i>Molly's Game</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>SAM ROCKWELL (<i>THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Stuhlbarg (<i>Call Me By Your Name</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Armie Hammer (<i>Call Me By Your Name</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patrick Stewart (<i>Logan</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Willem Dafoe (<i>The Florida Project</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Woody Harrelson (<i>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richard Jenkins (<i>The Shape of Wate</i>r)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lucas Hedges (<i>Lady Bird</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barry Keoghan (<i>The Killing of a Sacred Deer</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mark Hamill (<i>Star Wars: The Last Jedi</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>HONG CHAU (<i>DOWNSIZING</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lesley Manville (<i>Phantom Thread</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Laurie Metcalf (<i>Lady Bird</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allison Williams (<i>Get Out</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tatiana Maslany (<i>Stronger</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tiffany Haddish (<i>Girls Trip</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Holly Hunter (<i>The Big Sick</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allison Janney (<i>I, Tonya</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tilda Swinton (<i>Okja</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelle Pfeiffer (<i>mother!</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SCREENPLAY</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>MARTIN MCDONAGH (<i>THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI</i>)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James Ivory (<i>Call Me By Your Name</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jordan Peele (<i>Get Out</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor (<i>The Shape of Water</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anthony McCarten (<i>Darkest Hour</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Lowery (<i>A Ghost Story</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greta Gerwig (<i>Lady Bird</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Thomas Anderson (<i>Phantom Thread</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aaron Sorkin (<i>Molly's Game</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Raymond Lee, Ria Limjap (<i>Smaller and Smaller Circles</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>ROGER DEAKINS (<i>BLADE RUNNER 2049</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hoyte Van Hoytema (<i>Dunkirk</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">J.A. Tadena (<i>Smaller and Smaller Circles</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (<i>Call Me By Your Name</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dan Laustsen (<i>The Shape of Water</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bruno Delbonell (<i>Darkest Hour</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seamus McGarvey (<i>The Greatest Showman</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edward Lachman (<i>Wonderstruck</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vittorio Storaro (<i>Wonder Wheel</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Linus Sandgren (<i>Battle of the Sexes</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST COSTUME DESIGN</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>MARK BRIDGES (<i>PHANTOM THREAD</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jacqueline Durran (<i>Beauty and the Beast</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mayes C. Rubeo (<i>The Great Wall</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lindy Hemming (<i>Wonder Woman</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consolata Boyle (<i>Victoria and Abdul</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ellen Mirojnick (<i>The Greatest Showman</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mary Zophres (<i>Battle of the Sexes</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sandy Powell (<i>Wonderstruck</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alexandra Byrne (<i>Murder on the Orient Express</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeffrey Kurland (<i>Dunkirk</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST EDITING</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>LEE SMITH (<i>DUNKIRK</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gregory Plotkin (<i>Get Out</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sidney Wolinsky (<i>The Shape of Water</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Valerio Bonelli (<i>Darkest Hour</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walter Fasano (<i>Call Me By Your Name</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dylan Tichenor (<i>Phantom Thread</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jay Halili (<i>Smaller and Smaller Circles</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jon Gregory (<i>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pamela Martin (<i>Battle of the Sexes</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tatiana S. Riegel (<i>I, Tonya</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST MAKEUP</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>DARKEST HOUR</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Bright</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Okja</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>DENNIS GASSNER, ALESSANDRA QUERZOLA, ZSUZSI SIPOS (<i>BLADE RUNNER 2049</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau (<i>The Shape of Water</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aline Bonetto, Anna Lynch-Robinson (<i>Wonder Woman</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer (<i>Beauty and the Beast</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mark Friedberg, Debra Schutt (<i>Wonderstruck</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nathan Crowley, Debra Schutt (<i>The Greatest Showman</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mark Tildesley, Véronique Melery (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Phantom Thread</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harley Jessup, Tim Evatt (<i>Coco</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nathan Crowley, Emmanuel Delis, Gary Fettis (<i>Dunkirk</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scott Chambliss, Jay Hart (<i>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SCORE</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (<i>THE SHAPE OF WATER</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jonny Greenwood (<i>Phantom Thread</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carter Burwell (<i>Wonderstruck</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Giacchino (<i>War for the Planet of the Apes</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dario Marianelli (<i>Darkest Hour</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hans Zimmer (<i>Dunkirk</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Abels (<i>Get Out</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daniel Hart (<i>A Ghost Story</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer (<i>Blade Runner 2049</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Giacchino (<i>Coco</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SONG</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"THIS IS ME" (<i>THE GREATEST SHOWMAN</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Mystery of Love" (<i>Call Me By Your Name</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Remember Me" (<i>Coco</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Visions of Gideon" (<i>Call Me By Your Name</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"If I Dare" (<i>Battle of the Sexes</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"To Be Human" (<i>Wonder Woman</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Mighty River" (<i>Mudbound</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Poco Loco" (<i>Coco</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Guardians Inferno" (<i>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST VISUAL EFFECTS</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>War for the Planet of the Apes</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Shape of Water</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Blade Runner 2049</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Dunkirk</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Ghost in the Shell</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Thor: Ragnarok</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Wonder Woman</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Spider-Man: Homecoming</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Star Wars: The Last Jedi</i></span>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-27231619345767823182019-08-26T23:32:00.000-07:002019-08-26T23:32:40.495-07:00Film-Otaku Awards 2016<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(RETROACTIVE POST!)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST PICTURE</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SILENCE</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Arrival</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Your Name.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>La La Land</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Captain Fantastic</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Lion</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Jackie</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Witch</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Love Witch</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Hidden Figures</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST DIRECTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>DAMIEN CHAZELLE (<i>LA LA LAND</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martin Scorsese (<i>Silence</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Denis Villeneuve (<i>Arrival</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Robert Eggers (<i>The Witch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Garth Davis (<i>Lion</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pablo Larrain (<i>Jackie</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barry Jenkins (<i>Moonlight</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matt Ross (<i>Captain Fantastic</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Mackenzie (<i>Hell or High Water</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mel Gibson (<i>Hacksaw Ridge</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST ACTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>VIGGO MORTENSEN (<i>CAPTAIN FANTASTIC</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrew Garfield (<i>Silence</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Denzel Washington (<i>Fences</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dev Patel (<i>Lion</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kwak Do-won (<i>The Wailing</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joel Edgerton (<i>Loving</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Logan Lerman (<i>Indignation</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Casey Affleck (<i>Manchester by the Sea</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrew Garfield (<i>Hacksaw Ridge</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryan Gosling (<i>La La Land</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST ACTRESS</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>NATALIE PORTMAN (<i>JACKIE</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emma Stone (<i>La La Land</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charo Santos (<i>Ang Babaeng Humayo</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emily Blunt (<i>The Girl on the Train</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isabelle Huppert (<i>Elle</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meryl Streep (<i>Florence Foster Jenkins</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amy Adams (<i>Arrival</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Annette Bening (<i>20th Century Women</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ruth Negga (<i>Loving</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kate Beckinsale (<i>Love and Friendship</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>HUGO WEAVING (<i>HACKSAW RIDGE</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hugh Grant (<i>Florence Foster Jenkins</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ralph Fiennes (<i>A Bigger Splash</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lucas Hedges (<i>Manchester by the Sea</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeff Bridges (<i>Hell or High Water</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trevante Rhodes (<i>Moonlight</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mahershala Ali (<i>Moonlight</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Issey Ogata (<i>Silence</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christian Bables (<i>Die Beautiful</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nonie Buencamino (<i>Ang Babaeng Humayo</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>VIOLA DAVIS (<i>FENCES</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nicole Kidman (<i>Lion</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naomie Harris (<i>Moonlight</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elle Fanning (<i>20th Century Women</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelle Williams (<i>Manchester by the Sea</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Felicity Jones (<i>A Monster Calls</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greta Gerwig (<i>20th Century Women</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Linda Emond (<i>Indignation</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tilda Swinton (<i>Doctor Strange</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kate Dickie (<i>The Witch</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SCREENPLAY</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>ERIC HEISSERER (<i>ARRIVAL</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese (<i>Silence</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matt Ross (<i>Captain Fantastic</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou (<i>The Lobster</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike Mills (<i>20th Century Women</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Noah Oppenheim (<i>Jackie</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barry Jenkins (<i>Moonlight</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Robert Eggers (<i>The Witch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna Biller (<i>The Love Witch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luke Davies (<i>Lion</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>LINUS SANDGREN (<i>LA LA LAND</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stéphane Fontaine (<i>Jackie</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rodrigo Prieto (<i>Silence</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jarin Blaschke (<i>The Witch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Greig Fraser (<i>Lion</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bradford Young (<i>Arrival</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stéphane Fontaine (<i>Captain Fantastic</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flavio Martínez Labiano (<i>The Shallows</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M. David Mullen (<i>The Love Witch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Giles Nuttgens (<i>Hell or High Water</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST COSTUME DESIGN</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>MADELINE FONTAINE (<i>JACKIE</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna Biller (<i>The Love Witch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mary Zophres (<i>La La Land</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Collen Atwood (<i>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dante Ferretti (<i>Silence</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alexandra Byrne (<i>Doctor Strange</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Linda Muir (<i>The Witch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh (<i>Love and Friendship</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consolata Boyle (<i>Florence Foster Jenkins</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST MAKEUP</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Silence</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Love Witch</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Doctor Strange</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Witch</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Jackie</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>La La Land</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Florence Foster Jenkins</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Suicide Squad</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SCORE</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>MICA LEVI (<i>JACKIE</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna Biller (<i>The Love Witch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Radwimps (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your Name.</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mark Korven (<i>The Witch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jóhann Jóhannsson (<i>Arrival</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Justin Hurwitz (<i>La La Land</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hauschka, Dustin O'Halloran (<i>Lion</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Giacchino (<i>Doctor Strange</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michael Giacchino (<i>Rogue One: A Star Wars Story</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marco Beltrami (<i>The Shallows</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST SONG</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"CITY OF STARS" (<i>LA LA LAND</i>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Love is a Magickal Thing" (<i>The Love Witch</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Audition" (<i>La La Land</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Nandemonaiya" (<i>Your Name.</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We Know the Way" (<i>Moana</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Zen Zen Zense" (<i>Your Name.</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Never Give Up" (<i>Lion</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"How Far I'll Go" (<i>Moana</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Drive It Like You Stole It" (<i>Sing Street</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Riddle of the Model" (<i>Sing Street</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST VISUAL EFFECTS</b></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Doctor Strange</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Captain America: Civil War</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Arrival</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Jungle Book</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Sully</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>X-Men: Apocalypse</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Suicide Squad</i></span>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-51104615318058879352018-11-04T17:47:00.004-08:002018-11-04T17:48:15.517-08:00Review: Suspiria (2018) (WITH SPOILERS)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_Cf-nHLoMZItIyj3dprXgQtyWp15_MCe2YYsIGDzbmwme5VZPDYmXJTCjbLXFzHiM6rMGeapHgoaB_Q27oyg93ACIcXZyvvo3uTHU3cOG6tZRcuhoufqCfNCpLmB3w7-Zh36iA/s1600/Suspiria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_Cf-nHLoMZItIyj3dprXgQtyWp15_MCe2YYsIGDzbmwme5VZPDYmXJTCjbLXFzHiM6rMGeapHgoaB_Q27oyg93ACIcXZyvvo3uTHU3cOG6tZRcuhoufqCfNCpLmB3w7-Zh36iA/s320/Suspiria.jpg" width="207" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First off, full disclosure: I'm nuts about the original <i>Suspiria</i>. I don't personally know anyone who's a bigger fan of it than I am.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's why it feels almost sacrilegious to admit this: there are things that Luca Guadagnino's <i>Suspiria</i> achieves that Dario Argento's should have but didn't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2018 <i>Suspiria </i>actually manages to inform the plot with the historical subtext of the time; in 1977, Berlin was in socio-political upheaval. It's a sinister undercurrent spoken off in the background on television or radio, but it's also a convenient scapegoat for the Markos coven to authorities when trying to explain the disappearance of their dancer Patricia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a film about witches and covens, 1977 <i>Suspiria </i>was very light on actual coven activities. In practically no scene in that film are the witches seen huddling and conniving or, most importantly, performing diabolical rituals that have given cinematic witches their place in the horror genre. That was largely what made the 1922 film <i>Häxan </i>so terrifying, as did that last scene in the forest at the tail-end of <i>The Witch</i>. In 2018 <i>Suspiria</i>, every moment where the coven is gathered is quite chilling and thrilling at the same time, even (or especially, on hindsight?) when they talk internal politics. And then there is, of course, the climax in the secret hall, which you have to see to believe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Above all, what gives this film such power is its use of dance, of the rhythmic and entrancing movements of the human body, as an instrument of bodily destruction. 1977 <i>Suspiria </i>used the dance academy as a convenient and promising backdrop for the demonic activities of Markos's coven but was not able to capitalize on it. In 2018 <i>Suspiria</i>, dance is a telekinetic force that punishes the body of a transgressor, or a summoning spell for conjuring the stuff of living nightmares.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This <i>Suspiria</i>, written by David Kajganich, will prove to be divisive. People will hate it for its grotesquerie and gore or its length or, yes, the whiff of pretentiousness or its craftsmanship and rightly so. The set design and cinematography are appropriately austere, not loud and garish like those of the original. DP Sayombhu Mukdeeprom's lensing makes the film look like an authentic product of the 1970s. While not as memorable as the now-iconic score made by the band Goblin for Argento's film, Thom Yorke's is impressive, properly chilling and never overbearing. If there is one department that must snag an Oscar nomination, however, it's the makeup design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which leads us to Tilda Swinton. We recognize her most easily as Madame Blanc, the stern yet surprisingly warm mistress of dance, who commands every scene that she is in. But she also plays two other characters under loads of astonishingly meticulous makeup. Under the pounds of extra diseased flesh of Helena Markos is Swinton. And the open secret that many other writers have exposed even before the film's release: Lutz Ebersdorf, the unknown actor who plays Dr. Josef Klemperer, is actually also Swinton. As she has proven time and again, Swinton is a master chameleon, and the makeup artists were certainly her accomplices. Dakota Johnson, who reunites with Guadagnino and Swinton after <i>A Bigger Splash</i>, is a good fit for the revamped Susie Bannion, who unlike in the original has more power than the beginning would lead us to believe. Jessica Harper, the original Susie Banion, makes a most welcome and bittersweet cameo appearance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Something has to be said of the climax, where Susie Bannion is supposed to be offered as a vessel to the decaying Helena Markos, the supposed Mother of Sighs (Mater Suspiriorum). After the big reveal that marks the biggest deviation from the original, Susie Bannion, who is the real Mater Suspiriorum after all, unleashes a demonic entity from the bowels of the great hall upon the witches who voted to keep Markos in power and allow her to continue to claim to be one the three Mothers. She spares only a few. The whole sequence is a fever dream. It's grotesque, macabre, hypnotic, and exhilarating. Guadagnino abandons all restraint and lays waste to the mind as Mater Suspiriorum metes out calm, almost detached punishment to most and mercy to others, and the academy's dancers relinquish all control of their bodies to their diabolical matron. It's a deliciously surreal nightmare.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Guadagnino's two most recent films, the sublime <i>Call Me By Your Name</i> and <i>A Bigger Splash</i>, did not prepare for me for this demon that he unleashed into the cinematic world. But everything that he has done can be called beautiful, and that the same could be said about this pastiche of body horror and dark magic is a true testament to his astonishing skills as a filmmaker.</span>evermoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665189293344870822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15355917.post-56850963566371739052018-11-04T17:43:00.000-08:002019-10-31T19:02:02.649-07:00#1 HORROR FILM: THE EXORCIST (1973)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Previous Rank: 1</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Director: William Friedkin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Jason Miller</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scare Meter: 10/10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scare Tactics: atmosphere, music, sounds, visuals, Regan/Pazuzu</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*Listed in <i>101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die</i> (Schneider, ed. 2009)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*Listed in <i>Horror! 333 Films to Scare You to Death</i> (Marriott and Newman 2010)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IMDb Plot Summary: "When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speaking of sheer raw power, nothing holds a candle to my favorite horror film of all time (a sentiment shared by many all over the world). When it came out, audiences were revolted, angered, upset...but they came in droves and made this a box office hit. After all, the film was as much an attack on the spirit and faith as it was on the mind and emotions. What other film could claim as much? No possession film before or since has come anywhere close to the audacity, boldness, and in-your-face brutality of the McNeils' harrowing spiritual battle. The cinematography, score, production design, sound, makeup...all come together under the masterful direction of William Friedkin, adapted by William Peter Blatty from his own equally terrifying novel, to make a chilling masterpiece that will shake you to the core.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As far as the ability of horror films to create a shudder in the soul is concerned, this is truly the standard against which all other horror films will forever be set.</span><br />
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