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Author:  Shack [ Tue Jun 11, 2024 11:16 am ]
Post subject:  The 2024 Best Picture Draft Group 1 (New rounds)

You will pick 5 films (except Flava'd vs the World who due to unavailability traded all his other picks for Dune 2). If you pick the Best Picture winner you win. If nobody takes the BP winner the tiebreakers are: 1) Best Director win, 2) DGA, PGA or SAG win in that order 3) Most nominees of your other picks.

Here is a list of movies to choose from - you don't have to pick from this list:

The Apprentice
A Real Pain
Nightbitch

Description, director/cast and release dates for the above list:

Spoiler: show
Strong bait


Blitz

Directed by: Steve McQueen
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson

Description: World War II London bombing drama

No release date


Queer

Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Stars: Daniel Craig, Jason Schwartzman

Description: Gay period piece in 1940s Mexico

No release date



Kinds of Kindness

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Stars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe

Description: 3 story anthology

Limited release June 21


The Piano Lesson

Directed by: Malcolm Washington
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington

Description: Latest August Wilson (Fences/Mo Rainey) adaptation



Conclave

Directed by: Edward Berger (aka the All Quiet on the Western Front Guy)
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci

Description: Pope conspiracy drama

Limited release Nov 1


Maria

Directed by: Pablo Larrain
Stars: Angelina Jolie

Description: Opera singer Maria Callis biopic

No release date



Nickel Boys

Directed by: RaMell Ross
Stars: Unknowns

Description: Racial drama about abusive school

Released Oct 25


Old Directors Trying to Recapture Glory


Here

Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright

Description: Multi generation drama

Released Nov 15


Juror #2

Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Nicholas Hoult

Description: Trial drama

No release date


Eden

Directed by: Ron Howard
Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas, Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby

Description: Wildly hot cast of people "rediscovering themselves" in the Galapagos

No release date


Hard Truths

Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Unknowns

Description: Some sort of drama with black cast

Released October 18th

The Room Next Door

Directed by: Pedro Almodovar
Stars: Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton

Description: Almodovar's usual mom issues

No release date


Underdog movies with confirmed great reviews

Sing Sing

Directed by: Greg Kwedar
Stars: Colman Domingo

Description: Racial prison movie

96% RT


Emilia Perez

Directed by: Jacques Audiard
Stars: Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana

Description: Mexico cartel thriller

88% RT


Anora

Directed by: Sean Baker aka the Florida Project/Tangerine guy
Stars: Unknowns

Description: Sex worker comedy

97% RT


Mainstream movies not needing explanation

Dune 2
Joker 2
Gladiator 2


(+ Wicked, Beetlejuice, etc. if you really want to reach)

Can we take these directors seriously?

SNL 1975

Directed by: Jason Reitman
Stars: JK Simmons, Willem Dafoe

Description: It is what it sounds like


Klara and the Sun

Directed by: Taika Waititi
Stars: Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams

Description: Robot girl and family drama


Fly Me to the Moon

Directed by: Greg Berlanti
Stars: Channing Tatum, Scarlett Johannson

Description: NASA romcom

Released July 12th


Misc. movies

Nosferatu

Robert Eggers directed, it is what it sounds like

Released: Dec 25th


The Apprentice

Trump movie with Sebastian Stan, out: 78% RT


A Real Pain

Jesse Eisenberg directed family comedy, out: 91% RT

Mother Mary

David Lowery directed, Anne Hathaway/Hunter Schafer, musician/fashion designer relationship


Nightbitch

Amy Adams stars, Marielle Heller (Queen's Gambit) directed, some sort of horror comedy

We Live in Time

Florence Pugh/Andrew Garfield romance drama with Brooklyn director John Crowley


Long Day's Journey Into Night

Latest adaptation of play with Jessica Lange and Ed Harris


Untitled Noah Baumbach (maybe called Jay Kelly)

Has Adam Sandler, George Clooney, Greta Gerwig and some other big names

The End

Nuclear apocalypse musical


Hedda

Adaptation of 1891 play directed by Nia DeCosta of the Marvels with mixed race cast


Draft order:

1. Flava’d vs the World - Dune 2
2. MadGez - Blitz
3. Shack - Queer
4. Rev - Juror #2
5. Riggs - Kinds of Kindness

7. Riggs - Gladiator 2
8. Rev - Joker 2
9. Shack - Here
10. MadGez - Conclave

11. MadGez - Nickel Boys
12. Shack - Emilia Perez
13. Rev - Sing Sing
14. Riggs - Mother Mary

14. Riggs - Hedda
15. Rev - Fly Me to the Moon
16. Shack - Anora
17. MadGez - Nosferatu

18. MadGez - Untitled Noah Baumbach
19. Shack - Eden
20. Rev - The Room Next Door
21. Riggs - We Live In Time

22. Riggs - The Piano Lesson
23. Rev - Maria
24. Shack - Klara and the Sun
25. MadGez - SNL 1975

26. MadGez - Long Day’s Journey Into Night
27. Shack - The End
28. Rev - The Apprentice
29. Riggs - Hard Truths

Author:  Rev [ Wed Jun 12, 2024 4:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The 2024 Best Picture Draft - Group 1

Has it started yet??

Author:  Shack [ Wed Jun 12, 2024 5:15 pm ]
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Rev wrote:
Has it started yet??


Yes, MadGez is up

Author:  Shack [ Thu Jun 13, 2024 10:41 am ]
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Ok, due to MadGez absence I have switched the order so he now has the last pick in first round. My pick is now up.

Author:  Shack [ Thu Jun 13, 2024 10:43 am ]
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I'll ride the year of Guadagnino and take Queer

Author:  MadGez [ Thu Jun 13, 2024 11:12 am ]
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Sorry guys - im here. Can we go back to the previous order pls?

I pick Blitz.

Author:  Shack [ Thu Jun 13, 2024 11:36 am ]
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MadGez wrote:
Sorry guys - im here. Can we go back to the previous order pls?

I pick Blitz.


Ok, I'll change it back.

Rev is still up

Author:  Rev [ Thu Jun 13, 2024 2:01 pm ]
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I draft…


Juror #2

Author:  Riggs [ Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:29 pm ]
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Kinds of Kindness & Gladiator 2

Author:  Rev [ Fri Jun 14, 2024 6:57 pm ]
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Joker 2

Author:  Shack [ Fri Jun 14, 2024 9:15 pm ]
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Here

Author:  MadGez [ Fri Jun 14, 2024 9:29 pm ]
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Nickel Boys

Conclave

Author:  Shack [ Fri Jun 14, 2024 11:55 pm ]
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Good picks guys! I’m seeing a lot of movies left that feel more like nominees than having it in them to go all the way.

Author:  Shack [ Sat Jun 15, 2024 3:41 am ]
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Emilia Perez

This has worse reviews than Sing Sing and Anora with only 70 MC to their 84 and 89, but having just found out it's a musical (I missed that in my original description) combined with the crime elements, I'll take a chance that it has the crazy experience factor like EEAAO.

Author:  Rev [ Sat Jun 15, 2024 9:13 am ]
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Sing Sing

Author:  Riggs [ Sat Jun 15, 2024 11:58 am ]
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Mother Mary & Hedda

Author:  Rev [ Sat Jun 15, 2024 1:44 pm ]
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Fly Me to the Moon

Author:  Shack [ Sat Jun 15, 2024 2:41 pm ]
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Anora

Author:  MadGez [ Sun Jun 16, 2024 9:52 am ]
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Nosferatu

Noah Baumbach untitled

Author:  Shack [ Sun Jun 16, 2024 1:10 pm ]
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I have decided to add an extra round to this pool since it had less picks due to Flava'd gambit, and there would've been some quality picks going undrafted.

My pick is Eden. I may feel silly betting on both Zemeckis and Howard, but it is Round 5.

Author:  zwackerm [ Sun Jun 16, 2024 1:25 pm ]
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The Piano Lesson and Nightbitch

Author:  Shack [ Sun Jun 16, 2024 1:29 pm ]
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zwackerm wrote:
The Piano Lesson and Nightbitch


Wrong thread

Author:  MadGez [ Sun Jun 16, 2024 8:56 pm ]
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Shack wrote:

My pick is Eden. I may feel silly betting on both Zemeckis and Howard, but it is Round 5.


I was going to pick Eden but thought a film with so many hotties (Sydney Sweeney, Ana De Armas and Vanessa Kirby) couldn't possibly win BP :funny:

Author:  Rev [ Sun Jun 16, 2024 11:05 pm ]
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The Room Next Door

Author:  Riggs [ Tue Jun 18, 2024 12:32 pm ]
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We Live In Time & The Piano Lesson

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