Without even really realizing it, The Nose has been covering the 91st Oscars field since early last year, and we still don't know that much of what to expect.
We do know that, for the first time since 1989, the Oscar ceremony won't have a host. And we also know that, for literally the 91st consecutive time, there won't be a Best Popular Picture award awarded.
But of the actual awards that will actually be awarded, who'll win what? That's much harder to tell even though The Nose, and its cousin that we clumsily call "Not Necessarily the Nose," has covered 14 nominated films encompassing 64 Oscar nominations.
These're them and those conversations neatly embedded in fancy Soundcloud format or hyperlinked for your browsing convenience.
ROMA
Covered on The Nose February 1, 2019.
Nominated for ten Academy Awards.
- Best Motion Picture of the Year
Gabriela Rodriguez, Alfonso Cuarón - Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Mexico
Alfonso Cuarón - Best Achievement in Directing
Alfonso Cuarón - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Yalitza Aparicio - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Marina de Tavira - Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Alfonso Cuarón - Best Achievement in Cinematography
Alfonso Cuarón - Best Achievement in Production Design
Eugenio Caballero, Barbara Enriquez - Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay - Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan, José Antonio García
It just so happens that we talked to one of Roma's Oscar-nominated sound designers this year too.
Skip Lievsay won an Academy Award for a previous Alfonso Cuarón picture, Gravity, and he's nominated for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing for Roma. He's done the sound on every Coen brothers movie to date, and we talked to him for a show about the Coens and their Oscar-nominated film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
When we blew up The Nose and did, in its place, a whole show about Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born, the remake was a prohibitive favorite across any number of big-time Oscar categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor. There was even some thought that Andrew Dice Clay might score a Supporting Actor nod.
Instead, Cooper was snubbed in the directing category, and the only award A Star Is Born can count on, really, is Best Original Song.
A STAR IS BORN (2018)
Covered on Not Necessarily The Nose October 12, 2018.
Nominated for eight Academy Awards.
- Best Motion Picture of the Year
Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper, Lynette Howell Taylor - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Lady Gaga - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Sam Elliott - Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters - Best Achievement in Cinematography
Matthew Libatique - Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
"Shallow"
music and lyric by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt - Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Tom Ozanich, Dean A. Zupancic, Jason Ruder, Steven Morrow
VICE
Covered on The Nose January 4, 2019.
Nominated for eight Academy Awards.
- Best Motion Picture of the Year
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay, Kevin J. Messick - Best Achievement in Directing
Adam McKay - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Sam Rockwell - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams - Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Adam McKay - Best Achievement in Film Editing
Hank Corwin - Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe, Patricia DeHaney
BLACK PANTHER
Covered on The Nose February 23, 2018.
Nominated for seven Academy Awards.
- Best Motion Picture of the Year
Kevin Feige - Best Achievement in Costume Design
Ruth E. Carter - Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Ludwig Göransson - Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
"All the Stars"
music by Mark Spears, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Anthony Tiffith; lyric by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Anthony Tiffith, Solana Rowe - Best Achievement in Production Design
Hannah Beachler, Jay Hart - Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker - Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor, Peter J. Devlin
BLACKkKLANSMAN
Covered on The Nose August 17, 2018.
Nominated for six Academy Awards.
- Best Motion Picture of the Year
Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele, Spike Lee - Best Achievement in Directing
Spike Lee - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Adam Driver - Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee - Best Achievement in Film Editing
Barry Alexander Brown - Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Terence Blanchard
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Covered on The Nose February 15, 2019.
Nominated for five Academy Awards.
- Best Motion Picture of the Year
Graham King - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Rami Malek - Best Achievement in Film Editing
John Ottman - Best Achievement in Sound Editing
John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone - Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin, and John Casali
GREEN BOOK
Covered on The Nose February 15, 2019.
Nominated for five Academy Awards.
- Best Motion Picture of the Year
Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga - Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Viggo Mortensen - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali - Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly - Best Achievement in Film Editing
Patrick J. Don Vito
FIRST MAN
Covered on The Nose October 19, 2018.
Nominated for four Academy Awards.
- Best Achievement in Production Design
Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas - Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou - Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee, Mary H. Ellis - Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles, J.D. Schwalm
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
Covered on Not Necessarily The Nose November 21, 2018.
Nominated for three Academy Awards.
- Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - Best Achievement in Costume Design
Mary Zophres - Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings"
music and lyric by David Rawlings, Gillian Welch
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
Covered on The Nose November 16, 2018.
Nominated for three Academy Awards.
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Melissa McCarthy - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Richard E. Grant - Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty
ISLE OF DOGS
Covered on The Nose April 13, 2018.
Nominated for two Academy Awards.
- Best Animated Feature Film
Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson - Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Alexandre Desplat
INCREDIBLES 2
Covered on The Nose June 22, 2018.
Nominated for one Academy Award.
- Best Animated Feature Film
Brad Bird, John Walker, Nicole Paradis Grindle
Incredibles 2 showed in theaters with the now-Oscar-nominated animated short film "Bao," but somehow we failed to talk about it. Whoopsies.
READY PLAYER ONE
Covered on The Nose April 6, 2018.
Nominated for one Academy Award.
- Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler, David Shirk
SOLO
Covered on The Nose June 1, 2018.
Nominated for one Academy Award.
- Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, Dominic Tuohy
And since you're here, The Nose covered some of this year's big Oscar snubs too:
- Crazy Rich Asians was a major moment in Asian-American pop culture.
The movie was a critical and box office success, and it was nominated for major awards at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and others. But it was completely shut out of the Oscars. - Eighth Grade was one of the buzziest indie pictures of the year.
15-year-old Elsie Fisher was nominated for Best Actress at the Golden Globes. Bo Burnham's screenplay has earned a number of critics' awards and nominations. But the picture wound up with zero Oscar noms. - Won't You Be My Neighbor? was the highest-grossing documentary of 2018.
And as often happens, it failed to garner a Best Documentary Feature nod. - 2018 was the year of the prestige horror film.
Hereditary? Zero Oscar noms. A Quiet Place? One Oscar nom for Sound Editing. Relatedly: Emily Blunt -- who was also Mary Poppins this year, by the way -- still has zero Oscar noms in her whole career. That's just craziness. - Mission: Impossible -- Fallout was probably the best action movie of the year.
And here's the thing: Going-on-60 Tom Cruise broke his damn ankle to bring you people a good, high-concept, popcorn movie that doesn't have anything to do with Marvel or DC or Star Wars or Star Trek or Harry Potter or Jurassic Park. And could the Academy recognize that with some nominations for Sound or Visual Effects or Editing or Cinematography? No. It could not.
