Disney wants Robert Downey Jr. to get an Oscar nomination for Tony Stark. [Pajiba]
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello really want people to know that they’re still together. Do you believe them? [LaineyGossip]
Did you get phantom texts this week? They were from me. [Dlisted]
I wish Mindy Kaling wouldn’t wear Dolce & Gabbana. They suck. [Just Jared]
Coco Rocha did a weird one-legged dress thing. [Go Fug Yourself]
The Fader & Vice bros ignored sexual misconduct until women within the companies started going public. [Jezebel]
Catholic schools still suck, btw. [Towleroad]
Apparently, Kris Jenner has wanted Kylie Jenner to date Drake for years. [Starcasm]
Debra Messing & Megan Mullally’s beef is still happening. [Seriously OMG]
Don’t know about RDJ, but I hope Taron Egerton isn’t overlooked for his terrific work in Rocketman.
He was really good in that!
he is a beautiful man. haven’t seen Rocketman yet (heard both he and the movie are fantastic) but I really liked him in The Kingsmen movies, and he was good in Eddie the Eagle, too.
He was wonderful in Rocketman. I really felt as though 40 years had fallen away & I was watching Elton John in all his glory.
Nomination, yes. Oscar, no.
Dear God, no. I like RDJ, but there have been so many better performances this year. Disney should be content with their money and not use their might to push other, more worthy performances, out of the Oscars. Stop being a bully, Disney.
I love Marvel movies, and I have loved RDJ’s performances in many other films. Giving him a nom for that is undeserved and a slight to his other, better work. Not saying an actor in a Marvel movie can’t have an Oscar – far from it. I liked Endgame in spite of RDj’s performance.
I’m such an mcu stan but no to all of this. I’m so embarrassed on behalf of the actors. Do y’all really think Brie and RDJ are going to campaign for this?
Disney needs to push for nominations for Alan Silvestri and the vfx team and that’s it.
Are we about to have this is Marvel art argument for the ten billionth time this week? Joaquin Phoenix is going to win for Joker, and DC fans are going to use that to trash Marvel rather than just being happy about the win. I wrote off the Oscars after reading an article one year about a voter bragging that they hadn’t watch any of the best picture films, Oscars can’t mean that much if they can vote on things they never saw.
If RDJ ever deserved an Oscar nomination, it should have been for Chaplin or Less Than Zero not a superhero movie.
He was nominated for Chaplin, but Pacino won for Scent of a Woman(👎🏻). Pacino should have won for Godfather 1 and 2. Denzel was nominated for Malcolm X and Stephen Rea for The Crying Game that year. All worthy nominees, but RDJ was incredible as Chaplin.
I know Downy received a Golden Globe nomination for Chaplin but I didn’t know about the Oscar. Still one of my favorite performances.
Agreed. RDJ was amazing in that role. His best performance, I think.
ITA for Chaplin and Less Thab Zero! Also, a Best Supporting Actor Nom or Oscar for The Wonderboys
I agree about Disney’s stellar performances in Chaplin and Less than Zero. Generally, I think RDJ is just an extremely talented man with a catalog of great performances even in movies that aren’t Oscar worthy.
If any performance deserved an Oscar that would have been an unlikely choice, my vote would be for RDJ as Cyrus in Tropic Thunder.
I agree about Downey’s stellar performances in Chaplin and Less than Zero. Generally, I think RDJ is just an extremely talented man with a catalog of great performances even in movies that aren’t Oscar worthy.
If any performance deserved an Oscar that would have been an unlikely choice, my vote would be for RDJ as Cyrus in Tropic Thunder.
I really think RDJ was excellent as Tony Stark, not necessarily in Endgame but in the whole set of Marvel Phase whatever this was. Definitely a nomination for the body of work. Though I hope Joaquin Phoenix doesn’t win either. Not that I don’t think comic book movies should be
considered — I love them when they are well done — but I just saw Joker and that movie really was much ado about nothing. I hated the movie, and his acting in it. Two hours I will never get back. What a waste
Nomination: No. Oscar: No. It’s just a whisper campaign. Stuff like that gets “planted” onto online sites all the time. Has no real worth when it comes to the hardcore, elite people in Hollywood who find such things fun to read but nothing more than that.
The Fader & Vice story is so upsetting. Yet more companies where sexual harassment and worse are given the blind eye. Props to the woman who sent out the tweet that led to the firing of one of the perpetrators. But SO MANY PEOPLE KNEW. There was no proper protocol for reporting assaults to HR, and HR itself was not neutral or supportive.
When I think of what women have to put up with to keep a job, it makes me ill. And the guys seem to fail upward (Kavanaugh). I hope every instance of this kind of behavior spurs women to vote vote vote. We need to take over. The men are f*cking things up badly.
Just want to add that I think this story merits a post of its own. It’s an important issue that needs to stay in the forefront of the news and entertainment cycle.
If they can be nominated then why not Angelina Jolie. Her reviews as Maleficent are always great.
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I love RDJ’s Tony Stark. He has imbued the character with a lot of emotional range and has a true character arc but he has had something like a dozen movies to accomplish that. Within the bounds of comic book or Disney fairy tale movies, I don’t think it is possible to reach that kind of character development without that kind of time which allows the character arc to develop amidst all the necessary story components (battles, setting up the newest villains/hereos, telling the epic tale). Really, Kevin Feige’s meticulously plotted MCU movies has been instrumental in allowing RDJ the space needed to create Tony Stark into a very real person with depth, pathos, angst, sensitivity: the whole gamut of human emotions.
TBF, Malificent hasn’t had the time to encompass all of that. If Malificent existed within a universe of films , like Stark, she would have the opportunity to encompass a possible Oscar worthy role. Even a trilogy is too little time for the necessary character development solely due to the aforementioned nature of these type of movies. That said, Jolie was magnetic in the first movie and carried the entire film. I haven’t seen the second one but, I imagine, Jolie is still on top of her game with additional value to be found in Michelle Pfieffer ‘s villain.I
It is possible Jolie’s Thena will have the opportunity that RDJ’s Stark has had if the next phase of the MCU is even half as successful as the Tony Stark phase.
Honestly, I am sceptical that even RDJ, whose character’s death had people crying, or any other genre character like his will ever get an Oscar nomination. I would happily take the momentous critical and commercial success that the MCU has had over an Oscar any day though. Besides, like RDJ said himself, he will eventually get an Oscar even if it a Lifetime Achievement one or something along those lines.
Correction: THAT Catholic school sucks. There are plenty of Catholic schools with LGBTQ alliance groups.
Yeah, I bet that school is a real outlier.
What the hell is happening in that first photo?
Is he sick? Did he lose a lot of weight suddenly for a part?
It isn’t good.
I like RDJ for being the come-back King.
I still remember seeing him in an orange jumpsuit standing before a Judge (real-life) and saying he (paraphrasing) had a gun in his mouth and liked the taste of metal in regard to his drug abuse. Gawd but he came back.
He came back.
I liked him as Sherlock Holmes best but he is and always will be IRON MAN.
One of our favorite Thanksgiving movies is Home for the Holidays starring RDJ, Holly Hunter, the late Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning, Dylan McDermott, Geraldine Chapman, Steve Guttenburg and produced by Jodie Foster.
Rent it if you can along with Steve Martin and John Candy in Trains, Planes and Automobiles.
So funny!
I remember watching Planes, Trains, and Automobiles as a kid and my dad laughed so hard during a couple of the scenes that he was in tears.
It’s hilarious! 🙂
same here…my dad traveled a LOT for his job, and he was howling during that movie. I love it, too. never fails to make me laugh, and there are so many good lines.
OMG HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE EVER AND NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN IT. ITS BRILLIANT. ALL THE ACTORS IN IT ARE BRILLIANT.
My screen name is an homage to Home for the Holidays. Love that movie. I watch it every year.
This is ridiculous. I am no Marty Scorsese, but come on. Oscar for Iron man?
Remember when RDJ got nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the oscars….?
for Tropic Thunder….smh.
He was amazing in Chaplin tho.
the oscars, much like the old white men that call the shots in the industry and sit in most directors chairs, are outdated & irrelevant. I always am reminded how Hitchcock never won an academy award in his entire career (all the people that did in his place have been forgotten)
Actually, he was beaten by John Ford, Billy Wilder and Elia Kazan, among others. None of whom have been forgotten by cinephiles.
@Jerusha
Yes, none that have been forgotten – *by cinephiles*
lmaoooo you think the average person knows who John Ford, Kazan or Wilder is? I mean…maybe if you’re a Boomer. For someone like me who actually has studied film, I know them. You know them. Does the average person w/o film knowledge (and aren’t old-old) know them? Not at all.
But they do know Hitchcock. Hitchcock has transcended pop culture where that word is not just somebody’s name anymore, Hitchcockian in as an adjective, his films have bled into pop culture in a way the others you tried to use as examples haven’t.
Kazan Wilder and Ford were great filmmakers – but they never will have the pop culture impact that Hitchcock has. Film people like me, people like you, or older people – sure, they probably remember that or think that. But you will find Hitchcock recognized among younger generations that know nothing about film. Kazan, Wilder, Ford…sorry, but they’ll go “who..?”
To me, that says it all. But go on 🙂
Stop the average person on the street and ask them to name three Hitchcock films apart from Psycho. They won’t even be able to name Vertigo, Rear Window and NXNW, much less Notorious, Suspicion, Rope, The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much x 2, etc. They might know the name, But not the body of work and I really don’t see much influence on pop culture anymore. There’s no reason to denigrate many other directors and the excellent work they did. When Hitchcock lost he was not beaten by hacks. Other great directors who never won an Oscar include Altman, Lynch, Fellini, Kurosawa, Hawks, Penn, Kubrick, Welles, Chaplin, Lubitsch, Lang, Bergman, Godard, and Cassavetes. We can agree that the Oscars don’t count for much, though.
The pic is startling.. he looks ill.
RDJ already said that he didn’t want to push for an Oscar nomination for Endgame. Why Disney decided to do it anyway is beyond me. Is it the prestige? Wanting to be taken seriously? Just doesn’t make sense.