Friday, May 7, 2021

Jeff's Favorite Movies of 2020

 Wow, what an odd year that was for movies. I genuinely found it difficult to put together a list of things I really enjoyed (hence the late release of this countdown), but this is, I think, mostly the fault of the Oscars, who allowed January and February releases to be made eligible for the 2020 awards. What that ultimately did was push back the releases of the kind of Oscar-oriented movies that normally would pop up in November and December, so a good chunk of the stuff that might have normally slid in just in time for a list like this had to sadly be passed up. Basically what I'm saying is that my 2021 lost is going to be a lot better, even if all the lockdown business is still happening for the rest of the year. 

Anyway, I'm not going to babble on forever, I'll just get into the list. What I've done is singled out the 15-20 movies from 2020 that have stuck out to me the most, and while there aren't any undisputed 10/10 picks in here, I'm still mostly satisfied with these picks. I do really like all the movies on this list, even if it took me a while to come around on some of them.


Sunday, January 31, 2021

Saturday, October 24, 2020

1st Oscar predictions for 2021 - October 2020

 Yeah, even though the Oscars won't be taking place until April (maybe even later, depending on how things go) I want to go ahead and start my endless speculation process on what may find itself getting nominated this year in some of the major categories. Why bother? No reason. I have nothing better to do right now and I like Oscar predictions. So I'm going to leave this post untampered and come back in 6-8 months to see how it holds up. 

For my first prediction, I am going to guess that only 60% of these predictions will be accurate. This means I'm only expecting maybe three from each of my top 5s will actually get nominations. I'll calculate that later, too, so we'll just see how this goes. Why not make predictions for my predictions? I'm going full Charlie Kaufman on this, just cramming everything up its own ass until it's all too confusing for most people to understand, but that's what makes it so much fun.

The categories I will cover here are as follows:


Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Director

Best Picture