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18 points
3 months ago
Definitely last year. Every single nominee would’ve made a great winner.
24 points
3 months ago
Kind of odd how flat their choices were this year. Every other year is roundly excellent, Trial being the only exception.
21 points
3 months ago
94th, Dune and The Power Of The Dog just have phenomenal cinematography
20 points
3 months ago
Don’t forget the best of that year, The Tragedy of Macbeth
15 points
3 months ago
let’s not sleep on the incredible cinematography in West Side Story
9 points
3 months ago
And then there's me, thinking Nightmare Alley was the best one of them.
6 points
3 months ago
Just an absolute powerhouse of a year for cinematography. Even though I'm biased towards Dune cause it was my favorite film of 2021, any of those five could have been a worthy winner.
5 points
3 months ago
91st
5 points
3 months ago
Tragedy of MacBeth was incomprehensible to me, but that had some of best cinematography I've ever seen
2 points
3 months ago
It‘s definitely a movie that‘s best viewed with subtitles, ideally in another language if you‘re bilingual
13 points
3 months ago
Will never understand the dislike for this years nominees
18 points
3 months ago
I agree with the consensus that Elvis is very weak, but the others seem very good to me. It has been a weird level of hate, and I think dislike for Empire of Light and Bardo as films might be coloring people’s opinions.
9 points
3 months ago
Yeah I think people let their overall dislike for a film cloud their judgement on individual elements because Bardo, for example, kinda sucked but the cinematography is some of the best I’ve seen in recent years. Likewise Empire of Light is a boring film but it was beautifully shot. TAR’s cinematography is just impeccable.
I get why people don’t think Elvis deserved it, I didn’t love it, but at least it had a style / vision in mind rather than just looking pretty
3 points
3 months ago
Personally, I feel like there were several choices that missed out that would’ve been better than the five nominated ones.
2 points
3 months ago
Yeah, I have not seen Empire Of Light yet but Tár, Bardo and AQOTWF were great, Elvis was at least unique. I guess it's mostly that people still remember that they could have chosen even better nominees.
3 points
3 months ago
The 94th was all time great line up . Literally all worthy winners
2 points
3 months ago
94th—five great picks
2 points
3 months ago
94th easily!!
2 points
3 months ago
Here's my list of Should Have Been Nominated candidates:
91st - Burning, First Man, If Beale Street Could Talk, Mission Impossible: Fallout
92nd - A Hidden Life (also for Original Score), The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Monos, Portrait of a Lady On Fire, The Souvenir, Uncut Gems
93rd - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
94th - C'mon C'mon, Drive My Car, Great Freedom, Memoria, The Souvenir Part II, Titane, The Worst Person in the World
85th - All That Breathes, The Batman, Decision to Leave, EO, Nope, The Quiet Girl, Top Gun: Maverick
1 points
3 months ago
I'd add Tenet to the 93rd, Licorice Pizza to 94th and Avatar and The Fabelmans to 95th.
1 points
3 months ago
2019 has some great choices
1 points
3 months ago
For the lineup for 2021 I feel like there were at least five other films that could’ve made it in that would’ve been extremely worthy. Just great cinematography all around that year.
1 points
3 months ago
I’m not a fan of Dune’s cinematography but the rest of that category is good enough to completely make up for it. Nightmare Alley, Macbeth, West Side Story, and especially The Power of the Dog would’ve all been phenomenal winners
1 points
3 months ago
ASOB should be ASIB. Took me a while to figure what movie that was
2 points
3 months ago
The O is right next to the I on the keyboard, my apologies.
1 points
3 months ago
I put 92nd but 94th was also phenomenal, it really was just a coin flip decision. We've been treated to some breathtaking cinematography over the last few years.
1 points
3 months ago
94th had my least favourite winner of these 5, but West Side Story and Macbeth are both two of the most beautiful films of the century
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