Siskel & Ebert - Memo To The Academy (1995)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Gene recommends:
Best Actor: Nicolas Cage in "It Could Happen To You" and Keanu Reeves in "Speed" (yes, you did just read that!)
Best Actress: Winona Ryder in "Little Women" and Miranda Richardson in "Tom & Viv"
Best Supporting Actress: Cameron Diaz in "The Mask" (love this choice!)
Best Art Direction: "Ed Wood"
Best Adapted Screenplay: Susan Shilliday and William D. Wittliff for "Legends Of The Fall"
Best Picture: "Hoop Dreams"
Roger recommends:
Best Actor: Nigel Hawthorne in "The Madness Of King George" and Harvey Keitel in "Imaginary Crimes"
Best Actress: Jessica Lange in "Blue Sky" and Crissy Rock in "Ladybird, Ladybird"
Best Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau in "I.Q."
Best Original Screenplay: Boaz Yakin for "Fresh"
Best Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski for "Red"
Best Picture: "Pulp Fiction"
Speed should have been nominated for Best Picture and Director.
Just a stellar thriller that holds up so well.
I saw that in a sneak preview double billed with The Crow,I haven’t thought about that in years til this reminded me. Both hold up to this day
I was so delighted to hear Siskel wholeheartedly wish for an Oscar nomination or other acclaim for Keanu Reeves in "Speed." He had definitely given performances previous to Speed that ran the gamut from terrible (Bram Stoker's Dracula) to subtle and moving (My Own Private Idaho), but in "Speed," I definitely felt we were seeing a real breakthrough for him, watching him fully and confidently inhabit a difficult role with a lot of charm and charisma, as well as the physical grace he's known for -- plus using an array of acting skills we hadn't seen from him before. He's continued to be an actor who can vary from project to project, but I continue to think he's underrated at his best (The Matrix, Something's Got to Give, the John Wick films, etc.).
When Parasite won Best Picture in 2019, I thought Siskel and Ebert would've been proud of the Academy breaking out of the lockkstep they talk about here. It doesn't say Best American Film, but Best Picture.
The scene in Speed when Keanu says to the unruly passenger “we’re just two cool guys hanging out,” that must’ve been the moment Gene said to himself “this man deserves an Oscar!”
Cahns, it was just cahns.
Maybe it was near the end: "Pop quiz asshole! You have a hair-trigger aimed at your head whadda you do? Whadda you doooo?"
Lmbo.
Speed is one of my favourite action movies, but Keanu for an Oscar? Damn even I wouldn’t go that far
I think Gene often deliberately misused this annual special to make bold contrarian choices that he clearly knew didn't have a chance of being nominated. This was supposed to be a program to highlight work that COULD conceivably be nominated if only enough voters would give it a chance and watch their screener cassette. Roger was usually much better at targeting his choices to the voting audience.
@@flaccidusminimus2170 yeah your right. Speed did win oscars which were well-deserved, but they were for Sound and Sound Effects Editing, but I wasn't to sure about Keanu for Best actor, not that he didn't give a good performance, it's just that I think there are other contenders that were better that year, like Johnny Depp for Ed Wood and Tim Robbins for The Shawshank Redemption.
Winona rider was incredible in Little Women
They influenced the Academy with Madness of King George, Tom & Viv, Little Women, and Blue Sky.
All of which may have been nominated regardless. Little Women and Blue Sky certainly would have been. There's no way to actually measure S&E's influence.
So much for that “lock” nomination of TLJ for “Cobb”!
And Tim Robbins. They nominated Morgan Freeman instead.
They were cheerleading for so long for hoop dreams
Interesting that Gene thought the cinematography of Ed Wood was “a lock for a nomination”. It was heavily awarded by various critics but wasn’t even nominated by the ASC. So it wasn’t a lock at all. It SHOULD have been nominated, though.
Well, considering it received almost every award, then he was correct saying it would be a lock of a nomination
@@kd17Burger No sir. When considering the Oscar contenders for cinematography, the precursor awards to think about are the ASC and the BAFTAS, not the critics awards.
@@9114SouthCentralAv Maybe recently, but not back in 1994 - Since its inception in 1986 through 1994 , they predicted the Oscar Winner correctly one time in 9 years - If you see most of the critics picks for those years, they usually were on the mark and Ed Wood Dominated that year and Bafta didn't start getting taken seriously until maybe 10years ago
@@kd17Burger You’re right about the ASC winners in comparison to the Oscar winners but keep in mind we are talking about gauging a NOMINATION for cinematography, not the winner. Oscar handicappers have used the ASC nominees since its inception as a precursor to gauge which films will get Oscar nominations for cinematography. Relying on critics awards to predict the Oscar nominations is bonkers. Many of their choices for cinematography don’t even go on to earn Oscar nominations. The ASC usually predicts 4/5. That’s not bad.
@@9114SouthCentralAv That may be, but again, if you direct yourself to the ASC nominees from 1986 to 1994 - a LOT of those movies were not Nominated by the Oscars
Karate KId Part 2 ? The Bear , Star Trek 4 or 5 - But Many of those Oscar Nominees were picked way before by the Major Critics which is why Gene Siskel said Ed Wood was a lock for
Three cinematography nods that I would've mentioned that year would be for Iron Will, Natural Born Killers and Ed Wood.
I get the feeling that roger would've adored Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister where nigel hawthorn played a high ranking civil service officer who could go into full on comic shakespearian soliloquy while explaining complex ideas like how international diplomacy works and why dealing with the leader of a rogue african nation was in fact such a difficult situation too consider.
Roger may have been out of tune with the prevailing buzz that year, but if he was initially correct about Jessica Lange's work falling under the radar, it's strange how she went from "in danger of being overlooked" to the clear frontrunner within a couple of months. On Oscar night, no one was surprised that Lange won. Indeed the perceived favorites won in every major category that year. Foster did win the SAG Award (the very first year they were given out), but few at the time seemed to think she could win her 3rd Oscar in just 7 years for a movie that wasn't well-received despite its financial success.
Every word they say about Crissy Rock in "Ladybird, Ladybird" is correct. You need to see it! In a year with few great lead female roles, the Academy overlooked Crissy Rock because they weren't really trying to find any.
Gene was always more out there with his picks for the memo of the Academy - Keanu Reeves for Best Actor for Speed - Come On - I enjoyed Speed very much, but his acting was the not the reason I liked it and I remember once he was pushing for James Woods for David Carpenter's Vampires
And Yes- I saw Ladybird,Ladybird when it first came out - I was 16 and I loved that movie and Chrissy Rock was better than ANY of the 5 nominated Actresses that year - In Fact 1994 never really had a Best Actress since Blue Sky was filmed in 1990
Linda Fiorentino would have been my Pick for Best Actress for her OUTSTANDING Performance as the Scheming Bridget in the Last Seduction - One of the Great Femme Fatales in Movie History and the Academy did not nominate her because it ran on cable for a week or so before premiering on the screen
We Glad To Have people like Flaccidus Minimus who know well and share Siskel and Ebert and The Academy and Movies GOD Bless 👍🏼
I love how Gene basically says Cameron Diaz deserves a nod because he got a boner.
I feel bad for the women who lost to Jessica Lange for a movie from 1991. 😄
Ebert: Here's your locks
Academy: lol wut Here's Morgan Freeman
Yeah he got 1/5 right lol
Gene is ahead of the time with Kenau love
"SPEED???????????????" WHAT????????
i cannot stand pulp fiction or any of the actors.
Hoop Dreams is a good documentary. But never understood the best movie of the decade type praise these 2 guys gave it. Especially Roger. I mean get a grip.
It wasn't just S&E praising the film. It was everyone.
Gene talking about Cameron Diaz's body is so gross. He often sounded like a Mad Men character when speaking of actresses. Roger never really did that.
Gene had a longstanding attitude like: "Critics don't talk enough about which performers turn them on, it's an important part of the moviegoing experience! I reserve the right to let the world know which actresses make me hard, and I'm not afraid to let them know about it on nationally syndicated television!"
Sure, critics can talk about sex appeal but Gene had a difficult time not sounding pervy. This was someone who was a friend of Hugh Hefner and toured with him on the Bunny jet in the late 60s/early 70s, so you can only expect so much.
Archaic bylaws...haha ha Rodger wanted to call them stupid, but bit his tongue.