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89th Annual Academy Awards – Final Predictions
With the Academy Awards now hours away, it's time for final predictions. I've given my detailed views on some of the categories already, but now it's time for the full list, including what I think will win, and what I would vote for were I a member of AMPAS (none of this 'should win' nonsense on my blog, thank you!).
- Arrival
- Fences
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Hell or High Water
- Hidden Figures
- La La Land
- Lion
- Manchester by the Sea
- Moonlight
Predicted winner: La La Land
Preferred winner: Arrival
- Damien Chazelle, La La Land
- Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
- Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
- Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
- Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
Predicted winner: Damien Chazelle
Preferred winner: Denis Villeneuve
With all its plaudits and despite its naysayers, La La Land looks set to pick up the big awards. I enjoyed the film fine, but do feel that others, including Manchester by the Sea and Hidden Figures, and especially Arrival, warrant as much if not more attention. So while I see La La Land dancing its way to Best Picture and Directing, my heart belongs to Arrival.
- Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
- Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
- Ryan Gosling, La La Land
- Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
- Denzel Washington, Fences
Predicted winner: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Preferred winner: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
- Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
- Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
- Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
- Dev Patel, Lion
- Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
Predicted winner: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Preferred winner: Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
- Isabelle Huppert, Elle
- Ruth Negga, Loving
- Natalie Portman, Jackie
- Emma Stone, La La Land
- Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Predicted winner: Emma Stone, La La Land
Preferred winner: Emma Stone, La La Land (only one I've seen!)
- Viola Davis, Fences
- Naomie Harris, Moonlight
- Nicole Kidman, Lion
- Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
- Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Predicted winner: Viola Davis, Fences
Preferred winner: Viola Davis, Fences
All the acting nominees I've seen were impressive, and I'd be happy with most of them winning. But it would make me very happy if Nocturnal Animals could pick up something.
- Arrival
- Fences
- Hidden Figures
- Lion
- Moonlight
Predicted winner: Moonlight
Preferred winner: Arrival
- Hell or High Water
- La La Land
- The Lobster
- Manchester by the Sea
- 20th Century Women
Predicted winner: Manchester by the Sea
Preferred winner: Hell or High Water
Tricky ones, but I think I've said my piece.
- Arrival
- La La Land
- Lion
- Moonlight
- Silence
Predicted winner: La La Land
Preferred winner: Arrival
It is always tough to determine if this award will follow patterns, or rely solely on the skill of the Director of Photography nominated. In this case, much as I love Arrival and would like it to win, I anticipate the long takes and crane shots on location in La La Land will shimmy the film to another award.
- Allied
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Florence Foster Jenkins
- Jackie
- La La Land
Predicted winner: Jackie
Preferred winner: Jackie
This award typically goes to period films, for good reason, and all but one of these nominees is exactly that. For La La Land to win here would be a bit odd, colourful as the costumes in that film are. After its victories at BAFTA, the Awards Circuit Community Awards and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, Jackie seems like a safe bet here.
- Arrival
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Hell or High Water
- La La Land
- Moonlight
Predicted winner: Arrival
Preferred winner: Arrival
This is an interesting one, as Hacksaw Ridge won the BAFTA but Arrival the Eddie (from the American Cinema Editors). I loved Arrival and found Hacksaw Ridge pretty good, and the potential overlap between the various institutions means this could go either way. But maybe Arrival will be this year's Mad Max: Fury Road, picking up various post-production awards if none of the 'major awards'. For that reason, I would like to see Arrival walk away with this award, and I believe it will.
- A Man Called Ove
- Star Trek Beyond
- Suicide Squad
Predicted winner: Star Trek Beyond
Preferred winner: Suicide Squad
I know nothing about A Man Called Ove, and the sheer range of weird and wonderful make up designs in Star Trek Beyond make it a likely winner. That said, I would like Suicide Squad to win, because I think the negativity this film received was excessive and it would greatly amuse me if the naysayers have to admit to the existence of 'the Oscar-winning Suicide Squad'.
- Jackie
- La La Land
- Lion
- Moonlight
- Passengers
Predicted winner: La La Land
Preferred winner: La La Land
- 'Audition (The Fools Who Dream),' La La Land
- 'Can't Stop the Feeling,' Trolls
- 'City of Stars,' La La Land
- 'The Empty Chair,' Jim: The James Foley Story
- 'How Far I'll Go, ' Moana
Predicted winner: 'Audition (The Fools Who Dream),' La La Land
Preferred winner: 'Audition (The Fools Who Dream),' La La Land
As a musical, it would be rather odd if La La Land did not win in these two categories. While I'm not the biggest fan of La La Land, I did find the solo 'Audition' to be very stirring (being one of those fools myself), and I would be happy to see that pick up an award.
- Arrival
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Hail, Caesar!
- La La Land
- Passengers
Predicted winner: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Preferred winner: Arrival
An interesting collection here, with two science fiction films, one contemporary (and very colourful) musical, along with two period films, one which features fantasy elements and the other, like the musical, is about Hollywood. Due to its BAFTA victory, I see this going to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, although the nostalgia and self-love of La La Land and Hail Caesar! might bring them success. For me, the production design of Arrival was a key element to its eerie alienness, and something I would like to see rewarded.
- Arrival
- Deepwater Horizon
- Hacksaw Ridge
- La La Land
- Sully
Predicted winner: Arrival
Preferred winner: Arrival
Back in 2013, there was a tie for this award between Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty. Both were favourite films of mine, and Arrival was my top film of last year. So maybe the pattern will continue. I would also like my top film to win something, hence my pick.
- Arrival
- Hacksaw Ridge
- La La Land
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Predicted winner: Arrival
Preferred winner: Arrival
Since Arrival is unlikely to win anything else, I can see it picking up both Sound awards. And I want it to, so there.
- Deepwater Horizon
- Doctor Strange
- The Jungle Book
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Predicted winner: The Jungle Book
Preferred winner: Doctor Strange
After winning the BAFTA as well as an Annie Award and the Awards Circuit Community Award (as well as others), The Jungle Book looks set to pick up the Oscar as well. Much as the animals and landscapes impressed me in The Jungle Book though, the inventiveness and outright trippiness of the visual effects in Doctor Strange had me (sorry) spellbound, and it gets my vote for most impressive visual effects of last year.
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Moana
- My Life as a Zucchini
- The Red Turtle
- Zootopia
Predicted winner: Kubo and the Two Strings
Preferred winner: Zootopia
Kubo and the Two Strings has done very well at previous award ceremonies such as BAFTA and multiple Critics associations, but Zootopia/Zootropolis was one of my favourites of last year, so it gets my vote. It did win the Golden Globe, so maybe Disney's delightful comedy about prejudice and tolerance might just strike a chord with the Academy members, in this time of strife and division.
- Land of Mine, Denmark
- A Man Called Ove, Sweden
- The Salesman,Iran
- Tanna, Australia
- Toni Erdmann, Germany
Predicted winner: The Salesman, Iran
Preferred winner: The Salesman, Iran
The director of The Salesman, Asqhar Farhadi, has stated that he will not attend the Oscar ceremony in protest of President Trump's policies. Whether Farhadi attends or not, as an act of defiance I hope that the Academy rewards the film, and I would too.
- Fire at Sea
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Life, Animated
- OJ: Made In America
- 13th
Predicted winner: 13th
Preferred winner: Life, Animated
- Extremis
- 1 Miles
- Joe's Violin
- Watani: My Homeland
- The White Helmets
- Blind Vaysha
- Borrowed Time
- Pear Cider and Cigarettes
- Pearl
- Piper
- Ennemis Interieurs
- La Femme Et Le TGV
- Silent Nights
- Sing
- Timecode
Pass – I know nothing about these films.
Expression in Editing
In the space of two days, I recently saw two films that could not be more different. The first was The Raid 2, Gareth Evans' sequel to his explosive 2012 martial arts adventure. The second was A Story of Children and Film, a documentary by Mark Cousins that merges the conceits of his last previous works, The Story of Film: An Odyssey and The First Movie. The Raid 2 is a fictional drama, a martial arts/crime thriller that delivers a blistering ballet of brutality. Cousins' documentary is lyrical, free associative and meandering. Both excel at what they do and each film offers particular delights and pleasures, and serve to highlight one of the most important tools in filmmaking – editing.
Alfred Hitchcock once said that the three most important components of any film were script, script and script. While this is a convenient soundbite for the critic who decries overreliance on special effects or glamorous actors, it is overly simplistic to describe cinema as being based primarily on the written word (and besides, Hitch could have been referring to screenplay, shooting script and another form of script). For sure, the written screenplay is important, but many a filmmaker subscribes to the belief that films are made in the editing room, in the assembly of otherwise disparate images. Small wonder that directors form lasting and productive collaborations with their editors, such as Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, Michael Mann and Dov Hoenig, and some, including James Cameron, Robert Rodriguez, Steven Soderbergh and Gareth Evans, edit their films themselves.
Sergei Eisenstein argued that the power of cinema lay in the juxtaposition of images rather than the sustained shot, hence his development of montage in such classics as The Battleship Potemkin (1925). Similarly, Evans uses fast cutting to express both the swift blows and dizzying impact of martial arts combat. Films like The Raid 2 are a testament to the merging of combat performance and editing, as the skills of performers like Iko Uwais and Julie Estelle are displayed to dazzling effect, while the cuts between different shots express the physical impact of the blows, leading to a visceral experience. Long takes of athletic prowess are impressive, and frequent in The Raid 2 as well, such as sustained pan shots of a prison yard during a riot as well as a warehouse towards the end of the film. Such shots, however, are generally at a distance, wide angle and encompass much of the cinematic space. Fast editing of close quarters combat helps to create a sense of being in the thick of combat, a vicarious experience for the viewer that gives us the experience of being in the ferocious fights of the film (without the inconvenience of pain).
By contrast, Mark Cousins uses editing to link together seemingly disparate scenes. Early in A Story of Children and Film, Cousins explains that he will not progress through films chronologically, but will be guided by how the behaviour of his niece and nephew reminds him of children in other films. The range of films referenced by Cousins is extraordinary, including An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990) and The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, 1995). I consider myself reasonably familiar with cinema, but the only films referenced in Cousins' documentary that I had seen were E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982) and The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955), making the film something of an education. I was a little disappointed at the omission of films about children and film, such as Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011) and Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings, 2007), but Cousins is interested in how film presents children, identifies and extrapolates their shyness, their defiance, their performativity. Editing enables Cousins to draw together his seemingly disparate examples, taking us from Japanese boys chasing dogs to an Iranian girl having a "strop" about goldfish. Cousins' finale brings together films from various countries about kids with balloons, linking these unrelated movies in a moving and thought-provoking way.
Cousins' cinematography favours a static camera, both of his niece and nephew in his living room as well as wide angle exterior shots of the Isle of Skye. Evans' camera is more mobile, taking the viewer into the cinematic space of his drama and, as mentioned above, thrusting us into the thick of battle. Cousins' camera also creates intimacy through dwelling on the events before it, both in his own footage and the scenes from other films that he refers to. The techniques of these filmmakers serve to draw the viewer in, and invite us to interpret meaning from the assembly of images, the editing both presenting meaning and allowing us to infer from the spaces between the shots.


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It's Montessori Monday! Can you believe it'll be the 4th of July soon?! Fortunately, there are lots of awesome Montessori-inspired 4th of July printables and activities available online. If you don't live in the U.S., you can adapt many of the activities for your own country's celebrations.
I've previously published a number of posts with 4th of July activities: Child-Led Patriotism, Montessori-Inspired Fun with Golf Balls and Ping Pong Balls, and Montessori-Inspired Patriotic Unit. Today, I want to share some 4th of July activities published since my post last year.
I'll add printables from a number of different posts to make things easier, but the activities will be in separate posts according to when they were published. Be sure to check out my previous posts for some great 4th of July activities. I'll be adding to this post throughout the month.
Montessori-Inspired 4th of July Printables
Free American Flag 4th of July Do-A-Dot Printable from Simply Montessori
US 4th of July Match-Up and Memory Game available inexpensively from Montessori Print Shop
4th of July Preschool and Kindergarten Free Printable Pack from Our Country Road (with a number of patriotic language and math activities and examples of how to put them on trays)
US Landmarks and Symbols — free 3-part Montessori cards from The Homeschool Den
American Symbols and Landmarks Memory Game from Living Life Intentionally
Symbols of America Free 3-Part Card Download from Mondorfment
Montessori-Inspired 4th of July Activities
Red Treasure Basket from Counting Coconuts (not a specific 4th of July activity, but a baby's treasure basket could be red, blue, or red, white, and blue for the 4th of July) and On Our Shelves – July & August (photo) from Counting Coconuts
Patriotic Rice Sensory Box (photo) and Sifted Flour Lawn Stars (unique practical life and art activity) from Pink and Green Mama
Patriotic Activities for Preschoolers from Carrots Are Orange
Montessori-Inspired 4th of July Activities from Barefoot in Suburbia
Patriotic Practical Life and Math Activity (UPDATE – my latest patriotic post)
Kids' Patriotic Activities (U.S.) Pinterest Board
Because U.S. patriotic holidays can use many of the same activities, I've combined them all on the same board. You'll find activities for many different levels.
I'd love to hear what you're planning for the 4th of July! 🙂
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