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films and performances.
Nominated for the six major awards
ahead of the 2021 Academy Awards.
I'm Jackson Floyd and I'm David Lynch, and
in this video we're breaking down
the best supporting actress race,
the narratives that have formed
around it in recent months,
who we think will win,
who we think should win up for
Best Supporting Actress this year
are Glenn Close for Hillbilly
Elegy Maria Bakalova football ref.
Subsequent movie film Olivia
Coleman for the father.
Union junk from Manati and Amanda
Seyfried for make Jackson.
What do you think when you
look at that lineup?
Who jumps out of you?
There's one
name that really just jumps
out ahead of the others for me.
And that's Maria Bakalova for her
performances Toot our daughter in Borat.
Subsequent movie film just a year ago
we didn't know Borat was coming out.
There was no mention of a sequel and then
a sequel kind of gets it gets published.
They're going to SQL here.
Publicize that they're doing.
Sequel, and I think we were
kind of scratch their heads.
Just Borat. Need a sequel.
How will he pull it off?
Everybody knows the character
now Anne Maria Bakalova is the
reason why this movie exists.
Used the crux.
She is the heartbeat and she just is.
It's a performance unlike any other.
For someone who just has to thrust
themselves into the chaotic world
of Sasha or Sacha Baron Cohen
as he creates these characters.
These situations, the hidden cameras.
It's a lived in role.
You have to be in this role and you don't
know when you're breaking out of it.
And that's not.
That's not a place she came from the sun
in her background and she embraced it.
Fully and with wondrous results,
I think it's amazing performance here.
Not taking anything away
from their nominations.
You know,
we've got Glenn Close and
Olivia Coleman here again.
A nice little rematch,
right,
right? Yeah, yeah, I was just two years
ago where a Livia Coleman came up.
Not quite out of nowhere,
but definitely came up from
behind of playing closest.
Almost assured win for the wife and
actually snagged it for her for a
Little Miss negative for the favorite.
So it's kind of funny considering
that we have these two facing off
again a little bit just two years.
Two years later, at this point,
this is, I believe,
Glenn Close to 7th or 8th nomination at,
and that, but whichever one it is that
makes her the most at this point,
that makes her the actress that
with the most nominations in
Oscars history without a win.
So you know, it's it's beyond that time,
for we thought it was her time two years ago.
The interesting this year is it's it's.
It's for a movie that I think will have a
little bit less footprint in cinema history.
As far as Hillbilly Elegy go,
she's certainly the best
thing of the in that movie.
It's notable in itself that this
more those few performances that is
in history that has been nominated
for an Oscar as well as Arazi.
So make about what you will.
I think she's the most successful element
of a movie that doesn't really do well.
And yeah,
she's just gotta be looking up at it.
Horrid at the weird poetry of Olivia
Coleman being in the same category.
Her inclusion in here was was a bit
of surprise on a nomination morning.
I think there were some other contenders,
but it's it's not.
It's not an undeserving nomination.
She's great in the father office,
set up the great Titan, Anthony Hopkins.
So it is just funny to have
that rematch 2 two years later.
I don't think that neither of us are
leaning Tord Zeglin closer Olivia.
Home and went right.
Who do you think will win Jackson?
No, for me it's back a little bit.
I think I've got her pencil in my my
Oscar ballot right now and I'm go
ahead and and sharply that one as well.
I feels to me that this is a lock
for this category.
Do you think the same thing?
I'm thinking so at this point in
time it should should be noted that
we're recording this still about
2 1/2 weeks out from the award.
So at this point we still have the
batteries are the biggest one of
the biggest remaining precursors
to come this weekend and that may
shift the narrative a little bit.
But if I would put money on it right now,
it seems like Maria Bakalova
has the momentum.
She's just so good,
so funny so so endearing and
so also endearingly weird in a
very daringly weird movie.
IMDb or a subsequent movie film.
I think this is only just a second
or third role ever lead role that
is for sure a virtual unknown.
I think you know,
that's a whole narrative in itself
of an underdog swooping in with
one of their first rolls into
an Oscar nomination nomination.
Potentially win.
She won the Critics Choice Association award.
She also wanted New York Film
Critics Association award.
She's probably the frontrunner
in this category,
but we're also talking about
who's right up there with her.
You can't, you can't overlook young,
use, young,
her role in Manaria very celebrated
actress in Korea who's been well renowned
and regarded for decades over there
as the point there recording this,
she's the one with the most recent
jolt of momentum because she
wanted a SAG award few days ago.
Over the last weekend.
But I think that the Academy will go to,
well, Lena little bit towards the
weirder roll in the weird movie with
bakalova and what has been to kind of,
I think,
commemorate and way of what's
been a very weird movie year.
I think I think they understand
that you know in a year where not
many major movies came out news,
it was hard for some films to capture
so much of the conversation for more
than five minutes or a subsequent
movie film held onto the conversation,
it demanded conversation leading
up to it release and she was
at the at the center of that.
And I think that at this point in
time Oscar will will will recognize
that it would be fascinating
given that its performance,
that a it's a common performance of genre,
that the Oscars usually leans away from.
But it's also one.
Driven very much for improvisational.
If so it would be pretty cool if that
ends up happening on Oscar night.
Do you think Bakalova should win?
I
do think she should and you think about
the other comedic performances have
been recognized at the Academy Awards.
With nominations you think of
people like Robert Downey,
Junior and Melissa McCarthy.
It's it's amazing to me to think that
those people have been Titans of
the movie industry since their rise.
You know, Robert Downey,
Junior kind of kind of left the comedy
side and moved into the superhero films.
But Melissa McCarthy has been
one of the most bankable comedic
stars over the last decade.
Back, a little bit is an outsider to that,
so to see her also recognized
among those is really cool,
and I think she should win.
I do agree.
I mean,
it seems like you're torn between
her and young young.
I am
and you know, we're making.
I'm making the prediction that she'll went,
but that she will win right now.
Whether I think should she should win.
I'm leaning a little bit
of a different direction.
You know what out of out of the
films nominated in performances
nominated here for the films there,
representing in the Best
Supporting Actress Race.
I think minority is one of those
films that I think personally and
just kind of speaking at doley.
From what I've seen them,
the online discourse and such.
It's one of those movies where.
You watch it the first time and you
realize this is very well directed.
It's a very well written note from Lee,
Isaac Chung about a Korean immigrant family
working to settle their roots in Arkansas.
But it's also one of those
movies that full impact.
If it doesn't really hit you until
you reflect on it a little later
on down the road and and then,
if you get around to a second
or third viewing,
I think you kind of agree.
Calibrated appreciation for it.
At least that was the experience for
me and I think kind of the factor
that movie that most holds that up.
It holds that side of that movie up is
Union Yang's performance as a kind of a.
A surprise performances is kind of kooky,
crazy,
but embracing a warm grandmother role.
She's fantastic and so endearing
in that movie with everything she
does all her all her interactions
with Allen with the young Alan Kim,
who Once Upon a time not too long
ago was not too crazy of a long shot
contender for Best Supporting Actor for
his check for his performance in that movie.
But everything that she does is so great,
I think that she's she all performances
in that movie was so good.
I think she rises to the top and an.
You know,
I think that she's she's the one that
kind of sticks with you the most the most.
After you watch released,
she has with me,
and at this point I'm.
I think that she should win for a
performance that kind of runs the
gamut of emotions a little bit
and and and what what she does and
what you kind of expect her to do.
And for that she has much.
She I'm on team, you know, John.
Now we talked a little bit
about mostly the nominees,
but we haven't mentioned Amanda
Seyfried throughout the podcast.
A price point speaks more to make
than her performance, you know,
make is really just falling off the
Cliff after the nominations here,
but we don't really think they're
going to favorite for much of these.
It's funny to compare that to full.
First of all, compare it back to the Mean
Girls cast it's ago or Rachel McAdams.
Lindsay Lohan.
She's the one who's up here again.
I mean, right have been nominated since then,
but if she took it home that be.
Interesting comparison between the two,
but also just compare how the
storylines are making Borat have gone.
The fact that you know they both were
streaming releases a little earlier on
into the Oscar kind of kind of season,
but you know,
I think the reason that Bakalova is
still spoken about is how you know,
kind of meteoric.
That performance is just over
in this in this role so.
If you're going to put yourself
on the outrage meter if it's not
bakalova and it's not you you,
Jung Eun,
Yoo Jung,
how outraged are you and the results
of this category?
I'm going to say maybe like a one or two,
how to five? Not super outraged.
Just 'cause I think because I
think that whoever wins would be
kind of a fascinating development.
Become the Glenn Glenn Close one
hypothetically would speak for itself,
and that she'd be finally
finally acknowledged.
The buckle of potential when
we've talked about Libya.
Coleman just the fact that
she was relatively inherited,
unheralded as recently as four or
five years ago she's been getting.
Roles, but just wasn't a
household name for her to get to.
Oscar's in three years would be
a really fascinating development.
Not many people have done that.
And then Amanda,
Ciphered like you said it just
be really great sear nominee.
Just considering the arc that hurt her
career trajectory is taken and young.
Obviously that's who I I have
pegged as far as who I want to
win but I think no matter who
wins, I wouldn't be incredibly outraged.
I understand it's it's five
outstanding performances from 5
actresses that we really like.
That, and it's also five
narratives that make sense.
I do think that the Glenn Close
narrative makes a lot of sense.
This is what the Academy Awards does, right?
Recognizes just one of the
greatest performers years down
the road for a lesser work.
I mean, this is like you're saying
this is also nominated for a Razzie.
And not one of her.
I think you put on the Mount
Rushmore for Glenn Close there.
So I get that and of course it would
be groundbreaking for bakalova to win.
'cause this is not Academy Award stuff.
They don't award comedic roles like this,
but David Outrage is a is a
visceral emotion shot viscerally.
I put myself out of five when I say burn
it down the TV's off I I'm I'm out, you know.
So your team buckle of all the way, huh?
I've got the shirts in the Mail,
you know we're going to be doing all the.
Campaigning we can for her,
up until then
said and you know,
I think one of the things.
Also you have to consider with with
Maria Bakalova is that you know,
kind of like you mentioned or
alluded to once more time,
but it wouldn't have been.
It would have been a shocker
for a subsequent movie.
Film was nominated for Best For Best Picture.
It's garnered some some momentum.
You know it might be crazy
to think that a year ago,
but that's kind of partly development of the
weird evolution these narratives can take.
And and also definitely reflection of how
weird between 20 movie year was, you know.
So it I think that when you think also about.
Her being a representative
of that interesting project,
that unexpected project that
surprising project, I think,
turned out much better than I think.
The vast majority of people
would have expected it to.
It makes sense for the Academy to
recognize it through Maria Bakalova wind,
so I mean,
it almost garnered a nomination
for Best Original song.
Yeah,
strange times.
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