And here are HE’s preferential Best Picture rankings as we speak…not Academy predictions but personal heartfelt preferences:
Best Picture: 1. Sentimental Value; 2. Weapons; 3. Marty Supreme (haven’t seen it, spitballing on blind faith); 4. Nouvelle Vague; 5. Roofman; 6. One Battle After Another; 7. Hamnet (haven’t seen it, trusting ectastic buzz); 8. Warfare; 9. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (haven’t seen it); 10. Jay Kelly.
Can I just spit it out? 2025 has been kind of a weak year. Feels that way, at least.
You know what I’m doing? I’m going with emotional default choices. I’m not thinking it all through — I’m basically asking myself “what’s the easiest, most defaulty choice I can make?”
There’s nothing lower in the universe than to try to predict what the Academy and guild goons are going to prefer. Go with your own heart and determinations!
“Poor boy, when you’re dead you don’t take nothin’ with you ‘cept your memories of having wasted your life while trying to predict who and what AMPAS members will vote for” — from John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s “The Ballad of John and Yoko”.
Excerpt from HE’s 4.10.25 Warfare rreview: “One of the SEALS is Joseph Quinn‘s ‘Sam’, and while I felt terribly for the poor guy (in actuality, back in ’06) and his ghastly leg wounds (he moans and wails a lot and who could blame him?) but to be perfectly honest I was also whispering to Quinn, ‘I’m sorry for your character’s terrible pain but on another level you, Joseph Quinn, almost deserve it because you’ll be playing George Harrison for Sam Mendes, and you don’t even faintly resemble Harrison…alabaster skin, auburn hair, eyes that couldn’t be more different than Harrison’s deep browns.”