Another year of marveling at the Best Original Song submissions. This year has a 2x Platinum-selling single, our first AI-generated(!) submission that's also under litigation(!!), and more Diane Warren knockoffs than you think are possible. As well as, obv, the genuine article. Feast or famine:

Breaking my long posting drought to affirm that Gilded Age is the best show on television and Clock Twink is Fellowes’ crowning achievement.

Re: Katy et al

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Back in 2015 Sean Baker showed Tangerine at the UW Cinematheque and afterwards I shook his hand and congratulated him on his work, so yes I do take this as a personal victory

To crib from NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, and to maintain my sanity, my goal is to post something (anything) that made me happy this week for…as long as I can!

To begin: I’ve got a Hex Hector playlist regularly on shuffle, and this track has by far taken the lead.

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For anyone who feels the way I do about the Best Original Song category, you know this is the week (post-eligibility report, pre-Shortlist) when the veil is thin and you have mere days to obsess over the state of original film music. Gonna dump some opinions/insights here, and for your perusal…

Between the Globes and the incredible Somebody Somewhere finale, Miley Cyrus is having a HUGE week

BEST FIRST FILM: Janet Planet

Ryusuke Hamaguchi:

Let’s try* this** again***

*no promises
**what do we call tweeting over here
***I truly never tweeted, but would like to see if there’s something to having a new platform that inspires me to externalize!