PGA Awards: Full winners list in all 14 categories

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1. Well I must take my hats off.

   Best Picture turns out to be CODA.

   It also means Troy Kotsur may snatch Best Supporting Actor trophy from Kodi Smit McPhee. Which also means Andrew Garfield only have to tackle Will Smith for the Best Actor trophy. Denzel Washington was correct!

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   1. Not necessarily actors can win without seeing their film winning Best Picture. That was the case of Frances McDormand in Three Billboards (The same year The Shape of water won BP)…

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      1. The Power of the Dog is boring AF. May the Academy reward CODA.

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      2. Yes that is true.

         If Kodi wins Best Supporting Actor, the more likely Benedict can win. Unlike Frances McDomand in Three Biloboards, an astute actor performance assessor would realize Beneduct’s performance depend very much on Kodi and Kodi is the lynchpin for the show.

         The Three Billboards are just inanimate objects and Frances had the time of her life turning the objects in vatious ways to suit her acting perspectives.

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2. The PGA and the SAG Awards have cemented “CODA” as the clear favorite for the AMPAS Best Picture Oscar winner. It is the sort of film that joyously moves any and all filmgoers, those that stream and those that yet attend movie houses.

   Moreover, “CODA” has rescued AMPAS from having potentially made the worst Best Picture choice in its entire history.

   For, aside from being the darling of the art house critics, relentlessly pushed by the deep pockets of Netflix, a very anemic percentage of general audiences much cared for “The Power of the Dog,” which was, in fact–rather like the parable of “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a nakedly turgid, painfully tedious exercise in filmmaking, an experience properly likened by many to having to sit through a root canal.

   It would be divine justice for Steven Spielberg, our greatest living cinema director, to shock the living daylights of all those who have locked Jane Campion in for the AMPAS best director win (should that even include the forthcoming DGA choice) for that in truth mess of tedium called “The Power of the Dog” to again triumph with a much deserved third Best Director Oscar for his “re-imagining” of the stage and film classic “West Side Story.”

   It could then mean that “The Power of the Dog” justifiably might go home with none of its twelve Oscar nominations at all, besting the record of Spielberg’s own truly neglected classic film version of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prive-winning “The Color Purple,” which had eleven nominations and no wins,

   “The Power of the Dog” deserves to be shunned (as was, in fact, its source, the 1967 also turgid novel by Thomas Savage, that had a miniscule press run of about a thousand copies, of which even a fewer number of persons actually read, with the rest of the press run being remaindered), as a lesson to any and all future filmmakers. One cannot just wow the critical establishment and pretend that a very large share of one’s potential audience is wrong when they have very keenly mocked a film as being unendurable to sit through even one viewing.

   The art of filmmaking cannot mean that, being blessed by esoteric film critics, that same film becomes a revulsion–to be avoided at all costs–by any significant segment of filmgoers themselves.

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3. Wow. I also have opinions. I thought The Power of the Dog was thrilling every time I watched it. Taut, meaningful, and precise. CODA was like an ok TV movie, instantly forgettable. Of course, Drive My Car is probably the best of the bunch (maybe Power of the Dog is better), but it stands no chance of winning. But it was a great year for film! So many quality movies that didn’t make it into the final ten. After a really lean crop last year, I’ve loved every minute of 2021’s embarrassment of riches.

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4. You remember the 1968 film The Fixer adapted from the novel by Bernard Malamud starring Alan Bates and he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Leading Actor.

   He had to act through a lot of scenes most of them not easy

   What Benedict acted in The Power of the Dog is only a miniscule of what Alan Bates did in the other show. Which is why I feel his performance is not deserving of an Oscar.

   As for Will Smith if you compare him with Cliff Robertson who played a retarded person that year in the show Charly, I think Will Smith is more deserving of an Oscar. But that year Cliff Robertson was competing with Ron Moody in Oliver! a musical whose performance who is certainly not the same as Andrew Garfield in tickk tic…..BOOM!, the musical with Lead Actor nomination for our current Oscar year.

   That year you can also pair of Peter O’Toole in The Lion In Winter with Denzel Washingtipon in The Tragedy of MacBeth thi year, and Alan Arkin in The Heart Is A Linely Hunter is chasing for love just like Javier Bardem is chasing for adoration.

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5. Remember in my earlier comments in another article I said that Belfast is like the Sun and The Power of the Dog is like Saturn..

   CODA is like Jupiter. It deals with hearing issues (Jupiter) and bringing up of kids whivh is the Moon. One astrological classic mentioned that when Jupiter is in Sidereal Aquarius (which Jupiter is now transiting in this sign), the effects is as if Moon is in its own sign in Sidereal Cancer.

   And Sun is transiting in Sidereal Pisces ruled by Jupiter so the effects of CODA winning is stronger than the effects of Belfast winning. And Sun is the father of Saturn so The power of the Dog cannot usurp the position of the Sun (Belfast) nor Jupiter (CODA) since Sun is currently in Jupiter’s sign by corollary.

   Thus according to the cosmos, CODA is playing a winning poker hand, it is the current top dog.

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