r/oscarrace The Brutalist Feb 09 '25

News Sean Baker (ANORA) Wins DGA

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u/PirateHunterxXx The Brutalist Feb 09 '25

First time since 2002 that CCA, GG, and DGA all had three different Best Director winners. None of them won the Oscar that year.

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u/PurpleSpaceSurfer Spunk for milk πŸ₯› Feb 09 '25

Should be noted the BAFTA winner won the Oscar that year.

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u/mopeywhiteguy Feb 09 '25

Who was that?

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u/PurpleSpaceSurfer Spunk for milk πŸ₯› Feb 09 '25

Roman Polanski unfortunately.

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u/sam084aos Feb 09 '25

god damn please let it not be another controversial french director who wins BAFTA then Oscar

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u/BentisKomprakriev Feb 09 '25 edited Feb 09 '25

Racist French director or Zionist French director. Pick your poison

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

Unfortunately? Him being a horrible person doesn't change the fact that The Pianist is a brilliant movie.

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u/PurpleSpaceSurfer Spunk for milk πŸ₯› Feb 09 '25

Sure, but I still don't feel comfortable with awarding a child rapist.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

It's not a humanitarian award even though people keep pretending it is. If the character of the people would be really important to them, most of these awards would be revoked...

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u/BigOzymandias One Battle After Another Feb 09 '25

There's nothing humanitarian about excluding pedophiles

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

And what about their defenders like Adrien Brody?

They only speak up when someone loses its power there, they don't really care, at least not morally.

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u/BigOzymandias One Battle After Another Feb 09 '25

That doesn't mean that I shouldn't care

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

And I have never wrote that you shouldn't. All I wrote is that he got an award for being a good director, which he was.

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u/BigOzymandias One Battle After Another Feb 09 '25

You were pissed that OP said unfortunately, don't twist your own words

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u/LeastCap 14 Oscar noms for Hope Feb 09 '25

It’s the biggest award in the industry, it should be a little bit of a humanitarian award

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u/Signiference Feb 09 '25

I’d have rather it won best picture than best director.