It’s nearly time for the Academy Awards! A celebration of one of the best cinema from the previous 12 months that the foremost studios have sunk tens of millions of {dollars} into simply so celebrities can take house little golden statuettes. What a beautiful custom.
And talking of traditions, we’ve got one right here on ToughPigs that we’ve been maintaining since 2010: Oscar predictions! We’ve a formulation for naming the winners that’s idiot proof. (Although, to be honest, we’re the titular fools, since we solely bought 4 proper final 12 months… however hey, perhaps this 12 months we’ll be the metaphorical stopped clock!)
Our technique is that this: If solely one of the best of one of the best will win an Oscar, and if solely one of the best of one of the best have crossed paths with the Muppets, then it goes to indicate that the nominees with one of the best Muppet connections will take house the award. Straightforward as pie!
Sufficient of this playful banter! Let’s open some envelopes. And the nominees are…
Actor in a Supporting Position
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After One other
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Sean Penn – One Battle After One other
Stellen Skarsgård – Sentimental Worth
We’re off to a horrible begin (humorous, I appear to have stated the identical factor final 12 months…), since not one of the 5 Greatest Supporting Actor nominees have ever labored with the Muppets. You’d assume that Sean Penn may’ve made a cameo on Muppets Tonight, or Jacob Elordi would’ve promoted Wuthering Heights by evaluating his top with Large Chicken’s on Sesame Avenue. So by default, this award will go to Benicio del Toro, who apparently was set to voice a personality within the Jim Henson Creature Store movie The place the Wild Issues Are.
Actress in a Supporting Position
Elle Fanning – Sentimental Worth
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Worth
Amy Madigan – Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After One other
We’re nonetheless off to a horrible begin (wow, déjà vu!), as we’ve bought one other class full of performers who’ve by no means met a Muppet. I do know, it’s heartbreaking. However solely one in every of them, to my data, has a sibling who’s frolicked with the Sesame Avenue crew, and that’s Elle Fanning. Her sister, Dakota, sang “Do-Re-Mi” with the Sesame solid at a Broadway gala in 2004. And she or he was undoubtedly a fan, as confirmed by her very first purple carpet look the place she’s carrying Crocs embellished with Sesame Avenue buttons.
Actor in a Main Position
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After One other
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Okay, we’re again in full swing! Whereas we look ahead to Leonardo DiCaprio to get that invitation to Fraggle Rock, we’ve bought two Greatest Actor nominees who frolicked with the Muppets as little one actors. Michael B. Jordan popped up in a 2000 episode of Sesame Avenue as a porridge fanatic at Hooper’s Retailer, and Ethan Hawke was photographed with Gonzo within the Fall 1985 problem of Muppet Journal to advertise his film, Explorers. However solely one in every of them returned to revisit their buddies as an grownup, which is why this Oscar goes to Michael B. Jordan.
Actress in a Main Position
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson – Track Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Worth
Emma Stone – Bugonia
Props to Rose Byrne for filming a video for Sesame Avenue‘s YouTube channel with Elmo studying the e book “Dream with Sesame Avenue” throughout lockdown in 2021. However this one has bought to go to Emma Stone, not simply demonstrating the phrase “stability” in a season 42 episode of Sesame Avenue (for which she’s gotten loads of consideration in our Oscar prediction articles over time), however for the announcement that she hopes to provide a Miss Piggy film with Jennifer Lawrence. First the Oscar, then the Miss Piggy film, after which the return of CAMPO!
Animated Function
Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2
Let’s be sincere. KPop Demon Hunters is a shoo-in to really win this award. It’s such a phenomenon, the voice actors popped up in a social media video with Cookie Monster just some months in the past. However even higher than an overt reference is a refined one, which is why we’re predicting a Zootopia 2 win for its inclusion of the character “EMT Otter” – presumably a nod to Emmet Otter, and voiced by Muppet fan Yvette Nicole Brown!
Greatest Unique Track
“Expensive Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless
“Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters
“I Lied to You” from Sinners
“Candy Goals of Pleasure” from Viva Verdi!
“Practice Goals” from Practice Goals
Okay, positive. THIS award can go to KPop Demon Hunters.
Directing
Chloé Zhou – Hamnet
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After One other
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Worth
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
The Directing class is all the time powerful, since most movie administrators wouldn’t have a chance to cross paths with the Muppets. So we’ll have a look at their house lives as a substitute. Do you know that Paul Thomas Anderson is married to Maya Rudolph? What if that’s who she was flirting with within the viewers of The Muppet Present particular? Heck, it could be – I don’t know what he seems to be like!
Visible Results
Avatar: Hearth and Ash
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Misplaced Bus
Sinners
I watched The Misplaced Bus assuming it was about why The Electrical Mayhem needed to exchange their unique wheels with a van, however it turned out to be some Matthew McConaughy thriller. So as a substitute, this one will go to Jurassic World Rebirth as a result of the unique bought spoofed by the Muppets a bunch of instances. Okay, like twice. However that’s sufficient.
Reside Motion Brief Movie
Butcher’s Stain
A Good friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Interval Drama
The Singers
Two Folks Exchanging Saliva
I’d prefer to assume we’re all pals of Dorothy, so we’ll give this one to Dorothy’s greatest good friend.
Greatest Image
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After One other
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Worth
Sinners
Practice Goals
Wow, 10 films and never a single Muppet in any of them. So, which one has the Muppetiest vibe?? Ought to the Oscar go to the one in regards to the questionable alien? Or the race automobiles? Or Brazil within the Seventies? Or, I dunno, a prepare? To my data, solely one in every of these films featured an precise puppet. And though the puppet in query was a really un-Muppety resurrected corpse, we’ll take the win. Congratulations to Greatest Image winner: Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein!
Have enjoyable watching the Academy Awards this weekend, and don’t overlook to share the proceeds of your Oscar pool winnings along with your favourite Muppet fan web site.
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by Joe Hennes – [email protected]
