The Power of the Dog

Still not over Oscar’s choice in both Best Picture (they choose a safe TV movie) and in Best Actor. How? HOW? It beggars belief. Shows how warped the voting system is. Ben clearly was Best Actor, and that’s not just me, it’s all the Critic’s Associations.

Still we have the performance on film and just like Brokeback Mountain, it will outlive other films that won over it in the years that come.

The lesson is that you never know when you are with ‘the one’ till you look back in retrospect. I’ve put a link up on the page to the short story, it’s rather beautiful as are David and Lionel.

I plan to document any news of the film set, going all the way through to release. My blog is @thehistoryofsound and I hope to see you there.

No matter the result of this years Oscar’s, TPOTD was the Best Picture, Benedict and Kodi should have won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Ari Wagner too, was robbed.

If I may, just a comment on toxic masculinity: Will Smith, for his angry language alone, should forfeit his award. However the violent hit he delivered to Chris Rock was totally wrong. No matter what jokes Rock may have said that were insulting and insensitive, the answer isn’t violence. Shame on The Academy if they fail to act.