JESSE’S OSCARS PICKS
Actor in a Supporting Role: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Animated Feature Film: Flow
Animated Short Film: Yuck!
Costume Design: Wicked
Original Screenplay: Anora / Sean Baker
Adapted Screenplay: Conclave / Peter Straughan
Makeup and Hairstyling: The Substance
Film Editing: The Brutalist / David Jancso
Actress in a Supporting Role: Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Production Design: Wicked
Original Song: “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez / music – Clément Ducol and Camille; lyric – Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard
Documentary Short Film: Instruments of a Beating Heart
Documentary Feature Film: No Other Land
Sound: Dune: Part Two
Visual Effects: Dune: Part Two
Live Action Short Film: The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Cinematography: The Brutalist / Lol Crawley
International Feature Film: Emilia Pérez / France
Original Score: The Brutalist / Daniel Blumberg
Actor in a Leading Role: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Directing: The Brutalist / Brady Corbet
Actress in a Leading Role: Demi Moore, The Substance
Best Picture: The Brutalist
IN THE CINEMA
What’s on at Huski Pics? Australia weekend box office top 10
THE PIN DROP
YouTube music chart top 10 Chris’ personal picks this week
WALKING ON THIN ICE
- Balatro receives new 13+ rating from PEGI in UK
- Skype set to shut down in May 5
- Instagram reels glitch
- Epstein documents released, albeit highly redacted
- Dude caught smuggling drugs on flight to Colombia under a toupee
ONE UP
- Rockstar Australia created after acquisition of Video Games Deluxe
- THPS 3+4 remake announced for July, Doom Slayer part of playable roster
- PlayStation announces Beta Program
- MacBook Air with M4 chip announced
- New Game Boy additions to NSO
- Winter release window for LRG’s Gex trilogy release
- Game gets delisted from NSO
- MH Wilds hits nearly 1 million concurrent Steam players, performance issues, character editing locked behind MTX
- CoD ’25 could still release on last-gen
- Ozawa Kenji starts up Studio Sasanqua in bid to “protect creators”
- Monster Hunter producer now in charge of Capcom’s dev divisions
- Sakurai Masahiro honored by JPN gov. for pioneering game tutorials
- Kamiya Hideki would still love to make Scalebound one day
- Activision uses generative AI to tease possible new IP instalments
- Steam hits concurrent user peak thanks to MH Wilds, now fastest-selling Capcom game ever
- Nintendo successfully blocks file storage site from hosting pirated games
- Game publisher Acclaim resurrected