“Oh they’re cutting it close today”
~You
We really messed this up, so this will be a pretty quick run-through of acting performances. Should they win? Will they win? Let’s see! (Honestly you don’t need a FULL rundown…so…we’ll just do as much work until we end up with the major categories)
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Tagged Academy Awards, awards, film, Movies, Oscars
“So this website only writes once a year now?”
~You
Another year another rushed Oscar rundown of preditions and thoughts of the Academy Award nominated films from the past year. Again we’re getting it done just under the wire.
But enough about us. Let’s look at the Best Picture nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards.
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Tagged Academy Awards, awards, film, Movies, Oscars
“Why do you make us watch ALL of these movies? We’re pretty sure the Academy members don’t even do that.”
~AFFotD’s staff
After watching all ten Best Picture nominees for the 2024 Academy Awards and ranking them accordingly, we’ve continued our sicko tradition of watching all the Oscar-nominated films and giving our predictions.
We’ll soon go into all the other categories with a little less “explaining the movie” sections, but for now, having seen all the nominees for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, let’s dive right into our next set of predictions.
“Oh God, we’re doing this again?”
~The Entire AFFotD Staff
Last year, our staff made the decision to do write ups-on the Oscar nominees for Best Picture, Best Actors, Best Actresses, and all the rest. Our results? We were pretty accurate actually!
And we put more work into our predictions than, hmm, some multi-million dollar entities that decided to rely on AI. And we’re not gonna take our foot off the gas. Here’s our rundown of the ten Best Picture nominees for the 2024 Academy Awards.
“Ugh. Jesus. Well at least we’re literally the last website on the internet to write a hot take on Artificial Intelligence”
~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief Johnny Roosevelt
Yes, we used AI to make this image. The prompt was “rich venture capitalist using Artificial Intelligence software to write a bad article –ar 16:9”
It’s been a while since you’ve heard from our staff (our staff holiday party was a booze cruise for Octoberfest that ended up leading to an almost note-for-note Triangle of Sadness situation. Only for us, the rich were okay, and the interns…well we don’t have interns anymore).
Speaking of Academy Award nominated films, friends of the site know we get weird about award season. We gave our predictions for every single major category for the 2023 Oscars (and were surprisingly accurate) and we went through 40 years of cinema to re-distribute Best Picture Oscar winners.
These articles took work. Like, enough work for you to rightfully be concerned about the mental state of our writers. And they received hundreds, maybe even thousands of views, and brought in roughly $3.52 of revenue.
You know who has more than $3.52, a larger staff, and decided to fuck off and do their Oscar preview not with 14,000 words that took 20 hours to create, but with an entirely AI-created article with 15 minutes of edits that is immediately recognizable as being pushed through ChatGPT?
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Tagged Academy Awards, AI, America, Artificial Intelligence, awards, film, Movies, Oscars, Variety
Hey, hi, how are you. We’ve meticulously written a rundown of all the Best Picture of the Oscar nominations, which as we start writing this will be airing in two and a half hours, and we spent the last hour doing a rundown of the male acting categories. So let’s not waste time. WE GOT DEADLINES.
“Shit, we forgot to put quotes on the last one of these. WAIT THE OSCARS ARE TODAY?”
~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief, Johnny Roosevelt
We posted our rundown of all the Best Picture nominees to illustrate that we’re masochists who have watched all the Oscar nominees for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. We then were planning on posting our rundown, and predictions, for all the other awards in three additional articles. Then we got lazy (read as, drunk) and forgot.
But the awards are in four hours so we still have time to either come off as Award geniuses, or Award FOOLS. So let’s get started with the male acting awards.
As you no doubt know, the staff here at America Fun Fact of the Day are certified sickos. We also are weirdly obsessed with the Academy Awards. It’s an illness we can’t explain. As a result, our entire staff sat down and watched every single movie nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, as well as a handful of wildcard nominations.
We don’t necessarily recommend this. We saw about 20 Academy Award nominees, which by a rough estimate means we spent 50 hours watching movies that are trying to be prestigious (also Top Gun and Avatar).
Families were abandoned. Funerals were skipped. Hot Pockets were consumed en masse. But we did all this so that you can hear our arbitrary opinion of each nomination, and our predictions going into Sunday’s ceremony.
So sit back, and probably get ready to be mad at some of our rankings.
“I have more Academy Award nominations than Tom Hanks? That…that can’t be right.”
~Bradley Cooper
As a nation, Americans don’t agree on much. We know that pizza is good, traffic jams are bad, and Jack Black is either the greatest gift we could ever ask for or a complete scourge from hell and there is no middle ground there. Seriously, it’s impossible to have a neutral opinion on Jack Black.
But one immutable fact that all Americans can share is simple—Tom Hanks is America’s dad, and we love him fiercely.
When Hanks first appeared on the small screen as *check notes* a young ad man who had to dress as a woman to live in an affordable girls-only apartment (lol, wait, really?) you might be forgiven for not immediately assuming that the then-24-year-old would go on to become a full-stop national icon and one of the greatest actors of all time, but here we are.
Ever since his big screen breakthrough in 1984’s Splash, however, Hanks has gone on to become the fourth-highest-grossing actor of all time, and one of the more critically praised as well. Along with Spencer Tracy, Tom Hanks is one of two actors ever to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in consecutive years.
But despite appearing in numerous Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated films in the past several decades, Hanks randomly went 19 years between Oscar nominations, until his work in 2019’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was nominated.
That got us thinking. Tom Hanks, arguably the greatest actor of his generation, has been nominated for a total of six Academy Awards in his career. That’s a lot, but given Hanks’ stature, you’d assume he’d have more, right? Hell, Bradley Cooper has eight nominations (though some of those are for producing, and he got a screenplay nod for A Star is Born).
So join us in a journey through Tom Hanks’ storied career as we determine—
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Tagged Academy Awards, America, Oscars, Tom Hanks
“Ha, shit, wait, I’ve been nominated for more Oscars than Burt Reynolds? Haha, what?”
~Nicolas Cage
We talk about the Academy Awards a lot around these parts (some might say to a “dangerous to our health” degree). Now, there are a lot of reasons for that. Movies take a lot less effort to get through than books, first of all. Also, as manufactured and imperfect as it is, the term “Academy Award nominee” lends a film or actor an impressive amount of prestige. But mostly, it’s the randomness.
Yes, being an Academy Award winner or nominee is an achievement that you can carry with you to your grave, but 80% of the time these nominations are extremely random and hardly make any sense. If you look at their history of work, it’s sort of strange that Charlie Chaplin and Angela Bassett have the same number of Oscar nominations as Andrew Garfield and Abigail Breslin, but that’s just how the Academy throws down, baby.
And we love it. We love it so much in fact that we went through a list of all the actors who have been nominated for acting’s highest honor to remind ourselves of a few actors whose nominations, in retrospect, seemed kind of bonkers. We’re not saying that these actors did not deserve the honor—in fact almost every one put up an award-worthy performance.
We’re just saying that if aliens landed on Earth, took in the entirety of our cultural history, and were told that Gary Busey was once nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role, they would probably respond, “Wait you mean that toothy guy from Point Break? Is this one of those ‘pranks’ you Earthlings seem so fond of?”
Let’s dive in.
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