He will again be up for directing consideration, along with co-producing with Kevin J. Scott has received nominations across his career - three for directing “Thelma & Louise” (1991), “Gladiator” (2000) and “Black Hawk Down” (2001) and a best picture nom for “The Martian” (2015). Two supporting actors will be submitted - Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian”) and Rupert Everett (“My Best Friend’s Wedding”). Kirby, who picked up her inaugural nom for “Pieces of a Woman” (2020), will vie for supporting actress for her role as Josephine, Napoleon’s wife and one true love. Joaquin Phoenix, who won best actor for the villain origin story “Joker” (2019) and has received three additional mentions during his career (“Gladiator,” “Walk the Line” and “The Master”), will submit for leading actor for his performance as Napoleon. Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories. Most notably, Vanessa Kirby will vie for best supporting actress. As awards season approaches, Variety has learned exclusively which Oscar categories the film will be submitted for. Perhaps if this had been an actual stand-alone movie of its own instead of being shackled by its completely unnecessary ties to the Batman universe it could have done something more interesting with its themes.Ridley Scott’s “ Napoleon,” an epic look at the French emperor and military leader’s rise to power, is one of the final potential awards hopefuls awaiting its first reactions from critics and pundits. Between that and every single plot twist being telegraphed so very far in advance because a lot of us have seen all these exact same twists so very many times before, I just wasn't impressed. It dances around important subjects like "HEY KIDS, CLASS INEQUALITY!", but then never offers any actual insight into them, usually because it's too busy making forced Batman references or dropping cringey little edgy moments like the "Don't smile" sign scene which seem to have been designed solely to have something for Hot Topic to print a new t-shirt of. Unfortunately, reminding us all of the fact that this situation still exists is all this movie really has to say. Joker does indeed present a theme that is of importance to our society, that of the neglect and demonizing of the mentally ill to a degree that sometimes creates monsters which everyone around them should have seen coming a mile away if they hadn't been too busy looking away to avoid feeling uncomfortable. If you live in a safe little box where all you watch are superhero movies and mainstream blockbusters then I understand how exposure to themes like this for the first time would seem new and exciting to you, and I think we can all agree that this is probably the best DC Comics related movie in the last decade or so (though that's not a high bar to meet) and of course Joaquin Phoenix is a very talented actor, but stop and take a step back and look at this thing. I gotta say, if this movie was also your idea of the most perfect film ever made, you really need to get out more. This "my comic publisher is better than yours" BS should have been left behind on your grade school playground, it has absolutely no relevance to the quality of this movie, and your opinion of this movie should be considered highly suspect if you're in this group. If you can't get through a movie review without tossing in one or more claims that "THIS movie is so much better and smarter than YOUR superhero movie" (or even basing your entire review around this premise), then I hate to break it to you, but kid, you're nowhere near as intelligent and grown up as you think you are. The recurring themes of so many of the 10 star reviews here should tell you a lot about this movie and its audience.
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