Yesterday, the San Diego Film Critics Society announced their nominations for the best of 2024! The winners will be announced on December 9th …. hey, that’s right around the corner!
Here are the nominees:
Best Picture
ANORA
CHALLENGERS
CONCLAVE
DUNE: PART TWO
SING SING
Best Director
Brady Corbet – THE BRUTALIST
Coralie Fargeat – THE SUBSTANCE
Denis Villeneuve – DUNE: PART TWO
Edward Berger – CONCLAVE
Greg Kwedar – SING SING
Best Actor
Adrien Brody – THE BRUTALIST
Colman Domingo – SING SING
Daniel Craig – QUEER
Ralph Fiennes – CONCLAVE
Timothée Chalamet – A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
Best Actress
Amy Adams – NIGHTBITCH
Cynthia Erivo – WICKED
Demi Moore – THE SUBSTANCE
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – HARD TRUTHS
Mikey Madison – ANORA
Best Supporting Actor
Clarence Maclin – SING SING
Denzel Washington – GLADIATOR II
Guy Pearce – THE BRUTALIST
Kieran Culkin – A REAL PAIN
Stanley Tucci – CONCLAVE
Best Supporting Actress
Ariana Grande-Butera – WICKED
Danielle Deadwyler – THE PIANO LESSON
Jessie Buckley – WICKED LITTLE LETTERS
Joan Chen – DÌDI
Natasha Lyonne – HIS THREE DAUGHTERS
Best Comedic Performance
Aubrey Plaza – MY OLD ASS
Channing Tatum – DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
June Squibb – THELMA
Michael Keaton – BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
Ryan Gosling – THE FALL GUY
Best Youth Performance (For a performer under the age of 18)
Alisha Weir – ABIGAIL
Alix West Lefler – SPEAK NO EVIL
Elliott Heffernan – BLITZ
Izaac Wang – DÌDI
Katherine Mallen Kupferer – GHOSTLIGHT
Best Original Screenplay
Coralie Fargeat – THE SUBSTANCE
Jesse Eisenberg – A REAL PAIN
Justin Kuritzkes – CHALLENGERS
Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilska – LOVE LIES BLEEDING
Sean Baker – ANORA
Best Adapted Screenplay
Chris Sanders – THE WILD ROBOT
Craig Bentley, Greg Kwedar – SING SING
Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts – DUNE: PART TWO
Malcolm Washington, Virgil Williams – THE PIANO LESSON
Peter Straughan – CONCLAVE
Best First Feature (Director)
Anna Kendrick – WOMAN OF THE HOUR
Dev Patel – MONKEY MAN
Rachel Morrison – THE FIRE INSIDE
Sean Wang – DÌDI
Zoë Kravitz – BLINK TWICE
Best Documentary
DAUGHTERS
MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS
SUGARCANE
SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY
WILL & HARPER
Best Animated Film
FLOW
MEMOIR OF A SNAIL
TRANSFORMERS ONE
WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL
THE WILD ROBOT
Best Foreign Language Film
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE
NO OTHER LAND
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
VERMIGLIO
Best Editing
Hansjörg Weißbrich – SEPTEMBER 5
Joe Walker – DUNE: PART TWO
Kathryn J. Schubert – BLINK TWICE
Marco Costa – CHALLENGERS
Sean Baker – ANORA
Best Cinematography
Alice Brooks – WICKED
Greig Fraser – DUNE: PART TWO
Jarin Blaschke – NOSFERATU
Pat Scola – SING SING
Stéphane Fontaine – CONCLAVE
Best Production Design
Craig Lathrop, Beatrice Brentnerova – NOSFERATU
Judy Becker – THE BRUTALIST
Nathan Crowley – WICKED
Patrice Vermette – DUNE: PART TWO
Suzie Davies – CONCLAVE
Best Visual Effects
ALIEN: ROMULUS
DUNE: PART TWO
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
NOSFERATU
THE SUBSTANCE
Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood – BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
Jacqueline Getty, Rainy Jacobs – THE LAST SHOWGIRL
Jacqueline West – DUNE: PART TWO
Lisy Christl – CONCLAVE
Paul Tazewell – WICKED
Best Sound Design
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE
ALIEN: ROMULUS
CIVIL WAR
DUNE: PART TWO
WICKED
Best Use of Music
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
CHALLENGERS
DUNE: PART TWO
SING SING
WICKED
Best Stunt Choreography
ALIEN: ROMULUS
DUNE: PART TWO
THE FALL GUY
GLADIATOR II
MONKEY MAN
Best Ensemble
CONCLAVE
DUNE: PART TWO
SEPTEMBER 5
SING SING
WICKED

The “Sing Sing” phenomenon continues use! The surprise sleeper of Oscar 2024 so far!
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The k’vanna of the entire first Book of the Written Torah
Making a shallow reactionary reading – fails to discern the forest through all the trees! A tits on a boar hog טיפש פשט – utterly pathetic Christians read their Bibles; People of the Book Koran curse against the Jews – shallow paper thin reactionary rhetoric propaganda narishkeit.
What’s the Prime theme of the Book of בראשית? Turn to the common denominator expressed in all Yom Tov tefillot!
Learn: ‘אתה בחרתנו מכל העמים, אהבת אותנו ורצית בנו, ורוממתנו וכו.
The Book of בראשית – תמיד מעשה בראשית, tohor time oriented Av commandments which create from nothing continuously in all generations “the chosen Cohen nation” from the midsts of the Goyim. Which continuously separates Av tohor time oriented commandments from toldot positive & negative commandments and Talmudic halachot which do not require k’vanna; רשות דולדות מצוות שלא צריך כוונה like תפילה ערבית, unto Av tohor time oriented mitzvot, which do require prophetic mussar T’NaCH k’vaana.
The Judgment Day of the Brit–faith ie pursuit of judicial justice inside the oath sworn lands: Blessing or Curse/Life or Death\. Does the Chosen Cohen תמיד מעשה בראשית nation pursue faith לשמה or לא לשמה. Clearly if we pursue the oath brit faith ie righteous pursuit of justice whereby judicial Sanhedrin courts impose fair compensation of damages inflicted by party A upon party B; unlike and contrasted by the brothers casting Yosef into a well and selling him as a slave to Egypt.
No justice, observance of the Torah לא לשמה, applicable to both Yosef and his brothers. Yosef failed to give מחילה to his brothers and bless them with the Chosen first born Cohen people “blessing”, like as did both Yaacov and Moshe\ברכת כהנים/ Rabbeinu… the Torah curse of g’lut… Arose a new Par’o who did not know Yosef!
When Rabban Gamliel enquired from rabbi Yehoshua whether תפילת ערבית, a רשות או חיוב? And rabbi Yehoshua responded with חיוב, did he lie to Rabban Gamliel? A famous Talmudic confrontation. Rabban Gamliel’s lack of דרך ארץ caused him to cease ruling as the Nasi of the Great Sanhedrin!
The k’vanna רשות of תפילת ערבית, a person says this tefillah at פלג המנחה. מארמית: תרגום חופשי לעברית: מחצית המנחה. Its still daylight. A person can place his Rabbeinu Tam tefillen to swear the oath קריא שמע with tefillen! The k’vanna of רשות, that qualifies as both חיוב ורשות at the exact same moment, as taught by Rabbi Yehoshua, a person can choose to attach this קריא שמע ערבית שהוא אמר בפלג המנחה to his tefillah of Minchah, which has no קריא שמע as revealed in the Siddur. (Tefillah קריא שמע דאורייתא while tefillah Shemone Esrei tefillah דרבנן, a huge מאי נפקא מינא middah which defines the k’vanna of רב חסד as does likewise תמיד מעשה בראשית.)
The k’vanna רשות of תפילת ערבית, the Torah scholar has k’vanna to attach his tefillah דרבנן ערבית to his קריא שמע המטה. The Shemone Esrei, so to speak, functions as a pronoun to the Noun קריא שמע; like as do the “pronouns” אל רחום וחנון וכו attached to the Nouns השם השם – the revelation of the 13 middot tohor spirits at Horev – 40 days after the sin of translating the Divine Name Spirt to the word אלהים\JeZeus or Allah. (Rabbi Akiva’s kabbalah of פרדס, the defining Oral Torah logic system which defines how the Talmud studies the T’NaCH as Common Law of Oral Torah scholarship.) Clearly by the time a person says קריא שמע המטה three stars have become clearly and easily visible in the heavens. Herein Rashi’s explanation of the opening Av Mishna of Mesechta ברכות.
The Yerushalmi Talmud teaches that over 247 prophets occupied themselves writing the Shemone Esrei tefillah דרבנן. Attaching a “pronoun” דרבנן to a “noun” דאורייתא, this משל defines the wisdom and power of tohor time oriented commandments. The classic example of דאורייתא tohor time oriented commandments, and their power to elevate commandments דרבנן to מצוות דאורייתא,, the blessing after the meal ברכת המזון. The first three blessings duplicate the ה’ אלהינו ה’ אחד of the קריא שמע… or אלהי אברהם אלהי יצחק ואלהי יעקב first blessing in the Shemone Esrei. The forth דרבנן blessing joins by means of סמוכים to the 3 blessings דאורייתא and it too becomes a blessing דאורייתא!
The B’HaG opens אלו מצות קום עשה: קרית שמע, ותפילין וכו’ – חלה, עורות קדשים — יש גם רבנים שחולקים וטוענים שהחיוב לתת עורות הקרבנות הוא מדרבנן, מאה ברכות בכל יום, קידוש השם!
This mitzva defines the k’vanna of the 1st commandment of Sinai, the greatest of all Torah commandments. מדרבנן (תקנת חכמים): יש גם רבנים שחולקים וטוענים שהחיוב לקדש ולגדל את שם ה’ הוא מדרבנן. הרמב”ן, לדוגמה, חולק וטוען שהקידוש הוא תקנת חכמים, ומסביר שהתכנית היא למנוע מהבעל להוציא את אשתו ללא כבובה. ויראת השם – פירוש בעל שם טוב! A man strives his entire life to build the reputation of his good name. לעבד לשם — פירוש: לעשות טהור זמן גרמא מצוות עם כוונה. להשבע בשם — פירוש: לומר ברכות עם מוסר כוונה מן התנא”ך. נר שבת, נר חנוכה וכו’ ומקרא מגילה etc.
The shared common denominator of all these mitzvot – all tohor time oriented Av Torah commandments! Av tohor time oriented commandments have the holiness to raise positive and negative commandments to tohor time oriented commandments, the mitzva of Shabbat clearly proves this, but the holiness of Av tohor time oriented commandments תמיד מעשה בראשית like the Ger Tzeddik lives as a new Creation so too rabbinic mitzvot and halachot become commandments from the Written Torah through the holiness of the Oral Torah revelation at Horev from which we learn Av tohor time oriented commandments as the מלך which all ברכות oaths require. Herein separates tefillot as a tohor time oriented Av commandment from saying תולדות קום ועושה ושב ולא תעשה tehillim prayers. The latter neither qualifies as a sworn Torah oath nor as an Av time oriented Commandment, which תמיד מעשה בראשית creates the chosen Cohen people יש מאין.
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