2024 Oscar Nominees Remember the Last Time They Cried Watching a Movie

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00:00 When was the last time you cried watching a movie?

00:02 Look at me just seeming like I'm dead inside.

00:07 I'm like trying to remember now.

00:11 Don't ask me that.

00:13 When was the last time I even watched a movie?

00:15 Oh, Parallel Mothers.

00:17 I cried at Parallel Mothers.

00:18 L.A.P. breaks down.

00:19 It's so beautiful.

00:20 So beautiful.

00:22 I am a crier.

00:23 I can't bear to see other people cry.

00:25 If I see someone cry, I will cry immediately.

00:28 Just the other night I re-watched Sleepless in Seattle.

00:31 So much of that movie is heartbreaking.

00:33 Zone of Interest.

00:34 About five minutes in, it just, yeah, I thought it was unbelievable.

00:38 That film was so powerful.

00:39 I cried watching Past Lives.

00:42 The bed scene when Greta's character, Nora, is in bed with her husband.

00:48 She says something like, "Are you asking me if you're the answer to my parents' immigrant dreams?"

00:53 It was like so funny.

00:54 You're asking me if you, Arthur Zataransky, are the answer to my family's immigrant dream?

01:00 Yeah.

01:02 Wow.

01:03 And then it went on for so long.

01:05 And then she says the line, like, "You're forgetting the part where I love you."

01:08 And the scene just went on for so long.

01:12 And it was so quiet.

01:13 And it was so beautiful.

01:14 It's like almost that point where you start to get uncomfortable.

01:18 And you're like, "I really wish the scene would end because I hate feeling this unkind."

01:23 And then it goes on just long enough to break you.

01:26 And I just started weeping.

01:27 And I was like, "Damn, that Celine song is good."

01:31 Like, she is an incredible director.

01:33 Just the confidence and the faith she put in what she had written and in her actors' performances.

01:40 And just what that scene became the longer you stayed in it moved me so deeply.

01:46 And I was, it broke me.

01:48 Cry all the time.

01:49 I can remember me and my youngest son watched Matilda not too long ago.

01:54 And it was his first time crying at a movie.

01:56 And so I cried because he was crying.

01:58 But this year, I think, I mean, I cried Holdovers.

02:01 I cried Saltburn.

02:04 I'm just kidding.

02:05 Nobody cries in Saltburn.

02:06 The last memorable time that I remember crying in a movie was a Bronx Tale.

02:11 It's so sweet.

02:13 I just love the idea that our movie even has that of bringing cultures together and how just so similar we are.

02:22 I think those kind of messages, we need to be pumping them through the speakers for the world of like,

02:29 "Stop the judgment. Stop all that other stuff."

02:32 We are literally the same thing inside.

02:35 Honestly, I bawled at Divine Joy Randolph in the Holdovers.

02:40 Her character is so self-possessed, so witty, so dry.

02:44 You know, she's just got a handle on everything.

02:46 And then she has that one moment, just hearing her saying like, "He's gone."

02:52 You know, and those words, the way that she held them, I just, I couldn't help it.

02:55 He's gone.

02:57 That just gut punched me so much, that moment that she had.

03:04 And like the way that she had built this character up to it.

03:07 And you know, it's there, you know, it's there.

03:08 And then there it is.

03:09 I wept at Capote. I really cried.

03:12 It was when the actor is about to go be executed.

03:16 I think it's Clifton Collins.

03:17 And you can just see the fear in his eyes.

03:19 And despite the fact that he's done this horrible thing,

03:21 you could just see how scared he was.

03:23 He did such an excellent job.

03:24 And that got me for whatever reason, it got me.

03:26 I also cried really, really hard at the end of Florida Project.

03:30 The kids running into Disneyland by themselves, it really, that one snuck up on me.

03:34 I didn't think I was going to cry so hard, but I cried really, really hard at that.

03:37 I'll cry discreetly on the airplane.

03:40 The last movie, probably past lives.

03:43 It was so messy that I couldn't really determine what it was about.

03:47 I was watching it and didn't really understand in the most beautiful way,

03:52 in the most poetic way, what, how, why, you know.

03:58 And that just wells up emotion because then it's like, well,

04:00 I feel that way in my life many times.

04:03 So I like when films can do that.

04:05 I wonder when was the last time.

04:06 I genuinely can't remember because I don't really cry that much.

04:09 You know, I feel like maybe I cried at a Spider-Verse.

04:11 What Miles says, like, just going to do me.

04:14 I think there's something about that that really moved me.

04:16 I think it was Passages by Arasax.

04:18 The vulnerability of everybody, the shining through of the personalities of everybody.

04:22 And I love, of course, Adele, Exa Shoopaloos and my wonderful partner, Franz Bogowski.

04:29 I found them all so touching.

04:30 The way they were acting, yeah, really did something to me.

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