Patrick Gratton

Movie Lover, Blogger, Screenwriter, Francophone.

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Welcome Everyone to the 2025 Gold Digger Awards Nominations Announcement. After a few weeks of voting and tabulating, we finally have our list of or the finest cinematic works of 2025. Our announcement will begin shortly.

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@kolbytoldme @EDouglasWW @MMandOscar I strongly believe that there’s no way they’re not going to campaign Inde in Lead. Relocating her to supporting would be awful look.

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@DavidALVenable @scotty1123 I’ve been prepping a shoot for a french Canadian mini series and we’re had the art director sir in and factor into meetings ranking from Locations scouting debriefs to Picture Vehicles roubdups. Calling an art director a glorified graphic designer is absurd.

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@MarkLikesMovies Based on your taste …. Gone Girl?

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Me when I Watch Mati Diop’s Atlantics 😍😍😍

[Mark Johnson ™️ @MarkLikesMovies]

I’m watching one of the three best films of 2010-2019.

What is it?

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@bykitstone @rawrkristina It’s the year of Hsthaway!!!!

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@wendellsandico Granted I’m behind but Reed Birney gives the best performance of 2026 so far.

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@Emanuele676 Malgré Moi: Season 2

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I’m currently working on a tiny little streaming series, it’s actually on its second season. No ones heard of it, no one’s watched the first season. Yet I’m getting paid more than her and I’m not even my department head.

Some of ya’lls are just telling on yourselves.

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The Obsession art director post. Man, what a choice.

One year total experience. Only credit pre-Obsession is a single short film. Sign on to a low budget indie. Agree to rate. Movie explodes. You're suddenly the Art Director fo the most talked about film of the year.

If this ever happens to you, let me give one piece of advice. Embrace it. Use the credit to fight off offers, get a BTL agent, turn those difficult three weeks into an incredible career.

Do NOT cut every connection you have to the filmmakers, put out tweets about how you wish you'd shut down their production, and complain about the rate you agreed to (which isn't even like $100 or some student film sketchiness).

Do you know how many indies I have done as an actor for $240/day? A fucking lot. Every single time I know what I'm getting into and I hope to god it turns out well and leads to another opportunity. I cannot even imagine getting cast in Obsession and then putting out a career ruining post about it instead of trying to leverage it into more work.

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@WilliamKliskey Malgré Moi: Season 2

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@CootDilute What are you talking about? People who work in tv, work in film all the time. I’ve worked on two films in the past year, now I’m doing TV.

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The Obsession fandom rearing its ugly head once again…..

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@duamaximoff Yeah, the internet is filled with idiots like you. Ain’t no way in hell Curry didn’t get some kind of points. Fuck that stupid bitch she was insignificant and already paid.

[Jeff Zhang 张佶润 @strangeharbors]

“That’s not how it works.” Yeah, no fucking shit. That’s why we need to have a conversation about it? You’re all Marxists until it comes to a horror movie you love that just grossed $200 million.

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@RockyLotito Why are we attacking her and looking over her credits, when we should question why a production would be so mismanaged that it asked someone with little experience to do a multitude of jobs, with little support and little pay.

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@mjarbo @DerlisAGonzalez How are they not the same? Streaming series have art directors too.

[Andy Young @AndyYoungFilm]

“She’s crazy, people will never work with her now”.

That’s the rhetoric that stops us from having these conversations. Her last line is “maybe we can turn a tide in the film industry”.

If you’re against that? Publicly? I’d be more worried people will never work with YOU

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As someone whose been working in film for over 15 years. Man, sit down, you don’t know the fuck you’re talking about.

[Mark Collins @mark_collins09]

If you're not in the film industry, you have zero idea how the film industry works.

You simply cannot apply conventional wisdom to it. Anyone who tries, fails.

Obsession is what we would call a low budget film. Short shooting schedule. Small crew. Small production.

Every single person working on the film understands that. They understand that you won't be making big studio feature money on this production because that money doesn't exist.

Art Director is a glorified graphic designer. For this kind of film, there's really not that much work to do. You're making posters and signs. $300/day on this budget and this job is totally fine.

If you're working below the line, you understand you don't have equity in the production. There are many reasons for this, all of them good.

In the current era, most everyone in film is pretty fucking retarded, while being woefully bad at their job because they spent more time ranting about politics than actually practicing their craft.

All of these things together, and looking at the art directors complaints, tell me that this art director is awful at their job, and they're whining about it on social media because they can't even get hired in the art department on any other film. They're hoping to leverage the success of Obsession into sympathy to try to get more work.

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@HarmenMoes04 @AKlay19 @ekhampton @GEvans96 The movie has two leads, it’s mostly a two hander.

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@gripmyhip @effoff1988 An Art director has pre-production, production and wrap. That’s more than 20 days.

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@TheKennyMiles What do you mean?

[DiaBia @mommabiia]

It’s crazy how quickly the masses become bootlickers when one person says hey, maybe we should think about how this system doesn’t make sense

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@effoff1988 Ok that’s fair