Oscars 2016

[Seshmeister]

I have to say there is a serious risk this may be the worst Oscars in living memory - 4 hours of self flagellation about the inherent racism of the world, a host that has maybe jumped the shark and a very predictable outcome in all the main categories. I've seen 5/8 best picture nominations so far and none blew me away - The Revenant is going to win.

Anyhoo I'm a film fan so I have to look despite the Hollywood nonsense that goes on every year.

Here are the nominations...

BEST PICTURE

The Big Short

Bridge of Spies

Brooklyn

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Room

Spotlight

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ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Bryan Cranston, Trumbo

Matt Damon, The Martian

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant

Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

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ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Cate Blanchett, Carol

Brie Larson, Room

Jennifer Lawrence, Joy

Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years

Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

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ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Christian Bale, The Big Short

Tom Hardy, The Revenant

Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight

Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies

Sylvester Stallone, Creed

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ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight

Rooney Mara, Carol

Rachel McAdams, Spotlight

Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl

Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

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ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Anomalisa

Boy and the World

Inside Out

Shaun the Sheep Movie

When Marnie Was There

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CINEMATOGRAPHY

Carol

The Hateful Eight

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

Sicario

Mad Max: Fury Road - Oscars 2016

COSTUME DESIGN

Carol

Cinderella

The Danish Girl

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

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DIRECTING

The Big Short

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

Room

Spotlight

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DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

Amy

Cartel Land

The Look of Silence

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

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DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

Body Team 12

Chau, beyond the Lines

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

Last Day of Freedom

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FILM EDITING

The Big Short

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

Spotlight

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Embrace of the Serpent

Mustang

Son of Saul

Theeb

A War

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MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Mad Max: Fury Road

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out

the Window and Disappeared

The Revenant

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MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

Bridge of Spies

Carol

The Hateful Eight

Sicario

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

“Earned It,” Fifty Shades of Grey

“Manta Ray,” Racing Extinction

“Simple Song #3,” Youth

“Til It Happens To You,” The Hunting Ground

“Writing’s On The Wall,” Spectre

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PRODUCTION DESIGN

Bridge of Spies

The Danish Girl

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

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SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

Bear Story

Prologue

Sanjay’s Super Team

We Can’t Live without Cosmos

World of Tomorrow

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SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

Ave Maria

Day One

Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)

Shok

Stutterer

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SOUND EDITING

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Sicario

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Oscars 2016

SOUND MIXING

Bridge of Spies

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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VISUAL EFFECTS

Ex Machina

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

The Big Short

Brooklyn

Carol

The Martian

Room

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WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

Bridge of Spies

Ex Machina

Inside Out

Spotlight

Straight Outta Compton

[twonabomber]

Gotta work, won't be watching. Out of the best picture nominees, I've only seen The Martian.

I wonder if they'll have Chris Rock on a short leash. Or no leash, and he says enough to not get invited back.

[Kristy]

Ghey.

[vandeleur]

The revenant , I've seen it twice because my wife made me watch it the second time , it lasts a year. It makes you feel cold and miserable and to be honest natural light go fuck yourself if there was one more shot of looking up to the sky through trees I was gonna go chin a bear.
The should give Leo his Oscar just so the poor cunt can stop putting himself through this torture porn.

[vandeleur]

Even though I thought Michael fasbender was better in Steve jobs. And he would get it if he had of been attacked by Kate winslet and had to survive and make the iPhone.

[Angel]

The revenant , I've seen it twice because my wife made me watch it the second time , it lasts a year. It makes you feel cold and miserable and to be honest natural light go fuck yourself if there was one more shot of looking up to the sky through trees I was gonna go chin a bear.
The should give Leo his Oscar just so the poor cunt can stop putting himself through this torture porn.

The natural light didn't bother me "too" much...just a couple of scenes. What really bothered me was when they were in a boreal forest, then suddenly in a rain forest, and then back to boreal. I could tell exactly which scenes were shot in BC when they had to change locations due to a Chinook melting all the snow where they were shooting in Kananaskis. Drove me crazy!!!

[DONNIEP]

"4 hours of self flagellation about the inherent racism of the world"

Yes, these poor actors being ignored because Hollywood is sooooo racist. It's almost as retarded as Farrakhan saying black ball players in the NBA are slaves. Wjere do I sign up so I can get my fair share of this discrimination and oppression? I'll be more than happy to come home and cry on a stack of money and sit in my big ass mansion and moan about how I'm so mistreated.

[vandeleur]

"4 hours of self flagellation about the inherent racism of the world"

Yes, these poor actors being ignored because Hollywood is sooooo racist. It's almost as retarded as Farrakhan saying black ball players in the NBA are slaves. Wjere do I sign up so I can get my fair share of this discrimination and oppression? I'll be more than happy to come home and cry on a stack of money and sit in my big ass mansion and moan about how I'm so mistreated.

Yo Eddie hitler ;) chill ya tits you live in a mansion don't play man of the people for the crowds :D

[vandeleur]

:bigwink:


http://youtu.be/uUO-kzwEMgs

[Kristy]

Oooooh, CGI bear attacks. How Hollywood.

[Angel]

Oooooh, CGI bear attacks. How Hollywood.
The bear attack would be pretty hard to do without CGI...

[DONNIEP]

Yo Eddie hitler ;) chill ya tits you live in a mansion don't play man of the people for the crowds :D

I never claimed to be one of the "people". You're talkin to the Rolex wearin, diamond ring wearin, kiss stealin, wheelin dealin, jet flyin, limousine ridin sonofagun! I can't help it that I'm so damn tanned and pretty! So you keep your micro aggressions to yourself, you pasty white skinned Chalkasian!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a tanning appointment in 15 minutes and it takes at least five for me to strap on all my weapons and pick out a watch. And I think that today I will wear one of my early 1980s vintage Seiko divers so I can show solidarity with the common folk and with the mistreated in Hollywood.

Bwahahahaha!! Like I'm gonna go to the tanning bed wearing a fuckin Seiko...I crack myself up...

[Seshmeister]

The bear attack would be pretty hard to do without CGI...

Pretty hard but not impossible...

[DONNIEP]

Pretty hard but not impossible...



Well, I couldn't understand a word the kid was saying but it was funny :)

[Angel]

I dinna understand why Muricans cannot understand Scots.

Drunk Newfies. Now THOSE people talk funny!!!


https://youtu.be/4NiGROLX5KQ

[Angel]

https://youtu.be/u60iBZae04w

[DONNIEP]

Ok, in all seriousness, I've only seen about 7 hours of Revenant. What I saw was really good but I literally passed out after a while, probably cause I had just sat through all 3 hours of Hateful Eight. Hateful Eight was a great friggin movie. Really, really good. I' going to attempt to watch the rest of Revenant this weekend. Oh, and that wasn't no CGI bear - Leo actually fought a real bear and kicked its ass. Because he's a bad ass, aside from his tree huggin Hippie bullshit which I choose to overlook since he's one of my favorite actors. I mean, he's no Tom Cruise but he was awesome in Wolf of Wall Street. Which should win picture of the year every year until the end of time. Unless there's a good Tom Cruise movie out that year.

[vandeleur]

I prefer mat demon , it was tough being stranded on the moon for his role.

[Angel]

Because he's a bad ass, aside from his tree huggin Hippie bullshit which I choose to overlook since he's one of my favorite actors.

But haven't you heard? He witnessed global warming in Calgary. All of a sudden it got so warm that all the snow started melting and they had to find a new location to shoot.

No, Leo. That's a Chinook, lol.

[vandeleur]

But haven't you heard? He witnessed global warming in Calgary. All of a sudden it got so warm that all the snow started melting and they had to find a new location to shoot.

No, Leo. That's a Chinook, lol.

I've seen those chinooks, cute little critters , cruel that people kill them and wear their fur :)

[Angel]

I've seen those chinooks, cute little critters , cruel that people kill them and wear their fur :)
Only when the Chinook winds aren't blowing. Gets bloody cold up here ya know!

[DONNIEP]

But haven't you heard? He witnessed global warming in Calgary. All of a sudden it got so warm that all the snow started melting and they had to find a new location to shoot.

No, Leo. That's a Chinook, lol.

Ah, I'm all for cutting back pollution and trying to make coal plants really clean and maybe sending all the radioactive waste from all our power plants to like the moon or some place that's not here. Like the Middle East. But Leo is the last person to be going around crying about the planet when he spends the whole summer on his oil tycoon buddy's yacht lol. Which is what I'd be doing if I was him. But it's kinda like the beer commercials where they say "Please always drink responsibly". Well, it's kinda hard to do when you sell my favorite cheap beer in a damn 30 pack!

[Kristy]

The bear attack would be pretty hard to do without CGI...

Think again.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17j64jkunvdu3jpg/original.jpg

[Terry]

I can't even remember the last time I watched the Academy Awards from start-to-finish...probably close to 20 years. Have seen the odd clips from various ones here and there...

I've found over the last decade or so I'm generally not seeing a large percentage of movies that are getting the nominations for various categories anyway, so I have no reason to bother watching the award ceremonies. And the movies I do see that end up being nominated for Oscars are ones that I saw before they were nominated anyway: put it this way, if I'm on the fence about seeing a movie and it happens to be released around the time the nominations are announced and it gets a nomination, that fact won't sway me one way or the other.

[Seshmeister]

Just realized I may have seen more winners of the Best Visual Effects than Best Film over the last 40 years... :)

[vandeleur]

Think it's fair to say I like a big effects blockbuster but saying that I enjoyed mad max all the more knowing it wasn't all cgi .

[Seshmeister]

How good The Revenant is seems to depend on how big a screen you see it on.

I hear it's really shitty on a tablet. :)

I preferred The Hateful 8

[twonabomber]

Local writer on The Revenant:


As we approach the total fabulosity that is the annual Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night, I find that I can barely dredge up even mild excitement about it.

Maybe it's the #OscarsSoWhite issue. Maybe it's that "The Revenant," a movie I loathed, is poised to win a lot of the awards. Maybe it's the very idea of ranking films at all, the absurdity of declaring one better than all the others.

Whatever the cause, I've had so little interest in the Oscars over the past few weeks that I've started to wonder: Do they really matter?

http://www.cleveland.com/moviebuff/index.ssf/2016/02/oscars_2016_why_the_academy_aw.html#incart_river_i ndex

And this morning I see there is a All Def Movie Awards, presented by Russell Simmons and hosted by Tony Rock. It'll run against the Oscars.

[vandeleur]

How good The Revenant is seems to depend on how big a screen you see it on.

I hear it's really shitty on a tablet. :)

I preferred The Hateful 8

Or your mood or if you're Hungry or cold or not a fan of dialogue... Did the bear have the most lines ;)

It went for the interstellar line in dialogue as in it's still dialogue if you can't hear what they are saying.

[vandeleur]

The hateful 8 was very good

[DONNIEP]

Local writer on The Revenant:



http://www.cleveland.com/moviebuff/index.ssf/2016/02/oscars_2016_why_the_academy_aw.html#incart_river_i ndex

And this morning I see there is a All Def Movie Awards, presented by Russell Simmons and hosted by Tony Rock. It'll run against the Oscars.

The All Def Movie Awards?? Where's it being held, in a crack house?? How much you wanna bet their "award" will look a whole lot like this:

http://s13.postimg.org/ee1ec6qg7/image.png

[DONNIEP]

http://youtu.be/D2iabEBdwZM

What - they don't have a category for biggest ho??

I wonder what's in their swag bags they hand out? Rolling papers, a bag of weed, three 40s of Old English, and a jewel covered pimp cup? Which come to think of it...would probably be better than what they give you at the Oscars.

[Grant]

I too haven't bothered to watch the Oscars for the best part of nearly 15 years, but I did watch last year's because of the films that were nominated all enjoyed. (Glad they gave it to BIRDMAN)


I haven't seen THE REVENANT yet - but heard it's visually well done.

SPOTLIGHT was a good drama, and should win the Screenplay award.

Surprised to see Sylvester Stallone being nominated, must've put up a decent enough performance...

Generally, I'm not a gambler - but a local syndicate here has put BRIDGE OF SPIES at 200/1 for the Best Picture award. Now, I certainly don't think it'll win it, but it was a damn good film (of course because it's Spielberg) and not representative of those odds. So, I couldn't help myself putting some dosh down on it purely for the 'just in case' factor...

TRUMBO deserved a nomination for Best Picture and Screenplay, IMHO.

[Angel]

I can't remember the last time I watched. It's probably been about 30 years...

I want to catch the opening monologue this year though.

[vandeleur]

I can't remember the last time I watched. It's probably been about 30 years...

I want to catch the opening monologue this year though.

You were an actress !!

[vandeleur]

Predictions

Leonardo davinci. Wins for dancing with bears

Kate winsalot ... For dodgy accent in Mrs jobs

Ooogo gonzo inarritu. For best director of torture porn

Cate blanchetc for pretends like a lesbian in Carol

Adapted screen play ... The Martian

And straight out of trumpton (uk joke). Best award for us being guilty

[DONNIEP]

I'm gonna watch the opening. Chris Rock is gonna get his Bawllz cut off unless he goes all anti Honkie.

[vandeleur]

Ive watched it , chris rock was pretty funny cuntsidering he was either getting the good ole boys stringing him up or beyonce's black panther dancers paying him a visit.
And an extra point for mentioning rihanna's panties :D

[Kristy]

Fuck Brie Larson. Another Hollywood hack.

Shout it from a mountain top.
http://s7.postimg.org/h02jbr4hn/fuckbrielarson.jpg

FUCK YOU, BRIE LARSON!

[DONNIEP]

Ive watched it , chris rock was pretty funny cuntsidering he was either getting the good ole boys stringing him up or beyonce's black panther dancers paying him a visit.
And an extra point for mentioning rihanna's panties :D

Yeah he was pretty funny. I still find it absolutely laughable to call Hollywood racist. The Oscars? A case can be made for that but the rest of Hollywood? Did Chris Rock forget he gets paid big bucks to play pretend? Wasn't one of the biggest movies of the summer a movie about a bunch of thugs who wrote stupid songs about bitches and whores and cop hatin? Odd, he must have forgotten about that.

I wish I could make a couple million bucks a year and then be ignored by the Oscars. I'd cry on a stack of money and then rip off a couple bills to pay for my high end hooker. And the massive amount of booze I'd be drinking. In a fabulously expensive hotel room. Did I mention there would be hookers?

[Seshmeister]

Wasn't one of the biggest movies of the summer a movie about a bunch of thugs who wrote stupid songs about bitches and whores and cop hatin? Odd, he must have forgotten about that.


You have a point, maybe it wasn't racism that stopped the Compton movie being nominated, maybe they didn't like it because it was sexist...

[vandeleur]

I make a couple million bucks a year and am ignored by the Oscars. I cry in a stack of money and then rip off a couple bills to pay for my high end hooker. And the massive amount of booze I'd be drinking. In a fabulously expensive hotel room. Did I mention there would be hookers?

Thats your life now , except for the drinking ya drink like a girl.

[twonabomber]

What is the Academy supposed to do, nominate shit "black" movies like Wayan brothers parody comedies? Or worse, Tyler Perry's Madea movies? I know, they make money, but artistically those movies are garbage.

And yesterday I read about people griping that DiCaprio didn't get nominated for Best Actor for Titanic. I've never seen it, can he really be that good in it?

[vandeleur]

Think its cos jada was upset Big willie didnt get nominated.

[vandeleur]

Dicaprio should have won it for wolf of wall street but am a bit biased cos its fucking great :biggrin:

[Seshmeister]

He should have got Best Supporting for Django.

[vandeleur]

He should have got Best Supporting for Django.


yeah your probably right his donnie impression was impressive :D

[DONNIEP]

yeah your probably right his donnie impression was impressive :D

He's in Django?? How did I not know that! I'm gonna watch it tonite.

[DONNIEP]

Think its cos jada was upset Big willie didnt get nominated.

I haven't watched it...but come on! It's a stupid premise for a movie! Lemme see, some doctor figures out that if you play professional football you might wind up with a concussion or brain damage? Really? No shit! And honestly WHO GIVES A FUCK?? That's why they get paid the big bucks. Sure, make the helmets all bad ass and super protective. Increase the effectiveness of the pads, I'm all for that. Then shut the fuck up about it. Those moherfuckers know what the risks are and they CHOOSE to play the game. I don't need no stupid movie to tell me about how gigantic men who bash their heads against each other might wind up with dain bramage.

[Seshmeister]

Also I hear Will Smith is pretty shit in it and his accent is all over the place.

I'm not a big fan, I find his schtick a bit tiresome.

As far as the helmets go I think the argument is that they should get rid of them and go back to the old style ones.

It's like boxing, before there were modern gloves no one got killed in the ring because you would break your hand hitting someone's face that hard so it was mainly body blows.

[cadaverdog]

And yesterday I read about people griping that DiCaprio didn't get nominated for Best Actor for Titanic. I've never seen it, can he really be that good in it?
He did a decent job in it but too much of the acting was over the top.