Millionaires congratulating each other night for playing dress up

[Seshmeister]

Well at least in the middle of an ever increasingly silly backslapping corporate promotion night where we are meant this year to get excited because Hollywood is saying it's going to try and be a little bit less rapey now that it's in year 90, Roger Deakins got his.

Insane that guy hadn't won one until now I guess because the people that actually do the job and know what the fuck they are talking about vote for the nominations and then all the bozo's choose the actual winner based on whether they are friends with them, or the people that made the movie or whatever.

14 nominations but won tonight for Blade Runner 2014.

2016 Nominee
Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography
Sicario (2015)

2015 Nominee
Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography

Unbroken (2014)
2014 Nominee
Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography

Prisoners (2013)
2013 Nominee
Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography

Skyfall (2012)
2011 Nominee
Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography

True Grit (2010)
2009 Nominee
Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography

The Reader (2008)
Shared with:
Chris Menges

2008 Nominee
Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Best Achievement in Cinematography

No Country for Old Men (2007)
2002 Nominee
Oscar Best Cinematography

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
2001 Nominee
Oscar Best Cinematography
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

1998 Nominee
Oscar Best Cinematography
Kundun (1997)

1997 Nominee
Oscar Best Cinematography
Fargo (1996)

1995 Nominee
Oscar Best Cinematography
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

[Seshmeister]

Damn wish I had put some bets down, I predicted almost all of them this year.

Actually saw all of the best movie nominations this year apart from the gay one. For what it's worth I would rate them -

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
“Dunkirk”
“The Shape of Water”
“Lady Bird”
“Get Out”
“Darkest Hour”
“The Post”
“Phantom Thread”

“Call Me by Your Name”

[vandeleur]

The shape of water was a deserved winner , Del toro is cool as fuck .

Weird year, normally most of the films nominated I think are pretty shitty but this year I liked a lot of the stuff that won.

[FORD]

Don't bother with "the gay one". It's not at all graphic with the gay stuff, but it's a horribly boring movie. Literally put me to sleep. Only watched it because people kept telling me how "great" it was. Not sure how they thought so.... basically just another boring love story except it's two dudes. Haven't seen the fish fucking movie yet. Lady Bird was alright... that's another one I watched during the Winter Olympics when I got sick of the fucking curling matches and nothing else was on TV.

[Seshmeister]

Sounds the same as my argument for not watching Brokeback Mountain - I wouldn't be interested in watching this story if it was a guy and a girl so why would I want to watch it with two guys...

[twonabomber]

Kind of like why I didn't bother watching Titanic or Pearl Harbor.

[Seshmeister]

I only managed 20 minutes of Pearl Harbor - shitty film. Titanic was over rated but at least had some moments...

[Terry]

Pearl Harbor just plain LOOKED shitty enough from the trailers I saw that I never even bothered to see it.

Titanic was okay once the ship began to sink. Prior to that, it was just a lame, costume period love story.

[twonabomber]

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/oscars-early-ratings-shape-of-water-down-1202718015/

TV Ratings: Oscars Hit New Viewership Low With 26.5 Million

UPDATED: The 2018 Academy Awards telecast on ABC attracted 26.5 million viewers across the nearly four-hour show on Sunday night.

While that was good enough to handily top all of Sunday’s broadcast competition and most of the award shows of the past year, it is still the least-watched Oscars to date. The drop off was not entirely unexpected, as the audiences for most award shows have seen declines in recent years. As it stands, the 2018 Oscars are down approximately 19% compared to 2017.

PREVIOUSLY: Live viewership of the 90th annual Academy Awards ceremony was down significantly from the 2017 telecast, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings for ABC’s nearly four-hour telecast.

The 8 p.m.-11 p.m. portion of ABC’s telecast averaged an 18.9 household rating and 32 share in Nielsen’s metered market overnight ratings, which cover about 70% of U.S. TV households. That’s down about 16% from the 22.5/37 rating generated by the 2017 Oscars.

However, the preliminary ratings are not adjusted for time zone differences. ABC’s 8 p.m.-11:48 p.m. ET Oscarcast aired live coast to coast, which means the live West Coast viewership is not accurately reflected in the overnight numbers that measure only primetime hours in all markets. Nor do they include viewership from the post-11 p.m. final 48 minutes when the most prominent awards were handed out to winners that included Gary Oldman as best actor, for “Darkest Hour,” and Frances McDormand, for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

n the fast nationals, which are also not time zone adjusted, the Oscars telecast averaged a 6.4 rating in adults 18-49 and 24.4 million viewers, compared to the 8.7 rating and 29.1 million viewers the 2017 telecast drew in the preliminary numbers. 2017’s telecast eventually rose to a 9.1 and 32.9 million viewers. ABC will likely see a lift in the numbers once the final data becomes available later today, but as it currently stands, the 2018 Oscars telecast is at an all-time low in the ratings.

Nonetheless, the overnights give a glimpse of the baseline turnout for the ceremony that crowned the fantasy drama “The Shape of Water” as best picture.

Despite the drop, ABC was the dominant network of the night, easily topping its Big Four competitors combined.

As it currently stands, ABC averaged a 5.8 rating and 22.4 million viewers on Sunday night. NBC averaged a 0.6, while CBS and Fox tied with a 0.5 CBS averaged 4.5 million viewers, while NBC drew 2.7 million and Fox drew 1.7 million.

[Seshmeister]

That’s 2 years in a row the people who play dress up let some lucky peasants that aren’t actors be near their godlike forms for a few minutes. In this case people who had specifically chose not to watch the ceremony but instead went to the cinema.

[Seshmeister]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=LxaFa3lduz8

To be honest I wasn't concentrating when Kobe Bryant won an Oscar and was cheered despite admitting to doing worse things than most of the people in that video are accused of and perhaps doing a lot worse.

[FORD]

rightwingwatch.org (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kevin-swanson-warns-that-god-may-destroy-america-over-the-shape-of-water/)
Kevin Swanson Warns That God May Destroy America Over 'The Shape Of Water'
By Kyle Mantyla
March 8, 2018 1:07 pm

Earlier this year, extremist anti-LGBTQ pastor Kevin Swanson voiced his disgust over the existence of the film “The Shape Of Water,” fuming that it represented “the end of civilization as we know it” because it promoted “cross-species mating” in direct defiance of the Bible.

Now that the film has won Oscars for best picture and best director, Swanson has returned to warn that God may destroy America because of it.

“The Academy Award ceremonies this week provided the best film and best director Oscar to a violation of the worst possible sexual sin mentioned in Leviticus chapter 18,” Swanson said on his radio program today. “Maybe I’ll just leave it there, I don’t want to defile the ears of my listeners. But this was another milestone in the moral degradation of Hollywood and the nation itself. What it did was it presented the ultimate sexual depravity—and, again, I don’t want anyone thinking what this is—but the ultimate sexual depravity as presented in Leviticus 18 is presented in this movie as a tender and romantic and a beautiful thing. Even saying that is just disgusting.”

Swanson proceeded to read a passage from Leviticus 18 in which God warned the Israelites that they would be destroyed if they dared to engage in such depravity.

“God says, ‘Be careful, I might just bring this to you if you violate my law to the level of egregiousness contained in the moral commands in Leviticus 18,'” Swanson declared. “It’s these abominable practices that are being committed in this nation today and glorified at the highest echelons of the nation.”

Listen to lunatic babbling here (https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/410630964/download?client_id=LBCcHmRB8XSStWL6wKH2HPACspQlXg2 P).

[Seshmeister]

Lol!