2015 Oscars

[Seshmeister]

Here's the annual thread.

I've seen most of the movies this year and there is some good stuff in there. Surprised Nightcrawler didn't get more recognition.


Best Picture
American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan
Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole
Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, and Jeremy Dawson
The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman
Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten
Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, and David Lancaster

Best Directing
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

Best Actor
Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
Michael Keaton – Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson / Birdman
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking
Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
Edward Norton – Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
Emma Stone – Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

Best Original Screenplay
Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo
Boyhood – Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

Best Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking
Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name

Best Animated Feature Film
Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura
Best Foreign Language Film
Ida (Poland) in Polish – Paweł Pawlikowski
Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev
Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Zaza Urushadze
Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French – Abderrahmane Sissako
Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish – Damián Szifrón

Best Documentary – Feature
Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky
Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier
Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

Best Documentary – Short Subject
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
Joanna – Aneta Kopacz
Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki
The Reaper (La Parka) – Gabriel Serra Arguello
White Earth – J. Christian Jensen

Best Live Action Short Film
Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
Butter Lamp (La Lampe au beurre de yak) – Hu Wei and Julien Féret
Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

Best Animated Short Film
The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi
Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove
A Single Life – Joris Oprins

Best Original Score
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar – Hans Zimmer
Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon
The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson

Best Original Song
"Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
"Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common
"Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
"Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Best Sound Editing
American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
Interstellar – Richard King
Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

Best Sound Mixing
American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Best Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)

Best Cinematography
Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
Ida – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski
Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
Unbroken – Roger Deakins
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White

Best Costume Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges
Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood
Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard
Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran

Best Film Editing
American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
Boyhood – Sandra Adair
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg
Whiplash – Tom Cross

Best Visual Effects
Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

[TFM_Dale]

I really enjoyed American Sniper and Gone Girl. Never really got into watching the Oscars though.

[Seshmeister]

Yeah Gone Girl was really good, haven't seen American Sniper yet - it's split people by being too jingoistic.

We tried to watch Selma on Friday and got bored halfway through and switched it off, does that make us racists?

Oprah being in it didn't help, I am not a fan. Whiplash and Birdman were great I recommend both.

The two British biopics The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything are very good but not amazing.

I hope Citizenfour wins best documentary, it's an important film about Snowdon that everyone should watch.

[Seshmeister]

Ooof Doogie Howser has made it very gay.

[WARF]

JK SIMMONS won and rightfully so.... I think Whiplash should win best picture as well.

[LEFTY is Gar's Bitch]

he used to rape guys on oz

[Von Halen]

he used to rape guys on oz

Did he rape you?

[twonabomber]

JK SIMMONS won and rightfully so.... I think Whiplash should win best picture as well.

No more M&M's or insurance commercials for him, his price just went up!

[Seshmeister]

Birdman won cinematography quite rightly.

Super clever movie whereby it looks as though the whole film was just done in one take.

[Von Halen]

Birdman won cinematography quite rightly.

Super clever movie whereby it looks as though the whole film was just done in one take.

It was done in one take.

[Seshmeister]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/beh...secrets-760590

[Von Halen]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/beh...secrets-760590

I didn't know you meant literally.

[Seshmeister]

Cool the Snowden movie won.

[Seshmeister]

Birdman wins?

Cool. The last 10 seconds annoyed me but apart from that it was excellent and my favorite out of the 7/8 I had seen.

[twonabomber]

Howard Stern has been ranting against Birdman for weeks. He's gonna be pissed!

[Kristy]

Is the Hollywood self-suck fest over? I did not watch, therefore, I do not care who won what about what.

[Seshmeister]

It can get problematic.

Arquette in her acceptance speech complained about pay inequality with actresses getting paid far less than male actors.

I think we would all support that but when you look at the figures in 2013-14 the top 10 men averaged earnings of $40 million while the women only averaged $20 million.

I think most of us that point think 'WTF forget the asshole guys, you are still getting paid $500k a week for playing fucking dress up?'

[vandeleur]

Incoherent , dribbling and the inability to walk sounds like Oscar time for me most weekends.

[Von Halen]

Is the Hollywood self-suck fest over? I did not watch, therefore, I do not care who won what about what.

I didn't watch it either. Zero interest. I watched the UFC fights instead. The only nominated movie I've seen so far is American Sniper. I'll probably watch Birdman and the one with the dude from Spiderman.

Why is the show 3-1/2 hours? Don't people only care about 5 categories?