OSCARS 2013

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Cunga, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link

i just buy XANGO® at $35/bottle

http://www.xango.com/products/xango-juice

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link

oops wrong thread

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link

probably tastes better than Oscar bait films

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link

XANGO® Unchained

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link

Life of Pi is p. amazing visually and it sounds like the biggest flaws in the plot are straight from the book. I expected to hate it but from the sinking ship to the island is very good.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link

Glad to see they've given up on trying to appeal to the young audience, unless they have a completely blinkered understanding of Guilt Trip's performance.

Gukbe, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link

2012's Oscar Nominees

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link

Harvey the Hutt: I shoulda sent out Django discs and had PTA cut The Master.

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/30/harvey_weinstein_says_he_screwed_up_on_the_master_and_django/

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link

damn, the Slant predic for foreign film hates seniors more than Haneke does.

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 February 2013 06:38 (eleven years ago) link

...not to mention that Commie Ed Asner.

Always the most competitive category:

Since March 21, 1994, when the first regular obituary segment was dropped into an Academy Awards show, a spot on the yearly scroll of recently deceased movie luminaries has become one of the evening’s most hotly contested honors. And as in most Oscar races it is the focus of sometimes ferocious campaigning.

This time around it is a safe bet that Ernest Borgnine, Charles Durning, Nora Ephron, Tony Scott, Richard Zanuck and Marvin Hamlisch will get their few seconds in a roughly three-minute remembrance.

Beloved figures all. But who fills the next 30 or so spots in the memorial for this year’s show, which takes place on Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theater, is open to debate. And that debate is under way at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where a committee of members whose names are discreetly concealed from other members and the public are measuring celebrity, weighing achievement and trying to ward off entreaties from those who believe a loved one, friend or former client should have a last moment in the limelight....

“Of all the committees, it’s the hardest one to do,” said Tom Sherak, whose three years as president of the Academy ended last year.

“The committee’s names are never mentioned, ever,” Mr. Sherak added.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/movies/awardsseason/even-the-oscar-memorial-list-is-a-focus-of-campaigning.html

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 February 2013 06:41 (eleven years ago) link

I remember hearing on anecdotal evidence (of course) how often it used to be for Academy member's wives to fill out their ballots for them. Make their choices and send it in nbd

Cunga, Sunday, 10 February 2013 07:07 (eleven years ago) link

Shirley Bassey to appear.

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 February 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link

I watched the short live action films. Are these always so dire?

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Sunday, 10 February 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link

Anyone saw The Invisible War? This and Brave are the two films I want to win. As in, i'll be sad if they don' win and the rest I don't care that much.

Also, is there ILM top film 2012 thread?

Van Horn Street, Sunday, 10 February 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link

argo won best director and film at the baftas. i've never seen it and i never will but ugh all the same. lets hope that emmanuelle riva's win for best actress is a foreshadowing of an oscar win.

jed_, Sunday, 10 February 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link

The Invisible War shook me more than any film I saw in the fourth quarter: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/the-battle-continues-the-invisible-war/

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link

I watched the short live action films. Are these always so dire?

There's almost always at least one or two outright disasters in the mix. Last year's was an above average slate, tho they ended up going for the most boring option. Lately, the smuggest, snarkiest entry tends to be the frontrunner -- i.e. God of Love and The New Tenants, which I'd argue is the possibly the single worst film to win an Oscar since Crash. I'm betting on Curfew this time around.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 11 February 2013 05:01 (eleven years ago) link

i don't trust the academy to get the big stuff right, i expect about the same for the categories i know nothing about

Alice 2 Chainz - "I Luv Dem Bones" (zachlyon), Monday, 11 February 2013 05:06 (eleven years ago) link

I missed this list last year (and apparently The Artist's win happened after the voting): http://www.filmcomment.com/article/extended-trivial-top-20

I'd say most of the winners I've seen from the 50s and 60s were just about as bad as the winners from the last 15 years, but they are 100 percent OTM about #1.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 11 February 2013 05:15 (eleven years ago) link

29. No Country for Old Men Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007
30. Out of Africa Sydney Pollack, 1985

o_0

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 11 February 2013 05:16 (eleven years ago) link

I'm betting on Curfew this time around.

Well at least it was only the second worst one.

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 11 February 2013 05:27 (eleven years ago) link

Agreed.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 11 February 2013 05:28 (eleven years ago) link

every year it seems like there's at least one nominated short that's about the holocaust

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 11 February 2013 05:42 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.filmcomment.com/article/extended-trivial-top-20

no Gentleman's Agreement? it was the help of 1947.

abanana, Monday, 11 February 2013 05:47 (eleven years ago) link

a couple of those 'worst' choices strike me as straight-up trolling ('all quiet on the western front,' 'midnight cowboy,' 'my fair lady').

i'd forgotten 'tom jones' won in '63: i'm a tony richardson fan but that is a pretty terrible, borderline-unwatchable movie.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 11 February 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link

top ten mostly OTM but I woulda moved The Greatest Show on Earth into it.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link

Have never bothered to watch it, but I've little doubt Cavalcade is, indeed, worse than Slumdog and probably the majority of that top 10.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 11 February 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link

WORST PICTURE

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link

bullshit: two forgettable melodramas in "The Heiress" and "A Letter To Three Women,"

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link

kinda hard not to lol at the idea that 'performance,' 'night of the living dead,' 'hour of the wolf,' and 'faces' could conceivably have been nominated in 1968 (as awesome as they all are).

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 11 February 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link

1952 & 1958 are clearly as bad if not worse than 1956, too.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 11 February 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link

did we ever do a best-of-the-best poll? i assume 'sunrise' would take it, assuming it counts.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 11 February 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link

Annie Hall or All About Eve would offer competition.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, those three plus Lawrence of Arabia, Rebecca, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Godfathers I & II and No Country all seem like solid bets for top 10.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Monday, 11 February 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link

Bridge on the River Kwai is the most pedestrian of those in retrospect.

so are bloggers hyping Emanuelle Riva and Ang Lee wins outta boredom? (I can see the first happening in a babe-split vote. Also the AAs are on her 86th birthday.)

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link

Ang Lee more out of the vacuum at the top of that category and the perception that no one loves Lincoln.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link

Riva is kind of classic wishful thinking among the more guilty-conscience'd Oscar bloggers.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link

eh – I'm fine with Landau beating Jackson.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link

Contenders I think were far from injustice (and, in some cases, were totally defensible):

The Dark Knight for Best Picture
Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction loses to Martin Landau in Ed Wood
Al Pacino never winning for The Godfather
Driving Miss Daisy
Martin Scorsese denied until The Departed
John Cazale, never nominated in his tragically way-too-short, but nearly perfect career
Angelina Jolie kissing her brother
Björk's swan dress

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link

are you arguing that Grantland is right to champion these lost causes or that these people and films deserved to lose?

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link

Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction loses to Martin Landau in Ed Wood

only a cause for ppl who love superfly shtick i guess

saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link

xp I wouldn't have put them in brackets for the worst things Oscar has ever done, for various reasons.

Like I don't consider The Departed to be radically cut-rate compared to Goodfellas, and I think Al Pacino wasn't the best in his category in either of his at bats.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link

And Bjork's swan dress was the best thing to ever hit that stage.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link

and Driving Miss Daisy is good.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link

Good enough that its win isn't offensive, given Do the Right Thing wasn't up.

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link


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