Oscars 2016

The Governors Awards are a week from Saturday; they should mike up the three honorees and broadcast it.

https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/spike-lee-gena-rowlands-debbie-reynolds.jpg

http://www.oscars.org/news/spike-lee-debbie-reynolds-and-gena-rowlands-receive-academys-2015-governors-awards

they should give these three Oscars and cancel the ceremony in February.

I've no idea what Oscar bait the Academy minnows will bite.

I've no idea what Oscar bait the Academy minnows will bite.

anomalisa?

I have a hard time imagining the animated Oscar will go to anything but the mind-of-a-child Pixar smash

spotlight seems to be the early favorite based on what i'm hearing, which is "spotlight seems to be the early favorite from what i'm hearing" said in other places

124 submitted feature documentaries (Winehouse, Joplin, Cobain included... also Laurie Anderson, F Wiseman)

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/23/oscars-2016-documentary-submissions

It'll be amusing if Tom McCarthy gets a Best Director nom in the same year he's eligible for "The Cobbler."

Breaking the Danish Girl's Code

doc feature shortlist; Laurie made it.

“Amy,” On the Corner Films and Universal Music

“Best of Enemies,” Sandbar

“Cartel Land,” Our Time Projects and The Documentary Group

“Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” Jigsaw Productions

“He Named Me Malala,” Parkes-MacDonald and Little Room

“Heart of a Dog,” Canal Street Communications

“The Hunting Ground,” Chain Camera Pictures

“Listen to Me Marlon,” Passion Pictures

“The Look of Silence,” Final Cut for Real (in photo above)

“Meru,” Little Monster Films

“3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets,” The Filmmaker Fund, Motto Pictures, Lakehouse Films, Actual Films, JustFilms, MacArthur Foundation and Bertha BRITDOC

“We Come as Friends,” Adelante Films

“What Happened, Miss Simone?,” RadicalMedia and Moxie Firecracker

“Where to Invade Next,” Dog Eat Dog Productions

“Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom,” Pray for Ukraine Productions

http://variety.com/2015/film/awards/oscar-unveils-list-of-15-films-on-documentary-feature-short-list-1201651045/

112 eligible scores (disqualified: The Revenant, Love & Mercy)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscar-eligible-film-scores-competing-849685

heh just imagine..

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-oscars.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

so apparently the punditry agrees that the dark horse to upset Spotlight is... The Big Short

Eric sez:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/2016-oscar-nomination-predictions

We rebond in our love for Emory Cohen.

I don't think Jordan makes the cut #WhiteActorsMatter

Agree there but wd be a pleasant surprise.

Chuckled at Tom Noonan's "should be" for supporting actor.

more predix (FilmExp not yet final)

http://moviecitynews.com/2016/01/gurus-o-gold-down-to-the-nomination-wire/

http://thefilmexperience.net/prediction-index/

Of course it makes sense that the least interesting perf in Spotlight is most likely to score a nod.

I find the relative lack of love for Michael B. Jordan really odd

#WhiteActorsMatter

srsly with all the chatter about The Weak Year it's been for male actors and they couldn't nominate the best lead performance in the studio-made field.

Rocky's training regimen shd've included siccing a bear on him

or in my case a cub

ew

so apparently the Room kid is a good bet; sorry, grownups

Emory Cohen and I are finishing a bottle of gin and weeping.

to think only a couple of years ago Emory Cohen was just that super fucking annoying kid on NBC's Smash

one more sotosyn ref and he'll be permanently super annoying

to think only a couple of years ago Emory Cohen was just that super fucking annoying kid on NBC's Smash

― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.)

to think only two years ago he was that super fucking annoying young adult in The Place Beyond the Pines.

lol I forgot that was him too, what a piece of shit that was in general

i'd like to snap that li'l Dane deHaan in half

so...basically no surprises

might be alone, but i found emory cohen pretty-by-the-numbers italian-american in brooklyn...

paisley swimming trunks

He fit the book's conception of a sweet, rather dim boy new to many things.

Good to see:
-cinematography and especially original score for Sicario
-George Miller for Best Director
-Sorkin snubbed after being on every prediction list

Best Picture

The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

Best Actor

Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed

Best Director
The Big Short, Adam McKay
Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller
The Revenant, Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Room, Lenny Abrahamson
Spotlight, Tom McCarthy

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short, Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Brooklyn, Nick Hornby
Carol, Phyllis Nagy
The Martian, Drew Goddard
Room, Emma Donoghue

Best Original Screenplay

Bridge of Spies, Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Ex Machina, Alex Garland
Inside Out, Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Spotlight, Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
Straight Outta Compton, Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

I didn't see Tom Hardy making it or JJ Leigh.

"He fit the book's conception of a sweet, rather dim boy new to many things."

the character of a 20 something italian american in 1950s new york being one of those things...

Ennio Morricone has never won a direct Oscar, has he? Just honorary? That would be cool. Otherwise, man, I was talking to a friend who, like me, struggles to get out to the movies. She said she felt she really needed to catch up with the potential Oscar contenders, and I basically raised my eyebrows and told her, um, not this year. There's Mad Max, and there's more or less everything else, and even Mad Max feels like a serious outlier.

Happy to see Star Wars did not get a production design nom.

nice to see ex machina in there

truly dull nominations though. id have thought carol would be in there for makeup and styling or production design. seems like they just thought 'how can we put the revenant in every category?'

hope mad max wins nothing except maybe editing.

I want the best for Danish film, but I kinda hate it when complete shit is nominated for Best Foreign Film. A War is one of the worst films I saw this year.

And now I have to pretend to support it.

I was happy to see Ex Machina, too. Movie is a little on the nose, but it lingers.

have prediction models gotten that much more sophisticated, or are the Oscars just that much more boringly predictable now

Well, I think they found themselves in a jam, seeing as they had to nominate something.

please do not let redmayne win

You mean Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne?

yeah all those directors are better than Spielberg

release the hounds at this trade show

am surprised charlize theron isnt nominated, it being the year of women of cinema etc.

the best actress/actor award should go to the cast of tangerine. surprised rachel weisz isnt in there for lobster (or that lobster isnt in there at all)

mea culpa, i thought Opie had two. just one.

fun fact: the last American males to win best director were the Coen brothers, eight years ago.

is that brie larson's boyfriend to her right? he's cute.

Brie Larson has been so sweet to her kid co-star all night. And she hugged every last rape survivor.

brie seems p cool

Eddie Redmayne already campaigning to play Cate Blanchett in 2040 biopic.

i'm already tired of redmayne and he's only been hanging around a couple of years and i've barely watched his movies

did Rivette, Akerman, de Oliveira and Setsuko Hara all make the obit montage?

And Gena Rowlands spoke for 30 minutes about the wonders of Opening Night.

Akerman did ...

Bryan Cranston could play a good Geraldo.

They should just keep cranking out Steve Jobs movies. We really need them, but have not get gotten the one we deserve.

He should have accepted in a bear suit.

I'll accept this acceptance speech.

upset?

huh.

Michael Keaton just gave a "fuck yeah."

tom mccarthy: "thank you very much, but i really should have won for the cobbler..."

They can't all be winners.

crackers

More PE, nice

Wow, playing "Fight the Power" over the credits ...

morbs will appreciate my deep leo mccarey reference, no?

revenant was never gonna win. just made me some money on it woo.

i was worried about the big short for awhile...i haven't seen it or anything, i just keep seeing steve carrell's hair in my nightmares. not enough to replace his nose in that wrestling murder movie.

Mad Max should've swept.

cept none of the actors were nominated so it couldnt HUH

I watched the last 7 (?) awards of this. Inarritu gave a terrible speech and Lady Gaga was boring.

The Martian was shut out. Good.

Mad Max won more than anything else.

yeah we know, the fix is in

http://www.factmag.com/2016/02/29/kira-roessler-black-flag-oscar-sound-editing-2016/

:D

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Per Leo's nice speech, it's a point worth making that both "The Revenant" and "Mad Max" had to alter their filming schedule because of climate change. Recall: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/blooming-desert-puts-brakes-on-mad-max-20101011-16g09.html

a friend of mine directed the movie that won the best short category, stutterer. we send each other scripts and stuff from time to time to get feedback, afair i saw this one and didn't offer any negative feedback, it seemed good, though think it was at an embryonic stage. perhaps i missed my chance to ruin it/get a writing credit on on oscar-winning movie.

so weird seeing him getting his oscar engraved in the background of some leo feeding frenzy...

Thats cool! Tell him to put a bear attack in his next one.

bear paedophile scandal ftw

silence in the cave of bears

mea maxima bear

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zl6Jn3iUbwQ/maxresdefault.jpg

nice to see the Hot Babe supporting actress tradition continue

(the roster of honorees the last 25 years is hilarious, occasionally interrupted by eg Judi Dench)

@DennisThePerrin
Dying kids meeting celebrities. American socialism. #Oscars

ive got no real issue with anything chris rock said. he had a difficult job to do (though i think it is okay to care about both a lack of black nominees and lack of a water supply, theres no rule saying you can only care about one). my issue is more with what he didnt say. if the issue is all about diversity, well, black actors/filmmakers are not the only minority trying to get some opportunities.

Rob Sheffield:

It was a strange Oscar Night all around. Somehow, in recent months, our nation became feverishly obsessed with the idea that Leonardo DiCaprio is not merely a good actor, but an unjustly unrewarded one who's long overdue for recognition of his artistic achievements in the "things other than looking hot in the Nineties" category. Hey, that's beautiful, America, you go with that, though it's not a feverish obsession I happen to share. When he won his Best Actor trophy for The Revenant, he admirably discussed climate change while struggling to simulate a facial expression. "Let's not take this planet for granted," Leo said. "I don't take tonight for granted." Having equated the survival of our ecosystem with his need for an Oscar, Leo called it a night. (He didn't appear onstage with his old shipmate Kate Winslet — but thumbs up for her fierce reading glasses.)

The oppression of women in Hollywood could not be more glaringly illustrated than in the constant presenter pairing of "Goofy Joking Male Slob + Silently Smiling Sideboob Machine." The agony on the great Olivia Wilde's face as she had to endure Sacha Baron Cohen reviving his Ali G schtick — that was an indignity neither she nor any other actress should be forced to bear. At least the Oscars had the decency to spare any of the female stars from having to go onstage with Kevin Hart, whose habit of creeping out his co-presenters is just one of the things that make him a menace at award shows. (Tonight Kevin Hart decided to get serious and share his innermost feelings about diversity, which was far less painful than watching him harass Salma Hayek.)

the "leo can't catch that oscar" meme's been going on for years now

I agree though, he's just a shit actor imo. not good not decent. glad the meme's over.

http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/29/leo-dicaprio-oscar-win-party-vaping/

People upset that Abe Vigoda was 'snubbed' in the obit roll... Maybe make more than one good film in a 90-year career?

Since Birdman was the middle win of Lubezki's three, can we call it a shit sandwich?

nice to see the Hot Babe supporting actress tradition continue
(the roster of honorees the last 25 years is hilarious, occasionally interrupted by eg Judi Dench)

Just checked and that's hardly a Sports Illustrated definition of 'hot babes' your using there.

grade on a curve

Ok Vikander does just shade it over Dianne Wiest I guess.

Was searching around to see if Vikander is totally white, crazy imdb thread about it.