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My predictions Picture: The Big Short Director: McKay Actor: DiCaprio Actress: Larson Supp Actor: Stallone Supp Actress: Mara Original Screenplay: Inside Out Adapted Screenplay: The Big Short Animated: Inside Out Cinematography: The Revenant Editing: The Big Short VFX: Star Wars Sound Editing: Sicario Sound Mixing: Star Wars Production Design: Mad Max Costume Design: Cinderella Makeup: Mad Max Score: The Hateful Eight Song: If It Happened To You As for how my nomination accuracy was Picture - 6/8 (Missed Room and Brooklyn) Director - 4/5 (Missed Leny) Actor - 4/5 (Missed Redmayne) Actress - 3/5 (Missed Rampling and Lawrence) Supp Actor - 3/5 (Missed Hardy and Ruffalo) Supp Actress - 4/5 (Missed Vikander) Original Screenplay - 5/5 Adapted Screenplay - 4/5 (Missed Room) Cinematography - 3/5 (Missed Hateful Eight and Carol) Costume - 3/5 (Missed Carol and Danish Girl) Film Editing - 4/5 (Missed Star Wars) Make up - 2/3 (Missed 100 Year Old Man) Production Design - 3/5 (Missed Danish Girl and Revenant) Score - 4/5 (Missed Sicario) Song - 3/5 (Missed Manta Ray and Earned It) Sound Editing - 5/5 Mixing - 3/5 (Missed Revenant and Bridge of Spies) VFX - 4/5 (Missed Ex Machina) Animated - 3/5 (Missed Marnie and O Menino) So I got 70/101 nominations If I counted my alternates, then it's 79/101

There really is a backlash growing on twitter, and they have my sympathy. Most of it is for Straight Outta Compton only getting nominated for its two white writers, and Creed only getting nominated for its white supporting actor. The backlash didn't make sense last year, because yes David Oyelowo got snubbed because the Academy didn't see his movie, there was a fair amount of people of color nominated outside of the acting categories. As well as black/minority centered best picture nominee (Selma), despite the Academy not seeing it on time to nominate it elsewhere. Plus, last year just felt like a fluke of an overly white year. The backlash this year makes sense and is deserved (especially when they already got backlash last year). There were plenty of minority films (or films with a large presence of minorities) that were Oscar worthy, and none of them got in. Even for picture. Example, I didn't see Compton so I can't judge, but it was clear it had support in the guilds, but it missed for everything except for writing (and surprise, the writing nominees are white) Creed (a great film that definitely deserved more love) missed for everything, but its white supporting actor. Out of the nominees we got, Coogler getting in for director over one of the noms (besides Miller) or an adapted screenplay nom over Brooklyn, Martian, or Carol would have been worthy. Michael B. Jordan gave a better performance than all of the Best Actor nominees except for DiCaprio and maybe Fassbender. Heck, even Tessa Thompson was arguably better than McAdams (plus Vikander and Mara shouldn't have been competing in that category anyways). Beasts of No Nations, while a Netflix film (which shouldn't be a reason not to nominate something), proved it had some guild support and was worth consideration in a number of categories. I love Hardy, but Elba was most definitely stronger in Beasts than Hardy was in Revenant, I also would say he was stronger than Ruffalo. Abrahamson was young, and had no chance, but it is worth mentioning he was easily better than Redmayne (who got nominated for bad performance, the movie being an awards baitsy film and Redmayne being an award baitsy actor was the only reason Redmayne was considered). Cary could also have gotten in for screenplay over Brooklyn. Not to mention, there is room for 10 nominees, and there were only eight. There was room for one of those films to get in, if the Academy wasn't predominantly old white males who aren't necessarily racist, but don't really relate to some of the minority films so they don't nominate them. I'm not saying all of those nominations should have happened in actuality. I am saying, at least one of those nominations could have happened to give this years top awards a little more diversity. As the only diversity there is Inarritu, who already won an Oscar.

It'll reach 800m likely. Big Short will leg well and Revenant has a long run ahead of it. Plus some minor expansions for the rest (including Room)

Not to mention, AGI won last year, so I don't think it's the frontrunner. At least not for picture. (And add to that random things like BP winners have always hd a SAG Nomination) BP winner doesn't have to have a lot of noms, just the right one. Big Short and Spotlight are still the two frontrunners, Id say.

Oscars are probably about to get another #OscarsSoWhite backlash. I can't blame them though, unlike last year where I just thought it was a coincidence. There were many great black performance this year, many of them much better than a few of these nominees, and they were all snubbed. They could have at least nominated Elba over Hardy Or any of Smith/Jackson/Jordan over freaking Redmayne. Like every year, they have some pretty terrible nominations in context (and some good ones too).

Also, no awards show giving Inside Out a nomination or See You Again a nomination, shows why the film industry shouldn't be giving music awards. Both were better than most if not all the noms.

See You Again getting snubbed for Writings on the Wall and all of the Danish Girl nods are the two main things that make me angry with these nominations.

Maybe I won't hate it then. Gosh, I thought starting of the year with a Bay movie in January would be rough. Then again, I really didn't like Lone Survivor or American Sniper all that much (I did really like Zero Dark Thirty though), so if it's similar to them I might still be in for a painful experience.

So... This is actually... Good??

I get annoyed when I see comments about how a crappy movie got a nomination for say Make Up or Visual Effects or Sound. Yes, it's a crappy movie, but even some crappy movies have some very well-done aspects about them. You're sound noms are only nominating (or should only be nominating) based on sound quality, so if say, Transformers, has the best sound, it deserves the nomination. Does that mean Transformers got an Oscar nomination and one of your other favorites, like Hunger Games, didn't? Yes, and get over it. Sorry for the rant, but I know those inevitable twitter comments are coming, because there's going to be at least one crappy movie that gets a nomination somewhere where it may have actually deserved it.

Yeah, I really do hope these spin-off films work as completely separate films, just placed in the same universe. So new themes (besides the opening crawl, if there even is one), different tone, different themes. I don't want it to feel like another prequel. As for the thread, super excited for the Finding Dory score. Newman's scores always sound magical. (From Bond to Nemo to Bridge of Spies to Saving Mr. Banks)

Awful list of films... That must mean you did a good job with it.

I'm not sure what It'd take for the Oscars to get me to meltdown, Blanks style. Maybe if Tomorrowland or In the Heart of the Sea get a nom (anywhere), that might make me flip some tables.

Yeah, I thought about going for the hell of it, but then I thought, "Do I really want to go into stadium with a massive crowd of rednecks watching a Michael Bay film about Beghazi? Even if it's free? No."

My "Bold" guesses SoC, Sicario and Inside Out for Picture Carell over Redmayne for Actor Blunt and Vikander in lead (over Rampling and Lawrence) Vikander in supportin for Machina Del Torro in supporting actor No Hateful eight for screenplay (compton and ex Machina instead) Martian over Carol in cinematography

I hope Inarritu does a comic book movie next. It could be... interesting

Stupid troll giving this an F and ruining it's perfect straight As reviews. Honestly though, this is easily in my top 10 all-time, probably my top 5 all time.

Visual Effects nominations Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature “Furious 7” “Mad Max: Fury Road” “The Martian” “San Andreas” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature “Bridge of Spies” “Everest” “In the Heart of the Sea” “The Revenant” “The Walk” Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature “Anomalisa” “The Good Dinosaur” “Hotel Transylvania 2” “Inside Out” “The Peanuts Movie” This probably means Ex Machina is out of contention, as is Jurassic World. Nominees are likely Star Wars Mad Max The Martian Revenant Walk

Pick 10, it'll give you better odds. You won't be docked off points if there are only 8 nominees and you guessed all 8 but had 2 extra. You get points for what you get right.

Overrated movies by overrated directors?

Funny, Depp has the potential tiger a Razzie and Oscar nomination this year. Same me for Eddie Redmayne (Finally, he gets the awards recognition he wanted so much) Edit: And Rooney Mara as well! So many Oscar contenders giving Razzie level performances this year.

I bet 50 points to two people The Big Short increases this weekend

This will end up being the first movie of 2016 I see... We'll see how that goes...

I would criticize these choices, but then I realized these aren't even your top half.

FYC Best Actress, Best Soundtrack and Most Overlooked Film Anna Kendrick - The Last 5 Years