2014 Academy Awards: The Official Thread (ALL NOMINEES IN THE FIRST POST)

[rukaio101]

I just don't like forced moral lessons and a lot of critics, Fox Searchlight have used the idea of the importance of the movie because of the subject matter of the movie.

Also, I find it too easy to judge the past with the morals and values of today. If you were born in 1744,maybe we(you) would have thought slavery was a normal thing, that s just how things evolved in those times, and children were raised to think that way. But in 2013,telling me Slavery is bad ? No shit ! It would be way more ballsy to adress racial issues in America in 2013 where most people in prison in America are black and hispanic. Just look at unemployment rates in black neighborhoods in the big cities of America.

I have nothing against 12YAS as a movie. I am just fed up with the moral lessons of people who talk about it and promote it : " Go see it or be an insensitive human being !"

Oh and human misery giving hard-ons to Steve McQueen is a factor too.

I really wonder what his fourth film will be about : genocide, torture, incest : take your pick from Mr King of Pain.

It's a movie about a slave and slavery. The whole 'slavery is bad' thing is pretty damn hard to avoid when making a movie like that.

[Ezen Baklattan]

Funnily enough Happy (the DM2 song) has all of a sudden turned into a massive hit. It barely missed out at #1 on the Hot 100 this week, and it's sitting pretty atop the iTunes chart. If the Oscars wanted to go with the biggest hit, they would actually give it to that.

 

[The Panda]

Anyone find it ironic the academy chose to honor heroes and superheros in the year with some of the weakest comic book movies in recent memory?

[MovieMan89]

 

PATHETIC.

Oscar whoring at its worse.

Really puke inducing.

:puke:

Dear lord almighty.   I honestly hope it loses now just for that.

[MovieMan89]

I just don't like forced moral lessons and a lot of critics, Fox Searchlight have used the idea of the importance of the movie because of the subject matter of the movie.

Also, I find it too easy to judge the past with the morals and values of today. If you were born in 1744,maybe we(you) would have thought slavery was a normal thing, that s just how things evolved in those times, and children were raised to think that way. But in 2013,telling me Slavery is bad ? No shit ! It would be way more ballsy to adress racial issues in America in 2013 where most people in prison in America are black and hispanic. Just look at unemployment rates in black neighborhoods in the big cities of America.

I have nothing against 12YAS as a movie. I am just fed up with the moral lessons of people who talk about it and promote it : " Go see it or be an insensitive human being !"

Oh and human misery giving hard-ons to Steve McQueen is a factor too.

I really wonder what his fourth film will be about : genocide, torture, incest : take your pick from Mr King of Pain.

 

Jlaw won last year, AH may come home empty handed, I could care less.

If anything, a Gravity sweep would be cool.

You summed up perfectly why 12YAS should not win. Like I've said before, any decent human being in this day and age is going to recognize how evil slavery was. It's ridiculous to say that 12YAS is an incredible film because it "exposes" slavery's horrors. Um, that was exposed decades ago. As you mentioned, it would be far more relevant to expose the horrors of minority treatment in the US today. Breaking down 12YAS as a film, some of the screenplay and Fassbender and Nyongo's performances are the only things exceptional about it. The directing, cinematography, score, editing, and some of the characters/performances (including the protagonist) are all merely decent at best. And yeah, McQueen is the black Mel Gibson as far as I'm concerned. He totally gets off to torture porn.

Edited February 24, 2014 by MovieMan89

[The Panda]

As much as I love 12 Years a Slave, I do hope it loses for Oscar whoring like that.

[The Panda]

You know, after having to debate (about 3) hicks today about the confederate flag over the course of an hour, 12 Years a Slave might be an important film that all Americans should see after all.

 

I used to think no person in their right mind wouldn't know that chattel slavery was one of the greatest crimes committed by humanity, but those people sure didn't know.

[Ezen Baklattan]

Ugh....I'm a bit worried that American Hustle might beat Her for Original Screenplay, especially with it winning the BAFTA where Her wasn't even nominated. It could pull a Precious here.

[The Futurist]

 

Ah, the memories ...

Time flies...

[Incarnadine]

Full list of presenters is announced. Gotta say, Bill Murray is a bit of a surprise.

 

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/bill-murray-to-present-at-the-oscars-for-the-first-time-plus-full-list-of-academy-award-presenters-20140224

 

The actor will present an Oscar for the time at the ceremonies, and we'll just go ahead and predict it'll be one more hilarious and memorable moments of the Ellen DeGeneres-hosted evening. And who else will be stopping by? Here you go: Amy Adams, Kristen Bell, Jessica Biel, Jim Carrey, Glenn Close, Bradley Cooper, Penélope Cruz, Benedict Cumberbatch, Viola Davis, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Jamie Foxx, Andrew Garfield, Jennifer Garner, Whoopi Goldberg, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway, Goldie Hawn, Chris Hemsworth, Kate Hudson, Samuel L. Jackson, Angelina Jolie, Michael B. Jordan, Anna Kendrick, Jennifer Lawrence, Matthew McConaughey, Ewan McGregor, Bill Murray, Kim Novak, Tyler Perry, Brad Pitt, Sidney Poitier, Gabourey Sidibe, Will Smith, Kevin Spacey, Jason Sudeikis, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron, John Travolta, Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington, Emma Watson and Naomi Watts.

[CoolioD1]

who out of that lot is most likely to present best picture? it would be cool if sidney poitier did it and 12 years won.

[mahnamahna]

You summed up perfectly why 12YAS should not win. Like I've said before, any decent human being in this day and age is going to recognize how evil slavery was. It's ridiculous to say that 12YAS is an incredible film because it "exposes" slavery's horrors. Um, that was exposed decades ago. As you mentioned, it would be far more relevant to expose the horrors of minority treatment in the US today. Breaking down 12YAS as a film, some of the screenplay and Fassbender and Nyongo's performances are the only things exceptional about it. The directing, cinematography, score, editing, and some of the characters/performances (including the protagonist) are all merely decent at best. And yeah, McQueen is the black Mel Gibson as far as I'm concerned. He totally gets off to torture porn.

I'm thoroughly against race baiting or any sort of Oscar baiting - just give me a great story that doesn't beat me over the head with a "message"It is ridiculous to insinuate that the way minorities are treated today are "horrific". Obama just passed a law saying schools can't get black and Hispanic students in trouble unless an equal amount of whites and Asians get in trouble. Affirmative Action makes sure every company has a "rainbow" of diversity.A real exposé on the Knockout Game (one that realistically portrays the kids for what they are) would be more edgy and groundbreaking in this PC era of ours

[rukaio101]

Obama just passed a law saying schools can't get black and Hispanic students in trouble unless an equal amount of whites and Asians get in trouble. 

Source?

 

 

A real exposé on the Knockout Game (one that realistically portrays the kids for what they are) would be more edgy and groundbreaking in this PC era of ours

You mean that same 'Knockout Game' that most sensible news outlets have labelled a 'fake trend' and highly sensationalised at best?

[MovieMan89]

You know, after having to debate (about 3) hicks today about the confederate flag over the course of an hour, 12 Years a Slave might be an important film that all Americans should see after all.

 

I used to think no person in their right mind wouldn't know that chattel slavery was one of the greatest crimes committed by humanity, but those people sure didn't know.

Here's the problem with that though. The kind of people that still don't believe slavery was all that bad or try to justify it are ALWAYS going to believe that. If they saw 12YAS they would make excuses and say it was Hollywood dramatizing it. They wouldn't admit to the horrors of it because something in them can't accept that. Those kind of people are too deep in denial.

[The Panda]

Here's the problem with that though. The kind of people that still don't believe slavery was all that bad or try to justify it are ALWAYS going to believe that. If they saw 12YAS they would make excuses and say it was Hollywood dramatizing it. They wouldn't admit to the horrors of it because something in them can't accept that. Those kind of people are too deep in denial.

 

Pretty much like the people in denial about Climate Change, despite being brutally obvious they choose to ignore it.

[Jack Nevada]

Final predictions. 

 

BEST PICTURE: Gravity

BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity

BEST ACTOR: Matthew McConaghey - Dallas Buyers Club

BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Spike Jonze - Her

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki - Gravity

BEST EDITING: Gravity

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Gravity

BEST SOUND MIXING: Gravity

BEST SOUND EDITING: Gravity

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Gravity

BEST MAKEUP: Dallas Buyers Club

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: The Great Gatsby

BEST COSTUMES: The Great Gatsby

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "Let It Go" - Frozen

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Frozen

BEST DOCUMENTARY: The Act of Killing

BEST FOREIGN FILM: The Great Beauty

 

8 Oscars -- Gravity

3 Oscars -- Dallas Buyers Club

2 Oscars -- Frozen, The Great Gatsby

[The Futurist]

http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/oscar-bloggers-most-competitive-season-ever.html

 

Great article on the Oscar blogger scene where you learn that Sasha Crone and Wells had a fling ... the horror ...

[Dementeleus]

Stone met Wells at a screening in 2006. “The first thing he did was stare at my chest and ask me out,” she says. “So we had a two-week affair, and that ended badly.”

 

 

[rockNrollaDIM]

http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/oscar-bloggers-most-competitive-season-ever.html

 

Great article on the Oscar blogger scene where you learn that Sasha Crone and Wells had a fling ... the horror ...

 

 

 

 

CONFIRMATION!

 

[riczhang]

I'm gonna miss the OSCARS cus I'm travelling that day on business . I'm like totally distraught

And didn't everyone know that her and Jeff had a thing?

 

And anyways: Final Predictions

 

BEST PICTURE: Gravity

BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity

BEST ACTOR: Matthew McConaghey - Dallas Buyers Club

BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Spike Jonze - Her

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Steven Coogan and  Jeff Pope - Philomena (Cus Harvey always gets one)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita N'yongo - 12 Years a Slave

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki - Gravity

BEST EDITING: Gravity

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Gravity (Or they might take pity and give this to Philomena and swap in 12YAS for Screenplay)

BEST SOUND MIXING: Gravity

BEST SOUND EDITING: Gravity

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Gravity

BEST MAKEUP: Bad Grampa

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: The Great Gatsby

BEST COSTUMES: The Great Gatsby

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: "Let It Go" - Frozen

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Frozen

BEST DOCUMENTARY: The Act of Killing

BEST FOREIGN FILM: The Great Beauty

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: Just Before Loosing Everything

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: The Lady in Number 6

BEST ANIMATED SHORT: Get a Horse

Edited February 26, 2014 by riczhang