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

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LEXG WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG

[Impact]

Well guys the Oscar game needs a lot more players. (I don't know why that does not get more)

[riczhang]

Well guys the Oscar game needs a lot more players. (I don't know why that does not get more)

 

Ordering the choices really takes a lot of time and I've been so busy I really haven't had the time to do so  

[Impact]

You all had nearly a month

[The Futurist]

Do you think people get coaches to rehearse their loosing faces on Oscar night ?

[Impact]

And do any of them ever get stage fright?

[rockNrollaDIM]

Do you think people get coaches to rehearse their loosing faces on Oscar night ?

I would probably be relieved to lose. I hate public speaking. In fact, I totally envy the careers of Amy Adams and Leo Dicaprio.

[MovieMan89]

Average gross of Best Picture winners in decade after LOTR (2004-present):

unadjusted: $92 million

Adjusted: $108 million

Highest Grossing Adjusted: The Departed - $168m

Lowest Grossing Adjusted: The Hurt Locker - $19m

 

Average gross of Best Picture winners in the decade leading up to LOTR (1994-2003):

Unadjusted: $213 million

Adjusted: $374 million

Highest Grossing Adjusted: Titanic - $1,093b

Lowest Grossing Adjusted: Braveheart - $144m

 

Gee I wonder why the Oscars have lost relevancy the past decade?

Edited February 26, 2014 by MovieMan89

[riczhang]

Average gross of Best Picture winners in decade after LOTR (2004-present):

unadjusted: $92 million

Adjusted: $108 million

Highest Grossing Adjusted: The Departed - $168m

Lowest Grossing Adjusted: The Hurt Locker - $19m

 

Average gross of Best Picture winners in the decade leading up to LOTR (1994-2003):

Unadjusted: $213 million

Adjusted: $374 million

Highest Grossing Adjusted: Titanic - $1,093b

Lowest Grossing Adjusted: Braveheart - $144m

 

Gee I wonder why the Oscars have lost relevancy the past decade?

 

(Well the we've stopped making good GA films )

[MovieMan89]

(Well the we've stopped making good GA films )

True to an extent. Although TDK, Inception, Avatar, and now Gravity all say hi.

[riczhang]

True to an extent. Although TDK, Inception, Avatar, and now Gravity all say hi.

 

TDK was not oscar worthy and neither was Avatar. Though I will give you that Inception and Gravity are exceptions to the rule. (Though they seem to have been made with the more arty aim in mind and blew-up on the GA market subsequently, so not really the same thing as TDK)

[Ezen Baklattan]

I still think 12YAS is going to win Best Picture, but Gravity is the only film that can usurp it.

[rockNrollaDIM]

Saw on Today show that 12YAS producers just closed a deal to get distribution to all American public schools for next year. Are votes already submitted? Or some last minute "importance" PR?

[Dementeleus]

Voting ended yesterday.

[The Futurist]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscar-voter-reveals-brutally-honest-682957

 

Oscar Voter Reveals Brutally Honest Ballot : his best quotes :

 

"And Before Midnight is a travesty of ineptitude and dreadful writing, like the other two in that horrible trilogy -- if I was sitting next to those people, I would run in the opposite direction.

 

"Meryl Streep gave "a bottom-drawer performance" in "August: Osage County.""

 

BEST ANIMATED FEATUREI have seen none of them. I have no interest whatsoever. That ended when I was 6. My son dragged me to a few when he was 6; I would seat him and go outside and make phone calls.MY PICK: I abstain.

 

I've actually occasionally fallen asleep in my own movies

 

Payne -- whatever.

 

And Cuaron was part of a committee of technicians who made that movie, and I have seen things at the planetarium that were at least as impressive.

 

I often choose personal friendship when I am torn between two almost equally good options, but in this case I'm friends with both David and Woody, so that doesn't help. …"

 

 

 

THis guy just keeps on giving and he s smitten with Jlaw & DOR !

Now that is one snarky bitch but who is he ?

An AD forum guess : Barry Levinson?Member of the Directors Branch. Only likes Cate in Blue Jasmine and…Bandits! Old enough to be friends with Bruce Dern. Old enough to be friends with Woody and still works regularly so could very well be friends with O.Russel. Could occasionally fall asleep to his own movies. CHECK!)

Edited February 26, 2014 by The Futurist

[rukaio101]

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

I have seen none of them. I have no interest whatsoever. That ended when I was 6. My son dragged me to a few when he was 6; I would seat him and go outside and make phone calls.

And this guy's seriously an academy voter? No wonder the Oscars don't get much respect nowadays.

[AniNate]

These are the kind of people that are holding the Academy back

[Dementeleus]

Dude has a serious AH boner.

[The Stingray]

I'm surprised he didn't pick Hustle for VFX.

[baumer]

Yep, this is the academy that nominates The Artist for best original screenplay.  This is the academy that gives best picture winners to films like Shakespeare in Love and Chicago and nominates films like The Reader instead of TDK.  The academy, the oscars, they mean nothing.  They're dime store comic book jokes, complete with little pieces of Bazooka bubble gum.