La La Land | Now Playing | Record-Tieing 14 Oscar Noms and Record-Breaking 16 BOFFY Noms

[EmpireCity]

1 minute ago, MrPink said:

 

Ah cool. Very nice to hear. Saw the trailer with Moonlight and thought it looked really good. 

 

Check out the Fences thread on here if you want to see a sample of the reaction.  It likely has Best Actor, Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay wrapped up.  It will be right there for Best Director and Best Picture.  

[cannastop]

1 hour ago, EmpireCity said:

For the record, it is a fantastic movie.  Going to be neck and neck with FENCES for Best Picture.  

Fences is neck and neck for Best Picture? I thought people wrote it off as an acting showcase.

Edited November 7, 2016 by cannastop

[filmlover]

If anything this down, it's Silence (and that hasn't been seen yet). I loved Moonlight, but it's definitely too small and too subtle to win Best Picture. Fences could very well be an acting play and nothing more.

[EmpireCity]

8 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Fences is neck and neck for Best Picture? I thought people wrote it off as an acting showcase.

 

It is a lot more than that judging by people who have seen it and reactions last night.  They weren't random reactions either, it was a lot of critics and similar at the screening.  

[robertman2]

I want Arrival to come in and take Best Picture

 

 

 

 

Or better, yet Zootopia or Civil War wins

[TalismanRing]

36 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Fences is neck and neck for Best Picture? I thought people wrote it off as an acting showcase.

 

This a Pulitzer Prize winning play that won a Tony for Best Play then another decades later for Best Revival of Play (starring Denzel and Viola).  The material has always been award winning caliber so why it be different for The Oscars unless Denzel completely botched the direction which by reports he has definitely not.

[cannastop]

2 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

This a Pulitzer Prize winning play that won a Tony for Best Play then another decades later for Best Revival of Play (starring Denzel and Viola).  The material has always been award winning caliber so why it be different for The Oscars unless Denzel completely botched the direction which by reports he has definitely not.

I dunno. Maybe there's bias against play adaptions. Doubt and Rabbit Hole didn't get Best Picture nominations.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, cannastop said:

I dunno. Maybe there's bias against play adaptions. Doubt and Rabbit Hole didn't get Best Picture nominations.

Doubt most likely would've been nominated had the Best Picture field had expanded a year earlier.

[robertman2]

Just now, filmlover said:

Doubt most likely would've been nominated had the Best Picture field had expanded a year earlier.

You know what else would been nominated?

 

 

Dark Knight

[filmlover]

3 minutes ago, robertman2 said:

You know what else would been nominated?

 

 

Dark Knight

Pretty sure The Dark Knight/Doubt/Vicky Cristina Barcelona/WALL-E/The Wrestler would've been the other half of the nominees that year.

Edited November 7, 2016 by filmlover

[MrPink]

7 minutes ago, robertman2 said:

You know what else would been nominated?

 

 

Dark Knight

 

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, MrPink said:

 

I'd like to imagine MrPink was throwing his plate of chicken nuggets at his mother on that cold January 2009 morning.

[robertman2]

2 minutes ago, MrPink said:

 

I know...

[MrPink]

Just now, filmlover said:

I'd like to imagine MrPink was throwing his plate of chicken nuggets at his mother on that cold January 2009 morning.

 

I was a Freshman in college. I woke up in my bunk, checked my phone, and then curled up into fetal.

[robertman2]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

I'd like to imagine MrPink was throwing his plate of chicken nuggets at his mother on that cold January 2009 morning.

He vowed to take revenge on the world.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, MrPink said:

 

I was a Freshman in college. I woke up in my bunk, checked my phone, and then curled up into fetal.

Nolan getting snubbed again two years later probably didn't make it much better.

[MrPink]

Just now, filmlover said:

Nolan getting snubbed again two years later probably didn't make it much better.

 

I was happy Inception got a Best Pic nom, but yeah, a little peeved about the lack of director nomination.

[robertman2]

Just now, filmlover said:

Nolan getting snubbed again two years later probably didn't make it much better.

At least he got nominated.

Hopefully oor Dunkirk he brings his A game

[filmlover]

Just now, robertman2 said:

At least he got nominated.

Hopefully oor Dunkirk he brings his A game

Harry Styles will guarantee that doesn't happen.

[MrPink]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

Harry Styles will guarantee that doesn't happen.

 

On the contrary, it will guarantee he does!

 

That's what makes this film beautiful!