Halba Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 mccarthy is the clear winner. no one else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigausorus Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Please RIDLEY RIDLEY RIDLEY for this! I think he is the best on this list, Scott is a living legend, author of so many incredible movies like Alien, Blade Runner, Duellists, Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Kingdom Of Heaven, The Counselor, Legend ... Scott is fascinating, fantastic eye. The Martian isn't his best film, but it's still an excellent film, very well done, one of the best this year with Mad Max. It would be fun to reward him with a science fiction movie, it's the master of the genre, this is the right time for him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 He has no chance, but Ryan Coogler gets my vote so far this year as far as live action goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 23 minutes ago, Bigausorus said: Please RIDLEY RIDLEY RIDLEY for this! I think he is the best on this list, Scott is a living legend, author of so many incredible movies like Alien, Blade Runner, Duellists, Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Kingdom Of Heaven, The Counselor, Legend ... Scott is fascinating, fantastic eye. The Martian isn't his best film, but it's still an excellent film, very well done, one of the best this year with Mad Max. It would be fun to reward him with a science fiction movie, it's the master of the genre, this is the right time for him! This type of thinking is exactly what's wrong with the Academy. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Wasn't Ridley already rewarded with Gladiator anyway? Edit: Guess not. Still, it won BP which may as well be a win for Ridley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigausorus Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 19 hours ago, Jake Gittes said: This type of thinking is exactly what's wrong with the Academy. You are absolutely right! But it has always been like that !!! Why directors like Kubrick, Hitchcock, Scott, Tarantino, Scorsese (in its great period) and many others never won ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Because the Academy was too busy rewarding people who didn't deliver their best films but for whom it was "the right time"? Although Scott's loss in 2000 is really a rare exception to this, since it was definitely the right time, yet they picked Soderbergh, a non-veteran who was just as much if not more deserving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 That's what the lifetime achievement award is for Sent from my Z667T using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Yeah, I hate giving someone an Oscar because they're "overdue". Even if they are, vote for the best of the year, period. All the Oscar politics is annoying. If you feel Hitchcock did the best job directing a film 2 years in a row, so what? Vote for him both years, if he's good enough for two years in a row in your view, then he deserves the vote. If an unconventional sci-fi film like Ex Machina deserves a nomination in your eyes, vote to give it a nomination. If you think the latest Pixar film was the best of year, say so and vote for it, don't give it a lesser recognition just because it's an animated film. If you think Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is garbage Oscar Bait, don't vote to nominate just because it's an "Oscar genre film" Oscar noms and wins shouldn't be a genre. Neither should tentpoles either, honestly. I shouldn't watch a film and go, "That's an Oscar film," I should watch the film and think, "That was a great movie, it deserves recognition for how good it was." This is coming from a guy who's favorites from the last few years range from Boyhood, to Guardians of the Galaxy, to Inside Out, to Snowpiercer, to The Immigrant, to Life of Pi, to Gravity, to 12 Years a Slave, to Inside Llewyn Davis, to The Social Network, to Her, to the Wolf of Wall Street, to Spotlight, to Ex Machina, to Birdman, to the Avengers, to Before Midnight, etc. Im not saying the Oscars are always guilty of this. They've been getting better at inspired nominations. It's just tiring to see the academy nominate things for reasons other than it actually being nomination worthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omar Blitz Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 I really think Scott , Miller , McCarthy , Garland and Villeneuve deserve noms , they made very special things this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 I feel like Ridley's getting in much in tge same way Midnight In Paris did, as a gesture of, "Hey, this legendary director made a not shitty movie for once!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 It's not my favorite Pixar film this year but it would be huge for animation if Pete Docter could get in. I would be genuinely ecstatic if Mark Burton and Richard Starzak could do it, but I know that has zero chance of happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Frankly, even Docter has a zero chance of happening. Animation just has too much of a stigma to really keep it back. IO likely missing a BP nod sadly won't help either. However, I could see animated films entering the visual effects category soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impact Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 1 hour ago, Spaghetti-3PO said: Frankly, even Docter has a zero chance of happening. Animation just has too much of a stigma to really keep it back. IO likely missing a BP nod sadly won't help either. Theres a better chance Jem gets nominated for a Oscar then a animated film getting nominated for director it seems! BTW-a animated film was nominated for visuals, Nightmare Before Christmas. Granted it was stop motion, but still! I did read somewhere that TS1 was disqualified in 1995 for visual effects as it was actually submitted. Technically a animated film did win though, Avatar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movieboner Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 In the last 4 years, the award went to Oscar worthy films with a lot of technical difficulties. The Martian and Mad Max fits this criteria, but both directors are not overdue, because their films have already been awarded by the Oscars. Ridley Scott's Gladiator won the ultimate prize best picture and George Miller's Happy feat won best animated feature. I think the best directed movie of the year is Mad Max, but would the academy give it to a sequel that has an upcoming installment "Mad Max: The Wasteland." The last 4 films that won were standalone features. You could argue that The Godfather Part 2 was a sequel that won best director, but it was viewed as the final installment, until Cappola decided to make one last film 18 years later. I see the academy giving the award to Miller for the final installment similar to the scenario with The Lord of the Rings(fotr was the best directed movie of 2001). That's why I think Ridley will win, but I'm just making assumptions and could be 100% wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 I think McKay is getting in, I'll wait till the DGA to be certain though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impact Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 Imagine going back 9 years ago and saying Adam McKay could be nominated for a Oscar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 Eh, it's not like he's Dennis Dugan or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathOfHan Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 10 hours ago, movieboner said: In the last 4 years, the award went to Oscar worthy films with a lot of technical difficulties. The Martian and Mad Max fits this criteria, but both directors are not overdue, because their films have already been awarded by the Oscars. Ridley Scott's Gladiator won the ultimate prize best picture and George Miller's Happy feat won best animated feature. I think the best directed movie of the year is Mad Max, but would the academy give it to a sequel that has an upcoming installment "Mad Max: The Wasteland." The last 4 films that won were standalone features. You could argue that The Godfather Part 2 was a sequel that won best director, but it was viewed as the final installment, until Cappola decided to make one last film 18 years later. I see the academy giving the award to Miller for the final installment similar to the scenario with The Lord of the Rings(fotr was the best directed movie of 2001). That's why I think Ridley will win, but I'm just making assumptions and could be 100% wrong. The biggest thing that hurts Miller is the open voting. If it was still limited to the Directors branch or had voting like BP I think he'd win, but Mad Max won't be everyone's cup of tea in the Academy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmasterclay Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Pre-New Year's Predictions 1. Miller 2. McCarthy 3. Haynes 4. Scott 5. Hm.... Innaritu First one out: McKay First four seem like mortal locks at this point. Fifth spot is between Innaritu, McKay, the Berg, and Abrahamson. Could go any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
