88TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS Discussion Topic (LIVE! Today's discussion begins on pg 33)

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[DAR]

I have a feeling that Birth of a Nation movie has a slot locked up regardless

[kayumanggi]

4 minutes ago, eddyxx said:

Some one posted earlier that Mad Max had the most wins ever but didn't ROTK win like 10 awards?

 

That's for this year only.

[Avatree]

5 minutes ago, boomboom234 said:

This is awful discusion both were truly awful events  but a few thousands kids to millions upon millions of ruined lives ruined governments destabilized world. In places in Europe there is still around 30% unemployment people lost everything and its still the number 1 issue politically world wide our current election is still being run off its aftermath it was a history defining event similar to the great depression the scale is significantly bigger. That's not to say spotlight shouldn't have one or that the catholic church shouldn't be forced to deal with these issues but the overall importance is key especially since almost nothing has changed since 2008 while a lot has changed in the catholic world since 2001

 

I have been both raped and unemployed, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that I know which one was worse. Please stop trying to speak for groups about whom you know nothing. It's fine to say you didn't like the film or w/e but why are you even making this dumb comparison between two completely different things? 

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1 hour ago, 4815162342 said:

 

Jesus Christ Blank eat a fucking Snickers or go to bed.

Just wanna point you had the exact same reaction last year lolol

 

A part of me did the Stallone meltdown so that way the forum could turn against me and move on from it

 It worked

[Rman823]

Just now, DAR said:

I have a feeling that Birth of a Nation movie has a slot locked up regardless

At this point I'm 90% sure it'll win. 

[lab276]

4 minutes ago, eddyxx said:

Some one posted earlier that Mad Max had the most wins ever but didn't ROTK win like 10 awards?

 

Ben Hur, Titanic and ROTK, all with 11.

[DeeCee]

21 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

that's why they had screenplay on first. spotlight bookended the show. only won the first award of the night and the last award of the night.

A Spotlight sandwich if you will. 

[Jonwo]

Is The Founder still on course for release this year? I bet Harvey's hoping Michael Keaton's luck extends to that. 

[Fancyarcher]

1 minute ago, Rman823 said:

At this point I'm 90% sure it'll win. 

 

Reviews aren't that great, so I wouldn't be so sure of that, just yet.

Edited February 29, 2016 by Daniel Dylan Davis

[Rman823]

Just now, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

 

Reviews aren't that great, so I wouldn't be so sure of that.

Last I heard it was doing alright. It has a 95% on RT at the moment although it's only 22 reviews.

[DeeCee]

1 minute ago, BKB IS CAPTAIN AMERICA said:

VISUAL EFFECTS

Ex Machina (WINNER)

Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

 

Ex Machina??? Never heard of it..

There, there. That's OK. 

[Rman823]

Just now, BKB IS CAPTAIN AMERICA said:

 

What's that?? BvsS??

The Birth of a Nation 

[AniNate]

I'm fine with Spotlight winning. Not my favorite film of the year but the writing and story is good enough that I'm not going to lump it in with other topical-but-forgettable Oscar bait.

[filmlover]

14 minutes ago, Total Treecall said:

It's not as if Alicia Vikander was terrible though. I thought Danish Girl was pretty crap, and she was evidently in the wrong category, but you can't really complain that her performance won.

She was good, but unfortunately her performance in The Danish Girl is in service of a very problematic movie that does nothing to advance one's understanding of a topic that a lot of people still don't understand (I mean, it attributes his discovery that he was really a woman entirely to his wife forcing him to wear a dress for one of her paintings one day). That and she was so in the wrong category (so was Mara but that's another story). Better to pretend she won for a good performance in a great movie instead of a good performance in a lousy one.

Edited February 29, 2016 by filmlover

[Jonwo]

Fox Searchlight must think The Birth of a Nation can do well considering the amount they paid for WW rights. 

[Fancyarcher]

3 minutes ago, Rman823 said:

Last I heard it was doing alright. It has a 95% on RT at the moment although it's only 22 reviews.

 

Oh well, it's too soon to declare it the winner anyway.

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[Rman823]

Just now, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

 

Oh well, it's too soon to declare it the winner anyway.

I know I'm just saying it has a good chance with all the controversy this year. Not saying it's a lock though. 

[AniNate]

At this point last year Tom McCarthy was getting critically savaged for a misguided fantasy comedy starring Adam Sandler. So yeah, nothing is for certain yet.