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

[RichWS]

Spotify's Trending in Film station is diverse. They've got Deadpool Rap, Revenant Main Theme and Glory by Common to kick things off.

[Ethan Hunt]

6 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Hardy winning would make my balls explode.

If it goes to some one other than sly it'll be pretty disappointing

[Fancyarcher]

World of Tomorrow is probably best short, but out of all of the categories, it's strangely the most stacked.

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, RichWS said:

Spotify's Trending in Film station is diverse. They've got Deadpool Rap, Revenant Main Theme and Glory by Common to kick things off.

What happens when that's nominated next year?

[Avatree]

1 minute ago, RichWS said:

Spotify's Trending in Film station is diverse. They've got Deadpool Rap, Revenant Main Theme and Glory by Common to kick things off.

On my itunes I make a compilation album of music in film every year.

[RichWS]

Someone tweeted recently something to the effect of "World of Tomorrow is so good, you just know it's not winning."

Very true.

[GiantCALBears]

What's really interesting to me is BP is actually one of the most competitive categories, you have Revenant at 69% & Spotlight (18%) /Big Short (10%) combine at better than 4/1 (28%). What are your thoughts guys? 

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, GiantCALBears said:

What's really interesting to me is BP is actually one of the most competitive categories, you have Revenant at 69% & Spotlight (18%) /Big Short (10%) combine at better than 4/1 (28%). What are your thoughts guys? 

I'd swap TBS and Spotlight

[Avatree]

Well I made my bets. Only spent £10. If one of them wins, I earn at least £70, if all of them win then I earn £600, if none of them win then I only lose £10.

[The Futurist]

“Universal is going to have the biggest movie in history with this movie,” Vin Diesel told Variety. “It will probably win best picture at the Oscars, unless the Oscars don’t want to be relevant ever.

 

“The head of the studio, Ron Meyer, often said when ‘Fast 5′ or ‘Fast 6′ came out, ‘If there was no number attached to these movies, they would be contenders for best picture.’ And when people see ‘Furious 7,’ they are going to agree.”

 

 

AMPAS is way too infatuated with their cute indie, artsy fartsy movies.

 

The movies of the people get no respect, as usual.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 28, 2016 by The Futurist

[GiantCALBears]

I think there is more than a small chance Revenant loses BP, if it was such a sure thing we should see it in the 80-90% range. Not a lot of hype on Spotlight but the way the ranking system works, it could sneak in a BP win from 2nd place.

[CJohn]

Time for some E! Live from the Red Carpet.

[filmlover]

In fact let's just post all of Tom Hardy's most embarrassing Myspace photos in this thread. From this...
 

Spoiler

 

 

...to Oscar nominee.

[Avatree]

2 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

“Universal is going to have the biggest movie in history with this movie,” Vin Diesel told Variety. “It will probably win best picture at the Oscars, unless the Oscars don’t want to be relevant ever.

 

“The head of the studio, Ron Meyer, often said when ‘Fast 5′ or ‘Fast 6′ came out, ‘If there was no number attached to these movies, they would be contenders for best picture.’ And when people see ‘Furious 7,’ they are going to agree.”

 

 

AMPAS is way too infatuated with their cute indie, artsy fartsy movies.

 

The movies of the people get no respect, as usual.

 

 

 

 

Well, the "Movie of the people" last year was Star Wars, and it got 5 Oscar nominations. 

[Chewy]

We just need someone to go on a long rant about how the academy should nominate Star Wars and not movies no one sees and then we've covered all the preshow topics

[Chewy]

Posted that without seeing Futurist's comment I'll count that

[Avatree]

1 minute ago, Chewy said:

We just need someone to go on a long rant about how the academy should nominate Star Wars and not movies no one sees and then we've covered all the preshow topics

well timed...

[GiantCALBears]

1 minute ago, Chewy said:

We just need someone to go on a long rant about how the academy should nominate Star Wars and not movies no one sees and then we've covered all the preshow topics

Hahaha Chewy love the preemptive attack.

[Ethan Hunt]

2 minutes ago, Chewy said:

We just need someone to go on a long rant about how the academy should nominate Star Wars and not movies no one sees and then we've covered all the preshow topics

What they need to nominate is Pitch Perfect 2 

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, Ethan Hunt said:

What they need to nominate is Pitch Perfect 2 

How about Kingsman and Ant-Man?