91st Academy Awards - Discussion thread - RACISM IS OVER, THANKS GREEN BOOK

[Eric Atreides]

1 minute ago, rihrey said:

i think it could win Best Score, and maybe even Production Design

We'll see. Feel like Britell's Beale Street score has it in the bag.

[Rebeccas]

3 minutes ago, rihrey said:

i think it could win Best Score, and maybe even Production Design

It will definitely not.

[RichWS]

Say what you what about McKay, but at least we dodged that Farrelly Director nod. 

[filmlover]

lmao

 

 

[Johnny Tran]

It's cool Black Panther was nominated for Best Picture but no Coogler tells me they don't REALLY think it's a great film.  

[CoolioD1]

13 minutes ago, Blankments said:

gotta say, i love how a superhero movie is finally nominated for Best Picture and all the blockbuster stans are MAD

when you're one of those guy who always complains about blockbusters not getting nominated but also likes to say stuff like "GET WOKE GO BROKE"

 

Edited January 22, 2019 by CoolioD1

[Blankments]

2 minutes ago, rihrey said:

i think it could win Best Score, and maybe even Production Design

it shouldn't even be eligible for score lmao

 

not that anyone cares but my current picks in every category, followed by how many i've seen

 

Picture: Roma (8/8)

Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma (4/5)

Actor: Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born (4/5)

Actress: Yalitza Aparicio, Roma (5/5)

Supporting Actor: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me? (5/5)

Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Favourite (5/5)

Original Screenplay: Roma (4/5)

Adapted Screenplay: A Star is Born (4/5)

Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (4/5)

Foreign Language Film: Roma (2/5)

Documentary: Minding the Gap (3/5)

Documentary Short: haven't seen any

Live Action Short: haven't seen any

Animated Short: Bao (1/5 lol)

Original Score: Nicholas Britell, If Beale Street Could Talk (5/5)

Original Song: "Shallow," A Star is Born (4/5)

Sound Editing: First Man (5/5)

Sound Mixing: First Man (5/5)

Production Design: Black Panther (5/5)

Cinematography: Roma (3/5)

Makeup and Hairstyling: Vice (1/5 lol)

Costume Design: Black Panther (3/5)

Film Editing: BlacKkKlansman (5/5)

Visual Effects: First Man (5/5)

[Barnack]

8 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

It's cool Black Panther was nominated for Best Picture but no Coogler tells me they don't REALLY think it's a great film.  

Different group of voters too, director branch can be a bit of is own animal (i.e. maybe a lot of the people that voted for the movie did put it high and thought of it as great, they are not just voting for best director nominations)

 

Hard to know (arguably quite impossible), not long ago Argo won best picture while the directing branch didn't felt it was in the top 5.

Edited January 22, 2019 by Barnack

[CoolioD1]

1 minute ago, Blankments said:

it shouldn't even be eligible for score lmao

 

nah it should probably win.

[Johnny Tran]

15 minutes ago, Blankments said:

gotta say, i love how a superhero movie is finally nominated for Best Picture and all the blockbuster stans are MAD

Well they picked the wrong one.  Your avatar got snubbed in the Best Picture category.  Wall-E was nominated for it.  

[filmlover]

Don't think it's been mentioned but 9 of this year's 20 acting nominees are first-timers.

[grim22]

6 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

Well they picked the wrong one.  Your avatar got snubbed in the Best Picture category.  Wall-E was nominated for it.  

Animation has become a ghetto category to such an extent that animated movies now have no shot at Best Picture. Wall-E wasn't nominated for Best Picture either. The only years we got animated movie in Best Picture were the 2 years before the stupid "X% of #1 votes are required for a movie to be nominated" rule. Voters will include animated movies on their ballot but not rank them #1

[Barnack]

8 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

Well they picked the wrong one.  Your avatar got snubbed in the Best Picture category.  Wall-E was nominated for it.  

 

Not sure what you mean by that, Wall-E is an extremely iconic 95 on Metacritic just out of the 10 most acclaimed movies by critics of this century (and featuring an long homage to silent era cinema):

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/21stcentury_allfilms_table.php

 

1	1	In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai	2000	Hong Kong	97
2	2	Mulholland Dr.	Lynch, David	2001	France	147
3	3	Yi yi	Yang, Edward	2000	Taiwan	173
4	4	There Will Be Blood	Anderson, Paul Thomas	2007	USA	158
5	7	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Gondry, Michel	2004	USA	108
6	5	Caché	Haneke, Michael	2005	France	117
7	6	Tree of Life, The	Malick, Terrence	2011	USA	139
8	8	Spirited Away	Miyazaki, Hayao	2001	Japan	124
9	9	Tropical Malady	Weerasethakul, Apichatpong	2004	Thailand	118
10	10	Brokeback Mountain	Lee, Ang	2005	USA	134
11	12	WALL-E	Stanton, Andrew	2008	USA	98

 

Not sure what you are implying by that choice made by the Academy.

[Rorschach]

Most surprising nomination for me was the mother from Roma getting a Supporting Actress nod. I was not expecting it at all but I'm happy none the less. She gave a great performance in the film.

[Avatree]

If INSIDE OUT couldn't get a BP nom, safe to say nothing will

 

[CoolioD1]

disney actually went out of their way to do a big push for Up and especially Toy Story 3. no animated film since those have gotten that sort of campaign. which i think is a big part of it. studios will willingly settle for just winning animated.

Edited January 22, 2019 by CoolioD1

[Barnack]

3 minutes ago, grim22 said:

Animation has become a ghetto category to such an extent that animated movies now have no shot at Best Picture. Wall-E wasn't nominated for Best Picture either. The only years we got animated movie in Best Picture were the 2 years before the stupid "X% of #1 votes are required for a movie to be nominated" rule. Voters will include animated movies on their ballot but not rank them #1

I was certain that Wall-E was nominated..........

 

mixed up with Toy story 3 and Up made it around that time.

 

I think that like for foreign language it is much harder, but they still have a shot, a Roma type of reception could get through, but like foreign language the bar is that much higher.

[Rebeccas]

Will Emily Blunt forever be nomination-less? She got two SAG nods this year and still couldn't make it.

[YM!]

As an animation fan, a sad but known truth is that the Academy Awards don’t really care about the majority of them. The majority don’t even watch those choose for Best Animated Feature.

[rukaio101]

24 minutes ago, Johnny Tran said:

It's cool Black Panther was nominated for Best Picture but no Coogler tells me they don't REALLY think it's a great film.  

...the fuck is this even supposed to mean? They openly nominated it as one of the best movies of the year but because they didn't also nominate it in this one specific side category, they therefore don't actually think its a great movie?

 

The mental gymnastics these BP haters are doing, man...