85th Academy Awards (24/2/13) Official Thread- TONIGHT!! NOMINEES IN THE FIRST POST

[riczhang]

How did watch all those films?

 

 

Festivals, and Art House theatres. My local arthouse is fairly good at getting indie releases. 

[riczhang]

I think you a small crush on Merly Streep. You are one biggest fanboys. 

 

Caught red-handed. Meryl is just amazing. I like to think of myself as her biggest fan.  

 

 

 

Any other year and her performance would've been my least favourite of the nominees. So it's good for Meryl that Albert Nobbs also came out that year.

 

Would now be a bad time to mention that I liked Glenn's performance as well..... ?

[CoolioD1]

Would now be a bad time to mention that I liked Glenn's performance as well..... ?

Well, yeah, it's always a bad time for that.

[RichWS]

It's embarrassing how little I see living in NYC. Every single movie comes here first. It's heaven for a cinephile like myself.

 

I have no excuse except I tend to be broke, and I live in Brooklyn so I can be too lazy to get on the train.

[CoolioD1]

Got this form ADF, so grain of salt:

 

the opening number involves at least Daniel Radcliffe and Joseph Gordon Levitt. They're performing "Be Our Guest." There are costumes and everything. . A woman who was interviewing people on the Spirit Awards red carpet said it.

 

Oh sweet jesus......

[GiantCALBears]

Looks like Argo will run away with BP as Bovada has them as 1/6 favorite...Still, SLP at 20/1 in third looks mighty enticing (Lincoln in 2nd at 4/1)

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Festivals, and Art House theatres. My local arthouse is fairly good at getting indie releases. 

Lucky

[RichWS]

Wait, wait, wait....how much music are we REALLY talking here? When did this become the Grammys?

[riczhang]

Got this form ADF, so grain of salt:

 

 

 

Oh sweet jesus......

 

 

Oh god. Maybe I'll tune in at 5:40 instead..... 

[GiantCALBears]

Oscars - Best Picture Winner All wagers have action.5:00pArgo1/6 Lincoln4/1 The Silver Linings Playbook20/1 Django Unchained40/1 Zero Dark Thirty40/1 Les Miserables50/1 Life of Pi50/1 Amour100/1 Beasts of the Southern Wild100/1 Oscars - Best Director Winner All wagers have action.5:00pSteven Spielberg (Lincoln)1/3 Ang Lee (Life of Pi)11/4 David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)14/1 Michael Haneke (Amour)16/1 Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)50/1 Oscars - Best Actor Winner All wagers have action.5:00pDaniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln1/50 Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables12/1 Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook33/1 Joaquin Phoenix - The Master33/1 Denzel Washington - Flight40/1 Oscars - Best Actress Winner All wagers have action.5:00pJennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook1/2 Emannuelle Riva - Amour9/4 Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty6/1 Naomi Watts - The Impossible33/1 Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts Of The Southern Wild40/1 Oscars - Best Supporting Actor Winner All wagers have action.5:00pChristoph Waltz - Django Unchained+130 Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln+140 Robert DeNiro - Silver Linings Playbook+350 Phillip Seymour Hoffman - The Master+1200 Alan Arkin - Argo+4000 Oscars - Best Supporting Actress Winner All wagers have action.5:00pAnne Hathaway - Les Miserables-4000 Sally Field - Lincoln+1200 Amy Adams - The Master+2500 Helen Hunt - The Sessions+2500 Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook+5000 Oscars - Best Adapted Screenplay Winner All wagers have action.5:00pChris Terrio - Argo-160 Tony Kushner - Lincoln+140 David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook+800 David Magee - Life Of Pi+3300 Lucy Alibar & Behn Zeitlin - Beasts Of The Southern Wild+4000 Oscars - Best Original Screenplay Winner All wagers have action.5:00pQuentin Tarantino - Django Unchained-120 Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty+200 Michael Haneke - Amour+275 Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom+2200 John Gatins - Flight+3300 Oscars - Best Animated Feature Film All wagers have action.5:00pWreck-It RalphEVEN Brave+130 Frankenweenie+350 ParaNorman+3300 The Pirates! Band of Misfits+5000 Oscars - Best Foreign Film All wagers have action.5:00pAmour-5000 A Royal Affair+1000 Kon-Tiki+1800 No+2500 War Witch+3300 Oscars - Best Documentary Feature All wagers have action.5:00pSearching for Sugar Man-1500 The Gatekeepers+900 How to Survive a Plague+1000 The Invisible War+1400 5 Broken Cameras+4000 Oscars - Best Original Score All wagers have action.5:00pLife Of Pi - Mychael Danna-200 Lincoln - John Williams+160 Skyfall - Thomas Newman+1400 Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli+2000 Argo - Alexandre Desplat+2000 Oscars - Best Original Song All wagers have action.5:00pSkyfall - Skyfall-1400 Suddenly - Les Miserables+600 Pi's Lullaby - Life of Pi+2000 Before My Time - Chasing Ice+2500 Everybody Needs A Best Friend - Ted+3300 Oscars - Best Visual Effects All wagers have action.5:00pLife of Pi-2000 The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey+700 Prometheus+2000 The Avengers+2000 Snow White and the Huntsman+4000 Oscars - Best Costume Design All wagers have action.5:00pAnna Karenina-400 Les Miserables+300 Lincoln+1000 Mirror Mirror+2000 Snow White and the Huntsman+3300 Oscars - Best Makeup All wagers have action.5:00pThe Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey-225 Les Miserables+200 Hitchcock+1000 Tuesday, February 26, 2013 (Times shown in Pacific Standard Time)

[GiantCALBears]

Tons of late money in on Riva and De Niro FYI

[CoolioD1]

Wait, wait, wait....how much music are we REALLY talking here? When did this become the Grammys?

What have they got: This (allegedly), Aerosmith (allegedly) a few James Bond numbers for that tribute, Les Mis tribute, Chicago, Dreamgirls, Norah Jones, Presumably the other nominated songs as well, Barbara Streisand, Seth MacFarlane/Kristen Chenoweth.... It seems if I am to watch this thing I am going to have to consume much alcohol to do so.

[riczhang]

And so SLP wins at the Indie Spirits. I was kinda hoping that Keep the Lights On would win, but that was just delusional. Its nomination was its prize, seeing as no one saw it at all, and it's a gay film.

[RichWS]

What have they got: This (allegedly), Aerosmith (allegedly) a few James Bond numbers for that tribute, Les Mis tribute, Chicago, Dreamgirls, Norah Jones, Presumably the other nominated songs as well, Barbara Streisand, Seth MacFarlane/Kristen Chenoweth.... It seems if I am to watch this thing I am going to have to consume much alcohol to do so.

 

[Kvikk Lunsj]

And so SLP wins at the Indie Spirits. I was kinda hoping that Keep the Lights On would win, but that was just delusional. Its nomination was its prize, seeing as no one saw it at all, and it's a gay film.

 

What is it about? 

[riczhang]

What is it about? 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Lights_On

[RichWS]

Mark Harris ‏@MarkHarrisNYC

Which nine movies will get pelted with crap for four months in next year's Best Picture race? It'll be a dream come true for all of them!

[Kvikk Lunsj]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Lights_On

 

Maybe I will watch on Netflicks. 

Edited February 24, 2013 by Dexter of Suburbia

[Blankments]

I did a tally in the Oscar Game thread to see what is in general boxoffice.com's Oscar predictions. I went with a rank system for BP, and just counted #1's for the other categories, since that's how the Academy does it.

 

Best Picture:

 

Frontrunner: LincolnPotential Upsetters: Argo; Silver Linings Playbook

Still in the Running: Life of Pi; Les Miserables

No Chance: Amour; Zero Dark Thirty; Django Unchained; Beasts of the Southern Wild

 

Best Director:

 

Frontrunner: Steven Spielberg for Lincoln

Potential Upsetter: Ang Lee for Life of Pi

Still in the Running: David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook; Michael Haneke for Amour

No Chance: Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild

 

Best Actor:Frontrunner: Daniel Day Lewis for Lincoln

Potential Upsetters: Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook; Joaquin Phoenix for The Master

No Chance: Hugh Jackman for Les Miserables; Denzel Washington for Flight

 

Best Actress:

 

Frontrunner: Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings PlaybookPotential Upsetters: Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty; Emmanuelle Riva for Amour; Naomi Watts for The Impossible

No Chance: Quvenzhane Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild

 

Best Supporting Actor:Frontrunner: Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln

Potential Upsetters: Robert DeNiro for Silver Linings Playbook; Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained

Still in the Running: Alan Arkin for Argo

No Chance: Phillip Seymour Hoffman for The Master

 

Best Supporting Actress:Frontrunner: Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables

Potential Upsetter: Sally Field for Lincoln

No Chance: Amy Adams for The Master; Helen Hunt for The Sessions; Jacki Weaver for Silver Linings PlaybookBest Original Screenplay:Frontrunner: Django Unchained

Potential Upsetter: Amour

Still in the Running: Zero Dark Thirty

No Chance: Flight; Moonrise Kingdom

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:

 

Frontrunner: Argo

Potential Upsetters: Lincoln; Silver Linings Playbook

Still in the Running: Life of Pi

No Chance: Beasts of the Southern Wild

 

Best Film Editing:Frontrunner: Argo

Potential Upsetters: Life of Pi; Lincoln

Still in the Running: Zero Dark Thirty

No Chance: Silver Linings Playbook

 

Best Cinematography:Frontrunner: Life of Pi

Potential Upsetter: Skyfall

Still in the Running: Django Unchained

No Chance: Anna Karenina; Lincoln

 

Best Art Direction:

Frontrunner: Life of Pi

Potential Upsetters: Anna Karenina; Les Miserables

Still in the Running: Lincoln

No Chance: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

 

Best Costumes:

 

Frontrunner: Anna Karenina

Potential Upsetter: Les Miserables

Still in the Running: Lincoln; Mirror, Mirror

No Chance: Snow White and the Huntsman

 

Best Makeup: 

Frontrunner: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Potential Upsetter: Les Miserables

No Chance: Hitchcock

 

Best Visual Effects:

Frontrunner: Life of Pi

No Chance: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; Marvel's The Avengers; Prometheus; Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Sound: 

Frontrunner: Les Miserables

Potential Upsetter: Skyfall

Still in the Running: Argo; Life of Pi; Lincoln

 

Best Sound Editing:

 

Frontrunner: Skyfall

Potential Upsetter: Life of Pi

Still in the Running: Zero Dark Thirty

No Chance: Argo; Django Unchained

Best Score:Frontrunner: Life of Pi

Potential Upsetters: Lincoln; Skyfall

Still in the Running: Anna Karenina

No Chance: Argo

 

Best Song:Frontrunner: "Skyfall" from Skyfall

Potential Upsetter: "Suddenly" from Les Miserables

No Chance: "Before my Time" from Chasing Ice; "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from Ted; "Pi's  Lullaby" from Life of PiBest Animated Feature: 

Frontrunner: Wreck-It Ralph

Potential Upsetters: Brave; Frankenweenie

Still in the Running: ParaNorman

No Chance: The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Best Foreign Language film:Frontrunner: Amour

No Chance: Kon-Tiki; No; A Royal Affair; War WitchBest Documentary Feature: 

Frontrunner: Searching for Sugarman

Potential Upsetter: How to Survive a Plague

Still in the Running: The Gatekeepers; The Invisible War

No Chance: 5 Broken Cameras

 

Best Documentary Short:Frontrunner: Open Heart

Potential Upsetters: Inocente; Mondays at Racine

Still in the Running: Redemption; Kings Point

 

Best Animated Short:

 

Frontrunner: Paperman

Potential Upsetter: Adam and Dog

Still in the Running: Fresh Guacamole; The Simpsons: The Longest Daycare

No Chance: Head Over Heals

 

Best Live Action Short: 

Frontrunner: Death of a Shadow

Potential Upsetter: Curfew

Still in the Running: Buzkashi Boys; Asad

No Chance: Henry

[Blankments]

 

Presuming all the frontrunners win, this is the win count:

 

Life of Pi - 4

Lincoln - 4

Argo - 2

Les Miserables - 2

Skyfall - 2

Amour - 1

Anna Karenina - 1

Death of a Shadow - 1

Django Unchained - 1

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - 1

Open Heart - 1

Paperman - 1

Searching for Sugarman - 1

Silver Linings Playbook - 1

Wreck-It Ralph - 1

 

 

Edited February 24, 2013 by Blankments Into Darkness