Oscars 2017

I'll follow the nation's cue and be selfish here: http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/2017-oscar-nomination-predictions

i haven't seen it yet but can't fuckin' understand the Viggo Capt Fantastic thing

Same, tbh. The kids are clearly better.

Always disappointed the Cap Fan isn't a Viggo as Elton biopic.

the kids are clearly worse

It's possible more Academy members appreciate Vig's schlong more than I anticipated.

Southern Promises

Should Be Nominated: Knight of Cups

you too, huh

Captain Fantastic looked terrible but a lot of people I trust (and thought the same thing based on the trailer) loved it. who knows...

Vig is stealing our boy's slot

http://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2017/01/W-Viggo-Mortensen-and-Adam-Driver-1483483088.jpeg

KOC was fine until it turned into an Aetna commercial in the last 30 minutes; I don't understand the ire.

Guess Annette Bening's getting robbed, eh

hoping ralph finnes gets nommed

nuthin doin

He was my vote.

i've had that movie out from the library for weeks and have no desire to watch it.

There was a funny bad feminist art/performance scene in KoC, and that was all i think. Plus Wes Bentley was in it, and there's no excuse for that.

kinda crazy that fiennes has only had a pair of academy award noms (unless i'm mistaken on that.)

xp FP for abuse of the public library system

i've had that movie out from the library for weeks and have no desire to watch it.

guess you don't like Matthias Schoenaerts, eh

Should Be Nominated: Knight of Cups

you too, huh

oh no surprise then

apparently Black Book is the only film ive seen Matthias Schoenaerts in

Happy Hour is the overrated one from that article, honestly.

BEST PICTURE:
“Arrival”
“Fences”
“Hacksaw Ridge”
“Hell or High Water”
“Hidden Figures”
“La La Land”
“Manchester by the Sea”
“Lion”
“Moonlight”

BEST ACTOR
Casey Affleck
Andrew Garfield
Ryan Gosling
Viggo Mortensen
Denzel Washington

BEST ACTRESS
Isabelle Huppert
Ruth Negga
Natalie Portman
Emma Stone
Meryl Streep

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali
Jeff Bridges
Lucas Hedges
Dev Patel
Michael Shannon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Viola Davis
Naomie Harris
Nicole Kidman
Octavia Spencer
Michelle Williams

BEST DIRECTOR
Denis Villeneuve
Mel Gibson
Damien Chazelle
Kenneth Lonergan
Barry Jenkins

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
“Kubo and the Two Strings”
“Moana”
“My Life as a Zucchini”
“The Red Turtle”
“Zootopia”

ANIMATED SHORT
“Blind Vaysha”
“Borrowed Time”
“Pear Cider and Cigarettes”
“Pearl”
“Piper”

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“Arrival”
“Fences”
“Hidden Figures”
“Lion”
“Moonlight”

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“Hell or High Water”
“La La Land”
“The Lobster”
“Manchester by the Sea”
“20th Century Women”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Arrival”
“La La Land”
“Lion”
“Moonlight”
“Silence”

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Fire at Sea”
“I Am Not Your Negro”
“Life Animated”
“OJ: Made in America”
“13th”

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“Extremist”
“4.1 Miles”
“Joe’s Violin”
“Watani My Homeland”
“The White Helmets”

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
“Ennemis Interieurs”
“La Femme et le TGV”
“Silent Nights”
“Sing”
“Timecode”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“A Man Called Ove”
“Land of Mine”
“Tanna”
“The Salesman”
“Toni Erdmann”

BEST FILM EDITING
“Arrival”
“Hacksaw Ridge”
“Hell or High Water”
“La La Land”
“Moonlight”

BEST SOUND EDITING
“Arrival”
“Deep Water Horizon”
“Hacksaw Ridge”
“La La Land”
“Sully”

BEST SOUND MIXING
“Arrival”
“Hacksaw Ridge”
“La La Land”
“Rogue One”
“13 Hours”

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Arrival”
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”
“Hail Caesar!”
“La La Land”
“Passengers”

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
“Jackie”
“La La Land”
“Lion”
“Moonlight”
“Passengers”

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Audition
Can’t Stop the Feeling
City of Stars
Empty Chair
How Far I’ll Go

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR
“A Man Called Ove”
“Star Trek Beyond”
“Suicide Squad”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“Allied”
“Fantastic Beasts”
“Florence Foster Jenkins”
“Jackie”
“La La Land”

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“Deepwater Horizon”
“Doctor Strange”
“Jungle Book”
“Kubo”
“Rogue One”

Ruth Negga!

Kate Beckinsale!? Snubbed! she just won London Critic's Circle prize as well.

At first glance, that's one of the less objectionable list of nominees I've seen in some time.

Is this the first year Pixar was shut out of Best Animated Feature?

oh god -- I just noticed Mel Gibson.

As usual, a few things I'm looking forward to (Arrival, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight) and a bunch more that I have zero interest in ever watching.

The biggest surprise, for me, glancing at the list is that the love for the mediocre Hell or High Water lasted all the way to Oscar season.

b luck next time Marty

Prieto and that's it, right?^

I forget, are foreign language films excluded from best picture as a rule?

No, not always (Life Is Beautiful immediately comes to mind).

(And Crouching Tiger.)

they are excluded as a habit.

Amour most recently

Huppert's is the only nomination I cared about, Negga's too to a lesser extent

A couple of milestones I noticed:

- first time there's been a black nominee in each of the four acting categories
- first time that black actors have been in the majority in a category (supporting actress: Davis, Harris, Spencer)

First time Afrocentric entries have dominated the doc feature category?

on that score, “Fire at Sea” is largely about North Africans attempting to perilously emigrate to Europe.

How the fuck did Mel Gibson worm his way back into acceptable society

Jodie Foster's powers are unstoppable

@labuzamovies
Reminder that if Isabelle Huppert gets an Oscar nom she's legally required to play Lady Iron Man in IRON MAN 4 sorry thems the breaks

how the fuck did the studio get away with getting Dev Patel into Supporting? He plays the titular character!

there's a kid who also plays him, though

how is Viola Davis a supporting actress?

Answer: #politics

that's one of the stronger best documentary lineups I've seen

La La Land, with 14 nominations, ties the record of "most nominations ever" with Titanic and All About Eve

Wow, I didn't realize it was one of the greatest films ever, but I guess Oscar has spoken!

there's a kid who also plays him, though

the kid is only in the first 10-15 mins.

No way, the kid is the star for half the movie. Dev Patel doesn't show up until a full hour in.

20th nomination for Robostreep; she'll keep getting em after she expires if they digitize her into new things.

First year a John Williams score hasn't been nominated since '92.

have you seen her last couple movies? She's digitized already.

and people aren't wrong to point out that Chiron's victimhood puts him in line with many traditional Hwood depictions of gay people (though the ending is certainly not)

It's a film we'll argue about for the next 30 years if Florida doesn't join Atlantis, and there ain't many recent BP winners about which we can make that claim.

"we" being America or ILX?

I would've been more personally invested in the queer barrier if it had been broken by Fight Club.

ILX is its own sovereign nation

Why does Martha Ruiz have to lose her Oscar gig just because the fucking white dude couldn't be bothered to take care of his shit instead of tweeting a pic of Emma Stone?

btw somebody commented about Beatty and Dunaway's equally appalling face "work," and I must say whaaa? Warren may have had some, but his face is a plausible 79-year-old version of his younger one, whereas I couldn't guess who Faye was without identification.

So what?

so what about any of this motherfucking shit, jed?

just all part of the slog to the grave

well this thread took a turn

I know. It's more difficult for a female star than a male star who's "allowed" to look bad.

WHOOP THERE IT IS

i love fucking misogyny, homophobia and racism! as you all have proven so very many times

eat my 12-hour-old Irish dingleberries like Raisinets

Not everyone can look like Isabelle Huppert at 63 years of age.

eat my 12-hour-old Irish dingleberries like Raisinets

Dean Martin's finest hour

his would be 'Eyetralian' as Jerry often said

i declare Oscar season dead

http://jezebel.com/the-pwc-accountants-who-worked-the-oscars-need-a-securi-1792900016

“I’m sure they’re very lovely people, but they just didn’t have the disposition for this,” Natoli said, “You need somebody who’s going to be confident and unafraid.”

eat my 12-hour-old Irish dingleberries like Raisinets

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, March 1, 2017

you forgot a couple zeroes

they're not Cuban [redacted]

catching up on movies that didn't get nominated, watched Edge of Seventeen, that was a thrillingly entertaining little film, hailee steinfeld should have been nominated along with annette benning and either of them were more deserving than emma stone

<<this is the first outright queer film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture>>

This isn't outright queer enough for ya?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d7/74/b5/d774b507761e71b6bd11ac0880db5e96.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MZuFX6CuNo

"But that's not OUTRIGHT queer!! They're just friends!!!!"

https://twitter.com/cobblehillis/status/836778478779392000

welcome back, KJB.

Now the traditional Oscar thread transformation into a simulacrum of the gay ones is complete.

Simulacrum was robbed

http://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/3/1/14777110/typography-oscars-2017

With a modified card, even if the presenters had gotten the wrong one, none of this would have happened because the presenters would’ve looked at it and one of two things would’ve happened: Their eyes would’ve read “Best Actress” or “Emma Stone.” Reading either of those would indicate that this wasn’t the card for Best Picture, and they would’ve asked Jimmy Kimmel or a producer to the stage to get it corrected.

The card needed to be written and designed in a way that makes it clear to the reader only the essential information.

damn...

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/a-guy-that-barely-looks-like-ryan-gosling-crashed-a-german-awards-show-as-ryan-gosling-221325262.html

icymi the Academy passed a rule so another TV series can never win the doc feature award again; too bad it took OJ to get that done.

http://deadline.com/2017/04/oscars-academy-new-documentary-eligibility-rules-disqualify-o-j-made-in-america-1202064536/