Oscars 2015

whoa, no Ebert doc

keira knightley. didn't expect that.

she was cited often in the last few weeks but tbh I didn't notice her amid the nonsense

Gone Girl stiffed for Adapted Screenplay. Fincher's lousy Oscars run continues.

Cotillard is in.

fucking Steve Carrel and Bradley Cooper. No Jake.

boringly predictable the whole thing.

American Sniper with Best Pic nod, no directing nod for Clint.

boringly predictable the whole thing.

― piscesx

Coop was a long shot.

Selma got only BP and song, i believe

Ida and Mr Turner for cinematography

thinking Ida beats Leviathan for foreign

probably

only one nod for Gone Girl. Who's going to watch this broadcast w/out the audience pleasers?

how the hell did bennett miller get that directing nom?

re Gone Girl, how can a film that made THAT much money with such a relatively small budget, was so critically respected and liked by the public get such short shrift? i know subjects like that never do well with 'The Academy' but still. good to see Ros Pike get a nod mind.

my predix:

GBH, maybe Boyhood
Wes Anderson, maybe Linklater
Cumberbatch, maybe Keaton
Moore or Cotillard (fingers crossed for the latter)
Arquette
Simmons

It's Moore.

wondering if The Judge is really so awful.

No Best Actor nod for Fiennes is a shame.

Can anyone point me to a piece by a reliable Oscarologist on why Grand Budapest Hotel has gone so much further than other Anderson movies? It's different (and excellent) but not different enough to explain this giant leap in recognition.

box office $$ and years of accumulating good will in the Academy sense

Lot of familiar names just scattered around various categories, especially the acting noms, which should just be called "people we know who are in lots of movies all the time but this time we're arranging them in shorter lists." Oyelowo was hosed. Too measured?

Yeah, Fiennes, too. Talk about carrying a movie.

GBH and its setting and title are very "prestigious" in a way

Boyhood and Linklater will win. Moore is the easy way out, but hope for Cotillard. I bet Keaton gets the statue, and he's lauded with a long standing O like he's 20 years older and it's the second coming of Nicholson.

Was Lego Movie this year?

Yeah. It was robbed.

Would be happy with a split vote: Boyhood for film and Anderson for director.

sorry omar, there is no way Budapest is winning best picture

still think Birdman (unseen by me) is at least even money for picture, director or both. 12YS last year broke the showbiz run, it's time to get back on track.

How in the world did The Lego Movie not at least receive a best animated feature nomination? Egregious.

On the other hand, How to Train Your Dragon 2, which I finally saw, is indeed great, and truly gorgeous.

Princess Kaguya ftw (but it won't)

oh so Birdman didn't get editing? Doom?

Yeah, I can live with a Lego snub in exchange for a Ghibli nod.

my predix:
GBH, maybe Boyhood
Wes Anderson, maybe Linklater

Given Birdman isn't winning best picture by a longshot, I'm starting to sense this a little bit too. Of course, Weinstein's 8 nominations could easily turn into the "Boyhood can't win" alternate.

I bet Keaton gets the statue, and he's lauded with a long standing O like he's 20 years older and it's the second coming of Nicholson

Just read somewhere that if Keaton wins, he'll actually be the second oldest best actor winner ever, which is crazy. (And maybe untrue.)

On the other hand, How to Train Your Dragon 2, which I finally saw, is indeed great, and truly gorgeous.

No, it's an aimless, paint-by-numbers follow up to one of the best mass entertainments of the last decade. Total pap.

wait... Henry Fonda, and no one else was over 63? Top o' my head, John Wayne was about 62... xp

holy fuck keaton is older than nicholson was when he won for as good as it gets wtf

i guess it's understandably hard for me to match what 60 looked like when i was a teenager and what 60 looks like to me now

Jack was 60 in '97.

and keaton's 63

hence...

And I just found out that Eddie Redmayne is only a couple years younger than me and not the 22 I sort of thought he was.

Also, fuck Foxcatcher.

that factoid is true btw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_and_youngest_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees#Best_Actor_in_a_Leading_Role

only 2 best actresses older than MK too

H'wood hates looking at the olds

OK, thinking now "Last Days in Vietnam" will win doc. Made by political royalty who doesn't question US imperialism and will endorse Hillary.

Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Amy Adams weren't nominated for an Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday, Jan. 15 -- but Dick Poop was. Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs incorrectly announced Dick Pope's name in the Cinematography category for his work in Mr. Turner, which led to a slew of hilarious reactions via Twitter.

and Chris Pine standing next to her did not laugh. Captain Kirk has been taken over by an alien force.

Laura Dern plays Witherspoon's mom, no? Nine years older.

Yep. She's used for poignant effect, but that's all she is – a holy spirit of poignancy.

Holy Caucasian people, Batman. Is this the whitest list of films ever?

i read Wild during a brief and ill-advised association with an office book club. 'twas wretched, so as much as i enjoy reese i can't muster the energy to see the film