Oscars 2015

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

But hey, the Selma song mentions Ferguson, they're covered. xp

Best Actor

Steve Carell, "Foxcatcher"
Bradley Cooper, "American Sniper"
Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Imitation Game"
Michael Keaton, "Birdman"
Eddie Redmayne, "The Theory of Everything"

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard, "Two Days, One Night"
Felicity Jones, "The Theory of Everything"
Julianne Moore, "Still Alice"
Rosamund Pike, "Gone Girl"
Reese Witherspoon, "Wild"

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall, "The Judge"
Ethan Hawke, "Boyhood"
Edward Norton, "Birdman"
Mark Ruffalo, "Foxcatcher"
J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash"

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"
Laura Dern, "Wild"
Keira Knightley, "The Imitation Game"
Emma Stone, "Birdman"
Meryl Streep, "Into the Woods"

Cinematography

"Birdman"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Ida"
"Mr. Turner"
"Unbroken"

Costume Design

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Inherent Vice"
"Into the Woods"
"Maleficent"
"Mr. Turner"

Directing

Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman"
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"
Bennett Miller, "Foxcatcher"
Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Morten Tyldum, "The Imitation Game"

Foreign Language Film

"Ida," Poland
"Leviathan," Russia
"Tangerines," Estonia
"Timbuktu," Mauritania
"Wild Tales," Argentina

Makeup and Hairstyling

"Foxcatcher"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Guardians of the Galaxy"

Original Score

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Interstellar"
"Mr. Turner"
"The Theory of Everything"

Adapted Screenplay

"American Sniper"
"The Imitation Game"
"Inherent Vice"
"The Theory of Everything"
"Whiplash"

Original Screenplay

"Birdman"
"Boyhood"
"Foxcatcher"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Nightcrawler"

Best Picture

"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"Boyhood"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Selma"
"The Theory of Everything"
"Whiplash"

Animated Feature Film

"Big Hero 6"
"The Boxtrolls"
"How to Train Your Dragon 2"
"Song of the Sea"
"The Tale of the Princess Kaguya"

Documentary Feature

"Citizenfour"
"Finding Vivian Maier"
"Last Days in Vietnam"
"The Salt of the Earth"
"Virunga"

Documentary Short Subject

"Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1"
"Joanna"
"Our Curse"
"The Reaper (La Parka)"
"White Earth"

Film Editing

"American Sniper"
"Boyhood"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Whiplash"

Original Song

"Everything Is Awesome," "The Lego Movie"
"Glory," "Selma"
"Grateful, "Beyond the Lights"
"I"m Not Gonna Miss You," "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me"
"Lost Stars," "Begin Again"

Production Design

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Interstellar"
"Into the Woods"
"Mr. Turner"

Animated Short Film

"The Bigger Picture"
"The Dam Keeper"
"Feast"
"Me and My Moulton"
"A Single Life"

Live Action Short Film

"Aya"
"Boogaloo and Graham"
"Butter Lamp"
"Parvaneh"
"The Phone Call"

Sound Editing

"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"The Hobbitt: The Battle of the Five Armies"
"Interstellar"

Sound Mixing

"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"Interstellar"
"Unbroken"
"Whiplash"

Visual Effects

"Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"
"Guardians of the Galaxy"
"Interstellar"
"X-Men: Days of Future Past"

so is Coop our generation's William Hurt?

hmmm will ponder

At last we see what kind of British actors elude the Academy: David Oyelowo.

how the hell did bennett miller get that directing nom?

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, January 15, 2015 7:58 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Silver lining: Ashley Olsen at the Oscars.

so is Coop our generation's William Hurt?

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:55 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not a bad comparison:
http://scottfeinberg.com/bradley-cooper-could-become-the-10th-actor-to-earn-a-third-consecutive-oscar-nom

Just 1 nomination for Selma

2, pic & song

I do not understand what anybody likes about Bradley Cooper

tot meh on him too

They should have campaigned harder that Oyelowo was a British, and therefore doing more acting. Maybe he would have gotten the nom then. Or maybe the voters thought he'd just been nominated last year.

xpost Dragon 2's plot was nothing special, but it was really, really beautifully painted by numbers.

Actually the third movie since the switchover to land the dubious honor of being nominated for Best Picture with only 1 other nomination behind it, but at least The Blind Side and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close's other nods came in the acting categories.

Best Picture
Best Song

That just looks really sad.

Odds that Cooper as the racoon and Vin as the tree give an animated intro to an award ...

yea cooper is totally meh. i guess he is okay in some comedies but as a dramatic actor i don't know. to say dude is like william hurt is way off imo

hm cool, glad I can root for duvall & dern but im never seeing those movies, or most of these movies overall actually

hurt has always brought a thoughtfulness and gravitas to his acting that i never really see in cooper

Coop is a fine comedic actor, he should do more.

hurt has always brought a thoughtfulness and gravitas to his acting that i never really see in cooper

― marcos,

oh I just meant "Aryan white guy gets three consecutive noms"

Half of Hurt's roles seem seriously sedated. Would watch Coop in an "Altered States" reboot, though.

he was ok in American BS

Wm "hIT ON hEAD BY 2x4" Hurt

does Kiss of the Spider Woman hold up btw? good book and director.

His first and second nods in this trio are both fine. It's this one that's annoying and wan.

Not really. Hurt used his denseness to smart effect in Broadcast News and The Big Chill.

Morbs xpost

I think Kael wrote about Hurt in Woody's Alice sumthin like "I wonder if he figured out he's the WASP Asshole?"

I don't think it's much admired round here, but I got a kick out of his AHOV bit.

i think the hurt role i most love is smoke

Hurt's not great or anything but he made some interesting/strange choices in terms of roles and uses his blankness to varying effect. Cooper is just I dunno what, there's no there there, he's completely anonymous to me.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/2015-academy-award-nominations-selma/

Matt Damon's doing the blankness-to-varying-effect well now.

Odds that Cooper as the racoon and Vin as the tree give an animated intro to an award ...

― Josh in Chicago

i love those bonkers Poochy moments at the oscars

A trio of Florida film critics admitted in December to being baffled by absence of Selma screeners.

hurt in a history of violence is incredible

also...body heat!!!

best performance in HOV beyond the two leads is stephen mchattie as the alpha dude of the two psychos from the beginning. real old school henriksen vibe in that role.

hurt and harris great too, tbh.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2015-oscar-nominations-show-lack-of-diversity-in-a-year-when-films-didnt/2015/01/15/676f2cc2-9cc1-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html?hpid=z1

As the lucky nominees were identified — first by the directors J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron, then by actor Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, an organization that has already been criticized for being old, white and male looked increasingly so. With such right-on exceptions as Sandra Adair in the editing category, precious few women were nominated for the top technical and creative awards. High-profile snubs included the author Gillian Flynn, who adapted her novel “Gone Girl” for the screen, and “Selma” director Ava DuVernay, who just a few days ago was the first African American woman ever nominated in that category at the Golden Globes. David Oyelowo, was also overlooked for what most critics and viewers agree is a stunning performance as Martin Luther King, Jr. in the film.

Hurt's repeated line readings of "broheem" in HOV always get a laugh from me

xp

xxxp otm, mchattie belongs in the tough guy character actor hall of fame

I should've known that when I didn't come out of Selma hating the thing it was probably doomed.

David Oyelowo, was also overlooked for what most critics and viewers agree is a stunning performance as Martin Luther King, Jr.

yeah but who would you eliminate. like i mean steve carell played a NOSE.

I would've thought that, even if it was complete garbage, Selma was a shoo-in for a best picture nomination.

uh it was nominated

agree w/ Harris it shdve been released sooner

Selma's not out in the UK yet but judging from recent buzz Flynn, DuVernay and Olewoyo all seem like weird omissions to me.

Everything should be released sooner. The Deer Hunter "let them WANT to see it during the voting period" strategy is played out in our current echo-chamber Oscar culture.

still nothing on Spike Lee's Twitter aside from promotion of his Ganja & Hess remake.

Grand Budapest was back in March, right? If it won, it'd be one of the longest stretches between release and reward since ... Silence of the Lambs?

uh it was nominated

Guess I was right, then.

My brain is clearly halfway off today. Allow me an attempt to salvage my argument: I'd have thought that, even if it was complete garbage, Selma would've had a legitimate shot at winning best picture. Given the dearth of non-musical supporting nominations, any chance it might've had as even a dark horse candidate seems to have been scuttled.