Oscars 2015

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.

Not sure, but I and some other lucky fest-goers saw The Hurt Locker a year and a half before it took Best Picture.

(xp)

@lag00n

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag0BxADNLZqgcFZOcnNoN0Vxd0Q3YTdOZ2hvRlpSQWc&usp=sharing#gid=0

you guys, conservatives are fuming about the oscars too. because nolan got the shaft. lmao.

Sasha Stone @AwardsDaily · 6h 6 hours ago
In not nominating Gillian Flynn the Academy just passed up a chance to honor the first and only woman to adapt her own novel in 87 yrs.

This morning may have finally sent her off the deep end.

and Sasha Stone?

http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/2015-oscar-nominations-a-dark-day-for-women-in-hollywood-20150115

Fiennes getting no nod.. that's truly baffling too. fuckers don't 'get' funny performances but i wonder what Ralph has done to piss them off. film gets 9 noms but the guy that carries the damn thing gets nothing.

Given the furor over the lack o' ladies in the running across the board, the smear campaigns against Boyhood are really going to write themselves.

looking back thirty yrs these are the closest roles to 'comedy' by lead male actors

Tom Hulce - Amadeus
Robin Williams - Good Morning Vietnam
Roberto Benigni - Life is Beautiful
Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street

and those are all in movies that aren't pure comedies or anything

I'm hardly a fan of Fiennes in general but he is incredible in GBH, definitely carries it, so many great line deliveries ("you FUCKERS!")

Wouldn't Nicholson's latest two at bats count as at least technically comedic?

these British and Irish actors get funnier as they age.