Oscars 2015

I'm sure it was in detrius somewhere.

I'm not predicting the director/pic split either.

Argo years aside, you never should. Which is what screwed everyone out of perfect scores last year.

drinking rules, anyone?

Don't drive.

Boorman otm about boyhood

Not sure I needed mason to smoke and punch per se, but his placidity made the film anticlimactic

my favorite present-day Mason scene isn't with the girl in the desert but the one in the bar where he listens to his dad with affection and mild teen contempt babble on and on about Charlie Sexton.

I was like, "Mason Jr. otm"

Oh yeah I really appreciated seeing him lose a little esteem for his dad with maturity.

i don't think i have any way to watch the whorefest tonight, and im ok with that.

watch it on your Morbsphone.

"they can't both be in front of the other on 51% of the ballots" is right.
"the big question is which film those voters also liked. But that is nonsense." is wrong. prognosticators are used to the american voting system, and having to take everyone's opinion into account requires a mental adjustment.

Okay, I try again. The nonsensical part is focusing especially on Selma and Theory of Everything, as if Birdboy could create a majority through those votes, while Boyman would have the majority if the votes from American Sniper and Whiplash were counted instead. But there can only be a majority for one film, so it doesn't matter which way they are counted.

I want Boyman to win lots of awards, and I've cleared the night, so I'll watch the whole show, which I haven't done for a few years. (I generally listen while piddling around on the computer in the adjacent room.) When Birdman wins, I'll be sure to already dislike it when I finally get around to seeing it.

Boyman a better title for the Innaritu picture.

Boyz II Menhood.

Julianna Moore is the most forgone Best Actress conclusion since.. when? Hilary Swank in '99 maybe.

the most forgone Best Actress winner since Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine.

can't remember the last time there was a shock win in this damn thing.

Jennifer Lawrence was a surprise in that you'd have thought they would've waited a few years and noms before she'd get something.

mm yeah. although i thought she was p amazing in SLP.

➻ BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

I didn't get around to seeing any of them. You want the truth? I shouldn't have voted, but I did. This is bad, but here's the power of advertising: everywhere I looked, I saw pictures of this stupid carcass — whatever the fuck that was — and I thought, "That's a cool-looking thing." And I fucking voted for a movie based on the dead whatever it was in the ad thinking that it looked cool. [laughs]

MY VOTE: Leviathan

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/brutally-honest-oscar-ballot-no-773905?mobile_redirect=false

"The Gutillard girl"

Oh, yeah. I read those. The Hollywood Reporter interviewed several academy members about who they voted for and why, and kept them anonymous. The responses included, openly and explicitly:

Points off for "not liking" a main character
Points off for not being as likely to win (well, who wants to vote for a loser?)
Points off for "being tired of" an actor, especially if they've won before
Points off for "not getting it" (defensible, actually)
Points off if the cast came to a publicity event with "I can't breathe" t-shirts
Points off for "not showing what a character feels"
Points off an actors performance if they didn't like the movie apart from the performance
Points off if a character is a bad model
Points off for being "britishy"
Points off if the subject of a documentary is (personally) "annoying"
Points given for an actor who has less chance of winning in the future
Points given for a movie that "shows that people will go [to movies] if you put something out that they want to see (was successful)
Points given for liking an actor in the interviews they've done, for another actor who's "humble and endearing" in real life
Points given in one category if they felt the movie was snubbed in another category

Shocking

morbs can u plz weigh in now with something deeply cynical bcz I can't pull it off convincingly even though i hate the oscars with a fire matched only by mid-term elections

Points off for "being tired of" an actor, especially if they've won before

Fair enough IMO!

although GTFO with
Points off if a character is a bad model

geena davis robbed

Points off if a character is a bad model

Eddie Redmayne was a great model tho.

http://charliefanjp.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2014/05/25/eddie.jpg

not sure how legit this is but seems you can see the whole shebang on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nKSXG3Nbd4&feature=youtu.be

aw

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-fNRymIMAAAq6d.jpg

love the editor's notes in the hollywood reporter article

for that movie not to be in over these two obscure freakin' Chinese fuckin' things that nobody ever freakin' saw [an apparent reference to the Japanese film The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, as well as the Irish film Song of the Sea]?

tough but fair

it's been said that the Irish are the Japanese of Europe

Alexa Chung's SKY tv commentary coming in for a pasting and it's barely started.

it's not legit, piscesx

damn.

I heard that in Hollywood, Oscar is king.

so yeah this was awks jesus

https://vimeo.com/120322425

Gaga in Wonderland.

Robin Roberts, u gotta ask Chris E if he really knows how baby tastes.

let's be real robin roberts totally knows that babies taste best

oh god not a song

Think I broke my mute-button record.

"best and whitest"

CUT TO

Benedict Cumberbatch

Snow White moment

the night the Tonys suddenly didn't look so gay

it's a parody you yutzes

Eddie Murphy is there!