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.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Boyman a better title for the Innaritu picture.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
Boyz II Menhood.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
Julianna Moore is the most forgone Best Actress conclusion since.. when? Hilary Swank in '99 maybe.
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
the most forgone Best Actress winner since Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
can't remember the last time there was a shock win in this damn thing.
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 February 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
mm yeah. although i thought she was p amazing in SLP.
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 February 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
➻ 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
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 February 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
"The Gutillard girl"
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 February 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
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 characterPoints 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 beforePoints off for "not getting it" (defensible, actually)Points off if the cast came to a publicity event with "I can't breathe" t-shirtsPoints off for "not showing what a character feels"Points off an actors performance if they didn't like the movie apart from the performancePoints off if a character is a bad modelPoints 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 futurePoints 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 lifePoints given in one category if they felt the movie was snubbed in another category
― Guy on the internet (B'wana Beast), Sunday, 22 February 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
Shocking
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 February 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
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
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 February 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Points off for "being tired of" an actor, especially if they've won before
Fair enough IMO!
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 February 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
although GTFO with Points off if a character is a bad model
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 February 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
geena davis robbed
― local eire man (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 February 2015 23:36 (nine years ago) link
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
― Eric H., Sunday, 22 February 2015 23:40 (nine years ago) link
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
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 February 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
aw
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-fNRymIMAAAq6d.jpg
― piscesx, Monday, 23 February 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
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]?
― poxy fülvous (abanana), Monday, 23 February 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link
tough but fair
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Monday, 23 February 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link
it's been said that the Irish are the Japanese of Europe
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Monday, 23 February 2015 00:43 (nine years ago) link
Alexa Chung's SKY tv commentary coming in for a pasting and it's barely started.
― piscesx, Monday, 23 February 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
it's not legit, piscesx
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link
damn.
― piscesx, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link
I heard that in Hollywood, Oscar is king.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
so yeah this was awks jesus
https://vimeo.com/120322425
― piscesx, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:17 (nine years ago) link
Gaga in Wonderland.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:19 (nine years ago) link
Robin Roberts, u gotta ask Chris E if he really knows how baby tastes.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:25 (nine years ago) link
let's be real robin roberts totally knows that babies taste best
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
oh god not a song
― piscesx, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:32 (nine years ago) link
Think I broke my mute-button record.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
"best and whitest"
CUT TO
Benedict Cumberbatch
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
Snow White moment
― piscesx, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:35 (nine years ago) link
the night the Tonys suddenly didn't look so gay
it's a parody you yutzes
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
Eddie Murphy is there!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
Ok fine, I'm watching
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
no Nicholson sighting so far.. maybe he's ill
― piscesx, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:39 (nine years ago) link
I'm all-in on this too.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:39 (nine years ago) link
Ed Norton = ageless
― piscesx, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
I had to look him jup to remember why I knew him--yes, Spiderman.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link
i was gonna say every grey straight on the globe tuned out in 2 minutes but clemenza made my point for me
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
holy shit that speech was a genuine emo moment!
― piscesx, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
Simmons has probably done more man-on-man buttfucking on TV than any other American actor.
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:48 (nine years ago) link
and is 60, obv offputting to alder viewers
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
hey NPH thinks "confirmed kill" joeks are golden. Def the house f*ggot.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:51 (nine years ago) link
p sure Liam Neeson now knows he will be remembered as the less haggard Charles Bronson
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link
i wonder if Milena Canonero (won her first for Barry Lyndon) thought Kubrick was as big an ivory-tower twee nerd as Wes Anderson
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 February 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
wow a speech dedicated entirely to Wes Anderson. it's a new world.
― piscesx, Monday, 23 February 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link