Oscars 2017

OK, seriously, sorry for the thread derail. Carry on.

In looking up some August Wilson-related stage credits, I discovered I saw Viola Davis in the Broadway production of his Seven Guitars in 1996, just as her film career was starting.

Time for the Hollywood Reporter's anonymous Oscar voter.

* "I hated the German movie [Toni Erdmann] so much because it was so shticky — Germans are not funny! The only part of the whole movie where I laughed was when she couldn't get out of her tight dress and just ripped it off and went around naked. I hear Jack Nicholson is going to be in a remake, and he might make it funny."

* "[Elle's] Isabelle Huppert is an ice-cold actress, and I eliminated her because when you get attacked, beaten and raped, you're not the same person afterward, but she was, and I wanted to slap her to try to get a reaction out of her."

* "I hated Arrival — it just sucked. I didn't like Fences because they just filmed the play — I wanted to see the guy go into the jazz club and play his music, the girl who's having his baby, his kid on the football field. But I think Denzel [Washington, its producer/director/star] decided that every word of the script [by the late August Wilson] was so precious that he wasn't going to "mess" with it, and the movie suffered as a result."

* "I'm ruling out O.J. [Made in America] even though I still have an hour of it left to watch — maybe for younger people this is new stuff, but for me it's just reliving a part of the past I don't need to relive. I was disappointed with I Am Not Your Negro — I was really looking forward to learning more about James Baldwin's life, rather than his ideas (which I already knew), because when I first came to New York as a young actress, he was such an avant-garde playwright and fascinating guy."

how sweet, to be an idiot

I laughed at the Elle remark.

James Baldwin was such a fascinating guy!

The only way I can reconcile her correct opinion about Baldwin with the rest of that dur-de-durrr is to assume that she finds him fascinating for different reasons than I do.

"He's sexy -- and dead!"

i'm sympathetic to her stance on the OJ doc (unseen by me), but since i ignored the trial as much as possible i'm willing to give it a shot.

Not knowing shit about the trial other than a few names helped.

OJ doc is well researched, they provide a lot of detail beyond the basic story, (ie the coverage of his childhood and college years is really interesting) and you get a lot more context when they get to the stuff most people know. And they talked to a LOT of people, so it's not just weirdo outsiders or professional commentators

The college chapter and early football career were fascinating and fully absorbing.

If Affleck is winning, I'm a little skeptical that Lonergan will lose to LLL for script, but whatta I know.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/oscar-2017-winner-predictions

halfway through the OJ doc with my jaw on the floor. the backstory isn't that well known over here despite the doc portraying him as the best known/loved guy in the States or whatever. until the live-on-tv chase i swear i'd barely heard of the guy (The Towering Inferno was about all i'd seen of him). but yeah grim and sad and fascinating and shocking for all kinds of reasons. never really seen a doc like this one before.

is it better than the people vs OJ Simpson? because that (despite being a docudrama) was the shit

its way better than that

yeah I agree that it's way better but I also couldn't get through PvOJ so I'm biased

TBF, even as an American, I really only knew OJ as the goofball from The Naked Gun before all that other shit went down.

born too late

let's steer back to betting and whether Beatty-Dunaway will really happen

TFE going w/ 9 Oscars for LLL, Dev Patel for supporting actor

http://thefilmexperience.net/prediction-index/

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2017/2/25/final-oscar-predictions.html

It might happen. My predictions: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2017/02/25/big-bold-beautiful-oscar-2016-predictions/

The Hollywood Reporter's anonymous Oscar voter would appear to be about 70 years old or perhaps even older.

is the average oscar voter is older than the average lifespan yet?

would almost give Moonlight a 10% crack at an upset, bcz if The Salesman is a shoo-in for foreign film as a middle finger to Yam, why not go all the way?

but too gay, too black i suppose

I'm doubting Ali may win. Who knows.

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If Trump tweets that the Oscars are overrated I think for once I won't be able to disagree.

anyone got a link to a livestream that's not that abc one?

Michael Strahan's interviews with Halle Berry and Janelle Monae have been pleasantly substantive for a red carpet show

plz explain

when does it start gang?

10 minutes i think

I'd have sex with Andrew Garfield, despite the vertical problem.

Anyone got a stream link?

i need the same

no you don't

and Jimmy Kimmel being strangely funny, what is going on?

yeah this is...inessential

Oh hi kjb!

guys remember when jt aggressively shouted out denzel washington while singing "lovely day"

Hey MVB!

JEFF BRIDGES AND ISABELLE HUPPERT ARE SITTING TOGETHER

i guess we won't be watching, kjb

i have a useless fucking antenna that doesnt pull in shit

Mahershala Ali first winner

MAHERSHALA

he turned back to shake jeff bridges's hand <3 <3 <3

looked genuine too

they are like the two best, most radiant people in the world

if i'm not watching, who gives a fuck?

Alfred, those are the stars of Heaven's Gate

Legit stream http://mobile.tab3live.com/match/88/live-stream/128