Alfonso Cuaron, J.J Abrams and Chris Pine will announce OSCAR nominations on 1/15

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What the fuck

LEGO was one if the most technically skilled and thematically dense children's films of the last decade

I think this really marks the point where I stop caring about the Oscars
 
Good:
Best Actress - Rosamund Pike "Gone Girl"
Best Original Screenplay - Dan Gilroy "Nightcrawler"

Lol:
Best Sound Editing "Interstellar"
Best Sound Mixing "Interstellar"

Weinstein Putting in Work:
The Imitation Game

Snubbed wtf:
Best Actor - Jake Gyllenhaal "Nightcrawler" (Seriously?!)
Best Animated Film "The Lego Movie"
Best Editing "Gone Girl"
Best Score - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross "Gone Girl"
 
Addi said:
Fair enough, though Bradley Cooper gets a nomination third year in a row too. But I guess my feeling also comes from what the academy chooses to include and what to exclude, it always feels a bit similar.
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Oh totally. Way too many Biopics.
 
Jigorath said:
It was a bad take. The only question is why Nolan decided to use it in the final cut. Did they run out of film or something?
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I feel like the extent of it was "well, this is going to make $40 bajillion anyway, so who gives a shit."

And that's why he's never going to be the next Kubrick!
 
So...

Birdman- 9 noms
The Grand Budapest Hotel- 9 noms
The Imitation Game- 8 noms
American Sniper- 6 noms
Boyhood- 6 noms
The Theory of Everything- 5 noms
Foxcatcher- 5 noms
Whiplash- 5 noms

I must say, I'm surprised yet delighted to see The Grand Budapest Hotel do so well. I enjoyed it immensely, but I didn't really feel it getting so much awards buzz. Just disappointed that Fiennes couldn't get a Best Actor nom to top it all off.
 
Escape Goat said:
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, "Two Days, One Night"


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Poor Marion, forever linked to that gif. She's a damn fine actress
 
I guess it wasn't my thing but I just watched it last night and didn't enjoy The Grand Budapest Hotel much at all.

Could tell a lot of work went into it and the production design was amazing.
 
I am guessing American Sniper got nominated because AMERICAN WAR MOVIE and CLINT EASTWOOD. I had high hopes for it, but man, what a terrible movie at almost every angle.
 
Exterminieren said:
Interested to see if Redmayne or Keaton gets Best Actor. Redmayne's got all the awards momentum, but Keaton's got the comeback story. Hell, Cumberbatch could come from behind and steal it at the last minute. Carrell and Cooper are just making up the numbers.

I genuinely wonder if The Lego Movie's live-action sequences disqualified it in the eyes of the Academy. That's a hell of a snub- I'd have expected to see Big Hero 6 or even HTTYD2 dropped before that one.
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I thought that too but the film only has to be 75% animated to be eligible. The live-action scenes weren't that long were they?
 
Freedom = $1.05 said:
Httyd2 deserves the award for animated, though if it went to big hero 6 I would be ok with that, too
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I loved the first movie and in my humble opinion HTTYD2 doesn't deserve anything

weird that The Lego Movie didn't even get a nomination, never heard of Song of the Sea but it's by the Secret of Kells guys so I guess I should see it
 
Song of the Sea is fucking amazing and I'm very happy it got nominated. I hope it wins (although to be fair I haven't seen Kaguya yet).
 
Just saw this article posted on the Hollywood Reporter.

Oscars: Acting Nominees All White

This point of view always puzzles me. Shouldn't the story be about how David Olowoyo is a great actor who was snubbed, not about how he is a great black actor who was snubbed? Insinuating that this is a racial issue based on almost nothing makes no sense to me.
 
Though I haven't seen the film I have a feeling that American Sniper could 'clean up' this year based on nothing more than the current political climate and the fact that the Academy might just want to pay Eastwood a little more homage.

Though he isn't nominated for Best Director he's won Best Picture twice already and the populist vote could see him get a third or Bradley Cooper get Best Actor. I suspect that Best Adapted Screenplay could be a given unless Whiplash has a groundswell of support.

Selma seems to have been largely snubbed and I don't think that the Academy will try and rectify this with a Best Picture win.

An safe year for Oscar nominations and strangely interesting too.

kmax said:
Snubbed:

* Lego
* David Fincher
* Gone Girl
* Nightcrawler
* Jake Gyllenhaal
* Ava DuVernay
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I am actually blown away by Gyllenhall not getting a nomination for Nightcrawler. While the whole 'loosing weight for a role' thing just screams Oscar begging I thought his performance as a whole was excellent.

WyndhamPrice said:
Micheal Keaton's Oscar is a lock at this point.
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I still don't think that he's a dead cert for the 'best actor' gong. He's good in that film but I felt as though he never really lost himself in the role.

I thought that Norton was good in Birdman but a little on the nose. Emma Stone is probably the only one he deserves an Oscar for her work in that film.
 
mxgt said:
no gyllenhaal best actor?

why
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A performance like that would have a better shot in a supporting category, since that's where the darker roles tend to thrive. Since that wasn't much of an option, given that he's in virtually every frame of the film, he gets snubbed. It's a goddamned shame, but I was prepared for it.
 
It's cool, they gave Halle Berry and Denzel Washington best actor/actress awards so they don't have to nominate black people anymore, even for a film as critically acclaimed as Selma.
 
Surprised American Sniper is getting that much Oscar love.
Weird too that Foxcatcher doesn't get a best picture nom despite both Carell and Ruffalo getting one.
 
Blader said:
I thought that too but the film only has to be 75% animated to be eligible. The live-action scenes weren't that long were they?
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I'm not talking about eligibility, I'm talking about the minds of those who vote. It's "less" of an animated movie, so it doesn't count.

Beyond that I'm baffled, frankly. It was one of the most conceptually rigorous and technologically ambitious movies I've seen. Unless the Academy didn't go for it due to concerns about advertising or product placement, of course.
 
American sniper

* Nomination for Best Picture
* Nomination for Actor in leading role (Bradley Cooper)
* Nomination for Achievement in film editing.
* Nomination for Achievement in Sound editing
* Nomination for Achievement in Sound mixing
* Nomination for Adapted Screenplay
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Exterminieren said:
I'm not talking about eligibility, I'm talking about the minds of those who vote. It's "less" of an animated movie, so it doesn't count.

Beyond that I'm baffled, frankly. It was one of the most conceptually rigorous and technologically ambitious movies I've seen. Unless the Academy didn't go for it due to concerns about advertising or product placement, of course.
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I'm guessing it was a case of everyone thinking it was a shoo-in so they gave their votes to the smaller pictures that they thought needed it. It's happened before when a "sure thing" somehow doesn't make the cut.
 
Exterminieren said:
I'm not talking about eligibility, I'm talking about the minds of those who vote. It's "less" of an animated movie, so it doesn't count.

Beyond that I'm baffled, frankly. It was one of the most conceptually rigorous and technologically ambitious movies I've seen. Unless the Academy didn't go for it due to concerns about advertising or product placement, of course.
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Happy Feet has a similar scene at the end of it, and that won the award.
 
Laura Dern!

I haven't seen Wild but the only logical explanation for this nomination is a recognition for her work in Enlightened.

The love for The Grand Budapest Hotel is also nice to see. When I saw it, I was convinced that the Oscars would ignore it.
 
No nomination for The LEGO movie?!
Also, is it a rule to nominate Meryl Streep every year? I'm sure there were more deserving female performances this year other than her okay performance in a rather boring dull movie.
 
LEGO Movie is easily the biggest snub of the year. That's been the frontrunner for animated film since February, and now it's not even in the discussion...
 
The Best Score selection is alright, although I wiujd have swapped out Mr. Turner for James Newton Howard's Maleficent. Not that it had a chance since the Academy loves to snub that type of film.
 
Mostly expected nods, but some nice surprises. Good to see Whiplash grab up a few (besides the obvious JK Simmons pick), wasn't sure how well recognized it would be. Good to see Laura Dern up there too, even if all it does is make me miss Enlightened even more. I really thought Ava DuVernay would get nominated, would have been nice. Oh, and The Lego Movie snub for Best Animated is truly mindboggling. I don't think it's perfect or anything but it absolutely deserved a spot, especially with five nominees.
 
Fevaweva said:
LoL. That would've been the biggest, most craziest thing ever if that film got nominated. Don't get me wrong, I love that film, but no way would it have been a contender for an Oscar.
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I know, the Academy is bullshit. Elite Squad is another film that was criminally overlooked by the Academy. Same thing for the sequel.
 
I didn't even like Lego Movie that much but I expected it to win. Not even a nomination? Gone Girl only one nom? No Gyllenhaal? Wow.

Escape Goat said:
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, "Two Days, One Night"


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Oh come on. Besides, she already has an Oscar for La Vie En Rose and she absolutely deserved it, sheer brilliance, her role as Piaf was unbelievable.
 
Bleepey said:
I know, the Academy is bullshit. Elite Squad is another film that was criminally overlooked by the Academy. Same thing for the sequel.
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Elite Squad I can't comment on as I haven't seen it, something that I will rectify asap, but what could The Raid 2 be nominated for? Certainly not Best Screenplay or Best Acting...maybe Best Directing? But I don't think the directing was anything to write home about apart from the fight scenes.

They should invent Best Stunts or Best Choreography award or something akin to that so The Raid 2 and films like it (John Wick, for example) can be nominated and win academy awards.
 
Emarv said:
Full list.

Nominees

Best Picture
"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"Boyhood"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Selma"
"The Theory of Everything"
"Whiplash".
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still need to watch selma, the theroy of everything and whiplash but so far i think i like american sniper the best.
 
The fact that American Sniper has anywhere near the noms is insane. I'd put Interstellar WAY WAY ahead of American Sniper for Best Picture. Lego Movie being out of the animated movies is insane. Remember, Frozen somehow fucking beat The Wind Rises.
 
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