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85th Academy Awards Nominations - Results are up
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I really hope so. Upsets are fun and DDL already has 2 awards.
Jackman & Cooper are the only 2 nominees who have never won. My money is on either of them.
Exactly my thoughts. The Academy has had a couple of chances in the past to give two-time winners a third win, but it's never happened.
Glad for Cooper, even if he doesn't win, he deserves the nom. Always been a fan of the guy.
Bobby Roberts
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Tommy Lee Jones has way more buzz for Best Supporting than PSH.
Maybe. But Tommy Lee Jones is a grumpy asshole, and people like Philip Seymour Hoffman in Hollywood.
Jessica Chastain locked up best Actress and best actor is a tossed up between Jackman and day-lewis.
I think Jackman is probably the least likely to win in that category. If there is a DDL upset, I think Joaquin Phoenix will be the person doing the upsetting.
Can't believe they nominated Christoph Waltz over Samuel L. Jackson. Such bullshit.
And I told ya'll that Beats of the Southern Wild would be nominated for Best Picture! Only thing I care about is Quvenzhane Wallis winning for Best Actress. Despite the baseless hatred the movie receives, the movie was quite good, and she anchored that shit with an amazing performance. It'd be cool if Haneke won something as well. I'm really surprised Amour received such recognition.
And I told ya'll that Beats of the Southern Wild would be nominated for Best Picture! Only thing I care about is Quvenzhane Wallis winning for Best Actress. Despite the baseless hatred the movie receives, the movie was quite good, and she anchored that shit with an amazing performance. It'd be cool if Haneke won something as well. I'm really surprised Amour received such recognition.
J-Law now with 2 Oscar noms at age 22. Not bad.
I'm calling it now. She's the new Meryl Streep.
Can't believe they nominated Christoph Waltz over Samuel L. Jackson. Such bullshit.
And I told ya'll that Beats of the Southern Wild would be nominated for Best Picture! Only thing I care about is Quvenzhane Wallis winning for Best Actress. Despite the baseless hatred the movie receives, the movie was quite good, and she anchored that shit with an amazing performance. It'd be cool if Haneke won something as well. I'm really surprised Amoure received such recognition.
I really enjoyed it. Definitely wouldn't mind if it and Wallis walk away with the wins. In fact, I'm rooting for a Wallis win.
Maybe. But Tommy Lee Jones is a grumpy asshole, and people like Philip Seymour Hoffman in Hollywood.
PSH is actually a really good actor, whereas Tommy Lee Jones, while lots of fun to watch in whatever he does, isn't really acting at all, he's just being that Tommy Lee Jones gif at greater length. If TLJ wins it will be because Lincoln is winning everything in every category. (Probably also true of Sally Field.) If TLJ doesn't it will be because Lincoln is "only" winning Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. (And some costumes and things.)
Looking forward to my Oscar noms watching season.
Also, kinda weird to me but La Luna wasn't nominated in Animated Short :/
It was nominated last year.
Lincoln could very well have a huge night. The Best Director category is easily the most surprising. No Bigelow or Affleck? Wow.
Bobby Roberts
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Can't believe they nominated Christoph Waltz over Samuel L. Jackson. Such bullshit.
And I told ya'll that Beats of the Southern Wild would be nominated for Best Picture! Only thing I care about is Quvenzhane Wallis winning for Best Actress. Despite the baseless hatred the movie receives, the movie was quite good, and she anchored that shit with an amazing performance. It'd be cool if Haneke won something as well. I'm really surprised Amoure received such recognition.
I don't know that the hatred is baseless...
http://www.badazzmofo.com/2012/12/1...erred-view-of-the-black-existence-in-america/
PSH is actually a really good actor, whereas Tommy Lee Jones, while lots of fun to watch in whatever he does, isn't really acting at all, he's just being that Tommy Lee Jones gif at greater length. If TLJ wins it will be because Lincoln is winning everything in every category. (Probably also true of Sally Field.) If TLJ doesn't it will be because Lincoln is "only" winning Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. (And some costumes and things.)
This is some solid reasoning. I like it.
TerryLee81
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I don't really understand the SLP acclaim. Saw the trailer for it before Les Mis, and it looked like a really ordinary film. Also one which I have no intention of seeing. Robert De Niro is soooo typecast as the "older father figure" in random romance movies now. It's kinda painful.
I thought the same after watching the trailer. Seems like the trailer gives a wrong impression, will definitely watch it.
wut. Waltz is very different in Django.
No he's not Lol.
Outside of the lack of a menacing moment, his performances in Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds were exactly the same. Maybe Tarantino wanted it that way, considering he had Waltz in mind when writing the character, but there's no doubting the fact that the two performances were VERY similar. I'd say near identical, but at the very least, similar.
TheKaeptain
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The locks:
Daniel Day Lewis for Lincoln
Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master
Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
Adele for Skyfall (Best Original Song)
Jessica Chastain is REALLY close to being a lock for Zero Dark, too.
Emmanuelle Riva is going to win best actress.
symphonask
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My guesses:
BP: Lincoln
BD: Ang Lee
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
S.Actress: Anne Hathaway
S.Actor: Tommy Lee Jones
DP: Roger Deakins
VFX: Life of Pi
Foreign film: Amour
BP: Lincoln
BD: Ang Lee
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
S.Actress: Anne Hathaway
S.Actor: Tommy Lee Jones
DP: Roger Deakins
VFX: Life of Pi
Foreign film: Amour
Bobby Roberts
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Emmanuelle Riva is going to win best actress.
It's weird: Every year, Best Supporting Actor is THE most stacked category. And every year, Best Actress is the weakest, and the most of a toss-up to guess.
Less celebrity doesn't mean weakest...It's weird: Every year, Best Supporting Actor is THE most stacked category. And every year, Best Actress is the weakest, and the most of a toss-up to guess.
Holy shit who is this guy?? ....His french is PERFECT. so impressive...new man crush
That's not Jodie Foster.
TheKaeptain
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Have you seen Amour?It's weird: Every year, Best Supporting Actor is THE most stacked category. And every year, Best Actress is the weakest, and the most of a toss-up to guess.
el retorno
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does the academy hate PTA?
I hope that 9 year old wins. Need to see that movie
I hope that 9 year old wins. Need to see that movie
Sean Penn won twice after behaving worse.If Phoenix didn't slag off the Academy I would've pick him, surprised he even got nominated.
PSH is actually a really good actor, whereas Tommy Lee Jones, while lots of fun to watch in whatever he does, isn't really acting at all, he's just being that Tommy Lee Jones gif at greater length. If TLJ wins it will be because Lincoln is winning everything in every category. (Probably also true of Sally Field.) If TLJ doesn't it will be because Lincoln is "only" winning Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. (And some costumes and things.)
He's a lock because he's been the unquestioned front-runner since the movie came out, not because the movie garnered a bunch of nominations. He stole the show even though DDL, arguably the best actor alive, was at the top of his game. That's pretty impressive.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
It's weird: Every year, Best Supporting Actor is THE most stacked category. And every year, Best Actress is the weakest, and the most of a toss-up to guess.
She was utterly fantastic.
Hmm, the groundswell that Silver Linings Playbook just received with the nominations has made the BP race a lot more interesting, especially with Zero Dark Thirty being shut out like it has. I still think it's Lincoln's to lose at this point, but the Weinsteins are going to make a hell of a run to get their hat trick.
el retorno
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Hmm, the groundswell that Silver Linings Playbook just received with the nominations has made the BP race a lot more interesting, especially with Zero Dark Thirty being shut out like it has. I still think it's Lincoln's to lose at this point, but the Weinsteins are going to make a hell of a run to get their hat trick.
is this really because of the torture BS?
TheKaeptain
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Can't wait for QT to when his screenplay award.
is this really because of the torture BS?
From what I can gather, it's more for the controversy surrounding how truthful it is to the events that actually did lead to Bin Laden's death.
And I told ya'll that Beats of the Southern Wild would be nominated for Best Picture! Only thing I care about is Quvenzhane Wallis winning for Best Actress. Despite the baseless hatred the movie receives, the movie was quite good, and she anchored that shit with an amazing performance. It'd be cool if Haneke won something as well. I'm really surprised Amour received such recognition.
huh, performance? Wait, there are other people who also hated the movie?
I don't know that the hatred is baseless...
http://www.badazzmofo.com/2012/12/1...erred-view-of-the-black-existence-in-america/
Jesus Christ. Everybody knows that I'm down for the cause, and I go HAM when it comes to racialized hiring practices and racial depictions within films, but even I consider this dude's article to be complete bullshit. I can definitely see Beasts of the Southern Wild being classified as "Squalor porn," but I disagree with the notion that such a category or trend exists for movies with black characters. How do Monsters Ball, Training Day, Precious, City of God and Tsotsi glorify poverty acceptance? Has he seen those fucking movies? Unlike Beasts of the Southern Wild, all of those movies contain characters that are actively trying to remove themselves from the environment. The impoverished environment is not shown in a positive light, and instead, are narratively speaking, indicative of a living hell. There's definitely a trend for "suffrage porn," in black centered narratives if such a thing exists, and I'd definitely agree if the author made that point, but he's totally off base with his current argument.
Maybe this type of trend does exists, but I can't think of any other examples, and the ones that the blog writer supplies are complete hogwash in that regard.
He's a lock because he's been the unquestioned front-runner since the movie came out, not because the movie garnered a bunch of nominations. He stole the show even though DDL, arguably the best actor alive, was at the top of his game. That's pretty impressive.
I mean, I really just don't think that's true. He played the same guy he always does! He didn't even try on an accent, so the great Pennsylvania commoner has a vaguely Southern drawl. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed his performance, and if there were an award for Best Hamming It Up I would give him three. But I just don't think he was great at the actual "pretending to be another person in such a way that we don't think about all your other movies where you pretended to be other people" thing.
Jack Scofield
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Is this were I pretend that the awards are meaningless unless my favorite actor wins?
That's not Jodie Foster.
ah, but it is. just wait and see what comes out.
All this talk about actors and shit. What about the music.
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Anna Karenina Dario Marianelli
Argo Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi Mychael Danna
Lincoln John Williams
Skyfall Thomas Newman
Although you can count me in with the "Cloud Atlas got snubbed!" supporters for this category, this does seem to be a fairly wide-open category, and I suspect that Lincoln might have the advantage, despite it being the least deserving IMO (haven't seen Anna Karenina, so I could be wrong).
Sean Penn won twice after behaving worse.
In that case I'm betting on him.
Jessica Chastain locked up best Actress and best actor is a tossed up between Jackman and day-lewis.
ZDT got robbed because of political non sense.. Bigelow deserves a nomination for her directing in ZDT. I love how they replace her with O'Russell. :lol They could of added Ben Affleck for directing instead of O'Russell.
I love how they snubbed DiCaprio again. His role in Django was superb. Same shit with the Oscars every year...
Dysfunctional Americans > Middle East
In that case I'm betting on him.
lol I suspect DDL will win that pretty easily.
All this talk about actors and shit. What about the music.
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Anna Karenina Dario Marianelli
Argo Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi Mychael Danna
Lincoln John Williams
Skyfall Thomas Newman
I saw the bolded. None of which were even remotely memorable in any fashion from a scoring sense.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I don't understand BP, can any movie be nominated? I know that Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander and Crouching Tiger were nominated for Best Picture too.
Neither is Life of Pi.
I saw the bolded. None of which were even remotely memorable in any fashion from a scoring sense.
Neither is Life of Pi.
el retorno
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I don't understand BP, can any movie be nominated. I know that Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander and Crouching Tiger were nominated for Best Picture too.
I believe so.
I thought the same after watching the trailer. Seems like the trailer gives a wrong impression, will definitely watch it.
Funny, because I actually thought the trailer made SLP look okay or at least fun. The film itself hugely disappointed me.
The performances are good, but I don't know how you nominate it for writing or editing. Felt like the pacing was all over the place. Jennifer Lawrence is charming as hell in it, so it really just feels like it's getting attention for being "relatably quirky" and daring enough to show characters who unwell as leads! Wow!
It's Juno with a much, much worse structure, but about as much cloying cleverness.
Kind of fucked that he got the Directing nom over Bigelow, too.
Am I the only person who was let down?
TheKaeptain
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Look movie-Gaf when Emmanuelle Riva wins best actress. Don't be acting surprised.
Funny, because I actually thought the trailer made SLP look okay or at least fun. The film itself hugely disappointed me.
The performances are good, but I don't know how you nominate it for writing or editing. Felt like the pacing was all over the place. Jennifer Lawrence is charming as hell in it, so it really just feels like it's getting attention for being "relatably quirky" and daring enough to show characters who unwell as leads! Wow!
It's Juno with a much, much worse structure, but about as much cloying cleverness.
Kind of fucked that he got the Directing nom over Bigelow, too.
Am I the only person who was let down?
It disappears in the second half, but I liked that the editing in the first half was centered around Pat's frame of mind, which led to some really interesting scenes like his near-meltdown after the dinner date.
BenjaminBirdie
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Skyfall = best score nomination? Oh right, Thomas Newman.
Jon Brion's ParaNorman snub is inexcusable.
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