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alfredofroylan

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Finalow said:
just saw the winners. Mattew was going to win, i told you man, told you.
also lol at Frozen winning (and wth), Miyazaki seppuku incoming.
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He won for Spirited Away, they had to mail the Oscar to Japan because he was busy at the time, the man is a legend that's way over any Academy Award.
 
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Roo

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rakhir said:
Well, they both have squat for their acting. Leo should start writing/directing if acting doesn't gets him oscars?
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I feel sorry for him.
He keeps picking up roles with OSCAR WINNER written all over them but the Academy is like.. lol no
 
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UrbanRats

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I think J Leto was good in Dallas Buyers, but i think i preferred Fassbender over him.

Also, weird that The Act of Killing lost, that doc was amazing.

Otherwise, not too weird.
 
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Alistair Roo said:
I feel sorry for him.
He keeps picking up roles with OSCAR WINNER written all over them but the Academy is like.. lol no
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UrbanDandy said:
Did Leo talk against the academy or disagree with them a couple of years back?
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The problem is that he's an average actor. He tries his heart out, but he's just not a top tier actor. He's never been robbed, or snubbed. He's lost to better performances every time.
 
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Yasae

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DrForester said:
The problem is that he's an average actor. He tries his heart out, but he's just not a top tier actor. He's never been robbed, or snubbed. He's lost to better performances every time.
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His younger roles were also his best. The Beach and beyond were pretty humbling.
 
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Yasae

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firehawk12 said:
Really? Those are the two best aspects about the film.
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Firstly, Cuaron has had better cinematography in his past films like Children of Men or Great Expectations. Second, even though it's shamelessly flashy, The Grandmaster had the edge.

Gravity has nice spectacle, but its actual cinematography is more storyboard than perspective sleight of hand.
 
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firehawk12

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Yasae said:
Firstly, Cuaron has had better cinematography in his past films like Children of Men or Great Expectations. Second, even though it's shamelessly flashy, The Grandmaster had the edge.

Gravity has nice spectacle, but its actual cinematography is more storyboard than perspective sleight of hand.
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Do I wish Lubezki won for Tree of Life? Sure. But what he did with what amounts to a fictional camera in fictional spaces is astounding.
 
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inm8num2 said:
3 out of the last 21 winners doesn't seem like high probability to me.
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You didn't argue against what he claimed. 3/21 isn't the chance of a movie with slavery/holocaust winning; you need to see all the times a movie with that criteria was nominated and how many times it won.
 
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firehawk12

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Lamel said:
You didn't argue against what he claimed. 3/21 isn't the chance of a movie with slavery/holocaust winning; you need to see all the times a movie with that criteria was nominated and how many times it won.
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To be fair, the short doc that won was a film about a holocaust survivor who was only spared because she could play the piano and the Germans used her in their concerts.
 
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KeRaSh

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Just saw MM's acceptance speech on Youtube. I could listen to him talk about anything for hours. Great speech. Well deserved award. This is his year. Bring on Interstellar!
 
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Salsa

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As far as "disappointments" go; I honestly dont think Leto was that good. I think Barkhad Abdi deserved it tbh, but that was obviously not gonna happen.

also I really didnt care for 12 years a slave but it was pretty obvious it was gonna swipe


im happy spike jonze finally got an oscar tho.
 
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MetatronM

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Yasae said:
Firstly, Cuaron has had better cinematography in his past films like Children of Men or Great Expectations. Second, even though it's shamelessly flashy, The Grandmaster had the edge.

Gravity has nice spectacle, but its actual cinematography is more storyboard than perspective sleight of hand.
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For all its faults, the film still accomplished things with its photography that had literally never been seen before in cinema. Very, very few DPs out there could have pulled off what Lubezki did. If that isn't good enough for a cinematography Oscar, then just about everybody who has ever won one in the past ought to turn theirs back in.

The only category that was more of a stone cold lock for Gravity than cinematography was VFX.
 
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CassSept

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Well that was incredibly predictable. The category I'm the most surprised with was Animated Short so I wouldn't say there were any obvious robberies this year. Actually, I think I'm most surprised with how unsurprising it was.

I'm just glad American Hustle didn't win anything.
 
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LQX

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12 Years was a great film but sadly its win will be marred with many debating if it was guilt win and had to win. The next few days might also be insufferable with many accidentally saying the worse things possible.
 
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