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Nominations for the 86th Academy Awards - January 16 at 5:30 a.m

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Zen_Arcade

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BertramCooper said:
How have people forgotten these films? I sure as hell haven't forgotten about Crash, what with its ridiculous BP win.



It's more a matter of people projecting their own dislike or ambivalence toward a film on to the general populace.
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You can say people will find something forgettable without it being based on your own personal opinion. There is a history of people forgetting about movies they hype up at the time of release. I like Slumdog Millionaire and people loved the shit out of that movie when it came out. But I haven't seen any one talk about it in years.
 
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kurisu_1974

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Belgium represented in the foreign movie nominations!

I don't think we will win. Jagten was a better movie for me, and La grande bellezza seems somewhat of a favorite but I haven't seen that one. Don't know anything about the other two films in the category.
 
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number11

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When was the last time the Academy got the best picture right?

Zero Dark Thirty > Argo
The Tree of Life > The Artist
The Social Network > The Kings Speech
Inglorious Basterds > The Hurt Locker
Benjamin Button > Slumdog (2008 was a pretty terrible year)
There Will be Blood > No Country for Old Men

2006 when The Departed won was the last time I agreed with the winner
 
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Vulcano's assistant

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7Th said:
Ernest & Celestine is a much better movie in every single sense.
It's a shame nobody watched it.

I haven't seen The Wind Rises, by the way. It hasn't come out in Mexico.
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Well you got me there, I haven't seen it.

As for The Wind Rises, I was almost sure it would have won it if Miyazaki was retiring for sure this time.
 
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Final Boss

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javac said:
Actor in A Supporting Role
  • Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
  • Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
  • Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
  • Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street
  • Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
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Fassbender should win but Leto is going to win
 
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addik

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For a moment there, when all the nominees for Best Picture were announced except for the last nomination, and both Pixar and The Wind Rises were not mentioned, I cringed on the thought that The Wind Rises would not get nominated.

The rest were fairly predictable though. I was hoping our representative from our country (Philippines, and the film sent for consideration was Transit), would be nominated at least (best Philippine movie in recent years), but it wasn't even there. Oh well.
 
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mxgt

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number11 said:
When was the last time the Academy got the best picture right?

Zero Dark Thirty > Argo
The Tree of Life > The Artist
The Social Network > The Kings Speech
Inglorious Basterds > The Hurt Locker
Benjamin Button > Slumdog (2008 was a pretty terrible year)
There Will be Blood > No Country for Old Men

2006 when The Departed won was the last time I agreed with the winner
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Only one I disagree with, Amour should have won.
 
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Vulcano's assistant

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strafer said:
No Tom Hanks for Captain Phillips is terrible.

Scene in the end is oscar worthy alone.
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They should have gone with this ending.

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Peru

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Freewheelin' said:
American Hustle was the same as the Fighter and silver linings play book: great acting in just a pretty good film.
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Great acting is not just down to the actors. The dialogue allows them to connect with you. Here are movies that put a focus back on fresh dialogue that feels natural, definitely one of the things most lacking in mainstream American drama (not to mention romance, romantic comedy).

titusandronicus said:
Frozen is just an incredibly formulaic good Disney film. It's been done to death before, and Tangled is better.
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Frozen is much less formulaic than Tangled, in fact it fucks with the formula without struggling to do so. So no. I think it should've received screenplay nods and more, but musicals never do. Fucking shame when Disney is the ony one making big old musicals (more or less).
 
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kirblar

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ViewtifulJC said:
Just happy Barkhad Abdi got in there, even if my boy Hanks didn't

that piece of shit American Hustle lookin good right now
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Will be utterly shocked if its not 12 Years or Gravity.
Frozen is much less formulaic than Tangled, in fact it fucks with the formula without struggling to do so. So no. I think it should've received screenplay nods and more, but musicals never do. Fucking shame when Disney is the ony one making big old musicals (more or less).
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Given how they've described their story process for the movie, I'm not sure a screenplay nod would have even been appropriate.
 
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Freewheelin'

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Peru said:
Great acting is not just down to the actors. The dialogue allows them to connect with you. Here are movies that put a focus back on fresh dialogue that feels natural, definitely one of the things most lacking in mainstream American drama (not to mention romance, romantic comedy).



Frozen is much less formulaic than Tangled, in fact it fucks with the formula without struggling to do so. So no. I think it should've received screenplay nods and more, but musicals never do. Fucking shame when Disney is the ony one making big old musicals (more or less).
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No I thought it was just good acting. The pacing of the script was weird, or was too repertories and there was no big stakes or anything to really make me care about the unlikeable characters, but the acting elevated that.
 
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DerZuhälter

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strafer said:
Performance by an actor in a leading role

Christian Bale in “American Hustle”
Bruce Dern in “Nebraska”
Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Chiwetel Ejiofor in “12 Years a Slave”
Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club”

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Barkhad Abdi in “Captain Phillips”
Bradley Cooper in “American Hustle”
Michael Fassbender in “12 Years a Slave”
Jonah Hill in “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Jared Leto in “Dallas Buyers Club”

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Amy Adams in “American Hustle”
Cate Blanchett in “Blue Jasmine”
Sandra Bullock in “Gravity”
Judi Dench in “Philomena”
Meryl Streep in “August: Osage County”

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Sally Hawkins in “Blue Jasmine”
Jennifer Lawrence in “American Hustle”
Lupita Nyong’o in “12 Years a Slave”
Julia Roberts in “August: Osage County”
June Squibb in “Nebraska”

Achievement in cinematography

“The Grandmaster” Philippe Le Sourd
“Gravity” Emmanuel Lubezki
“Inside Llewyn Davis” Bruno Delbonnel
“Nebraska” Phedon Papamichael
“Prisoners” Roger A. Deakins


Achievement in directing

“American Hustle” David O. Russell
“Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón
“Nebraska” Alexander Payne
“12 Years a Slave” Steve McQueen
“The Wolf of Wall Street” Martin Scorsese


Best motion picture of the year

“American Hustle” Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
“Captain Phillips” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers
“Dallas Buyers Club” Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers
“Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers
“Her” Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers
“Nebraska” Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers
“Philomena” Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers
“12 Years a Slave” Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers
“The Wolf of Wall Street” Nominees to be determined
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Bold: Oscar picks
Underlined: My picks

GAF may hang me for this statement but I think Fassbender's southern accent was all over the place in 12 years a Slave. He did have a great screenpresence though.
 
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BertramCooper

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Zen_Arcade said:
You can say people will find something forgettable without it being based on your own personal opinion. There is a history of people forgetting about movies they hype up at the time of release. I like Slumdog Millionaire and people loved the shit out of that movie when it came out. But I haven't seen any one talk about it in years.
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And I've seen plenty of people talk about Slumdog Millionaire since it won BP.

Even if a film that I'm not particularly crazy about wins BP, I'm not arrogant enough to dismiss its win by saying that everyone's going to instantly forget about it.
 
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strafer

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I really want Leo to win this one, though I know deep down know that he won't, knowing the Oscars.

Kate will be there to hug him if he does. :)
 
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Diprosalic

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Gravity has zero chance for best picture. Think about who votes for this, they get DVD screeners and pop them in to watch at their TV. Now think about how much less impressive Gravity is under these conditions. 12 years a slave is just as good that way.
 
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HerbertFish

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Mr.Awesome said:
When fx porn like Gravity is one of the two year's best pic front runner you know it's a ban year.


As for the nominations you have 12 years, Wolf, Gravity, Dallas Buyer's Club, American Hustle, Captain Phillips. Then what? Her? Nebraska? Um that's stretching it to 8. Saving Mr Banks? Okay, whatever. The Butler? Good Lord. Llewyn Davis? That was pretty small time. Iron Man 3 doesn't seem like such a stretch anymore. Last year we saw only 9 nominations and I think we will see the same.
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Damn nailed it except for Philomena.
 
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Freewheelin'

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It's weird but what Ido think the oscars is good for is not being everyone's safe choice or representing a winner that everyone likes, but it should be something that will stand out. That's where Oscar bait comes from I guess...

But a kid in 100 years checking Wikipedia for the best picture winners will see some absolute classics on there that are big milestones in cinema that I things that haven't been done before and stuff. I think that's far more important to judging a best Oscar winner, because there's no way everyone agrees on the best film of the year, it's impossible.

But when a kid looks back and sees the godfather won best picture, which is a legitimately incredibly acted written filmed gorgeous masterpiece, and then Argo won which is just a pretty good thriller, it creates discrepincies
 
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Doran902

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Lebron said:
PR had a more cartoony look to it, but then again, The Hobbit is there...
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They should give the award to The Hobbit just for the barrel scene and Smaug.

Pacific Rim was gorgeous but the actual artistic design of things wasn't that great imo. You could see the animals in the monsters that the designers and animators were basing them on. The gorilla one being particularly obvious. The designs of the mechs was also meh.
 
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kirblar

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Freewheelin' said:
It's weird but what Ido think the oscars is good for is not being everyone's safe choice or representing a winner that everyone likes, but it should be something that will stand out. That's where Oscar bait comes from I guess...

But a kid in 100 years checking Wikipedia for the best picture winners will see some absolute classics on there that are big milestones in cinema that I things that haven't been done before and stuff. I think that's far more important to judging a best Oscar winner, because there's no way everyone agrees on the best film of the year, it's impossible.

But when a kid looks back and sees the godfather won best picture, which is a legitimately incredibly acted written filmed gorgeous masterpiece, and then Argo won which is just a pretty good thriller, it creates discrepincies
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I mean, I like Gladiator, but when it was the frontrunner for BP (and won) it was like "wow, this really wasn't a great movie year, huh?" This year's been really strong overall.
 
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mgarnica89

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Leonardo Dicaprio had his one chance to win his oscar in the The Aviator, but damn Jamie Foxx had to put on a near damn perfect rendition of Ray Charles.
 
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DrForester

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How did Monster's U not get a nomination? Frozen will wind, but did Disney put all their effort into the Frozen Nomination? Monsters U deserves to be there more than The Croods or Despicable Me 2.
 
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Peru

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What I'm happy about this year is Steve Coogan getting his nods.

Freewheelin' said:
No I thought it was just good acting. The pacing of the script was weird, or was too repertories and there was no big stakes or anything to really make me care about the unlikeable characters, but the acting elevated that.
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Doesn't make sense, really, the dialogue has to be there for those performances to make a dent.
 
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