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The 88th Academy Awards |OT| Sixth Time's A Charm

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Blobbers said:
Honestly I liked Matt Damon more than Leo. He's better at portraying emotion and his fit of rage in the buggy was more sincere than an entire movie of Leo moaning, breathing heavily, showing us his disgusting spit bubbles and showcasing a bad accent for the millionth time.

As Mike and Jay said, Lep has wool over everyone's eyes for some reason that he's a really good dramatic actor.
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Matt Damon does not belong in the best actors nominees imo. If anyone deserves to win over Leo this year it is Fassbender. This year's performances were all weak.
 
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MrV4ltor

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My full predictions:

Best Picture: Spotlight
Best Director: Alejandro G. Inarritu
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress: Brie Larson
Best Supporting Actor: Sylvester Stallone
Best Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Big Short
Best Original Screenplay: Spotlight
Best Cinematography: The Revanant
Best Animated Feature: Inside Out
Best Documentary: Amy
Best Film Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Original Song: Til It Happens To You
Best Original Score: The Hateful Eight
Best Costume design: Cinderella
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling: Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Production Design: Mad Max: Fury Road
Sound Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road
Sound Mixing: The Revanant
Visual Effects: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Short Film, Live Action: Ave Maria
Best Short film, Animated: Sanjay's Super Team
Best Documentary, short subject: Body Team 12
Best Foreign Film: Son of Saul
 
BeforeU

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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
LOL Leo's victory speech will be glorious. It will be sad that all the internet meme will need to stop.
 
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ExVicis

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I don't think Leo's should get it this year. The Revenant may have been a good performance but it certainly wasn't his best. I think he's a good actor but no one should get Oscars just out of pity or because they didn't get them for preceding years.

That said, if he does win, congratulations and maybe we can put this whole silly petty Oscar business behind us and just have Leo giving a good performance because the movie requires it, not his ego for the accolades.
 
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Ridley327

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MrV4ltor said:
My full predictions:

Best Picture: Spotlight
Best Director: Alejandro G. Inarritu
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress: Brie Larson
Best Supporting Actor: Sylvester Stallone
Best Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Big Short
Best Original Screenplay: Spotlight
Best Cinematography: The Revanant
Best Animated Feature: Inside Out
Best Documentary: Amy
Best Film Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Original Song: Til It Happens To You
Best Original Score: The Hateful Eight
Best Costume design: Cinderella
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling: Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Production Design: Mad Max: Fury Road
Sound Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road
Sound Mixing: The Revanant
Visual Effects: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Short Film, Live Action: Ave Maria
Best Short film, Animated: Sanjay's Super Team
Best Documentary, short subject: Body Team 12
Best Foreign Film: Son of Saul
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Real talk: Ave Maria winning its category would be the worst pick of any category. That film is awful and I'm shocked no one who nominated it looked past the surface of it being tangentially about Israeli/Palestinian relations to realize that it's a 15 minute comedic short that is never once funny. Pandering definitely carried that much further than it deserved to.
 
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Orbis Tabula

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So, no cable here. How streamable is this? I'm getting conflicting reports. One say that ABC will stream it, in which case I can watch it, but others are saying it's only streamable in less than a dozen cities? Is that true. If so, what the fuck is that all about? Why only allow online streaming in a few places?
 
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EskimoJoe said:
So, no cable here. How streamable is this? I'm getting conflicting reports. One say that ABC will stream it, in which case I can watch it, but others are saying it's only streamable in less than a dozen cities? Is that true. If so, what the fuck is that all about? Why only allow online streaming in a few places?
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I don't either, but do you have a OTA antenna?
 
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Floridian

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EskimoJoe said:
So, no cable here. How streamable is this? I'm getting conflicting reports. One say that ABC will stream it, in which case I can watch it, but others are saying it's only streamable in less than a dozen cities? Is that true. If so, what the fuck is that all about? Why only allow online streaming in a few places?
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http://abc.go.com/watch-live

I'm not sure how reliable it is though. There are quite a few restrictions with it.
 
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Ridley327

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MrV4ltor said:
Are we allowed to post stream links for people that are asking?
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I'm not sure what the actual forum policy is on links to those kinds of streams, but it might make sense to not loudly broadcast it just in case ABC or AMPAS is trying to stamp them out.
 
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Speevy

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I thought Brie Larson was just okay in Room. Even though it won't happen, I wish they would give the award to Saoirse Ronan. She gave a much more nuanced performance, and it was one of the first times she's played a grown woman in a film.
 
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Freewheelin'

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Still need to see

Brooklyn
Carol
Room
Bridge of Spies
The Martian
The Danish Girl
Trumbo
Joy
Straight Outta Compton
Anomalisa
The Look of Silence
Amy
Son of Saul
Mustang

kill me
 
Simo

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Jigorath said:
Revenant is totally cleaning up.

I'm kinda interested to see just how large Iñárritu's ego gets after this night.
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Well if you didn't know already The Revenant was just a survival and hard shoot so of course it's going to win...lol
 
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Lion Heart

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I can't bring myself to watch bridge of spies, Brooklyn or The room. I usually make an effort to watch all the nominees but I just couldn't do it.
 
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Speevy

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Lion Heart said:
I can't bring myself to watch bridge of spies, Brooklyn or The room. I usually make an effort to watch all the nominees but I just couldn't do it.
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The Room is a hilarious Tommy Wiseau film. Room is what you're looking for.

All three films are good but sentimental. Bridge of Spies and Brooklyn are old-fashioned.

Both BoS and Brooklyn are better directed than Room.
 
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MMarston

Was getting caught part of your plan?
Okay my predictions (but not necessarily "wants")

Best Picture
"The Big Short"
"Bridge of Spies"
"Brooklyn"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"The Revenant"
"Room"
"Spotlight"

Best Director
Adam McKay, "The Big Short"
George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Alejandro González Iñárritu, "The Revenant"
Lenny Abrahamson, "Room"
Tom McCarthy, "Spotlight"

Best Actor
Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo"
Matt Damon, "The Martian"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant"
Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs"
Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl"

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, "Carol"
Brie Larson, "Room"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Joy"
Charlotte Rampling, "45 Years"
Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn"

Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, "The Big Short"
Tom Hardy, "The Revenant"
Mark Ruffalo, "Spotlight"
Mark Rylance, "Bridge of Spies"
Sylvester Stallone, "Creed"

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh, "The Hateful Eight"
Rooney Mara, "Carol"
Rachel McAdams, "Spotlight"
Alicia Vikander, "The Danish Girl"
Kate Winslet, "Steve Jobs"

Best Original Screenplay
"Bridge of Spies"
"Ex Machina"
"Inside Out"
"Spotlight"
"Straight Outta Compton"

Best Adapted Screenplay
"The Big Short"
"Brooklyn"
"Carol"
"The Martian"
"Room"

Best Foreign Film
"Embrace of the Serpent"
"Mustang"
"Son of Saul"
"Theeb"
"A War"

Best Documentary Feature
"Amy"
"Cartel Land"
"The Look of Silence"
"What Happened, Miss Simone?"
"Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom"

Best Animated Feature
"Anomalisa"
"Boy and the World"
"Inside Out"
"Shaun the Sheep Movie"
"When Marnie Was There"

Best Film Editing
"The Big Short"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Revenant"
"Spotlight"
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Best Original Song
“Earned It,” Fifty Shades of Grey
“Manta Ray,” Racing Extinction
“Simple Song #3,” Youth
“Til It Happens To You,” The Hunting Ground
“Writing’s On The Wall,” Spectre
(dunno lol)

Best Original Score
"Bridge of Spies"
"Carol"
"The Hateful Eight"
"Sicario"
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Best Visual Effects
"Ex Machina"– Mark Williams Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris, and Andrew Whitehurst
"Mad Max: Fury Road" – Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Andy Williams, and Tom Wood
"The Martian" – Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence, Richard Stammers, and Steven Warner
"The Revenant" – Richard McBride, Matt Shumway, Jason Smith, and Cameron Waldbauer
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" – Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, and Neal Scanlan

Best Cinematography
"Carol"
"The Hateful Eight"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Revenant"
"Sicario"

Best Costume Design
"Carol"
"Cinderella"
"The Danish Girl"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Revenant"

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared"
"The Revenant"

Best Production Design
"Bridge of Spies"
"The Danish Girl"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"The Revenant"

Best Sound Editing
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"The Revenant"
"Sicario"
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Best Sound Mixing
"Bridge of Spies"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"The Revenant"
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
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Ashes

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Lion Heart said:
I can't bring myself to watch bridge of spies, Brooklyn or The room. I usually make an effort to watch all the nominees but I just couldn't do it.
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Bridge of spies is surprisingly good. Brooklyn is for Film majors. Haven't watched the room.

Still SMH that Martian made to the oscars.
 
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Timeaisis

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So I just glanced at the Best Actor category again. You gotta understand I like Leo, but I don't really think he's as amazing as people say in The Revenant. But compared to other actors up for the award...well, we didn't really have a great year for Best Actor performances this year, huh? Compared to Best Actress, which seems like a huge competition with Larson and Vikander and Ronan, et al. And Best Supporting which has got some huge competition, too.

Anyway, Leo is going to run away with it now that I'm really looking at the other nominees. I guess Fass could spoil but I really don't see that happening.

EDIT: Oh, yeah. I think Spotlight is going to take the Best Pic. It has got that Oscar vibe already, and it's a really good film.
 
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Speevy

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Mark Rylance is seriously overrated for his work in Bridge of Spies. He's good, but he just doesn't have enough scenes of any import to warrant the award.
 
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Gorillaz

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I can see Mad Max eating REAL good tonight.

I rewatched it again last weekend after not seeing it since the summer and it really didn't hit me how much attention to detail and just overall design had to go into the whole production.

Im not the type to get heavily behind hoping this or that wins but I would love to see Fury Road get some love.
 
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