driven by empty calories of year-end bullshit, finally?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
Gone Girl took nothing at the GGs and i bet the same happens at the Oscars. what is it with Fincher? Se7en, Social Network and Fight Club were all stiffed too and Zodiac didn't even get ONE nomination!
actually GG will at least maybe win best adapted screenplay i guess. but still..
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
it's still in the running for best pic and i figured it had a good chance after leaving the theater but there's been so much bait released EOY it'll get pushed out. the imitation theory game just got plopped right in there.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
XP Zodiac's original release was bumped from awards season due to some studio be, and after that I don't think any lobbying bucks were thrown its way.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
"Studio B.S."
ah i vaguely remember that.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 00:13 (nine years ago) link
Brody on Oscary acting in "grotesquely tasteful" bait by good actors (ie JuMoo and Aniston)
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/oscars-go-bad-performances
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
how thrilling
http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/01/academy-to-announce-all-24-categories-live/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Too much of a good thing, perhaps.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
i'm amused that Hair & Makeup goes in the first tier, Docs in the second
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Mark Harris' fourth and final predix column of the week
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/2015-oscar-nomination-predictions-best-director-best-picture/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
FilmExp
http://thefilmexperience.net/prediction-index/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 January 2015 12:50 (nine years ago) link
Just Jared: http://www.justjared.com/2015/01/15/oscar-nominations-2015-final-predictions-live-stream/
all coalescing around same shit
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link
whoa, no Ebert doc
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link
keira knightley. didn't expect that.
― piscesx, Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
she was cited often in the last few weeks but tbh I didn't notice her amid the nonsense
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
Gone Girl stiffed for Adapted Screenplay. Fincher's lousy Oscars run continues.
― piscesx, Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
Cotillard is in.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link
fucking Steve Carrel and Bradley Cooper. No Jake.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:45 (nine years ago) link
boringly predictable the whole thing.
― piscesx, Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
American Sniper with Best Pic nod, no directing nod for Clint.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
― piscesx
Coop was a long shot.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
Selma got only BP and song, i believe
Ida and Mr Turner for cinematography
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
thinking Ida beats Leviathan for foreign
probably
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
only one nod for Gone Girl. Who's going to watch this broadcast w/out the audience pleasers?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link
how the hell did bennett miller get that directing nom?
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
re Gone Girl, how can a film that made THAT much money with such a relatively small budget, was so critically respected and liked by the public get such short shrift? i know subjects like that never do well with 'The Academy' but still. good to see Ros Pike get a nod mind.
― piscesx, Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
my predix:
GBH, maybe BoyhoodWes Anderson, maybe LinklaterCumberbatch, maybe KeatonMoore or Cotillard (fingers crossed for the latter)ArquetteSimmons
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
It's Moore.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
wondering if The Judge is really so awful.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
No Best Actor nod for Fiennes is a shame.
Can anyone point me to a piece by a reliable Oscarologist on why Grand Budapest Hotel has gone so much further than other Anderson movies? It's different (and excellent) but not different enough to explain this giant leap in recognition.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
box office $$ and years of accumulating good will in the Academy sense
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
Lot of familiar names just scattered around various categories, especially the acting noms, which should just be called "people we know who are in lots of movies all the time but this time we're arranging them in shorter lists." Oyelowo was hosed. Too measured?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Fiennes, too. Talk about carrying a movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
GBH and its setting and title are very "prestigious" in a way
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
Boyhood and Linklater will win. Moore is the easy way out, but hope for Cotillard. I bet Keaton gets the statue, and he's lauded with a long standing O like he's 20 years older and it's the second coming of Nicholson.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
Was Lego Movie this year?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
Yeah. It was robbed.
Would be happy with a split vote: Boyhood for film and Anderson for director.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
sorry omar, there is no way Budapest is winning best picture
still think Birdman (unseen by me) is at least even money for picture, director or both. 12YS last year broke the showbiz run, it's time to get back on track.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
How in the world did The Lego Movie not at least receive a best animated feature nomination? Egregious.
― Smoothie Operator (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
On the other hand, How to Train Your Dragon 2, which I finally saw, is indeed great, and truly gorgeous.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Princess Kaguya ftw (but it won't)
oh so Birdman didn't get editing? Doom?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I can live with a Lego snub in exchange for a Ghibli nod.
― Smoothie Operator (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
my predix:GBH, maybe BoyhoodWes Anderson, maybe Linklater
Given Birdman isn't winning best picture by a longshot, I'm starting to sense this a little bit too. Of course, Weinstein's 8 nominations could easily turn into the "Boyhood can't win" alternate.
I bet Keaton gets the statue, and he's lauded with a long standing O like he's 20 years older and it's the second coming of Nicholson
Just read somewhere that if Keaton wins, he'll actually be the second oldest best actor winner ever, which is crazy. (And maybe untrue.)
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
No, it's an aimless, paint-by-numbers follow up to one of the best mass entertainments of the last decade. Total pap.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
wait... Henry Fonda, and no one else was over 63? Top o' my head, John Wayne was about 62... xp
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
holy fuck keaton is older than nicholson was when he won for as good as it gets wtf
― da croupier, Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
i guess it's understandably hard for me to match what 60 looked like when i was a teenager and what 60 looks like to me now
― da croupier, Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Jack was 60 in '97.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link