Oscars 2015

probably

only one nod for Gone Girl. Who's going to watch this broadcast w/out the audience pleasers?

how the hell did bennett miller get that directing nom?

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.

my predix:

GBH, maybe Boyhood
Wes Anderson, maybe Linklater
Cumberbatch, maybe Keaton
Moore or Cotillard (fingers crossed for the latter)
Arquette
Simmons

It's Moore.

wondering if The Judge is really so awful.

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.

box office $$ and years of accumulating good will in the Academy sense

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?

Yeah, Fiennes, too. Talk about carrying a movie.

GBH and its setting and title are very "prestigious" in a way

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.

Was Lego Movie this year?

Yeah. It was robbed.

Would be happy with a split vote: Boyhood for film and Anderson for director.

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.

How in the world did The Lego Movie not at least receive a best animated feature nomination? Egregious.

On the other hand, How to Train Your Dragon 2, which I finally saw, is indeed great, and truly gorgeous.

Princess Kaguya ftw (but it won't)

oh so Birdman didn't get editing? Doom?

Yeah, I can live with a Lego snub in exchange for a Ghibli nod.

my predix:
GBH, maybe Boyhood
Wes 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.)

On the other hand, How to Train Your Dragon 2, which I finally saw, is indeed great, and truly gorgeous.

No, it's an aimless, paint-by-numbers follow up to one of the best mass entertainments of the last decade. Total pap.

wait... Henry Fonda, and no one else was over 63? Top o' my head, John Wayne was about 62... xp

holy fuck keaton is older than nicholson was when he won for as good as it gets wtf

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

Jack was 60 in '97.

and keaton's 63

hence...

And I just found out that Eddie Redmayne is only a couple years younger than me and not the 22 I sort of thought he was.

Also, fuck Foxcatcher.

that factoid is true btw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_and_youngest_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees#Best_Actor_in_a_Leading_Role

only 2 best actresses older than MK too

H'wood hates looking at the olds

OK, thinking now "Last Days in Vietnam" will win doc. Made by political royalty who doesn't question US imperialism and will endorse Hillary.

Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Amy Adams weren't nominated for an Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday, Jan. 15 -- but Dick Poop was. Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs incorrectly announced Dick Pope's name in the Cinematography category for his work in Mr. Turner, which led to a slew of hilarious reactions via Twitter.

and Chris Pine standing next to her did not laugh. Captain Kirk has been taken over by an alien force.

Laura Dern plays Witherspoon's mom, no? Nine years older.

Yep. She's used for poignant effect, but that's all she is – a holy spirit of poignancy.

Holy Caucasian people, Batman. Is this the whitest list of films ever?

i read Wild during a brief and ill-advised association with an office book club. 'twas wretched, so as much as i enjoy reese i can't muster the energy to see the film

But hey, the Selma song mentions Ferguson, they're covered. xp

Best Actor

Steve Carell, "Foxcatcher"
Bradley Cooper, "American Sniper"
Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Imitation Game"
Michael Keaton, "Birdman"
Eddie Redmayne, "The Theory of Everything"

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard, "Two Days, One Night"
Felicity Jones, "The Theory of Everything"
Julianne Moore, "Still Alice"
Rosamund Pike, "Gone Girl"
Reese Witherspoon, "Wild"

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall, "The Judge"
Ethan Hawke, "Boyhood"
Edward Norton, "Birdman"
Mark Ruffalo, "Foxcatcher"
J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash"

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"
Laura Dern, "Wild"
Keira Knightley, "The Imitation Game"
Emma Stone, "Birdman"
Meryl Streep, "Into the Woods"

Cinematography

"Birdman"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Ida"
"Mr. Turner"
"Unbroken"

Costume Design

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Inherent Vice"
"Into the Woods"
"Maleficent"
"Mr. Turner"

Directing

Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman"
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"
Bennett Miller, "Foxcatcher"
Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Morten Tyldum, "The Imitation Game"

Foreign Language Film

"Ida," Poland
"Leviathan," Russia
"Tangerines," Estonia
"Timbuktu," Mauritania
"Wild Tales," Argentina

Makeup and Hairstyling

"Foxcatcher"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Guardians of the Galaxy"

Original Score

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Interstellar"
"Mr. Turner"
"The Theory of Everything"

Adapted Screenplay

"American Sniper"
"The Imitation Game"
"Inherent Vice"
"The Theory of Everything"
"Whiplash"

Original Screenplay

"Birdman"
"Boyhood"
"Foxcatcher"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"Nightcrawler"

Best Picture

"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"Boyhood"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Selma"
"The Theory of Everything"
"Whiplash"

Animated Feature Film

"Big Hero 6"
"The Boxtrolls"
"How to Train Your Dragon 2"
"Song of the Sea"
"The Tale of the Princess Kaguya"

Documentary Feature

"Citizenfour"
"Finding Vivian Maier"
"Last Days in Vietnam"
"The Salt of the Earth"
"Virunga"

Documentary Short Subject

"Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1"
"Joanna"
"Our Curse"
"The Reaper (La Parka)"
"White Earth"

Film Editing

"American Sniper"
"Boyhood"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Whiplash"

Original Song

"Everything Is Awesome," "The Lego Movie"
"Glory," "Selma"
"Grateful, "Beyond the Lights"
"I"m Not Gonna Miss You," "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me"
"Lost Stars," "Begin Again"

Production Design

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"Interstellar"
"Into the Woods"
"Mr. Turner"

Animated Short Film

"The Bigger Picture"
"The Dam Keeper"
"Feast"
"Me and My Moulton"
"A Single Life"

Live Action Short Film

"Aya"
"Boogaloo and Graham"
"Butter Lamp"
"Parvaneh"
"The Phone Call"

Sound Editing

"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"The Hobbitt: The Battle of the Five Armies"
"Interstellar"

Sound Mixing

"American Sniper"
"Birdman"
"Interstellar"
"Unbroken"
"Whiplash"

Visual Effects

"Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"
"Guardians of the Galaxy"
"Interstellar"
"X-Men: Days of Future Past"

so is Coop our generation's William Hurt?

hmmm will ponder

At last we see what kind of British actors elude the Academy: David Oyelowo.

how the hell did bennett miller get that directing nom?

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, January 15, 2015 7:58 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Silver lining: Ashley Olsen at the Oscars.

so is Coop our generation's William Hurt?

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:55 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not a bad comparison:
http://scottfeinberg.com/bradley-cooper-could-become-the-10th-actor-to-earn-a-third-consecutive-oscar-nom

Just 1 nomination for Selma

2, pic & song

I do not understand what anybody likes about Bradley Cooper

tot meh on him too

They should have campaigned harder that Oyelowo was a British, and therefore doing more acting. Maybe he would have gotten the nom then. Or maybe the voters thought he'd just been nominated last year.

xpost Dragon 2's plot was nothing special, but it was really, really beautifully painted by numbers.