Oscars 2015

Vivian Maier is a fine subject but this is a standard mediocre vanity doc made by some little uninteresting shit who can't resist telling you just a little bit more about himself.

Jodorowsky's Dune is a celebration of a thunderous, boorish, mediocre arsewipe who made lousy pretentious b-movies and he talks shit about a lousy movie he never made.

visual FX shortlist

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Maleficent
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Transformers: Age of Extinction
X-Men: Days of Future Past

(zilch for Noah and Moses Bale)

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

What kind of Carmen Sandiego movie title is this?

A "last Robin Williams movie" kind?

This is what I call a "late career" FYC project:

http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/08/63/a5c121b34090bf200b502308ef8a/six-dance-lessons-in-six-weeks-poster.jpg

Whatcha lookin at, Cheyenne?

Didn't realise people who aren't involved/associated somehow with "The Industry" still watched the Oscars

Jodorowsky's Dune is a celebration of a thunderous, boorish, mediocre arsewipe who made lousy pretentious b-movies and he talks shit about a lousy movie he never made.

lol wrong

the cinematographer on that Gena Rowlands movie is Vilmos Zsigmond

Rex Reed gave it an effusive whorequote

so Simmons and Arquette have got it locked, it seems. Jake looking more likely for a nod too.

I am still having a hard time picturing Arquette actually winning (esp. if Chastain can start building up a little momentum), but Simmons seems Leto-locked.

9 shortlested for foreign film Oscar:

Argentina, "Wild Tales," Damián Szifrón, director;
Estonia, "Tangerines," Zaza Urushadze, director;
Georgia, "Corn Island," George Ovashvili, director;
Mauritania, "Timbuktu," Abderrahmane Sissako, director;
Netherlands, "Accused," Paula van der Oest, director;
Poland, "Ida," Paweł Pawlikowski, director;
Russia, "Leviathan," Andrey Zvyagintsev, director;
Sweden, "Force Majeure," Ruben Östlund, director;
Venezuela, "The Liberator," Alberto Arvelo, director.

Biggest snubs seem to be Winter Sleep, Norte, the End of History, the Dardennes, Xavier floppyhair.

weeeeell, none of the snubs are really oscar-y. Go Östlund, I say.

so unborkened is gonna be this yrs extremely loud incredibly close huh

Ebert gonna beat Snowden for the doc prize

I think Snowden wd be a better film critic

I bow to you.

Cross-posted from SELMA thread.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/01/oscar-films-the-prison-of-historical-accuracy.html

weird article - "sometimes people share factual inaccuracies and it's good because it explains why unbroken wasn't good, but sometimes it's bad because the inaccuracies of the imitation game make it good, etc". it seems like it's trying to say that facts don't matter if the film is good, but then keeps backpedaling because (well, imo) facts DO matter even if you enjoyed the movie.

I don't really see Foxcatcher as being part of a "history" debate... that's just a "true crime" tale which Hollywood is usually even more footloose (as in very loosely transforming the details of Dog Day Afternoon, to no one's outrage).

There's also a significant difference between altering / condensing things regarding Alan Turing and Selma, where all the participants are either dead or very old, and ZDT where the PRECEDING YEAR and the actions of the current government are being dramatized.

definitely sympathetic to someone wanting to argue that historical accuracy is not the whole of a biopic's value, but when someone takes it to some sort of "let's stop caring what really happened" stance then well no, let's not let popular myths go unchecked thank you

The last paragraph about ZDT was especially awkward.

it's as if the writer were cracking his knuckles until the moment he could cite the film receiving the most abuse in recent years.

the most torture even

Noms, noms, noms.

All of the noms.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/alfonso-cuaron-jj-abrams-chris-pine-and-cheryl-boone-isaacs-to-announce-oscar-noms-live-20150109

god i am so sick of chris pine and i've only seen him in like one movie

he is like the most boring type of "hollywood good-looking" person imaginable

guess whooo? Hope you're right about Cotillard, but I prefer to expect the worst.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/2015-oscar-nomination-predictions

the Nick Pinkteron line about biopics is so good that I wish it were true.

I could barely muster up the effort for the nominations articles. It's only really fun Oscar blogging imo when you have a preset slate you can rip into.

well, you used "distaff" in a sentence, so that counts.

You went for Cotillard and Jake too.

I told Ed he totally subtweeted me with his choice of pics (e.g. each seems like the most likely to not get nominated).

what are yr off-the-record picks for makeup, then?

I was about to write Steve Carell's nose even before checking to see if there was a shortlist and ... I'll be damned, it's actually in the running.

Also, it feels like Budapest is headed toward double-digit nominations, so.

you think? that would shock me.

I guess the probability that it's getting scratched in acting categories stands in the way of that.

If Cotillard, Spall, and Fiennes all made it, I would delight in Jeffrey Wells' head exploding.

It's not well known that the Carell nose is the same one Woody & Diane stole in Sleeper.

it does seem like there's been this crazy momentum shift towards GBH

Won the Globe, led the BAFTA nods, hasn't really missed any major guild nominations...

I would've never guessed it.

driven by empty calories of year-end bullshit, finally?

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..

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.

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.

"Studio B.S."

ah i vaguely remember that.

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

how thrilling

http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2015/01/academy-to-announce-all-24-categories-live/

Too much of a good thing, perhaps.

A day not spend with L'argent is a day wasted.

I strongly disliked Au Hasard Balthazar when I watched it. Made me ask myself why I didn't just spend my time re-watching Pickpocket.

no donkey

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or has he already won an oscar? i don't keep track of these things.

(amateurist)

More Gallons Disease
http://i.imgur.com/D11vqFF.gif

I bought it and have kept it locked in the closet ever since.

the Bressondook

Hating Au Hasard Balthazar is far worse than eating meat.

great suggestion from Variety in a piece about how to 'fix' the Oscar ceremony:

the best solution to spicing up the Oscars is a relatively easy fix: Serve everybody alcohol in their seats. The bar outside the auditorium was busy, and the seatfillers were working overtime, because fewer attendees stayed to watch the show.

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/how-to-fix-the-oscars-in-5-easy-steps-1201440804/

Lupita Nyong'o's Oscar gown has been stolen, and we have a suspect

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/26/2621912600000578-0-image-a-19_1424991094205.jpg

'It was ridiculous, as it would be from any singer who treats that music in semi-operatic style. She had no relationship to what she was singing.'

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/stephen-sondheim-calls-lady-gagas-oscar-performance-travesty/story?id=29695472

It's the way most american idol contestants sing every song. and he's right.