Oscars 2015

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.

i'm amused that Hair & Makeup goes in the first tier, Docs in the second

Mark Harris' fourth and final predix column of the week

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/2015-oscar-nomination-predictions-best-director-best-picture/

FilmExp

http://thefilmexperience.net/prediction-index/

Just Jared: http://www.justjared.com/2015/01/15/oscar-nominations-2015-final-predictions-live-stream/

all coalescing around same shit

whoa, no Ebert doc

keira knightley. didn't expect that.

she was cited often in the last few weeks but tbh I didn't notice her amid the nonsense

Gone Girl stiffed for Adapted Screenplay. Fincher's lousy Oscars run continues.

Cotillard is in.

fucking Steve Carrel and Bradley Cooper. No Jake.

boringly predictable the whole thing.

American Sniper with Best Pic nod, no directing nod for Clint.

boringly predictable the whole thing.

― piscesx

Coop was a long shot.

Selma got only BP and song, i believe

Ida and Mr Turner for cinematography

thinking Ida beats Leviathan for foreign

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?