Oscars 2017

I forget, are foreign language films excluded from best picture as a rule?

No, not always (Life Is Beautiful immediately comes to mind).

(And Crouching Tiger.)

they are excluded as a habit.

Amour most recently

Huppert's is the only nomination I cared about, Negga's too to a lesser extent

A couple of milestones I noticed:

- first time there's been a black nominee in each of the four acting categories
- first time that black actors have been in the majority in a category (supporting actress: Davis, Harris, Spencer)

First time Afrocentric entries have dominated the doc feature category?

on that score, “Fire at Sea” is largely about North Africans attempting to perilously emigrate to Europe.

How the fuck did Mel Gibson worm his way back into acceptable society

Jodie Foster's powers are unstoppable

@labuzamovies
Reminder that if Isabelle Huppert gets an Oscar nom she's legally required to play Lady Iron Man in IRON MAN 4 sorry thems the breaks

how the fuck did the studio get away with getting Dev Patel into Supporting? He plays the titular character!

there's a kid who also plays him, though

how is Viola Davis a supporting actress?

Answer: #politics

that's one of the stronger best documentary lineups I've seen

La La Land, with 14 nominations, ties the record of "most nominations ever" with Titanic and All About Eve

Wow, I didn't realize it was one of the greatest films ever, but I guess Oscar has spoken!

there's a kid who also plays him, though

the kid is only in the first 10-15 mins.

No way, the kid is the star for half the movie. Dev Patel doesn't show up until a full hour in.

20th nomination for Robostreep; she'll keep getting em after she expires if they digitize her into new things.

First year a John Williams score hasn't been nominated since '92.

have you seen her last couple movies? She's digitized already.

the kid in the first 45 minutes >> Patel

Kidman's nod is a joke too.

Posted in the wrong thread--very glad they had the good sense to nominate O.J. They've overlooked many other documentaries for the most specious of reasons (not sure if the television angle always kept Wiseman out), so it's good that they got this one right.

No Beckinsale or Grant, now that's a turn up as I'd bet they'll win the BAFTA in their respective categories.

the critics are raving about HACKSAW RIDGE!!!

Rex Reed of Observer rated the film with four stars and called it "the best war film since Saving Private Ryan. It is violent, harrowing, heartbreaking and unforgettable."

Michael Smith of Tulsa World called Hacksaw Ridge a "moving character study" and praised both the direction and acting. He observed: "It’s truly remarkable how Gibson can film scenes of such heartfelt emotion with such sweet subtlety as easily as he stages some of the most vicious, visual scenes of violence that you will ever see. ... Hacksaw Ridge is beautiful and brutal, and that’s a potent combination for a movie about a man determined to serve his country, as well as his soul."

IGN critic Alex Welch gave the film a score of 8/10, and praising it as "one of the most successful war films of recent memory" and "at times horrifying, inspiring, and heart-wrenching."

Mike Ryan of Uproxx gave the film a positive review, praising Gibson's direction, and saying: "There are two moments during the second half of Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge when I literally jumped out of my seat in terror. The film's depiction of war is the best I’ve seen since Saving Private Ryan."

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film 3.5 stars and praised it as "the best war film since Saving Private Ryan and wrote: "Thanks to some of the greatest battle scenes ever filmed, Gibson once again shows his staggering gifts as a filmmaker, able to juxtapose savagery with aching tenderness." He added: "[I]t is violent, harrowing, heartbreaking and unforgettable. And yes, it was directed by Mel Gibson. He deserves a medal, too."

Matt Zoller Seitz for RogerEbert.com gave 2.5 stars out of 4 and described it as "inept and beautiful, stupid and amazing."

The first half of Hacksaw – about all I could stand before sticking the screener in my blender – was so awful that I can't imagine I care about "realistic" battles.

guess everyone is trying to frame Gibson's ability to not get caught saying anything antisemitic or racist on tape in a few years as a "comeback"

http://cdn.skim.gs/images/crlzcuzusx2egemggnxv/best-golden-globes-gifs-2017-mel-gibson-vince-vaughn

It’s truly remarkable how Gibson can film scenes of such heartfelt emotion with such sweet subtlety as easily as he stages some of the most vicious, visual scenes of violence that you will ever see

yeah, weird

The Gibson thing is wild to me because it's obvious that movie clearly doesn't have a fucking chance against Moonlight or La La Land or Manchester by the Sea, so they could have given that slot to Kubo and the Two Strings or whatever

easily the worst of the nominees (Lion is conventional lachrymose Oscarbait).

It's probably telling that I heard about Hacksaw Ridge loooooooooong before I heard that it was directed by Mel Gibson.

Lion was very not good

I heard Hacksaw Ridge, outside the theater -- BOOM BOOM BOOM

The trailer I saw only said "from the Oscar-winning director of Braveheart"

I was expecting Lion to be much much worse tbh

Lucas Hedges!

La La Land wishes it were as good as Titanic.

Okay! I already don't wanna see it!

The Handmaiden too good for that bunch, but production design at least, maroons

max martin's first oscar nom is a song from trolls

Lion was fine, if melodramatic, but the kid was amazing.

Speaking of, Mahershala Ali was very good but I feel like there had to have been some vote splitting that prevented the iterations of Chiron (particularly the latter two) from getting the acclaim they deserved this awards season.

Just noticed Ali. Hope he wins--very engaging in that film. (I assume Shannon is for Nocturnal Animals. He'd be a good choice too.)

La La Land, with 14 nominations, ties the record of "most nominations ever" with Titanic and All About Eve

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 3:46 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's nothing hollywood loves more than itself so this is no surprise

so did they love All About Eve for its trashing of the theatuh?

(after all it was a way to avoid honoring the Hollywood horror of Sunset Blvd)

As my Oscar blogging cohort just told me, Donald Trump just won The Salesman the foreign film Oscar.

Welllll since I can't search for the actual Moonlight thread, I'll just post here that Mahershala Ali's SAG speech took my legs out from under me last night.

Wow, I was literally trying to do the same right now, trying to find a Moonlight thread! Saw it this weekend, it was great.

And otm, that speech was something else.

Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins

damn...

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/a-guy-that-barely-looks-like-ryan-gosling-crashed-a-german-awards-show-as-ryan-gosling-221325262.html

icymi the Academy passed a rule so another TV series can never win the doc feature award again; too bad it took OJ to get that done.

http://deadline.com/2017/04/oscars-academy-new-documentary-eligibility-rules-disqualify-o-j-made-in-america-1202064536/