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2015 Awards Thread; Like death and taxes...
Topic Started: Nov 24 2015, 11:39 AM (3,148 Views)
Karim Amir
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If Rylance doesn't win, at least he can go home to his three Tony awards. :)

Oh, you Don Hertzfeldt fans probably noticed that World of Tomorrow was nominated for Animated Short.
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Sly has 66! I may have missed a few but I'm sure they are mostly all quality.


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I would love for Brooklyn to be that dark horse best picture winner, but even more, I hope Ronan can pull it out.

Room is a fine film, but from a directing point of view, I gotta say I'm surprised Abrahamson got the nod over Scott. Once outside of said room, that flick really has a heavy hand. But the first half is very, very good.
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Besides costume designer Sandy Powell, looks like other double nominees this year include producer Steve Golin (The Revenant, Spotlight) and sound mixer Andy Nelson (Bridge of Spies, Star Wars: The Force Awakens).
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Room is a fine film, but from a directing point of view, I gotta say I'm surprised Abrahamson got the nod over Scott. Once outside of said room, that flick really has a heavy hand. But the first half is very, very good.

Agree. But a number of people also find the second half emotionally involving, so different strokes I guess.

I'm also a bit surprised at the late traction for Straight Outta Compton getting screenplay nominations. Honestly, I thought that was the weakest part of the movie, falling into some of the usual traps that musical bio-pics usually fall into.
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Rylance would have my vote - though I have a Ruffalo soft spot.

Other random thoughts:

If she was eligible (think she was), I would have liked to see a BA nom for Nina Hoss for Phoenix.

Thought Jurassic World might grab some technical noms.

I see Maxime's write in campaign for Aloha failed.
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.,Jan 14 2016
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Sly has 66! I may have missed a few but I'm sure they are mostly all quality.

I mean, are we saying THIS guy doesn't deserve a lifetime achievement award?

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Or what about his 1991 magnum opus...Oscar?

Stallone to me is that guy who got into a Twitter argument about five years ago with one of my oldest and dearest friends. To this day, my friend is blocked from Stallone's Twitter page. Also, because of my dad (boxing-obsessed all his life, and a cinephile to boot), I've had to hear his griping about the Rocky films over the years.

Anyway, don't mind me. :)

Happy for Jennifer Jason Leigh. Can't believe this is her first nomination.

And y'all, Fifty Shades of Grey, Oscar nominee--for best song. :D

I think I prefer the Jordan-Peele-as-Ray-Parker-Jr. theme: "Now there's a whole lot kinky / bet that room is stinky / Fifty Shades of Grey...alright white people"

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Happy for Jennifer Jason Leigh. Can't believe this is her first nomination.

Ya, I thought she got a nom for Georgia but looks like that was Mare Winningham. She has done some dark stuff in her career and Daisy Domergue isn't too far off from her Tralala in Last Exit to Brooklyn.
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So apparently Creed did so poorly in nominations in part because the studio didn't actually send out awards screeners for it (!). Whoops.
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.,Jan 14 2016
07:51 AM
I see Maxime's write in campaign for Aloha failed.

As if the academy needed another proof of their irrelevance.

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Shay, that's also what happened with Selma, I believe. As someone who is lucky enough to get screeners, as you can imagine, it's a huge help in seeing all these films, even for as often as I try to go to the movies.

But, still...no one there did any favors to hush last year's cry of Oscars so white
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I believe 41 years between a 1st and 2d acting nomination is the record, so Stallone's 39 comes very close.

One of my pet theories for decades has been that only a complete clown can screw up a Bond movie theme song. This year's generic nobody made it 3 of the last 5 which have been absolutely unlistenable pieces of garbage. Yet AMPAS inexplicably nominated it, and even worse it's probably the front-runner.
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Bridge of Spies needs more recognition. I'd certainly place Spielberg ahead of McCarthy, even Miller (though I think his place is more deserved), but haven't seen the other three nominated films. I'd groan for Tarantino's Hateful Eight too, but it's such a rowdy, uncouth and above all cynical piece that there was really never a hope in hell, so *shrug* we just move on. Go Leigh!

Go Rylance!

And what about Mistress America?

Would love to get behind the noms for Brooklyn, and I think Saoirse Ronan is a bright young goddess of a performer ... but the film is merely very nice, pleasant and polite, without much in the way of surprise or provocation. It's certainly not in the least bit bad, but what on earth am I missing in this sudden burst of enthusiasm? It's tidy, moral storytelling, sure, but where's the fire, the interest and the complexity? Someone turn me on to this one quick because I'm sitting here kind of at a loss.

And yeah, the new Bond theme was merely okay, though hardly unlistenable garbage (even if I thought the sequence itself was pretty shitty, faux-camp nonsense -- so "Bond" I guess), but what the hell else does the Academy ever nominate? Isn't this consistently the most disappointing category, year after year? :)
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Would love to get behind the noms for Brooklyn, and I think Saoirse Ronan is a bright young goddess of a performer ... but the film is merely very nice, pleasant and polite, without much in the way of surprise or provocation. It's certainly not in the least bit bad, but what on earth am I missing in this sudden burst of enthusiasm? It's tidy, moral storytelling, sure, but where's the fire, the interest and the complexity? Someone turn me on to this one quick because I'm sitting here kind of at a loss.


I guess tidy/nice/pleasant are the things I loved about it...in this era of film making, it seems like that approach to storytelling feels freshest. Furthermore, I'd argue the complexity comes with her mother and those deep Irish Catholic roots, more than the two men in her life.
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Would love to get behind the noms for Brooklyn, and I think Saoirse Ronan is a bright young goddess of a performer ... but the film is merely very nice, pleasant and polite, without much in the way of surprise or provocation. It's certainly not in the least bit bad, but what on earth am I missing in this sudden burst of enthusiasm? It's tidy, moral storytelling, sure, but where's the fire, the interest and the complexity? Someone turn me on to this one quick because I'm sitting here kind of at a loss.

I'm with you Doc. Ronan is great per usual, but everything else is just so vanilla. For all its yearning for one's homeland along with a transatlantic love triangle, it's suprisingly un-dramatic. Not that I would have preferred it to go into the territory of searing melodrama, but it barely had a pulse at all and was a bit too neat/compact for my tastes. It seems to be getting love from all corners (internet, Oscars and critics across the board).
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