"Jake G wasn't nominated? #canceltheoscars (2015 Oscar Noms)"
some stupid snubs as usual, though some really solid picks in the best foreign movie category. Kinda cool that Whiplash made it into Best Picture
Best picture American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of Everything Whiplash
Actor in a leading role Steve Carell — Foxcatcher Bradley Cooper — American Sniper Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game Michael Keaton — Birdman Eddie Redmayne — The Theory of EVerything
Actress in a leading role Marion Cotillar — Two Days, One Night Felicity Jones — The Theory of Everything Julianne Moore — Still Alice Rosamund Pike — Gone Girl Reese Witherspoon — Wild
Actor in a supporting role Robert Duvall — The Judge Ethan Hawke — Boyhood Edward Norton — Birdman Mark Ruffalo — Foxcatcher J.K. Simmons — Whiplash
Actress in a supporting role Patricia Arquette — Boyhood Laura Dern — Wild Keira Knightly — The Imitation Game Emma Stone — Birdman Meryl Streep — Into the Woods
Animated feature film Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls How to Train Your Dragon 2 Song of the Sea The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
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 Birdman Boyhood Foxcatcher The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game
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
Foreign language film Ida Leviathan Tangerines Timbuktu Wild Tales
Makeup and hairstyle Foxcatcher The Grand Budapest Hotel Guardians of the Galaxy
Music original score The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Interstellar Mr. Turner The Theory of Everything
Music 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
Short film animated The Bigger Picture The Dam Keeper Feast Me and My Moulton A Single Life
Short film live action Aya Boogaloo and Graham Butter Lamp Parvaneh The Phone Call
Sound editing American Sniper Birdman The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Interstellar Unbroken
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
Writing adapted screenplay American Sniper The Imitation Game Inherent Vice The Theory of Everything Whiplash
Writing original screenplay Birdman Boyhood Foxcatcher The Grand Budapest Hotel Nightcrawler
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Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86670 posts
Thu Jan-15-15 09:00 AM
1. "A few really nice surprises (Wild, Cotillard, Beyond the Lights song)..." In response to Reply # 0
... but no Selma in non-Best Pic major categories, no Lego Movie, no Force Majeure, no Fiennes/Gyllenhaal/Oyelowo in Best Actor... all so disappointing.
3. "I never thought in my lifetime" In response to Reply # 1
That I would be upset about a 90 minute toy commercial not getting nominated for Best Animated. But I am.
How does Lego Movie not get a nomination? For some reason, this upsets me more than any other snub (maybe because it's not a particularly strong category to begin with?)
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7. "Best Actor was a tough category, but I'm still disappointed." In response to Reply # 0
Same for no Best Director nod for Ava. And Bradford Young should have been nominated for SOMETHING, whether it be Selma or A Most Violent Year (another movie that deserved a better showing).
Paramount dropped the ball with those Selma screeners, bottom line.
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32. "Paramount was late getting screeners out" In response to Reply # 10
And once they did get them out, they sent them only to SAG and BAFTA, none of the guilds like the Producers or Director's Guilds. The movie was not produced by a Writers Guild signatory, and the credited writer (and I believe Ava) are not in the Writers Guild, which is why we didn't get screeners.
But to be somewhat fair to Paramount, Ava debuted what she called an unfinished cut of the movie at AFI Fest on November 11. I saw the same cut, with the same disclaimer about a week later. And yes, the film wasn't finished: one of the effects shots needed work (the explosion that opens the movie), and there were no end credits.
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33. "Yes, "boring" movies have never been nominated for Oscars before." In response to Reply # 16
I'm joking but cumong man. That movie was well-acted, well-shot, and intelligently written. And even if the prevailing thought was that it was indeed boring, they still could have thrown it a bone for Best Costume Design, or for Best Production Design, or whatever.
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Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86670 posts
Thu Jan-15-15 02:40 PM
22. "Agreed on both counts." In response to Reply # 13
Outside of Keaton, I would have gladly bumped everyone else for people like Oyelowo, Fiennes, Gyllenhaal, Tom Hardy (for Locke OR The Drop), Joaquin (for, YEP, Inherent Vice), or even some motherfucking Andy Serkis.
In a year in which so many leading men were so good, being fine to strong in a fine to shitty biopic shouldn't cut it.
Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86670 posts
Thu Jan-15-15 03:28 PM
25. "It's not just an academy problem. It's an awards problem, period." In response to Reply # 24
Most voting bodies at least nominated these bland guys. Because, since voting is about consensus, the least controversial picks are the ones that get nominations.
I wonder what would happen in the Oscar acting categories if those were tallied using a preferential system, like Best Picture. I imagine you'd see more choices that people are passionate about, instead of the choices people simply agree are safe.
It may also be that critics, guild members, and Academy members alike simply earnestly enjoy biopics more, because they're predominantly all old white men, and old white men love biopics.
Or some combination of the above two.
But if it were just "the Academy is outdated!" then we'd see their picks vary wildly from the other nominations in other awards shows, when they're mostly the same safe picks down the line. So it's clearly bigger than just the Academy. Everyone votes for these biopics, so either it's a procedural problem across the board, a "voting member demographics" problem across the board, or, most realistically, a combination of both.
27. "RE: Agreed on both counts." In response to Reply # 22
>Outside of Keaton, I would have gladly bumped everyone else >for people like Oyelowo, Fiennes, Gyllenhaal, Tom Hardy (for >Locke OR The Drop), Joaquin (for, YEP, Inherent Vice), or even >some motherfucking Andy Serkis. > >In a year in which so many leading men were so good, being >fine to strong in a fine to shitty biopic shouldn't cut it.
Best Actor should have been: MIchael Keaton Birdman David Oyelowo Selma Ralph Fiennes The Grand Budapest Hotel Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler
add a sixth from Serkis, and everyone else....
because Cumberbatch and Redmayne were both fine in The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything but they were just..fine. THey weren't strong at all to me. Keaton, Oyelowo, Fiennes and Gyllenhaal were all ridiculously strong and powerful etc.
I didn't get that from Benedict or Eddie.
Though shout out to Graham Moore for getting an Oscar nomination for The Imitation Game, the White gays and WeHo queens will be clapping for this one....
21. "Lego Movie not getting an animated nom is insane" In response to Reply # 0
I thought it might get into best picture (an uphill battle, but it was relatively on par with pixar movies that have been nominated) but I didn't believe my roommate when he said it wasn't nominated for the animated award. That makes zero sense.
28. "very stupid snubs!" In response to Reply # 0 Thu Jan-15-15 08:13 PM by DJ007
David..Jake..Ava...Bradford ..wtf..smdh
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dula dibiasi Member since Apr 05th 2004 21925 posts
Thu Jan-15-15 08:49 PM
29. "wes finally gets a best director nod." In response to Reply # 0
nice. that was my favorite film of the year.
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30. "Interstellar for best sound mixing is so loloscarslol" In response to Reply # 0
Robert Duvall's nod is kinda weird too
On the plus side it's really cool that Ida got a cinematography nom. After having The Grandmaster in the nominees last years, this category seems to be the one trying to branch out
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37. "do these guys even go to the movies?" In response to Reply # 0
or do they just sit in their living room and watch screeners? none of the best pic nominees did even $60 million box office. the point of expanding the category past five was so they could nominate five oscar-bait films PLUS the interstellar/guardians of the galaxy/gone girl/lego movie type films, not so they could just increase the number of low-budget "quietly genius but complicated white guy overcomes odds" movies.
speaking of which, it's pretty clear at this point how the academy likes to see its black people: as slaves, maids, or criminals. anything else just rings false to them. selma is an american masterpiece, elevating a subject matter that so easily fits into schmaltzy made-for-TV-movie themes. easily the best civil rights film ever made, easily the most skilled portrayal of dr. king ever put to film. there is no excuse for brushing it (or ava/david) aside the way the academy did that doesn't boil down to naked racism/sexism. none.
after having their white guilt properly assuaged by last year's triumph of 12 years a slave, the overly-rich, overly-old, overly-white, overly-male academy is back to doing what it does best: rewarding films that massage the egos of rich old white men. once again, we get a list of awards that is chosen by a bunch of guys sitting in their underwear watching screeners in their den, that in no way represents 2014's year in film or the films that actual people actually went out and saw and enjoyed.
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