2016 Oscars: Winners, Losers and Controversy
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And Francis is heard from. Terrific insight, Francis. 
lain:
Anyone have a pick for best picture from the nominees? I haven't seen Brooklyn or a couple of the others.
lain:Anyone have a pick for best picture from the nominees? I haven't seen Brooklyn or a couple of the others.
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
And Francis is heard from. Terrific insight, Francis.
no, it's clint eastwood :duh:
lain:
I wonder if Stallone will say something about Creed and his costar being overlooked if he wins best supporting? :think: I wonder if voting members are wondering about that too.
Who cares?
PureX
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Oh, c'mon. It's TOL classic! "Reverse discrimination"? There must be 20 - 30 threads on it in the archives already!
Nominations for Best Picture (descriptions courtesy of IMDb)
The Martian: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
The Big Short: Four denizens in the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.
Bridge of Spies: During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Brooklyn: An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Mad Max/Fury Road: A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in postapocalyptic Australia in search for her home-land with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper, and a drifter named Max.
Room: After five-year-old Jack and his mother escape from the enclosed surroundings that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a thrilling discovery.
The Revenant: A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Spotlight: The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
The Martian: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
The Big Short: Four denizens in the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.
Bridge of Spies: During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Brooklyn: An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Mad Max/Fury Road: A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in postapocalyptic Australia in search for her home-land with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper, and a drifter named Max.
Room: After five-year-old Jack and his mother escape from the enclosed surroundings that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a thrilling discovery.
The Revenant: A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Spotlight: The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
People love it but it's the weakest reviewed film of the lot...I have a feeling Hollywood, feeling the race heat, may look to elevate a smaller film, like Room, over the bigger ticket contenders. If not, it might well work for Revenant, because DiCaprio is golden within and outside of the Oscar community and it would be harder to begrudge his victory lap.
genuineoriginal
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This list is exactly why I boycotted the Oscar, and it had nothing to do with race.
The Oscar committee keeps nominating movies I have no interest in watching.
The People's Choice Awards nominated these films:
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Furious 7
- Inside Out
- Jurassic World
- Pitch Perfect 2
I'd add Hateful 8 and Creed and drop Max and Brooklyn.
PureX
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I've only seen the Mad Max flick and The Martian. I wasn't much impressed by the Mad Max flick. The Martian was good, though.
The Hateful 8 was good.
Star studded and it had that dry sort of humor that made you chuckle.
Like all the times you heard, "You gotta use two boards".
I just don't get the critical response to Max. Maybe because it was early in the year and a bit ambitious compared to a lot of the standard, cgi in lieu of compelling plot-line, fare in the genre. :idunno:
PureX
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It seemed too long by half relative to it's story content. And mind-numbingly derivative of the others. I mean, I know it's part of a franchise, but giving the hero a vagina wasn't much of an inventive stretch.
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
But you're a weirdo.
Am not.
And... I was at the theater again, to see the Oscar nominated animated short films. My favorites were so close they might as well be a 3-way tie: Sanjay's Super Team, We Can't Live Without Cosmos, and World of Tomorrow. I'm not very good at saying why, they just captivated me - story, depth, humanness, poignancy, humor, sheer creative genius. I don't know, I just can't do them justice. Well worth finding a theater that's showing them. Bear Story just didn't do anything for me, and I didn't care much for Prologue. Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe it was missing something.
I thought there were a number of entertaining films this last year, but I wouldn't say I saw a great film among them. It's been a while since I could. A thin year for great.Am not.
And... I was at the theater again, to see the Oscar nominated animated short films. My favorites were so close they might as well be a 3-way tie: Sanjay's Super Team, We Can't Live Without Cosmos, and World of Tomorrow. I'm not very good at saying why, they just captivated me - story, depth, humanness, poignancy, humor, sheer creative genius. I don't know, I just can't do them justice. Well worth finding a theater that's showing them. Bear Story just didn't do anything for me, and I didn't care much for Prologue. Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe it was missing something.
It wouldn't be daring, it would be ignorant, looking at the Globes and the SAG awards and critical response to a number of performances by people of color, comparatively. But it's compounded by the omission of films featuring blacks, like Creed. Creed was better thought of, critically, than a number of films nominated and Jordan's performance in it was noteworthy. I don't think it's about willful racism. I think it's mostly about the composition of the membership coupled with a year in which there really weren't a lot of great films. A number of good ones, but not much more.
Take a recent winner to compare. Are any of the films on that list comparable to, say, Lincoln?
With "Slumdog Millionaire" winning the Best Picture in 2008 and "12 Years a Slave" in 2013, I'd say that all of those alleged color blind liberals that are complaining about lack of diversity have nothing to complain about.