82nd Academy Awards... Sunday, March 7, 2010

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1blond		#901	[-]
Posts: 2220 (01/31/09 1:52 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	midnightproblay wrote: Roxbury means that the nominations probably really turned out like this (not exactly but random rough estimates): LEAD: 1. Winslet (TR), 2. Winslet (RR), 3. Streep, 4. Hathaway, 5. Jolie, 6. Leo SUPPORTING: 1. Cruz, 2. Winslet (TR), 3. Tomei, 4. Davis, 5. Adams, 6. Henson So technically, she got enough for 3 nominations this year; however, since you can only be nominated once in a category she wouldn't be able to get a nomination for Revolutionary Road, and since you can only be nominated once for the same film (except that guy in Going My Way) she would have to forfeit her supporting nomination (assuming she got more votes in lead for The Reader than she did in supporting). It's confusing to explain, but it's very likely the way that it went down. Ah...Ok...got it! ( duhhhhhhh ) Sorry for misunderstanding, roxbury! :) And I definitely think In Bruges was one of the year's best. IMO, way more brilliantly subtle in ALL aspects of the film, over the in-your-face-tug-at-your-heartstrings-this-is for-the-Oscar movies such as Ben Button and Slumdog Millionaire ( as I said before, liked them both, just wasn't TOTALLY enamored. ). And I'd choose Death at a Funeral, for some of the same reasons. A really clever, witty, GROWN UP comedy...which, in this day and age of the juvenile satire ( Scary Movie, et al ), is really hard to pull off.
McWolcott		#902	[-]
Posts: 10264 (01/31/09 3:32 PM) The Real American Psycho Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I'd pick In Bruges and RocknRolla over two or three of the best pic nominee's.
Phoebs007		#903	[-]
Posts: 5 (01/31/09 8:42 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I totally agree mc'murder' Wolcott. Bruges and RocknRolla were great. I think the British films should just rule the A.A.'s and screw the Hollywood crap. No, I'm not British..but, face it, they know how to put a movie/show together. Also, their actors are 10x's better.
McWolcott		#904	[-]
Posts: 10269 (01/31/09 10:19 PM) The Real American Psycho Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Seriously, RocknRolla kicked ass on so many levels. Much like In Bruges, overlooked and underappreciated. I like "across the pond" films because they are so outside the box. RocknRolla was hilarious and so smart.
Bjorkrazy		#905	[-]
Posts: 256 (01/31/09 10:46 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	So, I think it's entirely possible that "The Curious Case of Forrest Gump", with its amazingly undeserved 13 nominations, can go home empty-handed. It won't win any of the big 8 (it's lucky to be nominated since it's more Razzie-worthy than Oscar-worthy), Slumdog/TDK can sweep the tech awards.
LKMOSCAR		#906	[-]
Posts: 5820 (01/31/09 10:54 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The DGA's are happening right now......but in more important news, Marisa has gotten her act together.
cginspace		#907	[-]
Posts: 7606 (01/31/09 10:54 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Benjamin Gump is actually considered the most likely upset in this race, oddly enough.
ScarlettaShaker		#908	[-]
Posts: 56 (01/31/09 10:57 PM) I don't get most of the jokes Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	B.B. better get shit. I'm so sick of this film. Saw it, hated it. The English flicks are so much better. Also, the English Actors..and I'm not from England..but, give it up. Also, foreign films are much better than this Hollywood crap. I think Revolutionary Road was WAY better than B.B. and I'd pick the Reader over B.B. without blinking an eye. SO OVER-RATED.
midnightproblay		#909	[-]
Posts: 176 (01/31/09 11:33 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	cginspace wrote: Benjamin Gump is actually considered the most likely upset in this race, oddly enough. Actually, a lot of people have been speculating that liberal Hollywood, in wake of Prop 8, will go with Milk (I personally think this is bullshit because of they were really so politically driven when picking the "best" film there are so many Best Picture winners that would NOT have won). People have even made good cases for The Reader upsetting (surprise noms, British support, dead producers, etc.) I don't think you'd be able to convince me that Frost/Nixon can win, though.
cginspace		#910	[-]
Posts: 7607 (01/31/09 11:51 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Milk is the other possible upset, yet we all know that for all the homo lovers in Hollywood, there are plenty of Ernest Borgnines.
Carboys Desire		#911	[-]
Posts: 4612 (01/31/09 11:55 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Have we discussed this yet?... The conspiracy raging against 'Slumdog Millionaire' Final ballots for the 81st Academy Awards should land in Oscar voters mailboxes beginning today, so it's only natural that the final shots should be fired as well. Most of the damning allegations are being hurled against Fox Searchlight's "Slumdog Millionaire," rather obvious since the film is the unquestioned front-runner and an easy target for rivals. As noted earlier in this column, forces were at work in India trying to disparage Danny Boyle's surprise hit and awards magnet leading to a front page L.A. Times story last Saturday pointing out some of the negative criticism essentially saying the film is a "white man's" vision of a slum-ridden India. Today, a story kicking around since early in the season about the treatment of some of the local Indian child actors reared its ugly head again with allegations that the film's producers and distributors paid them dirt cheap wages and have not been concerned with their welfare. Link and rest of story... http://latimesblogs.latim...09/01/the-conspiracy.html
cginspace		#912	[-]
Posts: 7608 (02/01/09 12:03 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	You know, the idealized "White man's vision" of the slums of India is something I can see. I wouldn't be as fervent as some, but I see it.
SardonicallyIrrelevant		#913	[-]
Posts: 19234 (02/01/09 12:19 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I guess I should watch In Bruges. I must say though, it had one of the worst trailers I've ever seen in my entire life.
Carboys Desire		#914	[-]
Posts: 4613 (02/01/09 12:23 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Yes, you should see it. I don't remember the trailer or what made me go to see it, but it was a very good movie. Hilarious.
Sunnie		#915	[-]
Posts: 393 (02/01/09 12:33 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Button: 'Forrest Gump' Meets 'Titanic' Meets 'Somewhere in Time' meets 'The Notebook' meets (the someday 'Time Traveler's Wife'.) :: yawn ::
Carboys Desire		#916	[-]
Posts: 4614 (02/01/09 1:01 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Slumdog wins the Director's Guild Award. That almost guarantees it will win the Oscar. Over the last 50 years the movie that has won the DGA award has gone on to win the top Academy Award 40 times. Curiously, the DGA Award agrees more often with the best picture category at the Oscars than the academy's own slot for best director, which usually lines up with best picture. Last Edited By: Carboys Desire 02/01/09 1:03 AM. Edited 1 times.
survivorjordancontestant		#917	[-]
Posts: 1768 (02/01/09 3:08 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I don;t know if anyone cares but apparently Kung Fu Panda just sweeped the Oscars equivalent of the animation industry. Wall-E went home empty handed. http://www.variety.com/ar...75&cs=1&nid=2562#
spiccoli		#918	[-]
Posts: 8 (02/01/09 8:28 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Carboys Desire wrote: Have we discussed this yet?... The conspiracy raging against 'Slumdog Millionaire' Final ballots for the 81st Academy Awards should land in Oscar voters mailboxes beginning today, so it's only natural that the final shots should be fired as well. Most of the damning allegations are being hurled against Fox Searchlight's "Slumdog Millionaire," rather obvious since the film is the unquestioned front-runner and an easy target for rivals. As noted earlier in this column, forces were at work in India trying to disparage Danny Boyle's surprise hit and awards magnet leading to a front page L.A. Times story last Saturday pointing out some of the negative criticism essentially saying the film is a "white man's" vision of a slum-ridden India. Today, a story kicking around since early in the season about the treatment of some of the local Indian child actors reared its ugly head again with allegations that the film's producers and distributors paid them dirt cheap wages and have not been concerned with their welfare. Link and rest of story... http://latimesblogs.latim...09/01/the-conspiracy.html Weinstein Factor. He's the executive producer of The Reader. The guy is dirty in terms of campaigning for his movies from the past. Remember Shakespeare in Love that won Best Picture? I read somewhere that Aniston will be there as one of the presenters. Ohh the whole Aniston vs. Angelina/Pitt drama continues. The spotlight will be on them instead of the winners.
Sunnie		#919	[-]
Posts: 400 (02/01/09 10:05 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I read somewhere that Aniston will be there as one of the presenters. Ohh the whole Aniston vs. Angelina/Pitt drama continues. The spotlight will be on them instead of the winners. For like the 1 minute she's up there, maybe...
Gregoire		#920	[-]
Posts: 31192 (02/01/09 10:07 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Jennifer Aniston should have to host the Oscars with Angelina sitting on the front row, glowering at her.

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