Thanks. What matters is that who will be the first to win an Oscar? Hardy, Fassbender or DiCaprio?
We were having a discussion about Hunger (Fassbender), Bronson (Hardy) and Revolutionary Road (DiCaprio) when Nick said he was 99.9% sure that DiCaprio will win an Oscar for Revolutionary Road. I said Fassbender was born to be an Oscar magnet, so he will probably get it before DiCaprio whenever that may be. Third colleague disagreed by saying Tom Hardy had a better chance than both Fassbender and DiCaprio.
That's when we made the bet. This was around five years ago. It'll stand until one of them wins.
Lol! Sounds like brilliant fun!:D Difficult one to call, mind. My heart says Fassbender; my head says Leo; and the rest of my body says that Hardy probably needs a couple of decent films under his belt for him to wipe Bane off our collective memory. ;-):p:kitty:
There will be huge pressure on him to win for The Revenant, especially off the back of Birdman's Oscar success (I wonder if it'll matter that Keaton missed out on Best Actor). Aside from Macbeth, Fassbender also has Jobs (though I think he looks terribly miscast).
There are plenty of other A list actors who don't have lead Oscars that have notable movies coming out this year too like Jake Gyllenhaal, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling.
Inarritu has just won so I don't he will strike twice in succession. The subject matter is not really Oscar bait material either.
Inarritu has just won so I don't he will strike twice in succession. The subject matter is not really Oscar bait material either.
Maybe not as a major contender for BP again but I still expect The Revenant to gain nominations. And it maybe not be Oscar bait in the purest sense but if the performances are genuinely great, Leo and Hardy will get nods. Probably because the voters may want a change from the usual biopic/characters with disability performances.
Maybe not as a major contender for BP again but I still expect The Revenant to gain nominations. And it maybe not be Oscar bait in the purest sense but if the performances are genuinely great, Leo and Hardy will get nods. Probably because the voters may want a change from the usual biopic/characters with disability performances.
I doubt it. Westerns aren't usually that popular with the Academy.
Dicpario will be likely be one of those eventual oscar winners who wins for it for the wrong performance. He will be an overdue pity win. Like Kate Winslet and Julianne Moore.
Or Al Pacino. An Oscar for Scent Of A Woman? I still shake my head.
For some reasons I was so lukewarm towards the Oscars this year. Slept through the whole show and didn't bother watching the replay - especially after knowing that Boyhood flopped
That said, I am happy for Moore. Finally. I feel bad for Keaton as well.
For some reasons I was so lukewarm towards the Oscars this year. Slept through the whole show and didn't bother watching the replay - especially after knowing that Boyhood flopped
That said, I am happy for Moore. Finally. I feel bad for Keaton as well.
The Oscars have been rather bland and tedious for more than a few years now, haven't watched it since 2000 but did catch some of it this year as I never sleep before a flight, Redmayne was a WTF moment, never been enamoured by his acting, Birdsong would have been better without his presence.
Went to the Oscars once as a guest of a past nominee and that was back in 1995, Letterman was host and you had winners such as Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump and Jessica Lange for Blue Sky, Peter Capaldi won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short that year. Never saw a man look so happy, like he had the keys to the sweet shop. Coincidently Capaldis short tied with another short called Trevor for the Oscar
Twenty years later the show is unimaginative, the nominees on the most bland and the winners mostly unworthy of the Oscar.
I thought the presenter done alright. I think the stars were initially not into his jokes because they wanted to get through the early non heavy awards and then seemed more receptive to his jokes in the second half.
On Selma, when was the film released? If it was just recently, shouldn't it have been considered for next years Oscars instead? I'm pretty sure the English Patient was released in February/March 1996 and it won a whole bunch of Oscars in 1997, not the 1996 one.
On Selma, when was the film released? If it was just recently, shouldn't it have been considered for next years Oscars instead? I'm pretty sure the English Patient was released in February/March 1996 and it won a whole bunch of Oscars in 1997, not the 1996 one.
Films released in the US at the end of the year (and therefore within the terms of Oscar eligibility) are often not released in the UK until the start of the following year. This is why the BAFTA eligibility window ends around March rather than at the stroke of midnight on 31 December.
The English Patient won awards in 1997 because it was released in 1996 (in the US; it was February 1997 in the UK).
Films released in the US at the end of the year (and therefore within the terms of Oscar eligibility) are often not released in the UK until the start of the following year. This is why the BAFTA eligibility window ends around March rather than at the stroke of midnight on 31 December.
The English Patient won awards in 1997 because it was released in 1996 (in the US; it was February 1997 in the UK).
I looked it up after posting my post and I noticed it said Feb 1997 as the UK release date but I used to work in cinema at the time and I thought it was a Feb 96 date and maybe it was and whoever put it as 97 did so because that was the year when it won the Oscars and they got mixed up?
I could be wrong but I really don't remember it being an early 1997 film.
I think we can safely say DiCaprio will never win one unless it's an honorary Oscar.
I am pretty confident he will win one eventually, actually. ;-)
He is hardly on his last legs or anything...:p
When you look at the performances he lost out to, it's pretty understandable why he didn't win, imho. In the best actor category, he lost out to Matthew McConaughey for the Dallas Buyers Club,Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland, and Jamie Foxx for Ray. Now personally I would have given it to him over Foxx, but only by a narrow margin. They are all really strong winners for me. Then in supporting actor category he lost out to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive, and that year I'd say it's pretty shocking in retrospect that Ralph Fiennes didn't win for Schindler's List.
I think he has just been unlucky thus far to have tough competition, and I think his time will come.
If he gets to eight nominations and no win like Peter O'Toole, then he can start to grumble....:D
I am pretty confident he will win one eventually, actually. ;-)
He is hardly on his last legs or anything...:p
When you look at the performances he lost out to, it's pretty understandable why he didn't win, imho. In the best actor category, he lost out to Matthew McConaughey for the Dallas Buyers Club,Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland, and Jamie Foxx for Ray. Now personally I would have given it to him over Foxx, but only by a narrow margin. They are all really strong winners for me. Then in supporting actor category he lost out to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive, and that year I'd say it's pretty shocking in retrospect that Ralph Fiennes didn't win for Schindler's List.
I think he has just been unlucky thus far to have tough competition, and I think his time will come.
If he gets to eight nominations and no win like Peter O'Toole, then he can start to grumble....:D
Leo is to play a character with multiple personality disorder in The Crowded Room. Billy Milligan was the first person to be acquitted of a crime using multiple personality disorder as a defence. Kerching!! Osca ca ca ca.
Leo is to play a character with multiple personality disorder in The Crowded Room. Billy Milligan was the first person to be acquitted of a crime using multiple personality disorder as a defence. Kerching!! Osca ca ca ca.
Damn, you beat me to it, lol!:D:D Oscar-bait! Oscar-bait!:D Personally, it will test his range which is what he needs to justify an OScar win and not one given to him because 1)he is due one or 2)for the wrong role. Also, I often think that these days he plays different roles in the same way with very little variation between one and the other. So I wasn't really surprised he didn't win for Wolf. There wasn't much of a character to the role to play, tbh.
ETA: So the question is which Oscars will this film be targeting: 2016 or 2017? I must admit I get really freaked typing out dates that are nearing 2020.
Damn, you beat me to it, lol!:D:D Oscar-bait! Oscar-bait!:D Personally, it will test his range which is what he needs to justify an OScar win and not one given to him because 1)he is due one or 2)for the wrong role. Also, I often think that these days he plays different roles in the same way with very little variation between one and the other. So I wasn't really surprised he didn't win for Wolf. There wasn't much of a character to the role to play, tbh.
ETA: So the question is which Oscars will this film be targeting: 2016 or 2017? I must admit I get really freaked typing out dates that are nearing 2020.
This film could end up being a car crash. A lot of those films featuring people with multiple personality disorder are cringeworthy.
ETA: So the question is which Oscars will this film be targeting: 2016 or 2017? I must admit I get really freaked typing out dates that are nearing 2020.
2018, I'm willing to bet. Well, during the Oscars in February 2019*. In pre-production at the moment for DiCaprio:
Mean Business on North Ganson Street -- adaptation of S. Craig Zahler's crime novel
Blood on Snow -- adaptation of Jo Nesbo's crime novel, originally published under Nesbo's other pen name, Tom Johansen.
Not yet in pre-production, but are showing signs it'll enter soon:
The Ballad of Richard Jewell -- adaptation of Marie Brenner's magazine article
Satori -- adaptation of Don Winslow's crime novel
Damn, you beat me to it, lol!:D:D Oscar-bait! Oscar-bait!:D Personally, it will test his range which is what he needs to justify an OScar win and not one given to him because 1)he is due one or 2)for the wrong role. Also, I often think that these days he plays different roles in the same way with very little variation between one and the other. So I wasn't really surprised he didn't win for Wolf. There wasn't much of a character to the role to play, tbh.
ETA: So the question is which Oscars will this film be targeting: 2016 or 2017? I must admit I get really freaked typing out dates that are nearing 2020.
I think you make a good point here, just lately I think his performances have lacked variety.
I think you make a good point here, just lately I think his performances have lacked variety.
Everytime I see him in a movie it's like watching a boy in a mans body. His voice is too boyish to play characters like Jay Gatsby, Howard Hughes and others. He sounds even worse when he starts shouting in films like Wolf Street, Revolutionary Road, J Edgar, Django Unchained and Shutter Island. He never convinces me he is these characters in his movies. Not sure he has the ability to go deep into a role. It's all surface showy acting.
Everytime I see him in a movie it's like watching a boy in a mans body. His voice is too boyish to play characters like Jay Gatsby, Howard Hughes and others. He sounds even worse when he starts shouting in films like Wolf Street, Revolutionary Road, J Edgar, Django Unchained and Shutter Island. He never convinces me he is these characters in his movies. Not sure he has the ability to go deep into a role. It's all surface showy acting.
Completely agree. Unfortunately for him his youthful looks are wrong for his career.
I looked it up after posting my post and I noticed it said Feb 1997 as the UK release date but I used to work in cinema at the time and I thought it was a Feb 96 date and maybe it was and whoever put it as 97 did so because that was the year when it won the Oscars and they got mixed up?
I could be wrong but I really don't remember it being an early 1997 film.
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Lol! Sounds like brilliant fun!:D Difficult one to call, mind. My heart says Fassbender; my head says Leo; and the rest of my body says that Hardy probably needs a couple of decent films under his belt for him to wipe Bane off our collective memory. ;-):p:kitty:
Inarritu has just won so I don't he will strike twice in succession. The subject matter is not really Oscar bait material either.
Maybe not as a major contender for BP again but I still expect The Revenant to gain nominations. And it maybe not be Oscar bait in the purest sense but if the performances are genuinely great, Leo and Hardy will get nods. Probably because the voters may want a change from the usual biopic/characters with disability performances.
I doubt it. Westerns aren't usually that popular with the Academy.
J-Law has teamed up with David O'Russell again for a film called Joy. Playing a woman who created The Miracle Mop. A typical rags to ritches tale.
Or Al Pacino. An Oscar for Scent Of A Woman? I still shake my head.
That said, I am happy for Moore. Finally. I feel bad for Keaton as well.
The Oscars have been rather bland and tedious for more than a few years now, haven't watched it since 2000 but did catch some of it this year as I never sleep before a flight, Redmayne was a WTF moment, never been enamoured by his acting, Birdsong would have been better without his presence.
Went to the Oscars once as a guest of a past nominee and that was back in 1995, Letterman was host and you had winners such as Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump and Jessica Lange for Blue Sky, Peter Capaldi won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short that year. Never saw a man look so happy, like he had the keys to the sweet shop. Coincidently Capaldis short tied with another short called Trevor for the Oscar
Twenty years later the show is unimaginative, the nominees on the most bland and the winners mostly unworthy of the Oscar.
On Selma, when was the film released? If it was just recently, shouldn't it have been considered for next years Oscars instead? I'm pretty sure the English Patient was released in February/March 1996 and it won a whole bunch of Oscars in 1997, not the 1996 one.
The English Patient won awards in 1997 because it was released in 1996 (in the US; it was February 1997 in the UK).
I looked it up after posting my post and I noticed it said Feb 1997 as the UK release date but I used to work in cinema at the time and I thought it was a Feb 96 date and maybe it was and whoever put it as 97 did so because that was the year when it won the Oscars and they got mixed up?
I could be wrong but I really don't remember it being an early 1997 film.
https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/first-look-at-eddie-redmayne-as-the-danish-girl-112185097057.html
Looks like another Oscar nom is in the bag next year. Or else it could be unintentionally funny.
lol
Looks a bit like Tootsie!
I am pretty confident he will win one eventually, actually. ;-)
He is hardly on his last legs or anything...:p
When you look at the performances he lost out to, it's pretty understandable why he didn't win, imho. In the best actor category, he lost out to Matthew McConaughey for the Dallas Buyers Club,Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland, and Jamie Foxx for Ray. Now personally I would have given it to him over Foxx, but only by a narrow margin. They are all really strong winners for me. Then in supporting actor category he lost out to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive, and that year I'd say it's pretty shocking in retrospect that Ralph Fiennes didn't win for Schindler's List.
I think he has just been unlucky thus far to have tough competition, and I think his time will come.
If he gets to eight nominations and no win like Peter O'Toole, then he can start to grumble....:D
Leo is to play a character with multiple personality disorder in The Crowded Room. Billy Milligan was the first person to be acquitted of a crime using multiple personality disorder as a defence. Kerching!! Osca ca ca ca.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a632187/leonardo-dicaprio-to-play-multiple-personality-disorder-role.html
Damn, you beat me to it, lol!:D:D Oscar-bait! Oscar-bait!:D Personally, it will test his range which is what he needs to justify an OScar win and not one given to him because 1)he is due one or 2)for the wrong role. Also, I often think that these days he plays different roles in the same way with very little variation between one and the other. So I wasn't really surprised he didn't win for Wolf. There wasn't much of a character to the role to play, tbh.
ETA: So the question is which Oscars will this film be targeting: 2016 or 2017? I must admit I get really freaked typing out dates that are nearing 2020.
This film could end up being a car crash. A lot of those films featuring people with multiple personality disorder are cringeworthy.
2018, I'm willing to bet. Well, during the Oscars in February 2019*. In pre-production at the moment for DiCaprio:
Mean Business on North Ganson Street -- adaptation of S. Craig Zahler's crime novel
Blood on Snow -- adaptation of Jo Nesbo's crime novel, originally published under Nesbo's other pen name, Tom Johansen.
Not yet in pre-production, but are showing signs it'll enter soon:
The Ballad of Richard Jewell -- adaptation of Marie Brenner's magazine article
Satori -- adaptation of Don Winslow's crime novel
*It is freaky to see it nearing 2020.
I think you make a good point here, just lately I think his performances have lacked variety.
Everytime I see him in a movie it's like watching a boy in a mans body. His voice is too boyish to play characters like Jay Gatsby, Howard Hughes and others. He sounds even worse when he starts shouting in films like Wolf Street, Revolutionary Road, J Edgar, Django Unchained and Shutter Island. He never convinces me he is these characters in his movies. Not sure he has the ability to go deep into a role. It's all surface showy acting.
It definitely came out in March 1997 in the UK.
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/afcdb391e7a343c19b9d1e94f50105e8
A February 1996 release date would have been around the same time as Jumanji, Sense & Sensibility and Trainspotting.