The 2015 Oscars Thread

Hound of Love · 15/01/15 - 16:13

JamieHT wrote: »

Going by the Golden Globes it'll be Michael or Eddie.

Agreed.

Also agree with you regarding Keira Knightley.

anyonefortennis · 15/01/15 - 16:15

Matt_James wrote: »

Steve Carell for best actor!!
Gutted Lana Del Rey's Once upon a Dream isn't even nominated?!

It's not original. The melody is taken from Sleeping Beauty.

Gort · 15/01/15 - 16:25

Super Frog wrote: »

I'm sad that Jake Gyllenhaal got snubbed, he was fantastic in Nightcrawler.

Agreed. Even though I think Michael Keaton should win the Oscar, Gyllenhaal should have at least got nominated for his performance in Nightcrawler. Before I saw Birdman, Gyllenhaal was my choice.

JamieHT · 15/01/15 - 17:13

anyonefortennis wrote: »

It's not original. The melody is taken from Sleeping Beauty.

And most of the lyrics from the Disney film.

JamieHT · 15/01/15 - 17:14

Hound of Love wrote: »

Agreed.

Also agree with you regarding Keira Knightley.

Just the trailer 'you do not have to do it alone' shows how wooden she can be.

MARTYM8 · 15/01/15 - 17:24

JamieHT wrote: »

Just the trailer 'you do not have to do it alone' shows how wooden she can be.

To be fair she is playing a posh stiff upper lip Cambridge mathematician from the Home Counties in the 1940s. The whole point of her performance is controlled emotion and the quiet struggle of a woman in a man’s world.

Others may disagree – but Keira is clearly nominated for a reason and I liked the film and her performance in it. She won’t win – as I presume Patricia Arquette will add to the Boyhood bag of awards.

anyonefortennis · 15/01/15 - 17:25

MARTYM8 wrote: »

To be fair she is playing a posh stiff upper lip Cambridge mathematician from the Home Counties in the 1940s. The whole point of her performance is controlled emotion and the quiet struggle of a woman in a man’s world.

Others may disagree – but Keira is clearly nominated for a reason and I liked the film and her performance in it. She won’t win – as I presume Patricia Arquette will add to the Boyhood bag of awards.

I thought she was terrific in Imitation Game. A well deserved nomination.

Gellymiss · 15/01/15 - 17:29

Matt_James wrote: »

Steve Carell for best actor!!
Gutted Lana Del Rey's Once upon a Dream isn't even nominated?!

It's Tchaikovsky who wrote it for Sleeping Beauty ballet. Then pinched by Disney:)

JamieHT · 15/01/15 - 17:35

MARTYM8 wrote: »

To be fair she is playing a posh stiff upper lip Cambridge mathematician from the Home Counties in the 1940s. The whole point of her performance is controlled emotion and the quiet struggle of a woman in a man’s world.

Others may disagree – but Keira is clearly nominated for a reason and I liked the film and her performance in it. She won’t win – as I presume Patricia Arquette will add to the Boyhood bag of awards.

I understand the role completely but I just don't think she pulled it off. She was better than most things I've seen her in but not Oscar-worthy by any stretch. As I said it may have been a poor year for choice.

Muttley76 · 15/01/15 - 18:20

Odd that Foxcatcher got nominated for best director but not best film.

TCD1975 · 15/01/15 - 18:29

The Grand Budapest Hotel was my favourite film of the last year, but it doesn't seem to be getting the attention it deserves, my guess being, due to the fact it didn't come out in the last couple of months (unlike quite a few of the films that are currently getting a lot of award hype).

anyonefortennis · 15/01/15 - 18:34

TCD1975 wrote: »

The Grand Budapest Hotel was my favourite film of the last year, but it doesn't seem to be getting the attention it deserves, my guess being, due to the fact it didn't come out in the last couple of months (unlike quite a few of the films that are currently getting a lot of award hype).

It got 9 Oscar nominations.

Muttley76 · 15/01/15 - 18:34

TCD1975 wrote: »

The Grand Budapest Hotel was my favourite film of the last year, but it doesn't seem to be getting the attention it deserves

it has the joint highest number of oscar nominations, including picture, director, and and screenplay. It would have been nice for Fiennes to be nominated, but that aside, it's hard to see how it could have gotten more attention?

i feared at the start of awards season it would be overlooked, but it really hasn't been, quite the opposite in fact....

Muttley76 · 15/01/15 - 18:35

anyonefortennis wrote: »

It got 9 Oscar nominations.

come on now, it was robbed of a nomination in the documentary short category, and you know it.....;-)

anyonefortennis · 15/01/15 - 18:38

Muttley76 wrote: »

come on now, it was robbed of a nomination in the documentary short category, and you know it.....;-)

lol

Were there subtitles in the film? Then it should have definitely been included in the Best Foreign Language Film category as well.

Muttley76 · 15/01/15 - 18:42

full list of nominees:

Best picture:
American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best director:
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro G Inarritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

Best actor:
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

Best actress:
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Best supporting actor:
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
JK Simmons, Whiplash

Best supporting actress:
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

Best adapted screenplay:
American Sniper
The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best original screenplay:
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler

Best animated feature:
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Best animated short:
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Feast
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life

Best cinematography:
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
Mr Turner
Unbroken

Best costume design:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Mr Turner

Best documentary feature:
CitizenFour
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

Best documentary short:
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
White Earth

Best film editing:
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Whiplash

Best foreign language film:
Ida (Poland)
Leviathan (Russia)
Tangerines (Estonia)
Timbuktu (Mauritania)
Wild Tales (Argentina)

Best live action short:
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)
Parvaneh
The Phone Call

Best make-up & hairstyling:
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy

Best music:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr Turner
The Theory of Everything

Best production design:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr Turner

Best 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

Best sound editing:
American Sniper
Birdman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken

Best sound mixing:
American Sniper
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken
Whiplash

Best 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

Muttley76 · 15/01/15 - 18:43

anyonefortennis wrote: »

lol Were there subtitles in the film? Then it should have definitely been included in the Best Foreign Language Film category as well.

it featured an immigrant, so, you know, it was techically foreign.....;-)

anyonefortennis · 15/01/15 - 18:43

Can you put each category title in bold please. It looks better.

;-)

anyonefortennis · 15/01/15 - 18:44

Muttley76 wrote: »

it featured an immigrant, so, you know, it was techically foreign.....;-)

lol

And didn't someone yodel in it? Then a Best Song nod should have been a shoo in.

Muttley76 · 15/01/15 - 18:45

The Ambassador wrote: »

Twitter Reacts to All-White Acting Nominations

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-twitter-reacts-all-white-764030?utm_source=twitter

Hmm, the academy has its issues for sure, but this year Selma and its supporters have only Paramount to blame, not the academy. I don't think I've ever witnsessed such a keystone cops performance of an awards camapagin before ever.

Muttley76 · 15/01/15 - 18:46

anyonefortennis wrote: »

Can you put each category title in bold please. It looks better. ;-)

cheeky bugger....:p

fefster · 15/01/15 - 18:47

Matt_James wrote: »

Steve Carell for best actor!!
Gutted Lana Del Rey's Once upon a Dream isn't even nominated?!

It was that horrific Golden Globes dress - they couldn't risk an Oscar nom turning up in something so awful

anyonefortennis · 15/01/15 - 18:48

fefster wrote: »

It was that horrific Golden Globes dress - they couldn't risk an Oscar nom turning up in something so awful

They would confuse her with Priscilla Presleys seat filler.

Muttley76 · 15/01/15 - 18:50

anyonefortennis wrote: »

lol And didn't someone yodel in it? Then a Best Song nod should have been a shoo in.

there was sound, were was the sound nominations?

anyonefortennis · 15/01/15 - 18:51

Muttley76 wrote: »

there was sound, were was the sound nominations?

They woz robbed I tell thee, robbed.

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