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14728 · 03-03-2014, 01:20 AM

Right now I'm watching the oscars with my family. We printed out ballots, and whoever guesses the most right gets 20 bucks (5 dollars from each person) Right now I'm tied in 2nd place

14728 · 03-03-2014, 01:23 AM

Update: thanks to the win of Gravity, we're all tied.

Disturbed Blu 1 · 03-03-2014, 01:28 AM

There's an episode of Fringe in which Walter Bishop destroys a laserdisc player. I thought this was a nice touch.

SammyJankis · 03-03-2014, 01:50 AM

Well, The Great Beauty just won for Best Foreign Film.

14728 · 03-03-2014, 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by SammyJankis

Well, The Great Beauty just won for Best Foreign Film.

I voted that in my oscar contest

SlickDamian · 03-03-2014, 02:21 AM

No surprises so far. Gravity is cleaning up the technical awards.

jw007 · 03-03-2014, 02:43 AM

I predict 12 Years a Slave will win best picture...

Even though Gravity is cleaning all the technical awards.

And I hope best director goes to Cuaron (how could they cut him off when he was just about to talk during the editing award!), but I have a feeling McQueen is going to win it.

I also really loved Her so if that film wins anything, I'd be really happy.

pedromvu · 03-03-2014, 03:02 AM

No mention to Gabriel Axel or Alain Resnais, i guess they were not famous enough, not sure if they have Oscar nominated films, although there probably wasn't time to include Resnais.

Carletty · 03-03-2014, 03:05 AM

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Originally Posted by pedromvu

No mention to Gabriel Axel or Alain Resnais, i guess they were not famous enough, not sure if they have Oscar nominated films, although there probably wasn't time to include Resnais.

Axel won an Oscar for Babette's Feast.

14728 · 03-03-2014, 04:03 AM

Well, the scores are in. My brother won. He gets 15 dollars from the competition, and 14 dollars from our own competition, the lucky bastard.

jayembee · 03-03-2014, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by pedromvu

No mention to Gabriel Axel or Alain Resnais, i guess they were not famous enough, not sure if they have Oscar nominated films, although there probably wasn't time to include Resnais.

It's always iffy when a death occurs close to the Oscar ceremony whether a particular person will get mentioned in the necrology reel. They'll probably get mentioned next year.

I have to say I was surprised to see Jim Kelly mentioned; I had no idea that he'd died.

HyperRealist · 03-03-2014, 04:35 AM

I won 2 tickets to see The Great Beauty at the Erie Art Museum but I'm a recluse. Been trying to give them away.

jayembee · 03-03-2014, 04:35 AM

I confess that I'd hoped that Gravity would win in all of its nominated categories, but I can't say I'm surprised that Blanchett beat out Bullock for Best Actress or that 12 Years a Slave beat Gravity for Best Picture.

Still, I'd say Gravity was the big winner of the night, winning 7 of its 10 nominations.

jw007 · 03-03-2014, 04:46 AM

Gravity won big but 12 Years a Slave won the main award that mattered. I was also extremely happy to see Her win for best original screenplay. They totally got that one right. Cate Blanchett totally deserved it for Blue Jasmine and McConaughey surprised me for best actor in Dallas Buyers Club (I really thought DeCaprio might have won that for The Wolf of Wall Street). It seems like American Hustle didn't win anything, nor did Philomena, Nebraska and Captain Phillips.

Well, Criterion friends, it looks like I'm going to purchase The Great Beauty as a blind buy seeing that it won for best foreign film.

Ausjdm · 03-03-2014, 05:21 AM

La grande bellezza! Can't wait to see it soon!

Was happy for 12 years a Slave winning best picture.

Esquire mag wrote American Hustle was a B rated movie at best ouch.

hoytereden · 03-03-2014, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by jayembee

Generally speaking, it has less to do with whether or not a particular nominee deserves to win than whether another nominee deserves it more. In Burton's case, he probably deserved to win for Spy more than Lee Marvin (the winner) for Cat Ballou, but of the nominees that year, I would've chosen Oskar Werner for Ship of Fools or Rod Steiger for The Pawnbroker over Burton. For Woolf, he lost to Paul Scofield for A Man for All Seasons, and there's absolutely nothing unfathomable about that.

As for Peter O'Toole, he lost to...

Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird, and rightly so.

Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady -- a toss-up, but not unfathomable.

Cliff Robertson for Charly, and rightly so again.

John Wayne for True Grit -- I would've given it to Dustin Hoffman for Midnight Cowboy

Marlon Brando for The Godfather -- I would've given it to either Caine or Olivier for Sleuth

Robert DeNiro for Raging Bull -- and rightly so.

Ben Kingsley for Gandhi -- and rightly so.

Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland. I can't comment on this as I haven't seen the film O'Toole was nominated for (Venus), nor any of the other nominees' films except Blood Diamond (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Well, we're all entitled to our opinions -- and rightly so.

pedromvu · 03-03-2014, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by brandon_260

How is The Long Day Closes not getting talked about more in here? This thing is phenomenal. I understand Throne of Blood, IAMMMMW, and Thief are much more high profile releases from January, but I don't recall much, if any, discussion on this one. The liquidity of the film and they way Terence Davies plays with time is totally entrancing. Hopefully people were just holding off on it for the flash sale and a dialogue on the film opens up in the coming weeks.

I was wondering the same, i just watched it today and found it to be very beautiful and touching in an very unconventional way, i can see why Svet mentions Terence Davies is the Britain's answer to Terrence Malick, now i am very interested on Distant Voices, Still Live, which i was unaware was part of a kind of trilogy of his.

pro-bassoonist · 03-03-2014, 06:30 AM

PACKAGING:

The Hidden Fortress Blu-ray

Have a great week everyone

Pro-B

Schryver · 03-03-2014, 06:52 AM

The Great Beauty is still playing at a Regal theater right by my work. I have seen close to zero foreign films but the Blu-ray review and now the Oscar win convinced me so I plan to see it this week!

Polaroid · 03-03-2014, 09:05 AM

emmanuel lubezki finally got an award! seriously, how did he lose so many times, I mean Hugo beat Tree of Life... how!?

I really am not a fan of the Oscars, they are over rated and often mess up on who they award too, plus you see all the non film buffs crying cause leo hasn't won, yet they ignore people like Lubezki etc lol

This is why I like Cannes etc, they seem to really appreciate every film even if they don't win, and they really celebrate and award those who are deserving.

Hell, look at Lars, he's won big at Canne and so has most his leading ladies (well deserved) yet he will never be appreciated by the masses or at oscars it seems (except for dancer and breaking which were at oscars, yet lost :/)

Also glad to see Her got some recognition as it was superb.

03-03-2014, 04:46 AM	#96174
jw007 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jul 2012 Location:Between PA, NJ, FL, and the Middle East Blu-ray collection:628 Blu-ray reviews:2 Trading Score:5	Gravity won big but 12 Years a Slave won the main award that mattered. I was also extremely happy to see Her win for best original screenplay. They totally got that one right. Cate Blanchett totally deserved it for Blue Jasmine and McConaughey surprised me for best actor in Dallas Buyers Club (I really thought DeCaprio might have won that for The Wolf of Wall Street). It seems like American Hustle didn't win anything, nor did Philomena, Nebraska and Captain Phillips. Well, Criterion friends, it looks like I'm going to purchase The Great Beauty as a blind buy seeing that it won for best foreign film. Last edited by jw007; 03-03-2014 at 04:50 AM.

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03-03-2014, 01:20 AM	#96161
14728 Expert Member Member since:Sep 2012 4K collection:7 Blu-ray collection:367 DVD collection:195 Trading Score:11	Right now I'm watching the oscars with my family. We printed out ballots, and whoever guesses the most right gets 20 bucks (5 dollars from each person) Right now I'm tied in 2nd place

03-03-2014, 01:23 AM	#96162
14728 Expert Member Member since:Sep 2012 4K collection:7 Blu-ray collection:367 DVD collection:195 Trading Score:11	Update: thanks to the win of Gravity, we're all tied.

03-03-2014, 01:50 AM	#96164
SammyJankis Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jun 2010 Location:Austin Blu-ray collection:664	Well, The Great Beauty just won for Best Foreign Film.

03-03-2014, 02:21 AM	#96166
SlickDamian Expert Member Member since:Sep 2010 Location:Canada 4K collection:4 Blu-ray collection:642 DVD collection:160	No surprises so far. Gravity is cleaning up the technical awards.

03-03-2014, 02:43 AM	#96167
jw007 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jul 2012 Location:Between PA, NJ, FL, and the Middle East Blu-ray collection:628 Blu-ray reviews:2 Trading Score:5	I predict 12 Years a Slave will win best picture... Even though Gravity is cleaning all the technical awards. And I hope best director goes to Cuaron (how could they cut him off when he was just about to talk during the editing award!), but I have a feeling McQueen is going to win it. I also really loved Her so if that film wins anything, I'd be really happy.

03-03-2014, 03:02 AM	#96168
pedromvu Blu-ray Guru Member since:Nov 2010 Location:Mexico 4K collection:146 Blu-ray collection:1222 DVD collection:35 MA collection:8 Digital collection:12 iTunes collection:12 Trading Score:52	No mention to Gabriel Axel or Alain Resnais, i guess they were not famous enough, not sure if they have Oscar nominated films, although there probably wasn't time to include Resnais.

03-03-2014, 04:03 AM	#96170
14728 Expert Member Member since:Sep 2012 4K collection:7 Blu-ray collection:367 DVD collection:195 Trading Score:11	Well, the scores are in. My brother won. He gets 15 dollars from the competition, and 14 dollars from our own competition, the lucky bastard.

03-03-2014, 04:35 AM	#96172
HyperRealist Blu-ray Ninja Top contributor Member since:Nov 2009 Location:PA Blu-ray collection:110 DVD collection:96 Trading Score:48	I won 2 tickets to see The Great Beauty at the Erie Art Museum but I'm a recluse. Been trying to give them away.

03-03-2014, 04:35 AM	#96173
jayembee Blu-ray Champion Top contributor Member since:Jul 2010 Location:A Drug-Infested Den 4K collection:521 Blu-ray collection:4202	I confess that I'd hoped that Gravity would win in all of its nominated categories, but I can't say I'm surprised that Blanchett beat out Bullock for Best Actress or that 12 Years a Slave beat Gravity for Best Picture. Still, I'd say Gravity was the big winner of the night, winning 7 of its 10 nominations.

03-03-2014, 05:21 AM	#96175
Ausjdm Active Member Member since:Jul 2013 Location:DC Trading Score:7	La grande bellezza! Can't wait to see it soon! Was happy for 12 years a Slave winning best picture. Esquire mag wrote American Hustle was a B rated movie at best ouch.

03-03-2014, 06:30 AM	#96178
pro-bassoonist Blu-ray reviewer Top contributor Member since:Jul 2007 Location:X Home Theater Gallery:47 4K collection:- Blu-ray collection:- DVD collection:- Blu-ray reviews: 31 Trading Score:23	PACKAGING: The Hidden Fortress Blu-ray Have a great week everyone Pro-B

03-03-2014, 06:52 AM	#96179
Schryver Member Member since:Dec 2013 Location:Redondo Beach, CA Blu-ray collection:152	The Great Beauty is still playing at a Regal theater right by my work. I have seen close to zero foreign films but the Blu-ray review and now the Oscar win convinced me so I plan to see it this week!

03-03-2014, 09:05 AM	#96180
Polaroid Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Nov 2013 Location:Norwich, UK	emmanuel lubezki finally got an award! seriously, how did he lose so many times, I mean Hugo beat Tree of Life... how!? I really am not a fan of the Oscars, they are over rated and often mess up on who they award too, plus you see all the non film buffs crying cause leo hasn't won, yet they ignore people like Lubezki etc lol This is why I like Cannes etc, they seem to really appreciate every film even if they don't win, and they really celebrate and award those who are deserving. Hell, look at Lars, he's won big at Canne and so has most his leading ladies (well deserved) yet he will never be appreciated by the masses or at oscars it seems (except for dancer and breaking which were at oscars, yet lost :/) Also glad to see Her got some recognition as it was superb.

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