2013 Oscar Discussion Discussion Thread

[Britnasty]

My Predictions as I have now seen all Best Picture Nominees:

Best Picture: Argo
Best Director: David O'Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
Best Animated Feature Film: Paranorman (Sam Fell & Chris Butler)
Best Cinematography: Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
Best Costume Design: Anna Karenina (Jacqueline Durran)
Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugarman (Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn)
Best Documentary Short: Open Heart (Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern)
Best Film Editing: Argo (William Goldenberg)
Foreign Language Film: Amour
Best Makeup: The Hobbit (Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane)
Best Original Score: Life of Pi (Mychael Danna)
Best Original Song: Skyfall (Skyfall) [Adele & Paul Epworth]
Best Production Design: Anna Karenina (Sarah Greenwood & Katie Spencer)
Best Animated Short Film: Paperman (John Kahrs)
Best Live Action Short Film: Curfew (Shawn Christensen)
Best Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty (Paul N.J. Ottosson)
Best Sound Mixing: Les Misérables (Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes)
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook (David O'Russell)
Best Original Screenplay: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)

and that is that.

[pagemaster]

Originally Posted by Britnasty

My Predictions as I have now seen all Best Picture Nominees:

Best Picture: Argo
Best Director: David O'Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
Best Animated Feature Film: Paranorman (Sam Fell & Chris Butler)
Best Cinematography: Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)
Best Costume Design: Anna Karenina (Jacqueline Durran)
Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugarman (Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn)
Best Documentary Short: Open Heart (Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern)
Best Film Editing: Argo (William Goldenberg)
Foreign Language Film: Amour
Best Makeup: The Hobbit (Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane)
Best Original Score: Life of Pi (Mychael Danna)
Best Original Song: Skyfall (Skyfall) [Adele & Paul Epworth]
Best Production Design: Anna Karenina (Sarah Greenwood & Katie Spencer)
Best Animated Short Film: Paperman (John Kahrs)
Best Live Action Short Film: Curfew (Shawn Christensen)
Best Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty (Paul N.J. Ottosson)
Best Sound Mixing: Les Misérables (Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes)
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook (David O'Russell)
Best Original Screenplay: Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)

and that is that.

You are aware that the last film to win Best Picture without a director nom is Driving Miss Daisy?

[Snicket]

Originally Posted by MEB

How about you post your picks for every category, like I did?!

Nobody else have the balls to try to pick them all?

Mark

U mad bro?

I'll post my picks when I have the time to sit down and look at everything. Oscar signs are way easy to read, people just ignore them.

They are also giving way too much precedence of though to the director snub. Ask yourself what's the bigger upset of precedence? Not being nominated for best director or sweeping all precursor events and still losing.

Argo wins best picture.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by pagemaster

You are aware that the last film to win Best Picture without a director nom is Driving Miss Daisy?

And?

[Midnight Rambler]

I predict an evening of chaos, contempt, and utter disrespect ... depending on one's point of view of course.

[King Troll]

Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

It's a popularity contest, every year, not really a competition or race. Bigelow is going to be forgotten about - her torture movie is not going to endear her to the Academy, any more than another Saw movie would.

It's always interesting what the Academy is thinking, but they are not the entire world's movie audience, nor do they represent arbiters of taste...they put on a nice party for the industry, and that's about it. The losers don't get kicked out of the movie business.

Punch yourself in the face.

[Cinemach]

Here's an oft-hilarious look at an Academy member's ballot (he's an unidentified director):

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...-ballot-422546

I actually would vote the same way in many of the categories, funnily enough, though of course not the same method of thought on many of them.

[MEB]

Originally Posted by Cinemach

Here's an oft-hilarious look at an Academy member's ballot (he's an unidentified director):

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...-ballot-422546

I actually would vote the same way in many of the categories, funnily enough, though of course not the same method of thought on many of them.

That guy and I are in agreement on quite a few of the picks!

Although, he's a bit too rough on Argo by calling it a "whole lot of nothing"! Argo is easily one of the top 5 films of 2012. It's just not going to win any Oscars.

Mark

[MrBlonde]

Best Picture: Lincoln
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
Best Director: Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Best Adapted Screenplay: David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Best Animated Film: Wreck-It Ralph
Best Foreign Film: Amour
Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins (Skyfall)
Best Editing: William Goldenberg (Argo)
Best Production Design: Rick Carter & Jim Erickson (Lincoln)
Best Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran (Anna Karenina)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Lisa Westcott & Julie Dartnell (Les Miserables)
Best Original Score: Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)
Best Original Song: Adele & Paul Epworth (Skyfall)
Best Sound Mixing: Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson & Sminon Hayes (Les Miserable)
Best Sound Editing: Paul N.J. Ottosson (Zero Dark Thirty)
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Best Documentary, Feature: Searching for Sugar Man
Best Documentary, Short: Open Heart
Best Short Film, Animated: Paperman
Best Short Film, Live Action: Asad

[Ernest Rister]

An anonymous director and Academy member fills out his Oscar ballot -- and lets us in on what he's choosing and why. Highly entertaining piece, a must-read.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...-ballot-422546

[Cinemach]

Originally Posted by Snicket

Oh, nobody here really cares about them in that way, to us it's just all fun and games.

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I agree, and also think the idea of films being held in competition like this to be sort of silly.

Yeah the Oscars are very much fun and games, and I love to watch for the glamour and class of it all; but it isn't and shouldn't be considered the end-all and be-all of moviemaking.

I do appreciate them as a celebration of American filmmaking though.

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

An anonymous director and Academy member fills out his Oscar ballot -- and lets us in on what he's choosing and why. Highly entertaining piece, a must-read.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...-ballot-422546

That piece is almost satirical, even if I agree with many of his choices ultimately!

[stvn1974]

I haven't seen any of the films nominated so that makes me qualified to pick Lincoln as this year's best picture winner.

[Aragorn the Elfstone]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I agree, and also think the idea of films being held in competition like this to be sort of silly.

This is one of my favorite "Oscar moments" where Hoffman calls out the very idea of competition in the arts. Skip to 3:44 in.

Dustin Hoffman winning Best Actor for "Kramer vs. Kramer" - YouTube

Truly inspiring speech. I've actually never seen that before.

And LOL at Johnny Carson. "Day 164 of the Oscar telecast."

[Tony208]

The oscar nominees have made over $300 million in box office since being nominated. could start a trend of moving oscar bait to December

[spanky87]

Here are two of my favorite oscar acceptance speeches. I'd like to see them become more classy or short and sweet like these ones. It's always annoying to see the actors make an embarrassing spectacle of themselves, and then start to 'act' during their speeches. These are two good examples of how to accept an oscar.

Audrey Hepburn winning an Oscar® for "Roman Holiday" - YouTube

Joe Pesci winning Best Supporting Actor for "Good Fellas" - YouTube

I can't wait to see Anne Hathaway's over the top acceptance speech with the hyperventilating, crying, pretending to act speechless and surprised.

[Tony208]

Some nice pics of our oscar nominees

[Moviefan1203]

Originally Posted by spanky87

Here are two of my favorite oscar acceptance speeches. I'd like to see them become more classy or short and sweet like these ones. It's always annoying to see the actors make an embarrassing spectacle of themselves, and then start to 'act' during their speeches. These are two good examples of how to accept an oscar.

Audrey Hepburn winning an Oscar® for "Roman Holiday" - YouTube

Joe Pesci winning Best Supporting Actor for "Good Fellas" - YouTube

I can't wait to see Anne Hathaway's over the top acceptance speech with the hyperventilating, crying, pretending to act speechless and surprised.

I don't know man, Pesci didn't seem very thankful. I like to see them thank the people that helped them along the way. I always like to see acceptance speeches show humility and some humbleness. But you are right, from time to time to do see someone go over the top. Tom Hanks' win for Philadelphia and Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby are two of my favorites.

[blu blood]

Originally Posted by King Troll

I hate how every year there's that one tor de force movie made ONLY to won Oscars (Lincoln, kings speech, artist) I'm happy that this year a good movie will win. go Argo yay

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Your implication that King's Speech and The Artist were not great movies hurts my head...

[Impossible]

The 2 I enjoyed the most were Argo and Pi though I still haven't seen Playbook yet.

I would go for Argo for best film though.

[SpartanX]

Originally Posted by blu blood

Your implication that King's Speech and The Artist were not great movies hurts my head...

Having trouble contemplating that someone has a different opinion than yours?