2013 Oscar Discussion Discussion Thread

[Spicoli]

Originally Posted by MEB

Congrats to Argo for the 3 Oscars, including Best Picture. And congrats to Life of Pi (my second-favorite film of the year) for winning the most Oscars of the night!

I didn't do as well as I did last year with my guesses. Only 13 correct out of 24. Barely 50%. Good thing I don't gamble on my Oscar picks!

Mark

I really like you said "guesses" dunno why?

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Almost just goes to show if you play someone who really existed in real life you will win a Oscar. Or base it on true events from life.

Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles
Daniel Day Lewis - Abraham Lincoln
Reese Witherspoon - June Cash
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote
Sean Penn - Harvey Milk

I'm sure there's a whole ton of others, but almost seems they guarantee it.

[remake]

Originally Posted by Michael Bay Fan

Almost just goes to show if you play someone who really existed in real life you will win a Oscar. Or base it on true events from life.

Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles
Daniel Day Lewis - Abraham Lincoln
Reese Witherspoon - June Cash
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote
Sean Penn - Harvey Milk

I'm sure there's a whole ton of others, but almost seems they guarantee it.

Michelle Williams doesn't agree.

[Jasonic]

Originally Posted by Josh5890

Best Director is one of the top 4 oscars of the night and usually goes to the best picture winner. That Oscar is worth more than screenplay.

Oh just another person who meant it in the way of Affleck getting robbed so he believes Lee's win doesn't mean much.

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by DjMethod

Did anybody else think Kristen Stewart was on coke?

yes!

and Zelwegger looked high. Her eyes were almost completely shut, with big grin.

Not a bad Oscars overall. I haven't seen many of the films, so couldn't judge whether the awards were given to the best nominees.

[chris_sc77]

Originally Posted by wormraper

kinda failed at that one

Well I may have phrased it rudely but haven't the Bush's admitted to not being fans of films or caring about films. They never did anything to support the arts during their reign.
I know the Obamas have repeatedly professed their appreciation of artistic endeavors and that is why I feel Mrs,. Obamas presence was justified during the award ceremony. .

[spanky87]

Originally Posted by dissention

She was good until the scene with De Niro where she went off about the Eagles wins when she and Pat were together. That scene stunk up the whole movie and was so amateurishly acted that I cringed; she spent the entire scene showing us that she was an Actor, enunciating every attitude-accentuated syllable like Amy Fisher on Howard Stern. I don't know how O'Russell didn't sweat bullets during the editing of that scene.

Bradley Cooper gave the best & sweetest performance in the film and it's sad to see it marginalized by the Lawrence hype. Yeah, he got an Oscar nom, but it was nothing but a consolation prize, a product of the Weinstein machine.

I agree. I found it fine overall, thought she was cute, but when you see that type of performance win a 'best actress' award it's insulting. Just because she's popular, likeable, and a hollywood darling right now, doesn't make that better than Naomi Watts and Emanuelle Riva performances.

Rom Com's can win acting awards too, but it's not like it was in the same league as Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday.

[JavaJulien]

Originally Posted by undiscovered

Tumblr is the best site ever.

lol.

It may be more fitting to replace Leo with Steven Spielberg though.

[MEB]

My biggest disappointment of the night was not seeing Roger Deakins (Skyfall) take the stage for Cinematography.

The surprise I enjoyed the most was Ang Lee getting Best Director. And to think I was in the same room as him just yesterday!

I felt Seth MacFarlane did a pretty decent job and I laughed out loud at many of his jokes. But, boy, did he really lay a turd with the joke about Lincoln. That was atrocious and in extremely poor taste. You simply don't make that kind of joke about a beloved president. I'm sure he wishes he could take that one back!

Mark

[SpartanX]

Originally Posted by Michael Bay Fan

Almost just goes to show if you play someone who really existed in real life you will win a Oscar. Or base it on true events from life.

Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles
Daniel Day Lewis - Abraham Lincoln
Reese Witherspoon - June Cash
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote
Sean Penn - Harvey Milk

I'm sure there's a whole ton of others, but almost seems they guarantee it.

Ben Kingsley also won for Gahndi

[Josh5890]

Originally Posted by Michael Bay Fan

Almost just goes to show if you play someone who really existed in real life you will win a Oscar. Or base it on true events from life.

Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles
Daniel Day Lewis - Abraham Lincoln
Reese Witherspoon - June Cash
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote
Sean Penn - Harvey Milk

I'm sure there's a whole ton of others, but almost seems they guarantee it.

Joaquin Phoenix didn't win as Johnny Cash

I think it is harder to play someone that was a real person. You have to try and be that figure of history where people know who that person was/is. You have to try and be as close to the real thing as possible. I think that is why they win Oscars.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Yeah married means not gay. LOL

Oh, Affleck!--Just caught the reply, and thought you meant Ang Lee.
(No, seriously, Crouching Tiger, Brokeback, Wedding Banquet, Pi, AND the first Hulk, and the guy's married....O-kay.)

As for Seth, someone else pointed out that it looked like they wanted their own Neil Patrick Harris from the Tonys, and that eternal quest for "Youthful and Edgy"--And ended up getting another passive-hostility crabby Jon Stewart (2nd gig) whose "edgy" kept getting booed out of the monologues, was forced to play it straight, and looked bored and disgusted with himself (qv. David Letterman) for doing it.
First lesson, aka the Chris Rock Lesson: Edgy doesn't play with the boring old actor crowd in the house.

(Although we'll give him the point that Chicago, Les Miz, and Streisand/Hamlisch was "too gay". That's Hosting Lesson #2 about knowing your house--With an audience that's 65% actors and industry, there's no such thing as "Too gay".)

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by undiscovered

Michelle Williams doesn't agree.

Why I said almost. Plus Meryl Streep won for the Iron Lady which was based on a real person wasn't it?

Originally Posted by Josh5890

Joaquin Phoenix didn't win as Johnny Cash

I think it is harder to play someone that was a real person. You have to try and be that figure of history where people know who that person was/is. You have to try and be as close to the real thing as possible. I think that is why they win Oscars.

Again, why I said almost.

[Lepidopterous]

Originally Posted by yellowcakeuf6

Christoph waltz was kind of a shock to me.

Wasn't a shock to me, but in retrospect, I do wish Philip Seymour Hoffman won. It has been a while since I've seen The Master and I admittedly overlooked his performance. It was the best supporting role of the year (that I've seen). Waltz did great and I am a big Tarantino fan, but I had a hard time separating Dr. Schultz from his dominating screen presence as Hans Landa a few years back.

[Jasonic]

Originally Posted by spanky87

I agree. I found it fine overall, thought she was cute, but when you see that type of performance win a 'best actress' award it's insulting. Just because she's popular, likeable, and a hollywood darling right now, doesn't make that better than Naomi Watts and Emanuelle Riva performances.

Personally I feel the same way about this whole thing over everyone crying about Ben Affleck. I'm not hating, loved Argo, but it's the only reason he's won everything and that people don't care about who won best director because they hating that Affleck wasn't nominated. People let this type of stuff cloud their brains. Affleck did a fine job, but every director in the category was just as good or better at making their movie.

[MEB]

Originally Posted by Spicoli

I really like you said "guesses" dunno why?

"Guesses" or "predictions", same thing when it comes to Oscar night!

Mark

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by THALL434

The Argo producer that isn't Affleck or Clooney played the Rock's sidekick in The Scorpion King, I got a kick out of seeing that.

Grant Heslov. He was fun in True Lies.

[chris_sc77]

Originally Posted by MEB

My biggest disappointment of the night was not seeing Roger Deakins (Skyfall) take the stage for Cinematography.

k

Deakins made Skyfall look so amazing and was the largest factor in that films success IMO. Skyfall isn;t the best best Bond film ever but it is the most beautifully shot Bond film ever.
That film looked so great. Much better than Life of Pi.

[Lepidopterous]

Originally Posted by Josh5890

Joaquin Phoenix didn't win as Johnny Cash

[Show spoiler]
I think it is harder to play someone that was a real person. You have to try and be that figure of history where people know who that person was/is. You have to try and be as close to the real thing as possible. I think that is why they win Oscars.

He lost to Hoffman.

[assydingo]

I like the Obamas so I it was cool seeing Michelle announce Best Picture.

Haven't seen Argo. It seems deserving. Mostly happy about Life Of Pi getting Best Director as well as other awards and Django receiving some recognition.