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As usual, some questionable winners.
I like Michael Keaton, I'm sure Birdman is a fine movie, but just doesn't seem like a movie people will talk about. The Oscar slide into irrelevance continues.
there was a report how a lot of Oscar voters let their Mexican housemaids do the voting for them. not sure how accurate it is, but could explain back-to-back beanrs winning.Two Mexicans have won the Best Director Award for two years in a row. Next year the director should be a Mexican
As usual, some questionable winners.
Birdman was okay, but not Best Picture worthy. It was about an actor's existential journey for meaning post middle age, so naturally the Academy would find it totally relatable and relevant. Honestly it should have been called "First World Problems: The Movie."
wow, just found out Roger Deakins has never won an Oscar.
how is that even possible. that's up there with Kubrick never winning. what a joke.
0/12... that's just brutal, but Kubrick never winning one goes beyond that... it discredits the whole award.wow, just found out Roger Deakins has never won an Oscar.
Oscar Voter Reveals Brutally Honest Ballot: "There's No Art to 'Selma,'" 'Boyhood' "Uneven"
An anonymous female Academy member gives Patricia Arquette a nod "for having no work done in 12 years," says she "could have watched my hair grow" during 'Foxcatcher' and resented 'Selma' filmmakers wearing "I can't breathe" T-shirts.
This is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation with an Academy member — who is not associated with any of this year's nominees — about her ballot. A conversation with a different member will post each day leading up to the Oscars ceremony on Feb. 22. Needless to say, their views are not necessarily endorsed by Scott Feinberg or THR.
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First, let me say that I'm tired of all of this talk about "snubs" — I thought for every one of [the snubs] there was a justifiable reason. What no one wants to say out loud is that Selma is a well-crafted movie, but there's no art to it. If the movie had been directed by a 60-year-old white male, I don't think that people would have been carrying on about it to the level that they were. And as far as the accusations about the Academy being racist? Yes, most members are white males, but they are not the cast of Deliverance — they had to get into the Academy to begin with, so they're not cretinous, snaggletoothed hillbillies. When a movie about black people is good, members vote for it. But if the movie isn't that good, am I supposed to vote for it just because it has black people in it? I've got to tell you, having the cast show up in T-shirts saying "I can't breathe" [at their New York premiere] — I thought that stuff was offensive. Did they want to be known for making the best movie of the year or for stirring up ?
cosigned. I thought "Sniper" was one of Clint's best movies, he's got some good ones and some clunkers but him not being nominated is stupid.
Deakins has shot a lot of the best looking movies of the past 20 years, just don't know that is possible. But the Kubrick omission is all you need to know.
I'll be honest....I only saw American Sniper.
Were the others (Birdman, Grand Budapest Hotel, etc.) any good?
Kubrick Bryant Deakins
I didn't like American Sniper but I did genuinely think Cooper shouldve won. What a joke that the ing frozen faced, monotone performance (through no fault of his own) beat out people like Cooper and Keaton. I guess the whole "re always wins" thing is true, even if it's just a physical re
I saw it at Telluride and walked back to my car at 2 am listening to a critic espousing how it was typical Hollywood masterbatory fluff that the academy would not allow to go unjerked.
Hollywood, tonight, jerked itself off and swallowed.
Nice commitment.
Holy what a show, though.
Whiplash was the best film of the year.
All of the youtube videos from the oscars are being removed for copyright infringement.
You're right. American sniper was a decent movie but Cooper killed it (no pun intended) in his performance. He really deserved it.
Seems like this was a ty year for movies. My favorite of the nominees was Boyhood and I was more impressed with the story behind the movie than the actual movie.
Phonyfest cliff notes from what i see blathered over the next-day media:
Travolta desperately trying to feign hetero by pawing a couple chicks. Johnasen looks repulsed.
Oprah run away rhino goes under the rope. Maybe she had to use the can in a hurry, poor thing.
Some coons are up in arms about Selma not sweeping. Oprah is the voice of reason. Plus it did get a song nomination.
Some Eurotrash model named IamaSkank or somesuch presses the boundry again. Yawn.
Inherent Vice gets a nomination.
This show should be used for sincere people who medically need their stomachs emptied.
Just saw Arquette's feminist garbage and now I'm nauseous. There's a gender pay gap because men and women tend to take different jobs. SAME job with SAME qualifications and there is no ing gap. The willful ignorance pisses me off so much. And to see Meryl Streep passionately applaud was the icing on the vomit cake. off
btw, only movies I've watched so far is American Sniper and Nightcrawler. I've heard it from others already but now I'm officially on the bandwagon of HOW THE WAS NIGHTCRAWLER NOT EVEN NOMINATED AND AN EVEN BIGGER HOW THE WAS GYLLENHAAL NOT EVEN NOMINATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If he doesn't get one by the time he's 40 it'll be a shame. With his performances in Jarhead, Prisoners, and Nightcrawler, he's officially "my boy." I'm actually a fan of a specific actor now which is weird
Is this the chick who used to be a dude?
Patricia Arquette? Don't think so. Don't wanna look her up right now though either cause there will be tons of results about her diatribe
I enjoyed The Grand Budapest Hotel but I knew it had no shot at winning over that piece of man movie. I like Keaton but that movie is on par with crash, forrest gump, and american beauty.
Agreed. Even with the icing on the vomit cake part because I don't like icing. But would have probably been better to use than icing.
Yeah, Gyllenhaal was great in Nightcrawler. The snub was ridiculous.
Birdman is a good movie, though.
lol @ this manufactured "outrage"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6733238.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel...b_6733528.html
And the reaction of the person it was "aimed" at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...tml?1424708632
ing lib s. Hypervigilant for evidence of racism.
Many were even mad at Patricia Arquette for talking about "wage inequality" for women but not for minorities.
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