Oscars 2015

[JayBee74]

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The Whiplash trailer makes me want to see it more even more.

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[Chip Douglass]

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I'm glad Simmons is finally getting his due. The guy's been in a bajillion TV shows/movies and sort of hung around the acting periphery.

It's too bad it'll come at the expense of Edward Norton though. I thought he was great in Birdman.

[JayBee74]

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I'm glad Simmons is finally getting his due. The guy's been in a bajillion TV shows/movies and sort of hung around the acting periphery.

It's too bad it'll come at the expense of Edward Norton though. I thought he was great in Birdman.

Yeah, but long stints on Oz and The Closer. Throw in the Farmers Insurance commercials and J. Jonah Jameson and you get a very successful actor. Of course this will take him to the next level.

[daflyboys]

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I'm glad Simmons is finally getting his due. The guy's been in a bajillion TV shows/movies and sort of hung around the acting periphery.

It's too bad it'll come at the expense of Edward Norton though. I thought he was great in Birdman.

He makes the best J. Jonah Jameson ever. No one will usurp him!

Boyhood may have been ambitious, but it really did nothing for me. It was like watching a spliced together home movie. I lost interest after about 45 minutes, though probably even before then.

The Imitation Game was good, but from what I read there were a good number of inaccuracies. Still was a good flick and something I didn't know about WWII.

[RockinDaMike]

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IMO, he's up there with Joe Pesci in Goodfellas and Heath Ledger in TDK in terms of GOAT acting performances.

As I said in the "What movies have you watched recently?" thread, if you had to see one movie based upon one acting performance, Whiplash should be on your list.

Spoiler

The facial expressions alone at the end gave him the award.

[daflyboys]

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The snub was ridiculous. One of the year's most hilarious and creative films.

Just saw this reaction to the snub for The Lego Movie. Pretty funny response by Philip Lord:

"IT'S OKAY. I MADE MY OWN!"

[OSUFan_88]

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It's too bad that Carrell won't get more of a push as best actor. He was fantastic in Foxcatcher. He nailed the part and some, IMO.

[Herky]

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The SAG Awards were tonight and they usually do a decent job of foreshadowing Oscar winners.

Here is the link for the winners.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/25/entert...-winners-list/

[JayBee74]

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It's too bad that Carrell won't get more of a push as best actor. He was fantastic in Foxcatcher. He nailed the part and some, IMO.

He's a longshot. I hope Keaton wins. I was surprised this was his only Oscar nom. I thought he got one for Clean And Sober.

[OSUFan_88]

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He's a longshot. I hope Keaton wins. I was surprised this was his only Oscar nom. I thought he got one for Clean And Sober.

Everything I've heard is pointing towards Redmayne winning fairly easily, though.

I still need to see Birdman. It's on the list of things to do, that's for sure.

[daflyboys]

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He's a longshot. I hope Keaton wins. I was surprised this was his only Oscar nom. I thought he got one for Clean And Sober.

If he didn't, he should have.

[RockinDaMike]

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And the Oscar goes to...


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

Achievement in costume design
WINNER: The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges
Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood
Maleficent – Anna B Sheppard
Mr Turner – Jacqueline Durran

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
WINNER: The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier
Foxcatcher – Bill Corso, Dennis Liddiard
Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White

Best foreign-language film
WINNER: Ida – Paweł Pawlikowski
Tangerines – Zaza Urushadze
Leviathan – Andrey Zvyagintsev
Wild Tales – Damián Szifrón
Timbuktu – Abderrahmane Sissako

Best live-action short film
WINNER: The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby, James Lucas
Aya – Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis
Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney
Butter Lamp – Wei Hu, Julien Féret
Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi, Stefan Eichenberger

Best documentary short subject
WINNER: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Perry
Joanna – Aneta Kopacz
Our Curse – Tomasz Sliwinski, Maciej Slesicki
The Reaper – Gabriel Serra
White Earth – Christian Jensen

Achievement in sound mixing
WINNER: Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley
American Sniper – John T Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Walt Martin
Birdman – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Thomas Varga
Interstellar – Gary Rizzo, Gregg Landaker, Mark Weingarten
Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, David Lee

Achievement in sound editing
WINNER: American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Birdman – Aaron Glascock, Martín Hernández
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge, Jason Canovas
Interstellar – Richard King
Unbroken – Becky Sullivan, Andrew DeCristofaro

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

Achievement in visual effects
WINNER: Interstellar – Paul J Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott R Fisher
Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan Deleeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill, Daniel Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould
X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer

Best animated short film
WINNER: Feast – Patrick Osborne, Kristina Reed
The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs, Chris Hees
The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo, Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi
Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove
A Single Life – Joris Oprins

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

Best production design
WINNER: The Grand Budapest Hotel: Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock
The Imitation Game: Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
Interstellar: Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
Into the Woods: Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock
Mr Turner: Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts

Achievement in cinematography
WINNER: Birdman: Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Robert D Yeoman
Ida: Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski
Mr Turner: Dick Pope
Unbroken: Roger Deakins

Achievement in film editing
WINNER: Whiplash – Tom Cross
Boyhood – Sandra Adair
The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
American Sniper – Joel Cox, Gary Roach

Best documentary feature
WINNER: Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky
Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester
The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier
Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

Best original song
WINNER: Glory from Selma – Lonnie Lynn (Common), John Stephens (John Legend)
The Lego Movie – Shawn Patterson (Everything Is Awesome)
Beyond the Lights – Diane Warren (Grateful)
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me – Glen Campbell, Julian Raymond (I’m Not Gonna Miss You)
Begin Again – Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois (Lost Stars)

Best original score
WINNER: Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar
Jóhann Jóhannsson– The Theory of Everything
Gary Yershon – Mr Turner

Original screenplay
WINNER: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo – Birdman
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
E Max Frye, Dan Futterman – Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler

Adapted screenplay
WINNER: Graham Moore – The Imitation Game
Jason Hall – American Sniper
Paul Thomas Anderson – Inherent Vice
Anthony McCarten – The Theory of Everything
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash

Best director
WINNER: Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman
Richard Linklater for Boyhood
Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game

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

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

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

[RockinDaMike]

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No surprises here and glad Birdman got most of everything it was in.
Also Whiplash getting a lot of love too was great, it was good to see J.K. up there and give a nice speech.

Also glad Big Hero 6 got best animated and Patricia Arquette for her performance in Boyhood. And finally Julianne Moore gets an oscar, surprising this is her first.

I didn't catch all of the Oscars but caught some of the musical numbers and damn, Lady Gaga killed it, never knew she could sing like that.

[Scott]

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No surprises here and glad Birdman got most of everything it was in.
Also Whiplash getting a lot of love too was great, it was good to see J.K. up there and give a nice speech.

Also glad Big Hero 6 got best animated and Patricia Arquette for her performance in Boyhood. And finally Julianne Moore gets an oscar, surprising this is her first.

I didn't catch all of the Oscars but caught some of the musical numbers and damn, Lady Gaga killed it, never knew she could sing like that.

A lot of people don't know at she was accepted to Juilliard at age 11...

[Blzer]

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Not saying Boyhood got snubbed at all for anything, but I thought it was going to take more away than it did just out of knowing how the Academy works. I'm surprised how much GBH received, actually. They stole Production Design and Musical Score from Interstellar, them bastards!

I wonder how the ratings were this year. IMO they really needed films like Interstellar and Gone Girl to fill the BP nominations for that alone, because all of these other movies (except American Sniper, according to NPH) did not really draw crowds.

Speaking of which, I thought NPH was a terrible host. I just wish Seth MacFarlane did it every year haha. Ellen was pretty good, too.