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Winners in bold.

* Indicates Golden Globe winner and traditional favorite going into the Academy Awards

The show is on February 26th this year.

As ever, general Oscar chat of years gone by is welcome, in addition to the usual bitching about nominees.

Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land* (PARTICIPATION AWARD)
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight* (YOUR WINNER AND NEEEWWWW BEST PICTURE)


Lead Actor
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea*
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling, La La Land*
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences

Lead Actress
Isabelle Huppert, Elle*
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Emma Stone, La La Land*
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
Dev Patel, Lion
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals

Supporting Actress
Viola Davis, Fences*
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

Best Director
Damien Chazelle, La La Land*
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Denis Villeneuve, Arrival

Animated Feature
Kubo and the Two Strings, Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner
Moana, John Musker, Ron Clements and Osnat Shurer
My Life as a Zucchini, Claude Barras and Max Karli
The Red Turtle, Michael Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki
Zootopia, Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer*

Animated Short
Blind Vaysha, Theodore Ushev
Borrowed Time, Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
Pear Cider and Cigarettes, Robert Valley and Cara Speller
Pearl, Patrick Osborne
Piper, Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer

Adapted Screenplay
Eric Heisserer, Arrival
Fences, August Wilson, Fences
Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, Hidden Figures
Luke Davies, Lion
Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Moonlight

Original Screenplay
Mike Mills, Twentieth Century Women
Taylor Sheridan, Hell or High Water
Damien Chazelle, La La Land*
Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou, The Lobster
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

Cinematography
Bradford Young, Arrival
Linus Sandgren, La La Land
Greig Fraser, Lion
James Laxton, Moonlight
Rodrigo Prieto, Silence

Best Documentary Feature
13th, Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick and Howard Barish
Fire at Sea, Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo
I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, Remi Grellety and Hebert Peck
Life, Animated, Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman
O.J.: Made in America, Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow

Best Documentary, Short Subject
4.1 Miles, Daphne Matziaraki
Extremis, Dan Krauss
Joe’s Violin, Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen
Watani: My Homeland, Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis
The White Helmets, Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

Best Live Action Short Film
Ennemis Interieurs, Selim Azzazi
La Femme et le TGV, Timo von Gunten and Giacun Caduff
Silent Nights, Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson
Sing, Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy
Timecode, Juanjo Gimenez

Best Foreign Language Film
A Man Called Ove, Sweden
Land of Mine, Denmark
Tanna, Australia
The Salesman, Iran
Toni Erdmann, Germany

Film Editing
Joe Walker, Arrival
John Gilbert, Hacksaw Ridge
Jake Roberts, Hell or High Water
Tom Cross, La La Land
Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon, Moonlight

Sound Editing
Sylvain Bellemare, Arrival
Wylie Stateman and Renee Tondelli, Deep Water Horizon
Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright, Hacksaw Ridge
Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan, La La Land
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman, Sully

Sound Mixing
Bernard Gariepy Strobl and Claude La Haye, Arrival
Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace, Hacksaw Ridge
Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steve A. Morrow, La La Land
David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Production Design
Patrice Vermette, Paul Hotte, Arrival
Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh, Hail, Caesar!
David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, La La Land
Guy Hendrix Dyas, Gene Serdena, Passengers

Original Score
Mica Levi, Jackie
Justin Hurwitz, La La Land*
Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka, Lion
Nicholas Britell, Moonlight
Thomas Newman, Passengers

Original Song
Audition (The Fools Who Dream), La La Land — Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Can’t Stop the Feeling, Trolls — Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster
City of Stars, La La Land — Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul*
The Empty Chair, Jim: The James Foley Story — Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
How Far I’ll Go, Moana — Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Makeup and Hair
Eva von Bahr and Love Larson, A Man Called Ove
Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo, Star Trek Beyond
Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson, Suicide Squad

Costume Design
Joanna Johnston, Allied
Colleen Atwood, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Consolata Boyle, Florence Foster Jenkins
Madeline Fontaine, Jackie
Mary Zophres, La La Land

Visual Effects
Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington and Burt Dalton, Deepwater Horizon
Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould, Doctor Strange
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon, The Jungle Book
Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean and Brad Schiff, Kubo and the Two Strings
John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel and Neil Corbould, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Notable Controversies/Stories/Snubs
-Six black actors and five black directors this time
-No nomination for Amy Adams
-Mel Gibson nominated

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I will just say, with the caveat that I have hardly seen everything nominated, that I am rather tired of Hollywood showering the most awards on movies about Hollywood and acting. At a certain point it's like, get over yourselves.

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Vegetable posted:

white people were pretty poo poo this year.

Tell us something we don't know

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quote:

It was two years in a row, wasn't it? Alongside record low viewing numbers.

Standard TV is practically dead, so expect that trend to continue. The viewership, not the No Black People.

Shageletic posted:

EDIT: At this point Meryl Streep is stopping the recognition of younger stars.

lmbo

All the actresses mysteriously disappearing after age 35 clearly have Meryl Streep to blame

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MorgaineDax posted:

No one I know has cable, so what's a person to do? Let me sign up somewhere to pay to watch the stupid things online, and I'd probably pay a good $25 for the whole evening. You don't even have to take the ads out.

Comcast is quickly moving toward Internet TV, for one, but their stream quality is the drizzling shits.

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Obstacle2 posted:

If I recall correctly, Netflix bought the film after it was screened and then tried to have it run in theaters briefly and was essentially boycotted by the theater chains because it was going to debut simultaneously on Netflix.

Either this made it ineligible or the Academy snubbed it to discourage this.

This is almost certainly why Manchester by the Sea went to theaters.

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Paragon8 posted:

Also The Witch. (I haven't seen The Love Witch yet)

Is there some kind of submission criteria that creates a barrier for smaller films? Like is it just too much money and hassle to campaign for a movie like The Love Witch.

I remember reading that Jackie didn't even submit itself for hair & makeup. So I wonder if there's a degree of self selection at play with some of these movies.

Studios make decisions and schedule releases way ahead of time on stuff they want to put up for contention and then spend money accordingly.

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I'm choosing the funniest possible article I could find to describe the situation with the immigration EO and the Oscars:

http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/1/31/14426858/cancel-the-oscars

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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

Selma is a pretty drat accurate account of that moment in time.

Other than LBJ turning heel on MLK, yes

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The major political campaign for The Revenant at the Oscars was "this was really hard to make and a miserable shoot."

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Food for thought:

quote:

The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the Academy; there were 220 members of the Editing Branch in 2012.[4] The members may vote for up to five of the eligible films in the order of their preference; the five films with the largest vote totals are selected as nominees.[3] The Academy Award itself is selected from the nominated films by a subsequent ballot of all active and life members of the Academy. This process is essentially the reverse of that of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA); nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing are done by a general ballot of Academy voters, and the winner is selected by members of the editing chapter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Film_Editing

Given that you're never getting Film Editing nominees substantially different from the Best Picture nominees, it's clear that these aren't the Film Theory Awards.

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http://www.theonion.com/infographic/onions-2017-oscar-picks-55372

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Kawabata posted:

Oh, I knew you'd play the "they didn't sanitize it enough for you" card. But that wasn't the issue, because if you read my post (which doesn't look like you did, it just looks like you're annoyed because I don't like the movie you love) you'd remember that I read Northup's book before watching 12 Years a Slave. So yes, I expected all the evil and the brutality but what I didn't expect was the tone they chose to go for. The movie was dull (and it really didn't need to be, considering the excellent source material) because it felt like passion of the christ: slavery edition.

This is not a "beautiful film" by any means and many critics, while unanimously praising the effort, did comment that the end result was somewhat uneven. Again I don't think it deserved all the awards it got. Amour was clearly the best movie of that year, to the point where they even gave it a rare double nomination (Best Foreign Language -winner - and Best Picture) to compensate, the same way Mad Max got 200 minor oscars to make us forget that Spotlight was bad. Though you could argue that Room was the best movie of last year and you'd probably be right.

Now the 2013 Oscars weren't as controversial because no one had seen Amour and all the other nominees were inferior to 12 Years (just to name a couple, Zero Dark Thirty and Silver Linings Playbook -lol-), but my point still stands. I guess we strongly disagree!

EDIT: the essay you linked is a good watch but obviously I don't agree with it either

After finally watching Zero Dark Thirty I cannot believe it got nominated for anything. Setting aside the torture issue, it's loving boring.

Although, I think the point the movie was trying to make was that it was a POV film, letting you watch intelligence officers unreliably narrate the facts to themselves. The December 2009 Chapman base bombing is the most obvious "something bad is going to happen" sequence in film history, but all of the characters are psyched that they found a guy who is going to give up Bin Laden. Or the ending, where everyone acts like an organized murder/robbery is a big turning point, but the film itself is telling you that the facts on the ground are no different than before.

I think that was the point. But holy poo poo it's just a way too long movie with a bunch of office characters that they could have frankly cut.

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GonSmithe posted:

:siren: Oscars Contest :siren:

Before 8:30pm EST (about 3 hours 30 minutes from this post) when the Oscars start tonight, post your list of what is going to win what category at the Oscars tonight. Whomever is closest at the end of the night will receive your choice of a forum upgrade (plat, archives, no ads) or a custom avatar/title.

Good luck!

Best Picture: La La Land

Lead Actor: Casey Affleck

Lead Actress: Emma Stone

Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali

Supporting Actress: Viola Davis

Best Director: Damien Chazelle

Animated Feature: Zootopia

Animated Short: Piper

Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight

Original Screenplay: Manchester by the Sea

Cinematography: La La Land

Best Documentary Feature: OJ: Made in America

Best Documentary, Short Subject: The White Helmets

Best Live Action Short Film: Ennemis Interieurs

Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman

Film Editing: La La Land

Sound Editing: Hacksaw Ridge

Sound Mixing: La La Land

Production Design: La La Land

Original Score: La La Land

Original Song: City of Stars

Makeup and Hair: Star Trek Beyond

Costume Design: La La Land

Visual Effects: The Jungle Book

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Live at the Academy Awards!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KybuIy0wKXk&t=42s

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The winners are updated in da OP.

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https://twitter.com/AP_Images/status/836086280312221698/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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