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Oscar Noms - 2015

Frayed Knot Jan 14 2016 02:25 PM

Or at least the ones in categories anyone cares about ... BEST PICTURE The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revanant Room Spotlight BEST ACTOR Bryan Cranston, Trumbo Matt Damon, The Martian Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl BEST ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, Carol Brie Larson, Room Jennifer Lawrence, Joy Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christian Bale, The Big Short Tom Hardy, The Revenant Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies Sylvester Stallone, Creed BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight Rooney Mara, Carol Rachel McAdams, Spotlight Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs DIRECTING The Big Short Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant Room Spotlight ADAPTED SCREENPLAY The Big Short Brooklyn Carol The Martian Room ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Bridge of Spies Ex Machina Inside Out Spotlight Straight Outta Compton

Vic Sage Jan 19 2016 10:28 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015 Edited 9 time(s), most recently on Feb 08 2016 04:09 PM

305 films were eligible this year. Here's what i've seen so far and how i rank them: My top 10 [in order]: The Revenant Mad Max: Fury Road The Big Short Steve Jobs Ex Machina Mr. Holmes Inside Out Kingsman: The Secret Service Spy Trainwreck honorable mentions: Black Mass The Hateful Eight The Martian Star Wars:TFA these were just ok: American Ultra Ant-Man Avengers: Age Of Ultron The Circle The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Jurassic World Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Sicario Spectre The Visit these were BAD: Fantastic Four Jupiter Ascending The Last Five Years Pitch Perfect 2 Movies i'd still like to see: Absolutely Anything Age of Adeline Anomalisa Bone Tomahawk Bridge Of Spies Creed Crimson Peak The Good Dinosaur Grandma In The Heart Of The Sea Irrational Man Joy Legend The Man from UNCLE Pawn Sacrifice Terminator Genisys Trumbo Victor Frankenstein Movies I'm supposed to pretend i want to see: Amy Beasts Of No Nation Brooklyn Carol The Danish Girl 45 Years Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Room Southpaw Spotlight Straight Outta Compton The Walk All eligible films this past year: Adult Beginners After Words The Age Of Adaline Alleluia Aloft Aloha Altered Minds Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Road Chip American Ultra Amy Anomalisa Ant-Man Ardor Avengers: Age Of Ultron Beasts Of No Nation Becoming Bulletproof Before We Go Best Of Enemies Beyond The Reach The Big Short Big Stone Gap Black Mass Blackbird Blackhat Bone Tomahawk A Borrowed Identity The Boy And The Beast Boy And The World The Boy Next Door Boychoir Brand: A Second Coming Bridge Of Spies A Brilliant Young Mind Brooklyn Buen Día, Ramón Burnt By The Sea Captive Capture The Flag Care Of Footpath 2 Carl(a) Carol Cartel Land Carter High Censored Voices Champs Chappie Chi-Raq Child 44 A Christmas Star Cinderella Clouds Of Sils Maria Coming Home Concussion Cop Car Creed Criminal Activities Crimson Peak The Cut The D Train Daddy’s Home The Danish Girl Danny Collins Delka: Stand-Up Tall Or Fall The Diary Of A Teenage Girl The Divergent Series: Insurgent Dixieland Dope The Duke Of Burgundy Dukhtar Eden Effie Gray The End Of The Tour Entourage Escobar: Paradise Lost Everest Every Thing Will Be Fine Ex Machina Experimenter Fantastic Four Far From The Madding Crowd Felt Fifty Shades Of Grey 5 Flights Up 5 To 7 Focus 45 Years Frame By Frame Freaks Of Nature Freedom Freeheld Furious Seven Futuro Beach The Gallows Gemma Bovery Get Hard The Gift Girlhood Gloria Godspeed: The Story Of Page Jones The Good Dinosaur Good Kill Goodnight Mommy Goosebumps Grandma Guidance Hamlet’s Ghost The Hateful Eight He Named Me Malala Heaven Knows What Hemalkasa Hitman: Agent 47 Home Hot Pursuit Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Hotel Transylvania 2 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 The Hunting Ground I Smile Back I’ll See You In My Dreams In The Heart Of The Sea Infinitely Polar Bear Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words Inside Out The Intern Irrational Man It Follows Jalam James White Jem And The Holograms Jenny’s Wedding Jimmy’s Hall Joy Jupiter Ascending Jurassic World Just Before I Go Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet Killing Them Safely Kingsman: The Secret Service Krampus Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck La Jaula De Oro Labyrinth Of Lies The Lady In The Van Lambert & Stamp The Last Five Years The Last Witch Hunter The Laws Of The Universe - Part 0 Learning To Drive Legend A LEGO Brickumentary The Letters Lila And Eve Little Accidents The Longest Ride The Look Of Silence Lost Birds Lost River Love & Mercy Love At First Fight Macbeth Mad Max: Fury Road Maggie Magic Mike XXL The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Manglehorn The Martian Match Max Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials McFarland, USA Me And Earl And The Dying Girl Meadowland Mediterranea Meru Minions Misery Loves Comedy Miss You Already Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Mississippi Grind Mr. Holmes Mistress America Moomins On The Riviera Mortdecai Muhammad: The Messenger Of God Mustang My All American Nachom-Ia Kumpasar The Night Before 99 Homes No Escape The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared Our Brand Is Crisis Pan Paper Towns Paranoid Girls Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Paulo Coelho’s Best Story Pawn Sacrifice The Peanuts Movie The Perfect Guy Pink & Blue: Colors Of Hereditary Cancer Pitch Perfect 2 Pixels Poached Pod Point Break Poltergeist Project Almanac Queen And Country Racing Extinction Rangitaranga Regular Show: The Movie Remember A Reunion The Revenant Ricki And The Flash Ride The Thunder - A Vietnam War Story Of Victory & Betrayal The Road Within Rock The Kasbah Room The Rumperbutts Run All Night Saint Laurent Salt Bridge The Salvation Samba San Andreas Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Secret In Their Eyes Serena Set Fire To The Stars Seventh Son ‘71 Seymour: An Introduction Sharkskin Shaun The Sheep Movie Shelter Sicario Sisters Sleeping With Other People Son Of Saul Southpaw Spectre The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water Spotlight Spy The Stanford Prison Experiment Star Wars: The Force Awakens Steve Jobs Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans Stonewall Straight Outta Compton Strange Magic Suffragette The Summer Of Sangaile Sweet Micky For President Taken 3 Tangerine Ted 2 10,000 Km Terminator Genisys Testament Of Youth These Final Hours The 33 Time Out Of Mind Tinker Bell And The Legend Of The Neverbeast Tom At The Farm Tomorrowland Trainwreck The Tribe True Story Trumbo Truth Twinsters Two Men In Town Uncle John Unfinished Business Unfriended Vacation Victor Frankenstein Victoria The Visit The Walk A Walk In The Woods War Room The Water Diviner We Are Your Friends The Wedding Ringer Welcome To Me When Marnie Was There Where To Invade Next While We’re Young White God The Widowmaker Wolf Totem The Wolfpack Woman In Gold Xenia You Carry Me Youth Z For Zachariah

Frayed Knot Jan 20 2016 03:40 AM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 25 2016 03:16 AM

My list goes to 11 -- mainly because it appears that I saw exactly 11 2015 movies Roughly in order of good-ness THE BIG SHORT SPOTLIGHT ------------- EX MACHINA THE MARTIAN TRUMBO -------------- CONCUSSION WHILE WE’RE YOUNG DANNY COLLINS CREED -------------- MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION EVEREST None of these really sucked, just kind of get more meh towards the bottom.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 20 2016 06:28 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Wow, it looks like I only saw three movies in 2015, all of them of the popcorn variety. Here they are, in my order of preference: Ant Man Avengers Age of Ultron Jurassic World I'll probably eventually see a bunch of these movies on cable in the next couple of years, but trips to the theater are pretty rare.

Vic Sage Jan 20 2016 06:45 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

of my top 10, I saw EX-MACHINA and KINGSMEN on cable. I now generally prefer watching at home, due to both the expense of going out as well as the behavior of the movie-going public. Also, the improvement of the technical quality of the home-viewing experience has made it less of a trade off.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 20 2016 06:52 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Ant Man - typical superhero movie but small-scale helped them avoid the city-destroyed finale of most of them. Pixels - awful Peanuts - good heart, not great Martian - Pretty OK, not great Spy - Kinda funny but also, fell asleep Only Pixels and Peanuts in the theater

dgwphotography Jan 20 2016 07:22 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - The best movie I've seen this year. Yes, it borrowed heavily from the source material, but i think that was done to provide a firm launching point for the next two movies. Hopefully, JJ won't shit all over the next movie like he did while making the second Nu Trek movie. Creed - Much better than it had any right to be, mainly due to Michael B. Jordan's performance. Ant Man - This was a fun movie that was better than the non-existant expectations that I had. Jurassic World - My God was this movie ludicrous, but it was really good fun. Avengers: Age Of Ultron - A complete Shitfest. This movie confirmed what I feared: Kevin Feige killed Joss Whedon, and replaced him with an animatronic duplicate from Disney. This had none of the heart of the original, and CGI was shit. The Good Dinosaur - I could not get past the animation. First rule of animation is to get the basic biology right. With the exception of Star Wars and Creed, The offerings I watched on Netflix (Broadchurch, Jessica Jones, and Daredevil) surpassed what I saw in the theater.

themetfairy Jan 20 2016 08:30 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Overall I found this to be a year without any really great films. My top three would be Trumbo, Spotlight and The Big Short. I'm still working on seeing all of the Best Picture, acting and screenplay Oscar nominees, but I'm not expecting anything else out there to really knock my socks off (although Best Original Screenplay nominee Inside Out, which we caught on On Demand last night, was a pleasant surprise). I really want Bryan Cranston's nuanced performance in Trumbo to beat out Leonardo DiCaprio's grunting in The Revenant. And I'm waiting for the opportunity to see Brie Larson's performance in Room. Other than that, for the first time in memory, I don't have any great rooting interest in this year's Oscars - this year's films simply haven't impressed me.

seawolf17 Jan 20 2016 09:42 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

What I saw in 2015, from fave to least fave: Inside Out Star Wars:TFA Jurassic World Minions Tomorrowland

sharpie Jan 20 2016 09:44 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

The 12 eligible movies I've seen, in order (in rough groups of liked a lot, liked enough, was ok, was less than ok): Spotlight The Big Short The Diary Of A Teenage Girl Brooklyn While We’re Young Star Wars: The Force Awakens Mistress America Beasts Of No Nation Clouds Of Sils Maria Tangerine The Wolfpack Sicario

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 20 2016 09:45 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Reminds me I also saw Inside Out (good) and Minions (dogshit) this year

Vic Sage Jan 21 2016 06:40 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Sharpie, I heard SICARIO was good -- no?

sharpie Jan 21 2016 06:51 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

I was really disappointed in it. Started off as an interesting, character-driven caper feature and devolved into a pretty standard shoot-em-up. While, as a film it is probably better than a few of the other I had near the bottom, I wasn't really expecting much out of The Wolfpack or Tangerines. Emily Blunt was good but it featured a cartoon performance by Josh Brolin and a resolution you could see coming. Everyone is corrupt, the good guys are the bad guys and the naive girl learns a lesson.

themetfairy Jan 22 2016 03:32 AM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Add Room to my best of the year list. It was powerful, human and extremely well done. Brie Larson was phenomenal as the young woman who is raising her son in captivity, and young Jacob Tremblay was extraordinary as the son. It's one of the few really gripping films of the year.

RealityChuck Feb 01 2016 03:47 AM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Haven't seen many this year, but my list would be: Mr. Holmes. Ian McKellan was brilliant as Holmes, in a movie that was extremely well written and cleverly plotted. It possibly was the most complex and smart movie I've seen in a long time. Inside Out. Pixar has been weak lately; this is their best in a while.. The Martian. Nicely acted and a breath of fresh air. Like Mr Holmes, it actually has a smart protagonist. Trainwreck. Very funny, and also gets the romance right. Schumer was excellent. The Hateful Eight. Not Tarantino's best, but plenty to like. Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Good, but no real depth or characterization Star Wars ripped off many other movies, this only ripped off Star Wars. Shaun the Sheep. A children's film and good as such. Also the lack of dialog gets a big plus.

Ashie62 Feb 28 2016 03:20 AM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

themetfairy wrote: Add Room to my best of the year list. It was powerful, human and extremely well done. Brie Larson was phenomenal as the young woman who is raising her son in captivity, and young Jacob Tremblay was extraordinary as the son. It's one of the few really gripping films of the year. ' Totally. Saw it today.

Frayed Knot Feb 28 2016 06:48 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Looks like it’s either to be THE REVENANT or SPOTLIGHT. I’m of the mind that SPOTLIGHT is going to win — moral story, great cast, etc. while opinions on REVENANT probably vary too much for some voters, plus that director won last year — but maybe part of that is wishful thinking on my part. THE BIG SHORT was more clever fun than *great* picture. MAD MAX gets honored simply by being a non-traditional Oscar movie that gets nominated. ROOM & BROOKLYN weren’t seen enough, and THE MARTIAN & BRIDGE OF SPIES are a cut below in quality. Leo, on the other hand, is the lockiest lock that ever locked to get his acting Oscar this year. On-screen suffering is maybe second only to playing handicapped as sure-fire Oscar bait. Actress sounds like it’s going to Larson for ROOM, unless the oldies who don’t see any black movies want to give a nod to the veteran Rampling because she’s closer to their age. Supporting Actor: I’m afraid this will go to Stallone for the sort-of ‘Lifetime Achievement’ thing, although ideally actors get those for recognition of a lengthy and varied body of work rather than just playing the same character for the 19th time. All of the others deserve it more in any order you’d like to pick but ‘deserve’, in this world, ain’t got nuthin’ to do with it. If he does win it would be nice if (unlike at the Golden Globes) he acknowledges that Michael B. Jordan was actually in the picture during this year of ‘Black Roles Matter’ or whatever the hashtag of the moment is. Supporting Actress: Traditionally the toughest call of all the major categories. I’ll say Winslet for STEVE JOBS over McAdams or Mara, plus Alicia Vikander who may have gotten the right nom for the wrong movie (DANISH GIRL vs EX MACHINA) Adapted Screenplay: Probably BIG SHORT for turning a complicated non-movie topic into some watchable, although this could be THE MARTIAN's big moment. Original Screenplay: SPOTLIGHT

themetfairy Feb 28 2016 07:30 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

My Picks - Best Picture - I'd like to see The Big Short win, but I think it's going to The Revenant. The Revenant isn't a great film and in a better year would have more competition, but this is a weak year and it seems to have a lot of sentiment behind it. Best Director - The Revenant. It's a weak year and it has a lot of sentiment behind it, for whatever reason. Best Actor - The smart money is on Leonardo DiCaprio. But I'd love to see Bryan Cranston win, because he was terrific in Trumbo. Best Actress - Brie Larson. She was magnificent and towers above the competition. Best Supporting Actor - I'm going with Sylvester. The competition isn't compelling, so Sly will win as a lifetime achievement award (and he really did do a great job in the film). Best Supporting Actress - IMO this is the widest open I've ever seen this or any other category. I loved Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight, plus she did some nice voice work in Anomalisa, so I'm picking her but wouldn't be shocked if anyone else in this category wins instead. Best Original Screenplay - Spotlight Best Adapted Screenplay - The Big Short

MFS62 Feb 28 2016 07:42 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Frayed Knot wrote: On-screen suffering is maybe second only to playing handicapped as sure-fire Oscar bait. And when the Academy has an "oops" moment, they try to make up for it quickly. Jane Fonda suffered enough to deserve one for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? She didn't win, but got one the next year for her ordinary performance in Klute. But I'm still waiting for the Academy to make it up to Edward Norton after not giving him the Best Supporting Actor award for Primal Fear. Later

MFS62 Feb 29 2016 01:04 AM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

The four women commenting on the red carpet fashions are about as appropriate and competent as Angel Hernandez running an umpiring school. Later

MFS62 Feb 29 2016 02:57 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Chris Rock was great. He dealt with the outcry about no people of color being nominated for major awards in a funny manner. But by the middle of the show, it looked like they had sent busses into West LA to find people of color to present awards. OK. we got it. There were no Black nominees for the major awards. But the Academy tried to over compensate for that like the guy with the small dick who buys the big truck with the gun rack. Academy, we got it. Other than that, the best moment of the show was Luis CK's introduction of the Best Short Documentary Award. We got it. Later

Vic Sage Feb 29 2016 04:08 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015 Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 29 2016 04:17 PM

Glad to see MAX get 6 Oscars, and REVENANT 3. I didn't see SPOTLIGHT, so i don't have any view on that. Sorry BIG SHORT didn't do more, but it did get a well-deserved award for its screenplay. Happy the woman from EX-MACHINA won best supporting actress, but it was for the wrong movie (DANISH GIRL). Congrats to Leo DiCaprio and composer Ennio Morricone for finally winning theirs. And sorry, Sly... no lifetime achievement award for once again playing the only good character you've ever done over the last 40 years. As for the show itself, Chris Rock was funny as usual, particularly in calling out the subtle "sorority girl racism" of Hollywood, but also going after the protesters, too. "Jada Smith boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rhianna's panties -- i wasn't invited!" And why now, he asked? Over the 88 years of Oscars, there have certainly been many other years without black actor nominees (probably most of them). But, he noted, back in the 50s and 60s, Black people weren't protesting the Oscars; they were too busy protesting things that mattered! "When Grandma is swinging from a tree, you don't worry too much about who wins Best Cinematography!" Still, did every single monologue and film bit throughout the entire show have to be about race? I think the point was made and then the show could've moved on. But, instead, from the opening red carpet/backstage reporters (Michael Strahan and Robin Roberts) to Rock as host, as well as many presenters, and the opening pre-show interviews (Whoopie), and the black Academy President and her speech, the Academy tripped all over itself to be black this year. They even changed the order of the awards. Typically, the first awards are given to the supporting actor/actress categories. This year, they decided to start with the screenplay awards, where the only black-themed movie to get attention (STRAIGHT OUT OF COMPTON) "happened" to be nominated (voters were left to consider the question of whether it was better to honor a movie about black people written by white people, or to just ignore it entirely -- so they did both, by nominating the white writers but not giving them the award, and ignoring the movie otherwise). The acceptance speeches, too, leaned a little more on the politics than usual (from racism, to sexual abuse, to LGBT, to global warming). The best moments for me in any Oscar telecast are always the completely awkward, cringe-worthy ones: Chris Rock introducing Stacey Dash (the Black actress/FOX News pundit who has called for the end of black history month, the BET network, and attacked the protests over the Oscars) as the "director of our new minority outreach program," resulting in stunned silence as she took her bow. Also, Rock's taped interviews with moviegoers in Compton, who demonstrated many stereotypical behaviors (just short of eating fried chicken and watermelon) and new nothing about many of the big "white" movies that were nominated. Now THAT was a hoot, and made the audience squirm. Also, a taped bit where Angela Bassett did a PSA about Black History month that you think is about Will Smith, but ends up about Jack Black. Black! Get it? My favorite moment was probably Louis CK presenting the best short documentary award. It's his favorite award because, unlike everybody else getting Oscars that night, these folks don't make ANY money, so the Oscar actually means something to them. "This award is going home in a Honda Civic tonight!" Hilarious and true. I was impressed, too, by the unrestrained, over-the-top presentation of Gaga's sexual abuse song, TIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU, first introduced by VP Biden, then emoted by Gaga with melodramatic flair as she is silently encircled by rape survivors with messages of hope drawn on the arms with markers (Still, this didn't help it beat Sam Smith for Best Song; even his boring Bond ditty got more votes than Gaga's tune, which had about 10 actual lyrics in it). And another Holocaust move won for best Foreign Film! Emotional manipulation, thy name is Hollywood! Kudos! You just can't find this sort of self-indulgent self-importance anywhere else except an industry of rich, narcissistic white people creating audience-researched movies who gather in glorious frocks and bling (the aggregate cost of which could pay for food for hungry children in any country in the world) once a year to pat themselves on the back and declare what problems of the world they want to solve with their little songs and movies. Even at its worst, this show never disappoints me. Bravo once more!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 29 2016 04:14 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

I watched The Walking Dead instead

Vic Sage Feb 29 2016 04:17 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

i watched WD afterwards.

Frayed Knot Feb 29 2016 04:35 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

Vic Sage wrote: i watched WD afterwards. Meaning at 2 in the morning.

Vic Sage Feb 29 2016 05:15 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

12am-1am, actually. But then TALKING DEAD until 2, yeah.

Frayed Knot Feb 29 2016 06:36 PM Re: Oscar Noms - 2015

I was just glad to see that someone was able to do all the legwork and convince both Lady Gaga and Dave Grohl to go in front of a camera.