Oscars 2017 thread

[Dirty Hipsters]

Thread for the Oscars 2017.

Thoughts, predictions, reactions.

Spoiler: List of Nominees

BEST PICTURE

Arrival

Fences

Hacksaw Ridge

Hell or High Water

Hidden Figures

La La Land

Lion

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

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ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea

Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge

Ryan Gosling, La La Land

Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic

Denzel Washington, Fences

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ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Isabelle Huppert, Elle

Ruth Negga, Loving

Natalie Portman, Jackie

Emma Stone, La La Land

Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

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ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Mahershala Ali, Moonlight

Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water

Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea

Dev Patel, Lion

Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals

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ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Viola Davis, Fences

Naomie Harris, Moonlight

Nicole Kidman, Lion

Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures

Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

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ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Kubo and the Two Strings

Moana

My Life as a Zucchini

The Red Turtle

Zootopia

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CINEMATOGRAPHY

Arrival

La La Land

Lion

Moonlight

Silence

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COSTUME DESIGN

Allied

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Florence Foster Jenkins

Jackie

La La Land

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DIRECTING

Arrival

Hacksaw Ridge

La La Land

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

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DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

Fire at Sea

I Am Not Your Negro

Life, Animated

O.J.: Made in America

13th

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DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

Extremis

4.1 Miles

Joe?s Violin

Watani: My Homeland

The White Helmets

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FILM EDITING

Arrival

Hacksaw Ridge

Hell or High Water

La La Land

Moonlight

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Land of Mine

A Man Called Ove

The Salesman

Tanna

Toni Erdmann

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MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

A Man Called Ove

Star Trek Beyond

Suicide Squad

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MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

Jackie

La La Land

Lion

Moonlight

Passengers

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MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" from La La Land

Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

"Can?t Stop The Feeling" from Trolls

Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster

"City Of Stars" from La La Land

Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

"The Empty Chair" from Jim: The James Foley Story

Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting

"How Far I?ll Go" from Moana

Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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PRODUCTION DESIGN

Arrival

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Hail, Caesar!

La La Land

Passengers

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SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

Blind Vaysha

Borrowed Time

Pear Cider and Cigarettes

Pearl

Piper

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SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

Ennemis Int?rieurs

La Femme et le TGV

Silent Nights

Sing

Timecode

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SOUND EDITING

Arrival

Deepwater Horizon

Hacksaw Ridge

La La Land

Sully

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SOUND MIXING

Arrival

Hacksaw Ridge

La La Land

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

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VISUAL EFFECTS

Deepwater Horizon

Doctor Strange

The Jungle Book

Kubo and the Two Strings

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

Arrival

Fences

Hidden Figures

Lion

Moonlight

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WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

Hell or High Water

La La Land

The Lobster

Manchester by the Sea

20th Century Women

I honestly don't have much of a horse in this race. Out of all the Oscar movies this year I've only watched Arrival, La La Land, Kubo, Zootopia, Fantastic Beasts, and Suicide Squad, Dr. Strange, Jungle Book, and Rogue One and out of all those I'd say the only really noteworthy one was Kubo and the Two Strings, but all those movies had some major problems.

Edit: And how the hell does La La Land even get nominated for costume design?

 

[Zhukov]

If there is any justice whatsoever in this world then Kubo will win visual effects. I didn't even like it that much, but it wins there, no question. Possibly animated movie too, although I suppose a case could be made for the Disney entries.

Star Trek Beyond should win makeup and hairstyling purely on the weight of that one chick. You know the one I mean. She looked cool.

Hell or High Water was alright I suppose. Arrival too. The central premise doesn't hold up for me but it was interesting all the same.

The rest I either haven't seen or have no strong opinion on.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Star Trek Beyond should win makeup and hairstyling purely on the weight of that one chick. You know the one I mean. She looked cool.

Guess who won?

Suicide Squad! Now a fucking Oscar-winning picture.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Zootopia will win Best Animated, Cutest Couple and Most Likely to Be awesome and deserve all the awards ever!

 

[Comic Sans]

Star Trek Beyond should win makeup and hairstyling purely on the weight of that one chick. You know the one I mean. She looked cool.

Guess who won?

Suicide Squad! Now a fucking Oscar-winning picture.

That one really put my nuts through a salad shooter. How was that even up for consideration? Except for maybe Killer Croc there was nothing noteworthy in lines of makeup in that movie. The rest was all stuff that has been done at every single nerd convention for the past decade. Of all things to pick, they went with this fucking train wreck. Ugh

 

[LunarRepublic]

This was the greatest Oscar night ever, holy shit. I'm still trying to grasp what exactly happened.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Jimmy Kimmel is never going to live that down. Someone with as much live experience as him should NEVER have screwed up that badly.

Edit: I know he wasn't the actual announcer who messed up, but someone handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope, which fell under Jimmy Kimmel's purview as the host.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Jimmy Kimmel is never going to live that down. Someone with as much live experience as him should NEVER have screwed up that badly.

Edit: I know he wasn't the actual announcer who messed up, but someone handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope, which fell under Jimmy Kimmel's purview as the host.

Wait, what happened?

 

[IceForce]

Well shit, that Miss Universe guy wasn't there, was he?

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Jimmy Kimmel is never going to live that down. Someone with as much live experience as him should NEVER have screwed up that badly.

Edit: I know he wasn't the actual announcer who messed up, but someone handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope, which fell under Jimmy Kimmel's purview as the host.

Wait, what happened?

Basically, Warren Beatty was handed the envelope with the Best Actress winner rather than the Best Picture winner he was supposed to present. His co-presenter, Faye Dunaway, recognized the Best Actress winner (Emma Stone) as having won for La La Land, and so announced that the Best Picture winner was La La Land.

However, as was revealed by Jimmy Kimmel partway through the acceptance speech, the Best Picture winner was actually Moonlight, not La La Land.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I've only seen one Best Picture nominee, Arrival, which was fantastic. I thought about checking out La La Land, but then I read that it was a movie about Jazz, the objectively worst kind of music. Oh well.

Anyway, I wanted Deadpool to win Best Picture. Nobody really cares about the other categories.

 

[McElroy]

Too bad my n*gga didn't win.

Spoiler

Ruth Negga, haha, made you look

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Yeah, I only saw 2 of the best picture nominees in time. Arrival and Hacksaw Ridge were both pretty great. Maybe I'll go see Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight after hearing so much buzz about them.

Aaaaand fuck. Suicide Squad is now an Oscar winning picture. For a minor, insignificant Oscar but still. That sentence should never have been possible under any circumistances, on any planet, by any rules of metaphysics, in any reality. And Kubo got no love.

Still waiting for Hell or High Water to come out here.

 

[Remus]

And the award for best twist ending goes to: M. Night Shya....no, Warren Beatty! All this because they keep 2 sets of envelopes so that they can hand one to each host if necessary. So the crew of the show screwed up and handed Warren the spare best Actress envelope.

I feel bad for Warren - he's gonna get raked over the coals like Steve was.

I'm glad La La land didn't win. A more white picture couldn't have been made. all technicolorful, cheery, and 1950s flavor, like it was made from a collective to be an oscar contender.

 

[SirSullymore]

I am now going to refer to Suicide Squad as The Academy Award winning Suicide Squad.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

I'm glad La La land didn't win. A more white picture couldn't have been made. all technicolorful, cheery, and 1950s flavor, like it was made from a collective to be an oscar contender.

I struggle to think of any other movie that's as obviously Oscar Bait as La La Land. I suppose there's nothing really wrong with that, but it will invariably be a divisive movie since a lot of people will be ticked off by some of the more obviously baity choices made in production.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I'm glad La La land didn't win. A more white picture couldn't have been made. all technicolorful, cheery, and 1950s flavor, like it was made from a collective to be an oscar contender.

I struggle to think of any other movie that's as obviously Oscar Bait as La La Land. I suppose there's nothing really wrong with that, but it will invariably be a divisive movie since a lot of people will be ticked off by some of the more obviously baity choices made in production.

From what I hear, Moonlight is pretty damn Oscar-baity too.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

I'm glad La La land didn't win. A more white picture couldn't have been made. all technicolorful, cheery, and 1950s flavor, like it was made from a collective to be an oscar contender.

I struggle to think of any other movie that's as obviously Oscar Bait as La La Land. I suppose there's nothing really wrong with that, but it will invariably be a divisive movie since a lot of people will be ticked off by some of the more obviously baity choices made in production.

From what I hear, Moonlight is pretty damn Oscar-baity too.

Oscar Bait movies are still better movies than most movies churrened out by the Blockbuster scene.

Appearently being the best possible is considered bad

 

[Remus]

I'm glad La La land didn't win. A more white picture couldn't have been made. all technicolorful, cheery, and 1950s flavor, like it was made from a collective to be an oscar contender.

I struggle to think of any other movie that's as obviously Oscar Bait as La La Land. I suppose there's nothing really wrong with that, but it will invariably be a divisive movie since a lot of people will be ticked off by some of the more obviously baity choices made in production.

From what I hear, Moonlight is pretty damn Oscar-baity too.

Oscar Bait movies are still better movies than most movies churrened out by the Blockbuster scene.

Appearently being the best possible is considered bad

Not bad, just not entertaining. I'll still get around to watching The Arrival tonight. Seems like it's in the same vein as Contact with Jodie Foster so I might enjoy it.