The SE++ 2015 Oscar Pool (and general Movie Thread): Bogey wins. Again.

YaYa

so okay

I used to like the Oscars

I used to think they were a valuable barometer

but fuck, guys

what is even happening

here's the nominations I guess

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Nominees:
American Sniper (2014): Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, Peter Morgan
Birdman (2014): Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole
Boyhood (2014/I): Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland
The Imitation Game (2014): Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven M. Rales, Jeremy Dawson
Selma (2014): Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
The Theory of Everything (2014): Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten
Whiplash (2014): Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Nominees:
Steve Carell for Foxcatcher (2014)
Benedict Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game (2014)
Bradley Cooper for American Sniper (2014)
Michael Keaton for Birdman (2014)
Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything (2014)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Nominees:
Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night (2014)
Felicity Jones for The Theory of Everything (2014)
Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl (2014)
Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014)
Reese Witherspoon for Wild (2014)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominees:
Robert Duvall for The Judge (2014)
Ethan Hawke for Boyhood (2014/I)
Edward Norton for Birdman (2014)
Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher (2014)
J.K. Simmons for Whiplash (2014)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominees:
Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014/I)
Laura Dern for Wild (2014)
Keira Knightley for The Imitation Game (2014)
Emma Stone for Birdman (2014)
Meryl Streep for Into the Woods (2014)

Best Achievement in Directing
Nominees:
Richard Linklater for Boyhood (2014/I)
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman (2014)
Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher (2014)
Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game (2014)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Nominees:
Boyhood (2014/I): Richard Linklater
Birdman (2014): Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
Foxcatcher (2014): E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler (2014): Dan Gilroy

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Nominees:
American Sniper (2014): Jason Hall
Inherent Vice (2014): Paul Thomas Anderson
The Imitation Game (2014): Graham Moore
The Theory of Everything (2014): Anthony McCarten
Whiplash (2014): Damien Chazelle
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Nominees:
The Boxtrolls (2014)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Song of the Sea (2014)
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Nominees:
Tangerines (2013): Zaza Urushadze
Ida (2013): Pawel Pawlikowski
Leviathan (2014): Andrey Zvyagintsev
Wild Tales (2014): Damián Szifrón
Timbuktu (2014): Abderrahmane Sissako

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Nominees:
Birdman (2014): Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Robert D. Yeoman
Mr. Turner (2014): Dick Pope
Unbroken (2014/I): Roger Deakins
Ida (2013): Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski

Best Achievement in Editing
Nominees:
Boyhood (2014/I): Sandra Adair
The Imitation Game (2014): William Goldenberg
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Barney Pilling
Whiplash (2014): Tom Cross
American Sniper (2014): Joel Cox, Gary Roach

Best Achievement in Production Design
Nominees:
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock
The Imitation Game (2014): Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
Interstellar (2014): Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
Into the Woods (2014): Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock
Mr. Turner (2014): Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Nominees:
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice (2014): Mark Bridges
Into the Woods (2014): Colleen Atwood
Maleficent (2014): Anna B. Sheppard, Jane Clive
Mr. Turner (2014): Jacqueline Durran

Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Nominees:
Foxcatcher (2014): Bill Corso, Dennis Liddiard
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Nominees:
The Imitation Game (2014): Alexandre Desplat
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar (2014): Hans Zimmer
The Theory of Everything (2014): Jóhann Jóhannsson
Mr. Turner (2014): Gary Yershon

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Nominees:
Selma (2014): Common, John Legend(Glory)
Begin Again (2013/II): Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois(Lost Stars)
The Lego Movie (2014): Shawn Patterson(Everything is Awesome)
Beyond the Lights (2014): Diane Warren(Grateful)
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me (2014): Glen Campbell, Julian Raymond

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Nominees:
American Sniper (2014): John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Walt Martin
Birdman (2014): Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Thomas Varga
Interstellar (2014): Gary Rizzo, Gregg Landaker, Mark Weingarten
Unbroken (2014/I): Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, David Lee
Whiplash (2014): Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Nominees:
American Sniper (2014): Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Birdman (2014): Aaron Glascock, Martín Hernández
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014): Brent Burge, Jason Canovas
Interstellar (2014): Richard King
Unbroken (2014/I): Becky Sullivan, Andrew DeCristofaro

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Nominees:
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014): Dan Deleeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill, Daniel Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014): Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould
Interstellar (2014): Paul J. Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott R. Fisher
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014): Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer

Best Documentary, Feature
Nominees:
Citizenfour (2014): Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky
Finding Vivian Maier (2013): John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam (2014): Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester
The Salt of the Earth (2014): Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier
Virunga (2014): Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

Best Documentary, Short Subject
Nominees:
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (2013): Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Perry
Joanna (2013/I): Aneta Kopacz
Our Curse (2013): Tomasz Sliwinski, Maciej Slesicki
The Reaper (2013/I): Gabriel Serra
White Earth (2014): Christian Jensen

Best Short Film, Animated
Nominees:
The Bigger Picture (2014/I): Daisy Jacobs, Chris Hees
The Dam Keeper (2014): Robert Kondo, Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi
Feast (2014/I): Patrick Osborne, Kristina Reed
Me and My Moulton (2014): Torill Kove
A Single Life (2014): Joris Oprins

Best Short Film, Live Action
Nominees:
Aya (2012/I): Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis
Boogaloo and Graham (2014): Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney
Butter Lamp (2013): Wei Hu, Julien Féret
Parvaneh (2012): Talkhon Hamzavi, Stefan Eichenberger
The Phone Call (2013): Mat Kirkby, James Lucas

look

Boyhood and Grand Budapest Hotel and Whiplash are good and a lot of people really liked Birdman

but where the fuck is the Lego Movie or Jake Gyllenhaal or any people of color

sigh. I'm okay. I'm good.

let's do this thing

the ceremony is on the 22nd of February, hosted by...wait for it....



who is rapidly ascending to greatest host ever

enter your picks here: http://goo.gl/forms/IlTpGpNUAI

cross your fingers that Bogey doesn't set his alarm clock

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you can count on thrills, spills, song, dance, and a really, really long ceremony

let's rap, guys

it's Oscar time

Straightzi

Time to coldly and mechanically make my pool list, because it's not like there's anything worth putting my heart into.

Dragkonias

That nominee list is beyond weak.

But at least no Seth MacFarlane as host like those couple of years ago I guess.

Balefuego

There should be a rule that no one can pick American Sniper for best picture, because I don't want that sort of cynacism rewarded.

ph blake

I'm going try to make my picks early this year without reading a lot of Oscar prediction articles. Not like it looks like an interesting race best picture wise, it's basically Boyhood in a landslide unless Birdman makes a late push, right?

Dex Dynamo

i don't know what makes me angrier

a) that lego movie wasn't nominated for best animated

or

cool smiley) that there are rumors floating that it got DQ'd because of its live-action bits (which is the dumbest excuse)

or

c) knowing that even if it was nominated, it would lose because of the well documented fact voters largerly hate animation and don't watch any of the films (and presumably doubly so if it's based on a series of building toys)

SimBen

how

the FUCK

do you not nominate Lego for best animated

SimBen

Also hey I guess Nolan still doesn't get a directing nomination, sure, I guess that.

I hope he's having a drink with DiCaprio right now.

YaYa

SimBen wrote: »

Also hey I guess Nolan still doesn't get a directing nomination, sure, I guess that.

I hope he's having a drink with DiCaprio right now.

well I mean they usually just give directing noms for well-directed movies

Balefuego

I think Nolan did fantastic work with Interstellar but I can't get mad at him being snubbed because I'm way more
mad about Ava Duvernay getting snubbed.

Madican

The Academy despises animated movies, nothing new here.

I'm looking forward more to the Golden Raspberries.

AtomicTofu

The Razzies are a garbage fire.

Chincymcchilla

Madican wrote: »

The Academy despises animated movies, nothing new here.

I'm looking forward more to the Golden Raspberries.

I'm not! Fuck those guys.

Sterica

lego was robbed

Goose!

What did the razzies people do?

SimBen

At least Everything Is Awesome is there

it better god damn win

SimBen

Goose! wrote: »

What did the razzies people do?

Nominated The Interview for worst picture.

Madican

The Razzies people have also ripped Adam Sandler's shit wide open and tend to not let crappy movies slide so I'm willing to forgive a few mistakes here and there.

Straightzi

Goose! wrote: »

What did the razzies people do?

"Trannies 4: Age of Ex-Stink-Tion"

AtomicTofu

Madican wrote: »

The Razzies people have also ripped Adam Sandler's shit wide open and tend to not let crappy movies slide so I'm willing to forgive a few mistakes here and there.

There are FAR crappier movies that they always ignore. They only nominate the stuff that's popular to hate, hence the constant appearance of Sandler and Transformers. I don't need the Razzies to tell me those are bad.

Psykoma

Evidently I haven't seen any of the best picture/best actor/actress movies.

simo

Madican wrote: »

The Academy despises animated movies, nothing new here.

I'm looking forward more to the Golden Raspberries.

i don't know, i think because of the nature of the nominating committee, animated feature consistently has some of less-conventional nominating of any of the categories

for instance foreign-language animated films get nominated significantly more than do live-action foreign language films for best picture

though obviously there are problems with animated films not being able to get best picture traction, and the actual feature animation award usually just goes to the most popular choice because most of the voters in the main awards don't watch all the films

AtomicTofu

Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea would never be on the list if nobody there cared about animation

Marathon

I've said this once already today, but it is some bullshit that the Lego movie didn't get nominated.

SimBen

Psykoma wrote: »

Evidently I haven't seen any of the best picture/best actor/actress movies.

I'm interested in seeing The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything and Boyhood though.

Madican

I didn't say nobody cared, but they will never win a Best Picture award. The separate Best Animated category isn't the same weight as that one.

Balefuego

SimBen wrote: »

Psykoma wrote: »

Evidently I haven't seen any of the best picture/best actor/actress movies.

I'm interested in seeing The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything and Boyhood though.

When I started reading this post I thought it was a troll/joke and then I got to the end and now I'm just confused.

Theodore Floosevelt

i'm gonna do it this year, i do so swear

gonna watch all these nominees!!!! yeah!!!!!

Theodore Floosevelt

probably not american sniper though

Balefuego

These are the best picture nominees you should watch:
Boyhood
Selma
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash

Maybe watch these:
Birdman
The Imitation Game

Save yourself from:
The Theory of Everything
American Sniper

SimBen

Balefuego wrote: »

SimBen wrote: »

Psykoma wrote: »

Evidently I haven't seen any of the best picture/best actor/actress movies.

I'm interested in seeing The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything and Boyhood though.

When I started reading this post I thought it was a troll/joke and then I got to the end and now I'm just confused.

What? They are nominated, I haven't seen them and am interested in seeing them. What?

SimBen

Oh yeah I might watch Selma too.

Cabezone

Whiplash is great, especially if you like jazz drumming.

Balefuego

SimBen wrote: »

Balefuego wrote: »

SimBen wrote: »

Psykoma wrote: »

Evidently I haven't seen any of the best picture/best actor/actress movies.

I'm interested in seeing The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything and Boyhood though.

When I started reading this post I thought it was a troll/joke and then I got to the end and now I'm just confused.

What? They are nominated, I haven't seen them and am interested in seeing them. What?

Those first 2 and American Sniper are the movies we are all talking about as undeserving.

Theodore Floosevelt

additional insight into the dearth of selma

Mark Harris wrote:

For the Oscars, most of the time, late-December releases just don’t work. The Selma campaign, faced with a movie that was not going to be ready until the last minute, made a set of decisions that were, I think, catastrophic. Chief among them, it opted to shrug off most of the guild awards and not send DVDs to their memberships (it wasn’t eligible for the WGA), missing many opportunities to build enthusiasm in the rank-and-file.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/2015-academy-award-nominations-selma/

ph blake

I might see American Sniper just because I live in a desert wasteland and it's the only half decent movie playing around here. And I like going to the movie theatre and buying overpriced popcorn because I'm weird.

SimBen

Balefuego wrote: »

SimBen wrote: »

Balefuego wrote: »

SimBen wrote: »

Psykoma wrote: »

Evidently I haven't seen any of the best picture/best actor/actress movies.

I'm interested in seeing The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything and Boyhood though.

When I started reading this post I thought it was a troll/joke and then I got to the end and now I'm just confused.

What? They are nominated, I haven't seen them and am interested in seeing them. What?

Those first 2 and American Sniper are the movies we are all talking about as undeserving.

Oh.

They looked interesting to me and are about scientists I admire which is why I'm interested in seeing them. Have not kept up with reviews.

simo

mark harris also had a decent point in that article that there were too many "dark" contenders and quasi-contenders

you had foxcatcher, whiplash, nightcrawler and gone girl and the latter two ultimately got largely shut out

Theodore Floosevelt

Balefuego wrote: »

These are the best picture nominees you should watch:
Boyhood
Selma
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash

Maybe watch these:
Birdman
The Imitation Game

Save yourself from:
The Theory of Everything
American Sniper

I'm definitely checking out Birdman, both because i've wanted to see it and because it seems most positioned to contend with boyhood

and i will also see Grand Budapest and Whiplash at some point, gonna go see Selma this weekend

I've only seen Boyhood and Imitation Game so far, but will probably see Theory of Everything anyway because the wife would like to

if there were a way to somehow appreciate/understand bradley cooper's performance in american sniper without having to bother with the movie i would like that

Balefuego

I only put Birdman in the maybes because it is so very divisive and is absolutely not going to be everyone's cup of tea.

El Fantastico

How To Train Your Dragon had better win, but in the face of Big Hero 6? Enh.

But Dean DeBlois deserves the win. He's such a nice guy, created Lilo and Stitch, and is Canadian (gotta support).