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Academy Awards 2019: Oscar Night


Mladen

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Too many embarrassments, too many meltdowns and not enough of great cinema...

In short, let's get over with this. 

Welcome to 2019 Academy Awards thread :D

 

(hope someone will be watching it with me :D )

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It is an altogether horrifying and undignified reality we exist in when the delightful 'Black Panther' is not only nominated for but a stealthy favorite to win Best Picture.

I mean I accepted that the Academy was so full of shit as to be irredeemable some ten years or more ago but good Zod I never thought we would be here.

I mean look at what it's up against! 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was so middling I forgot I'd seen it the other day. 'Vice' didn't even know what the fuck film they'd made until after the advertisements were seen as wholly uncouth.

I can't speak for the others, but the simple presence of these three represent the absolute degradation of an ever absurd and unjust but once dignified process. 

We have a fine film that pissed away its own shot at transcendence in pursual of pleasing idiots. Then a lazy, altogether slapdick biopic content to meet the bare minimum requirements of entry to the ranks of the prestiged. And rounding out this terrible trio would be the aforementioned confused attempt at reactionary reflection into the political campaigning of a warmonger. 

On the backs of these items alone I pronounce cinema to be in its death throes.

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Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams, “Vice”
Marina de Tavira, “Roma”
Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Emma Stone, “The Favourite”
Rachel Weisz, “The Favourite”

Best Documentary Feature:

“Free Solo,” Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
“Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” RaMell Ross
“Minding the Gap,” Bing Liu
“Of Fathers and Sons,” Talal Derki
“RBG,” Betsy West, Julie Cohen

Makeup and Hair:

“Border”
“Mary Queen of Scots”
“Vice”

Costume Design:

“Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” Mary Zophres
“Black Panther,” Ruth E. Carter
“The Favourite,” Sandy Powell
“Mary Poppins Returns,” Sandy Powell
“Mary Queen of Scots,” Alexandra Byrne

Production Design:

“Black Panther,” Hannah Beachler
“First Man,” Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas
“The Favourite,” Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
“Mary Poppins Returns,” John Myhre, Gordon Sim
“Roma,” Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enrı́quez

Cinematography:

“Cold War,” Lukasz Zal
“The Favourite,” Robbie Ryan
“Never Look Away,” Caleb Deschanel
“Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón
“A Star Is Born,” Matthew Libatique

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Sound Editing:

“Black Panther,” Benjamin A. Burtt, Steve Boeddeker
“Bohemian Rhapsody,” John Warhurst
“First Man,” Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan
“A Quiet Place,” Ethan Van der Ryn, Erik Aadahl
“Roma,” Sergio Diaz, Skip Lievsay

Sound Mixing:

“Black Panther”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“First Man”
“Roma”
“A Star Is Born”

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Best Foreign Language Film:

“Capernaum” (Lebanon)
“Cold War” (Poland)
“Never Look Away” (Germany)
“Roma” (Mexico)
“Shoplifters” (Japan)

Film Editing:

“BlacKkKlansman,” Barry Alexander Brown
“Bohemian Rhapsody,” John Ottman
“Green Book,” Patrick J. Don Vito
“The Favourite,” Yorgos Mavropsaridis
“Vice,” Hank Corwin

Supporting Actor:

Mahershala Ali, “Green Book”
Adam Driver, “BlacKkKlansman”
Sam Elliott, “A Star Is Born”
Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Sam Rockwell, “Vice”

Animated Feature:

“Incredibles 2,” Brad Bird
“Isle of Dogs,” Wes Anderson
“Mirai,” Mamoru Hosoda
“Ralph Breaks the Internet,” Rich Moore, Phil Johnston
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

Animated Short:

“Animal Behaviour,” Alison Snowden, David Fine
“Bao,” Domee Shi
“Late Afternoon,” Louise Bagnall
“One Small Step,” Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas
“Weekends,” Trevor Jimenez

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Best Documentary Short Subject:

“Black Sheep,” Ed Perkins
“End Game,” Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
“Lifeboat,” Skye Fitzgerald
“A Night at the Garden,” Marshall Curry
“Period. End of Sentence.,” Rayka Zehtabchi

Visual Effects:

“Avengers: Infinity War”
“Christopher Robin”
“First Man”
“Ready Player One”
“Solo: A Star Wars Story”

Best Live Action Short Film: 
“Detainment,” Vincent Lambe
“Fauve,” Jeremy Comte
“Marguerite,” Marianne Farley
“Mother,” Rodrigo Sorogoyen
“Skin,” Guy Nattiv

Original Screenplay:

“The Favourite,” Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
“First Reformed,” Paul Schrader
“Green Book,” Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
“Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón
“Vice,” Adam McKay

Adapted Screenplay:

“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” Joel Coen , Ethan Coen
“BlacKkKlansman,” Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee
“Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
“If Beale Street Could Talk,” Barry Jenkins
“A Star Is Born,” Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters

Original Score:

“BlacKkKlansman,” Terence Blanchard
“Black Panther,” Ludwig Goransson
“If Beale Street Could Talk,” Nicholas Britell
“Isle of Dogs,” Alexandre Desplat
“Mary Poppins Returns,” Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman

Original Song:

“All The Stars” from “Black Panther” by Kendrick Lamar, SZA
“I’ll Fight” from “RBG” by Diane Warren, Jennifer Hudson
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from “Mary Poppins Returns” by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
“Shallow” from “A Star Is Born” by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt and Benjamin Rice
“When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” by Willie Watson, Tim Blake Nelson

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1 hour ago, Risto said:

 

Animated Feature:

“Incredibles 2,” Brad Bird
“Isle of Dogs,” Wes Anderson
“Mirai,” Mamoru Hosoda
“Ralph Breaks the Internet,” Rich Moore, Phil Johnston
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

 

That's kind of the only award I care about this year. And I'm glad the Academy made the right choice.

In terms of supporting actress, I'd say a very good performance by an American actor, telling a very American story  in a very good movie will pretty much always beat out a very good performance by an actor telling a very not American story. So no surprise that Regina King wins. 

I'm glad BlacKkKlansman won for adapted screenplay. It deserves something. Is it Spike Lee's first Oscar, or has he won before just not for director or best picture?

First man needed to be thrown a bone since it bombed so hard in theaters and ended up being pretty boring with nothing else going for it. It did do a good job in the SFX department, and it's nice to have sfx that you barely realise are sfx rewarded as opposed to big action in-your-face sfx.

I wonder if the Academy is ready to award a Netfix original, very niche, foreign language film with the big prize.

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Lead Actor:

Christian Bale, “Vice”
Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born”
Willem Dafoe, “At Eternity’s Gate”
Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book”

Lead Actress:

Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma”
Glenn Close, “The Wife”
Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”
Lady Gaga, “A Star Is Born”
Melissa McCarthy, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

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2 minutes ago, Risto said:

Wow... I mean, I did not see Colman winning. Poor Glenn Close... We got our female Peter O'Toole :(

I haven't seen The Wife. Is her performance that much better than Coleman's? Coleman's performance was excellent.

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Just now, The Anti-Targ said:

I haven't seen The Wife. Is her performance that much better than Coleman's? Coleman's performance was excellent.

I wouldn't say better. Colman deserved the Oscar, winning it fair and square. It was just that moment when people thought this was the last time for Close to be in conversation for winning. One great career may end without Oscar... That's really sad.

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