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Post by Squire Sullen on Feb 28, 2016 17:31:51 GMT
I've had a bit of a theatre break and filled the gap with films so hope it's alright to discuss them on a theatre board! Anyone staying up to the watch the overlong, whitewashed ceremony like myself? Looks like Thw Revenant will likely sweep the major categories and the Internet will go berserk when DiCaprio finally takes home the trophy. Personally I'd like to see Spotlight nab Best Picture instead. Saying that, my choice would be Room - but sadly that isn't going to happen. This year I finally managed to watch all the Best Film nominees before the ceremony (which meant an intense afternoon watching Sootlight and Mad Max on Friday) and I've ranked them in order of preference with my thoughts on each if anyone fancies a read: squiresullen.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/and-the-oscar-goes-to-my-thoughts-on-the-2015-best-picture-race/ |
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Post by Marwood on Feb 28, 2016 18:42:57 GMT
Saw The Revenant yesterday and while I thought it was OK, I didn't think it was that great (nicely photographed but Leonardo didn't really do too much apart from a lot of grunting and groaning, while Tom Hardy provided a masterclass in mumbling), of the other films nominated for Best Film that I've seen (Brooklyn, The Martian and Mad Max: Fury Road), I'd go for Mad Max which while I certainly don't think it'll win, was the most enjoyable of those films (and the only one to feature someone playing the electric guitar on the back of a truck bombing through the desert)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2016 18:57:08 GMT
I am staying up to watch it, I always do!  Am hoping for Spotlight to win Best Picture, which is actually very likely! I am one of the rare few who want Eddie Redmayne to win but it won't happen this year. Brie Larson is a lock for Best Actress, which I am happy about! The big competition of the night is Best Supporting Actress, which will be either Alicia Vikander (who I want to win!) or Kate Winslet, which I predict will happen. Ronney Mara a possible dark horse. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 28, 2016 19:25:59 GMT
Is Rylance up for best actor?
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Post by Steffi on Feb 28, 2016 19:31:14 GMT
Is Rylance up for best actor? He's up for best supporting actor. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 28, 2016 19:38:13 GMT
Is Rylance up for best actor? He's up for best supporting actor. I'll wait for the results to come in tomorrow morning then. Just Best Supporter. #NoJustice |
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Post by littlesally on Feb 28, 2016 21:46:35 GMT
Spotlight should win best picture. And I preferred Bryan Cranston to Di Caprio.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2016 23:21:44 GMT
We know that all the awards are to be given to white people. Anaemic discrimination.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2016 23:43:31 GMT
He's up for best supporting actor. I'll wait for the results to come in tomorrow morning then. Just Best Supporter. #NoJustice They seem to think Stallone will get it. (I believe that's what happened at the Globes.) Which was all the encouragement I needed not to bother tuning in tonight. ;-) |
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Post by Steve on Feb 28, 2016 23:50:54 GMT
Spotlight is so conventional, though worthy in it's topic, if a little late to the party. The Revenant is remarkable filmmaking, shocking and kinetic, but Mad Max Fury Road is even more remarkable in that sense. The way Room makes so much of that small space, and inhabits the wonder of a child who has seen nothing but that room, makes it the most deserving winner in my book, as it's subject matter and technique combine to create the deepest most affecting work of art, in my opinion.
I haven't seen Trumbo, so I can't comment on it, but Eddie Redmayne does more actual acting, more affecting transforming work than DiCaprio.
I expect The Revenant and DiCaprio to win both those awards, as a reward for the sheer rare effort at completing such a difficult project, and because DiCaprio has never won one, despite repeatedly using his star power to finance films which are more obviously artistic, and less obviously commercial.
The Best Actress category will be won be Brie Larson, as a sop to a remarkable film that won't otherwise be honoured, but also because all the performances in the Best Actress category are about equally excellent (I loved Charlotte Rampling's nuanced performance in 45 Years, but her careless comments on diversity will mean many voters will have crossed her off the list before even considering her), so why not give it to Brie Larson.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2016 23:56:24 GMT
The Best Cheese category will be won be Brie Larson |
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Post by Nicholas on Feb 29, 2016 3:37:01 GMT
Mark Rylance!
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Post by viserys on Feb 29, 2016 5:55:28 GMT
So happy for Mark Rylance! And for good old Leo too. I haven't seen The Revenant and don't care to, but considering previous snubs, he's just been due one.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2016 6:19:22 GMT
So glad for Alicia and Spotlight, love those films!
I am happy for Leo however it always annoys me people go on about him not winning 5 times before this when there are people who have lost more times than that and no one seems to care (looking at you Amy Adams!)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2016 8:49:17 GMT
So Academy voters get it right now and again... The thought of film history having to cope with the humiliation of recognising Stallone rather than Rylance was just too hideous to contemplate!
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Post by Steve on Feb 29, 2016 9:02:34 GMT
The Best Cheese category will be won be Brie Larson Wrong as usual about Best Picture, lol, though I was right about cheese. Cheese wins, and Brie, in particular, is an addiction for me. It does feel good to wake up to a world where Mark Rylance has an Oscar. |
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Post by d'James on Feb 29, 2016 9:35:37 GMT
So glad for Alicia and Spotlight, love those films! I am happy for Leo however it always annoys me people go on about him not winning 5 times before this when there are people who have lost more times than that and no one seems to care (looking at you Amy Adams!) It's such a weird one. Sometime people just latch onto someone. It's like Glenn Close who has had six nominations and no wins. She was so terrific in Alberts Nobbs but way in advance people seemed to have decided it was Meryl Streep's turn to win again because she'd had so many nominations and not wins 'recently.' Leonardo is very similar to Julianne Moore last year, where it feels like a lifetime achievement award rather than for that one performance (even though the specific performances are deserving). |
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Post by Nicholas on Feb 29, 2016 10:13:05 GMT
Mark Rylance Mark Rylance Mark Rylance! Still over the moon. Hoping he gets nominated for an Olivier later (as I hope van Kampen is), wouldn’t that be swell? My money was on Stallone, because the Academy often like to reward old-timers in that lifetime achievement way, though everything was crossed for the eventual deserving winner. It’s testament to how much I love Rylance that I don’t begrudge him having cost me my hard-earned coffers.
My money was also on Spotlight, though, which means, hold your applause, overall I’m up by a grand total of £3.46 (pub quiz is on me, clearly). My favourite nominated film was Room, but Spotlight was just behind, the brilliance of that film being that the ‘lead’ is the story, every cut and character and scene and moment dedicated not to cinematic show-offery where we appreciate how hard it must have been to make this shot for the actors, directors and cinematographer who ultimately win for their shameless, hollow, difficult spectacle, but to honouring the silenced people in a story that needs honouring.
Glad it beat The Revenant, which I thought was pants – it’s a Road Runner cartoon for pretentious people. Of the two “Maverick Director Takes Cast Into Inhospitable Terrain To Make OTT Impossible Chase Movie”s nominated, it wasn’t even my favourite and clearly not the technical best of the two. For the second year in a row, Inarritu wins for a film whose central message is “Allessandro G Inarritu really really really wants you to notice how innovative he is.”
But that said, Congratulations Leo. It’s nice that, in these times of political and economic instability, we can come together as a community to rally behind and celebrate a needy multi-millionaire finally getting his much-coveted lump of solid gold. I find it ridiculous that people can be so excited about this great actor finally getting his due in a year when Mark Rylance, the greatest living actor (maybe, possibly, probably), has upset people who thought it should go to the star of Stop Or My Mon Will Shoot, where Ennio Morricone only just won his first (first!) Oscar, and where Roger Deakins STILL hasn’t won. Go Leo, your grunting while a bloke in a blue bear costume straddled you was better than everyone else’s not grunting. |
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Post by mallardo on Feb 29, 2016 10:48:02 GMT
I agree with what Steve said somewhere above - Spotlight was a thoroughly conventional movie, one of those films where a straw man is set up which then crumbles at first contact. My personal choice was The Martian but I suppose a big brilliantly crafted adventure film (which happens to work on every level) is just not going to be seen as serious enough.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2016 11:11:29 GMT
I agree with what Steve said somewhere above - Spotlight was a thoroughly conventional movie, one of those films where a straw man is set up which then crumbles at first contact. My personal choice was The Martian but I suppose a big brilliantly crafted adventure film (which happens to work on every level) is just not going to be seen as serious enough. Personal taste, Mallardo - The Martian was the most boring film I sat through in the cinema last year. I haven't bothered seeing Spotlight because it sounds like standard manipulative Hollywood guff. The Revenant in IMAX was astoundingly good. Room and Brooklyn both had me in tears at the time and in rumination for days afterwards. The Big Short I also avoided, without knowing much about it, because of fears it might fall into Spotlight territory. Any year that produces The Revenant, Room and Brooklyn is exceptional, in my opinion. And last night I relished Tilda Swinton in A Bigger Splash. |
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Post by westendcub on Feb 29, 2016 13:21:00 GMT
Super happy that 'Spotlight' won best picture..It was between that and 'Room' for me but I had just thought 'The Revenant' was going to nab it - that has good performances and some inspired moments of direction but overall it's a rather boring and long winded 3 hours of a movie to sit through, 'Spotlight' was a pulsating piece with a wonderful cast, with gripping storytelling and smart direction.
I like that 'Brooklyn' get nominated but knew it was even in the running.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2016 13:32:47 GMT
It does feel good to wake up to a world where Mark Rylance has an Oscar. ![:)]() Even though it should have been Jacob Tremblay.  |
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Post by Flim Flam on Feb 29, 2016 14:20:34 GMT
Still grinning ear to ear for Mark Rylance though...
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Post by lynette on Feb 29, 2016 15:26:37 GMT
It does feel good to wake up to a world where Mark Rylance has an Oscar. ![:)]() Even though it should have been Jacob Tremblay. I think they have a rule about child actors, don't they? |
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Post by mallardo on Feb 29, 2016 15:35:17 GMT
A child actor can win an Oscar - several have been nominated. It's just that people tend not to vote for them.
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