The 89th Academy Awards (2017) Movie • Page 19

TRUUUUUUUUUU Jean Dujardin winning was just peak academy cluelessness

 

Sadly, I still have not watched There Will Be Blood yet. Black Swan, Inception, The Social Network, Silver Linings Playbook, Her, Whiplash, and Mad Max: Fury Road are all movies I've revisited multiple times.

Midnight in Paris, Juno, Inglorious Bastards, Up in the Air, Toy Story 3, The Tree of Life, Amour, American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street, Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Revenant are other past nominees that I love but haven't revisited.

From this year's nominees, I've only watched Arrival and La La Land more than once.

 

I died laughing when I read this.

 

Toni Erdmann is a lot to chew on. Which makes it a hell of a lot more deserving of recognition than the other foreign language noms I've seen, good as they are.

 

Refreshingly nuanced take on La La Land amidst the hyperbole on both sides about its quality/whether it's deserving of awards recognition. I don't buy as much into some of what he says works, but parts of the piece remind me of what I really liked about it, which was nice.

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Been getting caught up over the past week. Nothing I've caught has beat Arrival for me, that film was easily the film that affected me the most. Moonlight is a close second and since I know Arrival has basically no shot I hope Moonlight wins everything. Hell Or High Water is way underrated, haven't heard anyone talk about it but that was a really really great movie.

Still need to see Fences, Hidden Figures, and Lion.

 

Should the Oscars go back to having only 5 Best Picture nominees?

 

Academy rescinds Oscar nomination for 13 Hours crew member

What. An. Idiot.

 

Spirit Awards are dope

 

Where's the Lion thread?

Just watched it and wondering if anyone else spent 3/4 of that movie sobbing. Oh, just me? That's cool.

 

I have never, in hundreds and hundreds of times at a movie theater, walked out to more people sobbing.

 

look we're all sad that Nicole Kidman isn't our mom and Rooney Mara isn't our girlfriend

seriously though for whatever reason I don't think a movie has ever made me cry, not really a crier in general

 

There was some guy, who must have been adopted or orphaned or something, who was legit stock still, shaking, with his arms around his knees while his girlfriend held him.

 

I don't know, I couldn't watch any of the first act without crying. It was devastating. Then Rooney Mara cheered me up a bit, but the tears came back for the last part, all the way through to the credits.

 

You might be a robot for all I know. 10 years since I joined AP and you're still an enigma, haha.

 

Didn't cry but I did really enjoy the film and was pretty moved by it, especially at the end when They show the real Saroo reuniting with his mother in India.

 

Official Picks for Tonight:

Best Picture: La La Land
Best Director: Damian Chazelle, La La Land
Best Actress: Emma Stone, La La Land
Best Actor: Denzel Washington, Fences
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Fences
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Best Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay: Manchester By The Sea
Best Cinematography: La La Land
Best Film Editing: La La Land
Best Animated Feature: Zootopia
Best Costume Design: Jackie
Best Documentary Feature: O.J.: Made In America
Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman, Iran
Best Makeup & Hairstyling: Star Trek Beyond
Best Original Score: La La Land
Best Original Song: "City of Stars," La La Land
Best Production Design: La La Land
Best Sound Editing: Hacksaw Ridge
Best Sound Mixing: La La Land
Best Visual Effects: The Jungle Book
Best Live Action Short: Ennemis Interieurs
Best Animated Short: Piper
Best Documentary Short: Joe's Violin

 

It feels so weird that Jimmy Kimmel is hosting tonight because he used to do blackface on The Man Show as Karl Malone, dreading his Moonlight Hidden Figures and Fences jokes, oh well at least it's not Billy Crystal he'd probably still do blackface

 

Don't forget Jimmy Fallon in blackface as Chris Rock

 

NY NY LAND (Funny or Die): http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/awlc

 

Pretty sure "Hell or High Water" won't win, but I'm pulling for it

 

I doubt that Certain Women/Lily Gardner/Kristen Stewart will pull off a major upset tonight, I think not being nominated at all really hurt their chances, so I guess I'll root for Moonlight, Isabelle Huppert, Toni Erdmann, Manchester by the Sea, and Silence, then be slightly bummed out as La La Land beats them all.