The Oscars 2014 Thread

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

The Nominations are out:

Best Picture
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best supporting actor
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best supporting actress
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska

Best director
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best animated feature film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises

Best foreign film
The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium
The Great Beauty, Italy
The Hunt, Denmark
The Missing Picture, Cambodia
Omar, Palestine

Best original screenplay
American Hustle, Eric Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club, Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Her, Spike Jonze
Nebraska, Bob Nelson

Best adapted screenplay
Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips, Billy Ray
Philomena, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter

Edited January 16, 2014 by TheSqauredCircleMessiah

[GoGo Yubari]

Annoyed at Inside Llewyn Davis being shut out from everything of the slightest relevance to anyone (SORRY SOUND MIXERS I'm sure they're happy). Surprised they ignored "Saving Mr. Banks." Would have liked to see Michael B. Jordan in the running for Fruitvale Station but that was never going to happen.

Otherwise not really a field I can be offended over or anything like that. I'm going to need to watch Her and Dallas Buyers Club before the awards. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe Nebraska.

[Benjamin]

Yeah, should I watch Nebraska? Not really interested in it.

Michael B Jordan not getting nominated makes me sad though.

[GoGo Yubari]

The main reason I'm interested is that the screenwriter is a Seattle native who I watched on a local sketch comedy show all the time as a kid. I imagine it's a good movie, it's just not one I'm super-compelled to go watch.

[Maxx]

Steve McQueen is back from the dead and directing now?

[livid]

Steve McQueen is back from the dead and directing now?

Yep. He's also a British black man now too.

Nice to see DiCaprio nominated but I don't think he'll win. Can't say I'm annoyed like GoGo since I haven't seen it yet but I am surprised that Inside Llewn Davis wasn't nominated more. Wow.

[GoGo Yubari]

It was pretty much widely speculated that the Academy didn't care for it that much, and Best Lead Actor is such a deathmatch this year that Tom Hanks didn't even get nominated. But I was still hoping against hope that "Please Mr. Kennedy" would at least get a best song nomination. Instead that spot went to that fucking Pharrell Williams song.

EDIT: Wow, didn't notice that Blackfish got snubbed as well, that's surprising. That was probably the biggest documentary of 2013.

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

Tom Hanks had two of his best performances in years and I can't believe he was shut out in both. I loved "Saving Mr. Banks" so I'm really surprised that it was shut out of everything. I thought Emma Thompson would at least get nominated.

And Leo's Oscar quest will continue to go unfulfilled I think.

[Benjamin]

So, my predictions for now would be:

Best Picture

Winner: Gravity / 12 Years A Slave / Wolf Of Wall Street

Best Actor
Winner: Bruce Dern / Chiwetel Ejiorfor / Matthew McConnaughey

Best Actress
Winner: Sandra Bul

Best supporting actor
Winner: Barkhad Abdi / Jared Leto

Best supporting actress
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence / Sally Hawkins

Best director
Winner: Martin Scorsese / Steve McQueen

Best animated feature film
Winner: Frozen

Best foreign film
Winner: The Hunt / The Broken Circle Breakdown

Best original screenplay
Winner: Her

Best adapted screenplay
Winner: The Wolf Of Wall Street / Captain Phillips

If Before Midnight wins Best Adapted Screenplay, though, I might cry with joy.

EDIT: I'm just basing all this on what I've heard people say about the movie, not my own opinion.

Edited January 16, 2014 by Benkid

[GoGo Yubari]

DiCaprio has such bad fortune as far as nominations go. Whenever he's nominated for something he could win for, it's in a bloodbath year. This field is just as brutal as the one he had to compete in for The Aviator. Of that field, at first glance, I'd give it to him but that's without having seen DBC or Nebraska.

I'll take a stab at it:

Best Picture

American Hustle

Best Actor

Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Best supporting actor

Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best supporting actress

Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave

Best director

Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

Best animated feature film

Frozen

Best foreign film

The Hunt, Denmark

Best original screenplay

American Hustle, Eric Singer and David O. Russell

Best adapted screenplay

The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter

Blanchett is this year's no-brainer win in the acting categories. There's always one. Bullock I guess has a shot but it'd be a decisive upset. I'd probably go with Lawrence for Supporting Actress because she is ridiculously good in American Hustle but it doesn't seem like a very Oscars thing to give her statues two years running.

[zero]

Best Picture
Gravity or 12 Years a Slave

---Too tough to call.

Best Actor
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

--Poor Leo

Best Actress
Amy Adams, American Hustle

--She earned that Golden Globe, see no reason why she wouldn't repeat.

Best supporting actor
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

--The idea of Jared Leto getting an Oscar is strange, but this is a lock.

Best supporting actress
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave

--Agree with GoGo, don't see them giving it to J-Law two years in a row. Also, I have a feeling that Pop Culture is about to decide that she's too likable and needs to be torn down.

Best director
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

--No doubt here, Gravity was the best theater experience of the year.

Best animated feature film
Frozen

--Obviously.

Best foreign film
---No clue.

Best original screenplay
Her, Spike Jonze

---This is always the hat tip category to a movie that's too quirky to win Best Picture.

Best adapted screenplay
Before Midnight

---My dark horse pick.

[GoGo Yubari]

She earned that Golden Globe, see no reason why she wouldn't repeat.

She and Cate Blanchett weren't in the same category, that's why.

[Benjamin]

No way they are giving the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor to performances from the same movie. Have they ever done that?

[LL!]

The movies I still need to see before the Oscars are Inside Llewyn Davis, Dallas Buyer's Club, and Fruitvale Station. I've pretty much grown to kinda detest award shows because of just how silly it all is. The fact that Inside Llewyn Davis is up for as many Oscars as The Lone Ranger is really sucky. With that said, this is the first year that I didn't want Leo to win best actor because I think Joaquin Phoenix deserves it for his marvelous (and outright more difficult) performance in Her. But, of fucking course Phoenix was snubbed, so I'll go with Leo. As far as any of you watching Nebraska? I recommend it. It's funny and has some nice heart. Alexander Payne is really good.

As far as predictions go, I'll bold the ones I predict will win and will underline the ones I want to win.

Predictions:

Best Picture
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best supporting actor
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
(I'm sure I would pick Leto in this had I seen Dallas Buyers Club. I'm just picking from the three I've actually seen here.)

Best supporting actress
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska
(I've only seen 2 here, so I guess I go with Lawrence as my choice)

Best director
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best animated feature film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises

Best foreign film
The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium
The Great Beauty, Italy
The Hunt, Denmark
The Missing Picture, Cambodia
Omar, Palestine

Best original screenplay
American Hustle, Eric Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club, Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Her, Spike Jonze
Nebraska, Bob Nelson

Best adapted screenplay
Before Midnight, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips, Billy Ray
Philomena, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter

[Jimmy]

Not enough of the films have come out here yet for me to have a well-roundedo opinion. Wolf of Wall Street is today, but we've still got Dallas Buyers Club, Her, Inside Lewlyn Davis, August and I missed Captain Phillips. The lack of Before Midnight in Best Picture is stupid, though.

Will also try to watch all the documentaries and foreign films before the awards, but I'd be shocked if anything but The Act of Killing won the Oscar. Superb documentary.

Also, I'd love for Sally Hawkins to somehow get an Oscar. At least she got a nomination after strangely being overlooked for Happy-Go-Lucky. I don't think Lawrence was, like, Oscar good. But I'd be fine Nyongo'o winning, too. Really, really rooting for Ejifor to win Best Actor at the moment, too.

[Benjamin]

I honestly believe Ejiofor has the best shot at winning Best Actor. Especially with Michael B Jordan not being nominated.

[Walker]

I think 12 Years a Slave will predictably hoover up best film/director/actor. Gravity will then clean up the production awards, and I suspect Bullock will get the nod for Best Actress. I can't see many surprises happening.

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

No way they are giving the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor to performances from the same movie. Have they ever done that?

The last time it happened was 2004 when Sean Penn won Best Actor and Tim Robbins won Best Supporting Actor for Mystic River.

Last time it happened before that was 1960 when Charlton Heston and Hugh Griffith won for Ben Hur. It's happened four times.

Edited January 17, 2014 by TheSqauredCircleMessiah

[RPS]

Yeah. If it is going to happen again, this will be the year. Leto is, at this point, guaranteed to get the award and McConaughey is the favorite after the Globes. Lots can change, but Leto isn't going to lose, so it really comes down to Matt.

[Jimmy]

Dunno, could also see Ejifor and Fassbender happening. They're both wonderful. Just depends how nice the academy wanna be to the Brits.