Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Spotlight is seriously an understated masterpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 Spotlight wins best picture. Well, I thought it was a very fine film for certain! I haven't seen all the nominees or anything, but its my pick for best film of the year right now (other than Mad Max) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJH132 48 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Just now, Disco Stu said: Spotlight is seriously an understated masterpiece. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 It's a very good film. Just surprised. Not sure it'd be my Best Picture choice too. EDIT: nvm. It won original screenplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,285 Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 1 minute ago, KK. said: Woaahhh.....I didn't expect that. It literally got no other award, and I thought this was a surefire for Revenant. No, it also won original screenplay Haha, Michael Keaton eating girl scout cookies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Pretty wide range of winners this year. That always makes for a better and more interesting show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I initially put my bets on it for Best Picture, but thought it lost momentum against The Revenant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellosh 3,385 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Well I know what we're renting this week on demand... I honestly thought the Revenant deserved best picture. Movie was incredible. And as much as the bear scene gets joked about...it truly was one of the most jaw dropping sequences I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Bullshit winners all of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellosh 3,385 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Best Picture: TFA Best Actor: TFA Best Original Song: TFA Best Animated Short Documentary: TFA happier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I thought The Revenant would take it as well. Seemed to have the momentum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 26 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: In the words of the great film critic Scott Tobias, "Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is a pretentious fraud." Oh, did you not like that film? Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,300 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Really would've liked Miller to take Best Director but they were very generous with all the technical awards for MM. Surprised at Spotlight winning BP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 9 minutes ago, TheGreyPilgrim said: Oh, did you not like that film? Christ. Think of the filmmaker whose movies you despise below all others, movies you honestly hate. Now imagine everyone showering them with adulation. It's maddening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 So another Academy Awards ceremony passes at JWFan, and all I can think about is how full of shit everyone here is! Looking forward to all the "I don't care" posts next year. Goodnight friends! Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Just now, Koray Savas said: So another Academy Awards ceremony passes at JWFan, and all I can think about is how full of shit everyone here is! Goodnight friends! The truth is beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Don't know about everyone. But there has been some stupid shit said over the last few pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 1 minute ago, Disco Stu said: Think of the filmmaker whose movies you despise below all others, movies you honestly hate. Now imagine everyone showering them with adulation. It's maddening! I honestly don't honestly hate any movie or filmmaker. If a movie does nothing for me, I just don't care. Doesn't madden me and I don't post in triplicate about how much I loathed it... but that's just me! 1 minute ago, Disco Stu said: The truth is beautiful. Tell us all about this truth then. Who here is full of shit? I love when a new member wants to put someone in their place.... KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Maybe the closest I've gotten to that stage this year is with The Danish Girl. But I don't really loathe that either. And I think most people see through that for the bs it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Regardless of the fairness in these awards, they do bring tremendous attention and spotlight to the winners, making their work much more visible to the general public. For that reason, I'm happy Morricone won, regardless of me thinking TFA was the superior score and how Morricone had this in the bag from the day he was announced as the composer of Tarantino's next KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 So what did I miss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I didn't insult you and I'm sorry if I offended you. I'm very passionate about the culture I love and equally passionate when I think harmful culture is getting unjustly elevated. I can get carried away sometimes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 If Johnny won, people would be like "maybe Ennio should have won this time". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I remember a time in the distant past when this show was about movies. . . . Not the worst one in years, not the best. But they're really all like that these days, aren't they? For an event that's designed to reward the best work in the film industry, the show itself has actually become a yearly exercise in mediocrity. Oh, well. See y'all again next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 9 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: I didn't insult you and I'm sorry if I offended you. I'm very passionate about the culture I love and equally passionate when I think harmful culture is getting unjustly elevated. I can get carried away sometimes! Is this directed at me? Who said anything about insults or offense? Anyway, what the hell is "harmful culture" and how does it apply to The Revenant? You'll have to forgive me for saying so, but after declaring Iñárritu to be a pretentious fraud, this seems a rather amusingly pretentious way to criticize his film.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 1 minute ago, Uni said: I remember a time in the distant past when this show was about movies. . . . I do too. I do too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 So yet another dude with an obscure foreign name wins Best Original Score. What else is new? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 4 minutes ago, Hlao-roo said: So yet another dude with an obscure foreign name wins Best Original Score. What else is new? I bet "Hlao-roo" would get a lot of attention for its exotic quality - have you ever considered scoring a major Hollywood film? There'll have to be a scapegoat when Williams doesn't win for The BFG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Hmm, in that case, I wonder what my chances would be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 36 minutes ago, TheGreyPilgrim said: I bet "Hlao-roo" would get a lot of attention for its exotic quality - have you ever considered scoring a major Hollywood film? There'll have to be a scapegoat when Williams doesn't win for The BFG. I blame the voters really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niko85 1 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 The memorium was 5 sec. from having the lyrics "Take these broken wings and learn to fly" sung over Horner's image. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I confused 'Spotlight' with 'The Big Short' for a moment...then it fell to me and i thought... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 The Academy lost any relevance after they failed to award Williams for Temple of Doom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted February 29, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted February 29, 2016 1 hour ago, publicist said: I confused 'Spotlight' with 'The Big Short' for a moment...then it fell to me and i thought... Not a fan? I reckon it's a technically well-made film with a solid cast (Stan always rocks). But like I said earlier, I just can't take "activist" pieces like this. I understand the urge of a director, or any artist, to utilize one's craft to push some "real world" agenda; I totally get where it comes from, but I just don't care for that sort of thing these days. And yet I can enjoy any John Adams opera... I suppose he manages to not be preachy at all, and to paint such "current events" in broad, almost mythical terms, through which things can take on a more elemental relevance - I believe this is absolutely vital with such material. Spotlight, by contrast, like almost any contemporary film with a political or social thrust, is a sterile treatment of something that people will gasp at and shake their heads over, and then forget about - not because what it's about is lightweight or silly, but because of the flatness and vacuousness with which the subject is treated. What does the film really say, what does it accomplish? This stuff happened, these reporters did these things, yay journalism, priests like little kiddies... and then the filmmakers get up to accept their award and make some halfassed call to action. It's just all a little bland, all right? I didn't feel like this was the work of people truly trying to say something and to bring about some sweeping change for the betterment of humanity. It felt like the work of people who seize on whatever the big "cause" of the day is and push it for the benefit of their own image, then move on to something else when it falls out of fashion. This is the problem I have with this whole genre of "issue" films. It's obviously not that I like movies to be utterly devoid of any meaning or import, but those have to be derived from, or related to, something more timeless and fundamental to work for me, in the way that Adams transforms his chosen material. I just can not be engaged by so much stuff that seems to be de rigueur lately: straight crime films (although this varies a bit for me), or rape films, or sexuality issues films, or ethnic tension films, or, as here, religious dirty laundry films. These things just do not matter to me, because the filmmakers never seem interested in truly making them matter to me. It is almost invariably just an agenda taken up with little real spirit, in order to appear progressive and appropriately Hollywoodian in social concerns, and the most egregious thing is that this film probably won largely on such terms. And that's the real crime of the Academy and Hollywood as a whole. No, it's not that there aren't enough black people. It's this constant peddling of material that supposedly is about Important Things, but is rarely anything more than a husk, the shriveled excretion of someone's ego desperate to prove itself tolerant and aware. This isn't fucking Poitier anymore, it's dilettante activism. Anyway, we delivered the bomb. publicist, Sharkissimo and Romão 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dole 17 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Amy was a good film, but I was sad to see Joshua Oppenheimer lose another Oscar to another music documentary. The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence are two of the most captivating documentaries I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Score 770 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 3 hours ago, Jay said: Someone who can translate Italian needs to re-translate exactly what he said about John Williams since his son (?) translating probably condensed things Morricone's son translated almost exactly word-by-word. This is the text in Italian: "Ringrazio l'Accademia per questo prestigioso riconoscimento. Il mio pensiero va agli altri nominati, in particolare allo stimato John Williams. Non c'è una musica importante senza un grande film che la ispiri. Ringrazio Quentin Tarantino per avermi scelto, Harvey Weinstein, e tutto il team che ha reso possibile questo straordinario film. Dedico questa musica e questa vittoria all'Oscar a mia moglie Maria. Grazie." This is how I would translate it: "I thank the Academy for this prestigious acknowledgement. My thoughts are with the other nominees, particularly with the esteemed John Williams. There is no important (film) music without a great movie that inspires it. I thank Quentin Tarantino for having chosen me, Harvey Weinstein, and the whole team which made this extraordinary movie possible. I dedicate this music and this victory at the Oscars to my wife Maria. Thank you." Morricone's son translated the bit about John Williams as "My tribute goes to the other nominees, in particular to the esteemed John Williams", which means the same thing. Bellosh and Jay 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 The Oscars are totally meaningless! OMG 6 wins for Mad Max!!!! leeallen01 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 leeallen01 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Totally irrelevant awards. BUT MILLER WAS ROBBED!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 What are the Oscars? I'm lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 The BAFTA's is where its at! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Well Britain has the right of it always. God save the Queen, Cymru am byth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 They should have given an Oscar to these Globe reporters, not to some lame movie timebeater made 15 years after the fact - it's strictly for rainy sunday afternoons. I would have rather given the award to REVENANT and that is saying something,. believe me. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Anyone surprised Sly Stallone didn't get an Oscar? I didn't see Creed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,272 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 10 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Anyone surprised Sly Stallone didn't get an Oscar? I didn't see Creed. He's very sweet and authentic in Creed. I guess it's not what one would call an undeniable performance, but there are no false moments. He would have been deserving, it's a little disappointing. I'm pretty surprised Rylance ended up with it, I thought he was great but it has to be one of the most understated performances to ever win an Oscar. Funny how when DDL won for Lincoln there was some chatter over the fact that it took so long for a Spielberg performance to win an Oscar, and now right away here's another one. They're both similar in some ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 1 minute ago, mrbellamy said: He's very sweet and authentic in Creed. I guess it's not what one would call an undeniable performance, but there are no false moments. He would have been deserving, it's a little disappointing. I'm pretty surprised Rylance ended up with it, I thought he was great but it has to be one of the most understated performances to ever win an Oscar. I figured Stallone might win it because he was returning to a much beloved character that many already have an affection for. I had never heard of Rylance before Bridge Of Spies but he absolutely blew me away, by seemingly doing virtually nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,272 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 A very canny performance, yep. I'm really interested to see what he brings to The BFG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 33 minutes ago, Stefancos said: I figured Stallone might win it because he was returning to a much beloved character that many already have an affection for. I had never heard of Rylance before Bridge Of Spies but he absolutely blew me away, by seemingly doing virtually nothing. He does the same in Wolf Hall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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