88th Annual Academy Awards - Part 2

[Marvolo]

I bought and watched Spotlight tonight. Definitely deserved the win. Damn good film, and an important one too. Bought the book too.

 

[Supernova]

Ill check out spotlight this week, I heard good things. Right now though mad max was such an important film with what they accomplished. Michael bay wishes he could tell a story through action and chase as good as mad max did.

Just take a second and think when was the last time the academy actually nominated a summer blockbuster for best picture.

I think its weird how leo won inside I felt it wasnt his most deserving role.

 

[Lord]

I can't believe that Mad Max Fury Road one of the best displays of practical and digital visual effects in years lost.

I'd put that up there with Skyfall losing in the cinematography category to ****ing Life of Pi.

Uhm, there is shame in losing in the cinematography against Life of Pi? That film was very gorgeous.

 

[CaptainCanada]

I can't believe that Mad Max Fury Road one of the best displays of practical and digital visual effects in years lost.

Ex Machina was a marvel of integrated CGI effects on a tiny budget. It's the lowest-budget winner of the Visual Effects category ever, adjusted for inflation. I was amazed that the Academy actually made such an unusual choice (it's also the first film without a Best Picture nomination to win this award over films that did).

I chortled at Brie Larson's walk-on music being a more traditionally buoyant instrumental version of "Big Rock Candy Mountain". Now that's tonal whiplash.

Of the three films that seemed to be genuinely in contention for Best Picture (Spotlight, The Revenant, The Big Short), the best film won (it was my third-favourite overall, after Mad Max and Room).

 

[4thWallBreaker]

I'm happy to see scifi up there. From the pieces I saw, Mad Max deserved all of its awards. Editing and sound were the two I saw. Same with The Revenant with its immersive cinematography and Leo getting his gold man.

 

[The Shape]

The real problem here is that there needs to be a stuntwork Oscar.

The effects in Ex Machina are pretty much seamless and are integral to the character work. I'm actually very surprised by how they made such a smart choice there. I'd love to see another mark in Fury' Road's tally but I can't really fault this. Its not like smart mid budget science fiction get a lot of Oscar love too often.

Agreed.

 

[Fallen Angel]

2016: Complete winners list http://bit.ly/1TLtL59

Best motion picture of the year:
“Spotlight” (WINNER)
“The Big Short”
“Bridge of Spies”
“Brooklyn”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
“Room”

Performance by an actor in a leading role:
Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Revenant” (WINNER)
Bryan Cranston in “Trumbo”
Matt Damon in “The Martian”
Michael Fassbender in “Steve Jobs”
Eddie Redmayne in “The Danish Girl”

Performance by an actress in a leading role:
Brie Larson in “Room” (WINNER)
Cate Blanchett in “Carol”
Jennifer Lawrence in “Joy”
Charlotte Rampling in “45 Years”
Saoirse Ronan in “Brooklyn”

Achievement in directing:
“The Revenant” Alejandro G. Iñárritu (WINNER)
“The Big Short” Adam McKay
“Mad Max: Fury Road” George Miller
“Room” Lenny Abrahamson
“Spotlight” Tom McCarthy

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:
Mark Rylance in “Bridge of Spies” (WINNER)
Christian Bale in “The Big Short”
Tom Hardy in “The Revenant”
Mark Ruffalo in “Spotlight”
Sylvester Stallone in “Creed”

Performance by an actress in a supporting role:
Alicia Vikander in “The Danish Girl” (WINNER)
Jennifer Jason Leigh in “The Hateful Eight”
Rooney Mara in “Carol”
Rachel McAdams in “Spotlight”
Kate Winslet in “Steve Jobs”

Original screenplay:
“Spotlight” Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy (WINNER)
“Bridge of Spies” Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
“Ex Machina” Written by Alex Garland
“Inside Out” Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
“Straight Outta Compton” Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

Adapted screenplay:
“The Big Short” Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay (WINNER)
“Brooklyn” Screenplay by Nick Hornby
“Carol” Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
“The Martian” Screenplay by Drew Goddard
“Room” Screenplay by Emma Donoghue

Best animated feature film of the year:
“Inside Out” Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera (WINNER)
“Anomalisa” Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
“Boy and the World” Alê Abreu
“Shaun the Sheep Movie” Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
“When Marnie Was There” Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Best documentary feature:
“Amy” Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees (WINNER)
“Cartel Land” Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
“The Look of Silence” Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
“What Happened, Miss Simone?” Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
“Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor

Best foreign language film of the year:
“Son of Saul” Hungary (WINNER)
“Embrace of the Serpent” Colombia
“Mustang” France
“Theeb” Jordan
“A War” Denmark

Achievement in cinematography:
“The Revenant” Emmanuel Lubezki (WINNER)
“Carol” Ed Lachman
“The Hateful Eight” Robert Richardson
“Mad Max: Fury Road” John Seale
“Sicario” Roger Deakins

Achievement in visual effects:
“Ex Machina” Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett (WINNER)
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
“The Martian” Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
“The Revenant” Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score):
“The Hateful Eight” Ennio Morricone (WINNER)
“Bridge of Spies” Thomas Newman
“Carol” Carter Burwell
“Sicario” Jóhann Jóhannsson
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” John Williams

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song):
“Writing’s On The Wall” from “Spectre” (WINNER)
Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith
“Earned It” from “Fifty Shades of Grey”
Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
“Manta Ray” from “Racing Extinction”
Music by J. Ralph and Lyric by Antony Hegarty
“Simple Song #3” from “Youth”
Music and Lyric by David Lang
“Til It Happens To You” from “The Hunting Ground”
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga

Achievement in costume design:
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Jenny Beavan (WINNER)
“Carol” Sandy Powell
“Cinderella” Sandy Powell
“The Danish Girl” Paco Delgado
“The Revenant” Jacqueline West


Achievement in makeup and hairstyling:
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin (WINNER)
“The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared” Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
“The Revenant” Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini

Achievement in film editing:
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Margaret Sixel (WINNER)
“The Big Short” Hank Corwin
“The Revenant” Stephen Mirrione
“Spotlight” Tom McArdle
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

Achievement in sound editing: “Mad Max: Fury Road” Mark Mangini and David White (WINNER)
“The Revenant” Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
“The Martian” Oliver Tarney
“Sicario” Alan Robert Murray
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Matthew Wood and David Acord

Achievement in sound mixing:
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo (WINNER)
“The Martian” Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth“Bridge of Spies” Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
“The Revenant” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

Achievement in production design:
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson (WINNER)
“Bridge of Spies” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
“The Danish Girl” Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish
“The Martian” Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
“The Revenant” Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy

Best animated short film:
“Bear Story” Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala (WINNER)
“Prologue” Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
“Sanjay’s Super Team” Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
“We Can’t Live without Cosmos” Konstantin Bronzit
“World of Tomorrow” Don Hertzfeldt

Best documentary short subject:
“A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (WINNER)
“Body Team 12” David Darg and Bryn Mooser
“Chau, beyond the Lines” Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
“Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah” Adam Benzine
“Last Day of Freedom” Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

Best live action short film:
“Stutterer” Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage (WINNER)
“Ave Maria” Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
“Day One” Henry Hughes
“Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)” Patrick Vollrath
“Shok” Jamie Donoughue

 

[Pink Ranger]

The Oscars so white controversy was overblown because the Oscars being so white isn't the main problem. The main issue is how anybody who is not a white male is treated at large. Whocares about the Oscars being so white, give good actors of color some more good roles. And no I don't just mean black people. I'm black but I don't just think about black people when I think of people of color.

This post is so great it deserves to be read out loud by William Shatner as a Kirk-esque monologue.

 

[chamber-music]

I wanna see the Poor Roger Deakins memes. Of course it doesn't have the same ring to it.

Deakins will probably get an Oscar for Blade Runner 2 or a consolation one for something he makes eventually.

 

[Donner]

Frankly, they're all wrong, lol.

And I used to believe it too, hardcore.

No, they're not. Right now, I'm mourning the loss of a cold winter and the ****** skiing season. This isn't a natural cycle, it's humans thinking they can do whatever they want to the planet. I'm just glad I'll be dead before any major disaster happens.

But we will deserve it when it does.

That being said, Leo needs to learn what Chinooks are

He is a phenomenal actor, though. Good for him.

 

[Vaibow]

I felt Chris Rock was slightly over loading us, i get it, i really do, but if you want to champion diversity, mention every race not mentioned or represented, every sexual orientation, every ability or disability. It felt at times that only the black race was the one left out, when focus could be put on hispanics, natives, etc.

 

[Schlosser85]

Chris Rock doesn't give a damn about the Oscars' diversity controversy. He just used it to do the only shtick he knows how to do, while meanwhile making a racist crack at Chinese kids.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Chris Rock's opening monologue was funny and then it pretty much went all down here from there. The overnight ratings aren't looking good either.

 

[Enriquespy]

I liked the oscars, Leo, Lubezky, Iñarritu, The chilean Short, And the technical awards for Mad Max where what I was wanting.

I need to see Ex Machina to see if the Efects do trump over Mad Max.

 

[Schlosser85]

Chris Rock's opening monologue was funny and then it pretty much went all down here from there. The overnight ratings aren't looking good either.

Rock acts like somebody off a '50s minstrel show who plays up stereotypes to get laughs from white audiences.

That, and his ignoring any minority other than his own, and his racist joke about the Chinese kids, and yea, I'll take him about as seriously on racism as Colonel Sanders lecturing about chicken being unhealthy.

 

[roach]

I felt Chris Rock was slightly over loading us, i get it, i really do, but if you want to champion diversity, mention every race not mentioned or represented, every sexual orientation, every ability or disability. It felt at times that only the black race was the one left out, when focus could be put on hispanics, natives, etc.

I think that was on purpose...Rock kept bringing it up...jut like it kept being brought up every time someone talked to an actor (for the most part). Even at the red carpet they asked everyone.

 

[SuperT]

I felt Chris Rock was slightly over loading us, i get it, i really do, but if you want to champion diversity, mention every race not mentioned or represented, every sexual orientation, every ability or disability. It felt at times that only the black race was the one left out, when focus could be put on hispanics, natives, etc.

Why is it always the responsibility of black people that we have to be the ones to go to bat for every other minority? If I remember correctly, Priyanka Chopra, Deval Petal, Sofia Vergara and many other non-black minorities were there and had chances to speak up as well.

Rock definitely could have been more inclusive but at the end of the day, he's a black man in Hollywood so of course he was going to champion or relate more with black people. OscarSoWhite was NEVER just a black and white issue ever - it was about ALL minorities. But still, it's not fair to heap all the responsibility on black people while other non-black minorities stay relatively silent.

You can't stay in the shadows then only come out when you aren't mentioned. That's always been an issue with black civil rights in this country - other minorities will ride the wave but will never come to bat when the roles are reversed and it's time to help black people. It takes everyone!

 

[chamber-music]

I liked the oscars, Leo, Lubezky, Iñarritu, The chilean Short, And the technical awards for Mad Max where what I was wanting.

I need to see Ex Machina to see if the Efects do trump over Mad Max.

Ex Machina had fantastic effects considering it cost $15 million dollars to make.

It is sort of a unfair comparison to compare Ex Machina against blockbusters such as Mad Max and Star Wars.

 

[Schlosser85]

I felt like Star Wars should have won VFX.

 

[SuperT]

Ex Machina had fantastic effects considering it cost $15 million dollars to make.

It is sort of a unfair comparison to compare Ex Machina against blockbusters such as Mad Max and Star Wars.

Agreed 1000%. Ex Machina's effects were stunning knowing the budget for that film.

 

[Faora]

Leo! So happy. YES!

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Who are those clowns?

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The best visual effects winner not being a 100-200 million dollar movie is freaking awesome. I love that Ex-Machina beat the big movies. It should have won screenplay as well and it should have been nominated for best picture. And hell Oscar Iaasc getting a mom would have been awesome as well.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, it's pretty awesome that a small film took that category, which is normally dominated by big budget blockbusters. Hell, even Transformers films have been nominated for that category.

 

[superboy13]

Leo didn't deserve it. His performance in The Revenant wasn't anything THAT special. Throw any actor in those environmental conditions and, yeah, you get basically the same result. It wasn't a performance, it was a new-agey-living-in-a-box-and-not-eating kind of magic trick. On the other hand, you had Matt Damon basically carrying a 2-hour film on his talent and charisma alone, going through every possible emotion in the spectrum and pulling it off effortlessly. Now that's a performance. Leo should've won for The Wolf of Wall Street, but not this dud. And don't get me started with the Best Director thing. Iñárritu has now two awards thanks to Lubezki, the real MVP here.