the 89th Annual Academy Awards - Part 1

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OK, we are past the half year mark of 2016, so we can now start talking about the 89th Oscars.

There are movies for some of the best working directors in line for this year.

Here is a list of some of them (and some from unknown directors but very ''Oscar'' on paper:

Silence - by Martin Scorsese
(SYNOPSIS) - In the seventeenth century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Christianity.

Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk - by Ang Lee
(SYNOPSIS): An infantryman recounts the final hours before he and his fellow soldiers return to Iraq.

The Birth of a Nation - by Nate Parker
(SYNOPSIS): Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.

Fences - by Denzel Washington
SYNOPSIS: An African American father struggles with race relations in the United States while trying to raise his family in the 1950s and coming to terms with the events of his life.

La La Land - by Damien Chazelle
SYNOPSIS: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.

Loving - by Jeff Nichols
SYNOPSIS: Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, are sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for getting married.

Passengers - by Morten Tyldum
(SYNOPSIS): A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 60 years early.

The Zookeeper's Wife - by Niki Caro
(SYNOPSIS) - The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

Sully - by Clint Eastwood
SYNOPSIS: The story of Chesley Sullenberger, who became a hero after gliding his plane along the water in the Hudson River, saving all of his 155 passengers.

Hacksaw Ridge - by Mel Gibson
SYNOPSIS: WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

HHhH - by Cedric Jimenez
SYNOPSIS: 1942: The Third Reich is at its peak. The Czech resistance in London decides to plan the most ambitious military operation of WWII: Anthropoid. Two young recruits in their late twenties, Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader - Reich-protector Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the SS, the Gestapo, and the architect of the "Final Solution".

The Lobster - by Yorgos Lanthimos
SYNOPSIS: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

 

[jmc]

Live television, sometimes it produces moments of chaotic hilarity.

 

[Thundercrack85]

You had one job, Oscar envelope guy!

 

[terry78]

Basically gave Beatty the envelope from the last award.

 

[Evelisse]

2017 Oscars directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

We're in the era of massive ****ups why not another?

 

[Incrediblejeff]

That was crazy

 

[David H.]

2017 Oscars directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Ooh, how will Beatty fit in the Shyamalan-verse?

 

[terry78]

Trump is gonna have a field day with this.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I actually feel bad for the La La Land guy.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Basically gave Beatty the envelope from the last award.

but wasn't that already opened?

 

[Jekecy]

La La Land was still the biggest winner of the night in terms of awards, but it's hard not to feel like they got slapped in the face. That was hugely embarrassing to cap the night off in such a fashion.

 

[Pink Ranger]

You had one job, Oscar envelope guy!

Hey, get off my back, this is harder than it looks!

 

[jmc]

That's going to appear on one of the those 'Greatest Moments in Tv History' type of shows. All we need now is someone to do a 'Hello Darkness My old Friend' meme.

 

[Nemeres]

Memes. Memes right now.

 

[Guts]

We all know Warren Beatty did that on purpose.
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[Pink Ranger]

Trump is gonna have a field day with this.

"So glad that overrated elitist film LaLaLand didn't win. Take the whole family to see Moonlight."

 

[David H.]

Memes. Memes right now.

Working on it.

 

[Dr. Evil]

That's going to appear on one of the those 'Greatest Moments in Tv History' type of shows. All we need now is someone to do a 'Hello Darkness My old Friend' meme.

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[DarthSkywalker]

 

[Prison Mike]

That was an interesting way to end the night...

 

[Dave McFly]

https://twitter.com/people/status/836084015589437440

 

[kvz5]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I actually feel bad for the La La Land guy.

Damn right. That was horrible for him.