Your OSCAR picks!!
Holy ****! What a great ending!!! What an amazing screwup! Congrats Moonlight!!
It's like the election. I actually am having trouble believing that just happened.
shoshannah said:
angelak said:
Maybe this means HRC is President.
Hahaha!
Hillary IS president in la la Land.
At next year's Oscars, chimps will handle the management of the envelopes. 
They will work for peanuts and cigarettes. (BTW, great picks and reviews here on the Oscar nominated films.)
PwC Issues Sincere Apology for Oscars Blunder
Anybody else think Clyde kind of threw Bonnie under the bus there?
No. Love Warren. Always have. Always will. He knew something was wrong. She blurted out without reading.
If I'm Faye, and I'm standing there waiting while Warren does his grinning hem-and-haw thing before he suddenly and without explanation hands the card to me to read, it's going to be hard to resist blurting out the first movie title I see.
Anyway glad it was not their fault. Really don't want to hear a bunch of ageism jokes.
Was it just me, or was Denzel tearing up at his loss to Affleck for Lead Actor. He seemed a bit torn up to me. A friend mentioned that he thought Denzel could upset the front-runner, Casey Affleck.
angelak said:
Was it just me, or was Denzel tearing up at his loss to Affleck for Lead Actor. He seemed a bit torn up to me. A friend mentioned that he thought Denzel could upset the front-runner, Casey Affleck.
Wasn't just you. He was noticeably upset, even a bit miffed. He had a lot riding on this, but that's Hollywood for you. I've sometimes felt people won awards deservedly and eventually but not usually for the right movie at the right time. Everyone gets their turn. This was Casey's.
I hope he goes ahead with his plan to film the rest of A. Wilson's series of plays. What a great project! And certainly he'll get another Oscar along the way.
I know I'd really enjoy transcripts of the phone calls on Monday between Bonnie and Clyde!
Where's the NSA or Russia when we really need them?
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Doesn't he have two Oscars already? Not to say he's not deserving of a third, but the route to a third Oscar is steep and elusive to say the least. He'll be hob knobbing with the creme de la creme of Oscars winners for it, deservedly so, but it won't be easy. I'd love to see him on Broadway
Mac said:
I hope he goes ahead with his plan to film the rest of A. Wilson's series of plays. What a great project! And certainly he'll get another Oscar along the way.
Creme de la creme of Oscar winners? Really? For one, he is already on the list of creme de la creme actors, a list by the way, that includes quite a few icons who never won an Oscar.
ElizMcCord said:
Not to say he's not deserving of a third, but the route to a third Oscar is steep and elusive to say the least. He'll be hob knobbing with the creme de la creme of Oscars winners for it, deservedly so, but it won't be easy.
Like Walter Brennan?
(Fun anecdote: While filming "Bad Day at Black Rock," Brennan would taunt Spencer Tracy by holding up three fingers during Tracy's scenes -- a reminder that he had won three Oscars, to Tracy's two.)
Denzel won supporting actor for the movie Glory.
In 2001, he won Academy Award Best Actor for a cop movie - Training Day.
That was the same year Russell Crowe portrayed Nobel Prize mathematician John Nash in the biopic movie - A Beautiful Mind. The year before in 2000, Crowe won best actor for Gladiator. He was not liked very well by the Hollywood big shots due to his jackass behavior around that time.
So in 2001, Crowe's performance in A Beautiful Mind resulted in him winning Best Actor Bafta award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award and Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a leading role. And the Oscar went to Denzel for Training Day. I concluded that Denzel won Best Actor that year only because the Hollywood big shots could not bear to give it to the obnoxious Russell Crowe two years in a row.
A Beautiful Mind won best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actress.
Interesting. I didn't know about Russell's obnoxious behavior. I assumed Denzel won it that year because he had been "robbed" for The Hurricane was it? The one where he was a boxer. Not that Training Day wasn't good but...
mlj said:
Denzel won supporting actor for the movie Glory.
In 2001, he won Academy Award Best Actor for a cop movie - Training Day.
That was the same year Russell Crowe portrayed Nobel Prize mathematician John Nash in the biopic movie - A Beautiful Mind. The year before in 2000, Crowe won best actor for Gladiator. He was not liked very well by the Hollywood big shots due to his jackass behavior around that time.
So in 2001, Crowe's performance in A Beautiful Mind resulted in him winning Best Actor Bafta award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award and Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a leading role. And the Oscar went to Denzel for Training Day. I concluded that Denzel won Best Actor that year only because the Hollywood big shots could not bear to give it to the obnoxious Russell Crowe two years in a row.
A Beautiful Mind won best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actress.
mlj said:
Denzel won supporting actor for the movie Glory.
In 2001, he won Academy Award Best Actor for a cop movie - Training Day.
That was the same year Russell Crowe portrayed Nobel Prize mathematician John Nash in the biopic movie - A Beautiful Mind. The year before in 2000, Crowe won best actor for Gladiator. He was not liked very well by the Hollywood big shots due to his jackass behavior around that time.
So in 2001, Crowe's performance in A Beautiful Mind resulted in him winning Best Actor Bafta award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award and Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a leading role. And the Oscar went to Denzel for Training Day. I concluded that Denzel won Best Actor that year only because the Hollywood big shots could not bear to give it to the obnoxious Russell Crowe two years in a row.
A Beautiful Mind won best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay and best supporting actress.
Nah. Denzel did better work than Crowe in 2001. That's why he won. A Beautiful Mind was a better film than Training Day but Denzel owned that role. If Hollywood wanted to poke Crowe in the eye they would've given it to Tom Wilkinson for In The Bedroom. Denzel also did better work in 1992 in Malcolm X than Pacino did in Scent of A Woman.
Wow so many backlogged oscars. In an old interview Denzel said he would be OK only if he lost to Al that year, Al being way overdue also. Nonetheless, Denzel should have won for Malcom X. Oscars so bogus. Al for every Godfather (except 3).Richard Burton never won anything.
And how long it took Leo? Poor man had given up.
annielou said:
Wow so many backlogged oscars. In an old interview Denzel said he would be OK only if he lost to Al that year, Al being way overdue also. Nonetheless, Denzel should have won for Malcom X. Oscars so bogus. Al for every Godfather (except 3).Richard Burton never won anything.
Yes he's another one. Giving great performances since he was what? 10 years old?
I'm often disappointed in the honorary Oscars, the Governors' Awards. Actors such as Albert Finney and Max von Sydow seem more deserving than winners like Steve Martin and Jackie Chan. Who knows how folks make these decisions.
Like most awards shows it's a popularity contest designed to generate interest in the business and to elevate careers and companies. If you buy in you have to accept that and go along for the ride.
Julia Roberts said it best. "I think one must be hopeful, but expect to remain seated".
What's the take on most deserving Oscar win for the category and performance at the right time? When I saw Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln, I knew he would win best actor and I wasn't disappointed. He's incredible.
Interesting question. More times than not, it seems that any number of the nominees are deserving. Maybe Brando in Waterfront and Ben Kingsley in Gandhi were kind of "obvious" and deserving wins. Looking quickly at the actress list, seems that when Elizabeth Taylor (Virginia Woolf) and Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice) won, the other nominees weren't as strong.
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