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Post by SweetOblivion on Dec 18, 2009 20:58:10 GMT -4
Incidentally, I have it on good authority that Meryl Streep totally eats babies. Every soufflé in Julie & Julia? Made of babies. Haters to the left, motherfucker.  If that happens, y'all will be able to hear me screaming all across the country. It needs to happen. Now. I may have to go the Alamo Drafthouse Oscar party, because some hell will need to be raised for the first woman Best Director. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2009 21:20:05 GMT -4
If Bigelow wins I'll be joining in the screaming, and I'll be thrilled that she and not Jane Campion will be the first woman to ever win it. This HAS to happen.
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Post by normadesmond on Dec 19, 2009 0:40:51 GMT -4
If Bigelow wins I'll be joining in the screaming, and I'll be thrilled that she and not Jane Campion will be the first woman to ever win it. This HAS to happen. Get ready to scream then. The IMDB lists who's won what so far, and it's Bigelow who's winning the most. I thought for a while Lee Daniels might make history as the first black director to win the Oscar, but according to the IMDB he's mostly picked up prizes for producing, not directing: film festival awards for Precious, Best Picture prizes, but no Best Director prizes yet. Not a single one. (Sorry, I don't feel like linking, but it's there to see.) Bigelow has won a lot of Best Director prizes, whereas Daniels has nothing yet for director specifically. Who else is there? Clint Eastwood? He's won so many Oscars he doesn't need anymore. Some people say Jason Reitman, but I don't believe it. If he were to win, he'd literally be either the youngest ever Best Director or, like, second youngest or third youngest. At any rate there's no more than one or two people to win that category that early - in more than 80 years of Oscars. And he doesn't have enough directing credits to justify him winning over a veteran like Bigelow. And besides, Juno was mainly down to Diablo Cody's script, so it's not like there's any feeling of him being some master director. Orson Welles he isn't. I'm positive Kathryn Bigelow will get it. |
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Post by huntergrayson on Dec 23, 2009 12:54:58 GMT -4
Oh, it's getting even crazier than I imagined. Insiders claim that, ballot-wise, Gibourey totally won for Precious in the African-American Film Critics Awards. Except that she's not who the award was given to! Shady! Madness! |
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Post by Martini Girl on Dec 24, 2009 16:54:47 GMT -4
I've heard Meryl has quite the ego, but I have to say, she was lovely in Julie and Julia.
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Post by angelaudie on Jan 4, 2010 22:36:22 GMT -4
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2010 23:08:46 GMT -4
They are freaking nuts, and they seem to enjoy picking on musicians. They've made it harder and harder for musicians to get nominated for movie work every year. Now I'm no fan of Bruce Springsteen (blasphemy I know) but his song from The Wrestler deserved a nomination. But it didn't get one because they decided songs that just played over the credits and didn't have something to do with the plot were ineligible.
They also decided O Brother Where Art Thou was an adapted screenplay because there are some incredibly vague similarities between it and The Odyssey.
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Post by jynni on Jan 4, 2010 23:20:50 GMT -4
They are freaking nuts, and they seem to enjoy picking on musicians. They've made it harder and harder for musicians to get nominated for movie work every year. Now I'm no fan of Bruce Springsteen (blasphemy I know) but his song from The Wrestler deserved a nomination. But it didn't get one because they decided songs that just played over the credits and didn't have something to do with the plot were ineligible. I'm not gonna argue with them on that point. The song should be integral to the movie itself in order to be nominated. Musicians already have the Grammy awards for songwriting/performance etc. I hate seeing crap tacked onto the end credits just for Oscar bait purposes. |
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Post by Atreides on Jan 4, 2010 23:25:56 GMT -4
So what do you think of Avatar's chances for a Best Picture win? Will the Academy reward it for its huge box office, innovation, and sheer spectacle? A big, epic movie hasn't won since LOTR: ROTK six years ago.
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Post by lpatrice on Jan 5, 2010 2:07:39 GMT -4
I predict Avatar will win Best Picture and Kathryn Bigelow will win Best Director. Up in the Air will probably win screenplay and I would not be surprised if either AK or VF (from Up in the Air) won Best Supporting actress since Monique (who for a time was seen as a frontrunner) has pretty much ruined her chances it seems.
I may be biased because I liked Avatar, but I would not object to it winning Best Picture. Truth be told I remembered that movie and was still thinking about it days after seeing it. I really can't say the same for some of the films being tossed around as possible Best Picture winners. I honestly think picking Avatar for Best Picture is win/win -- good critical response and big huge friggin box office numbers. I'm afraid that not enough people have seen The Hurt Locker, and if it wins, everyone will be like: "huh, what"; although for what it is worth I think The Hurt Locker was a better movie than Avatar. But we all know that there really is no logic when it comes to picking Best Pics.
The sad thing is, the only Best Picture winners I can even remember from the last decade are Return of The King and The Departed; and I guess Crash but I'm not even going to go there.
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