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I fail to see how Bridge of Spies is an original screenplay.

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It's like this : When people get together and write a screenplay and it's not based on an existing book, play or screenplay, it's an original screenplay even if it's based on factual events even if it's enhanced by research of existing sources.

Technically, Everest (criminally completely ignored by the Academy) had an original screenplay even though it felt like a direct adaptation of Into Thin Air.

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now that soundmix and design was ten times more effective and stunning than that Star Wars movie.

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I'm surprised Johnny Depp and Joel Edgerton weren't nominated for Black Mass.

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Speaking of Edgerton, I thought "The Gift" was a film worthy of a few nominations.

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Glad TH8 got shut out in most categories. It really wasn't that good a film.

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Creed, Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler...

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Beasts of No Nation is about all I can think of, I liked Creed, but I didn't hold it in as high regard as some people seem to.

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And that is his punishment for "Mortdecai."

And all those awful pirate films.

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Don't forget The Lone Ranger & Transcendence, haven't seen them but from what I've heard...

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No, I'd much rather forget them.

I guess I'm also not a huge Leo fan. I like him okay, but whenever he is on screen, I am always very conscious of the fact that he's "acting." Someone like Del Toro (who should have been nominated) always seems to just disappear into his roles.

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I don't get the push for Leo to get an Oscar, he's usually good but rarely exceptional in his roles. As others have pointed out, Tom Hardy was actually superior in The Revenant.

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Slow West, Bone Tomahawk, and Mississippi Grind were all worthy films as well.

Ah well. It's just a famous person circle jerk anyway.

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:up:

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Well, Tom Hardy is a far superior actor, so makes sense. :)

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Oh, and I'm sure inri222 has heard this before, but I wish someone would nominate Ben Mendelsohn for something. Christ, he is in multiple great films every year, and could have easily been nominated for "Mississippi Grind" this year.

Doomed to forever be known as "that one guy." Fucking shame.

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Starred Up, Lost River, Killing Them Softly, Slow West, The Place Beyond the Pines. That guy can do no wrong. Not a young pretty boy so he'll mostly be used as a character actor by Hollywood.

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Star Wars, Avatar, LOTR: ROTK, Gravity, Gladiator, & Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Some of these may not be considered "pure" action movies, but they all fit the definition of what an action movie is - a genre of film where heroes are thrust into a series of challenges, typically physical, which they must overcome and defeat the villain. You could even throw in the second half of Titanic in there based on that.

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Why? Because it was real life?

The King's Speech, Milk, Gandhi, Chariots of Fire and Patton all WON this award.

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The real take home thing for me from those nominations is that its 2016 and both John Williams and Ennio Morricone are nominated for Best Original score. Thats fucking awesome. I love that those 2 guys are going head to head.

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I say it because I believed it to be adapted from the book Strangers on the Bridge. Now I've read that the screenwriters claim not to have worked from that account, but that seems fishy.

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Also The Fugitive.

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Yeah, who are these upstart screenwriters they nominated anyway? Joel & Ethan Coen? Never heard of them. Probably just a couple of plagiarizing hacks hoping to make a name for themselves by stealing another's work. I wouldn't trust them.

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<strike>can someone find me a printable 2016 Oscar ballot? i can't seem to find something/anything for this year yet...</strike>

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Paul Dano did deserve it for Love and Mercy

If Mad Max Fury Road wins I am boycotting.

I know it has a lot of fans but I thought it was boring and a bunch of chicks talking in a jeep or all terrain vehicle.

Max Max winning best picture would be th equivalent of Channing Tatum winning an Oscar.

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it's not going to win anything outstanding, but still is cool that its got 10 major nods. a movie like this doesn't come along that often and can't wait to revist in 3D.

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Sylvester Stallone became the sixth actor to be twice nominated for playing the same role in different movies. Can you name the other five (I only knew the first four)?

Answers (in Reverse Chronological order)

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Boycotting what?

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:lol:

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:lol:

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rotfl

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Looks like Roger Deakins will be going 0 for 13. Poor bastard :lol:

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Must have been that winning streak of FIGHTING MAD, FUTUREWORLD, OUTLAW BLUES and HIGH-BALLIN' that cinched it.

http://i.digiguide.tv/up/1304/145449...6785269.51.jpg

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Guess Room got the Directing nomination over The Martian. Surprising.

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I'm pretty upset about that -- except that it swings the sentimental vote 100% to Miller, which I am TOTALLY on board with.

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No way does George Miller win, even for sentimentality. That leaves Alejandro Iñarrítu and Lenny Abrahamson as the only real options and Abrahamson as the dark horse.

I see Iñarrítu winning the Best Director and in turn The Revenant winning BP.

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I'm sorry, but what exactly is THAT based on? He's won literally dozens of critics' awards for Fury Road so far and he's nominated for the DGA award. Sure, Inarritu might win a second Oscar back-to-back, but since that is an incredibly rare feat (and not everyone love Revenant), it's hardly a certainty. And Abrahanson is the longest of long shots in that category.

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Just my opinion.

I also think Adam McKay is the long shot of that category.

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The longest shot is the one who didn't get nominated for a DGA award. There has NEVER been a Best Director Oscar winner who wasn't at least nominated for the DGA award (there have only been seven times since its' inception in 1948 where the DGA winner didn't also win the Oscar -- and a couple of times it was because the DGA winner wasn't nominated for an Oscar like Affleck with Argo and Ron Howard with Apollo 13).
Abrahamson is the only nominee this year who was not also nominated for the DGA award.