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MM:FA got nominated for every single technical category, which very very few films have done. I believe Titanic was the last time this was accomplished.

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Techie guys are unlucky cause their name is not on the finalist voting ballot and a lot of times the eventual winners just coatail on a BP noms and the only year he was in that position NCFOM was the same year of There Will Be Bloods cinematography. He would have definitely done better if Jesse James,Skyfall,True Grit or Sicario had been more in the Oscar wheelhouse.

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Switch The Martian and Fury Road, and I'd agree with you. Although Fury Road was good, I really don't see the massive deal with it. It's a decent action flick, nothing more. And I saw The Road Warrior in theaters in 82 and loved it, so I expected to go bugfork over Fury Road. Alas.

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What the hell are you talking about? Their pedigree has nothing to do with what I said nor did I accuse them of plagiarism. I just think (thought) it was an adapted screenplay.

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I always look forward to the snubs for director complaints, which is inevitable since the Best Picture category has been more than five movies for several years now.

I'm in the "liked it but didn't love" camp for Fury Road. A technical achievement for sure, but it's barely a movie where I could care about any one character. I'll watch it on HBO GO again for a third time soon to hopefully get what is so great about it.

Tom Hardy isn't a better actor than Leonardo DiCaprio. He gives folks here a bigger hard-on than Michael Fassbender (though the latter is great). I like him, but his Bane performance was borderline Bond villain.

Glad Sicario got a nom for film score. Just recently rented that from RedBox, and its score fits the film perfectly, and probably elevates the film tremendously over all of the other nominees (that I've seen so far anyway).

So glad that stupid Furious 7 song didn't get nominated. A horribly hokey song.

I got a lot of catching up to do. I'm going be giving my MoviePass a workout this next 30 days (or whenever I get it in the mail).

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:down:

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Hence my hard-on comment.

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No one has a bigger hard on than LDC fans who are purple in the face and believe he is always being cheated of an Oscar.
Peter O’Toole went to his grave with an honorary Oscar which he received at 70 years old.
I like the guy and enjoy watching his films, but from what I have seen he hasn't earned one yet.

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And who are those on here? No one, not even me. I couldn't give two shits how "the Internet" feels. Just talking about dvdtalk.

DiCaprio's performance was harder to pull off than Tommy Lee Jones' that year, for what it's worth.

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My bad. I have no idea where that mistaken perception came from. I stand corrected.

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I'm pretty happy with most of the nominations. Save for Scott being snubbed. That was pretty shocking. As much as I loved "Room", Abrahamson's nomination over him is insane. I'm also bummed "Sicario" didn't get any notice for it's acting. Or even for Best Picture. I thought it and "The Revenant" were the two best of 2015. Also, I'm more than o.k. with "The Hateful Eight" not getting more nominations. I just felt it was QT's weakest film. Right up there with "Death Proof" as his most boring. And last, I'm thrilled that that terrible song from "Furious 7" was snubbed.

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A few I would've liked to have seen nominated:

Crimson Peak-Costume Design, Art Direction, Production Design

And what may be my most favorite original song I've heard in years:

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I hope so too...but then I remember Eddie Murphy getting snubbed for DREAMGIRLS and Burt Reynolds losing for BOOGIE NIGHTS (at least he lost to Robin Williams, though). I also remember Mickey Rourke losing for THE WRESTLER.

I hope Sly wins, but I can see the Academy giving that award to Mark Ruffalo (who, honestly, was FANTASTIC in SPOTLIGHT).

ALSO:

I really wish the Academy would have found a spot for THE FORCE AWAKENS in the Best Picture category. We all know it wouldn't have won, but since you can nominate up to 10 movies, why not give it some appreciation? It would have also guaranteed more people tuning in to your show I February.

I have the feeling that - aside from Best Supporting Actor and perhaps some technical categories - THE REVENANT is going to sweep this year.

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Is it really an original with the bits it lifts? I like the song though. Not sure how the Academy words it to what it is.

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I agree, even though I would have given the Oscar to Ralph Fiennes that year.
Tommy Lee Jones should have won in 1992 for JFK but they had to give Jack Palance his "career" Oscar.

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Because it's not that great. Not compared to what we got and doesn't even come close to the badassery of Fury Road.

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Yeah, it should have gotten in on Production Design at least. I know make-up it wouldn't have due to the CGI augmentations - hell, people though it was full on CGI, so that probably didn't help its cause.

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Great example on Eddie Murphy--much like I think Mickey Rourke's WWE flirtations cost him the award, I think Norbit cost Eddie. Which is BS, but then again, so are awards for art when it comes down to it.

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Yeah, it always annoys me when people win because of their long career or because the Academy was making up from a previous year. Russell Crowe really won for The Insider, not Gladiator, for example.

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Ralph Fiennes played one of the greatest villains of all time.

He was fucking robbed.

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Mickey was fucking robbed. He was also robbed of a nomination 20 years prior for "Barfly."

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That was one of the all-time great screw ups. Crowe was outstanding in The Insider. He never should have won for Gladiator.

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Yeah. It's no Best Film of any sort. It's not SW good. or Even ESB. Which the former was a game changer and the latter is just a damn good movie.

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Agreed. Barfly is phenomenal. I cannot not watch it without getting drunk along with Bukowski there.

I have the German Blu-ray import of Barfly.

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I'd love to see George Miller win the directing oscar, would have given it to Ridley Scott myself but as he isn't even nominated I'd be glad to throw my support to Miller. It truly was a master work of his.

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Hoping best for The Hateful Eight...

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Even worse when someone wins a career Oscar when they have made so many shyte films their career they would make Adam Sander blush \
*cough* you know who this year

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A joke that he will win and get a standing ovation for a career of mostly crap.

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One nomination that should've happened (but I wasn't expecting) was "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" for Cinematography.

Good cinematography doesn't require shots of beautiful landscapes or constant camera movement. Sometimes less is more. It was creative, had a great look and the framing was precise.

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Especially when we had films that got plaudits for good acting roles by African-Americans in Straight Outta Compton and Creed. I really enjoyed Michael B. Jordan's performance in Creed.

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Lesson learned: don't play a superhero who's traditionally white. But seriously, I still need to see Creed. I really dug Fruitvale Station.


And I think Stallone knows he's made a lot of crappy movies. I heard him on the red carpet at the Golden Globes, talking about his daughters not liking him in any of his other movies. I think that was a pretty self deprecating statement, so I don't think Sly thinks he necessarily deserves to win.

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Really, no love for Everest? That movie was pretty amazing.

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Rock is going to have a field day with all this hoopla... no way he drops out, he'll have the stage and be the center of attention for 3-4hrs. For the first time in years, I am genuinely interested this time.

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For all the too-White talk, besides a useless BP nomination for Straight Outta Compton, were there any legitimate snubs for people of color? I know Idris Elba was great in Beasts of No Nation, but I think that "snub" was more because it was a Netflix movie instead of a legitimate cinematic release. No way the AMPAS wants to honor a Netflix movie. I don't think any other performance by a non-white actor jumped out as Top-5 in category , award-worthy this year.

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That's the thing...maybe you could make a case for swapping Damon for Smith, but that's entirely subjective. And when a film is reviewed much more favorably (and grossed so much more) of course it's going to get the edge. There really wasn't any snubs you could point to imo... the issue is not the academy, but not having a varied enough landscape of films. Stallone - the very definition of old, white guy... was one of the few that gave a young black director and actor the chance of a lifetime.

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Which is also a representation "problem" - that there are fewer non-white* parts, even among interchangeable faces. But it's a making (casting) problem, not (so much) an awards problem.

*See also female and older actors.

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Agree 100%, he overacts way too often for my taste.

Leonardo DiCaprio Hopes He Screamed And Cried Good Enough In ‘The Revenant’ To Win Oscar

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Yeah, because Oscar winners never overact. I'm reminded of Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, where he simply does a John Huston impression and yells things like "I abandoned my child!!!" and "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!!" It does pay off to overact sometimes, no?