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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)?

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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.

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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.

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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).