The 88th Academy Awards --> 2016 Awards Show Discussion
 

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Let's talk: show, winners, losers, speeches, Chris Rock and of
course seat fillers!

Date & Time:
Sunday, February 28, 2016 @ 5:30pm PST (8:30pm EST)

Place:
Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California

Channel:
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Chris Rock was on fire! Congrats to Leo, Brie, Sylvester, & Alicia!

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Haley Joel Osment winning the lifetime achievement award was long in coming but well deserved. Too bad age was not kind to him.

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Wow, George Miller winning Best Director! That was a pleasant surprise.

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Dan Duryea finally honored in the Memoriam section. It's about time, Academy!

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my predictions:
Best Picture: Spotlight
Best Director: George Miller
Supporting Actor: Sly Stallone
Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander
Actor: Leo
Actress: Brie Larson

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I think The Revenant is going to sweep the big awards: Best Pic, Best Director, Best Actor

Stallone and Vikander for Best Supporting roles, Larson seems like a lock for Best Actress, and Spotlight will take Original Screenplay while Big Short will take Adapted Screenplay.

Mad Max will win alot of technical awards.

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How about when George Lucas took J.J. Abrams hostage at gunpoint and threatened to kill him, and they had to get Ahmed Best to use the Jar Jar voice to talk him out of it? Wow, that was crazy.

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This seems most likely.

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Yeah, he hit 85 in what seems like the blink of an eye

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My predictions:

#OscarSoWhite people will sneak peeks of the show at minute 1:02:05 and 2:03:05.
Jada Pinkett Smith will tweet something on her account that only people who's watching the show would know.

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my predictions:

Best Picture
will win: "The Revenant"
should win:"Room"

Best Director
should win: George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
will win: Alejandro González Iñárritu, "The Revenant"

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant"

Best Actress
Brie Larson, "Room"

Best Supporting Actor
should win: Mark Ruffalo, "Spotlight"
win win: Sylvester Stallone, "Creed"

Best Supporting Actress
should win - Rooney Mara, "Carol"
will win - Alicia Vikander, "The Danish Girl"

Best Original Screenplay
should win - "Ex Machina"
will win - "Spotlight"

Best Adapted Screenplay
should win - "Brooklyn"
will win - "Room"

Best Foreign Film
should win - "Mustang"
will win - "Son of Saul"

Best Documentary Feature
will win - "The Look of Silence"
should win - "What Happened, Miss Simone?"

Best Animated Feature
will win - "Inside Out"
should win - "Shaun the Sheep Movie"

Best Film Editing
should win - "Mad Max: Fury Road"
will win - "The Revenant"

Best Song
"Spectre"

Best Original Score
should win - "Carol"
will win - "The Hateful Eight" (it's frickin' Ennio Morricone)

Best Digital Effects
should win - "Ex Machina"
will win - "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

Best Cinematography
"The Revenant"

Best Costume Design
"Carol"

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
"Mad Max: Fury Road"

Best Production Design
should win - "Mad Max: Fury Road"
will win - "The Revenant"

Best Sound Editing
should win - "Mad Max: Fury Road"
will win - "The Revenant"


Best Sound Mixing
"The Revenant"


Best Short Film, Live Action
Will win - "Everything Will Be Okay"
Should win - "Shok"


Best Short Film, Animated
should win - "We Can't Live Without Cosmos"
will win - "World of Tomorrow"

Best Documentary Short Subject
should win - "Chau, Beyond the Lines"
will win - "A Girl in the River"

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100% chance!

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I plan on tuning in just for the best supporting actor award to see if Sly wins.

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Predicting a mixed bag for the winners w Revenant and Mad Max splitting Pic/director. Hoping for Sly and Leo wins, and that we won't be subjected to too many acceptance speeches that go off the rails.

Rock should have some fun with his opening.

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I doubt it, only because Birdman won big last year and the Academy doesn't hand out back-to-back big wins, and Inarritu is no David Lean. Leo, maybe.

And if Inarritu does win, it's bullshit, because (technical aspects aside), he's just not that great a director.

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Damn - Saoirse Ronan is all grown up. Stunning.

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IMO he's a good director the weakness of his films (especially his last 2) is in the writing.

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That's what a meant about being good technically. Actual good directors, even with poor scripts, bring out something more than just the surface, which is all Inarritu seems to do with his, frankly, shallow movies.

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He's a good director, but The Revenant feels like Terrance Malick directing a B movie, where grandiose and poetic feels hollow and heavy-handed.


(Thanks BBC review :) )

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Stinking Strahan, stop acting like a groupie, don't take selfies with them.

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I can't get that stupid challenge.Oscars.com site to work. Anyone else? Oh well.

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I think I've seen every movie referenced in that little compilation there.

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Oh wow Great!! Chris Rock is so awesome, starting the first line with racial jokes. Fucking idiot.

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Jesus... we get it Rock... we're racists!