Board 8 > ~~*~ 84th Annual Academy Awards Discussion Topic ~~*~~

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Who does everyone want to win?

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Only Best Picture film I've seen so faris The Descendants so I'm kinda indifferent. Shame 50/50 wasn't nominated for anything.

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I'm pulling for Tree of Life to at least win Cinematography. I haven't seen The Artist so I don't know if this hype is legit. Also, if I messed up on anyone's predictions, please tell me asap. And please check to make sure all the titles are similar across entries. I'm putting in the winners up top and that should match up and give points automatically. Entries are closed too btw...

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I want The Artist and The Descendants to win big, there's a bit of buzz for Hugo to get best director and Artist getting best Picture.

Though I'd kinda like Artist to win both, just a stacked year.

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Yeah, Scorsese is the only one I can see taking Best Director over Hazanavicius but I still think he'll win. One of my biggest complaints is Jessica Chastain getting nominated for her role in The Help and not Tree of Life. From what I heard, her role wasn't that great.

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I wish I had gone to see The Artist instead of War Horse when given the chance a couple months ago. I mean...War Horse was decent but really not Best Picture nominee decent, imo. Really, none of the Best Picture nominees that I saw impressed me that much with the exception of maybe Hugo.

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I really hope that Pitt wins Best Actor and Moneyball wins Best Adapted Screenplay. I was blown away by both

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I liked Moneyball a lot, but The Artist is really something else.

Also Woody Allen did such a damn good job with midnight in paris that I hope he gets rewarded for it.

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You already awarded people 3 points for picking The Artist for Best Picture.

I almost think that was intentional.

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Since entries are closed, I figured it was safe to post this.

Mark Wahlberg says he has a friend on the inside, and already knows the winners of the major awards. Who are the winners? He revealed that too:

Christopher Plummer will win for Best Supporting Actor.
Octavia Spencer will win for Best Supporting Actress.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon will win for Best Sound Editing.
Hugo will win Best Costume, Production [Design] and Cinematography.
Jean Dujardin will win Best Actor.
Viola Davis will win Best Actress.
The Artist will win Best Picture.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/24/oscars-the-artist-win-mark-wahlberg_n_1299178.html

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I liked Moneyball but I thought it was way too long. Was definitely my second favorite of the Best Picture nominees that I saw though.

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Mark Wahlberg sez the big favs will win their cats

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Yay we can discuss it, in the mean time I've watched 8 of the best pics (am missing Extremely Loud but it has no chance). I most definitely think The Artist deserves to win. I thought it was overhyped but after seeing it, totally deserved, its not easy to make a silent film these days that is so captivating, but it is really well made. Midnight in Paris is my second favorite, such a great movie, but it will take original screenplay which normally is awarded to great movies. So my ranking goes:
The Artist
Midnight in Paris
--No other movie is winning material for me
The Descendants
The Help
Moneyball
--Mediocre from now on
War Horse
--Bad from now on
Hugo
--What did I just watch?
Tree of Life

I'd like for the descendants to win something, Clooney maybe, and the Help will get Octavia Spencer (although Im rooting for Chastain for a whole year that was worth it). Hugo was great technically, should take lots of awards there, but the movie itself was very uninteresting. The Tree of Life is a love/hate movie I guess, not for me, I do think Cinematography should be a shoe-in, although I'd give it to Hugo.
My other choices are:
Dujardin for Actor, he really is brilliant in it;
Streep for Actress, Viola Davis didn't do it for me, I liked Rooney Mara better than her too, but Streep made Iron Lady watchable (barely);
Plummer for Sup. Actor, Beginners' recognition I guess. Beginners was my second favorite movie of the year after The Artist, very touching movie.
Ive already said Midnight in Paris for Original, but i gotta say what the hell is Bridesmaids doing here? It was terrible, 50/50 deserved that spot, or Beginners...

Just for fun, my top 10 of the year:
1. The Artist
2. Beginners
3. Drive
4. Midnight in Paris
5. Warrior
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7. The Descendants
8. The Help
9. Harry Potter 7.2
10. Moneyball

The only movies that I really want to watch but havent yet are Extremely Loud and A Separation.

btw the ranking sheet isnt working is it?

Hugo was amazing

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Heh, I went in blindly.

I mean, 6 hours? xD What the hell was I thinking.

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I had no idea that Spencer was considered a lock for supporting actress

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Oh and my personal top 10 of the year

1. The Artist
2. Win Win
3. Horrible Bosses
4. Super 8
5. X-Men: First Class
6. A Seperation
7. Midnight in Paris
8. 50/50
9. Paul
10. Cedar Rapids

Movies I think will be up there that I haven't seen - Drive, The Descendants, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Tree of Life

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Yeah, everything in there is just a test. I can get the rankings to work but I have to manually sort them every time. I'm trying to figure out how to get it to do it automatically.

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Also because I was bored, the total number of votes for all 3 point categories

(Copying and pasting straight from Excel, so sorry it looks like this, not going to put the effort into making it look pretty

Best Picture
The Artist 25
Hugo 2
The Descendants 1
The Help 1
War Horse 1
The Tree of Life 1
Extremely Loud 0
Midnight in Paris 0
Moneyball 0

Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius 20
Martin Scorsese 9
Terrence Malick 1
Alexander Payne 1
Woody Allen 0

Best Actor
George Clooney 15
Jean Dujardin 12
Gary Oldman 2
Demián Bichir 1
Brad Pitt 1

Best Actress
Viola Davis 13
Meryl Streep 7
Rooney Mara 5
Michelle Williams 4
Glenn Close 2

Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer 19
Kenneth Branagh 4
Nick Nolte 3
Max von Sydow 3
Jonah Hill 2

Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer 21
Bérénice Bejo 6
Melissa McCarthy 2
Jessica Chastain 1
Janet McTeer 1

Original Screenplay
Midnight in Paris 17
The Artist 12
Bridesmaids 2
Margin Call 0
A Separation 0

Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants 18
Hugo 7
Moneyball 4
The Ides of March 1
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 1

Animated
Rango 25
A Cat in Paris 4
Chico and Rita 1
Kung Fu Panda 2 1
Puss in Boots 0

Foreign
A Separation (Iran) 24
In Darkness (Poland) 6
Footnote (Israel) 1
Bullhead (Belgium) 0
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) 0

Documentary
Pina 14
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front 5
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory 5
Undefeated 4
Hell and Back Again 3

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Nice.

Also, Spreadsheet is complete. Rankings should update automatically.

Again, please check to make sure your entry is correct and spelled the same as everyone's!

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If I had to pick one upset I'd like to see happen it would be Woody Allen winning Director!

us euros gonna need to find some streams.

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ok, not long now.

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I must have been the only person to say Brad Pitt, though I must admit that I chose that out of desire

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So what time are we officially starting, 5pm?

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Look at that, billions and billions of dollars worth of talent.

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pulling for Midnight in Paris to win

I'll be so happy

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Should win Original Screenplay at least. Probably going to finally watch it sometime this week.

30 minutes till it starts!

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Wait what channel is it on?

Also I watched Midnight to Paris on a flight to Paris. I just love saying that, makes it feel magical.

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ABC I think?

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Yeah I found it.

Also at Cooper... sexiest man alive... not with that horrendous stache.

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This year's themes.

Nostalgia

France

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made my picks blindly, I've seen none of these movies and no nothing of whats going on in the current swing of things movie wise.

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From: voltch | Posted: 2/26/2012 6:11:26 PM | #037
This year's themes.

Nostalgia

France

So true, and Midnight in Paris is the biggest in both of those.

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Alright let's do this.

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oh, Morgan
narrate my life

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host host!

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Okay that Bieber skit was actually hilarious.

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What movie was that flying scene from?

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Excellent opener.

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<_<

>_>

I kinda wanted to make out with Bieber. He's hotter now than before, now?

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From: GrapefruitKing | Posted: 2/26/2012 6:31:05 PM | #041
oh, Morgan
narrate my life

nah James Earl Jones

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Billy Crystal's an excellent host.

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I am now realizing that there are 3 bonus categories at the end of the sheet.

I guess i missed those :(

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