The Oscars 2017

[Cold]

Nominations were released the other day for this year's round of incestuous backslapping. Do they actually have any relevance in this age? An Oscar nomination doesn't guarantee a hit at the box office so they aren't always in tune with what the public think.
It occurred to me this morning that I can't be sure I've ever seen one of Streep's many Oscar awarded films and looking at the list I have seen none of the current Best Picture nominations. Perhaps I'm just a tired old philistine.

Anyway, a list of this year's nominations are at this BBC link

[p1stonhead]

La La Land is fantastic - I think it'll sweep the board or at least get ten.

Amy Adams should have gotten a nomination for Arrival IMO.

[marcosgt]

La La Land is bound to win armfuls as it's all about the 'Hollywood Dream'...

I'm a bit surprised not to see Hugo Weaving in their for Best Supporting Actor.

I guess Portman's a shoe-in for Best Actress given all the plaudits for her in Jackie, unless they fill the 'ethnic minority' quota from this category.

I think we can safely assume there'll be a few, good, but not quite the best XXXXs in there to try and placate last year's criticisers.

M

[ukaskew]

Pleased Arrival got a bunch of nominations, bit surprised Amy Adams wasn't one of them.

[williamp]

why cant we have oscars for who gives the longest left-wing virtue signalling speech?

[marcosgt]

williamp said:

why cant we have oscars for who gives the longest left-wing virtue signalling speech?

And cry the most/longest/loudest?

M.

[cardigankid]

p1stonhead said:

La La Land is fantastic - I think it'll sweep the board or at least get ten.

Amy Adams should have gotten a nomination for Arrival IMO.

LaLaLand is rubbish. Can't sing can't dance can't act. Least appealing leads in a romcom since Ralph Fiennes and Cameron Diaz. Waste of an evening. We walked out after an hour.

[FourWheelDrift]

williamp said:

why cant we have oscars for who gives the longest left-wing virtue signalling speech?

They could have to impose 20 second time limits this year for speeches, the In Memorium section is going to take up half the show.

[Leroy902]

Why are so many people obsessed with the Oscars?

Get a bunch of st films, with the same average actors every year, and spend the evening kissing this arse's.

Edited by Leroy902 on Saturday 28th January 17:30

[p1stonhead]

cardigankid said:

p1stonhead said:

La La Land is fantastic - I think it'll sweep the board or at least get ten.

Amy Adams should have gotten a nomination for Arrival IMO.

LaLaLand is rubbish. Can't sing can't dance can't act. Least appealing leads in a romcom since Ralph Fiennes and Cameron Diaz. Waste of an evening. We walked out after an hour.

Fair do's everyone has their own opinion.

Edited by p1stonhead on Saturday 28th January 19:40

[Cold]

Apart from or maybe because of a stream of political speeches from irrelevant actors and a cock-up with announcing Best Picture due to envelopegate, I still think it's all a nonsense. I haven't seen any of the films listed below:



Do these awards really reflect what the paying public actually think of their films?

[Tony Starks]

I thought the public had nothing to do with it, I thought it was chosen by actors in the actors union? Which may have been why there was hardly any black people in last years nominations. Or, i could be massively wide of the mark.

[Disastrous]

No they don't, and never have.

They're voted for by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

I think that's a good thing! If the public voted then st like Transformers would win.

ETA- to answer Cold, not Tony Starks...cross posted!

Edited by Disastrous on Monday 27th February 07:39

[bristolracer]

Pesky false news gets everywhere

[kev1974]

How on earth do that many people get up on stage before anyone with a clue manages to say there's been a mistake.

What a farce.

I know they like to pretend that nobody knows until the envelope is opened but come on, it's time to appoint a stage manager that can be trusted with the results ahead of time.

[p1stonhead]

kev1974 said:

How on earth do that many people get up on stage before anyone with a clue manages to say there's been a mistake.

What a farce.

I know they like to pretend that nobody knows until the envelope is opened but come on, it's time to appoint a stage manager that can be trusted with the results ahead of time.

Its fairly obvious that no one does actually know until the envelope is opened.

The la la land music started playing (musicians obviously have to be ready with them all) and the announcer said '7th award of the night for la la land' which obviously wasnt therefore pre-recorded.

The only person who messed up was whoever gave the guy the wrong card from the previous award.

[croyde]

What the fek is Moonlight?

[croyde]

Disastrous said:

I think that's a good thing! If the public voted then st like Transformers would win.

Edited by Disastrous on Monday 27th February 07:39

[Mr Snrub]

Vox magazine had all its outrage bases covered

[Shakermaker]

p1stonhead said:

kev1974 said:

How on earth do that many people get up on stage before anyone with a clue manages to say there's been a mistake.

What a farce.

I know they like to pretend that nobody knows until the envelope is opened but come on, it's time to appoint a stage manager that can be trusted with the results ahead of time.

Its fairly obvious that no one does actually know until the envelope is opened.

The la la land music started playing (musicians obviously have to be ready with them all) and the announcer said '7th award of the night for la la land' which obviously wasnt therefore pre-recorded.

The only person who messed up was whoever gave the guy the wrong card from the previous award.

Two people know the results before the winners are announced, and they both work for PWC and are appointed to collate all of the results; they get a team to help them but the team only get a small portion of the votes to count each so only these 2 people know the actual results. So says the BBC news article I read last week.

As such, there are also 2 of each envelope printed, and the two people hand them to the "presenters" as they go on stage. Clearly, the most logical explanation if Warren Beatty is to be believed is just that he was given the wrong envelope, even though Emma Stone had already won her award there was still the "spare" envelope with her name on that was given out by mistake.