Academy Awards / New Movies /Old Movies whatever

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So I have seen 3 of movies nominated for Best Picture so far and I would rate them:

1) Gravity
2) American Hustle
3) Her

I am going to try them all before the award ceremony and all the best actor/actress supporting whatever before the awards ceremony. Whenever that is. 

[James Ford]

As someone who is Netflix only, I generally don't see most of the nominees until after the awards. We did see Gravity on Veterans Day, when my daughter was in school and we were off work. It was good, but not great.

Four of the five best documentary nominees are streaming on Netflix.

And one of the best foreign picture nominees is streaming on Netflix. The Hunt, from Denmark. Really, really good film.

But I think the best 2013 release I've seen was Short Term 12, and it didn't get any nominations as far as I know.

We also streamed Drinking Buddies last night. Not that good of a movie, but it was filmed at Revolution Brewery in Chicago, they namechecked Revolution and Three Floyds, and were drinking a Half Acre Daisy Cutter at one point. And some very brief nudity from Olivia Wilde. So I'm not complaining.

[Vas Deferens]

The Spectacular Now is better than most the nominees for Best Picture.

[James Ford]

excellent as well

The Spectacular Now is better than most the nominees for Best Picture.

[hutch]

Blue Jazmin was excellent.. did it get any nominations?

Cate Blanchett's performance was Oscar worthy

BTW shame on the Oscars for never having honored Peter O'Toole..

[wml7]

Wolf of Wall Street was very good
 

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

Blue Jazmin was excellent.. did it get any nominations?

Cate Blanchett's performance was Oscar worthy

BTW shame on the Oscars for never having honored Peter O'Toole..

Shes considered the heavy favorite for Best Actress. No Best Pic/Director nom.

[ggw]

Nebraska
Her
American Hustle
Llewyn Davis (was it nominated?)

[ggw]

Blue Jazmin was excellent.. did it get any nominations?

No, but Woody Allen is making a strong run for the Roman Polanski Lifetime Achievement Award.

[James Ford]

Only in a couple of minor categories.

Nebraska
Her
American Hustle
Llewyn Davis (was it nominated?)

[hutch]

Blue Jazmin was excellent.. did it get any nominations?

No, but Woody Allen is making a strong run for the Roman Polanski Lifetime Achievement Award.

well it did get nominated for best actress, best supporting actress and best original screenplay...three of the heavyweight categories...

but it is with somewhat heavy/mixed heart that I continue to really enjoy his work...

I guess I believe in separating the art from the man....and since he has never been convicted, if even accused, in a court of law I cant do much about it.. but degenerates can make great art...should we not enjoy art by people who don't meet our personal or societal moral barometer?

I can't say I think Manhattan is any less great... but of course one does look at the relationship depicted between the Woody Allen and Mariel Hemingway characters a little bit differently....

Mia Farrow is a bit of a nutjob as anybody knows... her latest "revelation" I guess is that her son with Woody may actually have been fathered by Frank Sinatra (who she was "cheating" on Woody with more than a decade after she married Frank when she was 21 and he was 50) doesn't exactly cast her in a great light...

the fact remains that Woody Allen's body of work is among the greatest and probably the one I have enjoyed the most consistently...

Almodovar also comes to mind but he's made far fewer movies... Woody has been crankin them out for four decades plus now.... its an amazing career... Its pretty clear that in the US he simply does not get the credit or is as esteemed as in the rest of the world which is why he has gone abroad to find the financing for many of his movies the past decade... but whereas the Scorseses or Cohens make great movies they take 2 or 3 years per project.. their projects are major hollywood productions.. ..same with other directors I enjoy like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson.. in that time  Woody puts out 2, 3 or maybe even 4 movies...and some are light and fluffy but there are some heavyhitters there...

Too bad Andrew Dice Clay did not get a best supporting actor nomination..that would have been very funny... he was great in Blue Jazmine.. people can say what they want..

[Brian_Wallace]

Blue Jazmin was excellent.. did it get any nominations?

No, but Woody Allen is making a strong run for the Roman Polanski Lifetime Achievement Award.

well it did get nominated for best actress, best supporting actress and best original screenplay...three of the heavyweight categories...

but it is with somewhat heavy/mixed heart that I continue to really enjoy his work...

I guess I believe in separating the art from the man....and since he has never been convicted, if even accused, in a court of law I cant do much about it.. but degenerates can make great art...should we not enjoy art by people who don't meet our personal or societal moral barometer?

I can't say I think Manhattan is any less great... but of course one does look at the relationship depicted between the Woody Allen and Mariel Hemingway characters a little bit differently....

Mia Farrow is a bit of a nutjob as anybody knows... her latest "revelation" I guess is that her son with Woody may actually have been fathered by Frank Sinatra (who she was "cheating" on Woody with more than a decade after she married Frank when she was 21 and he was 50) doesn't exactly cast her in a great light...

the fact remains that Woody Allen's body of work is among the greatest and probably the one I have enjoyed the most consistently...

Almodovar also comes to mind but he's made far fewer movies... Woody has been crankin them out for four decades plus now.... its an amazing career... Its pretty clear that in the US he simply does not get the credit or is as esteemed as in the rest of the world which is why he has gone abroad to find the financing for many of his movies the past decade... but whereas the Scorseses or Cohens make great movies they take 2 or 3 years per project.. their projects are major hollywood productions.. ..same with other directors I enjoy like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson.. in that time  Woody puts out 2, 3 or maybe even 4 movies...and some are light and fluffy but there are some heavyhitters there...

Too bad Andrew Dice Clay did not get a best supporting actor nomination..that would have been very funny... he was great in Blue Jazmine.. people can say what they want..

Just from what you wrote, I can tell exactly what you look like.  You're a tiny, smelly, p-whipped douchebag.

Any awards show is just a circle jerk for insecure people.  You're DISAPPOINTED they never honored Peter O'Toole?!?!  I can assure Peter O'Toole was not.   He lived a LIFE.  He didn't care about some awards that are voted on by Ben Affleck.  Let me guess, you cried yourself to sleep when Lou Reed died, didn't you?  If you give two shits about what's nominated then you're lower and smellier than a queef.

Jesus.  What a generation of absolute, self-analyzing, self-pittying pussies this is.   No wonder none of you can get laid.

Brian

P.S.  Now let's go back to discussing last night's episode of "Girls."

[hutch]

Any awards show is just a circle jerk for insecure people.  You're DISAPPOINTED they never honored Peter O'Toole?!?!  I can assure Peter O'Toole was not.   He lived a LIFE.  He didn't care about some awards that are voted on by Ben Affleck. 

what a bunch of baloney... and btw save the cheap psychoanalysis for your practice.

I don't always watch the Oscars but I did the last time O'Toole was nominated and it was obvious from looking at him that he did care... Does it make him any less of a great actor that he didn't get an Oscar? Of course not.... But when you've worked in a profession for five or six decades, made some of the greatest movies ever made, sure a little recognition never hurts... its not about being insecure but about being human.

[atomic]

Any awards show is just a circle jerk for insecure people.  You're DISAPPOINTED they never honored Peter O'Toole?!?!  I can assure Peter O'Toole was not.   He lived a LIFE.  He didn't care about some awards that are voted on by Ben Affleck. 

what a bunch of baloney... and btw save the cheap psychoanalysis for your practice.

I don't always watch the Oscars but I did the last time O'Toole was nominated and it was obvious from looking at him that he did care... Does it make him any less of a great actor that he didn't get an Oscar? Of course not.... But when you've worked in a profession for five or six decades, made some of the greatest movies ever made, sure a little recognition never hurts... its not about being insecure but about being human.

I think he won an honary academy award.  The movie for him to most likely to have won an Oscar for would have been Lawerence of Arabia.  He was beaten out by Gregory Peck's performance in 'To Kill a Mockinbird". 

[atomic]

Wow he was nominated 8 times.  Here is who he lost to:

In 2007: Forest Whitaker for The Last King Of Scotland
In 1983: Ben Kingsley for Gandhi
In 1981: Robert De Niro for Raging Bull
In 1973: Marlon Brando for The Godfather
In 1970: John Wayne for True Grit
In 1969: Cliff Robertson for Charley
In 1965: Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady
In 1963: Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird



Having seen all of these movies the ones I think were the weakest were Wayne in "True Grit" and De Niro in "Raging Bull"

1970 Losers:
Richard Burton, Anne of the Thousand Days
Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy
Peter O'Toole, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy

You could say the real one robbed in this one was Jon Voight.

1981 Losers:
Robert Duvall, The Great Santini
John Hurt, The Elephant Man
Jack Lemmon, Tribute
Peter O'Toole, The Stunt Man

I saw "Stunt Man" when it came up but it wasn't watched that much and I think it was to mixed reviews.  I am not suprised this one didn't win.