Oscar Nominations

[wantonebad]

The Oscar nominations 2014 were announced only a minutes ago, and here they are! My winners in bold...

Best Picture
•American Hustle
•Captain Phillips
•Dallas Buyers Club
•Gravity
•Her
•Nebraska
•Philomena
•12 Years a Slave
•The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor in a Leading Role
•Christian Bale – American Hustle
•Bruce Dern – Nebraska
•Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
•Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
•Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress in a Leading Role
•Amy Adams – American Hustle
•Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
•Sandra Bullock – Gravity
•Judi Dench – Philomena
•Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

Best Actor in A Supporting Role
•Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
•Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
•Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
•Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street
•Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
•Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
•Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
•Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave
•Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
•June Squibb - Nebraska

Best Animated Feature Film
•The Croods – Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson
•Despicable Me 2 – Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri
•Ernest & Celestine – Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner
•Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
•The Wind Rises – Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki

Best Cinematography
•The Grandmaster – Philippe Le Sourd
•Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki
•Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel
•Nebraska – Phedon Papamichael
•Prisoners – Roger A. Deakins

Best Costume Design
•American Hustle – Michael Wilkinson
•The Grandmaster – William Chang Suk Ping
•The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin
•The Invisible Woman – Michael O’Connor
•12 Years a Slave – Patricia Norris

Best Directing
•American Hustle – David O. Russell
•Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón
•Nebraska – Alexander Payne
•12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen
•The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese

Best Documentary Feature
•The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
•Cutie and the Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
•Dirty Wars – Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
•The Square – Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
•20 Feet from Stardom – Nominees to be determined

Best Documentary (Short Subject)
•CaveDigger – Jeffrey Karoff
•Facing Fear – Jason Cohen
•Karama Has No Walls – Sara Ishaq
•The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life – Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
•Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall – Edgar Barens

Best Film Editing
•American Hustle – Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
•Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse
•Dallas Buyers Club – John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
•Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
•12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker

Best Foreign Language Film
•The Broken Circle Breakdown – Belgium
•The Great Beauty – Italy
•The Hunt – Denmark
•The Missing Picture – Cambodia
•Omar – Palestine

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
•Dallas Buyers Club – Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
•Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Stephen Prouty
•The Lone Ranger – Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny

Best Music (Original Score)
•The Book Thief – John Williams
•Gravity – Steven Price
•Her – William Butler and Owen Pallett
•Philomena – Alexandre Desplat
•Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman

Best Music (Original Song)
•“Alone Yet Not Alone” from Alone Yet Not Alone - Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel
•“Happy” from Despicable Me 2 - Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
•“Let it Go” from Frozen - Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
•“The Moon Song” from Her - Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze
•“Ordinary Love” from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson

Best Production Design
•American Hustle – Judy Becker (Production Design); Heather Loeffler (Set Decoration)•Gravity – Andy Nicholson (Production Design); Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (Set Decoration)
•The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin (Production Design); Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration)
•Her – K.K. Barrett (Production Design); Gene Serdena (Set Decoration)
•12 Years a Slave – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Alice Baker (Set Decoration)

Best Short Film (Animated)
•Feral – Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
•Get a Horse! – Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
•Mr. Hublot – Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
•Possessions – Shuhei Morita
•Room on the Broom – Max Lang and Jan Lachauer

Best Short Film (Live Action)
•Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me) – Esteban Crespo
•Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) – Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
•Helium – Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
•Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) – Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari•The Voorman Problem – Mark Gill and Baldwin Li

Best Sound Editing
•All Is Lost – Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
•Captain Phillips – Oliver Tarney
•Gravity – Glenn Freemantle
•The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Brent Burge
•Lone Survivor – Wylie Stateman

Best Sound Mixing
•Captain Phillips – Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
•Gravity – Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro•The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
•Inside Llewyn Davis – Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
•Lone Survivor – Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow

Best Visual Effects
•Gravity – Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould
•The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
•Iron Man 3 – Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
•The Lone Ranger – Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
•Star Trek Into Darkness – Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
•Before Midnight – Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
•Captain Phillips – Screenplay by Billy Ray
•Philomena – Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
•12 Years a Slave – Screenplay by John Ridley
•The Wolf of Wall Street – Screenplay by Terence Winter

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
•American Hustle – Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
•Blue Jasmine – Written by Woody Allen
•Dallas Buyers Club – Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
•Her – Written by Spike Jonze
•Nebraska – Written by Bob Nelson

[mannyv11]

not even one vote for man of steel..... this award thing is rigged =)

[wantonebad]

Originally Posted by mannyv11

not even one vote for man of steel..... this award thing is rigged =)

I think sound mixing and best foreign film were my toughest calls...

Originally Posted by AK797

I don't think the Golden Globe winners will scoop all the big 6 awards. 12 Years a slave will win something.

Probably right but I like my odds..

[JasoninDenver]

Wow, I have not seen even one of the best picture nominees.

The price of having two small children and a wife with a killer work schedule, I guess.

I think I might duck out after lunch and catch a movie.

[FTX I]

Rush is not there. Pity.

[mannyv11]

Originally Posted by FTX I

Rush is not there. Pity.

actually that's a good point. I thought rush was a fantastic movie

[FTX I]

Originally Posted by mannyv11

actually that's a good point. I thought rush was a fantastic movie

[AK797]

I don't think the Golden Globe winners will scoop all the big 6 awards. 12 Years a slave will win something.

[bayerische]

Wolf of wall street will get several! What a movie!

[wantonebad]

Originally Posted by bayerische

Wolf of wall street will get several! What a movie!

Be interesting if Jonah Hill won and Leo got jolted again. I like Leo, he's a great actor, he should have won for Gilbert Grape or The Aviator but since he didn't it may be years before he wins, don't see him winning for playing a WS scumbag. Too obvious a role, and not deep enough to impress. Jonah on the other hand showed real range and is putting together quite a resume considering it all started with 40 year old virgin and superbad

[bayerische]

Originally Posted by wantonebad

Be interesting if Jonah Hill won and Leo got jolted again. I like Leo, he's a great actor, he should have won for Gilbert Grape or The Aviator but since he didn't it may be years before he wins, don't see him winning for playing a WS scumbag. Too obvious a role, and not deep enough to impress. Jonah on the other hand showed real range and is putting together quite a resume considering it all started with 40 year old virgin and superbad

You make sense my friend!

Still I loved the movie, a future cult classic IMHO.

American Hustle was also very good, and over-all the actors performances was better in AH.

I'm glad there's been a few good movies out of recent as 99% of the movies regardless of country of origin are complete time wastes now a days.

[subtona]

Haven't seen most of them, but american hustle was amazing & it gets my vote!

[SUBversive]

Originally Posted by subtona

Haven't seen most of them, but american hustle was amazing & it gets my vote!

X2

Best flick and actor.

[NYC6]

The wife and I watched 20 Feet from Stardom last night on Netflix. It was really good. Some of the best voices you've ever heard on songs we all know and love but don't know who the background singers were. Hope it wins.

[anilzat]

Sandra Bullock has always been my favorite.

[rodrob59]

I can't believe that I haven't seen any of them. I used to love going to to the movies, now can't stand the crowds, cell phones and rude people who just can't shut up. Thank God for Redbox!

[mtrunner]

Originally Posted by rodrob59

I can't believe that I haven't seen any of them. I used to love going to to the movies, now can't stand the crowds, cell phones and rude people who just can't shut up. Thank God for Redbox!

My wife and I used to go all the time as well but now everyone is checking their cell phones throughout the movie. It is beyond annoying. Plus streaming a video from Netflix on our big screen TV cant be beat.

[wantonebad]

Originally Posted by mtrunner

My wife and I used to go all the time as well but now everyone is checking their cell phones throughout the movie. It is beyond annoying. Plus streaming a video from Netflix on our big screen TV cant be beat.

I've been to a movie theater 3 times in the last 10 years for this exact reason, and even then I usually wait till I have a day off and I go to a mid-week matinee to avoid the insensitive people who think a theater is their personal living room or rec-center. It's impossible for me to go to an evening movie and NOT get into it with someone who is texting/talking/kicking my seat. I've been done with theaters for a very long time!!

[mtrunner]

Originally Posted by wantonebad

I've been to a movie theater 3 times in the last 10 years for this exact reason, and even then I usually wait till I have a day off and I go to a mid-week matinee to avoid the insensitive people who think a theater is their personal living room or rec-center. It's impossible for me to go to an evening movie and NOT get into it with someone who is texting/talking/kicking my seat. I've been done with theaters for a very long time!!

I am in the same boat Marc. The few times I have gone to the theater I waited to go to a midweek matinee after the movie had been out for some time just to avoid the people!

[linesiders]

Originally Posted by mtrunner

I am in the same boat Marc. The few times I have gone to the theater I waited to go to a midweek matinee after the movie had been out for some time just to avoid the people!

This! Choice seats and fewer idiots I very rarely go to a crowded theater unless & only if family night at an opening like Hunger Games or IronMan for the kid. But seeing good movies in the Theater still is an experience not (yet) matched at home - though getting closer

[warrior]

I've seen most of the best picture nominees ( not Nebraska, Philomena, or Dallas Buyers) HER is the best by far IMO. Entertaining yet very thoughtful, intelligent.

[jvo300]

Originally Posted by warrior

I've seen most of the best picture nominees ( not Nebraska, Philomena, or Dallas Buyers) HER is the best by far IMO. Entertaining yet very thoughtful, intelligent.

X2 'Her' is an amazing movie.