Oscars 2016

Place yer bets.

All the Ewoks will look up and shout, "Save us from the Klingons!" And I'll whisper, "Why so serious?"

Hope Vikander, Sicario, Sly, Mad Max and Miller wins some. Mad MBJ and Theron weren't nominated

edited 14th Jan '16 7:08:33 AM by LordofLore

Here's what I hope for:

Best Picture: I can't say, so many good movies.

Best Actor: Leonardo Dicaprio - Come on now, give him one already.

Best Actress: Charlize Theron

Best Director: George Miller

Best Cinematography: Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Original Song: See You Again, from Furious 7

Those are the ones that I can think of at the time being.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

10 nominations for Mad Max, including Best Director No Charlize Theron tho. Does Tom Hardy getting nominated for another film count? :p

I want Room to win Best Picture so a drunk Tommy Wiseau will go on stage to accept the Oscar.

edited 14th Jan '16 6:53:47 AM by AnotherGuy

Sadly, she wasn't nominated.

I'll copy&paste the list:

Edit: Now that the ceremony is over, I marked the winners for each category.

edited 29th Feb '16 2:17:14 AM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV

Aww.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

I guess it is a safe bet that Inside Out will win best animated picture, even though Anomalisa might (big might though) deserve it more.

I would also be very surprised if Leonardo Di Caprio doesn't get the award this year. Let's be honest here, when someone gets passed over that often, there will be a point at which the academy just has the feeling it has to give it out, and there was no other performance which was that good that it could be considered iconic.

My money is also on Fury Road for Cinematography. And on Cinderella for best costume design...honestly, that was the one movie with costumes everyone was raving about.

edited 14th Jan '16 7:38:27 AM by Swanpride

I think that Fury Road or Star Wars might pick up Visual Effects and The Revenant will probably get Best Picture.

Is this a Jo Jo reference?

I hope The Martian gets Best Picture. That movie is good and good for you.

Flora is the most beautiful member of the Winx Club. :)

Wait, Fury Road didn't get a nomination for Soundtrack? Aw, I really liked it.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

I hope Mad Max Fury Road wins best picture, and it would be nice if TFA wins something.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV

Fury Road is a lock to win Visual Effects. Star Wars will win Best Sound. Mad Max will probably win Sound Mixing.

Yeah, I mean, just watch this clip, with eyes closed.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Fury road has chances in a lot of categories, but it will never ever win best picture. The fact that none of the main actors got even nominated is a give-away in that regard. Best picture will most likely be a fight between The Revenant and The Martian. Those are the movies which are nominated in multiple categories, and let's be honest here, the best picture winner should be a movie which is just overall noteworthy.

edited 14th Jan '16 8:22:39 AM by Swanpride

Yeah, I wouldn't be remotely surprised if Fury Road didn't.

That said, I do think it is overall worthy. I mean, it IS one of the, if not the, most acclaimed movie of 2015.

edited 14th Jan '16 8:40:43 AM by dRoy

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

However, it MUST be noted that it was nominated for Best Director. Generally, Best Picture and Best Director were always locked (with some exceptions, which would usually make the Oscar snark that a Best Picture film apparently directed itself.)

Meaning, Mad Max Fury Road would have been one of the five nominated BP when there were only 5 BP noms.

I'm extremely disappointed that neither Sicario nor Straight Outta Compton are nominated for Best Picture.

Room is the frontrunner.

I hope Rylance gets the Best Supporting Actor award. His performance in Bridge of Spies was amazing.

I'm usually not the type to yell about snubbing but jesus Creed got snubbed. Jordan didn't get nominated for best actor, Coogler didn't get best director and the movie itself didn't even get a best picture nomination which is BS imo

Also Ex-Machina didn't get a best picture nomination either, which is also BS (personally Ex-Machina and Creed are probably my 2 picks for movie of the year and I'm not expecting my own personal tastes to line up with that of the Academy but the fact that they didn't even get nominations is bullshit.)

I don't know...I wouldn't say you're wrong, but that isn't a bad list. There aren't any WTF choices on that list.

I was hoping Inside Out would get a nod, myself.

edited 14th Jan '16 2:42:13 PM by gallium

Inside Out should win for best original screenplay. The basic idea and creative process to design that story was a challenge all on its own.

Yeah, Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler not even getting nominations for Best Actor and Director is some serious bullshit.

edited 14th Jan '16 3:53:07 PM by higherbrainpattern

The Oscars have always been BS in their nominations and winners (seriously, 20 years for that Oscar for Al Pacino?).

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

Creed got robbed.