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Your picks this year?

Best picture: The Revenent

Best actor: DiCaprio

Best actress: Saoirse Ronan

Best director: Alejandro Innaritu

Best supporting actor: Mark Ruffalo

Best supporting actress: Alicia Vikander

Best original screenplay: Spotlight

Best cinematography: The Revenent

Best costume design: The Danish Girl
 
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The SAG Awards usually show their hand.

Best picture: The Big Short

Best actor: DiCaprio

Best actress: Brie Larson

Best director: Alejandro Innaritu

Best supporting actor: Stallone

Best supporting actress: Alicia Vikander

Best original screenplay: Spotlight

Best cinematography: The Revenent

Best costume design: The Danish Girl


I thought The Revenant would win but now the momentum has shifted to The Big Short. Also Larson is 100 percent winning Best Actress.
 
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cawoodsct said:
Your picks this year?

Best picture: The Revenent

Best actor: DiCaprio

Best actress: Saoirse Ronan

Best director: Alejandro Innaritu

Best supporting actor: Mark Ruffalo

Best supporting actress: Alicia Vikander

Best original screenplay: Spotlight

Best cinematography: The Revenent

Best costume design: The Danish Girl
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Best pic is a three way race between Spotlight, The Big Short, and The Revenant. My hope is that The Revenant wins, but The Big Short picked up the coveted PGA. The PGA has been a bigger indicator of best picture than any other award for years now. Dark horse in this category is Room.

Best actor and best actress are locked. Leo and Larson. Both have won every major award leading up to the oscars and it would be an absolute shocker if someone other than those two won.

Best supporting in both categories is a little closer to call. Mark Rylance and Stallone are the two favorites. I can see both winning. You have the dark horse in this category in Ruffalo. My pick is Rylance. Best supporting actress is down to Mara, Winslet, and Vikander. I'm going with Vikander even though Mara was great.

Best director is more than likely Innaritu and it should be him winning back to back awards. The dark horse is Miller for Mad Max. He is the only one I can see challenging Innaritu.

Best original screenplay should be Ex Machina but it will probably go to Spotlight. He's adapted screenplay will probably go to the big short.

Cinematography doesn't even need to be addressed. Chivo is a lock.

Best Foreign is Son of Saul. It should have been nominated for best picture as well.
 
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Only one I care about is Stallone getting Best Supporting Actor. Creed was awesome and it would be a fitting end for one of the best characters in cinema history.
 
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I cannot imagine George Miller winning Best Director. That's not usually the type of film that gets that nod.

Since it's Oscar season, it reminds me of two times that I was blown away by the ridiculousness of the voters.

The King's Speech winning "Best Original Screenplay" over Inception and The Fighter
Sean Penn (Milk) beating Mickey Rourke's performance in The Wrestler for Best Actor. That was 100 percent in response to the Prop 8 controversy at that time.
 
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I will say, that this is one of the very few years where three films have a legitimate shot at winning Best Picture. That rarely happens. Everyone usually knows the big winners before the Oscars finally come around.
 
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The only one I saw was the Revenant, and I found it to be outstanding. Could've been edited down to 2 hours though.
 
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Most interesting thing will be Chris Rock's monologue.

I could see Romero winning best director. Movie plot is a little popcorn for the Oscars. But it's all so surreal with great camera shots and visuals and girl power. They like that stuff.

I've only seen the Big Short, Mad Max, and The Martian. I would be thrilled if Big Short won, but it doesn't seem like an Oscar winner. I wouldn't be surprised to see Spotlight. No one goes to the movies and only votes based on screeners. Lots of winners now look like made for HBO movies.
 
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SaguaroCat said:
Most interesting thing will be Chris Rock's monologue.

I could see Romero winning best director. Movie plot is a little popcorn for the Oscars. But it's all so surreal with great camera shots and visuals and girl power. They like that stuff.

I've only seen the Big Short, Mad Max, and The Martian. I would be thrilled if Big Short won, but it doesn't seem like an Oscar winner. I wouldn't be surprised to see Spotlight. No one goes to the movies and only votes based on screeners. Lots of winners now look like made for HBO movies.
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I would be surprised if The Big Short didn't win. The best picture has went to the winner of the producers guild award for 9 straight years. Since the first year of the PGA, 1988, the PGA and best picture have aligned 19 out of 27 times. No other pre-Oscar award is a better indicator. This is largely because the producers make up a huge part of the voting block.
 
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DaBoss, top five Oscar mistakes of the past decade?
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That's difficult. There have been a lot. The academy generally get it wrong every year in most categories. Going back ten years I would say these stand out. Crash is just outside the ten years or it would be my number one.

1. King's speech - best picture 2010
2. Colin Firth - best actor - King's speech 2010
3. Tom Hooper - best director - King's speech 2010
4. Danny Boyle - best Director - slumdog - 2008
5. The Artist - best picture - 2011

There are a lot that I didn't agree with or wanted someone else to win, but I could still justify their pick. These five cannot be justified.
 
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I'm ashamed at myself for actually watching this. I tell myself every year I won't, but like a crack addict I'm back. God I hate myself right now.
 
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I will only tune in for the Best Actor-Best Picture award if I tune it at all. Can't really stomach the narcissism and the constant patting each other on the back when they have so many award shows.
 
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Of the past 15 years, here are some movies that won the award that no one would give a **** to watch nowadays.

The King's Speech (The Academy loves those dry boring British royalty flicks)
The Artist (Oscar bait)
Crash (How this got momentum from its May release to the awards is beyond me)
Shakespeare in Love (Beat Saving Private Ryan)
Slumdog Millionaire (A horrendous film)
Chicago
 
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HeismanWildcat85 said:
Of the past 15 years, here are some movies that won the award that no one would give a **** to watch nowadays.

The King's Speech (The Academy loves those dry boring British royalty flicks)
The Artist (Oscar bait)
Crash (How this got momentum from its May release to the awards is beyond me)
Shakespeare in Love (Beat Saving Private Ryan)
Slumdog Millionaire (A horrendous film)
Chicago
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Agree with all of those except The King's Speech. Mad Max has been cleaning up so far.
 
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Kings Speech was great, and I usually hate movies like that. I'm a movie simpleton of the highest magnitude.

That chick that was the sexy robot winning a big award is the first of many to come for her. Write it down. Hot AF, too.

Also, black people.
 
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There is a lack of diversity in Hollywood. I know because Chris Rock is wearing it out. How boring.
 
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There is a lack of diversity in Hollywood. I know because Chris Rock is wearing it out. How boring.
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It's funny how this topic doesn't come up when an Asian guy doesn't get nominated. Yeah, let's freak out that a group who doesn't even make up 13 percent of the population and even less in the acting/directing categories, doesn't get a nom every year.

Still haven't figured out how the Academy, which is all leftists, are racist this year but they weren't racist when they gave Oscars to Jamie Foxx, Denzel, Olivia Spencer, Jennifer Hudson, Halle Berry, etc.
 
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And the brief 5 minutes I watched of the Oscars, I now remember why I hate this ****.
 
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