86th Annual Academy Awards

Tombstone · 3 Mar 2014 at 07:36

So Wolf of Wall Street ends up with nothing at all? Ludicrous.

~>Dg<~ · 3 Mar 2014 at 08:02

why ? i enjoyed leo in it was it a amazing performance you'll never forget ? = nope just another leo performance. good not outstanding.

i think hes a bit too clean to be honest.

jonneymendoza · 3 Mar 2014 at 08:37

leo should have won! redicolous. what must the man do to win an oscar?

TheVoice · 3 Mar 2014 at 09:12

robfosters said:
Jennifer Lawrence honestly makes my heart flutter every time I look at her.

She does have that effect. Swoooooon...

Freakbro · 3 Mar 2014 at 09:19

I saw Blue Jasmine a few months ago (great film) and Cate Blanchetts performance was incredible, so well deserved on the Oscar.

Efour · 3 Mar 2014 at 09:44

In her opening monologue, ceremony host Ellen DeGeneres addressed the central battle between mavity and 12 Years a Slave. There were two possibilities for the evening, she said – "That 12 Years a Slave wins the best picture Oscar. And possibility two: you're all racists."

i thought that when she said it, its gonna win because its about what it is.

How can a film like Dallas buyers club not win when they say best actor and best supporting but... no. I mean the 2 most important roles in the film yet, no win.

Im new to the oscars but it does seem like a lot of political BS and egg shell treading.

Guerrilla · 3 Mar 2014 at 10:02

jonneymendoza said:
leo should have won! redicolous. what must the man do to win an oscar?

Poor Leo

Windle · 3 Mar 2014 at 10:48

Good to see Her winning best original screenplay, thought that was really good.

Also, not fussed about the Sky adverts for mavity on SkyStore. It's probably because they have a promotion at the moment where they will credit you for one SkyStore purchase up to £5~ as part of an Oscars promotion.

One More Solo · 3 Mar 2014 at 11:03

Efour said:
In her opening monologue, ceremony host Ellen DeGeneres addressed the central battle between mavity and 12 Years a Slave. There were two possibilities for the evening, she said – "That 12 Years a Slave wins the best picture Oscar. And possibility two: you're all racists."

i thought that when she said it, its gonna win because its about what it is.

How can a film like Dallas buyers club not win when they say best actor and best supporting but... no. I mean the 2 most important roles in the film yet, no win.

Im new to the oscars but it does seem like a lot of political BS and egg shell treading.

Because best performance doesn't always equal best film? There are so many Oscar categories because films are about so much more than just the cast.

Deep · 3 Mar 2014 at 11:24

I'm glad mavity & WoWS didn't win best film.
They were over rated on a ridiculous level

Efour · 3 Mar 2014 at 12:17

One More Solo said:
Because best performance doesn't always equal best film? There are so many Oscar categories because films are about so much more than just the cast.

i guess that's the difference between the uneducated general public watching a film for "what it is" and the inner circle jerk side.

Which recognized movie awards are given by popularity alone so i can check them out ?

thanks

v0n · 3 Mar 2014 at 12:41

One More Solo said:
Because best performance doesn't always equal best film? There are so many Oscar categories because films are about so much more than just the cast.

As much as i agree with above, I must admit I consider 12 Years A Slave as a relatively poorly made movie, winning Oscar purely because of topic rather than cinematic treatment of said topic.

Cleisthenes · 3 Mar 2014 at 13:16

I stayed up, and for the most part was happy with the results.

One More Solo · 3 Mar 2014 at 13:35

Efour said:
i guess that's the difference between the uneducated general public watching a film for "what it is" and the inner circle jerk side.

Which recognized movie awards are given by popularity alone so i can check them out ?

thanks

I literally have no idea what you're trying to get at here.

When you say award given by popularity do you mean critically or publicly? Because if it's the former then the Oscars/Golden Globes are your best bet, if it's the latter then I would suggest the MTV Movie Awards. No prizes for guessing which of those two categories sees genuinely terrible films getting awards but maybe that appeals to you more.

Using popularity as a measure of how good a film is is fraught with danger...

v0n said:
As much as i agree with above, I must admit I consider 12 Years A Slave as a relatively poorly made movie, winning Oscar purely because of topic rather than cinematic treatment of said topic.

I'm yet to see 12 Years A Slave so I wasn't commenting specifically on it but there's no doubt the subject matter helped its award prospects.

Efour · 3 Mar 2014 at 13:47

MTV ok ty will read up on them.

ill see whats voted then see how terrible they are

ta again

Raymond Lin · 3 Mar 2014 at 13:59

I've seen 12 years a slave
Wolf on Wallstreet
American Hustle
mavity
Captain Philips

Will watch Dallas Buyers Club and Nebraska later this week.

From the ones that i've seen, Best Picture should go to mavity. 12 years a slave (I gave it 8/10 on the day I saw it) tackles the subject matters direct head on, but there are quite a lot of flaws.

Some scene dragged, pointlessly. I don't mean the torture scenes being too graphic, or the hanging scene where he was left there for hours. But there are some other ones where the screen shows nothing but the characters starring in to the void, for too long. I remember 5 mins after he was turned into a slave I was looking at my watch. I normally judge how much a movie grabs and hold my attention by how many times I look at my watch. The more I look meaning the less attention it has on me. I think I was checking my watch every 15 mins or so with this.

I can see why the academy voted it though, they always like movies like these. As again they like actors who step out of their comfort zones and lose a ton of weight for a part - see Tom Hanks in Philedelphia. So Matthew McConaughey was a foregone conclusion.

I agree that Best Director going to mavity, that movie, for something that nothing really much happen, manage to hold your attention for every minute is impressive.

Efour · 3 Mar 2014 at 14:12

Raymond Lin said:
Some scene dragged, pointlessly. I don't mean the torture scenes being too graphic, or the hanging scene where he was left there for hours. But there are some other ones where the screen shows nothing but the characters starring in to the void, for too long. I remember 5 mins after he was turned into a slave I was looking at my watch. I normally judge how much a movie grabs and hold my attention by how many times I look at my watch. The more I look meaning the less attention it has on me. I think I was checking my watch every 15 mins or so with this.

I really agree the intense, to some uncomfortable, scenes were offset by over length fairly boring ones. I never got any sense of time from the movie either.. 12 years literally seemed "2 hours a slave."

One More Solo · 3 Mar 2014 at 14:12

Efour said:
MTV ok ty will read up on them.

ill see whats voted then see how terrible they are

ta again

Twilight won best film four years in a row there. The Academy didn't recognise it for all those years because they were clearly too busy being self-congratulatory.

robfosters · 3 Mar 2014 at 14:21

Think the awards was generally poor quality this year. The films didn't really stand out for me and I agree that the topic of 12 years a slave helped it's prospects no end.

Some bizarre snubs as well, in particularly not even a nomination for Idris Elba. Even Hanks was worth one for Captain Phillips.

stulid · 3 Mar 2014 at 14:35

Poor Leo, great actor, Wolf of wall Street is awesome.