Best Picture
1. 12 Years a Slave
– Because it should win.
2. Dallas Buyers Club
– Because Hollywood likes gays
Best Actor in a Leading Role
1. Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
– Because it’s his turn.
2. Chiwetel Ejiofor(12 Years a Slave)
– Because he deserves it.
Best Actress in a Leading Role
1. Amy Adams (American Hustle)
– Everyone talks about her like she’s something special
2. Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
– She actually is something special
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
1. Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
– Was fabulous
2. Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
– Was in a slightly better movie
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
1. Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
– Always one “exotic” choice each year
2. Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
– Academy members still hard from Pretty Woman
Best Animated Feature
1. Frozen
– Because Disney owns ABC
2. The Wind Rises
– Because the academy loves Asians
Best Cinematography
1. Gravity
– Did you see it?
2. Prisoners
– I saw it.
Best Costume Design
1. American Hustle
– Because people love the 70’s.
2. 12 Years a Slave
– The 1870’s, not so much
Best Directing
1. 12 Years a Slave
– Because the Academy still misses the other Steve McQueen
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
– Because Scorsese is slightly easier to pronounce than CÚaron
Best Documentary Feature
1. 20 Feet from Stardom
– Because it’s the only one starring anyone we actually know
Best Film Editing
1. American Hustle
– Anyone can splice a montage
2. Captain Phillips
– Gotta work Tom Hanks in somewhere
Best Original Score
1. The Book Thief
– John Williams hasn’t won anything in 9 hours
2. Saving Mr. Banks
– Remember? Disney owns ABC
Best Original Song
1. Let It Go
– Made me want to be a snow princess
2. Ordinary Love
– Only song with “love” in the title
Best Sound Editing
1. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
– Because it’s the LOTR kid brother
2. Lone Survivor
– Because Hollywood supports our troops
Best Sound Mixing
I really don’t know the difference between this and the previous category
Best Visual Effects
1. Gravity
– Boy shorts = visual effect
2. Iron Man 3
– Because my friends love superheroes
Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Philomena
– Because they dropped Judi Dench from James Bond
2. 12 Years a Slave
– Because you feel guilty as shit after seeing it
Best Original Screenplay
1. Her
– Because Iphone users are insane
2. Nebraska
– Because Bruce Dern is insane |
Yup. Just like last year, letting you know right now who, what, why, and how (?) will win the most of the not-everything-exactly-but-most of the importantest categories in this year’s race to hold the gold. The gold, naked, thin-lipped man who seems to have a pretty good grip one of those swords that pierced the olives in the five martinis your father needed to tolerate your whining when you were watching Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree but he wanted to watch football. So – let’s get it on. After each category is the film or artist I predict will win followed a close 2nd place. When I feel like it, I might provide my rationale for each selection.
brainsnorts inc. 
I never know ahead of time what movies are being nominated. So in the docu, does that mean Inequality for All was not nominated? Such a shame. It’s really good (as in really-really-good). I’m not sure if I’ve seen Blue Jasmine yet or not (I should know this, but I’ve been catching a lot of great ones and tend to not always remember them). And 12 Years a Slave should win anything they’ve been nominated for. Gravity – I still don’t get it, other than she actually does look great when she’s floating around in the shuttle. Effects are ok. Not like wow-oh-my-fucking-god-did-you-see-that kind. But then again, we’re being wowed over and over, and it’s getting hard to beat the best ones.
p.s. (because you knew i had to come back with one) have you not seen Nebraska? All in b&w. Really good flick!
have not seen it but i want to see it. i was hoping to see 12 years a slave yesterday, but my kid is here and i don’t want to watch that with her, which is why we watched “some like it hot” instead.
good call. planning on seeing philomena later…
i don’t have a drive to see philomena right now, but eventually yes.
i have a near full 2 tb hard drive, but something tells me you’re talking about another kind of drive.
yes, should have said desire to see it. as for your drive, i currently have 12 years, all is lost, and a few others downloaded but haven’t watched yet.
all is lost is something i should not have watched… for obvious reasons.
i have a close friend who had a boat years ago, plans to get another one soon, and refuses to watch that one.
smart move. but i could make a huge list of things i call shenanigans upon. i kept yelling crap throughout the movie. self-defense from not succumbing to my fears? maybe.
whatever it takes. shoulda had a double feature with “jaws” too.
the effects were great. at first, i loved gravity, but the more i thought about it afterward, the less i liked the movie as a whole. they ignored a few significant laws of physics, and that disturbed me a lot. you can’t make such a technical film and get that wrong. specifically, the part when clooney was drifting away when bullock had grabbed hold of the ship. the laws of physics in space would dictate that if bullock stops, clooney stops. it’s not as if he would keep falling because there is no falling where they are. that was too much “wrong” for me.
it just annoyed the hell out of me. everything about it.
i wasn’t annoyed by everything, but the special effects certainly covered up a lot of “wrong” that people ignored.
Questo è Hollywood… non avendo la televisione vivo un po’ da extraterrestre… i buoni film sono nella videoteca, pronti ad essere visti dal mio laptop (Casablanca, Dottor Zivago, Cime tempestose ecc.)
E’ impressionante i progressi tecnologici a cosa portano, ma in fondo questo è il tempo che scorre…
Serena giornata 🙂 claudine
Just saw Philomena last night. Loved this movie. I had begun to believe great movies weren’t being made.
it is on my list, and i will probably search it out this weekend. thanks!