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Predict the 2013 Oscars

Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock for Gravity
Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave
Best Animated Feature Film: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Peter Del Vecho for Frozen
Best Animated Short Film: Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares for Mr. Hublot
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki for Gravity
Best Costume Design: Catherine Martin for The Great Gatsby
Best Director: Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Documentary Feature: Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen for The Act of Killing
Best Documentary Short Subject: Jason Cohen for Facing Fear
Best Film Editing: Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger for Gravity
Best Foreign Language Film: The Missing Picture - Cambodia
Best Live Action Short Film: Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson for Helium
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny for The Lone Ranger
Best Original Score: Alexandre Desplat for Philomena
Best Original Screenplay: Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell for American Hustle
Best Original Screenplay: Spike Jonze for Her
Best Original Song: Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen for "Ordinary Love" in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Best Picture: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Anthony Katagas for 12 Years a Slave
Best Production Design: Judy Becker and Heather Loeffler for American Hustle
Best Sound Editing: Brent Burge for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Best Sound Mixing: Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, and Tony Johnson for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress: June Squibb for Nebraska
Best Visual Effects: Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, and Eric Reynolds for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug



There are some really good movies up that go beyond the plain Hollywood entertainment, that's quite cool. What I don't get is someone like Jonah Hill being nominated, but that's just my opinion.
I cannot comment on Frozen - I switched it off after the 6th song (which was about at the 10 minute mark). Musicals and I don't go well together.
 
Ellen is sponsoring the Note 3. Meanwhile backstage...

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Congratulations to our new champ dejo, who is first (alphabetically) among the best Oscar predictors. And perhaps it's no surprise that, once again, nobody could out-predict swiftaw!

MacRumors 2013 Oscar contest results

1. 21 correct, tie: dejo and Doctor Q and swiftaw
2. 18 correct: cambookpro
3. 17 correct: takao
4. 14 correct, tie: albertfallickwa and siurpeeman
5. 11 correct, tie: impulse462 and Tsuchiya
6. 10 correct, tie: dec. and music junky
7. 8 correct, tie: EricNau and stridemat
8. 6 correct: Huntn
9. 1 correct, tie: chrono1081 and obeygiant

Feel free to check my results, but I think I have them right.
 
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Doctor Q said:
Congratulations to our new champ dejo, who is first (alphabetically) among the best Oscar predictors. And perhaps it's no surprise that, once again, nobody could out-predict swiftaw!

MacRumors 2012 Oscar contest results

1. 21 correct, tie: dejo and DoctorQ and swiftaw
2. 18 correct: cambookpro
3. 17 correct: takao
4. 14 correct, tie: albertfallickwa and siurpeeman
5. 11 correct, tie: impulse462 and Tsuchiya
6. 10 correct, tie: dec. and music junky
7. 8 correct, tie: EricNau and stridemat
8. 6 correct: Huntn
9. 1 correct, tie: chrono1081 and obeygiant

Feel free to check my results, but I think I have them right.
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I got 6 out of the 7 I voiced an opinion on. ;) Regarding DBC vs 12YAS, I had just seen DBC so felt pretty strongly about it, but I think both films were deserving of Best Movie although only one can win. :)
 
This is a thread about Oscar predictions and it can be taken two ways 1) how you thought the Academy would vote versus 2) Who you thought deserved awards. So after it's decided, do you think the the awards overall had merit?

Although I thought a couple of movies were over hyped, I feel the awards went to their rightful recipients except maybe for Best Director.
 
albertfallickwa said:
Too many awards went to Gravity honestly.
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Look at what it won for: Director, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects. The one I question most is Director. Cinematography and Visual effects have validity, and the rest are considered technical. The important ones, screenplay, actors, and best picture eluded it and rightfully so.
 
Huntn said:
I got 6 out of the 7 I voiced an opinion on. ;)
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obeygiant and chrono1081 did even better, with 100% correct predictions! (One out of one.)

Huntn said:
Look at what it won for: Director, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects. The one I question most is Director. Cinematography and Visual effects have validity, and the rest are considered technical. The important ones, screenplay, actors, and best picture eluded it and rightfully so.
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I wondered about its award for film editing. Every scene was mocked up in a computer, simulated, adjusted, rendered, and digitially assembled with the live footage. The job of the film editor doesn't seem comparable with those for the other movies.

If Mr. Hublot was the best animated short then why didn't get even a nominee for an Annie award?

And it doesn't seem right that American Hustle, which was a little rough around the edges but was overall a movie definitely worth watching, didn't end up with a single award.
 
Doctor Q said:
And it doesn't seem right that American Hustle, which was a little rough around the edges but was overall a movie definitely worth watching, didn't end up with a single award.
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Here's some Oscars trivia:

Q: Name one of the two films that had the most nominations (11) but didn’t win even a single one?
 
Doctor Q said:
obeygiant and chrono1081 did even better, with 100% correct predictions! (One out of one.)


I wondered about its award for film editing. Every scene was mocked up in a computer, simulated, adjusted, rendered, and digitially assembled with the live footage. The job of the film editor doesn't seem comparable with those for the other movies.

If Mr. Hublot was the best animated short then why didn't get even a nominee for an Annie award?

And it doesn't seem right that American Hustle, which was a little rough around the edges but was overall a movie definitely worth watching, didn't end up with a single award.
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I'm not an expert on this but regardless of how footage is captured, it must be edited. I know that some digital productions use virtual cameras where quite a bit of excess footage can be captured and that must still be edited. But I've always wondered how much of a free hand the editor gets? I'm sure it is a case by case basis, but my perception is that in their desire to mold and control their vision in the final product, directors are in the editing room calling the shots. So what does this say about an Editing Award? ;)

I thought Ellen DeGeneres did a great job, she even got on Jonah Hill's nerves, when he thought she was picking on him about "showing something", lol. Dude, it was just a joke! :)

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dejo said:
Here's some Oscars trivia:

Q: Name one of the two films that had the most nominations (11) but didn’t win even a single one?
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No idea... enlighten us. :)
 
So, I ended up with only three wrong guesses. Two of which were for shorts. Shorts that my wife and I even went to go see (Landmark does a shorts exhibition a few weeks prior to the big night): animated short and live action short! I really liked Helium and wanted it to win but picked The Voorman Problem because I guessed that's how Academy voters would go. And I expected Disney's Get A Horse to win, mostly for nostalgic reasons but really wanted Room on the Broom to win. Mr. Hublot's win surprised me.
 
dejo said:
Here's some Oscars trivia:

Q: Name one of the two films that had the most nominations (11) but didn’t win even a single one?
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I know but won't give it away. Clue: You have to go back a few decades.

More recent losers:
True Grit (2010) - 0 wins out of 10 nominations

Gangs of New York (2002) - 0 wins out of 10 nominations
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Watched bits and pieces of it.

That selfie bit was great. Good to see them acting human instead of being chased after by the papparrazzi as if they were some type of god.

Everyone was jumping on Jennifer Lawrence's case for nearly falling down (again), but Travolta took that from her. IMHO, while he has done his share of musicals, someone more inclined to them should have introduced Menzel (read: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, etc.).

I can't remember a Pixar movie that did not win an Oscar. Can anyone point to one?

Pink did a nice job with Somewhere Over the Rainbow, but I would have loved to have seen either Susan Boyle, or that 6 year old girl from Britain's Got Talent sing it instead. She sang that a capella, and got Simon Cowell's praise.

Last I heard of Steve McQueen, he was white, leaning against a classic hot rod, and the subject of a Sheryl Crow song. Did a double take when I saw him giving the speech. Well done.

Did Sidney Poitier have a stroke? It was great to see him there, let alone the standing ovation he received when he walked out on stage, but he's looking pretty frail.

Bill Murray going rogue FTW.

All in all, great show; I think Ellen did great, and I could see the Academy asking her back to host again.

BL.
 
bradl said:
I can't remember a Pixar movie that did not win an Oscar. Can anyone point to one?
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Monsters University, Cars 2, Cars, Monsters, Inc. Or did you mean a Pixar film that was nominated (for Best Animated Feature Film) but then didn't win the Oscar? Then we have Cars (lost to Happy Feet) and Monsters, Inc. (lost to Shrek).
 
dejo said:
Monsters University, Cars 2, Cars, Monsters, Inc. Or did you mean a Pixar film that was nominated (for Best Animated Feature Film) but then didn't win the Oscar? Then we have Cars (lost to Happy Feet) and Monsters, Inc. (lost to Shrek).
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Brave beat Wreck-It Ralph last year which I thought was dumb. I know Brave is Pixar, and it was good, but I didn't think it was better than Wreck-It Ralph.
 
dejo said:
Monsters University, Cars 2, Cars, Monsters, Inc. Or did you mean a Pixar film that was nominated (for Best Animated Feature Film) but then didn't win the Oscar? Then we have Cars (lost to Happy Feet) and Monsters, Inc. (lost to Shrek).
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I was just simply thinking of "nominated for anything". Pixar has had an incredible run at the Oscars, and to my knowledge, there hasn't been a single Pixar film that has not won an Oscar of some sort.

BL.
 
bradl said:
I was just simply thinking of "nominated for anything". Pixar has had an incredible run at the Oscars, and to my knowledge, there hasn't been a single Pixar film that has not won an Oscar of some sort.

BL.
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Okay, based on that clarification, Cars was nominated for Academy Awards (Best Animated Feature Film, Best Original Song) but didn't win either.
 
dejo said:
Monsters University, Cars 2, Cars, Monsters, Inc. Or did you mean a Pixar film that was nominated (for Best Animated Feature Film) but then didn't win the Oscar? Then we have Cars (lost to Happy Feet) and Monsters, Inc. (lost to Shrek).
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Cars was the first Pixar film I did not like, unless it came after Up. ;)
 
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