The 85th Annual Academy Awards

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If we can transition this into a thread for shitting on Animal Collective, I would totally be into that.

I'm going to see them tomorrow!

But if you had told me a few years ago that I would be doing this, I would not have believed you because I haaaaaaaaaated this band. But now I love their new LP and here we are.

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I chuckled at the Knight Rider thing, because Family Guy can go overboard on the pop culture references, but then it sort of spiraled into gross exaggeration (attacking Family Guy for excessive use of puns... what?) and ended up being kind of dumb and incoherent. I'll take a Michael J. Fox joke over ginger jokes and toilet humor any day.

I guess I like South Park, they're very clever sometimes, but I'm not sure I've ever laughed out loud while watching the show. It's good, but not necessarily laugh-out-loud funny for me. (Which is strange, because I loved Team America: World Police, and Book of Mormon sounds great.) But I'm pretty sure I've laughed harder during Family Guy episodes than most other media. Personal taste, I guess.

For me it's all about the dolphin grabbing random balls and dropping five of them in a lottery style machine to make a FG joke. It perfectly illustrates everything wrong with that show while at the same time being a random idea in-and-of itself. south park subverts the random dolphin to have a point at the end. this is exactly why FG will never have anything on SP. FG is just low brow, whereas SP uses low brow to make very astute observations and push a few buttons, not just attacking washed up celebrities like Gary Coleman. which is so safe and banal.

[MacGuffin]

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Hugh Jackman for Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix for The Master
Denzel Washington for Flight

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva for Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts for The Impossible

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Alan Arkin for Argo
Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master
Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln
Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams for The Master
Sally Field for Lincoln
Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables
Helen Hunt for The Sessions
Jacki Weaver for Silver Linings Playbook

Best Achievement in Directing

Michael Haneke for Amour
Ang Lee for Life of Pi
David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg for Lincoln
Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Amour: Michael Haneke
Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino
Flight: John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty: Mark Boal

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

Argo: Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild: Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi: David Magee
Lincoln: Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook: David O. Russell

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Amour: Michael Haneke (Austria)
War Witch: Kim Nguyen (Canada)
No: Pablo Larraín (Chile)
A Royal Affair: Nikolaj Arcel (Denmark)
Kon-Tiki: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg (Norway)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

Anna Karenina: Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained: Robert Richardson
Life of Pi: Claudio Miranda
Lincoln: Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall: Roger Deakins

Best Achievement in Editing

Argo: William Goldenberg
Life of Pi: Tim Squyres
Lincoln: Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook: Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty: William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor

Best Achievement in Production Design

Anna Karenina: Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent, Simon Bright
Les Misérables: Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi: David Gropman, Anna Pinnock
Lincoln: Rick Carter, Jim Erickson

Best Achievement in Costume Design

Anna Karenina: Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables: Paco Delgado
Lincoln: Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror: Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman: Colleen Atwood

Best Achievement in Makeup

Hitchcock
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

Anna Karenina: Dario Marianelli
Argo: Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi: Mychael Danna
Lincoln: John Williams
Skyfall: Thomas Newman

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

Chasing Ice: J. Ralph("Before My Time")
Les Misérables: Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer("Suddenly")
Life of Pi: Mychael Danna, Bombay Jayshree("Pi's Lullaby")
Skyfall: Adele, Paul Epworth("Skyfall")
Ted: Walter Murphy, Seth MacFarlane("Everybody Needs a Best Friend")

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

The Avengers
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Documentary, Features

5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Redemption

Best Short Film, Animated

Adam and Dog: Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole: PES
Head Over Heels: Timothy Reckart, Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Paperman: John Kahrs
The Simpsons: The Longest Daycare: David Silverman

Best Short Film, Live Action

Asad: Bryan Buckley, Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys: Sam French, Ariel Nasr
Curfew: Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow: Tom Van Avermaet, Ellen De Waele
Henry: Yan England

[HeywoodRFloyd]

Unbelievable

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I know right? "Slow boat to china" got sooo snubbed for best song!

[Kellen]

How the hell did Mihai Malaimare Jr. not get a nomination for cinematography?!?!

[Fernando]

same way EWS didnt get one.

PTA is more than ever walking on Kubrick's footsteps. Good for him and for us.

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same way EWS didnt get one.

PTA is more than ever walking on Kubrick's footsteps. Good for him and for us.

exactly

[Reel]

Everyone nominated for Supporting Actor already has an oscar, so it'll be interesting to see how they divy em up.


no love for 100 black coffins?

[Kellen]

Will Joaquin Phoenix even show up for the Oscars?

[jenkins]

the screening schedule should be posted this weekend. i'll go to some. pablo larraín's no interests me, but i still haven't watched post mortem! want to see ted and see prometheus again. life of pi and zero dark thirty i feel like i'll talk about seeing and then not see. last year i made plans to see a bunch and then only went to see real steel, lol, which had been nominated for best visual effects.

[MacGuffin]

http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/if-2013s-oscar-nominated-movie-posters-told-the-truth.php

[jenkins]

photo from inside the theater for last night's nom screening of the master, taken about two minutes before start:

not looking good. at all. of those like 30 people, there was scattered applause for pt and the three main actors during the credits

but around town lots of people talk about the acting. even with this poor showing i'd say there's a chance for any of three acting noms to hit.

for example i went to harmontown the day before, and dan harmon said "during the first twenty minutes of the movie i wanted to call and text everyone i knew to tell them i'd seen the most amazing movie. but then the movie went on for another 80 or 600 minutes or whatever. but the acting! i can recommend the movie, because that's just great acting. great acting."

[Robyn]

I want Amy Adams to win so bad. I love her.

[Reel]

audio is kinda wierd and echo-y. You can watch the full clip of the first part with Jennifer Lawrence, Christoph Waltz, Anne Hathaway, and her Here