THE 86th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS

[Jet]

Please post your reviews and comments here. For the complete list of 2013 nominees, visit: http://oscar.go.com/nominees

(1 of 7 introductory posts)

[Jet]

For the complete list of nominees, please visit: http://oscar.go.com/nominees

(2 of 7 introductory posts)

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For the complete list of nominees, visit: http://oscar.go.com/nominees

(3 and 4 of 7 introductory posts)

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For the complete list of nominees, visit: http://oscar.go.com/nominees

(5 and 6 of introductory posts)

[Jet]

For the complete list of nominees in all categories, visit: http://oscar.go.com/nominees


(Final introductory post of nominees)

[Jet]

I have seen most of the nominees and I don't agree. For one, I don't feel Gravity is worth 10 nominations. I admire Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, but I'm not a fan of this film—in fact, it's one of the worst films I saw this past year. George Clooney isn't featured in the film that much and there really isn't much more to this space-thriller. With me, it crash-landed.

[Soon]

Originally Posted by Jet

I have seen most of the nominees and I don't agree. For one, I don't feel Gravity is worth 10 nominations. I admire Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, but I'm not a fan of this film—in fact, it's one of the worst films I saw this past year. George Clooney isn't featured in the film that much and there really isn't much more to this space-thriller. With me, it crash-landed.

I haven't seen the movie, but I don't see Clooney nominated, so I'm curious as to your point about him not being "featured in the film that much." What does him not being in the film much have to do with this film's nominations?

[Soon]

So far, I've seen August: Osage County--yep. great movie. Acting was brilliant all round.

American Hustle--really liked it!

Also, saw Inside Llewyn Davis--meh.


This weekend, we plan on seeing one more--either Nebraska, Her, or The Wolf of Wall Street.

I found this year's film selections really strong.

[Jet]

I saw August: Osage County as well. Strong stuff from writer Tracy Letts. But from an Academy-political standpoint, I don't think they'll win. And personally, as much as I like and appreciate the performances of some of my favorite actors in this movie...it was a depressing film to watch based on subject matter (IMBO)

Originally Posted by Soon

So far, I've seen August: Osage County--yep. great movie. Acting was brilliant all round.

American Hustle--really liked it!

Also, saw Inside Llewyn Davis--meh.


This weekend, we plan on seeing one more--either Nebraska, Her, or The Wolf of Wall Street.

I found this year's film selections really strong.

[Soon]

Originally Posted by Jet

I saw August: Osage County as well. Strong stuff from writer Tracy Letts. But from an Academy-political standpoint, I don't think they'll win. And personally, as much as I like and appreciate the performances of some of my favorite actors in this movie...it was a depressing film to watch based on subject matter (IMBO)

Yep. Super depressing. Made my family look like The Waltons.

I have to gear up to see 12 Years a Slave. I don't think I can see it the theatre and will wait for DVD. I can watch family or personal drama/anguish/dysfunction no problem, but massive injustice and inhumanity on a social/political scale is hard for me to watch.

[*Anya*]

Originally Posted by Soon

So far, I've seen August: Osage County--yep. great movie. Acting was brilliant all round.

American Hustle--really liked it!

Also, saw Inside Llewyn Davis--meh.


This weekend, we plan on seeing one more--either Nebraska, Her, or The Wolf of Wall Street.

I found this year's film selections really strong.

Loved, loved American Hustle.

Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale were so good!

Enjoyed The Wolf of Wall Street but a really long movie.

Leo is a terrific actor.

[*Anya*]

Originally Posted by Jet

I have seen most of the nominees and I don't agree. For one, I don't feel Gravity is worth 10 nominations. I admire Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, but I'm not a fan of this film—in fact, it's one of the worst films I saw this past year. George Clooney isn't featured in the film that much and there really isn't much more to this space-thriller. With me, it crash-landed.

I agree with you about this film!

I could not, do not, understand the hoopla about it.

Boring in a word, so boring.

Great special effects but not much more than that.

[Jet]

Originally Posted by *Anya*

I agree with you about this film!

I could not, do not, understand the hoopla about it.

Boring in a word, so boring.

Great special effects but not much more than that.

Hollywood attempts to do many things in film making: It "kings" technology"; rules and influences social thinking; and cashes in on its efforts. It isn't the system that was once in existence under the old "studio system"...to entertain with a profit at the box office. Hollywood is a powerful influence globally and socially which garners billions of dollars annually. It can serve good or bad depending on its targets and objectives. I feel there are politics involved in a complicated and sophisticated industry. To be nominated for an Oscar guarantees a tremendous boost in salaries. Also, I've read where nominees "campaign" for votes to assure salaries and future roles. This is a treadmill. At the summit of political, artistic endeavors is Oscar...worth more than his weight in gold.

[Jet]

It doesn't have my confidence of winning because it doesn't cover the spectrum of what Hollywood strives to do: appeal to the masses. I am an avid, old time fan of Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper and Sam Shepard. Julianne Nicholson has won me over from her performances in Boardwalk Empire and this film. As much as I admire these actors, I don't feel they'll win based on a lack of wide appeal and politics. This is a heavy, mature film. If they do win...accolades to an Academy which still recognizes the sophistication and art of dramatic performances that are deserving based on solid acting.

[The_Lady_Snow]

I can't wait to see what everyone is wearing!!!!




Oh and Ellen, I Ellen

[Jet]

[Jet]

SAG Awards, just announced, could be early indicators in Oscar races.

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-...040234319.html

[Jet]

The real Wolf of Wall Street; how close is the movie?

Jordan Belfort, the real Wolf of Wall Street, talks with Entertainment Tonight about his biography played by Oscar nominee Leo DiCaprio. Interesting piece on the man who bilked investors out of millions. http://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs_this_morning/video/

[Jet]

Nebraska

is shot on location in the fields and on the back roads of the state where I lived for more than 30 years. The scenery is all too familiar to me, though the writers have added the fictional town of Hawthorne which doesn't exist.

Da D's

Is Nebraska my kind of movie because I lived there? Or because it felt as though I'd flown back? Not at all. I've mentioned that I've had steady diet, all year, of films that either depict depression, dysfuntion, dispair, dissolution or danger. Well, Nebraska is just plain dull and drab. But the film has a redeeming quality in Dern—Bruce Dern— who plays a booze-addled drunk in search of his jackpot winnings in...Nebraska.

The Academy hasn't awarded Bruce Dern an Oscar for his lifetime achievements. And he hasn't been nominated since 1979 for Coming Home. I think it's time because of his longevity and his performance , and he is my second choice for Best Actor.

I grew up watching Bruce Dern. And, if you're my age, you'll remember him as a psychopath, sociopath, criminal or just plain dirty as dirty gets in more memorable films such as Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Cowboys, Black Sunday, Marnie by Alfred Hitchcock, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and Diggstown, to name a few. He is a character actor in the ranks of nasty guys Jack Palance, and psycho Richard Widmark in his early years. Nobody played 'em better. I think Dern deserves consideration coming onto the screen in his late 70s in a leading role. When I watched him, I wondered if director Alexander Payne literally pulled him out of retirement in a wheel chair. A far departure from his early years.

June Squibb

Nebraska is drab with exaggerated caricatures of hicks in the sticks.(Stacy Keach, who I hardly recognized, cast as one of them.) I didn't know any people as dull when I lived in Nebraska and it grated on my nerves to watch this slow, slanted movie about uninteresting people, shot in black and white.


On the flip side...

the super nice thing about Nebraska is that it features senior citizens by the dozens and the best is 85 year-old Oscar-nominated supporting actress June Squibb. She is a scene stealer as Dern's feisty wife, and she is my second choice for the supporting actress Oscar. I have never seen anyone as natural in a role since Shirley Booth's Oscar, Tony and Golden Globe-winning role as Lola Delaney in Come Back Little Sheba. There is no camera in front of June Squibb...



Just my take on Nebraska. Have fun at the movies.

[Jet]

FALLON'S PROS AND CONS OF WATCHING THE OSCARS. (KICK ME, BABY....LOL)