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[Gemme]

I saw this today.



It's a true story and is absolutely phenomenal and another heartbreaking example of our government and military letting down our troops and operatives. Those men didn't have to die and be injured the way they were.

[betruetoyoursoul]

This could be a puzzle to figure out which ones you did see*S lol...

Originally Posted by Orema

From Variety.com

Oscar nominees for the 88th annual awards were announced on Thursday morning live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The ceremony, hosted by Chris Rock for the second time, will be held on Feb. 28 and air live on ABC.

Here is the full list of nominees for the 2016 Oscars:

Best motion picture of the year:
“The Big Short”
“Bridge of Spies”
“Brooklyn”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“The Revenant”
“Room”
“Spotlight”

Performance by an actor in a leading role:
Bryan Cranston in “Trumbo”
Matt Damon in “The Martian”
Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Revenant”
Michael Fassbender in “Steve Jobs”
Eddie Redmayne in “The Danish Girl”

Performance by an actress in a leading role:
Cate Blanchett in “Carol”
Brie Larson in “Room”
Jennifer Lawrence in “Joy”
Charlotte Rampling in “45 Years”
Saoirse Ronan in “Brooklyn”

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:
Christian Bale in “The Big Short”
Tom Hardy in “The Revenant”
Mark Ruffalo in “Spotlight”
Mark Rylance in “Bridge of Spies”
Sylvester Stallone in “Creed”

Performance by an actress in a supporting role:
Jennifer Jason Leigh in “The Hateful Eight”
Rooney Mara in “Carol”
Rachel McAdams in “Spotlight”
Alicia Vikander in “The Danish Girl”
Kate Winslet in “Steve Jobs”

Achievement in directing:
“The Big Short” Adam McKay
“Mad Max: Fury Road” George Miller
“The Revenant” Alejandro G. Iñárritu
“Room” Lenny Abrahamson
“Spotlight” Tom McCarthy

Adapted screenplay:
“The Big Short” Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
“Brooklyn” Screenplay by Nick Hornby
“Carol” Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
“The Martian” Screenplay by Drew Goddard
“Room” Screenplay by Emma Donoghue

Original screenplay:
“Bridge of Spies” Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
“Ex Machina” Written by Alex Garland
“Inside Out” Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
“Spotlight” Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
“Straight Outta Compton” Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

Best animated feature film of the year:
“Anomalisa” Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran
“Boy and the World” Alê Abreu
“Inside Out” Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
“Shaun the Sheep Movie” Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
“When Marnie Was There” Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Best documentary feature:
“Amy” Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees
“Cartel Land” Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin
“The Look of Silence” Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
“What Happened, Miss Simone?” Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes
“Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor

Best foreign language film of the year:
“Embrace of the Serpent” Colombia
“Mustang” France
“Son of Saul” Hungary
“Theeb” Jordan
“A War” Denmark

Achievement in cinematography:
“Carol” Ed Lachman
“The Hateful Eight” Robert Richardson
“Mad Max: Fury Road” John Seale
“The Revenant” Emmanuel Lubezki
“Sicario” Roger Deakins

Achievement in costume design:
“Carol” Sandy Powell
“Cinderella” Sandy Powell
“The Danish Girl” Paco Delgado
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Jenny Beavan
“The Revenant” Jacqueline West

Best documentary short subject:
“Body Team 12” David Darg and Bryn Mooser
“Chau, beyond the Lines” Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck
“Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah” Adam Benzine
“A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“Last Day of Freedom” Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

Achievement in film editing:
“The Big Short” Hank Corwin
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Margaret Sixel
“The Revenant” Stephen Mirrione
“Spotlight” Tom McArdle
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling:
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
“The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared” Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
“The Revenant” Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score):
“Bridge of Spies” Thomas Newman
“Carol” Carter Burwell
“The Hateful Eight” Ennio Morricone
“Sicario” Jóhann Jóhannsson
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” John Williams

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song):
“Earned It” from “Fifty Shades of Grey”
Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
“Manta Ray” from “Racing Extinction”
Music by J. Ralph and Lyric by Antony Hegarty
“Simple Song #3” from “Youth”
Music and Lyric by David Lang
“Til It Happens To You” from “The Hunting Ground”
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
“Writing’s On The Wall” from “Spectre”
Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith

Achievement in production design:
“Bridge of Spies” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
“The Danish Girl” Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
“The Martian” Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
“The Revenant” Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy

Best animated short film:
“Bear Story” Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
“Prologue” Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
“Sanjay’s Super Team” Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
“We Can’t Live without Cosmos” Konstantin Bronzit
“World of Tomorrow” Don Hertzfeldt

Best live action short film:
“Ave Maria” Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
“Day One” Henry Hughes
“Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)” Patrick Vollrath
“Shok” Jamie Donoughue
“Stutterer” Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage

Achievement in sound editing:
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Mark Mangini and David White
“The Martian” Oliver Tarney
“The Revenant” Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
“Sicario” Alan Robert Murray
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Matthew Wood and David Acord

Achievement in sound mixing:
“Bridge of Spies” Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
“The Martian” Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth
“The Revenant” Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

Achievement in visual effects:
“Ex Machina” Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
“Mad Max: Fury Road” Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
“The Martian” Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
“The Revenant” Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

[Orema]

Brooklyn



It was okay/average. A sweet, thoughtful, nice movie. Acting was good. Music was nice.

[Gayandgray]

The last Jurasic Park movie. Saw it last Summer when my sister and her kids came down for a weekend visit. I like going to the movies but my spouse is in a wheelchair and we have to sit up close and she says it hurts her neck.

[JDeere]

The Outlaw Josey Wales with Clint Eastwood

from 1976

[Sparkle]

I've had a bit of a film spree the past few weeks - I've seen

The Danish Girl
The Martian
Carol
Spotlight

They were all very good films -- each in their own way, and all so well made - written, designed, acted and directed.

[Fancy]

Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip

...not my choice, but the giggles on either side of me made it worth it.

[Jess]

Very well made, beautifully filmed gothic "ghost story"

def worth a watch if you enjoy ghosty type films

[Jess]

Originally Posted by JDeere

The Outlaw Josey Wales with Clint Eastwood

from 1976

I still want that poncho and hat

[cinnamongrrl]

I just finished watching Little Women...

A favorite book brought to life...and done well. I'm glad to own it again.

[Orema]

Truth



I liked it. Cate Blanchette was good as usual. Redford was good, too—better than I thought he would be. There's a stiffness to Dan Rather that Redford captured well. I think this was made by a first-time director and it felt like it. Kind of felt like a made-for-tv movie. Still, I enjoyed it because of the story. It was nice to see Stacy Keach—always a good actor.

[ProfPacker]

Carol and for me, I found it very moving on different levels. I am also in awe of Cate Blanchette's regalness, acting ability and beauty.

[cinnamongrrl]

Stacy Keach has a sexy voice. I imagine now that Edward Hermann has passed he will be getting even more work...

I bought the movie Wild last night. Its one of the only movies I've seen in the theater the last year.

I was particularly excited to watch the extras. And im so glad I did. The little girl who plays Cheryl as a child is actually Cheryl's daughter, Bobbi, named after her mother. The woman who drops her off to start her hike is the author herself. The family at the end that passes and waves to her is the author, her husband and their 2 children. I just loved these little touches....

The book was still better. They don't even mention how she got her Bob Marley T-shirt and they don't mention a guy she met along the way that I swear was her soul mate...you just have to read it and see for yourself lol

[afrcnqueen]

Had a movie fest with a friend and saw:
Carol with Cate Blanchett
Freeheld ....Cried like a baby and loved it.
Star Wars The Force Awakens.... I'm a nerd, so I loved it.

[homoe]

I watched the Intern last night! I wasn't expecting much BUT I was pleasantly surprised I must say

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I saw Carol last night. It was very beautifully filmed, and the acting was first class. Rooney Mara was completely convincing as a young lesbian developing her first love in the 1950s. The movie does an exceptional job of depicting the subtleties of two lesbian lives in a repressive era.

Visually, this film was gorgeous. The 1950s details, from everyday objects such as cars and furniture, and the costumes, makeup and hair, to places such as roadside motels and The Drake hotel in Chicago were fun to watch for someone like me (I'm a lover of mid-century everything). Therese works in a toy department, and one of the first things that hit me was seeing my old tin doll house. Every scene was like a delicious flashback into my childhood. I was engulfed in this film, as the setting drew me into the parts of the story I was less familiar with, such as a 1950s butch and femme flirting in a NYC record store.

I heard screenwriter Phyllis Nagy on NPR's Fresh Air, and she commented that this story was "extremely forward thinking" at the time Patricia Highsmith wrote the novel. Apparently it was typical for lesbian novels of the time to end with one or both women dying, or ending up in a mental hospital. Carol does have a relatively happy ending, and it made it easier for me to watch, knowing in advance that this would be the case.

[betruetoyoursoul]

It has been awhile since I have posted some of the movies/documentaries that I have caught. I thought I would share a list here this morning. Many fine people have posted some of these if not all. (((((hugs to all*S)))):

Brooklyn- difficult predicament and I felt there are some similiarities to LDR's ....

The Big Short- I appreciated the actors and the honest perspective concerning what happened....

Burnt- I really enjoyed this movie more than I thought.

Carol- moving and haunting

The Danish Girl- Interesting

Freeheld- I am a fan of non-fiction based movies, books etc. This was emotional. I appreciate how far we have come in the last four years or so...
I Am Potential-A father puts his energy into his son who is blind and wheelchair-bound helping his sone overcome obstacles that shows the other's the sons potential....

Inside Out-I loved this..when I lived in England my grandfather had these comics which I loved to read. They were comics of people with little people in inside the body making everything work...not sure if I explained that in the best way but the movie made me smile....

Joy- Better than I thought it would be and enjoyed it.

Room- good movie

The Intern- I liked this

The Stanford Prison Experiment - Interesting

Trumbo- I encourage watching this another non-fiction based movie that opened my eyes to a history I didn't reallize existed in that arena.

Spotlight- A must see *CAUTION-TRIGGER PRONE* so protect yourself mind body health before you decide to watch this movie, I suggest reading a bit about it and then making a decision. *Hugs*

Steve Jobs- It was okay ....

Straight Outta Compton- Very insightful

What Happened, Miss Simone?- A must see

Just my brief two cents*S

Have a great Friday!!!!!

[dykeumentary]

A quick and informal poll:
Please "thank" this post if you attended a film festival in 2015.

[JDeere]

I watched The Intern with mom and dad this evening!

I really enjoyed it!

so 5 stars from me

[angelface]

Vin Diesel tries to leave his Fast & Furious persona but fails miserably. He is better in films with that genre as not much dialogue and acting is required as action scenes dictate the plot.