Oscars 2018 Thread (The Shape of Water Wins Best Picture)

Cringiest shitshow everrrr

I'm surprised they didn't get Eminem to perform his lame ass Trump "rap" on stage.
 
Dragonlordxxxxx said:
I got 21 out of 24 predictions correct. Unless anybody here else got a better record (I don't have time to check through the thread), I think I'm the champ two years in a row. Eat it, Petey.

Inb4 #Fixed. #Rigged.
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I would have preferred had Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won Best Picture. Have not seen Molly's Game yet so won't comment on the Adapted Screenplay category, except to say that I thought Call Me by Your Name was a very overrated and pretentious film and did not deserve to win. But I will say that I think Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri should have won in the original category.
 
Abacus was a great doc. Will watch Icarus to see if f yellow bias is still in effect.
 
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I've never understood why people give so much importance to movies. It's like if someone admits they haven't seen the latest blockbuster films there is something wrong with them!
What is the attraction of looking at a load of people licking each other's arses at these award shows?
Elites mixing with elites who are nothing like you and i. They are films, just films, they're not important.
When i was growing up no one i knew gave a toss about film starts and movies, we were into music.

Looking at lots of well off bigheaded people brown-nosing others like them isn't interesting.
 
Even though I'm very happy for Gary Oldman for finally winning the Oscar, I do not like the circumstance in which he won. It isn't that he did not deserve to win but the movie/role itself is one of the most oscar-baity movie in recent memory. You go through the list of things Oscar voters like, the movie practically checked them all.
 
mushishi said:
Abacus was a great doc. Will watch Icarus to see if f yellow bias is still in effect.
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I saw Abacus and Icarus both, I am Asian and like both. The team that made Abacus did a good job making a decent movie out of a relatively uninteresting court case. Icarus on the other hand, has a far more dramatic subject and compelling story. Icarus wins imo but recommend both movies.
 
Not a fan of the Oscars, but came in to check the results. Nice to see Rockwell, McDormand, Janney, and Oldman win, haven't seen any of the films they are nominated for (Three Billboards I do want to see soon though), but I enjoy all four as actors.

How Get Out won best original screenplay when it rips straight from the Skeleton Key though, I do not know. I guess the voters felt guilty that at no major black winners after their whole spiel last year?

Del Toro, it's cool to see a genre guy and sort of a genre picture win (from my understanding it's essentially Hellen Keller sans blindness falling in love with The Creature from the Black Lagoon?), but I haven't really cared too much for anything he's done in years as everything starts to look and feel similar. I think it's just my fatigue over his visual style and digital color palette, just feels over processed and it's in everything he directs or produces without variance. I haven't seen the film in question though, but I likely will this year.
 
armbarforhire said:
What really surprised me is that he has been nominated only twice (not more even as a supporting actor), truly expected to hear the commentator say something like 5 -10 time nominated actor lol.
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It's perplexing that he hasn't been nominated for roles like The Professional, Dracula, True Romance to name a few.

He surely deserved this oscar win, he earned it.
 
squeezewax said:
I've never understood why people give so much importance to movies. It's like if someone admits they haven't seen the latest blockbuster films there is something wrong with them!
What is the attraction of looking at a load of people licking each other's arses at these award shows?
Elites mixing with elites who are nothing like you and i. They are films, just films, they're not important.
When i was growing up no one i knew gave a toss about film starts and movies, we were into music.

Looking at lots of well off bigheaded people brown-nosing others like them isn't interesting.
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Times change of course when it comes to what art is more culturally significant, music has I think definitely dropped off in importance over the last 25 year or more and you could argue cinema has somewhat filled that gap although I'd agree the Oscars aren't some ultimately judge of quality.

The reality is whilst they maybe criticised for being elitist in reality there actually pretty conservative and generally tend to pick relatively easy to digest cinema without much controversy to it. SO whilst yeah they might overlook some blockbuster cinema they also tend to overlook a lot of the more interesting end of artier cinema as well, not to mention of course the big awards are almost always confined to US financed English language cinema.

If you were looking for a guide to interesting cinema to watch then its arguably something like the Palme D'or at Cann would probably be a better bet than oscar best picture winners.
 
boring show, but pretty honest results. i don't tune in to be entertained, i watch to see the actors and filmmakers i admire get their recognition.

shape of water wasn't my favorite film of the year, but it was certainly a spectacular film and del toro did some masterful work. so it's really awesome to see him crush tonight.

gary oldman, sam rockwell, frances mcdormant. just a fuckin juggernaut squad of acting that all had incredible performances.

the highlight of the night for me is to see those people give their speeches and bask in their glory.
 
squeezewax said:
I've never understood why people give so much importance to movies. It's like if someone admits they haven't seen the latest blockbuster films there is something wrong with them!
What is the attraction of looking at a load of people licking each other's arses at these award shows?
Elites mixing with elites who are nothing like you and i. They are films, just films, they're not important.
When i was growing up no one i knew gave a toss about film starts and movies, we were into music.

Looking at lots of well off bigheaded people brown-nosing others like them isn't interesting.
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Don't worry, the ESPYs will be on soon
 
sloppypie said:
boring show, but pretty honest results. i don't tune in to be entertained, i watch to see the actors and filmmakers i admire get their recognition.

shape of water wasn't my favorite film of the year, but it was certainly a spectacular film and del toro did some masterful work. so it's really awesome to see him crush tonight.

gary oldman, sam rockwell, frances mcdormant. just a fuckin juggernaut squad of acting that all had incredible performances.

the highlight of the night for me is to see those people give their speeches and bask in their glory.
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The only thing more cringe-inducing than McDormant's appearance was her fucking, I am Spartacus! speech
 
chickenluver said:
Picture
The Shape of Water

Actor
Gary Oldman

Actress
Frances McDormand

Supporting actor
Sam Rockwell

Supporting actress
Allison Janney

Animated
Coco

Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049

Costume design
Phantom Thread

Director
Guillermo del Toro

Documentary
Last Men in Aleppo

Documentary short
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Editing
Dunkirk

Foreign language film
A Fantastic Woman

Makeup and hair
Darkest Hour

Music
The Shape of Water

Song
Coco

Production design
The Shape of Water

Short film
DeKalb Elementary

Animated short film
Dear Basketball

Sound editing
Dunkirk

Sound mixing
Dunkirk

Visual effects
War for the Planet of the Apes

Adapted screenplay
Call Me by Your Name

Original screenplay
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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21 / 24 not bad
 
congrats to Shape of Water for winning Best Dramatically Inert movie of the year
 
Dragonlordxxxxx said:
I got 21 out of 24 predictions correct. Unless anybody here else got a better record (I don't have time to check through the thread), I think I'm the champ two years in a row. Eat it, Petey.

Inb4 #Fixed. #Rigged.
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Tied ya
 
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