The Pitters' Place

Best Picture
The Big Short
Brooklyn
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Lead Actor
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

Lead Actress
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed

Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

Best Director
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro Inarritu, The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight

Original Screenplay
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton

Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room

Best Animated Picture
Anomalisa
O Menino e o Mundo
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep
Omoide no Mani

And etc. Full list here: http://www.imdb.com/awards-central/osca ... ac_acd_lk1

That Michael Giachino/Inside Out didn't get a nod for Best Score is a crime in and of itself

I've seen exactly 2 movies listed in that post. After tonight , 3.

I haven't seen Bridge of Spies or Spotlight, and I'm seeing Spotlight tonight.

I've seen Bridge of Spies, Martian, Bridge of Spies, & will be seeing Revenant tomorrow

The bear attack will make you clench.

I didn't realize anyone still gave a shit about the Oscars.

Derived Absurdity wrote:I didn't realize anyone still gave a shit about the Oscars.

I don't think anyone does.

So I lied. I just found out they're showing the Big Short at a decent time, and it runs into spotlight, so I think I'll see those instead

The stock market attack will make you clench.

Cassius Clay wrote:The stock market attack will make you clench.

So I lied again. Turns out I was looking at the wrong theater. Ended up seeing Revenant and about to see The Big Short.

I'll watch Spotlight Next week. I plan on seeing Anomalisa monday.

I don't know what that's about but it will make you clench.

Cassius Clay wrote:I don't know what that's about but it will make you clench.

Aside from Leo getting mauled by a bear & cauterizing a neckwound by igniting gunpowder, it didn't. It was a pretty straight forward revenge movie that was kind of full of itself in its attempt to have an artfulness to it. If there was any symbolism with the constant use of running water, it didn't translate & just made me want to pee.

sikax wrote:

What? The movie didn't need to be nearly three hours long and I could've done without the constant shots to running water.

Unvoiced_Apollo wrote:

Cassius Clay wrote:I don't know what that's about but it will make you clench.

Aside from Leo getting mauled by a bear & cauterizing a neckwound by igniting gunpowder, it didn't. It was a pretty straight forward revenge movie that was kind of full of itself in its attempt to have an artfulness to it. If there was any symbolism with the constant use of running water, it didn't translate & just made me want to pee.

Yep. "kind of full of itself in its attempt to have an artfulness to it" pretty much sums up the director.

Every person nominated, with the possible exception of Tom Hardy and that Vikander girl whose name I've never even heard before, are the type of people who love the smell of their own farts.

I just found out Brad Pitt was in the Big Short. I did not recognize him at all.

Yep, and Salma Hayek played the grizzly in The Revenant.

I'm laughing over the fact that somebody mentioned Brad Pitt immediately after my post about people who love the smell of their own farts.

I think most people like the smell of Brad Pitt's farts.

What's a Brad Pitt?

I think he's some handsome redneck that married a weird French alien and adopted a bunch of Asian and African babies or something.

My Rankings of the BP nominees

1. Spotlight
2. The Big Short
3. Mad Max Fury Road
4. Bridge of Spies
5. The Martian
6. The Revenant

Didn't see Room or Brooklyn

Mine:

The Revenant
The Big Short
Spotlight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Room
The Martian
Brooklyn

sikax wrote:Mine:

The Revenant
The Big Short
Spotlight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Room
The Martian
Brooklyn

Surprised to see Room being nominated; Wiseau's acting wasn't exactly great in that.

You know Franco and Rogen are making a movie based on Wiseau's room?

No, but that's probably going to be my all-time favorite movie.

What do you all think was the biggest snub & who/which movie would you replace in that category?

And should live action have its own separate category like animation rather than using Best Picture to recognize one medium most of the time?

Biggest snub for me is Jason Mitchell (played Eazy-E in Straight Outta Compton) for Supporting Actor. Bale, Hardy and Ruffalo deserve their spots, Sly was OK in Creed, didn't see Bridge of Spies, so I guess I'd replace either Sly or Mark Rylance.

But, of course, it's a flick starring black kids so there's no chance in hell any of the actors could be recognized.

Oh, forgot about Beasts of No Nation. That deserves acting considerations, especially Abraham Attah. Fuck the Oscars.

Wait Leo won a fucking Oscar? hahahahahahaha

I still haven't seen Creed or Straight Out of Compton, and I love me some Rocky, and I used to own all the NWA CD's. That shit used to be my lullaby. I'd go to sleep with them playing in my little portable CD player with my headsets on. I had to hide them from my mom, cuz she used to throw away my rap tapes and CD's when she found them.

Anyway, I heard that's where black people really got snubbed this year, but I wouldn't know cuz I haven't seen them, although I will. From what I've seen, that little kid from Room got snubbed. Motherfucker got down.

Yeah, Leo finally won, and he talked about global warming and got a standing ovation. I probably drank too much wine.

Glad Brie Larson won obviously, but The Revenant took Best Cinematography over Fury Road? Seriously? These people have no goddamn clue about movies. At all. As if wasn't already obvious, but that shit's genuinely embarrassing.

It felt like they trotted out as many black presenters as they could as if to say, "look, we're not racist, here's Pharell Williams, remember when he won an Oscar, and here's Morgan Freeman, we like him."

He won for grunting and snarling for two hours. That shit's not acting.

I haven't seen The Revenant, but Castor said Leo was vulnerable in it, or something.

I think he said he was the most vulnerable he's been so far, or something. I didn't get that vibe from him at all. Tom freaking Hardy was more vulnerable than he was.

He is simply not a good actor. At all. I think I said he was, but he's not. What he lacks in raw talent and emotional depth he makes up for in intensity. But that's not enough to be a good actor, not by a long shot.

I think there's like 4 of us that still post here. Five if you count Gendo, but he's like the owner, so he doesn't count.

wut

And I didn't even see, but Fury Road lost best director to The Revenant? Hahahahahaha I don't even have anything to say to that. That's embarrassing.

And World of Tomorrow seems to have been snubbed. What a surprise.

Seriously, what a joke.

Derived Absurdity wrote:And I didn't even see, but Fury Road lost best director to The Revenant? Hahahahahaha I don't even have anything to say to that. That's embarrassing.

And World of Tomorrow seems to have been snubbed. What a surprise.

Seriously, what a joke.

The category is "Best Animated Short" and while I get the artistic choice, the animation was hardly the best among the other nominees. Bear Story deserved it.

Your precious Mad Max won six awards dude.

It should have won Best Director and Best Cinematography, though.