Oscars 2018 - March 4th

[Raxivace]

Best Picture
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Directing
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, Shape of Water

Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Actress in a Leading Role
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post

Actress in a Supporting Role
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Actor in a Supporting Role
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Adapted Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly's Game
Mudbound

Original Screenplay
The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Animated Feature Film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)

Documentary Feature
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces/Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island

Cinematography
Blade Runner: 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water

Film Editing
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner: 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria & Abdul

Makeup and Hairstyling
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

Original Score
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Original Song
“Mighty River," Mudbound
“Mystery of Love," Call Me by Your Name
“Remember Me," Coco
“Stand Up for Something," Marshall
“This Is Me," The Greatest Showman

Sound Editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Sound Mixing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes

Animated Short Film
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

Live Action Short Film
DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O'Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote: All of Us

Documentary Short Subject
Edith and Eddie
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop

[Raxivace]

As far as Best Picture nominations go, I've only seen Get Out, Dunkirk, and The Post so far. Between those three I liked Get Out the best, but I still have the other six to see.

[Gendo]

As usual, I haven't seen most things, since I generally only watch movies after I've been able to get them for cheap on DVD/blu-ray.

That being said, I've seen Get Out and Dunkirk for the big ones. Really looking forward to seeing Three Billboards.

[Raxivace]

I was pretty pleasantly surprised to see Logan for Adapted Screenplay.

[Gendo]

What's with the 9 picks? Didn't they move from 5 to 10 a couple years ago? Why 9?

[maz89]

I was pretty pleasantly surprised to see Logan for Adapted Screenplay.

This.

[Raxivace]

Maz! You're back!

[Raxivace]

What's with the 9 picks? Didn't they move from 5 to 10 a couple years ago? Why 9?

Yeah that's a good question. There were only nine last year IIRC though.

[maz89]

Maz! You're back!

YAAS. I said end of Jan, didn't I?

But now look at what you've done. So many posts of nerdy film talk that I necessarily have to go through...

[Gendo]

So I thought the change was a couple years ago; but apparently it was actually 2009 when they moved to 10. And 10 is just an upper limit; not the actual number. Since 2009; most years have been 9, with a couple years being only 8, and only the first 2 years using all 10.

[CashRules]

Sound Editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Sound Mixing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Um...okay then.

[BruceSmith78]

I've seen Three Billboards, Ladybird, and Get Out. Of those, I liked Three Billboards best. Four of those movies in Best Picture I'd never even heard of.

[Derived Absurdity]

Out of all these I have seen Get Out, Baby Driver, GotG 2, and Kong. Lol. I don't go to the theater often.

I'm genuinely looking forward to seeing most of the movies in Best Picture, especially Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird (which I expect to like but not love), and Three Billboards (which had better be good). Anything directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and Guillermo del Toro is at least worth seeing (except Inherent Vice, that shit was boring af). Darkest Hour and The Post look like shit, and I heard Dunkirk is only really good in the theater, so I missed that one.

[Faustus5]

It's criminal that mother! wasn't nominated for either sound or editing, but then it was such a divisive movie I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

[Raxivace]

Um...okay then.

Sound Editing and Sound Mixing are different things. Sound Editing refers to actual effects work related to sound (Like gunshot sounds and so on) and Sound Mixing refers to how well the overall soundscape of a film is done. A film can be good at one and shit at the other.

Interstellar for example had decent Sound Editing, but half of the time I couldn't hear the damn dialogue so I would say it had bad Sound Mixing.

It's criminal that mother! wasn't nominated for either sound or editing, but then it was such a divisive movie I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Yeah that would have been nice, but oh well its the Academy.

That it got Razzie nominations is complete bullshit though.

(except Inherent Vice, that shit was boring af)

Yeah I thought it was PTA's worst film by far, though I've seen some people that like it.

[Eva Yojimbo]

Um...okay then.

Sound Editing and Sound Mixing are different things. Sound Editing refers to actual effects work related to sound (Like gunshot sounds and so on) and Sound Mixing refers to how well the overall soundscape of a film is done. A film can be good at one and shit at the other.

Interstellar for example had decent Sound Editing, but half of the time I couldn't hear the damn dialogue so I would say it had bad Sound Mixing.

I can see what Cash is saying about the same films getting the nominations. While there's certainly a difference, I don't think that many notice the distinction while watching films. It's like, technically there's a difference between lighting and everything else that goes into cinematography, but it all gets lumped together for the awards. I guess the reason sound gets two is because often different people handle each aspect.

(except Inherent Vice, that shit was boring af)

Yeah I thought it was PTA's worst film by far, though I've seen some people that like it.

I'm one that liked it. In a way I think it maybe my favorite PTA film and I can easily see it becoming a cult classic. I think it's the only film of his that's gotten better for me in retrospect.

[Raxivace]

I guess I just don't see two related categories having the same nominees as very unusual or weird.

[Eva Yojimbo]

I guess I just don't see two related categories having the same nominees as very unusual or weird.

I think the idea is: if they're going to have roughly the same noms, why not just make "sound" one category?

[Raxivace]

Shape of Water ended up getting Best Picture, and its neat seeing a kind of weird film like that winning. GDT mentioned Sirk being an influence on the film during one of his speeches, and having not picked up on that before I can see that now.

Oh and Deakins got an Oscar! Finally!

Otherwise seemed like a pretty straightforward year this year for the Oscars.

[Eva Yojimbo]

I'm happy for Del Toro, and even if I end up liking one of the other BP noms better, I'm glad to see him getting recognized. I still feel on sheer cinematic talent, he's as good as anyone in Hollywood right now, and much better than many more acclaimed filmmakers.

[Raxivace]

Yeah I dunno that Shape of Water was necessarily my favorite of the BP nominees (Get Out and Call Me By Your Name were also both quite good, and while ultimately I don't think I liked it I know a lot of others liked Phantom Thread a lot), but dammit but I can't help but love that a movie about one woman's epic quest to bang the Creature from the Black Lagoon got an Oscar.

I have to go through Del Toro's earlier work at some point. I'm only really familiar with his recent English language films plus the awesome mini video game he made with Hideo Kojima. Shame we'll never see the Silent Hill game that that project was leading to.