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Depressing Relevant... Man, that's funny. Dark, but funny.
 

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As much as I'd like to see Bradley Cooper win, Steve Carell was absolutely brilliant in Foxcatcher. Didn't even know it was him. As for Selma, sorry to say, it just wasn't that great a movie. Good, not great and if wins it will be for PC reasons not that it's the best of the group. Personally I think it's a toss up between American Sniper and The Imitation Game. For best actress, it's hard to ignore Rosemund Pike's performance in Gone Girl. She played batcrap crazy like she really was batcrap crazy. Best supporting actor, Robert Duvall by a landslide. Supporting actress, hard to pick so my sentimental pick is Streep. Director, Eastwood's snub aside, it's a toss up between Innaritu and Miller although it wouldn't surprise me to see Wes Anderson steal it. I'm looking forward to this.
 

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As much as I'd like to see Bradley Cooper win, Steve Carell was absolutely brilliant in Foxcatcher. Didn't even know it was him. As for Selma, sorry to say, it just wasn't that great a movie. Good, not great and if wins it will be for PC reasons not that it's the best of the group. Personally I think it's a toss up between American Sniper and The Imitation Game. For best actress, it's hard to ignore Rosemund Pike's performance in Gone Girl. She played batcrap crazy like she really was batcrap crazy. Best supporting actor, Robert Duvall by a landslide. Supporting actress, hard to pick so my sentimental pick is Streep. Director, Eastwood's snub aside, it's a toss up between Innaritu and Miller although it wouldn't surprise me to see Wes Anderson steal it. I'm looking forward to this.

Lol... I think you're going to be wrong on almost everything above. The only one you're even close to is Inarritu.

And Duvall? Jameson wiped the floor with him on screen and in every award show so far. And how do you figure a 20 time nominee and 3 time winner in Streep a sentimental pick?
 

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Here are my predictions for the top categories:
Best Picture
“Boyhood”

Actor in a Leading Role
Michael Keaton, “Birdman”

Actress in a Leading Role
Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”

Actor in a Supporting Role
J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”

Actress in a Supporting Role
Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”

Directing
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman”
 

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Here are my predictions for the top categories:
Best Picture
“Boyhood”

Actor in a Leading Role
Michael Keaton, “Birdman”

Actress in a Leading Role
Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”

Actor in a Supporting Role
J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”

Actress in a Supporting Role
Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”

Directing
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman”

I can see all these, but i think Redmayne wins Best Actor. Total toss up between Birdman and Boyhood, even though I thought Whiplash was better then both.
 

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Lol... I think you're going to be wrong on almost everything above. The only one you're even close to is Inarritu.

And Duvall? Jameson wiped the floor with him on screen and in every award show so far. And how do you figure a 20 time nominee and 3 time winner in Streep a sentimental pick?

Look you condescending *******, you don't like my picks, fine. It's your opinion but leave your condescending comments to yourself. These are my choices. I don't recall needing your permission. Don't like it, tough.
 

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Look you condescending *******, you don't like my picks, fine. It's your opinion but leave your condescending comments to yourself. These are my choices. I don't recall needing your permission. Don't like it, tough.

sorry if that post seemed condescending. I was just really blown away by what you thought will happen and why.

that said, how do you see Streep being a sentimental pick?
 
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good for Alejandro! Back in my P.A. days, I used to deliver scripts and crap to his house. Was always super nice. Dude's a supreme talent.
 
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Best Picture
"Birdman"

Best Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman"

Best Actress
Julianne Moore, "Still Alice"

Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne, "The Theory of Everything"

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"

Best Supporting Actor
J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash"

Best Adapted Screenplay
Graham Moore, "The Imitation Game"

Best Original Screenplay
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo, "Birdman"

Best Foreign Language Film
"Ida"

Best Documentary Feature
"CITIZENFOUR"

Best Animated Feature
"Big Hero 6"

Best Film Editing
"Whiplash"

Best Original Song
"Glory" from "Selma" (written by Common and John Legend)

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki, "Birdman"

Best Costume Design
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Production Design
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Sound Editing
"American Sniper"

Best Sound Mixing
“Whiplash”

Best Visual Effects
"Interstellar"

Best Short Film, Live Action
"The Phone Call"

Best Short Film, Animated
"Feast"

Best Documentary, Short Subject
“Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1”
 

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Here are my predictions for the top categories:
Best Picture
“Boyhood”

Actor in a Leading Role
Michael Keaton, “Birdman”

Actress in a Leading Role
Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”

Actor in a Supporting Role
J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”

Actress in a Supporting Role
Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”

Directing
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman”

Nice job, you pretty much nailed it, except actor in a leader role. That was one of the few I actually had right.


So they "re-released" Birdman here in Southern Oregon after it got nominated and had it in our only real "multiplex" theater here in town. Prior to that, they only had it in what I would call an "artsy" theater. (We had to drive to Eugene to see Grand Budapest when it opened, but that's another story).

Anyway, so my son saw Birdman a few weeks ago in the "artsy" theater and had been raving about it. So Friday night, we were all going to go see it, but than saw they were showing the Oscar nominated short films, so decided to go see that instead.

All of the live action short films were amazing if you get a chance to see them, don't miss the chance. I thought it was pretty awesome that they put all of them together and put them in the theater and will be looking for that again nest year. There was only about 7 of us in the theater, but hey what the heck. :)
 
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I thought Boyhood should have won the Editing category. I mean where the hell do you begin editing a movie shot over a twelve year period? Let alone make it coherent knowing the footage spans that period of time.
 
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Look you condescending *******, you don't like my picks, fine. It's your opinion but leave your condescending comments to yourself. These are my choices. I don't recall needing your permission. Don't like it, tough.

Short fuse?
 

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Only John Travolta could do the right thing and make fun of himself only to ruin it by doing lots of creepy things at the Oscars.
 

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sorry if that post seemed condescending. I was just really blown away by what you thought will happen and why.

that said, how do you see Streep being a sentimental pick?

Didn't mean to pounce on you like that. You're a good guy. Just a lot on my mind. Streep being my sentimental pick because, as hard as this is to believe, she's been around forever and she still knocks it out of the park. And my picks aren't what I thought what would happen, just what I hoped would happen.
 
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