Oscars 2019

Elmo

List 1.
F Murray Abraham (1984), Dustin Hoffman (1988), Daniel Day Lewis (1989), Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005), Gary Oldman (2017).

posthumous

valoren

List 1 - all are real life people except Hoffman who was instead based on a real life person (Kim Peek).
List 2 - DeNiro the only second time nominee/winner? The others are first time nominees and also first time winners.
List 3 - All play roles of leadership except Brody?

MfMan

valoren wrote: »

List 1 - all are real life people except Hoffman who was instead based on a real life person (Kim Peek).
List 2 - DeNiro the only second time nominee/winner? The others are first time nominees and also first time winners.
List 3 - All play roles of leadership except Brody?

List 1, yes, only Hoffman's character was fictional.
List 2, no.
List 3, yes, all but Brody were political leaders of some type.

Elmo

List 2.
Robert De Niro (1980), Jeremy Irons (1990), Geoffrey Rush (1996), Jamie Foxx (2004), Matthew McConaughey (2013), Eddie Redmayne (2014).

portrays a murder?

MfMan

Elmo wrote: »

List 2.
Robert De Niro (1980), Jeremy Irons (1990), Geoffrey Rush (1996), Jamie Foxx (2004), Matthew McConaughey (2013), Eddie Redmayne (2014).

portrays a murder?

Again, no. Not what I had in mind.

valoren

List 2.

Robert De Niro (1980), Jeremy Irons (1990), Geoffrey Rush (1996), Jamie Foxx (2004), Matthew McConaughey (2013), Eddie Redmayne (2014).

Disabilities or Illness as a plot point in the movie?

Jeremy Irons (1990) - diabetes
Geoffrey Rush (1996) - mental illness
Jamie Foxx (2004) - blindness
Matthew McConaughey (2013) - Aids
Eddie Redmayne (2014) - ALS


So De Niro is the odd one out?

Elmo

List 2.
Robert De Niro (1980), Jeremy Irons (1990), Geoffrey Rush (1996), Jamie Foxx (2004), Matthew McConaughey (2013), Eddie Redmayne (2014).

The real life person was still alive when the actor collected the award except for Matthew McConaughey's character?

MfMan

Elmo wrote: »

List 2.
Robert De Niro (1980), Jeremy Irons (1990), Geoffrey Rush (1996), Jamie Foxx (2004), Matthew McConaughey (2013), Eddie Redmayne (2014).

The real life person was still alive when the actor collected the award except for Matthew McConaughey's character?

Bingo!

When setting the question, I would have thought only De Niro (La Motta) would have fitted the criteria - it was a surprise when there were others alive also.

valoren

Odd one out.

Helen Hunt - As Good as it Gets (1997)
Katherine Hepburn - On Golden Pond (1981)
Jane Fonda - Coming Home (1978)
Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf (1966)
Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

plastic glass

valoren wrote: »

Odd one out.

Helen Hunt - As Good as it Gets (1997)
Katherine Hepburn - On Golden Pond (1981)
Jane Fonda - Coming Home (1978)
Elizabeth Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf (1966)
Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Elizabeth Taylor-co star didn’t win best actor that year as well.

valoren

plastic glass wrote: »

Elizabeth Taylor-co star didn’t win best actor that year as well.

Spot on!

Sad Professor

The Oscars were unable to find a replacement host for Kevin Hart and are officially going hostless this year, for the first time in 30 years.

Sad Professor

Sad Professor wrote: »

The Oscars were unable to find a replacement host for Kevin Hart and are officially going hostless this year, for the first time in 30 years.

If only they had the stones to get Ricky. The spike in numbers would be off the charts. Instead it’s going to reach a new viewing low...

JP Liz V1

Roma the big winner at the Baftas

johnny_ultimate

http://thr.cm/TUXZd9

Confirmation they’re relegating four awards (editing?!!! cinematography?!!!) to commercial breaks. **** the Academy at this stage quite frankly - hope their broadcast numbers fall even lower this year with cheap, misguided and cynical moves like this.

The Oscars are the only time of the year the year technical achievements like hair & make-up are celebrated in front of such a huge audience. Terrible shame to see such essential categories being ‘downgraded’. Shameful move.

johnny_ultimate

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

http://thr.cm/TUXZd9

Confirmation they’re relegating four awards (editing?!!! cinematography?!!!) to commercial breaks. **** the Academy at this stage quite frankly - hope their broadcast numbers fall even lower this year with cheap, misguided and cynical moves like this.

The Oscars are the only time of the year the year technical achievements like hair & make-up are celebrated in front of such a huge audience. Terrible shame to see such essential categories being ‘downgraded’. Shameful move.

Theres probably no minorities in the nominations.

pixelburp

Go home Oscars, you're drunk. Effectively relegating cinematography is a ludicruous decision, it's the very heart of cinema. Hey ho, it slips from one calamity to another at this stage

Sad Professor

To be fair, they are saying they will still be televised albeit in edited form later in the show and streamed live on their website. And which 4 technical categories get this treatment will apparently change every year.

I still oppose it, especially for editing and cinematography, and hope some of the presenters/winners give ABC/Disney sh*t on air for it.

Tony EH

American TV :pac:

Soon, it'll be 80% adverts and 20% content.

I remember watching 'The Exorcist 2' in New York years ago. A two hour film stretched to three, because there was an ad break every ten minutes.

Arghus

Bit of a disgrace that. Editing and cinematography are amongst the most meaningful awards handed out on the night.

Rubberchikken

excellent editing can make all the difference to a film imo.
relegating these talents to the ad break really says a lot about those who make these decisions.

Ipso

But no one paysbattention to those categories on movie posters or DVD cover blurbs.

valoren

They should just meld the acting awards instead of cutting out air time for the technical categories.

Have one acting prize for a stand alone outstanding performance (Best Performance by an "Actor"). It could be the leading role or even a supporting role.

An additional award for Cast performance based on the subjective performances of a minimum of four selected Actors in a film. The four selected Actors would each get an award.

The whole equality angle would go down a treat. There would be no "segregation" of the sexes either which would also be 'a triumph' for liberal Hollywood.

Also the acting awards are usually a straight copy and paste of the Screen Actors Guild awards as is, there are typically no surprises come Oscar night. To have a wider pool competing for that sole acting prize would give the Oscars the viewing/interest edge it needs. For example taking last year, between Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney who would have won the Best Acting award? That's the kind of interest and debate the Acadamy needs to be fostering. And each of the four also won a SAG award last year practically signposting who would win the Oscar.

Goodshape

valoren wrote: »

The whole equality angle would go down a treat. There would be no "segregation" of the sexes either which would also be 'a triumph' for liberal Hollywood.

Would go down a treat until the single award is won by a man (SEXIST PATRIARCHY!!11) or, heaven forbid, a woman (PC BRIGADE GONE MAD!!!1one)

johnny_ultimate

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/all-oscar-categories-to-air-live-after-hollywood-protest-1203141496/

And the Academy backs down after a well justified backlash, and will now air all awards as usual. They didn’t expect the A-list complaints, Variety reports.

johnny_ultimate

filters wrote: »

Don't take a genius to see the pros have been paid money for favourable reviews

No matter how many times people say this, it remains complete conspiratorial hogwash (it does take a genius, it seems, to come up with any evidence this is taking place).

Flyingsnowball

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

No matter how many times people say this, it remains complete conspiratorial hogwash (it does take a genius, it seems, to come up with any evidence this is taking place).

What I find odd is the rating of some films on the internet listing sites seem to start crazy high and nobody has even seen the film yet.

Then there will be a hundred or so reviews that seem to be written by a secondary school film review student all day how great it was.
Then when the real reviews written by real people start showing up it’s like , “this film blows don’t waste your time” or “good film really enjoyed it”

There’s something going on.

Morrison J

On tonight. Looking set to be pretty underwhelming. All major awards bar best picture seem sewn up, no host, poor standard of films this year overall in my opinion.

Malek being such a big favourite for best actor is a strange one. Really didn't care for his performance and thought Bohemian Rhapsody as a film was woefully poor.

JP Liz V1

Morrison J wrote: »

On tonight. Looking set to be pretty underwhelming. All major awards bar best picture seem sewn up, no host, poor standard of films this year overall in my opinion.

Malek being such a big favourite for best actor is a strange one. Really didn't care for his performance and thought Bohemian Rhapsody as a film was woefully poor.

Colman could cause an upset for Close or Gaga for best actress

4068ac1elhodqr

Some significant live market movements for Best Dir award to: Yorgos Lanthimos.

Would like to see Bohemian Rhapsody take best movie also an outsider.