Oscar win for Irish short film Stutterer

That username is already in use. · 01-03-2016 07:45AM #1

Benjamin Cleary, who wrote, directed and edited the film, accepted the award with producers Serena Armitage and Shan Christopher Ogilvie, and director of photography Michael Paleodimos.

The foursome were the only Irish nominees to take home Oscar glory following a record number of nominations this year.

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Punkyblip · 01-03-2016 07:50AM

Brilliant, great to see Irish talent shining through.

01-03-2016 07:54AM

It's nice, but in recent years there is a tendency in the news here to view the Oscars almost entirely through the prism of Ireland. As in "there were 2 Irish nominees for Oscars, one for best handling of a boom during a live panel show and one for best washing of the lead actors clothes". Nothing wrong with giving the Irish angle, but not as the beginning, middle and end...and tacking on a "oh and best film was such and such".

kneemos · 01-03-2016 08:19AM

If that was the ending they screwed it up.Who got hit with the car?

01-03-2016 08:25AM

Don't forget Irish Oscar winner Brie Larsson! The news really playing that up as an Irish Oscar win. She won Best Actress. Sure the movie has Irish roots and productions but claiming that award as Irish in anyway is pathetic and the exact type of thing we'd give out about if the British did it.

AnonoBoy · 01-03-2016 08:33AM

kneemos wrote: »

If that was the ending they screwed it up.Who got hit with the car?

It really seemed like that was going to happen didn't it?

Would have been a terrible ending but I did expect it at one point.

Wichita Lineman · 01-03-2016 11:12AM

Caught this last night on RTE. Nicely done, but I too expected the tragic ending as is often the way with Irish short films!

dub_skav · 01-03-2016 11:33AM

Edit: D'oh

kneemos · 01-03-2016 11:33AM

Why was he wearing a tan jacket when hit by the car?He had a black shirt on.

biko · 01-03-2016 11:35AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAIOzM7SsMo

maudgonner · 01-03-2016 11:38AM

kneemos wrote: »

If that was the ending they screwed it up.Who got hit with the car?

Watch it on the RTE Player instead

kneemos · 01-03-2016 11:42AM

maudgonner wrote: »

Watch it on the RTE Player instead

All I see is a News report.What am I missing?

maudgonner · 01-03-2016 11:47AM

No offense to the OP, but that youtube version is not the genuine film. It has been edited (and not for the better IMO).

I know the ads on the RTE player are a pain in the hole, but watching it there will mean good viewing figures and more likelihood of RTE supporting short films in the future. A bogus youtube link is not going to reward the people who made this at all.

Here's a link to the RTE site.

dub_skav · 01-03-2016 11:49AM

Ah, sucked in by ****ty link, off to RTE player with me

Having watched the proper version on RTE player (people really do have too much time on their hands making "fake" versions of things), I really liked it. Shows the inner turmoil well, I particularly liked the inner voices getting louder and less and less positive the closer he got.

Well done to all on the Oscar win, hopefully a launchpad for all involved.

AlexisM · 01-03-2016 11:52AM

Had to laugh when one of the guys was asked where he would keep the oscar - 'in the 'aul pair's gaff'.

Mr. CooL ICE · 01-03-2016 12:10PM

Mod:

I removed the video from the OP as it allegedly contain spoilers. OP can PM me to clarify the contents of the video

01-03-2016 12:17PM

I caught this on TV the other night and thought it was brilliant, watch it on RTE Player...

soundcrowd · 02-03-2016 01:01AM

biko wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAIOzM7SsMo

Not cool nor funny. A stammer is an awful affliction. I'd expect better from a mod.

02-03-2016 01:42AM

maudgonner wrote: »

No offense to the OP, but that youtube version is not the genuine film. It has been edited (and not for the better IMO).

I know the ads on the RTE player are a pain in the hole, but watching it there will mean good viewing figures and more likelihood of RTE supporting short films in the future. A bogus youtube link is not going to reward the people who made this at all.

Here's a link to the RTE site.

Thanks for the link...just watched it there, and thought it was excellent. Fair play to Benjamin Cleary

AnonoBoy · 02-03-2016 01:46AM

soundcrowd wrote: »

Not cool nor funny. A stammer is an awful affliction. I'd expect better from a mod.

Actually Paul Boross who wrote the song suffered from a stammer so he's allowed write a comedy song about it if he wants and it's not offensive at all.

It's like someone in a wheelchair making jokes about their disability or Sacha Baron Cohen pretending to be a black person...... oh wait, forget that last example.

02-03-2016 06:30AM

AlexisM wrote: »

Had to laugh when one of the guys was asked where he would keep the oscar - 'in the 'aul pair's gaff'.

The lads with the hipster beards?

It sounds exactly like what a guy with a hipster beard would say.

AnonoBoy · 02-03-2016 08:34AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The lads with the hipster beards?

It sounds exactly like what a guy with a hipster beard would say.

How on earth is someone saying "auld pair's gaff?" something a hipster would say rather than something anyone else would say?

They had hipster beards alright but that makes no sense what you've said.

02-03-2016 08:50AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

How on earth is someone saying "auld pair's gaff?" something a hipster would say rather than something anyone else would say?

They had hipster beards alright but that makes no sense what you've said.

Ach.

Beards.

I just know they wouldn't say "our parents house". Call it intuition. Not one of my friends would ever say "the auld pairs gaff", but then again they don't...try so very hard...

Which one of them surfs in Clare?

AnonoBoy · 02-03-2016 09:16AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ach.

Beards.

I just know they wouldn't say "our parents house". Call it intuition. Not one of my friends would ever say "the auld pairs gaff", but then again they don't...try so very hard...

Which one of them surfs in Clare?

And they won an Oscar too. Sure all the hipsters are doing that.

I get it. You don't like beards. But you're really stretching to tie in every single thing he said to how he looks.

Aul pair's gaff was a common phrase among the southsiders long before hipster was a word.

It'll be a phrase long after you've got another word to use to describe people you don't like for boring reasons, don't worry.

murpho999 · 02-03-2016 09:43AM

Deleted User wrote: »

The lads with the hipster beards?

It sounds exactly like what a guy with a hipster beard would say.

Ah so what, they're excited.

They'd just won an Oscar. Have you ever one won one?

AnonoBoy · 02-03-2016 09:47AM

murpho999 wrote: »

Ah so what, they're excited.

They'd just won an Oscar. Have you ever one won one?

Also only one of them is Irish. People seem to think they're brothers or something.

02-03-2016 09:55AM

murpho999 wrote: »

Ah so what, they're excited.

They'd just won an Oscar. Have you ever one won one?

3 actually, 2 for my work with the Coens and 1 for the True Romance score.

I used to be a hipster, but winning the Oscars meant that ended, you can't be both.

kneemos · 02-03-2016 10:45AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

3 actually, 2 for my work with the Coens and 1 for the True Romance score.

I used to be a hipster, but winning the Oscars meant that ended, you can't be both.

Does a hipster display his Oscars?Bet he does.

AnonoBoy · 02-03-2016 11:36AM

kneemos wrote: »

Does a hipster display his Oscars?Bet he does.

He wears them on a necklace or turns them into a bike lock for his fixie.

soundcrowd · 02-03-2016 10:36PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Actually Paul Boross who wrote the song suffered from a stammer so he's allowed write a comedy song about it if he wants and it's not offensive at all.

Well I've a stammer and remember being offended by that song. Some people can be a bit more sensitive I appreciate but it wasn't nice hearing it when I was a kid.

Sunflower 27 · 02-03-2016 10:43PM

Really don't get tbe hype about this at all. I know it's not a popular opinion, but it was very average. And predictable.

Oscar win for Irish short film Stutterer

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