Oh no, he wasn't there. I oddly remember that with crystal clarity, considering I was twelve years old.Originally Posted by Blasty
Oh no, he wasn't there. I oddly remember that with crystal clarity, considering I was twelve years old.
The one who is overdue for another Oscar is Spielberg. At least for his body of work, snubs...
Spielberg vs. the Industry. Who Will Win In The End?
Spielberg lost.
Can't imagine calling anyone with two Oscars overdue.
Especially not while Scorsese only has ONE, and has been fucked more times than Spielberg.
No nom for Taxi Driver, no nom for Age Of Innocence, no win for Raging Bull, GoodFellas, Gangs, etc.
T E A M R I V E T T E
You know who was snubbed? Annette.
Seriously let's get back to reality here.
(Or hell, Gary Oldman NOT GETTING A SINGLE OSCAR NOMINATION until TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY...what the fuck?)
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I mean especially 2000s. A.I, Minority Report are really hurting snubs.
Spielberg vs. the Industry. Who Will Win In The End?
Spielberg lost.
A.I.? Sure.
But MR? I disagree.
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I think he was being sarcastic.
He won BFCA award for BD for MR and CMIYC. He is the only director to win that award and not nominated for Oscar. There are 17 ceremonies to date. With Spielberg's exception 14 of 16 winners won the Oscar too. Other 2 got nominated.
Spielberg vs. the Industry. Who Will Win In The End?
Spielberg lost.
Nobody who already has an Oscar is overdue. Ever.
An Oscar "snub" only really happens if there are sufficient precursors for it to be a surprising non-nom. Scorsese's had maybe 2 snubs - Innocence/Taxi. But he got a nom for Temptation of Christ with almost no other attention, which makes up for at least 1 of the snubs.
Ang Lee - The only 2x Bafta/DGA/Oscar-Winning Director!
Meryl on Oscars: Y’see these little babies? These are my best f***ing friends
and they never let me down. Try to get ‘em away from me and I’ll eat you alive.
Nobody who already has an Oscar is overdue. Ever.
Les Mis has already been so forgotten that we haven't talked about it for pages.
I will marshall all the forces of darkness to hound you to an assisted suicide - Peter Capaldi, In The Loop
Meryl Streep, our Lord and Savior, had to be drafted to save this thread from drowning in the Oscar abyss, even, the way Les Miz keeps sinking to the bottom of the Busted OscarBait ocean.
Slant gives it 1 out of 4 stars, praises only Hathaway and the production design:
Anne Hathaway's dreams that Les Misérables is as good as her.http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/re...iserables/6731As has already been repeated ad infinitum, Anne Hathaway's one-take rendition of showstopper "I Dreamed a Dream" may well prove definitive, its to-the-rafters bleating a call for instant waterworks. But its success as a standalone number has the unintended consequence of making everything else look dull by comparison, exacerbated by the fact that it comes and goes so early. When Hathaway's Fantine departs from the narrative, barely an hour into the proceedings, she leaves a gaping hole in the cast that no abundance of cherubic would-be rebels can fill
And back to Meryl...
LOL, this was never going to be Slant's favorite movie, was it?
Eminem is definitely in this category, as is Dion (but that was 17 years ago and things were a bit different back then), but the others really weren't hits even if a few were from mainstream artists. The amount of snubs in the same time is strange (even if many of them were indeed undeserving).
I know I've got a big ego, I really don't know why it's such a big deal, though.
I don't know what the music branch was doing in the '80s but I wish they would go back to that format/rules because if you look back almost every year the nominees were strong and featured solid hits. Maybe they had no rules back then? LOL. I've always thought they take the Original Song category WAY too seriously with their stupid restrictions and suspicious tactics to bring about disqualifications.
Yeah, good luck with that!
The DC Area film critics nominations.
Best Film:
Argo
Les Misérables
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
"I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people." ---- Ouisa Kittredge
Shame about WAFCA, last year they had really inspired nominees (Drive and Win Win in Film, Fassbender and Shannon in Actor, Olsen in Actress, Serkis in Supporting Actor).
I know I've got a big ego, I really don't know why it's such a big deal, though.
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