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[Lionel Richie]

Not when Steve Jobs underperformed badly. Remember, the Oscars are more than just "an indivual achievement" for a person. It depends of politics and how much they like your movie. They ADORE The Revenant and didn't care for Jobs.

I agree but the Academy has some love for Boyle and Sorkin AND it's a biopic so it's not totally impossible. I do think it's highly unlikely Leo doesn't win, but if anyone could steal it it's Fassbender IMO.

 

[-griffy-]

Have they removed the Special Effects award? I remember it being both Visual and Special previously

The award used to be Best Special Effects and included audio, then it became Best Special Visual Effects, then it became Best Visual Effects in 1977 with Star Wars and Close Encounters.

It's kind of weird though because in the industry, visual effects refers to computer generated effects, and special effects refers to practical/in-camera effects. So it's always kind of been a catch-all category.

 

[SargerusBR]

It is Leo's year this time. I can feel it.

 

[Jack Remington]

Glad that Room got a Best Picture nomination. Such a great movie. Although it's very unlikely, I hope that it wins.

Hahaha. What a story, Theo.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Day 1 prediction of winners? Fury Road fanboyism in effect

Picture: Spotlight
Director: Miller
Actor: DiCaprio
Actress: Larson
Sup. Actor: Stallone
Sup. Actress: Mara
Adpt. Screenplay: Big Short
Ori. Screenplay: Spotlight
Animated: Inside Out
Documentary: Amy, but the reader is so upset about this he/she says "The Look of Silence!" instead and we all nod along that a Behind the Music episode didn't win this year
Foreign film: Son of Saul
Cinematography: Lubezki
Costume: Powell
Editing: Sixel
Make-Up: Fury Road
Original Score: Morricone
Original Song: Sam Smith, somehow
Production design: Fury Road
short film: World of Tomorrow
Sound Editing: Fury Road
Sound Mixing: The Revenant
Visual Effects: The Force Awakens

 

[studyguy]

I hear Leo is winning.
Is hell freezing over?

I really hope Stallone gets Supporting. Creed was great.

 

[Confusion Illusion]

Yeah, think George Miller is going get it for best director. I'm going to say for best picture too, but that's a not so safe bet.

 

[Toxi]

Beasts is the biggest MIA to me. I wouldn't just say Attah deserves the nom, but the award too. His transition from the innocent youth to the war torn child. He did it better than most adult actors. Deserves it more than Leo.

Agreed.

 

[Dominator]

Inarritu is going to get Best Director probably, though I want George to get it.

Revenant will also get Best Picture and Best Actor. People are eating that shit up.

 

[R-User!]

I know Fury Road is not likely to be a "Return of the King", but what would all of you be feeling if Mad Max: Fury Road had 8 wins going into the Best Director and Best Picture categories?!

I would be be sooo jubilant!

Not by a long shot, but what if?!

 

[Sectorseven]

I'll again reiterate the point of my earlier post, that I think the micro level editing, and the good stuff, overrides the problems and makes it deserving of the nomination, but NOT deserving of the win over Mad Max.

To me, micro editing is like choosing a shot where a boom mic is showing. We know from interviews there are quite a few minutes of footage that were left on the cutting room floor, but of course, ultimately the buck stops with the director. It's just interesting how the original Star Wars was in many ways saved by editing, and now here we are again with a best editing nod when many people regard that as being one of the weakest points of this new film.

 

[Toxi]

I know Fury Road is not likely to be a "Return of the King", but what would all of you be feeling if Mad Max: Fury Road had 8 wins going into the Best Director and Best Picture categories?!

I would be be sooo jubilant!

Not by a long shot, but what if?!

I'd say it deserves to be a "Return of the King" more than Return of the King.

 

[WyndhamPrice]

I know Fury Road is not likely to be a "Return of the King", but what would all of you be feeling if Mad Max: Fury Road had 8 wins going into the Best Director and Best Picture categories?!

I would be be sooo jubilant!

Not by a long shot, but what if?!

It would be like what happened with GRAVITY where it sweeps the technicals (+ director) and then loses out to the "prestige" movie

 

[R-User!]

I'd say it deserves to be a "Return of the King" more than Return of the King.

Well that isn't changing...

...and now back to "what would you be feeling if MMFR had 8 wins going into its final two chances"?

 

[injurai]

I'd say it deserves to be a "Return of the King" more than Return of the King.

This was the year I started taking interest in the Oscars, because before that I was too young to care about whatever the academy loved. Mad Max winning would go a long way into pulling people into following the Academy.

Unfortunately it's up against The Revenant, and despite the cynicism is just as much a fantastic rare gem of a film as Mad Max.

 

[Ithil]

Lubezki gonna make it three in a row.

 

[WadiumArcadium]

I don't think anybody really expected it to get nominated for anything. It's not even that great of a movie (not that that has ever stopped movies from being nominated).

It was always going to get nominated for sound editing and visual effects at least. Not really surprising.

 

[Violence Jack]

I figure there's no chance in hell that Fury Road wins Best Picture, but it's amazing just to see a Mad Max film nominated for it.

If Leo doesn't win it this year, I don't know if he ever will.

 

[Aurongel]

No fucking way Lubezki wins THREE YEARS IN A ROW.

Deakins got this shit on lock, I feel it in my bones.

 

[injurai]

I figure there's no chance in hell that Fury Road wins Best Picture, but it's amazing just to see a Mad Max film nominated for it.

If Leo doesn't win it this year, I don't know if he ever will.

I think his best work may still be ahead of him, but I don't think he will take a role quite as drastic as this one for a little while. I don't think Scorsese's next film will have as much appeal with general audiences.

No fucking way Lubezki wins THREE YEARS IN A ROW.

Deakins got this shit on lock, I feel it in my bones.

I think they will save Deakins for his next movie. Maybe the Blade Runner sequel. This will go to Lubezki then he won't get much for a while.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

From the list, Leo may win? And best director for Revenant, too.

 

[PinkCrayon]

Star Wars for best score? Wut? I guess they just wanted to give Williams his 50th nom before something happens.

 

[Ridley327]

From the list, Leo may win? And best director for Revenant, too.

They're not going to give Iñárritu back-to-back trophies.

 

[shintoki]

I figure there's no chance in hell that Fury Road wins Best Picture, but it's amazing just to see a Mad Max film nominated for it.

If Leo doesn't win it this year, I don't know if he ever will.

He's had a stick up his ass about winning since he took Titanic. Since than, he's done about everything to kill his boy image and prove he is a serious actor. The Oscar is just the cherry that's been missing. If he doesn't win it this time, he'll try for another 10 years right after. He's the biggest try hard since Sean Penn.

And I'm not saying that as a bad thing.

 

[Frodo]

[...]

Some of these I pulled out my ass.

tbqh, this is what the Academy does too a lot of the time.

 

[Alienfan]

This might be the first year in which I have no real gripes with the nominations

 

[andythinkpad]

Spotlight, possibly The Big Short, is much more likely to win Best Picture than The Revenant. And the Academy rarely splits up the best picture/director awards, so I think it's more likely than not that Inarritu doesn't win again.

Inarritu was already overarching last year by stealing the awards from The Grand Budapest Hotel, I am ok if Revenant doesn't win anything, including acting awards.

 

[notaskwid]

How is Marnie nomimated and not Bakemono no Ko.

 

[Inversive]

Go Leo Go! This has to be his year haha

 

[injurai]

Inarritu was already overarching last year by stealing the awards from The Grand Budapest Hotel, I am ok if Revenant doesn't win anything, including acting awards.

It's frustrating, because the Academy spends half of it's time owing directors for past snubs, that they create more snubs. Snubbing The Revenant now and they'll owe Inarritu and Leo.

 

[Hyperborean]

I thought Bridge of Spies was based on a book. How did it nominated for Original screenplay?

Looking at wikipedia, its based on Strangers on a Bridge by James Donavan.

 

[MaulerX]

At this point I'll be seriously shocked if Leo doesn't take it. Not only is he overdue, he was genuinely great in The Revenant.

 

[civilstrife]

Don't understand why Leo would win when he spends most of the film mute.

 

[jelly]

Leo interview on the BBC already. Must be feeling confident.

 

[Ridley327]

Don't understand why Leo would win when he spends most of the film mute.

Because it's an award for an acting performance, not a screenplay award.

 

[TheOfficeMut]

Don't understand why Leo would win when he spends most of the film mute.

This just in: Emotions can be conveyed without words.

 

[injurai]

Don't understand why Leo would win when he spends most of the film mute.

Because delivering lines is all that acting amounts to?

 

[Oersted]

Don't understand why Leo would win when he spends most of the film mute.

 

[Ridley327]

It's frustrating, because the Academy spends half of it's time owing directors for past snubs, that they create more snubs. Snubbing The Revenant now and they'll owe Inarritu and Leo.

How would Iñárritu at all be snubbed? He just won three Oscars for 2014.

 

[MaulerX]

Don't understand why Leo would win when he spends most of the film mute.

Really? He deserves an Oscar just for the scene

Spoiler

where he was asked to blink (and he didn't for a long ass time).

 

[kswiston]

Because it's an award for an acting performance, not a screenplay award.

I take it he has never seen My Left Foot.

 

[injurai]

How would Iñárritu at all be snubbed? He just won three Oscars for 2014.

That's not the point I was making.

 

[Nafai1123]

Definitely think Leo deserves the best actor nod, but I really hope The Revenant doesn't win Best Picture and Best Director. It was good, but there were better films this year IMO.

 

[Dabanton]

Don't understand why Leo would win when he spends most of the film mute.

You're probably regretting this post about now.

Definitely think Leo deserves the best actor nod, but I really hope The Revenant doesn't win Best Picture and Best Director. It was good, but there were better films this year IMO.

I can see The Big short for best picture.

 

[jett]

I really don't think they'll give it to Chivo three years in a row. Maybe if The Revenant was the only outstanding nominee, but Mad Max and Sicario are really up there. I'd give to MM. Cuz MM should win everything.

Star Wars for best score? Wut? I guess they just wanted to give Williams his 50th nom before something happens.

Williams almost always gets nominated, except for a 2007-2011 stretch.

 

[whytemyke]

Stallone was great but I'm not sure he was better than Hardy in Revenant or Bale in The Big Short.

I think Mad Max and Revenant split best picture and director.

 

[3N16MA]

10 nominee spots and still no room for Sicario and Ex Machina.

Glad to see Fury Road get the recognition.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

It's frustrating, because the Academy spends half of it's time owing directors for past snubs, that they create more snubs. Snubbing The Revenant now and they'll owe Inarritu and Leo.

Wrote this over five years ago for Cracked.

Still relevant.

 

[injurai]

10 nominations and still no room for Sicario and Ex Machina.

Ex Machina got one for screenplay. But let's be honest, it fell off the horse towards the end.

 

[Dabanton]

Wrote this over five years ago for Cracked.

Still relevant.

See, skipping Pacino in 1974 meant that come 1992, he was “due.” So 18 years after the initial transgression, the Academy gave Pacino the Oscar for doing a Yosemite Sam impression in Scent of a Woman. This, in turn screwed over Denzel Washington in Malcolm X, who they ended up rewarding in 2001 for the Wayne Brady impersonation he did in Training Day

Haha this is great.