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Here we go!
BEST PICTURE: Nomadland
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Youn Yuh-jung
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Daniel Kaluuya
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Another Round - Denmark
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT): Colette
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Crip Camp
ORIGINAL SONG: "Speak Now" from One Night in Miami...
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: Soul
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: One Night in Miami
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Promising Young Woman
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Chadwick Boseman
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Viola Davis
DIRECTOR: Chloe Zhao
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Mank
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joshua James Richards - Nomadland
COSTUME DESIGN: Mulan
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND: Sound of Metal
ANIMATED SHORT FILM: If Anything Happens I Love You
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM: White Eye
ORIGINAL SCORE: Soul
VISUAL EFFECTS: Tenet
FILM EDITING: Sound of Metal
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
*Tie-breaker: Nomadland and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom tied with 3 wins each. (Can I do that?)
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Best Picture
Nomadland
Best Actor *
Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Actress *
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Supporting Actress *
Youn Yuh-jung - Minari
Best Supporting Actor *
Daniel Kaluuya - Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Director *
Chloe Zhao - Nomadland
Best Adapted Screenplay *
Nomadland
Best Original Screenplay *
Promising Young Woman
Best International Feature Film *
Another Round - Denmark
Best Production Design *
Mank
Best Film Editing *
Sound of Metal
Best Cinematography *
Joshua James Richards - Nomadland
Best Visual Effects *
Tenet
Best Costume Design *
Ma Rainey's Blackbottom
Best Achievement in Sound *
Sound of Metal
Best Original Score *
Soul
Best Documentary Feature *
My Octopus Teacher
Best Documentary Short *
A Love Song For Latasha
Best Makeup and Hairstyling *
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Animated Feature *
Soul
Best Animated Short *
If Anything HAppens
Best Live Action Short *
Two Distant Strangers
Best Original Song *
"Speak Now" from One Night in Miami...
Ma Rainey - four; Nomadland - four
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Me
Mae
Lurker
Ricky
Matt
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HEATHER AND FERNANDO GET YOUR BUTTS IN HERE RIGHT NOW.
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This is the first time in a long time I really could care less about the Oscars... it seems I’m not alone
HELP ME FIND
Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
This year had great films. Really sad some of you missed out.
The show start at 8?
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Well, I guess I won't be up until midnight grading this year.
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I feel like I will do terribly.
Wow some huge surprises tonight, especially at the end!
Well, uh...that was a show? There were people...and words...and pictures and stuff.
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Yeah, I echo Ricky. That was very interesting. I will expand on my thoughts tomorrow.
As always, it's late so please double check my scoring. I want to thank everyone who participated. This is the worst turnout we have ever had for this contest, for obvious reasons. I wish more people submitted just for fun as Matt did. Matt hasn't seen any films and he actually got 12 right.
Anyway, like seems to be the case more often than not, there was a tie. Myself and Lurker both tied with 17. His tiebreaker was Ma Rainey with 4 and my tiebreaker was Nomadland with 4. Ma won 2 Oscars and Nomadland won 3, making me the winner by tiebreaker. Nice work, Lurker. You always put up strong numbers.
2021 results
Servant - 17 (Winner by first tiebreaker)
Lurker - 17
Ricky - 15
Mae - 15
Matt-12
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Awful, boring show. The only kind of entertainment they attempted was that fucking awkward and terrible music trivia game where it was either all planned and scripted (making it worse) or that Questfire (whatever his name is) was pretty racist assuming an old white woman wouldn't know the song...the whole segment made me cringe.
Pros: The set was nice. Way fewer ugly dresses than normal. Frances McDormand is wonderful.
Cons: Boring. Felt way longer than 3hrs 15mins. Halle Berry's ugly hairdo. WTF even was that In Memoriam? I feel bad for those people who were on screen for barely a second...I had to rewind just to learn Kelly Preston died because it a blip. The whole montage just felt lazy and poorly planned.
Also the utter lack of edited clips when introducing nominees. Instead of getting a sample of a nominees work (sound, VFX, acting, cinematography) we got them sitting at tables awkwardly while someone off camera spoke little factoids. It was TERRIBLE. You'd think in a year where many films likely weren't seen by people you'd WANT to give the audience a sample of it. No, instead we get people just sitting there like this
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WTF: Doing best Picture BEFORE the two acting awards was a massive error in judgment. Not only was McDormands speech 61 words since she just said everything 8 minutes earlier accepting Best Picture, but Hopkins wasn't even there. The last segment of that show was a total shame. It was like eating a crust of bread that was soaked in tap water.
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I honestly completely forgot the Oscars were on until Ricky messaged me yesterday. Even when I got home I didn't care to check out the winners and stuff on social media, that's how little I cared about it
Sounds like it a was a complete shit show tho lol
You guys, I didn't even watch. I put it on and maybe only lasted 5 min before I switched to something else. Could just be my lack over not seeing the films or being excited about them this year. Also the change of setting, which I completely understand, it just felt weird and added to my feeling of it not feeling like the Oscars. I'll be curious to hear from those of you who watched it what you thought. Also what films do you guys think I need to see? I still want to see Ma Rainey, and I was wanting to see Nomadland until I heard not so great things about it.
I completely forgot they were on last night until I saw Mike post about it earlier in the day. And I still haven't even gone to see who the winners are either.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I thought the Oscars were great! I might be in the minority but I don't watch the Oscars for the show. In fact, if they cut out all of the bits and cute moments, I would be more than okay with that. I only watch to see who wins and the speeches. There were some great speeches last night! And some pretty big surprises, mostly pleasant, like Sound of Metal not only winning for sound but also for editing! That was an amazing movie, very moving. Obviously, the big faux-pas of the night was awarding Best Picture third to last. I get why they made that switch, since Chadwick was so favored to win, but Best Picture is still Best Picture. If he had won it would've been a special moment regardless. And Hopkins very much deserved that win, I'm happy for him, too bad he wasn't able to accept live, but he actually posted an acceptance speech this morning on Instagram:
Anyway, like I said, I don't watch it for the show. Not really. It's fun to see all the people and the (usually) amazing dresses, but it's really a celebration of the movies, so that's all I care about. And despite everything, this definitely was not a year when only 15 movies came out. True, there weren't as many films this year, but there were still plenty. I'll be posting my Top 30 of 2020 very soon, and this was a spectacular year in movies. I'm having real trouble pruning it down to 30.
Thanks! And for hosting the contest.
I don't comment much about movies, or much of anything, but I've been watching the Oscars since I can remember. My Mom was really into movies and got me hooked. I just look to be entertained by them, don't really analyze them. But love the 1939 output. That was a great movie year.
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I haven't seen it live for the first time in a loooong time. is it truth that they forgot kirk douglas in In Memoriam and
olivia de haviland's name was shown for 0.5 sec ?
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