[Film] The 88th Annual Academy Awards **Official Thread**

There has been a lot of controversy over the Oscars this year. Famously a lack of diversity - though the conversation has focused mainly on the lack of black nominees (the academy managed to nominate Straight Outta Compton in seemingly the only category they would have white nominees), but also because the two best song nominees not invited to perform were an Asian woman and a Transgender woman.

The new head of the Academy has promised an effort to diversify the Academy, but the Awards are reflective of the Studios and Hollywood, and in my opinion that is where the change needs to happen. John Oliver did a great bit on how Hollywood still whitewash roles on his show last week.

https://youtu.be/XebG4TO_xss

Will all this be forgotten as they focus on celebrating movies, or will it be the main thrust of the show, particularly host Chris Rock's routines throughout the night.

Nominees:

BEST PICTURE
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Sicario

COSTUME DESIGN
Carol
Cinderella
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant

DIRECTING
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
Body Team 12
Chau, beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Last Day of Freedom

FILM EDITING
The Big Short
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Spotlight
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Embrace of the Serpent
Mustang
Son of Saul
Theeb
A War

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Mad Max: Fury Road
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out
the Window and Disappeared
The Revenant

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Hateful Eight
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Earned It,” Fifty Shades of Grey
“Manta Ray,” Racing Extinction
“Simple Song #3,” Youth
“Til It Happens To You,” The Hunting Ground
“Writing’s On The Wall,” Spectre

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Bridge of Spies
The Danish Girl
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer

SOUND EDITING
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

SOUND MIXING
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

VISUAL EFFECTS
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
The Big Short
Brooklyn
Carol
The Martian
Room

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Bridge of Spies
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton

What Mad Max is doing in the Best Picture short list is beyond me. I can't imagine it took any longer to write than it does to watch.

Is it too late to vote for Liverpool?

Some of the acting and diving in this final is brilliant.

In San Francisco. All three networks have done almost nothing this morning except Oscars, Oscars, Oscars. Fact is they're just trying to fill up blank TV time. Absolutely nothing of interest to talk about. The whole thing is a massive bore.

Hillian1 said:

Some of the acting and diving is brilliant.

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Shirley you mean palarse

I certainly agree that protests are to be made involving the Hollywood diversity issue, but i'd throw another one in there for how many nominations Bridge of Spies got, and how the hellicans Mark Ruffalo can be on the list of possible Best Supportings for his performance in Spotlight. If it were 5 nominations for Best Actor/Actress, you might get one male from that list just about, and even his character is a woman inside. For Best Supportings it would be similar, but with Sylvester Stallone, a generally poor actor in dreadful films, being the only one.
I shan't stay up for it, but will wake and be a tad interested, and then slightly annoyed, probably.

Acker79 said:

There has been a lot of controversy over the Oscars this year. Famously a lack of diversity

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What film have they been in to deserve a nomination?

Any blacks won anything yet?

Chris Rock nailed the opening (transcript here if you're interested), but that Stacey Dash bit fell quite flat.

A bit bleary eyed this morning but a great night as always, all the glitz and glamour, pomp and ceremony. Delighted for Di Caprio, the roof nearly came off when he was announced, can't have been a more popular winner for many, many years.

Awards ceremonies are a big bore. And the diversity argument is something else for the self-loathing intelligentsia to chew on. Nothing of interest here.

Starting to flag now.