Oscars 2015

Absurdistan

Best picture
Winner: Birdman
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best director
Winner: Alejandro G Inarritu, Birdman
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game

Best actor
Winner: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton, Birdman

Best actress
Winner: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Best supporting actor
Winner: JK Simmons, Whiplash
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher

Best supporting actress
Winner: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods

Best adapted screenplay
Winner: The Imitation Game
American Sniper
Inherent Vice
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best original screenplay
Winner: Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler

Best animated feature
Winner: Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Best animated short
Winner: Feast
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life

Best cinematography
Winner: Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ida
Mr Turner
Unbroken

Best costume design
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Mr Turner

Best documentary feature
Winner: CitizenFour
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

Best documentary short
Winner: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
White Earth

Best film editing
Winner: Whiplash
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game

Best foreign language film
Winner: Ida (Poland)
Leviathan (Russia)
Tangerines (Estonia)
Timbuktu (Mauritania)
Wild Tales (Argentina)

Best live action short
Winner: The Phone Call
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)
Parvaneh

Best make-up & hairstyling
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Foxcatcher
Guardians of the Galaxy

Best original score
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr Turner
The Theory of Everything

Best production design
Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr Turner

Best song
Winner: Glory, Selma
Everything is Awesome, The Lego Movie
Grateful, Beyond the Lights
I'm Not Gonna Miss You, Glen Campbell… I'll Be Me
Lost Stars, Begin Again

Best sound editing
Winner: American Sniper
Birdman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken

Best sound mixing
Winner: Whiplash
American Sniper
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken

Best visual effects
Winner: Interstellar
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Absurdistan

Birdman wtf.......................confusing drivel, found it hard to watch.
One things for sure was possibly the weakest oscars I can remember.

JiMMy 85

Birdman is a movie for people in the business, I'm not surprised it won. Boyhood probably should've, but I'm glad Whiplash picked up a few, it deserved the most frankly.

They did this bit where Neil Patrick Harris introduced Idina Menzel, and she in turn mocked John Travolta by presenting him with a messed up name. It was all going well, until Travolta inappropriately held her face for a minute. It was really weird. Apart from that, nothing really happened. The one zinger from Harris was sadly straight after a woman talked about her son's suicide.

Jessie

Glad Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor award. I haven't watched the other four nominees' films yet but Redmayne's portrayal of Hawking was truly excellent.

McBobbin

Playing a disabled person is a nailed on Oscar

Jessie

McBobbin said:

Playing a disabled person is a nailed on Oscar

That's a bit inappropriate. The film was touching and Redmayne did a great job playing Hawking, a very difficult role to pull off I think.

kimbo

Disappointed about best picture/director should have been Boyhood and Richard Linklater. Cannot wait to see Still Alice the book was great

kentaddick

Unbelievable boyhood didn't at least pick up best director. Easily the best movie of the year. Still, this is the year the Lego movie was snubbed as a nominee for best animation (easily the best technically of all the other animations). Birdman is an interesting watch but disappeared up it's own backside once or twice, although I'm not sure if that's actually the point.

brogib

Just see Eddie Redmayne start crying and nearly brought me tablets up ffs

brogib

......then just see em singing Glory? and me meds are on the flooor

lordromford

JessieAddick said:

McBobbin said:

Playing a disabled person is a nailed on Oscar

That's a bit inappropriate. The film was touching and Redmayne did a great job playing Hawking, a very difficult role to pull off I think.

I agree regarding Redmayne's performance @JessieAddick and @McBobbin may have been somewhat insensitive in his wording, but there are interesting statistics on this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16932374

soapy_jones

lordromford said:

JessieAddick said:

McBobbin said:

Playing a disabled person is a nailed on Oscar

That's a bit inappropriate. The film was touching and Redmayne did a great job playing Hawking, a very difficult role to pull off I think.

I agree regarding Redmayne's performance @JessieAddick and @McBobbin may have been somewhat insensitive in his wording, but there are interesting statistics on this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16932374

It's also reminded me of the Kate Winslet episode of Extras...

lordromford

soapy_jones said:

lordromford said:

JessieAddick said:

McBobbin said:

Playing a disabled person is a nailed on Oscar

That's a bit inappropriate. The film was touching and Redmayne did a great job playing Hawking, a very difficult role to pull off I think.

I agree regarding Redmayne's performance @JessieAddick and @McBobbin may have been somewhat insensitive in his wording, but there are interesting statistics on this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16932374

It's also reminded me of the Kate Winslet episode of Extras...

Absolutely!

Riviera

I really don't know why people outside of the business bother with the Oscars. These days it is very self indulgent with knowing nods and winks and a lot of internal back-slapping. Of course Birdman was going to win. Of the Box Office takings of the 8 nominated films for Best Picture, one film took more than half of the $600m, American Sniper of course; The Academy pacified the cinema going public by awarding it Best Sound Editing!
McBobbin's comments are not inappropriate for goodness sake! Just true.

McBobbin

I was basically going along with kate winslett... I didnt mean to offend though of course it still requires a decent performamce. Imagine if it had been cocked up!

Rob

JiMMy 85 said:

Birdman is a movie for people in the business, I'm not surprised it won. Boyhood probably should've, but I'm glad Whiplash picked up a few, it deserved the most frankly.

They did this bit where Neil Patrick Harris introduced Idina Menzel, and she in turn mocked John Travolta by presenting him with a messed up name. It was all going well, until Travolta inappropriately held her face for a minute. It was really weird. Apart from that, nothing really happened. The one zinger from Harris was sadly straight after a woman talked about her son's suicide.

It was interesting what Travolta did to Menzel's face. I think Neil Patrick Harris had asked him to do that because it was one of his 'predictions' that were sealed in a box and only revealed right at the end.

Fiiish

I've heard Big Hero 6 is well deserving of the Best Animation in spite of The Lego Movie's snub.

3 Marvel films getting a nomination for Best Visual Effect as well. They should be a shoe-in for next year's awards.

I saw some columnist somewhere spouting some drivel (probably in the Graun) about how Eddie Redmayne shouldn't be rewarded for 'crippling up' (I think a play on 'blacking up') for a role and that the role should have gone to a genuinely disabled actor. It's a worthy sentiment and perhaps a discussion that is worth having (i.e. should able actors playing disabled people be comparable to people playing different ethnicities than they are) even if the outcome of the discussion supports the status quo, but aren't there significant portions of The Theory of Everything where his character is walking around? I think that might be beyond the scope of even the best disabled actor. Think that might have gone over the head of the hack.

JiMMy 85

Rob said:

JiMMy 85 said:

Birdman is a movie for people in the business, I'm not surprised it won. Boyhood probably should've, but I'm glad Whiplash picked up a few, it deserved the most frankly.

They did this bit where Neil Patrick Harris introduced Idina Menzel, and she in turn mocked John Travolta by presenting him with a messed up name. It was all going well, until Travolta inappropriately held her face for a minute. It was really weird. Apart from that, nothing really happened. The one zinger from Harris was sadly straight after a woman talked about her son's suicide.

It was interesting what Travolta did to Menzel's face. I think Neil Patrick Harris had asked him to do that because it was one of his 'predictions' that were sealed in a box and only revealed right at the end.

Pretty sure the 'predictions' we're not quite as they seemed.

McBobbin

Fiiish said:

I've heard Big Hero 6 is well deserving of the Best Animation in spite of The Lego Movie's snub.

3 Marvel films getting a nomination for Best Visual Effect as well. They should be a shoe-in for next year's awards.

I saw some columnist somewhere spouting some drivel (probably in the Graun) about how Eddie Redmayne shouldn't be rewarded for 'crippling up' (I think a play on 'blacking up') for a role and that the role should have gone to a genuinely disabled actor. It's a worthy sentiment and perhaps a discussion that is worth having (i.e. should able actors playing disabled people be comparable to people playing different ethnicities than they are) even if the outcome of the discussion supports the status quo, but aren't there significant portions of The Theory of Everything where his character is walking around? I think that might be beyond the scope of even the best disabled actor. Think that might have gone over the head of the hack.

I'm outraged that Benjamin from Short Circuit never got a gong

Addicted

I had a good go at Birdman on Sunday but couldn't get past an hour. Was expecting it to be a bit more approachable. Grand Budapest, Big Hero 6 and Interstellar were a good watch.