John from Cincinnati Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 In defense of their awful rules change, people certainly had seen Avatar. So mission accomplished. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 Well, I guess I should finally watch Power of the Dog at some point here soon. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 I've got nothing against Lady Gaga at all, but I'm glad she wasn't nominated for Best Actress after her bullshit campaigning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 2 hours ago, John from Cincinnati said: Oh, and Denzel has now been nominated in five different decades. Oh, and Spielberg has now been nominated in six different decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 1 hour ago, John from Cincinnati said: In defense of their awful rules change, people certainly had seen Avatar. So mission accomplished. That Oscar nom gave me Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to pronounce Avatar on a live mic, and that’ll be with me forever. Totally worth it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 On 12/13/2021 at 8:50 AM, John from Cincinnati said: Congratulations to Jane Campion on winning the Academy Award for best director. Everyone feel free to lock that one in on their ballot. In other milestones, she's the only woman to be nominated twice for director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 The Oscars should’ve been nicer to the People’s Choice Awards on their way up because now they’re going to see them again on the way down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Your hosts for the Oscars are Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, and Regina Hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Eight awards will be presented prior to the live Academy Awards broadcast and be edited into the show: documentary short film editing makeup/hairstyling original score production design animated short live action short sound They're not going to trick people who don't want to watch the Oscars into watching the Oscars, but go wild I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 28, 2022 Author Share Posted February 28, 2022 Michael Keaton almost missed receiving his SAG award because he was in the bathroom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Trigger warning: he breaks down at the end of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Keaton is my favorite actor, and it’s always a wonder to see what a good dude he is, especially because it’s in a clear-eyed pragmatic kind of way where I truly believe he’d quit acting before he’d shut up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Since he's your fave you will want to see him on the Showtime doc series The Comedy Store. I had no idea he was a standup -- and an improv at that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Let's go Sing 2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Oh so this is full on The Genre Film Award. A nice little ghetto for the unwashed. What a bunch of dicks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 12 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: Oh so this is full on The Genre Film Award. A nice little ghetto for the unwashed. What a bunch of dicks. But it has actual Best Picture nominees in it? That's weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 4 minutes ago, Log said: But it has actual Best Picture nominees in it? That's weird. My Guess: The low key Golden Globes this year left studios and production companies with extra bribe money laying around, so they bought some bot farms so that their Best Picture nominees would seem more culturally relevant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 (edited) I didn't notice that but it's double bullshit. If you are really gonna do that why are you gonna let the best pic noms in? Just to screw over the competition? *thinks* Oh IIIIII see, it's to throw a bone to the genre fans when their offering loses the Best Picture. That feels... nicer... but then why even give Dune or Dog a nod in the first place? Edited March 1, 2022 by Curt McGirt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 I mean, Dune and Power of the Dog got BP noms because they're legit contenders. Pretty sure the thing that's going to win the Fan Favourite dealie won't be a BP nom. This is more a bone to throw to the comic book people who still don't feel their taste is being validated sufficiently, with an outside chance someone hijacks the thing because it's the internet after all. The problem is it's transparent to the point of being meaningless. And like all their other attempts to "fix" the Oscars broadcast, it only opens them up to mockery while doing little to achieve their goal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Dune, I kind of get, but Power of the Dog is as Oscar-y as they come. Weird to see it in that fan thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 I would think a Spider-Man win is inevitable here. It is a leaderboard voting system, so maybe the people who would bother casting a vote at all are more likely to have seen the best picture nominees. That said, it feels a lot more like the Academy doesn’t want to totally concede that Oscar nominees are not typically universal crowd pleasers. The silliest part is that the Oscars started as a kayfabe ceremony that studio chiefs ran like the NWA board of directors, and it was designed to generate new interest in the movies after box office receipts started to dip across the board. It’s like most things; it started out as some bullshit that became an institution, and before long everyone was high on their own supply and taking it seriously. The original Academy would’ve given No Way Home Best Picture without blinking. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 On 2/23/2022 at 3:48 AM, John from Cincinnati said: Eight awards will be presented prior to the live Academy Awards broadcast and be edited into the show: documentary short film editing makeup/hairstyling original score production design animated short live action short sound They're not going to trick people who don't want to watch the Oscars into watching the Oscars, but go wild I guess. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-infighting-over-excluding-categories-1235103324/ Quote Ever since that story broke, many Academy members and ‘Film Twitter’ tweeters have relentlessly slammed the organization — in particular, its board, as well as outgoing CEO Dawn Hudson — for what they regard as disrespectful treatment of the practitioners of the affected crafts. Meanwhile, the Academy’s defenders have called on such critics to wait until they see the new format (which appears to be modeled after the one employed for some categories on the Tonys telecast) in practice before hardening their opinion, while also noting that the organization derives almost all of its operating revenue from the deal with ABC, and if the general public continues to flee the telecast the organization will face an existential threat — in other words, that it was necessary to amputate a limb in order to save a patient. --------- Another governor of a branch that has lost a category from the live telecast, who wishes to remain nameless, says he was jarred when, over the summer, he received a call from Hudson explaining why significant changes to the format of the Oscars were necessary. This governor says that he was told that ABC had warned the Academy that it would cancel the Oscars telecast, via a clause in the Academy and ABC’s deal for the Oscars’ broadcasting rights, if 12 categories were not removed from the show. “We were told we’d have to sacrifice something or we were going to lose the whole show,” this governor recaps. In the end, rather than dropping 12 categories altogether from the telecast, the Academy was able to satisfy ABC with the current plan, which will leave the network with more time to restore the sorts of ratings-drivers that were glaringly absent from last year’s telecast, such as a host (or, as will be the case this year, three hosts), clips of the nominated films and performances of the best original song Oscar nominees. ----------------- Added Netflix chief Ted Sarandos, a member of the executives branch, “All of the traditional Oscars will be presented in front of a full house and televised on ABC. It’s going to be a great show! Smart evolution of the broadcast. Nobody slighted.” Sarandos’ comment about the Oscars being presented “in front of a full house” is a reference to the Academy’s insistence that Oscars attendees will be seated inside the Dolby Theatre by 4 p.m. PT for the presentation of the eight awards which will be edited down and air during the live telecast, which starts at 5 p.m. PT (save for nominees and presenters, who will be given staggered times to arrive on the red carpet in order to participate in ABC’s Oscars preshow, which will be airing during the 4 p.m. hour). But, opined one governor whose branch’s corresponding award will be presented during that hour, “I think most people will be at the bar. We are going to need a lot more seat-fillers. So that’s going to be a bummer for the nominees whose awards are being presented them.” It really is like the most Hollywood story ever as the story is also full of dramatic quotes from both sides Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 And of course because a bunch of people will have seen more movies for this year's ceremony than last year's peak-pandemic show, there's a decent chance ratings might be up and the dummies at ABC will think it's because of their silliness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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