Awards Season 2016

[Zot!]

I like the bit about a Siberian Gulag not being bad enough to qualify the short docs subject as a "survivor". It reminded me of Curb your Enthusiasm.

[lacritfan]

At least she abstained from the sound categories since she doesn't understand them.

[knives]

I wish she did the same for the doc categories as she clearly didn't get those either.

[domino harvey]

ONTD thinks this is Ellen Barkin

[TMDaines]

She didn't seem to get much quite frankly.

[domino harvey]

Mark Harris says he's hearing most voters talk about voting for Mortensen, with all other categories going to who you'd expect. Now that would be a legendary upset if it happened

[Werewolf by Night]

I would have thought it was Jeannie Berlin because of the "a longtime female member of the 1,158-member actors branch who — this season, anyway — is not associated with any of the nominees" disclaimer.

[domino harvey]

Another ballot

EDIT And another

[mfunk9786]

Another ballot

"I only saw La La Land and Lion, so I tried to vote along those lines"

EDIT And another

"The top three in this category were ‘Hell or High Water,’ ‘Arrival’ and ‘La La Land.’ I just think ‘Hell or High Water’ moves so quick and that has to be a big reason why so many people like it so much."

:-k

[mfunk9786]

[tenia]

There are so truly pathetic and stupid reasons behind the first ballot. It's not brutally honest, it's rather extremely superficial (down to not even knowing people's names).

[beamish13]

The animation, foreign film and documentary categories are just the worst, but they're pretty much screwed from the nomination phase. Animation is stuffed with Disney/Pixar people who only vote for their products, the documentary nomination board is full of old bats who need to be put out to pasture and most foreign language films just don't drum up the attention they need.

[knives]

ONTD thinks this is Ellen Barkin

I was thinking Sandra Bernhard. That's a better guess though.

[Brian C]

It took forever for one to show up this year: Brutally honest Oscar ballot

I have to be honest, this was actually a better and more reasonable ballot than comments here would suggest. I don't agree with her 100% on her conclusions or the way she reached them, but nothing she said seemed out of bounds or particularly ignorant.

And, at least she seems to have watched the movies.

[PfR73]

It sounds ignorant to me to (as captveg previously pointed out), eliminate a film from consideration for a technical award because you didn't like the story or the message of the film.

"The costumes in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Florence Foster Jenkins and Jackie were really good, but I didn’t like the movies."

"Arrival is definitely out. Silence had beautiful photography, but I hated that movie so much, with all the Christian stuff beating me over the head"

"Arrival was the first to go. Then Hail, Caesar! and Passengers — just mediocre movies."

She never once elaborates on what she didn't like about Arrival and why she eliminates it from the technical categories.

I will say that she's right about one thing: Margaret Bowman should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

[domino harvey]

Time for my annual Oscar Predix, in which every category is decided by giving it to the least-surprising winner:

Best Pic: La La Land
Best Director: Chazelle
Best Actor: Affleck
Best Actress: Stone
Best Sup Actor: Ali
Best Sup Actress: Davis
Best Adapt Screenplay: Moonlight
Best Orig Screenplay: Manchester by the Sea

[domino harvey]

Another ballot -- spoiler for Fences FYI

[lacritfan]

Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot #2

[mfunk9786]

Especially for someone in PR, I thought all of that was quite knowledgeable and thoughtful, for the most part, even if I disagreed with plenty of it.

[domino harvey]

Brutally Honest Ballot #3 -- this One's a real humdinger

[mfunk9786]

I hated Silence - there were 85 really good minutes in a three hour movie. He [director Martin Scorsese] is so wonderful, but he has got to get over his Catholic guilt. I know it's not the cinematographer's fault, but damn.

](*,)

[Brian C]

Then Deepwater Horizon — run of the mill, sorry. The director [Peter Berg] is a really talented guy, but he should be careful or he's gonna end up being the Oliver Stone of less important films.

That's actually really funny.

[knives]

And deadly true. Honestly I'm really liking his whole vibe.

[domino harvey]

To me, that film doesn't just speak about black relationships and how black men go on and have child after child; it was a film about the men in America and the women who support them.

[swo17]

Patel. He really seems like he's needy as an actor and just wants you to like him, but he shouldn't be that needy — he's grown up to be a really handsome, sexy dude, with this mid-range brown color, so everyone loves him.