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That one depends a lot on the tone of how it was said. I could imagine it being really funny if said sarcastically.

domino harvey wrote:Brutally Honest Ballot #3 -- this One's a real humdinger

I just picture Jeff Garlin from Curb...he's also eating and taking calls while doing the interview.

He really needs to make up his mind weather he really likes Arrival or if he thinks it's just average. Nothing here was said sarcastically, I don't buy that

My predictions and preferences; I mostly kept to those categories in which I've seen all or nearly all of the nominees and/or those where I felt capable of offering an informed opinion.

Best Picture:
Haven't Seen: Fences
Prediction: La La Land
My Pick (Nominees): Arrival (Villeneuve's film is basically tied on my list with Moonlight, but it'd be great to see a sci-fi movie win the big prize at least once in my lifetime, and one as emotionally resonant and technically excellent as this would be a great choice)
My Pick (Non-Nominees): The Lobster (Would have been great to get a sublime oddity like this the additional exposure that a nomination provides)

Best Director:
Haven't Seen: None
Prediction: Damien Chazelle, La La Land
My Pick (Nominees): Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
My Pick (Non-Nominees): Pablo Larrain, Jackie

Best Actress:
Haven't Seen: Florence Foster Jenkins, Loving
Prediction: Emma Stone, La La Land
My Pick (Nominees): Natalie Portman, Jackie
My Pick (Non-Nominees): Sasha Lane, American Honey (It seems that the acting categories in particular are often determined by the actor's place and role in the industry, but it would have been nice to see a complete unknown who holds her own in almost every frame of a nearly three-hour movie get some love)

Best Actor:
Haven't Seen: Fences
Prediction: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea (Unusually weak category this year, and Washington wouldn't be a surprise at all, but I think Affleck was a step above the rest I saw)
My Pick (Nominees): Affleck
My Pick (Non-Nominees): Colin Farrell, The Lobster (Really excellent work from a severely underrated actor)

Best Supporting Actress:
Haven't Seen: Fences
Prediction: Viola Davis, Fences
My Pick (Nominees): Naomie Harris, Moonlight (Trying to catch Fences this weekend, and I doubt doubt Davis' greatness in the role, but the category fraud of her placement here would likely lead me to want Harris to prevail anyway)
My Pick (Non-Nominees): Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women

Best Supporting Actor:
Haven't Seen: None
Prediction: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
My Pick (Nominees): Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
My Pick (Non-Nominees): Any of Andre Holland, Trevante Rhodes, or Ashton Sanders, Moonlight

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Haven't Seen: Fences
Prediction: Moonlight
My Pick (Nominees): Arrival
My Pick (Non-Nominees): The Witch (Not sure if this would count in the Academy's rules for the Adapted category, but since Eggers took much of the script's language and cadence from period writing, it works for me)

Best Original Screenplay:
Haven't Seen: None
Prediction: Manchester by the Sea
My Pick (Nominees): The Lobster
My Pick (Non-Nominees): Hail, Caesar!

Best Cinematography:
Haven't Seen: Silence
Prediction: La La Land
My Pick (Nominees): Moonlight
My Pick (Non-Nominees): Stephane Fontaine, Jackie

Best Editing:
Haven't Seen: None
Prediction: La La Land
My Pick (Nominees): Arrival (The editing is so key to the success of this movie that there really isn't a close second in my book)
My Pick (Non-Nominees): The Lobster

Best Original Score:
Haven't Seen: Passengers
Prediction: La La Land
My Pick (Nominees): Moonlight (Really torn between Moonlight and Jackie, each of which feature scores that nearly perfectly complement their respective films, so I went with the one that I would most enjoy listening to on its own)
My Pick (Non-Nominees): Arrival (Stupid Academy rules; I would pick this for both Sound Editing and Mixing as well)

domino harvey wrote:Brutally Honest Ballot #3 -- this One's a real humdinger

Anonymous Author of Brutally Honest Ballot #3 wrote:I'm not big on animation or animators. I know a girl who only has sex with animators — she works over at Disney .... But I loved The Red Turtle — it was so simple and it spoke about life and it looked like a watercolor painting to me. Plus I have a fetish for turtles — I've just written a project about a turtle.

Made my day.

Brutally Honest Ballot #3 wrote:I normally go for sort of heavy films like Life of Pi...
Plus I have a fetish for turtles ...
But as a heterosexual male, it's hard not to vote for Harley Quinn [the character played by Margot Robbie in Suicide Squad] — plus, the makeup was really, really good. I'm surprised it didn't get other tech credits, as well, but I guess it's not really an Academy movie — it was way too much fun...
I liked Arrival, but I don't think aliens show up in those spacecraft...
I had to ignore that it was Pixar because that's like the anti-Viagra...

This guy is a veritable cornucopia of Academy weirdness. I wonder how long Feinberg curates relationships with these voters to both find the most out there of the bunch and get them to vomit every thought that crosses their synapses into his recorder.

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Fixed.

23 La La Land

I didn't say they were good rankings.

Quoi? Les Cesar

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/ ... ull-969062

Affleck win the Independent Spirit Award, hopefully Hollywood got over it too and he prevails tomorrow

Wait, what is it they're getting over?

I had no idea that was the reason he might lose the Oscar, thought there was a groundswell for Washington once people got their Fences screeners

The Narrator Returns wrote:The nomination for one of 13 Hours's four sound mixers has been rescinded

I think this guy holds the record for most nominations-no-wins so if 13 Hours ends up winning they better put him on suicide watch.

Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot #4
Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot #5

domino harvey wrote:Affleck win the Independent Spirit Award, hopefully Hollywood got over it too and he prevails tomorrow

It would be another case of Hollywood normalizing misogyny through awarding Affleck with BA achievement. While I usually don't have problem with works of art from artists who were morally reprehensible, the political climate has made it harder to accept and forgive people such as Affleck for his past actions. It's even worse that Mel Gibson got nominated for BD and you could see plenty of Trumpite people who reside in the Hollywood scene, only making it harder for disadvantaged groups such as woman and POC to break out into the industry.

If someone voted for Hacksaw Ridge, they were Trump fans? And voting for Gibson's film actively works against women and persons of color entering the industry? What?

Spirit Awards 2017 winners
Best Feature - Moonlight
Best Director - Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Best Male Lead - Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Best Female Lead - Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Best Supporting Male - Ben Foster, Hell or High Water
Best Supporting Female - Molly Shannon, Other People
Best First Feature - The Witch
Best Documentary - OJ: Made in America
Best Screenplay - Barry Jenkins (story by Tarell Alvin McCraney), Moonlight
Best First Screenplay - Robert Eggers, The Witch
Best Cinematography - James Laxton, Moonlight
Best Editing - Joi McMillon, Nat Sanders, Moonlight
Best International Film - Toni Erdmann
John Cassavetes Award (Best Feature Under $500,000) - Spa Night
Robert Altman Award (Best Ensemble) - Moonlight

domino harvey wrote:If someone voted for Hacksaw Ridge, they were Trump fans? And voting for Gibson's film actively works against women and persons of color entering the industry? What?

The crossover between Hacksaw Ridge voters and supporters of Trump would be large enough to fit on the Van Diagram, given the demographic and the racist/misogynist statements of both sides My point was that supporting Gibson is reenforcing the belief that any white male can get away with literally anything in Hollywood, without while there are millions of female filmmakers who still can't get the financial backing behind their projects. In the Hollywood hegemony, this has to stopped and the Academy should be ashamed for giving Gibson a free past while turning the backs of those he seeks to discriminate.