Does not compute...domino harvey wrote:none of the films sound bad...certainly is shaping up to be the year of the biopics
Definitely, without imitation game doing its kings speech esque sweep of the season this year would have an incredibly competitive and interesting awards race between the top 11 films. But i imagine Harvey already has this race won with his British gay rain man trump card film.domino harvey wrote:I will say, having seen none of the films likely to be nommed for Best Picture (yet), none of the films I'm hearing bandied about as possible Oscar noms/winners sound bad, which is something in this day and age. Certainly is shaping up to be the year of the biopics though!
Hurt locker was pretty unpredictable. Teensy forgotten highly praised film came back by enormous punditry effort (the film's distributer didn't even get a campaign together til the last minute.) But that kind of unanimity amongst critics is extraordinarily rare, and it nicely coincided with a weak slate of competition and a rules change that introduced a lot of curve balls the first year of ten nominees. Those changes are baked into the system now along with so rule tweaks to break the power of the animation bloc, so we won't get aberrations like blind side, district 9, serious man, up, or toy story three nominated.flyonthewall2983 wrote:I'm just curious, but was there ever a time when this whole process was more unpredictable?
blu-ray.com wrote:A Record Number of Countries Submit Films for Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar
Posted October 10, 2014 04:42 PM by Webmaster
Oscars83 countries have submitted films for Best Language Film Oscar this year. Last year, 76 films were submitted, and Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty won the award.
The five nominees that will emerge from this year's list will be officially announced on January 15th.
The awards ceremony will be held on February 22, 2015 in the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood.
COMPLETE LIST OF SUBMISSIONS:
Afghanistan, A Few Cubic Meters Of Love, Jamshid Mahmoudi
Argentina, Wild Tales, Damián Szifrón
Australia, Charlie's Country, Rolf de Heer
Austria, The Dark Valley, Andreas Prochaska
Azerbaijan, Nabat, Elchin Musaoglu
Bangladesh, Glow Of The Firefly, Khalid Mahmood Mithu
Belgium, Two Days, One Night, Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Bolivia, Forgotten, Carlos Bolado
Bosnia and Herzegovina, With Mom, Faruk Lončarevič
Brazil, The Way He Looks, Daniel Ribeiro
Bulgaria, Bulgarian Rhapsody, Ivan Nitchev
Canada, Mommy, Xavier Dolan
Chile, To Kill A Man, Alejandro Fernández Almendras
China, The Nightingale, Philippe Muyl
Colombia, Mateo, María Gamboa
Costa Rica, Red Princesses, Laura Astorga Carrera
Croatia, Cowboys, Tomislav Mršić
Cuba, Conducta, Ernesto Daranas Serrano
Czech Republic, Fair Play, Andrea Sedláčková
Denmark, Sorrow And Joy, Nils Malmros
Dominican Republic, Cristo Rey, Leticia Tonos
Ecuador, Silence In Dreamland, Tito Molina
Egypt, Factory Girl, Mohamed Khan
Estonia, Tangerines, Zaza Urushadze
Ethiopia, Difret, Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
Finland, Concrete Night, Pirjo Honkasalo
France, Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello
Georgia, Corn Island, George Ovashvili
Germany, Beloved Sisters, Dominik Graf
Greece, Little England, Pantelis Voulgaris
Hong Kong, The Golden Era, Ann Hui
Hungary, White God, Kornél Mundruczó
Iceland, Life In A Fishbowl, Baldvin Zophoníasson
India, Liar's Dice, Geetu Mohandas
Indonesia, Soekarno, Hanung Bramantyo
Iran, Today, Reza Mirkarimi
Iraq, Mardan, Batin Ghobadi
Ireland, The Gift, Tom Collins
Israel, Gett, The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem, Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
Italy, Human Capital, Paolo Virzì
Japan, The Light Shines Only There, Mipo O
Kosovo, Three Windows And A Hanging, Isa Qosja
Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanjan Datka Queen Of The Mountains, Sadyk Sher-Niyaz
Latvia, Rocks In My Pockets, Signe Baumane
Lebanon, Ghadi, Amin Dora
Lithuania, The Gambler, Ignas Jonynas
Luxembourg, Never Die Young, Pol Cruchten
Macedonia, To The Hilt, Stole Popov
Malta, Simshar, Rebecca Cremona
Mauritania, Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako
Mexico, Cantinflas, Sebastián del Amo
Moldova, The Unsaved, Igor Cobileanski
Montenegro, The Kids From The Marx And Engels Street, Nikola Vukčević
Morocco, The Red Moon, Hassan Benjelloun
Nepal, Jhola, Yadav Kumar Bhattarai
Netherlands, Accused, Paula van der Oest
New Zealand, The Dead Lands, Toa Fraser
Norway, 1001 Grams, Bent Hamer
Pakistan, Dukhtar, Afia Nathaniel
Palestine, Eyes Of A Thief, Najwa Najjar
Panama, Invasion, Abner Benaim
Peru, The Gospel Of The Flesh, Eduardo Mendoza
Philippines, Norte, The End Of History, Lav Diaz
Poland, Ida, Paweł Pawlikowski
Portugal, What Now? Remind Me, Joaquim Pinto
Romania, The Japanese Dog, Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
Russia, Leviathan, Andrey Zvyagintsev
Serbia, See You In Montevideo, Dragan Bjelogrlić
Singapore, Sayang Disayang, Sanif Olek
Slovakia, A Step Into The Dark, Miloslav Luther
Slovenia, Seduce Me, Marko Šantić
South Africa, Elelwani, Ntshavheni Wa Luruli
South Korea, Haemoo, Shim Sung-bo
Spain, Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed, David Trueba
Sweden, Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund
Switzerland, The Circle, Stefan Haupt
Taiwan, Ice Poison, Midi Z
Thailand, The Teacher's Diary, Nithiwat Tharathorn
Turkey, Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Ukraine, The Guide, Oles Sanin
United Kingdom, Little Happiness, Nihat Seven
Uruguay, Mr. Kaplan, Álvaro Brechner
Venezuela, The Liberator, Alberto Arvelo
Good for him, he deserves a shot, think he'll do well.domino harvey wrote:Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the Oscars
Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, director; Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Boyhood
Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, producers (IFC Films)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson, director; Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Love Is Strange
Ira Sachs, director; Lucas Joaquin, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Ira Sachs, Jayne Baron Sherman, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Under the Skin
Jonathan Glazer, director; Nick Wechsler, James Wilson, producers (A24 Films)
Best Documentary
Actress
Robert Greene, director; Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa, Robert Greene, producers (The Cinema Guild)
CITIZENFOUR
Laura Poitras, director; Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky, producers (RADiUS, Participant Media, and HBO Documentary Films)
Life Itself
Steve James, director; Zak Piper, Steve James, Garrett Basch, producers (Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films)
Manakamana
Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, directors; Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, producers (The Cinema Guild)
Point and Shoot
Marshall Curry, director; Marshall Curry, Elizabeth Martin, Matthew Van Dyke, producers (The Orchard and American Documentary / POV)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber)
James Ward Byrkit for Coherence (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)
Eliza Hittman for It Felt Like Love (Variance Films)
Justin Simien for Dear White People (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
Best Actor*
Bill Hader in The Skeleton Twins (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
Ethan Hawke in Boyhood (IFC Films)
Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year (A24 Films)
Michael Keaton in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Miles Teller in Whiplash (Sony Pictures Classics)
* The 2014 Best Actor nominating panel also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award jointly to Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum for their ensemble performance in Foxcatcher (Sony Pictures Classics).
Best Actress
Patricia Arquette in Boyhood (IFC Films)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Beyond the Lights (Relativity Media)
Julianne Moore in Still Alice (Sony Pictures Classics)
Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin (A24 Films)
Mia Wasikowska in Tracks (The Weinstein Company)
Breakthrough Actor
Riz Ahmed in Nightcrawler (Open Road Films)
Macon Blair in Blue Ruin (RADiUS)
Ellar Coltrane in Boyhood (IFC Films)
Joey King in Wish I Was Here (Focus Features)
Jenny Slate in Obvious Child (A24 Films)
Tessa Thompson in Dear White People (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
"I'd like to thank the Golden Horse Awards for giving me this opportunity to understand what it's like to come to an unprofessional film festival. An unfair awards will not gain the respect of artists."
Gong Li added that she enjoyed her stay in Taiwan and would come back again to the island in the future, "but I will not be coming back to the festival in the future, because there would be no point to that at all.”
"This will be my first time at the Golden Horse Awards, and my last," she added through her manager.