Best Picture: Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Director: George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Actress, Brie Larson, Room
Best Actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Animated Film: Inside Out
Documentary: Amy
Foreign Language: Son of Saul
Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
Cinematography: Mad Max: Fury Road
Editing: Mad Max: Fury Road
Production Design: Mad Max: Fury Road
Score: The Hateful Eight
Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, Sicario
Most Promising Performer: Jacob Tremblay, Room
Original Screenplay: Spotlight
Adapted Screenplay: The Big Short
Chicago always do well by themselves
Hmm I’m starting to think that Alicia Vikander will be nominated for Ex Machina and not the Danish Girl. She’s been winning almost every supporting category for that role.
I’m starting to think that Alicia Vikander will be a double nominee. The category fraud that will put Rooney Mara in the Supporting Actress race won’t carry over to Vikander. With Lawrence’s chances cratering I think Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl will be seen as the equivalent of Felicity Jones and nominated there as a lead. And I think she’ll get a Supporting nomination for Ex Machina
She can cancel her out though. Some voters can go for Danish Girl and others for Ex Machina and she end up with nothing.
Well, I guess there is some consolation in the fact that Del Toro got at least one award this season. It’s a shame his performance “didn’t click”. I guess it’s all about campaigning (or in this case an apparent lack of it), because the performance itself is inpeccable and very much worthy of an Oscar.
Heart is saying that by some miracle he will get nominated in this year full of suprises and uncertanties, but the mind says something very different.
Best Actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, Sicario
I fully support this ticket.
I’m torn between Del Toro and Elba if both get Oscar nods.
I detect a lot of bandwagoning as far as Mad Max is concerned. The Academy will go for Spotlight.
I’m NOT so sure about it. Alfonso Cuarón isn’t George Miller, for Hollywood. The AMPAS may want to give Miller full recognition exactly for his most known baby child. There’s a real chance Mad Max Fury Road sweeps Oscars, too. I still think it’s Spotlight, then MM, then Carol, then an outside shot for both The Big Short & Trumbo to crash the party.
The Martian is dead, Oscar-wise. We’re probably about to see a 9-11 Oscar nom’d film come out, absolutlely empty-handed. I don’t see it, winning ANY cathegory. It’s always going to find itself competing with MMFR, Carol, Spotlight and hotter property Star Wars…
I detect a lot of bandwagoning as far as Spotlight is concerned. I just don’t buy into the notion that this many critics genuinely feel that it’s the towering achievement above all other films made this year. I’d consider the surge for Mad Max to be a legitimate surge founded upon honest votes.
But yeh, the Academy will more likely pick Spotlight…
It’s amazing that Leo is winning so many critics awards. Its his 5th. He was never winning so much with critics before. Never. Its sign.
It’s true. Arguably, DiCaprio’s best year was over 2 decades ago. The L.A. Film Critics Ass’n picked him for New Generation for ”This Boy’s Life” and ”What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” (1993), and he was runner-up for Supporting Actor at the N.Y. Film Critics. Plus, he won Supporting Actor from National Board of Review. Back then, there were far fewer film critics’ prizes, or else DiCaprio might’ve racked up even more of them. Nice to see him winning and making the cut for most all of the nominated precursors. He’s sure overdue.
Oh yeah. It’s happening. RIP memes
we’ll see who wins what after the globes and BFCA but Chicago does have a pretty good record when it comes to best picture
Chicago Film Critics: Best Picture winners
* 2014: ”Boyhood”
* 2013: ”12 Years a Slave”
* 2012: ”Zero Dark Thirty”
* 2011: ”The Tree of Life”
* 2010: ”The Social Network”
* 2009: ”The Hurt Locker”
* 2008: ”WALL-E”
* 2007: ”No Country for Old Men”
* 2006: ”The Departed”
* 2005: ”Crash”
* 2004: ”Sideways”
* 2003: ”Lord of the Rings”
* 2002: ”Far From Heaven”
* 2001: ”Mulholland Drive”
* 2000: ”Almost Famous”
Of the 15 past Chicago Best Picture winners, only 6 of them went on to win the top Oscar.
That’s a 40% accuracy rate; 60% of the time, they were ”wrong.” Not exactly ”a pretty good record.” 😉
Oh, for critics groups’ standards, that IS pretty good! 🙂
A lot of that is Ebert’s influence. They have their finger on the pulse.
Yeah AMPAS are likely to bottle it with Mad Max – that won’t be a surprise.
Interesting – didn’t know that…
Chicago Film Critics were one of the few groups that picked ”Crash” for Best Picture that season, reportedly because Ebert was a big champion of it. … That said, critics should pick the films that best reflect their tastes, and NOT be second-guessing the Academy.
Exactly. Le Ebert famously championed Crash, really the only major critic in the country to do so. Its metacritic was so low, it was on worst lists. In 2005, Brokeback won 20something critics prizes and shattered all records doing so. A History of Violence won I think 3 (great film!), Munich got one, as did Capote and Good Night & Good Luck. Crash had nothing until the Chicago surprise, and deserved even less.
You won’t get an argument from me. In fact, even Paul Haggis, the director, didn’t think ”Crash” deserved to win Best Picture: “Was it the best film of the year? I don’t think so,” Haggis admitted. “There were great films that year. ‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ amazing film. ‘Capote,’ terrific film. Ang Lee’s ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ great film. And Spielberg’s ‘Munich.’ I mean please, what a year. ‘Crash’ for some reason affected people, it touched people. And you can’t judge these films like that. I’m very glad to have those Oscars. They’re lovely things. But you shouldn’t ask me what the best film of the year was because I wouldn’t be voting for ‘Crash,’ only because I saw the artistry that was in the other films.”
If there were any way to rescind one Oscar winner for Best Picture, that’d be my choice!
Dream on…
The Revenant can’t even freaking win Best Cinematography over Mad Max… Only Leo is winning. Nobody can STOP this freight train. Lubezki may have done his best work here but he already has 2 Oscars, and Mad Max Fury Road is getting to STAR WARS levels. I knew it… Spotlight has no shot. It will get only Original Screenplay. The Revenant will probably get Best Actor and that’s it. Room might get 2 Oscars – Best Actress and maybe Best Adapted Screenplay. The Martian – 0. Carol – probably also – 0. It is what it is… They don’t want to share the wealth. Once a movie of this magnitude starts rolling, it’s OVER..
Look, this is only one award. Chicago Film Critics is not exactly the end-all and be-all. Last year, their winners included ”Boyhood” for Best Picture; Linklater for Director; Keaton for Actor; ”Grand Budapest Hotel” for Original Screenplay; ”Gone Girl” for Adapted Screenplay, etc. All of these lost at the Oscars.
Last year, ”Boyhood” swept the critics’ awards, but its ”freight train” was stopped by the guild awards.
For now, I can’t see a sweep for ”Mad Max: Fury Road.” Nothing that’s ever won Best Picture is anything remotely like his sci-fi action movie. Critics may be geeking out over it, but I don’t think the Oscars will.
George Miller is so winning the Oscar!
I can see it now. Mad Max is gonna sweep:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Production Design
Best MakeUp and Hairstyle
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
It’s insane. The Revenant has a chance possibly in Best Cinematography (2nd right now), Best MakeUp (2nd there as well) and Best Sound Editing (2nd there also). Oh well, we’ll just have to be satisfied with Leo’s win – hopefully..
It’s not gonna happen. Spotlight is gonna win Best Picture at the Oscars. Mark my words.
Gotta agree here. Unless Mad Max won the PGA and DGA, I wouldn’t ever bet on it taking Best Picture from the Academy. And it doesn’t have that SAG Ensemble, so yeah. It’s going to be Spotlight.
I would like it if it wins. But come on.. I was hoping that at least The Revenant could win Best Actor and Best Cinematography but Mad Max is gonna win everything. Spotlight will win at the Globes and at the BFCA but that’s about it. All these craftsman and technical branches are gonna go crazy for Mad Max and Miller is winning Best Director now. It can’t and it won’t be stopped. Spotlight is not 12 Years a Slave and it is not Annie Hall. I was hoping for The Revenant but it looks like a lone Oscar for Leo – which would still be AMAZING but I was hoping that the critics might appreciate its technical merits a bit more. So far, they are going CRAZY for Mad Max in everything Technical related. It is what it is.
By the way, you’ll want to get this week’s Variety. They’re doing a huge cover story on ”The Revenant” with a lengthy interview with Leonardo DiCaprio. He’s asked why he’s never done a sequel (barring the straight-to-video ”Critters 3” when he was an unknown teenager). DiCaprio claims he’s never found the right script. Inarritu joked that he’s gonna break the streak. The Oscar-winning director said, ”We’re planning ‘The Revenant 2,” as DiCaprio rolled his eyes. ”That would be funny. Pre-production starts tomorrow.”
Yep, I just ordered an individual copy… It’s this one, right.
https://variety.com/access-digital/
I also came across this article:
http://variety.com/2015/film/in-contention/oscars-star-wars-revenant-mad-max-sound-1201659597/
I think that for a HUGE picture like The Revenant (a flawed masterpiece – you could say even) to walk away with only 1 Oscar (Leonardo DiCaprio) would be slightly underwhelming. Everyone is saying that Lubezki will win but all these critics awarding John Seale has me worried. Lubezki won for Gravity (a huge BP contender) and for Birdman (a BP Winner). The Revenant is at best 3rd right now and possibly even 4th in line behind Carol.
However, the one category in which The Revenant can score that 2nd Oscar is in Sound Editing. Sound Mixing is going definitely to Mad Max Fury Road (Two-time Oscar winner Chris Jenkins (“Out of Africa,” “The Last of the Mohicans”) and fellow two-timer Gregg Rudloff (“Glory,” “The Matrix”) worked on the mix, with editing contributed by the team of Scott Hecker, Mark Mangini and David White (four nominations between them). So, the mixers got like 4 Oscars but the Editors only 4 nominations.
On the other hand, I heard that the sound editors of The Revenant worked for a whole month on that bear attack sequence and it is extremely visceral and real. Plus, they have the pedigree (Two-time Oscar winner (and 14-time nominee) Randy Thom was brought on to assist on the post-production mix with Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s usual pair, Frank A. Montaño and Jon Taylor (nominated last year for “Birdman” and “Unbroken”). He also joined Oscar winner Lon Bender (“Braveheart”) and nominee Martín Hernández (“Birdman”) on the editorial side.)
So, to get technical, I think that The Revenant will win 2 Oscars (Best Actor and Best Sound Editing). I would love it if it could win Best Cinematography and Best Makeup too but Mad Max is in front. But I do believe that the Sound Branch will share the wealth. They are known to do that and appreciate what’s been done.
In the past decade, the movie that wins Best Sound (often war or action films) also wins Best Sound Mixing (action, music-related films) 60% of the time. … The Sound branch picks the nominees, and the general Academy votes on the winners. However, the Motion Picture Sound Editors also give out their own awards: the Golden Reels. And their choices do not necessarily match the Academy’s. I often think Oscar voters just pick the noisiest films.
Hope you saw the pretty pictures from ”The Revenant’s” L.A. premiere …
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3363673/Leonardo-DiCaprio-Tom-Hardy-look-dapper-red-carpet-premiere-film-Revenant.html
Or maybe Spotlight might only win Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay – a weak, very vulnerable Best Picture Winner. It could happen if there is a resistance. We’ll see.
MAD MAX WINNING BP FUCKING YEAH! You could do the same, the academy.