Best motion picture
- Argo, Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
Achievement in directing
- Life of Pi, Ang Lee
Performance by an actor in a leading role
- Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln
Performance by an actress in a leading role
- Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
- Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
- Anne Hathaway, in Les Misérables
Best animated feature film of the year
- Brave, Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Best foreign language film of the year
- Amour, Austria
Adapted screenplay
- Argo, Screenplay by Chris Terrio
Original screenplay
- Django Unchained, Written by Quentin Tarantino
Achievement in cinematography
- Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Achievement in film editing
- Argo, William Goldenberg
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
- Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Achievement in costume design
- Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Best documentary feature
- Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Benjelloul, Simon Chinn
Best documentary short subject
- Inocente, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
- Les Misérables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
- Skyfall from Skyfall, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Achievement in production design
- Lincoln, Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Best animated short film
- Paperman, John Kahrs
Best live action short film
- Curfew, Shawn Christensen
Achievement in sound editing (tie!)
- Skyfall, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
- Zero Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson
Achievement in sound mixing
- Les Misérables, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
Achievement in visual effects
- Life of Pi, Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Wow; my 19-5 didn’t even come close to getting it done. It was that kind of a year.
@Chris
Paquin was supporting though.
Im actually depressed this morning. Ugh.
Sasha, look past her age and look at the performance. If you think 22 is too young, was Anna Paquin too young to win hers?
Love the Ang Lee win, hate the Argo win. Predicted 19/24 (switched at the last minute in SA – to Jones – and OS – to ZDT -, after predicting Django to win both like forever, with very unsatisfactory results indeed; should have gone with the consensus, Curfew, for Live Action; also missed Production Design and both movies that split for Sound Editing).
My last 10 winners from amongst the BP nominees, ranked – just so y’all can see how much opinions can differ…
01. The Return of the King
02. Inception
03. Little Miss Sunshine
04. Slumdog Millionaire
05. Life of Pi
06. Inglorious Basterds
07. Juno
08. Finding Neverland
09. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
10. Crash
Ryan,
; )
I’m a little evil but that shot is now on my desktop for the day… and I smile everytime I see it!
Most importantly it reminds me of the most emotional moment for me during the ceremony: hearing Ang Lee called to receive his second best director Oscar!!!! Love his Cinema so so much.
I’ll do that “shoulda, woulda, coulda” top 10:
1. There Will Be Blood
2. A Serious Man
3. Return of the King
4. Lincoln
5. Capote
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. The Tree of Life
8. True Grit*
9. Letters from Iwo Jima
10. Sideways
*This could be replaced with TS3. I loved both that year. All these films are excellent, and they force me to leave off several films I would take over most actual BP winners. Ah well. One can dream.
Congratz to all the winners!
I’m mostly happy for Christophe Waltz and Anne Hathaway! She wanted this sooooooo much and I thought she’d give a weeping speech like Paltrow or Berry, but she’s done it quite nicely. 🙂
I know it sounds silly, but this was Meryl’s first official apperance this year and I was just happy to see her. I was worried the last months….
So this year’s madness is over. See you next year.
Maybe even more insane….
@kasper – You have a good ranking. No Country and all the others!
@LoveFilm22 – Yes, the Academy has already lost its credibility years ago with absurd choices and this year was no different. They are in a hole and not trying to do anything to rectify the situation.
Just imagine Phoenix and Riva as the winners. Everybody including me would have congratulated the Academy for their artistical choices. Instead they chose to satisfy the White House and Harvey.
I predicted Life of Pi to win in five categories: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best original Score, Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects.
I am glad that Ang Lee took the prize for Best Director.
Well Deserved.
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A bit disappointed: Paperman over Head over Heels, as well as the loss of The Invisible War.
That’s life….
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Congrats to all the winners.
I posted a note last night unit seemingly was…lost. Lets try again.
In light of all the preposterous stuff of the last 2 weeks that went down, the bottom line is there was immense support in the actors’ branch for Lawrence’s role. I was worried the Academy was going to punish her for being too good, too soon. Fortunately, that didn’t occur last night and I’m glad to say I was wrong.
Firstly, a HUGE thank you to both Sasha and Ryan for this site – you guys are amazing and the work you have put in (especially in the last few months) has been very much appreciated by me and others.
Re: the winners. Yes, we can argue that Joaquin was better than Daniel, Emmanuelle was better than Jennifer but you can’t deny that Daniel was excellent in Lincoln and a worthy person to become the first person to win three Best Actor Oscars. Plus the first acting win for a Spielberg film!
Piece of Oscar trivia: Christoph Waltz joins Luise Rainer, Vivien Leigh, Kevin Spacey and Hilary Swank as the only people to win two acting Oscars from two nominiations – just as Sally Field leaves that elite group.
“People saying this year’s Oscars were predictable results and boring need to SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!!!”
You can read the very same comment (predictability/boring) every year. And you will again in 2014, specially if their favorite movie doesn’t win BP.
I don’t get all this talk about “hate” for Jennifer Lawrence – in what posts can this hate be found? Criticism, yes, as well as support for other nominees – but since when did this equal hate?
Seriously, if we are to discuss hate, it would make more sense to start with some of the very aggressive comments from several J Law-supporters here.
I also find it very interesting when those supporters predict that J-Law will be nominated again and again in the future. Yes, she may indeed become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, but it may also turn out that her talent is limited and that this was the performance of her career. Time will tell. As we all know: In Hollywood, nobody knows anything.
And for the record: the above is not hate, it is a general observation. I liked Lawrence’s performance, i just did not consider it the best of the nominees.
People saying this year’s Oscars were predictable results and boring need to SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!!! You’re all lying through your cracked asses. This year was one of the MOST Unpredictable races in years and none of you can argue against that. Sorry but I didn’t see all of you predicting Waltz, Lee and Lawrence to win tonight. Saw a ton of folks predicting De Niro, Jones in supporting, Riva in actress, Spielberg and Russell AND Haneke in Director. So no- the results were plenty surprising. You’re just trying to create drama for the sake of doing it. Just shut up for God’s sake.
And Lincoln MORE THEN deserved it’s award for Production Design. Did you SEE what the filmmakers had to recreate??? You really think Les Miserables was going to win Art Direction when the BULK of the movie is in dumbass closeups of the singers, and we don’t even get to see the sets all that much? Seriously do some research and stop griping- it’s absurd and disrespectful to the deserving winners.
Anyone boasting “Yeah I predicted all the winners” is lying. I know for a fact that the predictions were spread out this year, and be happy this year was actually suspenseful. Django Unchained winning Screenplay was a little surprising too- considering most of you had Amour winning. Did any of you have Zero Dark Thirty AND Skyfall taking sound-editing?
It just boggles my mind how many hypocrites come on hear complaining how predictable the show was, when they’re the main ones that had different predictions all along.
Here’s a better list.
Films that were nominated, that should’ve won (or did) and their ranking from the past 10 years.
1. The Tree of Life
2. No Country For Old Men
3. The Social Network
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. Lost In Translation
7. Sideways
8. Inglorious Basterds
9. The Departed
10. Milk
Hollywood needs no help from Washington. As somebody on the left, that was uncomfortable and if they said Zero Dark Thirty, it would have been more uncomfortable given the crap that Ellison, Bigelow, Boal, and the cast had to deal with the very idea they made a propaganda film that there was no way they would not win a new round of shitstorm against it had they been announced by the First Lady. So this Oscars did a great job of getting me to suddenly turn on the movie I loved to win Best Picture. Congrats, telecast.
Argo being endorsed by the White House and announced there is really tone-deaf. I mean, look at how this movie depicts Iranians with exception to the very courageous maid. Why is the White House rushing to be connected to a movie with that depiction? Argo just comes off as Hollywood/CIA save the world that for people who supposedly lean left being the makers is a pretty shocking thing to do (especially when Clooney did a modern turn in the fictional Syriana that showed the CIA as the opposite, but I guess it shows whatever wins a crowd over for him). Our relations with Iran is still terrible and we have this movie where cultural imperialism with Hollywood and this very populist CIA collaborating to save human lives. Not just a lie on dramatic license to what actually happened but incredibly problematic when you consider that CIA’s relationship to Iran and our current relationship to Iran. So this film is being celebrated and pretty much endorsed by the White House. It just shows Hollywood tone deafness but the fact people freaked out on ZD30 and even Lincoln on the Hill but not Argo is shocking especially when it portrayed THAT CIA, among its more incompetent eras.
Politics aside, the White House thing seemed like something out of a late-night show. Like she was going to be reading Letterman’s Top 10. It was cheesy. I never saw Snow White dance with Rob Lowe, but it felt like it was in that vein, perhaps more middlebrow, but cheesy to it’s core. After the wonderful DDL-Streep moment, it just felt like a lead balloon to me.
Antoinette,
it was a mistake for sure but so ironic and great: he made that horrible face when Riva won Bafta and now they put Riva there where his face should have been as a nominee for best director.
I was so happy for Ang Lee and also amazed about the irony of that moment for Russell.
But, I also would have liked to see his face when they said Ang Lee… : )
so ironic and great: he made that horrible face when Riva won Bafta and now they put Riva there where his face should have been as a nominee for best director.
Akumax!
I was looking away from the screen and missed that. But found it on the DVR.
President and First Lady are that of all the people not that of a party, left or right. I think that the support of the first lady for the most important industry of the USA is important, a good sign, and not something to scream about.
“I am finally and officially exhausted by the Left’s dominion over Hollywood. Goodbye Oscar. I will look back with fondness over the years when you were truly great and I will miss all the excitement.”
– Fair enough, I guess, but the Oscars (and Hollywood) have been openly liberal for quite some time now, even during the “great” years you remember.
Denying someone an Oscar strictly because of their age (and not their performance, which is what this stuff should be about) is kind of ridiculous. If you’re good, you’re good. Period.
I really sincerely wish Jennifer Lawrence had starred in All About Steve instead of Sandra Bullock and then Lawrence could have won her “best-part-of-a-crap-movie” Oscar two years ago, and kicked the ass of The Blind Side.
Would’ve killed so many birds with the same stone.
Even though there were a lot of complaints about the weird timetable, we really should be grateful to the recalcitrance of the Directors Branch, which prevented Argo from taking Director as well, and thereby giving us a truly lovely moment when Ang Lee won. Without the directors snubbing Affleck, this race would’ve been a total snooze, and they probably wouldn’t have snubbed him had the timetable been regular and they had enough influence from PGA/DGA nominations and such.
I have been obsessed with the Academy Awards for forty five years. I have never missed an Oscar ceremony since 1969, the year Oliver! Won best picture. And when I became a film critic I was thrilled that I could actually write about them.
MY OBSESSION IS AT AN END: When the task was given to Empress Michele Obama to open entertainment’s most prestigious envelope, the academy lost my support and my viewership for the rest of my days. it didn’t help that the academy selected Argo over Zero Dark Thirty, either. I am finally and officially exhausted by the Left’s dominion over Hollywood. Goodbye Oscar. I will look back with fondness over the years when you were truly great and I will miss all the excitement.
Any Zero Dark Thirty supporter would have a ball reading Jennifer Ehle’s Twitter feed this past Oscar night. She threw a lot of shade at MacFarlane and at the fact people could not move their foreheads. But she also gave a lot of love to the good moments and definitely was complimentary to Paul N.J. Ottosson winning and William Goldenberg winning (even if not for their film winning, even if it should have been because the Academy did not want a soft BP winner). She acknowledge that Bigelow’s non-nomination was BS but was cool with Ang Lee but then in a very self-aware way totally acknowledged how insane it would have been if the First Lady announced Zero Dark Thirty and what the reaction would have been from its critics.
Reichdome, thanks for the kudos.
And of course ZDT’s win is for Sound Editing (I expected their one win being in Editing or Sound Editing) but it of course had to be a tie to a Bond film (even if Skyfall was realer and grittier than most Bond movies these two spy movies could not be more different) in an award given to them by a Teddy Bear. Somebody better write a damn book uncovering ZDT’s Oscar season (now I am hearing Team Argo led a heavy DC dirty tricks campaign against the film that is pretty believable) and have the last chapter be about Oscar night because I would read it even as the details and episodes write themselves. That little set of quirks for the night was an ending that really could have only happened to Zero Dark Thirty in this Oscar season.
Anybody see the Jimmy Kimmel, Sexpocalypse bit in the post-Oscars show? It was all over the place but Oprah was there playing the President, along with Jude Law, Bradley Cooper, Gerard Butler, and Jessica Chastain was in a Maya-like role except with a much bigger sense of humor and incredibly charming. I am glad she got to fangirl over Michael Haneke, at least. Let Lawrence carry the burden for now.
UGH. I don’t even want to think about next season. I am getting excited for Stoker coming out. But I am throwing all of my cynicism on The Monument’s Men because it sounds like another Argo-esque movie that I would rather not be a trend (cutesy but inoffensive, period piece caper that asks no hard questions). Plus if the rumors are true, I am just going to really hate George Clooney and wish for the smears he pulled to have blowback right back at him.
I would give a 22 year old an Oscar, but only for a performance that moved me and astounded me with its dexterity, its courage, its heart and its intensity. Jennifer Lawrence’s was a number of things, but none of the above.
If only they correctly have nominated and awarded Beasts of the Southern Wild for Score, where it was easily the best of the year (and definitely not by a slim margin), there would be no BP nominee going home empty handed.
“She’s great and will be around for a long time.”
In light of the preposterous proportions it got on here and elsewhere that Lawrence should merely mail it in, I was really worried the Oscars would punish her for being too good, too soon. That she’d have to wait a decade or more before AMPAS deemed she was now worthy of winning. I was certain of it. But I was wrong. 22 year olds don’t get standing O’s, folks, unless it’s deserved.
I personally would never give a lead Oscar to a 22 year old performer. No matter the performance.
That’s just not fair.
@Rayn Adams-If even voters don’t want to watch a movie, what does that say about the film? That so few people saw it that they didn’t feel compelled either?
I think people had SLP wrongly pegged. It was never a best picture contender, and never a conventional feel-good film. It is a very strange movie. Very good but odd. It’s amazing that it found an audience. I hope the voters paid attention to that at least.
I personally would never give a lead Oscar to a 22 year old performer. No matter the performance. I think an Oscar with that age sets the bar so high that this person may never live up to the expectations.
And sometimes it’s not really the age. It’s how it seems so easy to get one to some people. This year we had another example coming from the film company I probably most admire: Pixar. What Tim Burton has done or the effort of Walt Disney Pictures to make films great films once again like Tangled and Wreck-It-Ralph is overlooked in favor of a good but nothing special Pixar film.
Just take a look at Gwyneth Paltrow or even Zeta-Jones. They have never made anything even close to their winning performances since then. And specially Paltrow was extremely undeserving. Just like Benini in the same year. Sir Ian McKellen, Fernanda Montenegro and Emanuelle Riva will never have an Oscar (and maybe Tim Burton, Julianne Moore and Ed Harris also… They must win one) but they are much bigger than the Oscars.
Nicholson announcing BP took me back to ’06 when Lee won BD for Brokeback Mountain, but lost BP to Crash. Lee also beat Spielberg who was nominated for Munich that year.
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The most interesting race was easily best actress. I said this a few weeks ago to the usual objections, but Lawrence is a very special talent. The people that see themselves as “in the know” are always the last to admit it when a major new talent emerges. What she did in SLP was special. That film was a mess. Yet the second she walked on screen it clicked. She carried that film to critical and commercial success. You can debate who had the best performance forever virtually every year. But she earned the award. Chastain would have been a good second choice. As to Riva, she has a BAFTA and a nomination. Not bad at all. But I always contend that in a debate that is so subjective, you cannot just ignore the objective factors, and that SLP unexpectedly resonated with audiences is one of them.
She is now the second youngest best actress winner in history after Maitlin.
and that SLP unexpectedly resonated with audiences is one of them.
the movies that resonate with people most are the ones they watch.
don’t mean to sound flip, but I have no doubt that a much greater number of voters watched Silver Linings than watched Amour.
voters don’t vote for movies they don’t watch, and the Academy is full of lazy members who only watch the hot screeners.
Come back to this site and see PaulH is still a total tool. Some will never change…..
But YAY Lee and YAY Waltz!!!!!!
Anyone hating on Jen’s win, I hope she wins again in one of Russell’s other two movies she signed on for, or maybe even next year for Serena (doubt it though) just to say f-you to the haters.
Yes Riva deserved it, but so did she. She’s great and will be around for a long time.
Yes Riva deserved it, but so did she. She’s great and will be around for a long time.
No, she didn’t. Sorry. 22 years old. No.
Best moment of the Night: Ang Lee wins best director and in the slot of David O Russell is pictured Emanuelle Riva!!!
I hadn’t noticed that earlier. What happened there? Mixed up seats or they avoided him on purpose?
My comment taken from The Artist’s Oscar victory thread one year ago:
JP / February 26, 2012
I`m just imagining how fantastic it would be to see this moment in a year: two gods of acting together. Meryl giving Daniel Day-Lewis his third Oscar for Lincoln.
This moment made my night.
1 Million Dollar Baby
2 The Hurt Locker
3 The Departed
4 No Country For Old Men
5 Return of the King
6 The King’s Speech
7 Argo
8 Slumdog Milionaire
9 The Artist
Since I don’t consider Haggi’s“Crash” not even worthing to be call a “movie”, I left out and stop at 9. “Crash” as far as I concerned, there is only one movie, and is not among David Cronenberg’s best.
So Waltz now has won more Oscars than Al
Pacino and tied with DeNiro in a span of about five years? And Clooney has more awards than the woman that produced ET, Raiders, Close
Encounters, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan? Affleck has two Oscars (including screenplay). as many as Scorsese
and Spielberg,…more than a Spike Lee etc…?
Such an anti-climax… DDL was the highlight.
But Argo? Argo?
I’ll have to wait for Sasha’s post about tonight…
Because its all so depressing. I mean, a standing O for Argo? Really?
What is happening? Is it a generational shift we’re seeing? The standing Os for JLaw and Affleck suggests that to me. Wow.
Reichdome, i can’t argue with your passion, i never have, and i agree with you that the awards were all over the place, and highly unfair. But for my part, i don’t really expect them to be anything other than they are = 6000 film industry veterans and invited winners and filmmakers that choose what they like best. My personal tastes so rarely coincides with theirs, but i still love to watch it and critisise it and critique the choices – as you do so passionately. Keep loving what you love and argue for what you believe. Your choices and tastes will always be personal and significant for you. They reflect & mirror what you want to see as storytelling and artistic endeavors.
You know what ‘uncle ben’ tells spiderman ala peter parker with ‘great power comes great responsibility’? well for too long the academy have abused the great power that comes with being the most influential motion picture institution globally, and have shirked there responsibility.. out of that comes this phrase which i think is a absolute ripper:
‘With great diversity comes great instutions and delegating that power responsibly makes a EVERLASTING impression to us’
52 weeks ago, I had a wishful thinking about a scene that I would like to see at next year’s Oscars: Queen Meryl passing the crown to King Daniel and his third Oscar.
What about you guys… which scene do you really think is gonna happen within a year?
@antoinette here my outrageous theory what you think of this?:P
You think i drunk cos i dare to praise pple who have different opinions to me rather than too many others (not inc regulars here) who opt for culture of abusing and attacking other indivduals?
I admit i think outside the box i proud of that..heck i have a ‘healthy’ ego about that..after all without diversity there is no greatness you follow? without diversity there is no merit in vision and artistic integrity esp in this case true?
Err what part am i drunk antoinette?:P you are so delightfully funny:)
luv our humour:)
The part i called you ‘lovely’ or the part that I had a sudden shift from relentless oscar cynic (which i rather not be if only they appeased the bulk of us within reason more than they do:O) to friendly happy and cheery?
I admit even by my standards it a sudden shift..thoughts?
So JP, Paddy, Daveinprogress, Antoinette, CMG, anyone else who been around as much as i have or since i have who name i forgotten lol:P
I had courtesy and kindness to compliment your contributions but i not heard your thoughts and insights as to the angle and manner of issues i take .
But remember i not forceful but i am persistent i am a relentless unapologetically regardless who disagrees with me or not ………for a more balanced and realistically measured approach to what oscar deem best picture or not. I champion innovation..i champion breakthroughs in filmmaking and thearts…pple tire of the same old same old. Bauhaus, the great architectural and hence by extension arts instution revinvented itself to last beyond it immediate era of existence..it only reason for taking a back seat is it was eventually eclipsed by other more recent up to date minds that founded other arts insitutions ala universities..or the rise and dominance of them..eroded Bauhaus..in physical existence but it positive legacy lived on why? It taught and introduced innovative appraoches to allow aspiring architects and artists to survive and thrive…it did not take an inverted view of itself like oscar.
Broadway was never dead a reference i made i think? last year…but it was NEGLECTED…the seed is still there for oscar..but are they gonna water the seed that encapsulates innovation, breakthroughs and the true best of the best embraced by critics and audiences across diverse global culture alike? or let the seed wither and die?
When Chicago made broadway hot property again it soared to successes in this time comparable since and slightly leading to chicago release…it was certainly not a great film but memorable in my books for the maassive shift in public sentiment to broadway to film conversion fiklms that were not looked at or reverd by hollywood for ages..and above all it reinvented itself..Chicago;s story says much bout what oscar should do as opposed to the problems thatb are plaguing it atm.
but whether one disagrees with me or not over the years i contributed here..INSTITUIONS of all walks of life throughout our history serve primarily or are supposed to teh communities in which they exist. Film by nature is not a projection onto hollywood alone..hollywood and it evolution is a manifestation in itself of the global film community…and that in itself is massviely supported by filmgoers..and without communal input institutions struggle to be relevant.
Libraries have books for a diverse pool of people.
Universities also have something for everyone..fr whatever skills or qualifications they want…
THEY ARE THERE TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY
THE ONLY REASON SOME HERE COULD BRAND ME AS IDEALIST IS BECAUSE WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE FAIR AND REASONABLE IS IDEALIST BECAUSEWE ALL KNOW SADLT THE ACADEMY DO NOT SEE IT THAT WAY.
NOPE I ADVOCATE BALANCE I ALL FOR THE ODD DISAPPOINTMENT BUT SUCH LARGE QUANTITYS SINCE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY..I MEAN WOW..IT SCARY DONT YOU THINK? FOR CIVILIZED DECENT ART LOVING PPLE LIKE US AFTER ALL FILM IS AN ARTFORM..AND IF UNIERSITIES, LIBRARIES, INDEED BROADWAY A HOLLYWOOD’S OWN FOUNDATION OF EXISTENCE RIGHT THERE BACK NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS AGO IF NOT OVER THAT NOW…BROADYWAY WAS THE SEED THAT SPARKED HOLLYWOOD’S GROWTH TO EXPANS NEW HORIZONS FOR POSSIBILITIES..BUT SINCE THE NEW MILLENIA IN OUR TIME, OSCAR HAVE HIT A MASSIVELY THICK CONCRETE BARRIER. IRONICALYL ONE THEY IMPOSE ONLY ON THEMSELVES.
INVERTED INSITUTIIONS DO NOT LAST FOREVER. HOW DID THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE COME ABOUT? GREED AND THE INTERESTS OF SERVING ONE PERSON AT THE EXPENSE OF THE COMMUNITY. WITH WHICH THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO GOVERN.
IF LIBRARIES ONLY PROVIDE A FAR MORE RESTRICTED DIVERSITY OF BOOKS WOULD THEY HAVE THE SUPPORT BY GOVERNMENTS THEY NEED? NOT IF THEY DO NOT DO THEIR BIT TO KEEP THEMSELVES RELEVANT.
LIBRARIES HAVE AS HAVE UNIVERSITIES. EVERY INSTUTION HAS THERE FLAW TRUE..SO TRUE…BUT WHEN THAT FLAW IS SO BLATANTLY OBVIOUS TO THOSE LIKE US WHO LOOK TO IT TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE NOT TO STOOP TO PERSISTENT MEDIOCRE RESULTS THAT DO NOT SATISFY THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVER AND ONLY EXIST TO SERVE THEMSELVES…CAN THEY REALLY LAST FOR A VERY LONG TIME?
Is Brenda Chapman the first person to win an Oscar for a movie she was fired from?
Jerome Robbins won Best Director for West Side Story alongside Robert Wise even though he was fired midway through production.
Anyways, Ang Lee winning Best Director was easily the best win of the night. Conversely, Brave beating Wreck-It Ralph, Frankenweenie, and Paranorman was the worst win of the night.
I gotta say I actually liked Seth’s hosting. His opening monologue was a mess, but I liked the self-deprecating humor throughout most of it, and that Sound of Music joke when introducing Christopher Plummer was the best moment of the night for me.
I can’t even imagine Jennifer Lawrence’s career right now. As if she didn’t have the best career already.
I wish the Oscars was like in the early 40’s-80’s where they focus more on the artistic side rather than the politic side. The Oscars already lost their credibility and it becomes meaningless. I want unforgettable movies to be remember for a long time like Gone with the Winds, French Connection, Chinatown. I prefer festivals rather than awards. I wish that Weinstein wasn’t famous because it’s his fault that forgettable movies like King’s Speech and Shakespeare are awarded.
@ Elton
I’m Brazilian too and that was my first Oscars. I can’t even imagine how I became an awards follower after that nightmare that was 1999 Oscars.
@ Bryce
You pointed out one of the most positive things about this years Oscars: the Foreign Language category and I would add the Documentary Feature one (I haven’t still watched all of this year’s noms but based on what I already watched and what I read it looks like the strongest lineups in this category) are on the right way again. I’m just sad about the Animated Feature category. It looks like they lost their way there. I’m starting to feel it could be renamed as Best Animated Box Office or, just like the Best Picture in the Indie Spirits should be renamed The Harvey Weinstein Award, this could be renamed “The Pixar Award If it’s Not Cars”. I’m a huge of them and they deserved every single award they got in this category and I think Monsters Inc. aged better than Shrek although I thought Shrek was better then (in 2001) but this Brave win just pissed me off very hard. It’s a good animated film that’s not even better than Tangled, which was not even nominated. Tim Burton is part of my childhood and i definitely think he made the best film nominated but I could live with Wreck-It-Ralph winning but Brave definitely just didn’t feel right.
Best things about the show:
Ang Lee winning Best Director.
THE LIFE OF PI winning four awards, the night’s highest total.
Christophe Waltz winning Best Supporting Actor
LES MISERABLES taking home three Oscars, the second highest total.
Shirley Bassey
The ultra-rare tie in sound editing.
Unfortunately the final win of ARGO (even if it was read by Michelle Obama) was a bummer, even if expected. LINCOLN did win for Day-Lewis and production design but deserved several more. Only after Terrio won, were we all certain of the way it would come down in the end.
Hated to hear Lawrence, and was really hoping for Riva.
LES MISERABLES taking home three Oscars, the second highest total.
You have every right to be proud and happy about that, Sam. Congrats!
1. No Country for Old Men
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2. The Hurt Locker
3. Million Dollar Baby
4. The Departed
5. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
6. The King’s Speech
7. Argo
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. The Artist
10. Crash
Just playing the game (the last 10 years):
1) No country for old men
2) Chicago
3) Return of the King (although in that year I prefered “Lost in translation”)
4) The Departed (I prefere “Little Miss Sunshine”)
5) The King’s Speech
6) Million Dollar Baby (I prefere “The Aviator”)
7) The Hurt Locker (I prefere “Inglorious Basterds” and “Precious”)
8) The Artist (I prefere “Drive”, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”… wait, this films were not nominated…)
9) Argo (I prefere “Django”, “Amour”, “Life of Pi”, “Silver Linings” etc)
10) Crash
Thanks Reichdome. 🙂 Are you drunked?
Oscar trivium:
Ang Lee is the first director to win the DGA then lose the Oscar (2000O) and later lose the DGA and then win the Oscar (2012)
@Bryce Forestieri
Your list looks very good.
I would just add The Monuments Men. It has an amazing cast, Clooney behind the camera, and is a fascinating WWII story I have not seen told before. It could easily win Best Picture.
Bryce Forestieri, don’t make fun of me! I have my reasons, the explanations of which might require the skills of someone equipped with a Masters degree in Visual and Critical Studies from Yale University (and I am not that person) :).
My god @PaulH, why are you pissing on Ang Lee’s win because James Cameron didn’t win a few years ago.
@christiannnw
CRASH above ARGO, LOL
Yeah, it’s a shame that Argo won anything, particularly Picture and Adapted Screenplay. Both of these will be looked back on as some of the biggest mistakes in Academy history (particularly robbing Kushner of his Oscar). That being said, a lot of deserving people won (all four acting winners gave great performances). I think Tarantino’s Oscar tonight was more so payback for Inglourious Basterds. Django was not his strongest work (though it was still the best of the category), and I think the Academy realized just how badly they screwed up three years ago when they gave his Oscar to Boal. Brave’s win just goes to show that even when Pixar makes a sub-par movie, they’ll still win the Oscar, even over much more deserving films like Wreck-It Ralph.
As for the ceremony itself, it was way too stretched out. MacFarlane was a decent host, but the opening was far too long, and wasn’t funny enough to justify the 20+ minutes it took. There were also a number of performances that could have been cut to make the show tighter (something they should have realized with their overly-long opening).
My hope for next year is a more trimmed-down show and a return to honoring great and memorable films, not merely ok ones that will be forgotten in six months.
In closing, I’ll join in the BP ranking fun:
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. The King’s Speech
3. Chicago
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. The Artist
6. Crash
7. Argo
8. The Hurt Locker
9. No Country For Old Men
10. Million Dollar Baby
@JP
I’m Brazilian and there’s nothing I could wish more in the Oscars than a Fernanda Montenegro victory. She’s the best brazilian actress of all times and I dare to say one of the bests of whole world. Her work not only in Central Station is incredible.
Congrats to all the winners! And thanks to the editors who run this site. Looking forward to another great year of movies!
Edit ** she (Maya) sifted through
Can we just agree that Shirley bassey stole the oscars?
1. No Country for Old Men
2. The Return of the King
3. The Departed
4. The Artist
5. Million Dollar Baby
6. The Hurt Locker
7. Argo
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. The King’s Speech
10. Crash
Hate to peruse this site after two glasses of wine, but this Best Picture from the last ten years ranking trend looks might enticing.
1) No Country for Old Men
2) The Artist
3) Return of the King
4) The Hurt Locker
5) The Departed
6) Million Dollar Baby
7) The King’s Speech
8) Slumdog Millionaire
9) Crash
10) Argo
Why stop at 10:
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Schindler’s List
3. American Beauty
4. The Hurt Locker
5. Unforgiven
6. Departed
7. No Country For Old Men
8. Return of the King
9. Chicago
10. Titanic
11. The Artist
12. Shakespeare in Love
13. Gladiator
14. Forrest Gump
15. Million Dollar Baby
16. Argo
17. A Beautiful Mind
18. The King’s Speech
19. Slumdog Millionaire
20. English Patient
21. Rain Man
22. Braveheart
23. Dances with Wolves
24. Driving Miss Daisy
25. Crash
Also want to celebrate AMPAS significantly getting their shit together for the last 2 years in the Best Foreign Language category. Imperfect as it may remain,
AMOUR and A SEPARATION are two motherfucking masterpieces. Tip of the hat to The Academy.
“One more thing that grated. Ang Lee has a directors Oscar for making a 3d movie, but not James Cameron, who broke so much ground in the use and viewing of 3D it registered an 8 on the Richter Scale for Avatar? Mmmmmmkay…”
Yeah? And mr. Cameron has made the two highest grossing films of all time and is one of the few persons alive to have won an Oscar in 3 different categories. One of this two highest grossing films also happens to be the holder of the wins and nominations record in the history of the Oscar. He must be so concerned that Life of Pi won and he didn’t…
My favorite Oscar winners were: Jennifer Lawrence, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ang Lee, the 2 win for Django Unchained (Christoph Waltz and Tarantino) and Zero Dark Thirty tie with Skyfall for Best Sound Editing.
I thought the show was mediocre at best. Ever since Leonardo DiCaprio got snubbed for the nth time I knew it would be just bland.
When Christoph Waltz won I was shocked and pissed because if Leo was nominated in spite of him, he would have won instead.
At least they didn’t give to Arkin who should not have even been nominated.
In any case, Christoph Waltz, as good as he is, shouldn’t be standing with two Oscars – as much as the legend Robert De Niro and one more than Al Pacino. It just shows what a disgraceful show the Oscars has become.
Adele won which was nice but the 50th Anniversary 007 tribute was boring. I was hoping for every James Bond actor to show up from Connery to Craig but it wasn’t to be. Another mistake.
Finally? Jennifer Lawrence – young sexy, arrogant and now a winner.
Which just shows what it takes nowadays, except of course if you are Leo DiCaprio who if he doesn’t get the Oscar next year this show will always be known as the BS of all BS shows.
I am happy for Ben Afleck although The Town is a much better film than Argo.
I won’t get into the Lofe of Pi but it’s safe to say that it was on its way to winning it all before the Michelle Obama moment.
Rating – 6/10.
@ Antoinette and tohers you guys gonna thank me for starting a trend here?:P
I figured it would be catchy even if you did not agree with anything i said?:P
But you all eclipsed my initiative here..and went to rate all the winners from best to least i only did selevt years let me reassess extensively thanx for the prompt Antoinette:)
1. THE RETURN OF THE KING
2. GLADIATOR
3. THE KINGS SPEECH
4. THE DEPARTED
5. THE HURT LOCKER
6. CHICAGO
7. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
8. THE ARTIST
9. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
10.ARGO
Oh.. I forgot Million Dollar Baby. It’s absolutely better than The Aviator, a film I really dislike, and the others in that lineup.
Is Brenda Chapman the first person to win an Oscar for a movie she was fired from?
Oooooh. I like this ranking of the top 10 from the last 10 years.
1. The Hurt Locker
2. Departed
3. No Country For Old Men
4. Return of the King
5. The Artist
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. Argo
8. The King’s Speech
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. Crash
After it’s all said and done the only ones that really get to me were the smaller unexpected ones. Kushner losing to Argo is madness IMO, and ZDT not winning screenplay or Editing.
Waltz winning again is so fricken boring I will forget about it by the time I wake up tomorrow.
I do luv you guys- not literally but you know what i mean:P it what brings me here year on year beyond disagreements it the other pple here and your public sentiment and feeling whether you agree with me or not that makes it most worth my while..all of you but forgive me with respect and certainly no offence to the newer members here…but ones that have been around since i have:
Daveinprogress, the lovely Antoinette, Paddy Mulholland, Daveylow,Zach M., CMG, JP your all the reasons i keep coming back for more mayhem…and i hope you in a crazy way graciously tolerate my cynicism and serious attitude dudes:P that i bring…everyone has a unique edge and it this diversity that i truly wish oscar would process more often than they do at present.
Oh wait. I wanna do that too.
1. THE RETURN OF THE KING
2. THE DEPARTED
3. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
4. THE HURT LOCKER
5. MILLION DOLLAR BABY
6. ARGO
7. THE KING’S SPEECH
8. THE ARTIST
9. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
10. CRASH
@ Elton
I dream this dream in 1999 with Fernanda Montenegro. But Riva-Montenegro-Liv Ullman belong to the ages. They are much bigger than the Oscars. They are actresses that I could say are Meryl Streep level. There’s not a single Academy Award winner with maybe the exception of Bette Davis and Kathrine Hepburn that I could say such a thing.
Regarding the most deserving films that won since 1999, I would point: (just my opinion)
– American Beauty (I like it better than the outstanding The Insider)
– Chicago (absolutely better than Gangs, The Hours and better than the mid of the LOTR trilogy and the also great The Pianist… Talk to Her was the best film of 2002)
– The Return of the King (the trilogy is for every history book about films that will be written until the end of times… there’s not a single film from that year that could capture it but one that was not nominated and that was City of God but which achievement doesn’t compare to the grandiosity of the trilogy )
– Slumdog Millionare (absolutely the best in its lineup. Could only face competition from The Dark Knight and WALL-E)
– The Hurt Locker
– The Artist (in a very weak lineup… could have been Hugo but much much better than anything else nominated that year).
– NCFOM is inferior to Fargo and I always thought it was just slightly inferior to There Will Be Blood but is also an amazing choice and a better film than 90% of the films that ever won BP.
– The Departed is inferior to The Queen and Letters From Iwo Jima and if we don’t consider the lineup, Pans Labyrinth, United 93, The Lives of Others and Children of Men are also better films. At least Little Miss Sunshine didn’t win (it was the SLP of that year).
I meant: In the realM of “we will never know”:
In the real of “we will never know”:
What if Affleck have gotten the director nomination?
Lawrence’s win is the biggest Oscar travesty in recent years. Chastain, Riva, Wallis and Watts are all better. Academy made history again!
She should thank Harvey for her award.
Thrilled for Jennifer Lawrence, Ang Lee, and Christoph Waltz. Extremely predictable Oscars, one of the most boring ever. They really need to cut out most/all of the technical categories and the stupid dance/song numbers (this isn’t the Grammys), so the show can be done in two hours. Not saying that the technical categories aren’t important, but let’s face it, they’ve moved all of the honorary awards to a separate non-televised ceremony, so why can’t they move the technical categories like Sound Mixing or Production Design to that ceremony as well?
Regarding Emmanuelle Riva – look, she won the BAFTA and the Cesar. That is impressive on its own. Her film is a French language performance, and the Oscars for acting are normally reserved for English language performances by Americans, Brits, and Aussies. There are exceptions like when Roberto Benigni and Marion Cotillard won, but those are extremely rare. Just like the Cesars honor French films and French language performances, and wouldn’t nominate Jennifer Lawrence or Jessica Chastain for their English language performances.
I would have liked to have seen Joaquin or Hugh win, but oh well. I knew it was never going to happen. Daniel Day-Lewis seems like the nicest, most humble guy, so no better actor to break the record.
One more thing that grated. Ang Lee has a directors Oscar for making a 3d movie, but not James Cameron, who broke so much ground in the use and viewing of 3D it registered an 8 on the Richter Scale for Avatar? Mmmmmmkay…
One more thing that grated. Ang Lee has a directors Oscar for making a 3d movie, but not James Cameron, who broke so much ground in the use and viewing of 3D it registered an 8 on the Richter Scale for Avatar? Mmmmmmkay…
The thing Ang Lee did different is make a 3D that had a beating heart. And a soul. And a script.
I do think there are some actresses that dig Lawrence’s performance or character. Not sure why. It isn’t too far the character sets women back like 30 years and is right there along with Bella?
I would think Maya would be a dream role for most women.
As much as I wanted Emmanuelle Riva or Jessica Chastain to win, I’m perfectly fine with Lawrence’s win. Even though her part in Silver Linings is poorly developed and a supporting character, she tackled the role with the energy and emotional honesty that she has demonstrated in all her performances thus far. She made Tiffany a more human character than she had any right to be, and for that alone her Oscar is arguably warranted by merit (or as a make-up win for “Winter’s Bone, cough cough).
What’s bothered me the most about the Best Actress conflicts on this site these past few weeks it that most of us have been projecting our own talking points onto the race. Arguments about an actor’s training, age, public personality, or approaches to acting have overwhelmed the only point one should ever consider when judging a film performance: the performance! Mudslinging and incessant hurling of pejoratives have replaced rational thinking and thoughtful discussions; up until recently, I’ve been guilty of this as well, but I was eventually able to step back and look at the performances without projecting my own junk onto them. Was Lawrence’s SNL monologue and BAFTA reaction shot in poor taste? Sure, but was her performance in Silver Linings good regardless? Yes. Do I think she deserved to win the Oscar over Emmanuelle Riva or Jessica Chastain? No. Can I acknowledge that there could be reasons voters would choose her over her competitors? Sure.
BUT what I want to get at with this point is that dismissing art doesn’t capitalize on the most valuable opportunity art affords us: thoughtful conversation.
Argo stinks!
Assuming their movies turn out awesome: How about this main 5 for 2014 eh?
Martin Scorsese – THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Joel & Ethan Cohen – INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIES
Alfonso Cuaron – GRAVITY
Ridley Scott – THE COUNSELOR
Steve McQueen – TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE
I can’t help but start dreaming early.
Eclipse22…lol i always appreciated much more so than oscar even those here over the years i been on the diverse mix of personalities and colour…that you bring and humour…i know it not a show of contempt always with every humorous comment to oscar attitude to us…but you have to admit..it hard to take a awards show that distributes awards the way they do with total lapses in logic year on year more often than not seriously right?
I will do that ranking thing too.
1. Return of the King
2. No Country For Old Men
3. Departed
4. Hurt Locker
5. The Artist
6. Million Dollar Baby
7. The King’s Speech
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. Argo
10. Crash
Holy toleido moses and shit that makes sense lol:P
What a oversight i had myself!
I was being ‘too kind’ to oscar
suggesting that Argo won the most awards as best picture should normally on the night well slap me sideways hows bout that people??:P:P
IT won less than life of pi
and even then that ang lee won smacks to me at least of screw spielberg (sadly) you had your due lets give it to the occassional now and then opo up director of somethign qite decent but not great in ang lee.
right this year gos in the alarmingly buildign scrap heap in the dump down the road- that is labelled ‘oscars’ failed best pic winners’ humph
So, I managed to correctly guess every single category save for Best Director (Spielberg was my first pick, Lee my second. Go figure). I’m not sure whether to feel accomplished or bored by how predictable this year turned out to be (like every year).
Either way, this year has certainly been a ride, everyone. Here’s to next years awards, may they be presented to the most deserving winners. Cheers.
Reading that list that included Gladiator made me reflect on something. Lee has been nominated 3 times, and the one I was most comfortable with winning was probably in 2000. Conversely, Spielberg has been nominated 4 times in the last 2 decades, and I think I am most comfortable with him winning this year given the competition. Of course they won in the other years. Weird how these things work out.
3 Oscars, 2 Golden Lions at Venice, 2 Golden Bears at Berlim, and I’m not counting the BAFTAS, the Golden Globes, etc.
Could Ang Lee be the director in all history of cinema best rewarded for his work? In terms of prestige an popularity of the honors, I guess so. This fact deserves a lot of discussion.
Worst Academy Awards in history. Seth and the show was an abomination. And not only did the best picture not win but best picture was presented by Empress Michelle…what the fuck was that all about? What the hell has she got to do with the film industry other than Hollywood sucks up to the Obamas in a way that is so disgusting that it makes one wretch.
good thing i read the comments
so gloating will get you banned okkkk
wellllllllllllllll i just came around to say congratulations to ARGO for all three of its oscars!!!
ben speech made me teary, and gahhh the suspense was terrible once lee won for best director and michelle obama came on to present best pic , i got flashback to clinton presenting lincoln at the globes!
adele singing skyfall was great!
and kudos to seth macfarlane i love his take on the ceremony , and he had me laughing a lot in his opening monologue!
bummer for phoenix but DDL was a worthy winner and got his 3rd oscar from a 3 times oscar winner her awesomeness meryl streep who can act in her sleep!
ok and until next year! no hard feelings…
ARGO ARGO ARGO!!!!!
so gloating will get you banned
this is nothing new.
it’s a night to celebrate the winners. not for mocking, or nyah nyah nyah, or toldja
too many people licking wounds and feeling low. it’s not cool to kick someone when he or she is down
no patience for anybody laughing in anybody else’s face
surely you guys can see that’s a not a bad policy.
“All the hard work, the interesting scenes, torture, hunt, and interrogation scenes were done by other male actors. She did sh!t.”
Somebody did not watch the film. She got sifted through the video to find the name, she was there with Dan and the detainees, she was in those interrogation rooms with a heavy, and she kept on pushing to follow the lead. She is a mid-level operative and a Western women in the Middle East. Of course there are limitations to her as a character but nothing that comes out of thin air.
I was secretly hoping for a Life of Pi upset.
JLaw is generally awesome! I haven’t seen SLP so I can’t talk about her role there. She was unbelievable in Winter’s Bone, and she carried Hunger Games very well.
The one that pissed me off the most was Deakins’s loss for Skyfall.
After watching the Academy Awards, this was probably the worst show ever. Seth McFarlene, was probably the worst oscar host ever presented the awards. Pretty disappointed in the winners and the Academy. They really picked the wrong winners. Argo? Argo was an average film, but not best picture. Lincoln or even Life of Pi should have won best picture. Obviously, this whole oscar and the whole academy members who voted for the winners of the show has joined the Grammy’s as a sell outs to mainstream. This was really a mainstream year, and mainstream is lame seriously. What the Academy needs to do is fire the producers and writers of the show and bring in a new set of people. I feel as if this show is getting worst and worst every year and seriously the show is going down the drain. It’s pretty sad because I’ve following the Academy Awards for the last 15 or 16 years and seriously I’ve never seen anything more dissatisfying then this show. If the Academy really wants to be “classy” then go back to having five nominees. The academy should really ignore what the critics say and what the numbers show (box office) and really be more available to movies. The academy also needs to set aside politics. I am not a political guy and I know politics is a everyday thing but seriously we need to get rid of lobbying all together whether it is in Hollywood or in Washington. It’s really killing everyone’s way of voting. Votes should be counted on how we feel inside about a film. Maybe some of the academy felt Argo was the best picture of the year but I know others thought that movies like Lincoln or Amour or even Beasts of the Southern Wild or Life of Pi, etc. was the best picture of the year too. I am really disappointed and sadden that this will be my last year following the Oscar telecast. I am over it now. I’ve really grown out of it and I am probably never going to follow it after this year until the Academy members, the awards show, and the nomination structure changes. Because it really sucked. Just saying…..
Just for give (myself) some perspective now that I’ve cooled off…ima rank the best pix winner of the last 10 years…(2004-2013)
1. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
2. THE DEPARTED
3. THE RETURN OF THE KING
4. MILLION DOLLAR BABY
5. THE HURT LOCKER
6. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
7. THE KING’S SPEECH
8. ARGO
9. THE ARTIST
10. CRASH
Not a bad year I guess…
I like to think that even though it’ll say Silver Linings Playbook in the record books, that millions of us who enjoyed Lawrence’s *other* triumph of acting last year will say that this Oscar was wholly unofficially for The Hunger Games as well.
WE DREAMED A DREAM that Riva could win. It’s the best performance. No one can compare 22-years-old Lawrence with iconic european actress Emanuelle Riva. I’ll just name the most famous Riva film in which she delivers a performance that is tremendously superior to Lawrence’s: Hiroshima, Mon Amour.
But it’s ok. Let’s not feed the hate in our hearts. It’s all a funny horse race. Let’s not hate Lawrence. Let’s judge the people who voted for her.
Sorry, I’m drunk.
Daniel Day Lewis won because he’s very respected. The most respected out of his category. I really hoped either Hugh Jackman or Joaquin Pheonix had won because their performances were better not to say DDL isn’t a legent and amazing actor but still… and Jennifer Lawrence winning made me really happy. She’s just amazing. Ang Lee totally deserved that win!
@Christophe
That’s your preference, not everyone thinks like that. Oscar, Cesar, Japanese Academy Prize and etc are all awards that recognize cinema. I’ll be happy if I was acknowledge with these awards. That’s just my preference.
You would think Affleck and Lawrence would have better speeches prepared. Affleck’s speech was 48 fps and the ‘serious’ part of the speech was immediately disarmed when he self-deprecatingly then talked about his wife. Yeah, talk about Iranians (a year after A Separation won Best Foreign Language Film). It came off as if he had to name-check them with the Canadians. Terrio did a much better job representing the film.
Lawrence was messy. Maybe the fall really put her off-kilter. But it seemed all over the place and she never seriously wrote a speech. Her GG speech was funny and her SAG seemed to tow the company line for Team Weinstein perfectly. It also seemed rushed and I never bought for a moment she cared about Emmanuelle Riva’s birthday.
Seeing FLOTUS made me think Argo all the way. Heslov, Affleck, and Clooney are heavy-rollers with Democratic candidates, especially the Obamas. Also the rumor on the street is that Joe Courtney is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to politicians Team Argo got to bad-mouth on Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty, and yes, Feinstein-Levin-McCain were implicated.
@ GIA
actually it’s the other way round, it is kind of irritating to see that Riva lost only because she is 85 and not glamorous as JLaw who would look pretty with that golden statuette in her hand more than Riva. No sane person can put JLaw over Riva’s performance.
p.s. i adore JLaw as an actress a lot but this just wasn’t her year.
On what planet did Jessica Chastain deserve the Oscar for that mediocre performance in Zero Dark Thirty? And don’t you dare defend it by saying it was a “quiet performance”. Sure it was. People get pissed off about Jennifer Lawrence winning because they call it a supporting role but Jessica also was a supporting role in ZDT. She was an accessory. All the hard work, the interesting scenes, torture, hunt, and interrogation scenes were done by other male actors. She did sh!t. At least Jennifer gave a more dramatic interesting and entertaining performance which is what movies and entertainment is about.
Someone said ‘all the precursors’
yea right.
Worth noting argo did not get the sag and a considerable no of other things it was tipped to win. It did not win editing and i do not give a shit what anyone says with respect about the ballot system bottom line is een if afleck won dga academy did not deem it worthy of a director nom. sequence of ballot theory or not…cos academy simply thought that argo had sufficvient recognition for the nominations it was originaly competing in.
3 academy awards = amongst the worst result for a so called ‘deserved’ best picture winner since Grand Hotel.
With a total complete and utter mismatch of an otherwise predictable oscar season (i half expected oscar to road run the ‘philosophy’ that spilebger had his due even if his film in direction and execution was far superior to any other contender this year!
I KNEW it was too good to be true from the outset when lincoln set the tone after zero dark thirty got smeared.
Where is the justice? Spielberg is far and away of the nominees a more consistently brilliant outstanding director in hollywood modern times than any other contender least of all Affleck and clooney.
And yet the most inspiring film BY FAR TO NONE the most significant in these times and the rarest of the specific style of perioud film the most solidly acted and recognized in nominations..and of course shock horror oscar only want to disgrace themselves before the public, they do not want to utterly humiliate themselves by having best picture win less awards than the runner 8up.
The extent of the ‘even split’ for the sake of ‘even split’ on balance therefore is unjust it rates now Lincoln as spielbergs unjustified unfporgiveable second worst snub following color purple- thank goodness oscar embraced day lewis’ incredible performance
Argo will be forgotten very quickly you will see and in the test of time critics and what have you will measure other biopics of american presidents agains the power and compelling truth of spielberg’s film in lincoln.
It beggars belief that tommy lee jones who swept everyone before them with the guilds etc did not win supporting actor.
And i cannot believe such a piss weak score from Argo won.
What were the academy thinking?
And giving the supporting actor oscar omfg! to anyone other than tommy lee jones is a fricking huge joke!
But not half as big as the disgrace that is oscar this year.
They have confirmed their obsession beyond the point of validation that they go for likeability over the best of the best.
After Return of the King won and shortly after that the departed i dared to have hope..but tha all but dashed.
History will judge that unless in ensuring years for multiple years to coem to offset the ridiculous ludicrous snubs with no dark knight, no saving private ryan, backs turned despite some noms in the end to the very underrated ‘Munich’ , no avatar, no aviator oscar wins or noms whichever way you look at it- and no dark knight rises, that oscar simply screwed the public over big time. The decade of missed opportunities..the decade they have turned their backs with utmost contempt on the public. On the movie going community who ensure hollywood’s survival fro one era to the next..the public have been the mainstay,
History records that no single arts insitution especially last forever..yes all good things sometimes great come to a end but oh how the mighty have fallen. What was once an impregnable fortress projecting respect and proclaiming dignity and harmony between that of critics, innovation and public buzz is reduced to utter shattered rubble.
From 1998 to 2012, as irrefutable FACT only at BEST 5/14 were deserved oscar winners i guarantee even if you do not agree with the films i outlined as ones which were unfazirly snubbed since the turn of the century , the new millenia, you yourself wil find no mor realistically than 5 winners in 14 years of oscar were deserved winners.
IF this artistic instution fails- and you can be sure that the corporations or whoever they are that bankroll the academy will prop it of life support in years to come…i not saying it will cease to exist but it simpl sad the public treat this with contempt. While many comments were positive ,…majority of you have all but given up0 taking this shit seriously..i note the increasing amount fo discontent in these forums and others year on year……oscar ratings= financial success yet one would be forgiven for thinking that would not be the case when you consider there bizarre nonsensical total utter lapses of logic in the grand scheme of things as to the very restricted extenet the best of the best film won in the year.
The ones that come to mind for me therefore that were deserved oscar winners are:
– American Beauty (1999) (taking into account ‘Three Kings’ was snubbed unfairly)
– Gladiator (2000)
– The Lord of the Rings the Return of the King (2003)
– The Departed(2005?)
– The Hurt Locker (REally i was for Avatar and more so in hindsight, but i concede it was a momnentous occassion and it was never lost of me the extent of conviction and daring abd the passion with which bigelow undertook the task. of a film that i hope more female directors take the que to see that directors= not just a mans world..but i still really feel for avatat but it was a brilliant film and deserving all things considered more thuis 5t6h one an act of forgiverness of my part to the oscar… so let look to best year inevitable disappointment ey?
Oh wait did i mention the ‘dark knight rises’ snub? utter blatant ignorance..oscar in the eyes of the public your on borrowed time i hop-e it gets failed ratings..i really do they do not deservbe high ones for the crap they serve up.
I will say, if I were a big Lawrence fan, I’d be upset she won for this. She was better in Winter’s Bone. This seems like an afterthought kind of award. I mean an Oscar is an Oscar, but eh. Just silly the whole thing is.
Is it the greatness of Daniel Day Lewis or the greatness of Steven Spielberg that Daniel Day Lewis won his third Oscar? first ever an acting performance win directed by Spielberg.
Bet you Jennifer Lawrence will be noinated AGAIN next year.
@James enough with the sexist BS. Jennifer Lawrence didn’t win because she played a “sexy” role. There were a lot of actresses that openly spoke about wanting her to win such as Marion Cotillard, Emma Stone, Selena Gomez, Sally Field, etc. The thing is, Jennifer Lawrence is very well liked within the industry and people. The Oscars isn’t just about performacne but also respect and popularity.
i was also kind of pissed seeing DDL win, this year he shouldn’t have.
^ Yeah, Elton, that baffled me. Lincoln’s production design was nomination-worthy, but what was Anna Karenina if not a film that paid tribute to an imaginative set, even at its own expense, at times.
Have to say, I’m overall very pleased with the winners. Still beaming for Ang Lee, who directed the shit outta Life of Pi. Love Affleck the more I hear him talk.
Not too many big issues: the tie for sound editing was surprising, but kind of a pleasant one. Only (sorta) major issue I had was BRAVE winning Animated Film. Just. . .no.
Ryan Adams I liked your comment regarding the bad-mouthing of Oscar losers. Personally I have always thought that should a film or any aspect of the film be honored with a nomination, well that is outstanding art/craft and should be respected. This is not a blood sport, it is recognition for work well done.
AMPAS destroyed itself today with the Obama call. Politics involved all over.
Wow at the hate for Jennifer Lawrence. People only wanted Emanuelle Riva to win because she’s old and that’s not fair. All 5 performances were amazing and no one no matter what will agree with performance deserved it. Jennifer won the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and so of course she was going to win an Oscar. People in the industry voted for her. Not her fans. Not her Hunger Games fans. Not her friends. Not her. Please get over yoruselves.
What most upsets me: LINCOLN WINNING PRODUCTION DESIGN OVER ANNA KARENINA! No one, not even the most freak Lincoln fans can say that Lincoln’s art direction is better than Anna Karenina’s. PERIOD.
Who says sex doesn’t sell? Gotta love them horny voters. Nah, but really this is not the performance I wanted her to win for. Obviously I’m not a fan of the film, but even still she’s a good actress, but come on. She needed a role in where she was the actual lead. One that exists within her own world and not simply for the male character. One where the role isn’t so confusingly written. The standing ovation was a bit much. I’m not sure if that was simply for leading performances or because they literally thought they witnessed one of all the time great performances.
Lawrence has an oscar before Chastian. That sounds weird. Chastian’s character should have said she likes to have sex with co workers. That might have helped, but remember you can’t be too sexual. You need an extra psychological reasoning like you’re depressed. That way she can come off sexually confident by saying things like “I’m sloppy and I like that part of myself” even if her actions give off the impression that she is simply used by half of the town. She’s always too close to saying……..
“They don’t use me! I use them! I’m sexually confident, open, and alive.”
5 mins later
“All people do is use me. I never get anything out of return.”
Narrator if there was one: And so Pat is finally happy and Tiffany is…..well…she has a boyfriend….but she was depressed even before Tommy died…..so getting a boyfriend wouldn’t really help her problems at all. Okay so her arc is small, but she did get a boyfriend. So……..yea.
The Cabaret version of Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson (RIP) is so much better than the film version. How did Joel Grey win an Oscar for the Emcee, is beyond me, but if Alan were to do it, then very well deserved would his Oscar be.
load of crap these oscars!!
when they were showing the excerpts for best actress i don’t know if anyone could reason out why JLaw deserved it, what did voters do, sit through Amour and ZD30 with their eyes shut? it’s a travesty Riva or Chastain lost.
the biggest laugh out loud moment was when QT won original screenplay for genuine les miserable DJANGO UNCHAINED. The most hideous movie of the year winning screenplay, i mean were the voters students of junior high?
No big surprises, except for maybe the tie for Sound Editing.
I predicted Lincoln for Art Direction and Ang Lee for Director! wOOOO
Kstew slouching and burp-sighing + JLaw tripping and coughing = Money can’t buy you class!
Today’s Hollywood starlets are so ridiculous compared to the ingenues of yesterday. Not even their publicists, designers, hairstylists… can give them any semblance of charm.
And sorry, but I seriously doubt a ban hammer would face anybody who came at me if Lawrence lost, because all you’re doing is insulting PaulH, and he deserves whatever he gets.
Oh MObama is not just the first lady for half of the US she is the first lady for ALL of the US. So get the fuck over it! And get used to it because Hillary is running in 2016 and republicans are scared, as well they should.
Yes, should not bash the people who did not win. Even being nominated in Oscar is an honor already. Be gracious for those who did not win but still bring us some great cinematic experiences this year.
I was going through the list Best Picture/Director splits and with the possible exception of THE GODFATHER vs. CABARET, the movies with Best Director win have a better reputation than the Best Picture winner.
And CABARET is considered only slightly less good than THE GODFATHER.
Some examples:
CHARIOTS OF FIRE VS REDS
CRASH VS BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE VS SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
GLADIATOR VS TRAFFIC
CHICAGO VS THE PIANIST
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT VS THE GRADUATE
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS VS GIANT
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH VS THE QUIET MAN
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS VS A PLACE IN THE SUN
HAMLET VS THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
REBECCA VS THE GRAPES OF WRATH
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA VS THE AWFUL TRUTH
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD VS MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY VS THE INFORMER
I just thought about another exception GRAND HOTEL vs BAD GIRL
The worst win of the night is BY FAR Brave in Animated Feature. I’m one of the biggest Pixar fans but it’s a clear fact that the studio has to do much less than the others to win. Unless your name is Cars or competing against a worldwide phenomenon like Shrek, it’s a done deal.
Brave is a good film. But it’s not even better than The Princess and the Frog and Tangled.
Other impressions for the evening: Glad Zero Dark Thirty got snuffed. I always thought that movie was an attempt to game the awards system. Maybe I’m right. Maybe I’m wrong. Doesn’t matter now.
Of course Argo won. People were worried about SLP, a film I loved, but there was no way that film was going to win. It’s too much of an oddity. And Argo has Hollywood saving the day as a bonus.
I knew there would be the usual Jennifer Lawrence haters. People have been flailing around for someone to beat her for weeks. It’s all over but the griping. She deserved it. And she will probably be back next year for Serena. Plus she is going to be the highest paid actress in Hollywood. The bile next year will be even better.
Not surprised Spielberg didn’t win director. That movie was about DDL. At least that’s what I thought.
Akarari says: “Don’t worry about Emmanuelle, at least she won a Cesar (French Oscar) and the Oscar is an American Award.”
Well, that’s the whole point. NOBODY CARES ABOUT CESARS! Not even the French! This morning they’re talking extensively about the Oscars and Riva’s loss on the news, but there wasn’t that much coverage when she won a Cesar two days ago.
I personnally would hate to win a Cesar and no Oscar, but then again I’d rather work for Hollywood than French cinema so I guess I’d never be eligible for a Cesar anyway, which is a huge relief!