2018 Oscars

I did not think Baby Driver was all that to be honest. Blade Runner made sense in all the categories it was nominated in, as did Dunkirk..but Star Wars did not make sense at all.

Coco wins animated is the surest thing on that list.

Best pic I think it is between darkest hour, Dunkirk, and shape of water.

Three Billboards is such an 'Oscar movie'. The only way it could be more appealing to the Academy is if it starred Meryl Streep

Hoping Gary Oldman finally gets his Oscar. Haven't really seen any of the nominated movies though.

Lendarios said:

I personally didn't like Dunkirk, at all,

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Kind of agree, it was made out to be something great but it just seemed average to me. I still want to see Darkest Hour though. Haven't seen anything else on the list.

I saw most of them thanks to moviepass and they are all just like regular oscar movies - a bunch of meh shit that no one will talk about in 5 years, except maybe Get Out and Shape of Water.

Logan and Bladerunner 2049 got robbed but not really surprising, the Oscars are mostly about telling the world how progressive Hollywood is so gotta put up stuff this year that features women to balance out all the raping that Hollywood actors have done

Here's the technical ones, which I like to follow more then the actor ones

Film Editing:

“Baby Driver,” Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss
“Dunkirk,” Lee Smith
“I, Tonya,” Tatiana S. Riegel
“The Shape of Water,” Sidney Wolinsky
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Jon Gregory

Sound Editing:

“Baby Driver,” Julian Slater
“Blade Runner 2049,” Mark Mangini, Theo Green
“Dunkirk,” Alex Gibson, Richard King
“The Shape of Water,” Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Ren Klyce, Matthew Wood

Sound Mixing:

“Baby Driver,” Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin
“Blade Runner 2049,” Mac Ruth, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hephill
“Dunkirk,” Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo
“The Shape of Water,” Glen Gauthier, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Stuart Wilson, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick

Production Design:

“Beauty and the Beast,” Sarah Greenwood; Katie Spencer
“Blade Runner 2049,” Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
“Darkest Hour,” Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
“Dunkirk,” Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
“The Shape of Water,” Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau

Original Score:

“Dunkirk,” Hans Zimmer
“Phantom Thread,” Jonny Greenwood
“The Shape of Water,” Alexandre Desplat
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” John Williams
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Carter Burwell

Original Song:

“Mighty River” from “Mudbound,” Mary J. Blige
“Mystery of Love” from “Call Me by Your Name,” Sufjan Stevens
“Remember Me” from “Coco,” Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
“Stand Up for Something” from “Marshall,” Diane Warren, Common
“This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman,” Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

Makeup and Hair:

“Darkest Hour,” Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick
“Victoria and Abdul,” Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
“Wonder,” Arjen Tuiten

Costume Design:

“Beauty and the Beast,” Jacqueline Durran
“Darkest Hour,” Jacqueline Durran
“Phantom Thread,” Mark Bridges
“The Shape of Water,” Luis Sequeira
“Victoria and Abdul,” Consolata Boyle

Visual Effects:

“Blade Runner 2049,” John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, Dan Sudick
“Kong: Skull Island,” Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Mike Meinardus
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Chris Corbould, Neal Scanlan
“War for the Planet of the Apes,” Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Joel Whist


Sorta bothers me that the perfect squeal ever came out and got no love outside the technical categories. Oh well people will remember BR2049 in a couple of decades, who the fuck will remember Lady Bird or Three Billboards

Was Get Out really all that good compared to the others?

spronk said:

Logan and Bladerunner 2049 got robbed but not really surprising, the Oscars are mostly about telling the world how progressive Hollywood is so gotta put up stuff this year that features women to balance out all the raping that Hollywood actors have done

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It's the same story every year; genre films have a hard time breaking through in the major categories. The average age of an academy voter is 63. How many of them would you guess even watched something like Logan much less would have enjoyed it enough to consider it for Best Picture?

Zindan said:

Was Get Out really all that good compared to the others?

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They threw it into Best Pic for progressive feel's but it probably does deserve Original Screenplay

For documentaries, Last Men in Aleppo is fucking fantastic.

No Oscar for best rape?

Derkon said:

Hoping Gary Oldman finally gets his Oscar. Haven't really seen any of the nominated movies though.

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He won the Golden Globe I believe. Seems to be the favorite, although with DDL announcing he's retiring from acting he might get push for one final Best Actor.

ohkcrlho said:

No Oscar for best rape?

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Should have some lifetime awards for Spacey and Weinstein.