The 89th Academy Awards (2017) Movie • Page 12

I enjoyed hacksaw but it would be near the bottom for me out of the 9. Moonlight is easily the best of the choices with Manchester behind that.

 

Let it be known though that if the Academy didn't mess up so bad and overlook Nice Guys, it should win Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Editing

 

Moonlight is such a good watch, but man is it a depressing movie and I don't see it getting may re watches because of it. Don't you think Best Pic can stand up to multiple viewings?

And this is random, but if there were a category for best Movie Poster I think Moonlight should win.

 

How would you all rank the BP nominees from what you've seen?

La La Land
Moonlight
Hacksaw Ridge
Fences
Lion
Hell or High Water
Arrival
Hidden Figures
Manchester by the Sea

 

Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or Highwater
Fences
La La Land
Hidden Figures
Moonlight
Manchester by the Sea
Lion
Arrival

 

If I could name the best of the year (limited, of course, to what I've seen)

Animated Feature
Moana

Score
Swiss Army Man
Moonlight
Jackie

Cinematography
Moonlight
The Love Witch
Silence
Certain Women

Editing
The Handmaiden

Screenplay
Moonlight
Manchester by the Sea
The Nice Guys
Certain Women
20th Century Women
Everybody Wants Some!!

Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Daniel Radcliffe, Swiss Army Man
Jared Harris, Certain Women
Issey Otega, Silence
Ralph Fiennes, A Bigger Splash

Supporting Actress
Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women
Kristen Stewart, Certain Women
Lily Gardner, Certain Women
Michelle Williams, Certain Women/Manchester by the Sea
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Kathryn Hahn, Bad Moms

Lead Actor
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Colin Farrell, the Lobster
Ryan Gosling, the Nice Guys
Alex Hibbert/Ashton Sanders/Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight
Adam Driver, Paterson

Lead Actress
Annette Benning, 20th Century Women
Hailee Steinfeld, the Edge of Seventeen
Sally Field, Hello, My Name is Doris
Tae Ri Kim, the Handmaiden

Director
Martin Scorsese, Silence
Kelly Reichardt, Certian Women
Jim Jarmusch, Paterson
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Robert Eggers, the Witch

Picture
Moonlight
Manchester by the Sea
Certain Women
Silence
Paterson
The Lobster
20th Century Women
The Nice Guys
The Handmaiden
Swiss Army Man
Everybody Wants Some!!
The Witch

 

BP nominees ranked

Moonlight
Manchester by the Sea
-considerable gap-
the others
-considerable gap-
Hacksaw Ridge

 

if Denzel wins the Oscar I'm taking credit for posting in here that he had a chance when others shot me down!!!

I kid, I kid this is all in good fun in discussing the semi-meaningless statues given to millionaires. Was very happy to see Denzel win the SAG though. I literally jumped out of bed. Real interesting shakeup tho

 

Yikes. You talk like all these movies aren't awesome.

 

Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea are remarkable. The others have merits, I like most of them fine enough, but wouldn't call them the best in the year in film. Even though I like them all well enough. Except Hacksaw Ridge, which does some things well but as a whole doesn't examine itself to the extent it could have that might have made it a standout.

 

In no way should that be a determining factor

 

I posted this a couple pages back, but these are my Personal Preferred Picks from the Nominees (Actual Picks on Oscar Sunday)

Best Picture: Moonlight
Best Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Best Actor: Denzel Washington, Fences
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Fences
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Best Original Screenplay: Manchester By The Sea
Best Adapted Screenplay: Moonlight
Best Animated Feature: Kubo & The Two Strings
Best Cinematography: Silence
Best Documentary Feature: 13th
Best Foreign Language Film: Toni Erdmann
Best Film Editing: Moonlight
Best Sound Editing: Arrival
Best Sound Mixing: Arrival
Best Visual Effects: Doctor Strange
Best Costume Design: Jackie
Best Makeup & Hairstyling: Star Trek Beyond
Best Original Score: Moonlight
Best Original Song: "How Far I'll Go," Moana
Best Production Design: Hail, Caesar!

Haven't all or even most of the shorts yet, so I don't have preferences yet regarding those. I liked Piper before Finding Dory, though.

BP Nominees Ranked:

Moonlight
Manchester By The Sea
Arrival
Hell or High Water
Fences
Lion
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Hacksaw Ridge

 

No love for The Lobster here?

 

Best Effects over Jungle Book? That is ground breaking though. I'd love for another comic book win though.....

And I'll say again that what they did with Killer Croc should give SS the win for makeup, no matter how you feel about the actual movie.

 

I feel so stupid, how could I have forgotten Allison Ng.

 

Truthfully I did all those picks without too much thought, and started out trying to just name one for each, then that was too hard, so I listed more, but didn't want to list too many, so I arbitrarily left a few off in deserving categories and likely forgot a few.

 

It would be hilarious if the person who wrote "DAMAGED" on Jared Leto's forehead won an Oscar

 

I think that the visuals in The Jungle Book were incredible, but I'm always biased toward integration of CGI and practical effects. Plus I'd love for Marvel to win an Oscar, especially for Doctor Strange, which just had such excellent effects in general. Very unique.

I just think Star Trek Beyond is a better film and don't want Suicide Squad to win, honestly. Plus I don't think the person who gave Jared Leto those idiotic tattoos should be rewarded for it.

 

Well I don't know if the same make up person did everyone in the movie, but if they did then yeah they deserve it because everyone else looked great.....

 

I figured. I just saw you enjoyed The Lobster (at least more than a lot of other people I've seen on here) so I figured you would've shouted out the screenplay.

 

Suicide Squad is a horrible movie and doesn't deserve any Oscars

 

Star Trek was pretty boring, but yep better than SS. You're honestly against hating SS is funny, but that artist was just doing what they were told to do lol.

 

Oh ok.

 

Unless you think bad movies should win awards. But I get it, the makeup people did what they were told and largely did a pretty good job, even if the designs were fucking atrocious. Regardless, the Oscars are supposed to represent the best in film, in which case, I don't think there's any defense of Suicide Squad winning anything.

Unless your defense is "bad movies win Oscars all the time", which is true and there's not much of an argument against that.

 

I just didn't like it and didn't think it was particularly well-made at all. It had some flashy makeup for sure but the Joker is unforgivable, in my opinion.