The 89th Academy Awards (2017) Movie • Page 13

Well I don't think bad movies win Oscars at all, I'm not as picky as a lot of the film people on here. I'm aware how much goes into a movie and appreciate all the hard work for our entertainment.

But back to topic, no I don't care how bad the movie is. It is an award for Makeup so that's all I'd judge it on and I'm happy people who can separate the two are the ones in charge of making the call.

 

Being a DC fan boy, I liked it enough in theaters. My wife wanted to see it this weekend so I re watched it with her and man, I should have left it in my memories. The terrible story telling and plot stands out so much more on re watches, I as shaking my head the whole time pretty much lol. The characters and designs were well done enough for me to want to see a sequel and where they go though, esp with Ayer saying he learnt his lesson (Even though I think a lot of what is wrong was out of his control).

 

Bad movies win Oscars. I'm not about to tell you what to like or dislike, but I'd encourage you to decide for yourself the quality of a work, rather than accept at face value the "Oscar" tag.

 

I mean, if anyone says Oscar winning Suicide Squad, no one is going to think it won for anything other than design or effects so it doesn't bother me. The people who really care about the Oscars have already seen the movies nominated and already have their opinion. I love the award talk as a movie fan, but I know its doesn't really mean much for a movie's quality (see Nice Guys and Midnight Special being left out) and it's just Hollywood patting itself on its back

 

Manchester is particularly remarkable, but the subject matter of Moonlight makes it more important in today's environment.

What movies would you place within that first gap below Manchester?

 

Out of all the movies I saw this year?

Certain Women
The Handmaiden
Paterson
Silence
The Lobster
20th Century Women
Swiss Army Man
Everybody Wants Some!!
The Nice Guys
The Witch
Hail, Caesar!
A Bigger Splash
The Edge of Seventeen
The Love Witch
Green Room
The Alchemist Cookbook
Sing Street

Not in any particular order. And there are still a few I need to see.

 

Saw I Am Not Your Negro tonight, it was pretty fantastic. Would love to see it win, though 13th and O.J. are also both very good.

 

I'm hoping Negro pops up near me soon, I'd love to check that out. O.J. is fantastic so far - I'm about halfway through the third part.

 

Never forget that Norbit is an Oscar-nominated film.

 

Agreed that all are great choices but I'm pulling for 13th both because of the message it is sending and because it would be a historic win for DuVernay to take it.

 

I think I Am Not Your Negro is better than 13th but yeah DuVernay is brilliant and 13th is great so I'm not riled up about it or anything. She deserved Oscars for Selma where she wasn't even nominated so I would be happy for her win.

I'd guess O.J. wins it though.

 

For OJ to qualify, I heard it was shown in theaters for a few weeks and shown without interruption. That's dedication for anyone who watched the whole thing in one sitting.

 

Isabelle Huppert over everything

Elle over everything

Verhoeven over everything

 

Literally grinding my teeth waiting for that damn movie to come out on DVD.

 

The Directors Guild gave even more awards to La La Land and Game Of Thrones

That's about that for the race this year, most likely. Since 1950, when the DGA switched to awarding films from the calendar year, the DGA winner has gone on to win Best Director in all but seven years:

1968: DGA - Anthony Harvey, The Lion In Winter/Oscar - Carol Reed, Oliver!
1972: DGA - Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather/Oscar - Bob Fosse, Cabaret
1985: DGA - Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple/Oscar - Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa (Spielberg not nominated)
1995: DGA - Ron Howard, Apollo 13/Oscar - Mel Gibson, Braveheart (Howard not nominated)
2000: DGA - Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/Oscar - Steven Soderbergh, Traffic
2002: DGA - Rob Marshall, Chicago/Oscar - Roman Polanski (ugh), The Pianist
2012: DGA - Ben Affleck, Argo/Oscar - Ang Lee, Life of Pi (Affleck not nominated)

Unless they split Best Picture and give it to Moonlight (unlikely), we're looking at likely La La Land wins. I still think Moonlight has an outside chance at Best Director, but that hope got a lot dimmer.

 

Pats/Falcons all over again :(

 

:(

 

I could see Chazelle getting Best Director and Moonlight or MBTS (more likely the former) getting Best Picture. Is that super unlikely?

 

I think the reverse is far, far more likely even spite of the DGA award. I think Jenkins could still win Best Director but there's nothing that's going to stop La La Land from winning Best Picture at this point.

 

Hashtag everything so white

 

Coppola didn't win for Godfather?

 

No, he won in '74 for The Godfather Part II.

 

Glad to see that, good for Hidden Figures.

 

Today I felt a little sad inside...