OSCARS - 2013

[RobertR]

Nominations are out today. A couple of inclusions and exclusions that are a little surprising, but nothing really shocking. It's a pretty safe group of nominations all things considered.

 

Surprisingly, Best Documentary and Best Foreign Language Films seem pretty reasonable this year.

 

BEST PICTURE

 

“12 Years a Slave”

“American Hustle”

“Captain Phillips”

“Dallas Buyers Club”

“Gravity”

“Her”

“Nebraska”

“Philomena”

“The Wolf of Wall Street”

 

BEST DIRECTOR

 

David O. Russell, “American Hustle”

Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”

Alexander Payne, “Nebraska”

Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”

Martin Scorsese, “The Wolf of Wall Street”

 

BEST ACTOR

 

Christian Bale, “American Hustle”

Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”

Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”

Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”

Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”

 

BEST ACTRESS

 

Amy Adams, “American Hustle”

Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”

Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”

Judi Dench, “Philomena”

Meryl Streep, “August: Osage County”

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

 

“American Hustle” – Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell

“Blue Jasmine” – Written by Woody Allen

“Her” – Written by Spike Jonze

“Nebraska” – Written by Bob Nelson

“Dallas Buyers Club” – Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack

 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

 

“Before Midnight” – Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke

“Captain Phillips” – Screenplay by Billy Ray

“Philomena” – Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

“12 Years a Slave” – Screenplay by John Ridley

“The Wolf of Wall Street” – Screenplay by Terence Winter

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”

Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”

June Squibb, “Nebraska”

Julia Roberts, “August: Osage County”

Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine”

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips”

Bradley Cooper, “American Hustle”

Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave”

Jonah Hill, “The Wolf of Wall Street”

Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”

 

BEST ANIMATED FILM

 

“The Croods”

“Despicable Me 2”

“Ernest & Celestine”

“Frozen”

“The Wind Rises”

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

“The Grandmaster”

“Gravity”

“Inside Llewyn Davis”

“Nebraska”

“Prisoners”

 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

 

Michael Wilkinson, “American Hustle”

William Chang Suk Ping, “The Grandmaster”

Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby”

Michael O’Connor, “The Invisible Woman”

Patricia Norris, “12 Years a Slave”

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

 

“The Act of Killing”Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen

“Cutie and the Boxer” Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher

“Dirty Wars” Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill

“The Square” Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer

“20 Feet from Stardom” Nominees to be determined

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

 

“CaveDigger” Jeffrey Karoff

“Facing Fear” Jason Cohen

“Karama Has No Walls” Sara Ishaq

“The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed

“Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall” Edgar Barens

 

BEST FILM EDITING

 

“American Hustle” Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten

“Captain Phillips” Christopher Rouse

“Dallas Buyers Club” John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa

“Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger

“12 Years a Slave” Joe Walker

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

 

“The Broken Circle Breakdown” Belgium

“The Great Beauty” Italy

“The Hunt” Denmark

“The Missing Picture” Cambodia

“Omar” Palestine

 

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

 

“Dallas Buyers Club” Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews

“Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” Stephen Prouty

“The Lone Ranger” Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

 

John Williams, “The Book Thief”

Steven Price, “Gravity”

William Butler and Owen Pallett, “Her”

Alexandre Desplat, “Philomena”

Thomas Newman, “Saving Mr. Banks”

 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

 

“Alone Yet Not Alone” from “Alone Yet Not Alone”

Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel

 

“Happy” from “Despicable Me 2”

Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams

 

“Let It Go” from “Frozen”

Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

 

“The Moon Song” from “Her”

Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze

 

“Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”

Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson

 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

 

“American Hustle”

Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler

 

“Gravity”

Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard

 

“The Great Gatsby”

Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn

 

“Her”

Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena

 

“12 Years a Slave”

Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker

 

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

 

“Feral” Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden

“Get a Horse!” Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim

“Mr. Hublot” Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares

“Possessions” Shuhei Morita

“Room on the Broom” Max Lang and Jan Lachauer

 

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

 

“Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)” Esteban Crespo

“Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)” Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras

“Helium” Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson

“Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)” Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari

“The Voorman Problem” Mark Gill and Baldwin Li

 

BEST SOUND EDITING

 

“All Is Lost” Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns

“Captain Phillips” Oliver Tarney

“Gravity” Glenn Freemantle

“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Brent Burge

“Lone Survivor” Wylie Stateman

 

BEST SOUND MIXING

 

“Captain Phillips” Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro

“Gravity” Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro

“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson

“Inside Llewyn Davis” Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

“Lone Survivor” Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow

 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

 

“Gravity” Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould

“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds

“Iron Man 3” Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick

“The Lone Ranger” Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier

“Star Trek Into Darkness” Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton

[RobertR]

Prediction Time, although I'm not nearly as confident this year as I am in some previous years.

 

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave

 

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Amy Adams (American Hustle) (I think the Woody Allen scandal will keep Blanchett off the podium)

 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

 

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

 

Best Animated Feature

Frozen

 

Best Cinematography

Gravity

 

Best Costume Design

American Hustle

 

Best Directing

Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)

 

Best Documentary Feature

The Act of Killing

 

Best Film Editing

Captain Phillips (I think it's too well liked not to win anything.)

 

Best Foreign Language Film

The Broken Circle Breakdown

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Dallas Buyers Club

 

Best Original Score

Gravity

 

Best Original Song

Let It Go (Frozen)

 

Best Production Design

The Great Gatsby

 

Best Visual Effects

Gravity

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

12 Years a Slave

 

Best Original Screenplay

American Hustle

 

Best Documentary Short Subject

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

 

Best Live Action Short Film

Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)

 

Best Animated Short Film

Get a Horse!

[homer]

Jeremy Scahill is from Wauwatosa.

 

Robert - we've resurrected the DVD thread. Hope you can add to it.

[RobertR]

 

Robert - we've resurrected the DVD thread. Hope you can add to it.

 

Noted.

[RobDeer 45]

Homer, where is the DVD thread??? Probably right in front of my face but I couldn't find it.

[jjkoestler]

Homer, where is the DVD thread??? Probably right in front of my face but I couldn't find it.

 

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[RobertR]

I was guilty of overthinking things this year. Especially in Editing and Best Actress where I should have just went with the front runners.

 

I suspect that American Hustle wasn't all that close to winning Best Picture the way things played out. When it didn't win Costume, Original Screenplay, or any acting awards you knew it was a two horse race. I couldn't see Best Picture being the only award it would win.

 

Ellen was more cute than funny. The idea of a group selfie at the Oscars reads well on paper, but there was no punchline to it. I guess ordering pizza was amusing and makes the crowd more human, but again no real punchline to it.

 

Bill Murray may have had the only truly genuine moment of the night. Not surprisingly.

[bjkrautk]

Ellen was more cute than funny. The idea of a group selfie at the Oscars reads well on paper, but there was no punchline to it. I guess ordering pizza was amusing and makes the crowd more human, but again no real punchline to it.

 

I'm assuming the punch came in the number of zeroes after the number on the check from Samsung (who advertised heavily during the awards, and who I assumed paid for the extreme product placement).

[pitchleague]

I had a co-worker go 20-for-24 on her Oscar pool entry. That's amazing. I hit 15 correct and thought I was doing really well.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

John Axford went 18 for 18 on his picks. There is an article on ESPN about it. I don't know how to link it from my phone

[FVBrewerFan]

Just my opinion, but I think this year's Oscars just proved what a poor year it was. Captain Phillips was picture of the year from the ones I've seen. I thought 12 Years a Slave and The Wolf of Wall Street were good movies, not great. American Hustle and Gravity were ok- that's it. (Gravity's visuals were stunning, deserved the technical awards.) Haven't seen the others.

[TheEndless7]

Just my opinion, but I think this year's Oscars just proved what a poor year it was. Captain Phillips was picture of the year from the ones I've seen. I thought 12 Years a Slave and The Wolf of Wall Street were good movies, not great. American Hustle and Gravity were ok- that's it. (Gravity's visuals were stunning, deserved the technical awards.) Haven't seen the others.

 

I'd have to agree. I saw everything but Nebraska and Philomena and thought that most of them were good but not great. Honestly, I feel the best movies I saw all year were Frozen, Rush, and The Wind Rises, and I felt that those (especially Frozen and The Wind Rises) were heads and shoulders above the rest. But hey, there's probably a reason I don't review movies for a living!

[RobertR]

I thought it was a very fine year for independent movies and documentaries, but would agree that the big studio pictures were lacking. I did thoroughly appreciate Gravity, Captain Phillips, and 12 Years a Slave though.

[molitor fan]

Did you see Her? Best movie in my opinion for the year by a fair piece

[chadomac]

Her was one of my favorite films of the past few years. I was surprised Jacquin Phoenix wasn't nomincated for best actor. Loved that movie.

[CheeseheadInQC]

While there is no perfect film in the bunch, as a whole I thought this was an above average year, especially for acting. Sure, American Hustle got massively overrated given the storytelling problems and pacing issues that led it to add up to much less than the sum of its parts (problems shared by Wolf of Wall Street). Both could at least be enjoyed as acting showcases, though. And I'd argue the quintet of Her, Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips and Nebraska could match up against the top five nominees from any of the past few years.

 

Personally, I ended up rooting for nominees from seven different films in the "top eight" categories (picture-Her, director-Cuaron, actor-McConaughey, actress-Adams, sup. actor-Abdi, sup. actress-Nyong'o, screenplay-Her and Before Midnight).