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Oscar Game Thread

Tarantino Vs. Cameron • Game Time is 5:30 on ABC

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Salma and I will be watching at home, IMDB has results posted - In the comments here, post your PREGAME PICKS from this Linked Ballot if you are into it.

Poll
Who would you prefer direct a biographical movie about you?
James Cameron
21 votes
Rex Hudler
87 votes
Tyler Perry
6 votes
Quentin Tarantino
91 votes

205 votes | Poll has closed

0 recs  |  73 comments

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PREGAME PICKS

FROM THIS LINK
PICTURE: Inglorious Basterds
ACTOR: Morgan Freeman
ACTRESS: Meryl Streep
Sup ACTOR: Christoph Waltz
Sup ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz
DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino
SCREENPLAY: Inglorious Basterds
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Avatar
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hurt Locker
EDITING: Avatar
ART DIRECTION: Sherlock Holmes
COSTUME DESIGN: Coco avat Chanel
MAKEUP: Star Trek
MUSIC: Avatar
SONG: Crazy Heart
SOUND MIXING: Avatar
SOUND EDITING: Avatar
VISUAL EFFECTS: Avatar
ANIMATED FEATURE: Secret of the Kells
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Un Prophete
DOCUMENTARY: Food Inc
DOCU SHORT: The Last Truck
ANIMATED SHORT: Logorama
LIVE SHORT: The Door

okay okay

Just DIRECTOR and up… no idea about all that other crap anyway…

Actually your pics from Cinematography down look pretty good
WOW

How CAN YOU STAND NEXT TO SELMA AND NOT STARE?

i stared quite a while

looked up at the right moment.

Apparently you like Inglorious Basterds haha
DISTRICT 9!!!!!!

Awesomeness. Hurt Locker was good too. Bigelow for best director.

Picks

PICTURE: Precious
ACTOR: Jeff Bridges
ACTRESS: Gaboury Sidibe
Sup ACTOR: Christoph Waltz
Sup ACTRESS: Mo’Nique
DIRECTOR: James Cameron

Ran out of juice

Was Precious really that good?
somebody threw a newborn on the ground

on purpose.

thats how oscars are won.

Yeah, to be honest, there’s not enough violent murder in my life to make a good Tarantino movie out of it. So I’ll go with Cameron even though I like Tarantino more.

Tarantino; after just two lines of one of his scripts he would use up his HH f-bomb quota for a whole year.
The true picks

Movie: District 9
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges (leftover from the Big Lebowski
Best Actress: Meryle Streep
Best Supporting Actor: Woody Harrelson (Zombieland right)
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz’s Boobs ^ ^
Best Director: Quentin Tarantino Man Boobs Again
Costume Design: Catherine Leterrier (i comfortable in my manhood to say we all agree on this one)
Best Achievement in Makeup: Star Trek (you saw the actors, Look like John Lackey. LINK
Best Song: Randy Newman (he is the man & and great man boobs)
Best Visual Effects: District 9 (Just watch and see)
Best Animated Movie: Up (i cried )
Best Documentary: Star Trak (From the Future)

no way District 9 wins, its a nice movie though.
I'm so jealous of you with Selma

Picture: Avatar
Actor: Bridges (he was so awesome…)
Actress: Bullock
Sup ACTOR: Christoph Waltz
Sup ACTRESS: Mo’Nique
DIRECTOR: Kathryn Bigelow
Original Screenplay: Tarentino
Adapted sceenplay: Reitman and Turner for “Up in the Air”

Raaddad’s favorite films (tie): District 9 and Zombieland

Sad no Zombieland For best movie

or Bill Murray for best supporting actor

I cired so much in that movie
Zombieland

Best Gothic film

Rev Halofan carts that photo of Selma out every chance he gets. :)
Better a short highlight reel

than no reel at all

Does Penelope Cruz get two Oscar's

She is very talented. God bless her parents.

Who I think is going to win, not who I want to win

PICTURE: Avatar
ACTOR: Jeff Bridges
ACTRESS: Sandra Bullock
SUP ACTOR: Christoph Waltz
SUP ACTRESS: Anna Kendrick
DIRECTOR: Kathryn Bigelow
SCREENPLAY: Inglorious Basterds
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Up in the Air
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Avatar
EDITING: Avatar
ART DIRECTION: Avatar
COSTUME: Coco avant Chanel
MAKE-UP: Star Trek
MUSIC SCORE: The Hurt Locker
MUSIC SONG: Crazy Heart
SOUND MIXING: Avatar
SOUND EDITING: Avatar
VISUAL EFFECTS: Avatar
ANIMATED: Up
FOREIGN: Ajami
DOCUMENTARY: The Cove
DOCUMENTARY SHORT: The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
SHORT ANIMATED: Logorama
SHORT LIVE ACTION: Istället för abrakadabra

As an overweight black woman with attitude

I hope tyler perry wins best director.

Wow

I would love to be in Salma’s general vicinity. :(

The only movie I have seen this year was "A Boy and His Dog" (1975)

starring Don Johnson. Worst movie ever.

i would not mind to be in thst movie

hottest underground people ever

Being a spoilsport

I don’t give a damn about the Oscars.

It’s a bunch of industry insiders stroking themselves, and trying to make the rest of us believe it’s important.

Yeah, some could say the same thing about sports, but there’s a difference — The entire news for the past weekend has been “Oscar, OSCAR, OSCAR”!!!!!! Nothing else has been happening in the world.

With the possible exception of Super Bowl Sunday, sports doesn’t do that.

So as to the Oscars? F-’em.

I agree

As a Cinema-goer, you’re a winner if you feel your 15 dollars was well spent. Not what some arbitrary body votes on. I’ll gauge the best films of any year by their IMDB ratings.

I've never watched an Academy Awards...

…or Grammys or anything similar.

Hell, I love technology, gaming, rock climbing, motorcycles, etc. but certainly don’t watch shows that give awards to people in those industries.

So other than entertainment factor for me, I see no reason to watch why some political reason is used to give the award to one person or another. Maybe if fans got to vote on the movies, but that is why we have IMDB and I used it daily ;)

I heard of a bunch of changes they made this year to get more people to watch. It seems with so many other outlets now for information, the Academy Awards have lost their luster.

by your logic

it would be a yankees / cubs world series every year … hey let’s have the fans vote.

Really? Last I checked fans vote on the ASG

I think you have your analogy backwards.

In fact using the Academy's definition...

“…to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers.”

This is pretty much the same as the ASG in baseball.

The difference is fans vote to recognize those individual in baseball, non-fans vote for it in Hollywood. IMDB essentially is the way to view the fan perspective.

Yes, in baseball some players get recognized each year because of popularity rather than true acheivements so you can argue the Academy does a better job. After all, look how high Avatar is on IMDB. I had fun watching it but please, it isn’t THAT great.

But that is always why non-fans are who let players into the HOF or just imagine who would be in there.

Read the boards on IMDB

Those commenters make this place look like a discussion for the Nobel prize in Physics…..

I hate IMDB's board system though
the trolls on there make me sad :(
Yeah, the difference is...

…they put up with most anyone because it’s meant to be a true open forum.

If someone here starts piping off against the Angels or posters, they will be banned in short order. It really doesn’t happen there.

But man o man do I read the most intellectual stuff there every time I watch a movie. You ignore the crap but then look for the passionate folks who post their movie interpertations.

They saved my ass when it came to movies recently like Session 9, A Tale of Two Sisters (foreign horror, one of my favorites now), and even Shutter Island.

What is so bad about it?

I’m not being critical, just wondering?

This is a nice system for fast posts/responses, especially with the AJAX functionality where new incoming posts show up without a refresh.

They have a more traditional message board system but it isn’t any worse than 90% of the sites out there, especially given their immense volume.

Just consider how many movies there are (with new ones weekly) and each movie has it’s own forum with new threads every week. It’s HUGE on the storage and DB level.

I'm with red floyd.

The Oscars suck. I’m going to do tonight what I do every night, try to take over the world. Sorry for the Animaniacs reference, I watched that earlier with my niece and nephews.

halofolife, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
No Love !

I pity dem fools. Life in the big city fair, but shitty like strippers with eczema…tough titty.
Justin pulled out Janet…didn’t he?! But it’s ok when Madonna tongued down Christina and Brittany?!!

Best Picture Avatar
Best Actor -Jeff Bridges
Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz
Best Actress – Gabourey Sidibe
Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique
Animated Feature – Up
Art Direction – Avatar
Cinematography - Avatar
Director
Quentin Tarantino
Documentary - The Cove
Editing - District 9
Music (Original score) - Up
Sound Editing – Avatar
Sound Mixing – Avatar
Visual Effects – Avatar
Adapted Screenplay - An Education
Original Screenplay - Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Fail
Dashes = death

I prefer the colon.

RED CARPET OBSERVATION

The stars have very safe, predictable and bland answers that make no waves.

Watching them all be bland in their responses inspired this: “Like a locker room interview after the game,” said Missus Halofan.
To which I added “And there is not even a Torii Hunter in the bunch.”

so and so from twilight is here

“why”

Bammo

the nazi fucker from basterds just took supporting actor and forget the statue, he got to cuddle on stage with penelope frickin cruz second only to my salma.

my feelings exactly
yo disagree on the poll

where is scorsese

Fashion

Looks like Meryl Streep needed to get one last use out of those old white drapes she replaced in her house.

Wikus is my new hero.
if i ever utter the words

“Two years ago when I got a plane to Zimbabwe…”

i will be speaking from a prison cell or beyond the grave!

"I wrote that speech for him."

Steve Martin waited all night to use that line on someone.

Wow

I can’t believe The Hurt Locker was awarded better screenplay than Inglorious Basterds – WTF!? Are you kidding me?

Maybe cause Tarantino borrowed a lot from old westerns

Maybe they felt Hurt Locker was more “original”?

No wonder why

I felt the urge to watch Silverado

which ones in particular?
um have u see the hurt locker?
With it being Oscar night....

Hedley Lamarr:
“Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.”

+15

Schnitzengruben that is.

Now go do that voodoo that you do so well!
Hurt Locker is going to win best picture.

heres to sweet revenge.

For the 1st time ever

Someone associated with the name Quinlan is 3/3

Perfect night ruined

by someone who won a frickin Razzie this year.

Hurt Locker

Original Screenplay and Director. Great Movie

and um

BEST MOVIE

Suck on that James Cameron.

Unlike the Grammy’s, the most popular piece of crap doesn;t win
haha

Yup easily the best of 09', disappointed Sin Nombre wasn't nominated for foreign pic.
I didn't want to make a fanpost of this but I had an Angels related nightmare last night

Matsui was at bat, there were 2 outs and a runner on third. He worked his way to a full count before pulling a ball to the right side deep at the hole between second and first, he starts running as fast as he can, legs out the single.

The runner from third scores, but as soon as Matsui steps on the bag, he pulls a Jake Taylor a’la “Major League” and his knees give out and he falls flat on his face. An ambulance comes to wheel him off the field, and then I woke up.

Any dream interpreters out there?

According to Freud

If a ball is involved in your dream then that means you want to have sex. The end.

Well, a "bat" in particular

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