2012 Academy Awards thread

Just noticed that "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" received a Best Song nod. I can't tell you how pleased this makes me, especially since I assume we'll get a performance by Jason Segal at the show.

 

I think "50/50" could have been put in adapted screenplay, though. I did at the Globes.

 

I meant in any category. I posted a list earlier of well-reviewed films that seemed like they had a shot at some Oscar nods. That was one of them.

 

Someone on Slate wrote - and I agree - that the show is going to be insufferable with "Hugo" and "The Artist" giving them full-blown license to wax poetic all night long about their craft.

 

I haven't read the book, so I can't answer.

Also, mutants in the Cuban Missile Crisis are not the same as a young boy running the streets of NYC.

Also, the race to the moon and the JFK stuff from Transformers 3... well, please don't bring up anything from that movie. Ha ha.

 

Jeez, I hope you're right. You join multiple other acquaintances whose opinions I respect who had nothing but kind words for it. And I love Scorsese beyond reason.

 

Movies about movies. I remain innately-prejudiced in their favor, and will continue to lean that way, for the forseeable.

 

That was shit to be honest. Just some random electronic drone for the entire film. It deserved much better.

 

My biggest peeve about the expanded list is that it takes away from the truly deserving ones. If some year we only get three or four nominees, I'll have to amend my take, but I seriously doubt that will ever happen.

They changed the 10-movie format to a format that can include as many as 10 to appease the masses who felt 10 was too many, but really, is nine any better?

When it was only five films, there were still usually only two or three that had a legitimate shot.

I'd rather the show be able to devote a little more time and energy into celebrating the five truly wonderful films that actually deserve a nomination rather than spending even a second on a movie that truly has zero chance to win just so that they can put "Academy Award Nominee" on the DVD label.

 

That post was deserving of an Academy Award!

Oh, wait. It's already been nominated. Never mind.

 

To go over the background, the Best Picture field was expanded in the hopes of reversing the unending decline in Oscar television ratings, by allowing crap pictures with good box office to get nominations, hopefully drawing in the morons who liked those turkeys in the first place. As with the John Franco-Anne Hathaway pairing, results have been less than hoped.

 

It's my feeling that the "real" Best Picture nominees are to be found under the "Best Director" nominations.