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Post by hi224 on Mar 19, 2021 10:18:34 GMT
I am happy Amadeus is a best picture winner.
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Post by timshelboy on Mar 19, 2021 12:49:55 GMT
Maggie Smith for BRODIE
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Post by sostie on Mar 19, 2021 13:06:49 GMT
Olivia Colman. Gary Oldman. Christoph Waltz.
Probably easier to name the ones not happy about. Braveheart for instance
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 19, 2021 13:39:15 GMT
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Post by Isapop on Mar 19, 2021 15:18:25 GMT
Sean Connery in The Untouchables. As he's my favorite actor, and, up until that year, I was of the opinion that no matter how good he ever is, he will never get an Oscar nomination, I was naturally happy.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 19, 2021 16:16:50 GMT
I still hadn't seen Dallas Buyers Club but it felt good to see Matthew McConaughey get recognition after being just another rom-com guy for so long. Lupita N'yongo for 12 Years a Slave as well for the same year.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Mar 19, 2021 18:11:06 GMT
Julianne Moore and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Halle Berry too.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 19, 2021 19:24:35 GMT
I accept most of them
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Post by DanaShelbyChancey on Mar 20, 2021 14:59:59 GMT
I was delighted by Olivia Colman's win. Such a well-deserved surprise, and her hilarious acceptance speech. I love her movie The Favourite.
Mark Rylance. His performance in Bridge of Spies is the quiet kind where it is all going on under the surface. That is satisfying to me when the Academy recognizes it.
Last year I cheered when Brad Pitt won for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 20, 2021 18:27:58 GMT
when I saw Amadeus in the theater, I thought it was one of the best film ever. With opera and all, I did not think it was a kind of film that Oscar will pick. By the time the award come around, it almost would be a surprise if they didn't win.
Last year, however, when it was time for announcing directing, I thought Sam Mendes had it in the bag with 1917 & Parasite fight for Best Picture. I felt Parasite was a much better film, and Bong Joon Ho should win. I kind of went nut when Spike Lee announced Bong Joon Ho. I was posting along with others in the Film General board. I think most everyone else went nut there as well. After he won best direction, there was no surprise that Parasite would win Best Picture.
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 20, 2021 21:46:29 GMT
very happy for Shakespeare in Love. Worthy winner.
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Post by timshelboy on Mar 20, 2021 22:24:04 GMT
I Last year I cheered when Brad Pitt won for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Me too and I'd never have thought that would ever happen - that he'd win one or I'd cheer it - although I'd detected a gift for comedy in the BURN AFTER READING and the earlier Tarantino.. He was a total joy wasn't he? I smile every time I think about him in that film (I'd have been equally happy if he'd got the lead actor award - I thought it was a leading role but I think these days the producers usually want only one lead nom and tactically anyone else gets defined as support so leads from same film don't pull votes from each other and reduce chances of a win for the film.)
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Mar 21, 2021 2:25:34 GMT
I have always been completely neutral to who wins the Oscars.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 21, 2021 3:07:18 GMT
Honorary awards to Norman Jewison, Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, and especially Roger Corman which came as a genuine surprise and was one in the eye to sneering "its so bad its good" movie snobs everywhere.
Al Pacino winning on his 8th nomination of 9, having spent several long years in the cinematic wilderness following major box-office bombs, having seen major contemporaries within his field win Oscars, having lost already in the same night ... it was a career year and an award well deserved.
Jodie Foster, whom I feel has done as much for the advancement of the cinematic form as anybody from her generation, winning her second Oscar as 'The Silence Of The Lambs' becomes only the third film to win the big 5 Oscars after 'It Happened One Night' and 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest', films I also love wholeheartedly.
Those are just some of my favourite moments from one of my favourite nights in the movie calendar ...
Celebrating the cinematic legacy of Alice Guy-Blache
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 21, 2021 3:53:30 GMT
I accept most of them also.
One that I would not have accepted would have been if Francis McDormand had NOT won for Fargo. I'm not sure if I rooted for a character more in my film history than Marge Gunderson (excepting historical characters, I would not have enjoyed seeing Oskar Schindler losing). A performance that make me that caring deserved a kudo or two
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Post by hi224 on Mar 21, 2021 4:19:45 GMT
I accept most of them also. One that I would not have accepted would have been if Francis McDormand had NOT won for Fargo. I'm not sure if I rooted for a character more in my film history than Marge Gunderson (excepting historical characters, I would not have enjoyed seeing Oskar Schindler losing). A performance that make me that caring deserved a kudo or two While I enjoy her win I slightly prefer Watson.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 23, 2021 8:44:46 GMT
I still hadn't seen Dallas Buyers Club but it felt good to see Matthew McConaughey get recognition after being just another rom-com guy for so long. Lupita N'yongo for 12 Years a Slave as well for the same year. ... two great performances. For me, I would say Clint Eastwood receiving Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for Million Dollar Baby in February 2005, since he had been up for those awards the previous year with Mystic River, only to not receive them. I would also cite Moonlight garnering Best Picture four years ago over the far more pedestrian La La Land. Unfortunately, the embarrassing mix up distracted from the film itself and took some of the luster off the award, as did the "Oscars So White" racial controversy that surely caused some people to view Moonlight as an affirmative action pick. Instead, the film proved genuinely great (one of two among 2016 releases in my view, along with Sully), but this sort of suspicion will now linger, not just with Moonlight but others moving forward. What Hollywood—and social justice advocates—should actually focus on is the diversity of the Academy itself and equal opportunity within the various moviemaking trades, not the Oscar results, which are perpetually dubious or debatable irrespective of race, gender, or any other social category. To the inverse question, I was displeased by Coco receiving the Best Animated Feature Oscar three years ago over the far more ambitious and moving Loving Vincent. I liked Coco quite a bit, seeing it twice in the theater, but Loving Vincent—which I viewed four times in the theater—existed on another level, both artistically and emotionally. In this case, racial politics probably did play a role, and in any event the matter now shadows various selections.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 24, 2021 2:16:33 GMT
I was pleasantly surprised to see Ray Harryhausen get an honorary Oscar--but they didn't have him at the actual main event.
I was pleased when Silence of the Lambs won best picture--the reason was because it showed on cable tv the night before. I was thinking: Alright! I watched the winner last night!
And obviously Jack Palance winning turned out to be a good thing.
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Post by Isapop on Mar 24, 2021 15:28:55 GMT
I was pleasantly surprised to see Ray Harryhausen get an honorary Oscar--but they didn't have him at the actual main event. I didn't know he'd gotten an honorary Oscar (or did I forget?) They should have had him at the main event. They underestimate how much to that audience of us adults Harryhausen meant to us when we were growing up.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 24, 2021 16:47:49 GMT
I didn't know he'd gotten an honorary Oscar (or did I forget?) They should have had him at the main event. They underestimate how much to that audience of us adults Harryhausen meant to us when we were growing up. It was Tom Hanks who presented it.
But the Academy regarded his films as kind of low brow--he never got FX nominations either I don't think. Jim Danforth got one but not Harryhausen.
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