2016 Academy Awards (Oscars)

dark crystal

My predictions:

Best Actor: It's Leo's year - he has it sewn up.

Best Actress: Brie Larson. I'd be happy to see Saoirse Ronan take the prize, but Larson was amazing in Room, so she would definitely be a deserving winner.

Best Supporting Actor: Stallone should win it - 40 years after Rocky and all that. I haven't seen Bridge of Spies, but Mark Rylance is the only one who could possibly cause an upset in this category.

Best Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander will win, although I thought both Kate Winslet and Rooney Mara did a great job in both their roles.

Best Director: Inniaritu (sp?) will probably win, although I'm still bitter about him winning over Richard Linklater last year, so I'm hoping either Tom McCarthy or Adam McKay win instead!

Best Picture: I'm torn over this one. I think The Revenant has the edge, but I preferred Room, Brooklyn, Spotlight and The Big Short over it. Out of those four, Brooklyn would be my personal favourite, but The Big Short could easily win tonight.

I'd also love to see 'Amy' win best documentary.

Chris Rock's opening monologue is going to be my most anticipated part of the night however...

tinpib

Saoirse Ronan on the red carpet now. She looks very elegant, bit like Cate Blanchett.

PressRun

I think Best Director and Best Picture will go hand in hand. Innaritu and The Revenant have it, imo.

iAcesHigh

Red Carpet is on E, I presume the show itself is only on Sky Movies, right?

tinpib

iAcesHigh wrote: »

Red Carpet is on E, I presume the show itself is only on Sky Movies, right?

I'm watching red carpet on YouTube, not sure about the ceremony itself though.

dark crystal

iAcesHigh wrote: »

Red Carpet is on E, I presume the show itself is only on Sky Movies, right?

Yeah, you have to be a Sky Movies subscriber to watch it live, if you're inclined to stay up all night! Streaming is also an option if you know the right places...

I've booked a day off work tomorrow and will watch it first thing in the morning instead. Love my Oscar Monday mornings

Canadel

PressRun wrote: »

I think Best Director and Best Picture[ will go hand in hand. Innaritu and The Revenant have it, imo.

It will be extremely disappointing if The Revenant wins Best Picture. It's a nothing film with some great scenery of mountains and rivers. It's the least entertaining, least important, and least interesting movie I've seen in years. It has no business even being nominated imo.

Patty O Furniture

Here's a reminder on the scenes that nailed the nomination for 20 Actors:

I've only seen Brooklyn, Room, Carol, The Revenant & Mad Max last nite on tv & i gotta say i couldn't take my eyes off it, as there was so much going on & until i saw Mad Max, i thought The Revenant was better picture, but the award no doubt will go to the Revenant as it has got stunning cinematography.

But looking at the red carpet on Living, all the actors know who's fav to win & not really sticking around to talk bout their film

Certainly Leo & Brie are favourites,
Sounds like The Big Short + Spotlight are the dark horses among the fave The Revenant for Best Picture.

Kate Winslet's an outside fav among Alicia Vikander for Supp Actor
Inniaritu is favourite for Director, is it true that he'll be the 1st to win back2back wins?

No idea who'll win btwn the lads for Supp Actor.



But good luck to the Irish contenders, as i hear The Stutterer may have a good chance?

But the thing everyone will be looking to see what Chris Rock will say inc his Blackout theme coming up!

JP Liz V1

Saoirse may not win an Oscar but she looks stunning in her green dress, style winner hands down

Patty O Furniture

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Saoirse may not win an Oscar but she looks stunning in her green dress, style winner hands down

Yeah, specially made for her by Calvin Klein i heard her saying!

Now on with the show!

BorneTobyWilde

http://www.usagoals.com/other/1469121/1/oscars-live-from-the-red-carpet-live-stream-online.html
Stream

Bret Hart

Well it didn't take him too play the race card,ugh. Going too be a long night.

Billy86

Canadel wrote: »

It will be extremely disappointing if The Revenant wins Best Picture. It's a nothing film with some great scenery of mountains and rivers. It's the least entertaining, least important, and least interesting movie I've seen in years. It has no business even being nominated imo.

Interesting tidbit I read yesterday, the real guy never even had a son and wasn't out for revenge... he just wanted to get his stuff back.

Patty O Furniture

Interesting choice of attire,

No doubt the oscars are getting a bashing tonite & they know it, left black & blue i'd say :rolleyes:

tinpib

Can't help but thinking all this race stuff is divide and conquer. I've no doubt racism exists, but its relentless presence in the US mainstream media helps make it exist.

Anyway, on with the show...

Patty O Furniture

Here's the order in the awards are given out:

& the new time they have to thank everyone 45s :eek:

Corholio

Thought Rock handled that really well actually. His little dig on Jada Pinkett was pretty funny.

Patty O Furniture

Corholio wrote: »

Thought Rock handled that really well actually. His little dig on Jada Pinkett was pretty funny.

Yeah, it could have gone wrong for him, as he's usually got a sharp sarcastic tongue, but kept it within a hair's breath & poor Will Smith will have to get ear plugs from Jada now!

recylingbin

Corholio wrote: »

Thought Rock handled that really well actually. His little dig on Jada Pinkett was pretty funny.

Explain please.

enfant terrible

Is it going to be black jokes the entire night from Rock? Boring

Corholio

recylingbin wrote: »

Explain please.

He joked that Jada Pinkett boycotting the Oscars is like himself boycotting Rihanna's underwear......weren't going to be invited in the first place.

Patty O Furniture

recylingbin wrote: »

Explain please.

https://twitter.com/THR/status/704119902051835904

Btw: Anyone else think that Bond song is shiiiiittttee

mansize

Delighted for Alicia

Patty O Furniture

I wonder after the 45s, would the Jaws theme be better getting them off stage, as they will thank people regardless what you see in the ticker line across the screen!

Preset No.3

Any links via PM for the oscars for a poor man?

JP Liz V1

Alicia wins supporting actress (she should have been in lead actress category for The Danish Girl)

Patty O Furniture

Preset No.3 wrote: »

Any links via PM for the oscars for a poor man?

There was a link back in the last page.

Patty O Furniture

Wasn't Jenny Beavan the one that stephen Fry made a comment on at the Baftas & subsequently left Twitter from trolls?

JP Liz V1

enfant terrible wrote: »

Is it going to be black jokes the entire night from Rock? Boring

"And we're black" yes is getting boring already

mansize

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Wasn't Jenny Beavan the one that stephen Fry made a comment on at the Baftas & subsequently left Twitter from trolls?

Yes

Wrongway1985

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Alicia wins supporting actress (she should have been in lead actress category for The Danish Girl)

Ya Kate Winslet and Rooney Mara were lead actresses too all the same.

Wrongway1985

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Wasn't Jenny Beavan the one that stephen Fry made a comment on at the Baftas & subsequently left Twitter from trolls?

He said she was dressed like a bag lady ...he had been given the ok from her to pull that out aswell.

Patty O Furniture

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

He said she was dressed like a bag lady ...he had been given the ok from her to pull that out aswell.

Yeah, i'd heard they were old friends, but that didn't matter to twitter trolls, considering he was one of the first few that used it & publicised it's use.

I see Leo wasn't too happy to see that bear again so soon

Nice dress on Rachel, but Brie carried it off better recently

lertsnim

They're really going for Will Smith and family tonight.

enfant terrible

They should make a rule where 50% of all nominees actors, writers etc have to be black.

Keep everyone happy.

Bret Hart

Hard too believe Angela is 57. Looks amazing for her age.

Patty O Furniture

lertsnim wrote: »

They're really going for Will Smith and family tonight.

There something to be said for moaning too much, i heard recently that Patricia Arquette lost out to two jobs from her equality rant.

Funny that considering J-Law made afaik $53M & Leo made $25

Looks like Mad Max all the way & just heard that Margaret Sixel - Best Editing is George Miller's wife!

wonski

Mad Max again.

Would be strange if they get all but the one that is most important...

Looper007

6 Oscars so far for Mad Max fury Road even if it ends there it could end up with the most wins, although they never put it on the DVD/blu Ray covers unless it wins one of the bigger ones.

Patty O Furniture

Hah, here's the 3 amigos, considering Star Wars lost out on the 5 nominations tonite

Patty O Furniture

Looper007 wrote: »

6 Oscars so far for Mad Max fury Road even if it ends there it could end up with the most wins, although they never put it on the DVD/blu Ray covers unless it wins one of the bigger ones.

They'd have to be quick as some of these are released tomoro in the US, but Mad Max is released in Sept there.

PressRun

Mark Rylance won Best Supporting Actor. Is this an upset? I'd heard people mentioning Stallone for this one.

Patty O Furniture

PressRun wrote: »

Mark Rylance won Best Supporting Actor. Is this an upset? I'd heard people mentioning Stallone for this one.

Mark Rylance was the favourite for a while, although i didnt see the film, but yeah, it would be a nice way to round off Rocky afaik it's almost 40 years since the 1st one.

PressRun

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Mark Rylance was the favourite for a while, although i didnt see the film, but yeah, it would be a nice way to round off Rocky afaik it's almost 40 years since the 1st one.

Ah, I see. Must have just been the people I hang out with that thought Stallone would win.

Patty O Furniture

Well Done Amy on Best Documentary:

I'd heard that Amy's dad tweeted today still doesn't like the film, even though if it wins!

mansize

I saw Mark Rylance on stage in Twelfth Night

PressRun

The Amy Winehouse film is a great documentary. I read that her mum said what was shown in the film was an accurate representation of her life, so not sure what the father's problem is really. He always struck me as someone who liked the glare of the camera when she was alive though, he always seemed to be at the forefront of everything she was doing.

Arghus

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Mark Rylance was the favourite for a while, although i didnt see the film, but yeah, it would be a nice way to round off Rocky afaik it's almost 40 years since the 1st one.

It seemed like it had been between the two of them for quite a while. I read a lot of predictions that the award was going to go to Stallone, but almost all of the same predictors expressed a wish that Rylance would win.

Happy for him. As a film, I didn't find Bridge of Spies anything too amazing, but he was the best thing about it: understated and sympathetic.

Patty O Furniture

PressRun wrote: »

Ah, I see. Must have just been the people I hang out with that thought Stallone would win.

I betcha, Leo's thinking, ah feck no,

Well done to Benjamin Cleary for the Live Action Short film

Patty O Furniture

PressRun wrote: »

The Amy Winehouse film is a great documentary. I read that her mum said what was shown in the film was an accurate representation of her life, so not sure what the father's problem is really. He always struck me as someone who liked the glare of the camera when she was alive though, he always seemed to be at the forefront of everything she was doing.

It's actually on More4 - Fri - @10.20pm, it was on in Dec on Ch4 & more recently as well!