Oscar Nominations For 2015

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Even if you enjoy hating the Oscars, here are the list of nominations:

http://www.fandango.com/movie-news/2016-academy-awards-nominations-750347

Jurassic World, Furious 7, and Avengers: Age of Ultron all completely snubbed.

And why in the world is See You Again from Furious 7 NOT on Best Original Song???!

The Oscars are notorious for not "getting" sci-fi and especially fantasy films. They overwhelmingly pine for melodramas and "experimental" films. It's film snobbery to be perfectly honest. Furious has the misfortune of being the next iteration of a long running action flick which again, those voting just do not like.

I'm rooting for "Writing's On The Wall" from Spectre to win Best Original Song.

"Inside Out" for Best Animated Feature

"Spotlight" for Best Original Screenplay

Any yet, Mad Max: Fury Road managed to get TEN nominations. They could have AT LEAST nominated the song See You Again. Instead they picked 50 Shades of Gray. No way!

Agreed, AA, let Spectre win it, then.

I like the line-up for best documentary feature, and am glad to see Amy is up there.


I watched this and thought the energy, reels and clips put into it by Miss Wine house’s friends and family including private testimonies were on the best part moving, and she had a lot of fans out there.



God bless you.

I just hope The Revenant is better than Birdman, although it does sound like it.

The Oscars are becoming increasingly irrelevant to me, particularly with the controversy over the lack of acting nominees of color. They always select a certain kind of film and a certain kind of role, and they tend to go for a more upper class world view. The Academy is overwhelmingly white and male, and more than half are more than 60 years old. Part of this is that the Academy is composed of prior winners and nominees, plus industry types that are nominated by the Academy. As a result, the films that win tend to be very similar to the films that won in the past.

I don't really expect science fiction films to get nominated all the time, unless they really have stand-out acting or writing, but an awful lot of winning films have been weighed down with an incredible pomposity and seem to be crafted specifically to win Oscars (Out of Africa, The Right Stuff, The English Patient).

I really would have liked to have seen Benedict Cumberbatch get best actor for The Imitation Game, and not just because I'm a raving Cumbercollective nut (and I am, I'll admit). I loved the film because it absolutely stunned me, because I felt like I'd had my eyes opened to something extraordinary, and I have to say, actually changed my life. I'd recently come across a list of Asperger characteristics, and was researching the subject because I thought I fit a lot of them. I saw the film, and saw him portray Alan Turing with so many of these traits--not only did I see a lot of those traits in myself, but he resembled my Dad even more (Dad was straight, but otherwise very, very much like Turing). I decided to seek a diagnosis in part because of the film.

I later heard Cumberbatch and the writer had not meant to show Turing as having Asperger's, but I think they might have done so unintentionally, because I think Turing really was ASD. It doesn't really matter whether Turing had ASD, because I eventually got my diagnosis. At any rate, it's been a long, long time since a film has had such a powerful effect on me. I can't say that about many Oscar winners. A great artist should create a work to excel in his or her own eyes, irregardless of what others may think, not to win some award--it will always fail from self-consciousness.

I despise the Oscars broadcasts in recent years, but, I somewhat respect the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. After all, most of its members are the stagehands and other techies of which nobody has ever heard. They work on more films than most celebrity actors ever do year in and year out. As such, their votes are probably more carefully deliberate than those of the actors. This fact caused the AMPAS to retool its rules about all members voting in all categories. They now restrict voting in the popular categories to members of those categories (actors for for actors, director for directors, etc.). The techies got kicked out because they out-voted the celebs too often. Too bad, in my opinion. Most techies know more about the craft than all the Lindsay Lohans combined.

My family and I haven't decided whether we should watch this year's Oscars or not. Last year's nominees being all white was funny to us, but this year, not so much. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there was a cover-up for this year's Oscars.

However, what I'd to see the AMPAS do is to add two new categories at the most:
Best Ensemble
{To go alongside Best Picture, which can give the entire cast credit instead of just one or two cast members.}

Freedom Of Expression Award
{To go alongside the "Honorary Oscar" for a movie that clearly exercises free expression.}