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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-17-2014, 11:23 AM:
 
2014 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS

BEST PICTURE
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Captain Phillips
Her
American Hustle
Gravity
Dallas Buyers Club
Nebraska
Philomena

Best director
Steve McQueen -- "12 Years a Slave"
David O. Russell -- "American Hustle"
Alfonso Cuaron -- "Gravity"
Alexander Payne -- "Nebraska"
Martin Scorsese -- "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Best actor
Bruce Dern -- "Nebraska"
Chiwetel Ejiofor -- "12 Years a Slave"
Matthew McConaughy -- "Dallas Buyers Club"
Leonardo DiCaprio -- "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Christian Bale -- "American Hustle"

Best actress
Amy Adams -- "American Hustle"
Cate Blanchett -- "Blue Jasmine"
Judi Dench -- "Philomena"
Sandra Bullock -- "Gravity"
Meryl Streep -- "August: Osage County"

Best supporting actor
Barkhad Abdi -- "Captain Phillips"
Bradley Cooper -- "American Hustle"
Jonah Hill -- "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Jared Leto -- "Dallas Buyers Club"
Michael Fassbender -- "12 Years a Slave"

Best supporting actress
Jennifer Lawrence -- "American Hustle"
Lupita Nyong'o -- "12 Years a Slave"
June Squibb -- "Nebraska"
Julia Roberts -- "August: Osage County"
Sally Hawkins -- "Blue Jasmine"

Best original screenplay
"American Hustle" -- David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer
"Blue Jasmine" -- Woody Allen
"Her" -- Spike Jonze
"Nebraska" -- Bob Nelson
"Dallas Buyers Club" -- Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack

Best adapted screenplay
"12 Years a Slave" -- John Ridley
"Before Midnight" -- Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater
"The Wolf of Wall Street" -- Terence Winter
"Captain Phillips" -- Billy Ray
"Philomena" -- Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

Best animated feature
"The Wind Rises"
"Frozen"
"Despicable Me 2"
"Ernest & Celestine"
"The Croods"

Best foreign feature
"The Hunt" (Denmark)
"The Broken Circle Breakdown" (Belgium)
"The Great Beauty" (Italy)
"Omar" (Palestinian territories)
"The Missing Picture" (Cambodia)

Best music (original song)
"Frozen": "Let it Go" -- Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom": "Ordinary Love" -- U2, Paul Hewson
"Her": "The Moon Song" -- Karen O, Spike Jonze
"Despicable Me 2": "Happy" -- Pharrell Williams
"Alone Yet Not Alone": "Alone Yet Not Alone" -- Bruce Broughton, Dennis Spiegel

Best music (original score)
"Gravity" -- Steven Price
"Philomena" -- Alexandre Desplat
"The Book Thief" -- John Williams
"Saving Mr. Banks" -- Thomas Newman
"Her" -- William Butler and Owen Pallett

Best cinematography
"Gravity" -- Emmanuel Lubezki
"Inside Llewyn Davis" -- Bruno Delbonnel
"Nebraska" -- Phedon Papamichael
"Prisoners" -- Roger Deakins
"The Grandmaster" -- Phillippe Le Sourd

Best costume design
"The Great Gatsby" -- Catherine Martin
"12 Years a Slave" -- Patricia Norris
"The Grandmaster" -- William Chang Suk Ping
"American Hustle" -- Michael Wilkinson
"The Invisible Woman" -- Michael O'Connor

Best documentary feature
"The Act of Killing"
"20 Feet From Stardom"
"The Square"
"Cutie and the Boxer"
"Dirty Wars"

Best film editing
"Gravity" -- Alfonso Cuaron, Mark Sanger
"12 Years a Slave"-- Joe Walker
"Captain Phillips" -- Christopher Rouse
"American Hustle" -- Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
"Dallas Buyers Club" -- John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa

Best makeup and hairstyling
"The Lone Ranger" -- Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
"Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" -- Stephen Prouty
"Dallas Buyers Club" -- Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews

Best production design
"12 Years a Slave" -- Adam Stockhausen and Alice Baker
"The Great Gatsby" -- Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn
"American Hustle" -- Judy Becker and Heather Loeffler
"Gravity" -- Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
"Her" -- K.K. Barrett and Gene Serdena

Best visual effects
"Gravity"
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"
"Star Trek Into Darkness"
"Iron Man 3"
"The Lone Ranger"

Best sound mixing
"Gravity"
"Captain Phillips"
"Lone Survivor"
"Inside Llewyn Davis"
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"

Best sound editing
"Gravity"
"All Is Lost"
"Captain Phillips"
"Lone Survivor"
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"

Best short film, live action
"Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)"
"Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)"
"Helium"
"Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)"
"The Voorman Problem"

Best short film, animated
"Feral"
"Get a Horse!"
"Mr. Hublot"
"Possessions"
"Room on the Broom"

Best documentary short
"CaveDigger"
"Facing Fear"
"Karama Has No Walls"
"The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life"
"Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall"
 

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Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 01-17-2014, 09:53 PM:
 
Not really any big surprises in any of the major categories. I'm a little disappointed The Book Thief didn't get a nomination for Best Picture or Adapted Screenplay. But I don't think the Academy threw out any curve balls this year.

In the Actor categories, there's usually room to quibble over who got nominated or didn't get nominated, but I think everyone is deserving. The Actress categories are not usually as deep, and I think that's why they often have a nomination that sort of comes out of left field.
 

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Posted by Steve Matz (Member # 1890) on 01-17-2014, 10:05 PM:
 
I hope Bruce Dern gets Best Actor; I followed that guy from back in the 60's playing Western Badguys and Outlaw Biker Films along with Wife Diane Ladd.

A lot of that Film"NEBRASKA" was shot right here in BILLINGS.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-17-2014, 10:56 PM:
 
My profile says I have a post here. I don't see it. Oh well here it is again:

People have been saying that soooo many good movies came out this year. I've only seen one of the movies that have been nominated in any category. Iron Man 3. It sucked.

I've heard nothing but shitty things about American Hustle. Surprised it got nominated. Even if it wins it won't be the best picture of the year. Hopefully I will not be forced to watch the awards show since it's basically the industry congratulating itself.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-17-2014, 11:36 PM:
 

quote: Steve Matz

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I hope Bruce Dern gets Best Actor; I followed that guy from back in the 60's playing Western Badguys and Outlaw Biker Films along with Wife Diane Ladd.

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quote: Bobby

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The Great Gatzby is the sort of film that shouldn't have any trouble picking up Production Design and Costume Design awards.

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quote: Joe Redifer

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Why would you say that for costume design? Just take clothes that people wore at the time and put the actors in them.

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As someone once said about Edith Head: She wins Oscars for remembering how people dressed when she started in the biz.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-18-2014, 08:47 PM:
 
I've always thought the costume design award was for accuracy and attention to detail. If you look at the "goofs" section of just about any period movie on its IMDB page, you'll see things like "The buttons on the father's coat are way bigger than coat buttons of that time; that style of button didn't appear until 20 years later" and that kind of thing.

Tom Hanks certainly deserved to be nominated for Captain Phillips. He did a great job as Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks, but that was a relatively minor role. The acting field was just really crowded this year...Hanks probably got enough votes to put him in 6th place. Hanks' already being a two-time winner probably cost him a few votes.
 

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Posted by Pravin Ratnam (Member # 1417) on 01-18-2014, 08:49 PM:
 
I like Spike Jonez movies. Haven't seen HER yet. But it looks like a lesser version of his and Charlie Kaufman's movies from more than a decade ago.

American Hustle- I loved it. Entire cast was great in it and a damn good job by David Russell. I think he is deserving of best director.

For me the stars of Gravity are really the director and the technical crew.

12 Years a Slave a worthy best pic nominee thanks to the source material.
I want to watch Nebraska.

Best song nominees, as usual, look boring. They need to put a max limit on kids movie songs getting nominated.

Regarding the costume design discussion Bobby was engaged in, what about the costume on Amy Adams in American Hustle?
 

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Posted by Terry Lynn-Stevens (Member # 7349) on 01-19-2014, 08:25 AM:
 

quote: Pravin Ratnam

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For me the stars of Gravity are really the director and the technical crew.

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quote: Pravin Ratnam

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Best song nominees, as usual, look boring

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quote: Bobby Henderson

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The Screen Actors Guild awards more often than not telegraph the Oscar winners in the acting categories.

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quote: Pravin Ratnam

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They need to put a max limit on kids movie songs getting nominated.

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quote: Terry Lynn-Stevens

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I would like to see Roger Deakins get an Oscar, but I think Gravity has the cinematography award locked up.

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quote: Justin Hamaker

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The outstanding cast award also is a fairly good indicator of Best Picture.

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quote: Mike Blakesley

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I think you're right -- the competition is weak in that category. Nebraska is probably the closest competitor since it's an "edgy" movie in black and white....the Academy loves to give awards to B&W movies.

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This morning, the wags made great hay on Twitter about the second-most-baffling Oscar nomination, the Best Makeup and Hairstyling nod for Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. But those who scoff at the nomination ought to reconsider. Sure, though I liked it a lot, Bad Grandpa isn’t a masterpiece. But not only does the movie deserve its Oscar nomination—it ought to win, on degree of difficulty alone.

For Bad Grandpa, Stephen Prouty designed a remarkable makeup process for Johnny Knoxville that turned him into Irving Zisman, the misbehaving octogenarian whose public humiliations and outrages make up the film. (The closing credits reveal that Catherine Keener and Spike Jonze also got the old-age treatments during filming.) The ingenious makeup, which took hours to apply every morning, included silicon prosthetics and a realistic hairpiece, and had built-in sweat channels so Knoxville wouldn’t basically drown in his own perspiration. And it was all very convincing on the big screen.

But Prouty’s genius lies in the fact that it doesn’t matter that his makeup was convincing on the big screen. What mattered was whether Irving Zisman was convincing in the real world. Whether Irving was hitting on women, trying to ship his grandson across the country in a huge cardboard box, or suffering explosive diarrhea all over a restaurant wall, Prouty’s makeup had to stand up to inspection by actual civilians standing inches away from Johnny Knoxville. If the residents of Sacramento, Columbus, Chapel Hill, or the dozen other towns where Bad Grandpa filmed suspected Irving Zisman was a fake, the movie would be ruined.

The makeup and the hair in the other two nominated films, Dallas Buyers Club and The Lone Ranger, were also quite impressive. But those movies, like every other movie that made this year’s shortlist (including, yes, American Hustle), are playing with a loaded deck. Flaws in makeup can be concealed on a traditional film—with retakes, with carefully-chosen camera angles, with lighting and framing and, if all else fails, a touch of CGI. (You never know where it happened!) But there’s no other movie this year whose makeup was put under as harsh a microscope as Bad Grandpa’s, and Prouty’s work held up. Just ask the people in that restaurant.

If they call Prouty’s name on Oscar night, I won’t scoff, and neither should you. View it as a reward for innovative hard work; view it as payback for the Academy’s traditional scorning of comedy; view it as a sop to Bad Grandpa producer Spike Jonze, who should’ve been nominated for Best Director for Her. But don’t call it a travesty. The next civilian Irving Zisman fools might just be you.

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