True Best Picture of the Year.

bob. · 02-04-2017, 09:22 AM

so i am obviously biased here. But here are my picks

I guessed on the short films going only by what title interested me the most

the foreign language i also guessed but have really been wanting to see Toni Erdmann for some time now

Spoiler for My thoughts:

GuD · 02-04-2017, 09:49 AM

Was LA LA land really that good? Looked average from the commercials

bob. · 02-04-2017, 09:58 AM

i've seen it 22 times and am excited to see it again on Sunday.

while i admit that i am in a minority of people who have this reaction to this film...i'm far from the only one....i've yet to speak to anyone who has seen it who did not this it was good

the opening scene alone creates such a cathartic response in me that i become an emotional wreck

i don't love La La Land i'm in love with it

bob. · 02-04-2017, 10:07 AM

litereally just watched the opening number.

fucking Niagara Falls out of my eyes.

**Exo** · 02-04-2017, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bob.

litereally just watched the opening number.

fucking Niagara Falls out of my eyes.

I'm curious. Why? That was actually my least favorite part of the film.

djchameleon · 02-04-2017, 05:41 PM

I loved the opening number. It is like so in your face and let's you know what you are heading into it. I also love the fact that is had a more musical feel than relying on Emma or Gosling. So much going on with the colors and everything. My eyes are always all over the place looking at different things in that number that I didn't focus on the last time.

**Frownland** · 02-04-2017, 06:12 PM

Whenever I think about how the opening song went it always turns into the family guy theme.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 02-04-2017, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Whenever I think about how the opening song went it always turns into the family guy theme.

gross

**Frownland** · 02-04-2017, 09:44 PM

Mel Gibson should get best director to balance out the anti-Trump speeches with some anti-semitism.

bob. · 02-04-2017, 10:31 PM

^......

i'm ignoring Exo's comment. He and i will be talking on Wednesday after i see Manchester By the Sea. I'll yell at him then

I may have to change a couple of those picks after seeing Lion. Holy fucking shit.

02-04-2017, 09:22 AM	#191 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	so i am obviously biased here. But here are my picks I guessed on the short films going only by what title interested me the most the foreign language i also guessed but have really been wanting to see Toni Erdmann for some time now Spoiler for My thoughts: Best Picture Arrival Fences Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water Hidden Figures La La Land Lion Manchester by the Sea Moonlight Best Director Denis Villeneuve – Arrival Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge Damien Chazelle – La La Land Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea Barry Jenkins – Moonlight Best Actor Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea as Lee Chandler Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge as Desmond T. Doss Ryan Gosling – La La Land as Sebastian Wilder Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic as Ben Cash Denzel Washington – Fences as Troy Maxson Best Actress Isabelle Huppert – Elle as Michèle LeBlanc Ruth Negga – Loving as Mildred Loving Natalie Portman – Jackie as Jackie Kennedy Emma Stone – La La Land as Mia Dolan Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins as Florence Foster Jenkins Best Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali – Moonlight as Juan Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water as Marcus Hamilton Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea as Patrick Chandler Dev Patel – Lion as Saroo Brierley Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals as Detective Bobby Andes Best Supporting Actress Viola Davis – Fences as Rose Maxson Naomie Harris – Moonlight as Paula Nicole Kidman – Lion as Sue Brierley Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures as Dorothy Vaughan Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea as Randi Best Original Screenplay Hell or High Water – Taylor Sheridan La La Land – Damien Chazelle The Lobster – Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan 20th Century Women – Mike Mills Best Adapted Screenplay Arrival – Eric Heisserer from "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang Fences – August Wilson from Fences by August Wilson (posthumous nomination) Hidden Figures – Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi from Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Lion – Luke Davies from A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley and Larry Buttrose Moonlight – Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney from In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney Best Animated Feature Film Kubo and the Two Strings – Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner Moana – John Musker, Ron Clements, and Osnat Shurer My Life as a Courgette – Claude Barras and Max Karli The Red Turtle – Michael Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki Zootopia – Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer Best Foreign Language Film Land of Mine (Denmark) in Danish – Martin Zandvliet A Man Called Ove (Sweden) in Swedish – Hannes Holm The Salesman (Iran) in Persian – Asghar Farhadi Tanna (Australia) in Nauvhal – Martin Butler and Bentley Dean Toni Erdmann (Germany) in German – Maren Ade Best Documentary – Feature Fire at Sea – Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety, and Hébert Peck Life, Animated – Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman O.J.: Made in America – Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow 13th – Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick, and Howard Barish Best Documentary – Short Subject Extremis – Dan Krauss 4.1 Miles – Daphne Matziaraki Joe's Violin – Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen Watani: My Homeland – Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis The White Helmets – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara Best Live Action Short Film Ennemis intérieurs – Sélim Azzazi La femme et le TGV – Timo von Gunten and Giacun Caduff Silent Nights – Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson Sing – Kristóf Deák and Anna Udvardy Timecode – Juanjo Giménez Best Animated Short Film Blind Vaysha – Theodore Ushev Borrowed Time – Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj Pear Cider and Cigarettes – Robert Valley and Cara Speller Pearl – Patrick Osborne Piper – Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer Best Original Score Jackie – Mica Levi La La Land – Justin Hurwitz Lion – Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka Moonlight – Nicholas Britell Passengers – Thomas Newman Best Original Song "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" from La La Land – Music by Justin Hurwitz, Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul "Can't Stop the Feeling!" from Trolls – Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin, and Karl Johan Schuster (Shellback) "City of Stars" from La La Land – Music by Justin Hurwitz, Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul "The Empty Chair" from Jim: The James Foley Story – Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting "How Far I'll Go" from Moana – Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda Best Sound Editing Arrival – Sylvain Bellemare Deepwater Horizon – Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli Hacksaw Ridge – Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright La La Land – Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan Sully – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman Best Sound Mixing Arrival – Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye Hacksaw Ridge – Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace La La Land – Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee, and Steve A. Morrow Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio, and Stuart Wilson 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush, and Mac Ruth Best Production Design Arrival – Patrice Vermette and Paul Hotte Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock Hail, Caesar! – Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh La La Land – David and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco Passengers – Guy Hendrix Dyas and Gene Serdena Best Cinematography Arrival – Bradford Young La La Land – Linus Sandgren Lion – Greig Fraser Moonlight – James Laxton Silence – Rodrigo Prieto Best Makeup and Hairstyling A Man Called Ove – Eva von Bahr and Love Larson Star Trek Beyond – Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo Suicide Squad – Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson Best Costume Design Allied – Joanna Johnston Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Colleen Atwood Florence Foster Jenkins – Consolata Boyle Jackie – Madeline Fontaine La La Land – Mary Zophres Best Film Editing Arrival – Joe Walker Hacksaw Ridge – John Gilbert Hell or High Water – Jake Roberts La La Land – Tom Cross Moonlight – Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon Best Visual Effects Deepwater Horizon – Craig Hammeck, Jason Snell, Jason Billington, and Burt Dalton Doctor Strange – Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli, and Paul Corbould The Jungle Book – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon Kubo and the Two Strings – Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean, and Brad Schiff Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, and Neil Corbould __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

02-04-2017, 09:58 AM	#193 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	i've seen it 22 times and am excited to see it again on Sunday. while i admit that i am in a minority of people who have this reaction to this film...i'm far from the only one....i've yet to speak to anyone who has seen it who did not this it was good the opening scene alone creates such a cathartic response in me that i become an emotional wreck i don't love La La Land i'm in love with it __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

02-04-2017, 10:07 AM	#194 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	litereally just watched the opening number. fucking Niagara Falls out of my eyes. __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

02-04-2017, 06:12 PM	#197 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Whenever I think about how the opening song went it always turns into the family guy theme. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-04-2017, 09:44 PM	#199 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Mel Gibson should get best director to balance out the anti-Trump speeches with some anti-semitism. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-04-2017, 09:49 AM	#192 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	Was LA LA land really that good? Looked average from the commercials

02-04-2017, 10:31 PM	#200 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	^...... i'm ignoring Exo's comment. He and i will be talking on Wednesday after i see Manchester By the Sea. I'll yell at him then I may have to change a couple of those picks after seeing Lion. Holy fucking shit. __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.