At least now I don't need to hear people bitch about Leo not having an Academy Award anymore. It's a shame that he won the award for the stipulations surrounding the film rather than his performance though.

No, because Ida won some stuff last year. It's just a horribly America-centric way for Hollywood to jerk itself off that largely fails to recognize that film was, is and always will be an international medium.

Other countries awards shows are the same. It's no big deal.

Well we have a foreign film category because apparently those weird foreigners can make movies too!

And Pitt could've gotten it for a lot of films, Inglorious Basterds, Babel, 12 Monkeys, and Se7en.

+ Fight Club?

On that note, how has Edward Norton not won an Academy Award yet?

^Three noms and no win yet.

Yes. I meant to add "among others" as well because the list could go on and on.

That synth to me sounds like one of the super generic cheap 100$ keyboards with built in speakers.

Proof that you don't need expensive equipment to make great music.

Very surprised that Spotlight won Best Picture, most people thought The Revenant had it in the bag. Not sure where I sit on this one. I loved Spotlight and I thought The Revenant was a major achievement in terms of getting the most of the actors and the environment, but Spotlight was an extremely tight, cohesive, well shot, and well acted movie too, certainly more streamlined and refined than The Revenant, which seemed to bore a lot of my friends, but those same friends were also bored by Spotlight so I don't know.

Agreed, I thought he was the best choice. Loved his character in that film. Ex Machina winning best special effects was left field, Leo winning of course is cause for celebration. Cate Blanchett losing to Brie Larson was a tad disappointing, but Room is excellent. So is Carol though. Morricone rightfully received best score, Amy winning best Doc was no surprise. Mad Max took home most of the technical gold, cause it's a technical fucking masterpiece. I think best director should've gone to George Miller, but Alejandro winning two years in a row is fine, and the biggest surprise to me was Morgan Freeman uttering, even to his own amazement, Spotlight as best picture. I think the Big Short should've won that.

He's put in lots of strong performances, but not one single one I'd say was worthy of winning. I kind of feel the same way about Leo, both consistently good actors, but that doesn't mean they deserve an Oscar over someone else in a specific year. The performance I'd most like to have seen him win for is one you haven't listed, The Assassination of Jesse James. He was very subtle and powerful in that.

Casey Affleck, too. That performance was downright incredible.

Totally agree. Both are great actors, but I've never been blown away by either's performance.

Question to the grammar folk: I'm pretty sure "either's" is wrong. Is there no way to phrase this without adding a word (e.g. "either actor's")?

Pretty sure that it's simply "either".

But I feel that this would imply I'm talking about a specific performance.

Nope. Were you expecting English to make sense?

I only saw 3 movies last year, "Fury Road", like the entire Mad Max series IMO, was entertaining but has many gaping holes in the plotline, "Ex Machina" was pretty good (Alicia Vikander, dang...), the best movie I saw last year was the heartbreaking "Amy"

I have no idea how they did on Oscar night

Nope, but I was expecting to be better at understanding its nuances.:(
I'm currently in France though, so I'm just going to assume their collective terrible English skills are mysteriously diminishing mine as well.

The greatest femme fatale since Kathleen Turner in Body Heat.

Anybody else absolutely HATE Sam Smith now that he won an Oscar over Lady Gaga? I'm not even a Gaga fan and she should have won. That Spectre song is garbage. I love how they announce it RIGHT after Gaga's performance which was very moving and powerful and received a standing ovation. Everyone is like "Gaga has it. I'm still crying" and then Sam Smith jumps on stage and is like "HE-HAW LOSERS IT'S ME WHO WON. NEENER NEENER"

Bullsh*t.

Haven't seen the awards and no idea what Gaga's music is like, but I absolutely ****ing HATED the Spectre song. What a piece of monkey ****. **** this guy.

Not as bad as the song Gaga performed. Didn't realise she was nominated to be fair.

Propaganda film. Rubbish song. Good performer.

Spectre would've been a better film had they used the Radiohead cut. Sam Smith's song was actually just adding fuel to that shit fire. Actually, the Radiohead cut couldn't make that film better, nothing could it sucked

Syncopation was a concept too bold for the Bond Execs. Real shame about the film because Skyfall was genuinely great.

Gaga's performance last night slayed me. She was a victim of abuse when she was young which made it so much more powerful. She choked up at the beginning and then got angry and killed it.

>_>

That was good Gaga.

The song she performed is post-good Gaga.



Best Gaga.

Pre Gaga.

Writing on the Wall is pretty ****, yes.