2020 Oscar Winners

[marty]

I hope Martin Scorsese's new film he's working on this year is in native Indian language ...
Better chance @ the Academy Awards in 2021

No Bob, you have it wrong. The best way to get a nomination for Best Picture is to make a movie about a black gay soldier and the Holocaust. Best if the character has a handicap or a mild speech impediment and is also the grandchild of slaves who made it to freedom on the Underground Railroad. It should be produced by a non-streaming studio, directed by a black female director and have optional subtitles for Japanese, Hindi and Swahili, as well as a live box insert for American Sign Language. Now you've got a shot.....

That said, Parasite was a really nice piece of film-making.

 

[dminches]

Except most of the nominations don’t fit into that category. Or maybe those are the most interesting movies.

Harriett was actually a very good movie about a true American hero. The topic may not interest you but it wasn’t (mostly) some made up story.

Maybe they should make more movies about boring, rich white guys.

YMMV

 

[carl13]

God, I really hate Hollywood. I just want to watch movies. I do not need Phoenix telling me what a bad person I am etc etc. Throw in any other number of "stars" like De Niro over Trump. Can you imagine if the latter had won an award for The Irishman, what we would have had to endure.

The more I hear from him, the more my respect for the dearly loved and recently departed Neil Peart deepens. His sentiment was always to improve yself and not stand still. Certainly not to self indulge as Phoenix is guilty of. And absolutely not to judge.

As I usually do in these circumstances, I’ll choose to ignore any lecture from this privileged sect that they themselves ignore in their own lives.

 

[NorthStar]

I agree that Parasite is a niece piece of filmmaking, and so is 1917.
I feel a bit sad for Marty (Scorsese) because The Irishman is also great filmmaking.
On the other hand I am extremely grateful that he's still alive and doing what he loves doing...we all benefit.

 

[spiritofmusic]

So weird. Scorsese gets the Oscar for The Departed which pales in comparison to Goodfellas and The Irishman.

I guess the Oscar committee are still communicating loud and clear that 100% Netflix ain't winning Best Picture anytime soon.

 

[Steve Williams]

Last night's Academy Awards IMO changed the way we will forever view Hollywood as the mecca of film making

I loved when Bong Joon Oh said he studied Martin Scorsese in drama school. It reminded me of George C Scott in the movie Patton when Patton says he beat Rommel because "I read your book, you magnificent bastard"

 

[Steve Williams]

The fact that Scorsese and The Irish Man came up with only a few accolades and no statues shows that Hollywood has taken a new direction

 

[NorthStar]

Marc, you can't compare from one year to the next on films nominated and Oscar winners.
You can but it's within each year that the competition is taking place.
And within those selected films each year is different.
I mean The Irishman competes with eight other films for Best Picture, within the same year.
And all other categories have five nominations each.

To me The Irishman is a winning film, 1917 is a winning film, Parasite is a winning film, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is a winning film, Joker is a winning film, Ford v Ferrari is a winning film.

1917 is my favorite. For the year 2019.
I like Dunkirk (2017).

Goodfellas, The Departed, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, ...all from a different era.
The Irishman is a mob story as in Casino, Goodfellas, The Departed, ... Scorsese's main recipe.
Perhaps that's why it didn't win any Oscar...all déjà vu, the Academy voters are tired of mob flicks.

I like Gangs of New York, I like Daniel Day-Lewis, the best actor. I like Phantom Thread.

For this year I had my biggest doze from 1917. So I'm very happy that it won what I consider very important in filmmaking...Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Mixing.
The music score in 1917 (Thomas Newman) is also first class, but the music score by Hildur Guðnadóttir for Joker is a notch higher IMO.
Music in films for me is very important, and so is the camera work, angles, lights, shadows, compositions, backgrounds, movements, ...all. I want to be inside the film with the actors, like in 1917. I don't want to be just a witness I want also to be a participant.

Try participating in Parasite; which side are you in, the side which it's more fun to be in...the poor family of course. I like that film for that concept...the poor class taking advantage of the rich class. It's exaggerated to the extreme, to the point of becoming radically an horror movie with red ketchup spilling here and there.

My own personal feeling; I'm more inclined mentally with movies in the style of 1917 than the style of Parasite. That's me, and it's not that important; what is is what the majority prefer more.
In the sense that's what sometimes gets more Oscars and opens more theaters for revenues and gives jobs to filmmakers from other countries in various languages.

It takes nothing out of 1917, absolutely nothing out from its own mastercraft.
I bet it was very close between 1917 and Parasite, perhaps 49 / 51 respectively.

 

[WLVCA]

The fact that Scorsese and The Irish Man came up with only a few accolades and no statues shows that Hollywood has taken a new direction

I'd be the last guy to knock Scorcese but The Irishman seemed to be just another Scorcese Mafia movie - we've seen that movie before. It was a very good movie but not big award worthy in my mind.

His next movie will be based on a book called Killers of the Flower Moon. Definitely not a Mafia movie. It's about Native Americans in Oklahoma and the brutal fight for the oil under their reservation. My wife read the book and said it is a quite a story.

 

[Steve Williams]

i Believe Hollywood has had enough of gangster movies and are rewarding stories that are novel

 

[Steve Williams]

last night’s awards proved to me that there is no sure thing anymore in betting the Oscars. My only sure thing was Best Actor both this year and last

 

[Folsom]

Hollywood has enough of a lot of things. I'm to a point where I sometimes want more purity of genre...

 

[oca2020]

i watch the replay here

 

[KeithR]

Most of the night was nauseating in wokeness. And I usually defend against the Oscar detractors in recent years

 

[Steve Williams]

I'd be the last guy to knock Scorcese but The Irishman seemed to be just another Scorcese Mafia movie - we've seen that movie before. It was a very good movie but not big award worthy in my mind.

His next movie will be based on a book called Killers of the Flower Moon. Definitely not a Mafia movie. It's about Native Americans in Oklahoma and the brutal fight for the oil under their reservation. My wife read the book and said it is a quite a story.

I agree about Scorsese

Two of my favorites of his are

Light the Light which is a 2 night Rolling Stones concert in documentary fashion. I loved it and if you are a Stones fane you should see it

Hugo in 3D. I'm not a fan of 3D films but for me it was the best 3D film Ive ever seen

Taxi Driver, Raging Bull were all time favoriyes

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[carl13]

Most of the night was nauseating in wokeness. And I usually defend against the Oscar detractors in recent years

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/media/2020-oscars-broadcast-hits-a-new-ratings-low.html

 

[NorthStar]

Billie Eilish, I just don't get it; her performance looked forced, plastic, subdued, devitalized.

By the way ... Shine a Light